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July 29, 2024 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #966
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 29th of July.
And I am joined by Stelios.
Hello.
And today we're going to be talking about the Patriotic Rally in London, largely organized by Tommy Robinson.
And then Stelios is walking us through the tales of debauchery in France.
I mean, where'd you start?
But mainly the Olympics, I think.
I have my suit for this.
It's Sam's favorite.
Yes, this is Stelios's suit of mischief.
Yeah, for cringey segments.
And talking of cringe, I'm also going to be covering the Islamist island that may well be in the works.
So it's also worth mentioning, before I get on to my segment, That we're going to be doing Rumble Rants, as per usual.
So we'll read them out at the end of our segments, if they're relevant to that segment.
And also, of course, we'll, you know, write regular website comments for us, and we shall read some of those as well.
Video comments, all that other stuff, you know.
You know the drill.
You've watched this before, probably.
And I suppose I may as well get into it.
So, On Saturday there was quite a historic moment and that was one of the largest gatherings of patriots I think that has ever happened in London and this is the scene here in Trafalgar Square.
I can get the mouse to work.
Here we are.
Here are some pictures of it.
These were aerial photographs that I think the police took because they were flying over in a helicopter, you know, policing it, believe it or not.
I think there are about a thousand police there, but relatively speaking, it was pretty uneventful.
And you can see it was massive.
All of Trafalgar Square was filled, all of the streets around.
I think it actually filled up past this point, if you can see where my mouse is here.
And all the way up here as well.
This was sort of earlier on.
It was very big.
It's tens of thousands of people.
It was at least 50,000 and some were saying even 70 or 100,000 people were there.
Which for, you know, a rally which was pretty short notice in London on a Saturday.
It's impressive.
It's quite impressive, yes.
It was twice as big as the last rally held in London, and there were some speakers that you might recognise.
One of them is Carl, and Carl's added his whole speech.
Well, he's got it on Twitter here.
I'm not going to play the whole thing because it's about 10 minutes long, but he's getting introduced by Tommy there.
Carl's speech, very good, obviously went down very well as to be expected, right?
And there was a very good photo that I saw of Carl there.
So there's a photo of him on screen with all of the flags around.
Isn't that great?
Yeah, I think he liked it as well because he made it his profile picture.
So he did, yeah.
Well, he said, what an amazing photo, so well done for taking that.
But yes, the general theme of it was patriotism.
They had a whole load of speakers.
Lawrence Fox was there, there he is, sharing a picture of himself.
The Voice of Wales, obviously regular guests on loadseaters, were there as well.
Had a good chat with them behind the scenes.
And there are also many other speakers that I won't name just for the sake of time, but All the information is out there.
There was a former soldier that I listened to.
There are plenty of members of the Christian Church there.
There are plenty of musicians.
You can see some on stage there already.
And yeah, some other people there.
Who are these two people?
We were there causing mischief, defacing Nelson's Column.
No, we just sat there behind the scenes in the shade because it was a really hot day, which I think probably helped with people turning up.
It's nice that you see the monuments without any graffitis on them.
Yes, there wasn't any litter or graffiti.
The bottles there, that bottle was belonging to someone else and the one next to Beau was his.
So we didn't even leave any rubbish.
We're better than that, obviously.
And yeah, we were just sat there because that's pretty normal to sit there.
It's not disrespectful or anything.
But we got a good view.
And yes, here's David Averton taking the picture of us.
He sort of burst out from behind the scenes and started pointing at us out of nowhere.
It was like something from a film.
And yes, while I was up there, I took a video that gives you a better idea of the scope later on in the rally.
There's probably going to be a bit of noise in it.
Yeah, some of the music playing.
I'm just going to mute that for the sake of it.
But yeah, you can see that it stretches right back Very dense as well.
Packed full of people.
Very great atmosphere.
I couldn't move through it.
At one point I had to get to the toilets over there and it took me like 25 minutes to get to the toilets because people were like, you're Josh from Lotus Eaters, aren't you?
But yeah, it was a really lovely atmosphere.
Everyone was very friendly, you know.
People would move out of the way of each other, people were chatting to one another and saying oh where have you come from and things like that and it was all very pleasant and wholesome and you know it's nice to see our capital city with a bunch of you know union flags and St George's flags.
There were some foreign flags there which seemed a bit strange to me for a British patriotic thing.
There was a Ukrainian flag and an Israeli flag which I think was a bit weird.
I don't know why you're taking those to a British patriotic thing and I don't really approve of that.
I saw a tweet by David Atherton saying that he spotted the number of foreign flags and I must say, the way I see it, it's not necessarily bad because there is an understanding at the moment, especially in Europe, that you can love your nation Without disrespecting other nations.
So if people were there with different, with foreign flags, but agreeing with the premise and the principle of the rally, I don't particularly think that that's bad.
I think that that's good.
Yeah, well, I think the concern is slightly more about the causes behind them.
If you turned up Stelios with a Greek flag, I'd be like, that's fine.
Stelios, he likes Britain.
He likes to talk about British politics.
He's on side, but he is Greek.
It makes sense that you care about Greece.
I wouldn't be as confused about that, but it's more what they represent as political issues.
And I don't see Britain's involvement in those things being important, really.
It's basically none of our business.
is my sort of position on it.
So, because of this, of course being announced early, there was a counter-protest, organised I believe by Stand Up To Racism, which they say, fascists are not welcome in London or anywhere.
Join the mass mobilisation to isolate fascist fraudsters like Tommy Robinson.
So, you know, they're against fascism but they want to drive people out.
Yes, there we go.
They've got a picture of Tommy when he got pepper sprayed, I think.
Present all of these British patriots here as fascists, which is obviously not true.
No, obviously not true.
I mean, for a start, the flags were British flags.
They didn't have, you know, the lightning bolt of the British fascist movement.
They didn't have any of those flags, in fact.
And it wasn't like there were people going around telling people to take the flags down or whatever.
They just weren't any.
I didn't see any at all.
Also, if we Mentioned some history.
Last time I checked, England was at war with fascist Italy in World War II.
So by being patriotic about England and Britain, one is definitely not a fascist.
I mean, there were soldiers there, as well, talking about World War II, and it got cheers.
It's still a very popular thing, right?
In fact, the left is more fascist.
It's much more fascist than the right.
It's funny that, isn't it?
But the speakers at their event were much more inclined to call everyone there a fascist than your average person.
And it was sort of an alliance of foreigners, unionists and socialists.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's like the Mos Eisley collection of people, high for scum and villainy.
So here we are.
Here's their march.
And I think that this will be the gist of it.
They were very far away, so they didn't really come into contact.
With the people in Trafalgar Square.
I don't think it was as big, nearly as big as the patriotic one.
So through their sort of frame, if Tommy Robinson stands for racism, then racism is winning quite significantly against stand up to racism.
Obviously, that's not what it's about.
These people are people with nothing better to do.
They just want a virtue signal.
Notice how the only national flag there is a Palestinian one.
Yes.
Hmm.
It's almost like they're not pro-British.
It's almost like, you know, they're people in Britain that don't actually like the country they live in.
It's strange.
But here we are, Narendra Kaur, who has appeared on this podcast for some reason.
Here she is saying, do you have as much diversity as the anti-racism day march?
And here she pans around, there's one Indian guy, but then you see every kind of middle-class socialist possible from now on.
Yeah, it's not that diverse.
Look at them all.
Every variant of socialist you could imagine.
Some trade unionists, some sort of long-haired music listeners, some weird scarf wearers.
There's a guy holding a Palestinian flag.
And we always know how diversity has worked within the left.
Yes, well, it's never caused any infighting.
It is actually their strength.
Yeah, since when?
It's never been their strength.
So, also, a usual suspect.
Jeremy Corbyn, there he is, just in case there wasn't enough socialism at the event.
The man himself turned up.
I mean, when your opponents are a bunch of unwashed socialists and people flying Palestinian flags looking like a member of Hamas, you've got to feel like, well, the PR win is on our side, right?
It's just, you can't get more wrong than Corbyn.
Of course, yeah.
I don't know, please challenge me.
I think it's challenge impossible.
I don't think there are many Jeremy Corbyn fans in our audience, to be honest.
Yeah, but there are other people.
It just seems to me that he's consistently wrong on basically everything.
Yes, correct.
Like he wanted to get rid of nuclear weapons.
He's just like, they don't work.
It's like, well, do you know what happened in the Cold War?
Yeah, we didn't go to war.
Do you know why?
Yeah.
Mutually assured destruction.
But apparently, according to him, Clement Attlee must have been far right for wanting to have the nuclear program in England.
He's a madman, yes.
But, one of the surprising things about this is the reporting on it, actually.
So, not the stand-up-to-racism stuff, and there was some underhanded stuff, but the media's reporting on it, as it was going on, was surprisingly neutral.
Like, more so than it ever has been.
There's still some funny things where, you know, there were one or two arrests, and like, violence and destruction at this rally, where everyone was just sort of standing around.
But, listen to this LBC I'm not sure if he's a presenter or a contributor, I don't watch or listen to LBC, but he's called Ali Miraj and he was there and he actually says something that surprised me.
Okay, let's have a listen to what he has to say.
It's a little bit long, but it's worth it because this is such a tone shift in the media.
The place was absolutely rammed.
And I mean rammed.
The place was packed.
It was a very sunny day, as you know, yesterday.
Atmosphere that I saw, I didn't see any bad behavior at all.
What I saw was an almost family-like atmosphere.
Very welcoming, very warm, flags everywhere.
Not only flags of St. George and the Union Jack, but also Israeli flags, Ukrainian flags as well.
And the thing that struck me about this was this was not a gathering, as far as I could see, of football hooligans.
There were lots of women.
There were lots of families.
There were peoples of different colors there.
And everyone was watching a video that apparently Tommy Robinson should have not been broadcasting.
We'll get to that later.
We'll get to that later.
But the overall atmosphere was one of people feeling that they wanted to come together to actually try and, in their views, save their country.
And to quote Tommy Robinson, he called on his supporters to come to London yesterday because, and I quote, we want our country back.
Now that sentiment, that sentiment that Tommy Robinson or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, which is his real name, that sentiment which he promulgates and espouses is not one that he does so alone.
We've had Lee Anderson, we've had many other people talking about and alluding to similar things.
I'm going to get condemned for this conversation, but frankly, it's too important not to have because we need to have this conversation in a very measured, sensible, calm manner, in my view, to understand why there is a sentiment where people on a family almost day out will go to Trafalgar Square to go and feel that their country is being taken away from them and wanting to unite the kingdom and to simply dismiss them all as far-right, lunatic, racist football hooligans.
So what do you think of that, Stelios?
Well, it seems to me that it is basically common sense.
Just wanting your country back after a period of deterioration of its standard of living and also cultural decline with respect to some things is obviously true.
The very fact that we are having this conversation and this statement is surprising in 2024 in LBC says actually that the rally has something to it.
It has a lot of things going for it, but this thing just shouldn't be an issue.
No, of course not.
It's good that he's saying it.
It's good that he's saying it.
I was quite surprised when I watched this because he was basically saying, well, clearly there's something to this and maybe people should hear them out, which from LBC in the past, they've not exactly been particularly hospitable to this side of politics.
Or to us.
Or to us, yeah.
And so, It's a bit of a sea change that their editorial stance has changed this much that they're saying, well, maybe there is a point actually to what they're talking about and maybe people should listen to them.
Some more cautious people might say it's containment, but also we can't necessarily jump to conclusions because it could also be on the path to actual legitimate change as well.
You don't know yet, do you?
It's one of those things where if you always assume that it's some method of losing, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy, won't it?
Yes and what is really important to say is that we're not talking about a small group or a small faction somewhere with some ideas.
We're talking about tens of thousands of people who were in London this Saturday and also hundreds of thousands if not millions who were watching live.
Yeah there are plenty of people watching online as well and of course there are plenty of people who would have been there but weren't able to.
I know plenty of them and so it represents a much greater portion of the population.
One interesting thing as well is one of the speakers, I can't remember who it was, it might have been Tommy himself, asked who here voted reform and most people put their hands up.
So if you know there's a large degree of overlap between reform voters and people who attended the rally then it could be you know What, four million people, if not more?
Which is enough of a population to have some sort of significant political movement out of, isn't it?
Exactly, yeah.
So it does speak of some sort of larger resistance to it, and the fact that this is happening at the start of a Labour government could mean that there is a lot of momentum to carry things forward into the future, potentially.
that we'll see some meaningful changes.
The kinds of policies that we at Lotus Eaters, although we don't always agree on everything, it's the kind of direction we want to see things going, right?
Yes, but I will hesitate a prediction and tell me if I'm wrong, but there are some people who are saying that Labour was going to be a bit more careful and cautious.
I think they're going to double down.
I think that there's already some evidence of that as we'll see later on down the line.
So, Some other reporting here.
Oh no, Narendra again said, which sounds really lame because she's just saying, I was petrified as a woman.
So there's no actual evidence to suggest that she was unsafe or anything.
walking through the other march, however, was really safe space for all, which sounds really lame because she's just saying, I was petrified as a woman.
So there's no actual evidence to suggest that she was unsafe or anything.
It was in her own head. - Question.
Has she written similar things about other protests?
Other rallies?
I don't know.
I don't necessarily... I try to avoid reading that sort of thing.
But I imagine it's all politically motivated.
Yeah, but that would be very telling because we are talking about some other rallies that are vocally in favor of regimes that are not particularly friendly to women.
So I would really like to see what she would have to say about that.
I'd like to see her in the marches, which are Islamic in nature, when mysteriously they turn out all to be men.
I wonder how that happens.
I wonder how welcome she'd be there.
So, here's Sky News.
Thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters have gathered in protest in central London.
That's quite neutral, isn't it?
That's almost, dare I say, objective reporting.
Except It changes a little bit if you click on the article.
So this is what you see on Twitter.
You click on the article.
Two men arrested for alleged attack on anti-racism activist at Tommy Robinson rally.
I mean, we don't know the details of this.
But presumably it was two people in at least 50,000.
So even if, you know, that's still a very, very small proportion, we don't know the details of it yet.
We don't know whether Sky News is reporting on it correctly.
It could have been that someone was aggravating them and attacked them.
The information is just not out yet.
However, it's interesting that media outlets like Sky have cherry-picked these isolated incidents and tried to smear it as This violent thing, when actually all of the videos, all the people there said it was peaceful, it was a family thing, people were being very friendly to each other, I know, I was there, it was like that.
Also a rally happened and no monument was desecrated.
I didn't see much litter left behind, people were tidy, people were nice and orderly and polite.
I don't know.
That's the way to be.
Yeah, people were dancing and singing to music.
I mean, my goodness, it was terrifying.
So there's also this one here.
Thousands join Tommy Robinson March in London.
This is the BBC.
This is no small thing, is it?
It's neutral.
It's almost objective.
Perhaps some of the text, which I don't have the time to go through, might be a bit more... I mean, they mention the stand-up, they say he's far right, right there, and they also claim the event was the biggest patriotic rally the UK had ever seen, and then they mention stand-up to racism pretty quickly, and Jeremy Corbyn.
Okay, can we scroll down and see towards the end of the article whether they're describing the rally in different ways?
Okay.
They name drop his real name there.
Yeah, but if we go a bit up, because usually they describe someone as far right on top of the article, and then when it goes down, they drop the term.
They normally do, yeah.
Well, we'll see later.
Promoting patriotism.
There we go.
Yeah.
It's almost like there's some sort of formula stellios that we've noticed, isn't it?
Strange that.
A pattern.
So here's another one.
Crowds gather in central London for Tommy Robinson protest and counter-march.
Pretty reasonable.
And then Telegraph has a sort of thing here.
This is the film that we'll be talking about in a second.
But the Telegraph wasn't particularly biased.
It's sort of painting him almost as a political prisoner.
They even did a key moments thing.
So they covered it in pretty good detail here.
Well they're talking a lot about policing here, like before and after, so they did still focus on that aspect of it even though it was unironically mostly peaceful.
I mean that in the actual sense this time rather than the CNN sense.
And obviously GB News would be pretty favourable and it's just saying yes there were lots of police and they framed it as to separate the Jeremy Corbyn backed counter-protest.
That was why there were lots of police, so well done GB News for actually explaining why there was a large police presence there and most of them were sat in their cars all day doing nothing, hanging around, having coffees and chilling out.
So they had a pretty quiet day.
Of course, socialist newspaper says it's time to say no to hatred and division.
Corbyn's rallying cry as 15,000 Robinson supporters descend on London Street.
Come on!
And now, I know socialists are not good with numbers, alright, but 15,000.
Are they good at anything?
No.
They are good at one thing.
They're good at dieting people because there's no food left when a socialist takes over for people to overeat.
Yeah, but that is unintentional.
It's an unintentional consequence.
But one thing they really know is hatred and division.
That's exactly what it is.
That's exactly what they're doing.
And what people are doing is much more important than what they are saying they're doing.
It's funny that they're also downplaying the number, like 15,000.
Really?
Really?
It was more than that.
Anyone can see that.
There were some people who were sending stuff to the police and they were saying, it's so boring, it's so boring now.
Especially for the previous rally.
That it's so boring, nothing's going on.
And then they went out making tweets about how horrible it was.
It is silly isn't it?
So one of the things that happened was Tommy screened his documentary called Silence and this is about how the courts persecute people for their political beliefs and how they're not unbiased as they're framed to be, which I think is a very uncontroversial thing in this day and age.
I think we've seen plenty and plenty of examples of this happening in politics.
And he was actually, I think he was forced to not play it because it was libelous, that's what people have been saying anyway, and so he was prevented by a court order not to show it but he showed it anyway at the rally and this resulted in this.
This is an admin post, this isn't from him himself, one of his team.
Been 24 hours of showing this film exposing the corruption of the judiciary, Tommy is This evening is being charged with terror offences, and this is true.
This has been reported by lots of other outlets as well.
And there's also a release of an audio clip, which is quite long and I'm not going to play it, but he's basically explaining to his ex-wife what's going on, what he talked about.
But I can give you a sort of summary just to save your time, but we do have it linked in the reading list down below on the website.
So if you're watching on another platform, you can click the link through to our website, find the podcast page, and beneath the videos will be our reading lists for all the links we've included, which we always put up, by the way.
But basically he says he was interviewed for six hours after being picked up on the terrorism act.
And then they got access to his phone, so got all of his information, and he has ongoing court cases with the state at the minute.
So there are sort of conflict of interest things going on there.
So that's, you know, his plans for his legal defense going on supposedly.
But according to him, he was asked about the event itself, you know, and the size of it and his intentions and things like that.
Now this one's interesting.
I'm going to have to read the name of what they brought up in its original French because it gets flagged on lots of streaming platforms and we don't want to be taking off those, unfortunately.
But they asked him, according to Tommy Robinson at least, if you believe his account, whether he thinks he could stop, and I'm going to say it in its original French as it was created, Le Grand Replacement.
I accidentally spat a little bit there as well, just to add to the French impression there.
So, first of all, it says a lot that I can't say it's original, well, I can't say it's English equivalent on social media platforms.
Even saying it gets you in trouble.
I think we actually got a conduct strike for mentioning it on YouTube before.
That's just how hot they are on it.
I wonder why that is.
And it's also called a far-right conspiracy theory, which, you know, you need to only read a graph A projected population change.
Look at censuses.
The data indicates that this is the way things are going.
Yeah, so, no, I don't want to say because I've also presented something on this.
The theory is one thing, facts are the other.
So, there are theories, there are many theories about the issue.
Facts speak for themselves.
We can talk about populations, about birth rates, how they are, you know, developing and that's beyond doubt.
In fact, you would say many of the central governments and central government agencies both in England And in the European Union, they're taking that as a fact.
And they're saying that because the birth rates aren't sustaining a particular number of the population that the GDP requires, well, we need to open the borders.
Which is a fallacious argument anyway, isn't it?
Absolutely.
And the final thing they asked Tommy about, which I thought was kind of amusing actually, was they asked him about Israel.
And they talked about, well, surely Palestine has a right to exist and things like that.
Yes, make of that what you will.
Ezra Levant here was talking about why Tommy might have been detained under the Terrorism Act and he points out Schedule 7 of that law which we can have a look at actually.
So there's a good summary here from counterterrorismpolice.uk And it explains it, and I'm going to read a little bit.
It says, Under Schedule 7, a police officer with the mandated accreditation does not need prior authority or suspicion to stop, question, search or, if necessary, detain someone.
However, they may only stop and question a person for the purposes of allowing a determination of whether that person appears to be someone who is or who has been concerned in the commission, preparation, instigation of acts of terrorism.
Which I don't think necessarily fits here, does it?
Under Schedule 7, an individual has a legal duty to answer questions or provide any information requested for the purposes of the examination.
So there's an important point to make here.
No matter what you think of Tommy Robinson, this is a concerning use of the Terrorism Act in an inappropriate way, and because it's got written into it that you're legally obligated under threat of legal punishment to answer the questions, that is sort of making a mockery of prior legal precedent of, you know, the right to remain silent, of innocent until proven guilty.
There are lots of precedents here that are being overlooked and if you wanted to read the actual thing itself I have linked this down below in the same place that you'll find the other stuff as well.
This is the full act as written by law.
If you wanted to read it there might be some details there that are beyond me because I'm not a legal professional, I'm a psychologist so it's a little bit beyond me.
I have to add something here because the rally, as far as my view of it is concerned, is a rally about patriotism.
And patriotism is directly linked to the idea of what is going on here.
You want, and we want, a society where there is rule of law.
We don't want arbitrariness.
We don't want despotism, such as of the kind that is flourishing in the Orient.
We don't want that.
Here, apparently.
Yeah, we want the rule of law.
But the problem is that laws do not apply themselves.
Laws are interpreted by people, and they're applied in particular cases.
And selectively as well, in that certain people can, we see this a lot in the United States, particularly in lower courts rather than the Supreme Court, people will twist the word of the law to mean... Anything they want.
Exactly.
That is why we cannot rest assured just with having principles in the abstract, just by saying we have the rule of law, full stop, nominally speaking.
We need to have a culture That promotes the ideology and the ideas that make the rule of law something important and ideal to cherish.
And that is precisely what the left is doing by destroying the idea that patriotism is a civic ideal, which it is, and it is a civic ideal because it is precisely the idea of being a member of a culture which you praise
You try to find what is good in it and feel gratitude for it, and because you do so, you think you're a part of something bigger, and you are going to show the eternal vigilance that, as classical liberals were saying, and classical Republicans will keep tyrants at bay.
Patriotism is specifically that.
It has specifically to do with promoting a culture.
And it is very telling when the people who are trying to prosecute someone who is hosting a rally on patriotism are doing it in the name of rule of law.
Yes, it's a complete inversion of what it should mean, isn't it?
But no, very well said.
It's worth mentioning as well that it's not even entirely clear which police were involved.
I think my best guess would be that it were because Tommy was picked up in Folkestone, which is where you get the channel tunnel to the continent.
Maybe it was the border police there.
They do have plenty of police there.
I actually went on a road trip through Europe not too long ago.
So I went through all of those and I know that there is a large police presence there.
So it is entirely possible that he got picked up there where he was arrested and it wasn't An external police operation from that and they had something flag up on their system perhaps.
I don't know.
But the Met Police who were involved in the actual rally said that they had no involvement and were actually unaware of this going on at all.
And there's Carl here saying that actually the Met did pretty well regarding the policing and I can find no fault in the way they've handled all of it.
Which I think is fair.
I agree with Carl on that one.
I was there as well.
I was with Carl for a lot of it and I saw the same things and I think that's a perfectly reasonable presentation of it to give them credit, you know?
I'm pretty harsh on the Met Police but I know that they're not always terrible.
Even bad people can always be, you know...
Broken clocks can show time correctly twice a day.
There we go, exactly.
That was the phrase I was looking for.
So there have been some reactions to the arrest, particularly from people like Elon Musk.
So I believe it was Endwokeness tweeted this out and then Elon Musk said, what did he do that was considered terrorism?
And then they replied, he screened this documentary and Elon Musk says, that's it.
So even Elon is paying attention to this at the minute.
So it's kind of interesting that this has now got a global significance.
And here we've got one of Reform's five MPs.
This is Rupert Lowe, who's the MP for Great Yarmouth.
says, is this action proportionate and in line with how the streets of London have recently been policed?
More details are urgently required.
All must be treated fairly and equally by the law.
So it sounds like there are members of parliament actually bothered by what's going on here and these anti-terror laws, which you would think that considering the overlap between people who support Tommy and reform voters is pretty much a circle, there's a certain amount of incentive for him to do that.
And I heard at some point, maybe this has changed now, that Rupert Lowe was the first Reform MP who even mentioned the rally.
I think he may well have been.
Farage hasn't said anything, I know that much.
There was a protest outside of Downing Street, which I think was organised by Lawrence Fox.
This was there for quite some time, demanding he be released.
You see Free Tommy there.
I imagine those banners get used quite a lot these days.
Finally, it's worth mentioning, eventually he was released on bail, but I think he's still facing some more legal charges eventually.
He's just free to walk the streets for now.
But yes, that's pretty much what happened.
There he is on the day of the rally.
They're talking all about it, but what do you make of all of this in sum now, Stelios?
Now I've been through the whole story.
I think that basically caring for your country Caring for, sustaining an idea of social cohesion structured around national identity has been unfairly demonized.
Anything can backfire, but just presenting that caring for your own country is demonic is absolutely atrocious and atrociously wrong.
So that's what I make of it.
So yes obviously there's lots of concerning things going on here and whatever you make of Tommy Robinson what you can certainly acknowledge here is that there are lots of concerning lines being crossed by people who are opposed to him that I think no reasonable decent person should have to tolerate and I think that if a president gets set where people like him can get persecuted in that way.
It's only going to get worse.
And eventually it'll even get to the point where perhaps normal people will be persecuted in these sorts of ways.
And even if you disagree with some of the details of what he says, I think it's still important to push back against the people who are persecuting him because otherwise the alternative is they come for us next.
And I've got some rumble chats to quickly read.
I don't know whether it cut off at the end.
So I'm going to repeat what I said as well because I went on that segment for quite some time.
I think it's fair to leave a bit more time for some of the website comments as well so we don't miss any of you out.
But the rumble chats from top to bottom are That's a Random Name, Also, moments like these are mask off for people like Tyson Farage.
Korea politicians are containment at best and subversive at worst.
Be wary of Farage and don't trust reform.
Containment 101.
I've always been cautious about them to be honest.
I said on election night before they even got any MPs, I'm a bit lukewarm on them.
By the way, Samson, I can hear myself through the speakers in the table.
That's alright.
So that's a random name again.
This shows that no law or institution is immune to corruption because the rock comes from people, not laws or institutions, therefore we must keep all evildoers from any levels of power.
Hear, hear.
You can never really go wrong doing that.
Keep people who mean you harm away from positions where they can do it.
That always works.
Believe it or not, you don't need to hear that from me, that is just common sense.
Josie Angel says, nice to see the English start to rally, it builds confidence and connections, the Tea Party came before Trump.
That's true.
Lots of people of the right, particularly some of the dissident right, are very critical of that rally and they're just like, oh it's going to be containment central or it's all a bit too multicultural.
And although I agree with the last part, I'm not a big fan of this multiculturalism nonsense, it's subverting things a bit.
We can push things in the same direction, and then once the paradigm is in our favour, we can then squabble about the details.
But until the point where, you know, the grooming gangs are gone, all of these horrible problems that we talk about day in day out have been sorted out, then we can work out the details.
Until that point, I'm not too fussed.
Because at the minute, if we're infighting, we're not going to do anything.
I mean, purity spirals, you could say destroyed the left.
So there's no reason why we should be emulating that.
I mean, we're more practically oriented people in the right.
Let's remain so.
I think it's all about pushing in the direction.
We should be dragging the Overton window to our direction and away from the left and then we can argue about which direction things are going.
You need to be viewing it in directions.
You want to shift things in your way and get rid of the people to the left of it.
Okay, Axis the Eternal says, if there were 50,000 who went, imagine how many people also went but just decided against it.
I wanted to go but the risks of being seen by the wrong Bobby or losing my firearms license is too high.
I think that lots of these things, you don't really need to worry.
They're so large that no one's going to really give you trouble.
You might get a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and you might get caught by a violent lefty.
But that wasn't really going on too much, to be honest.
Certainly not at the main Trafalgar Square rally, because there was such a large security and police presence.
One final one.
Bald Eagle, 1787.
Oh, the law was just passed to combat terrorists is now being used against the native populace.
Who could have seen this happening?
I'm glad you said that comment.
Restores a bit of faith in humanity because I've said this for a long time that people pass laws and enforce them on different people.
You know, if it gives the state power over people it doesn't necessarily matter who they're enforcing them or what the intention is.
Eventually they'll be used by someone who wants to use them against you.
Okay, prepare.
Angel says that it just came in.
Exactly, Josh, one crab in a bucket can get free, but put a second one in and they'll pull each other down.
We can't be crabs in a bucket.
US is an example.
Thank you for agreeing.
That's very nice of you.
Right, Stelios, sorry, I've gone on for such a long time here. - Okay, prepare.
Now we're going.
As we speak, France is hosting the Olympic Games and whenever the Olympic Games are being hosted, there are opening ceremonies.
And sometimes things can go very wrong.
Now, one thing to say is that the Olympic spirit is the exact opposite from the woke spirit.
It is a spirit of fair competition, self-improvement, dedication, discipline, and human excellence.
Everything the woke hates, the Olympic Games stand for.
So we will see that basically the woke leftists took this and tried to subvert it as much as possible.
And basically they gave us so cringy a ceremony that you need eye bleach.
I really, by the way, lots of people were talking about how subversive and how cringey and weird the ceremony was, and it is all those things, but I also kind of enjoyed it in a weird sort of sick way, in a sort of Schaudenfreude way of, it was the French doing it.
And if the international community, as it's called, views the French as weird and strange, I feel like I'm willing to take that as an Englishman as a win.
Well, Josh, I don't know why you would feel happy with showing cringey stuff.
Who would ever want to do a cringey segment?
No one would ever do that at Lotus Eaters, especially no Greek people in this business.
Exactly.
So let's look at the French President Emmanuel Macron's tweet.
What a week.
What games.
This is France.
And you see here we have some wonderful pictures.
We have someone who is dressed like Dionysus and apparently they thought that Dionysus is an avatar of Vishnu.
Also, he looks very Smurf-like.
Yes!
I don't remember Papa Smurf looking quite like that.
Also, we see some people who are very dedicated into achieving the Olympic physique.
She looks like one of the Olympic rings, that is correct.
Yes.
She is taking a very short stand for the body positivity movement, followed by a very long sit.
Yes, so while I was there, I wanted to show you here.
Anyway, people, yes, that's what people have, are constantly replying and I missed what I wanted to show you.
Now, here is the response to Macron, says message to the world.
This is not France.
And we see here a someone who looks like a Viking in a bondage dress.
Who was engaging in a lascivious dance, looking at the camera with a lustful gaze.
It's a gentleman in what can only be regarded as women's clothing, I think is fair to say.
You never know these days, George.
We also have the head of Mary Antoinette singing.
That is cringe.
But also a bit much.
A bit insensitive, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean... Just to remind everyone that you cut off the heads of the ruling family at the time.
That's a way to make people feel welcome, isn't it?
Just like, welcome to France!
Anyway, we cut off people's heads here.
It's just weird.
It is, especially when she looks like that.
She looks like a weird pantomime villain in hell holding her own head, even though, you know, as far as I'm aware, she didn't have much involvement in French policy at the time of beheading.
She's supposed to have been the callous person who said about the people, let them eat cake.
But that's not even true either.
Well, maybe it's one of the many myths about the French Revolution.
But the issue here is that it seems like they're celebrating it.
They're not even putting the argument that it was necessary evil.
That seems to be celebrating it.
So here we have a picture rich in symbolism.
And we cannot show you videos because a lot of videos are being taken down for copyright issues because it was atrocious.
It was an atrocious event and people were testing against it and they're taking things down.
Not to steal your thunder here, I don't know if you're going to get onto the parallels of this sort of composition, this image, right?
It looks very similar to another one.
To The Last Supper.
Yes.
Yeah, we will talk about it in a bit.
You anticipated my point, but I want to say that you don't see it here, but there was a lot of testicle flashing.
What?
Yes.
A lot of these people, they were showing their private parts.
What, in the ceremony itself?
In the ceremony.
I didn't watch it because I have better things to do like count grass and watch paint dry.
It's in the ceremony and it was about inclusivity because you want to include ball flashes and obviously there are some blue balls.
To be fair, there's a lot of female nudity out there.
There's not enough male nudity, is there Stelios?
We want an equality of nudity.
What?
We have here Lady Jesus.
Barbara Butch, the queer lesbian at the center of the Olympics last supper controversy, has claimed that her aim is to unite the people.
Imagine Barbara Butch, unite the kingdom, giving a speech.
Does she want to lift up the people?
Because the people won't be able to lift up her.
The goal was to gather humans and share love through music.
Yeah, and obviously the Olympic Games were precisely the event you want to hijack to do... Looking at her waistline, she's not into sharing.
It's all about the Olympian physique, as we said, you know, the spirit of dedication and discipline into achieving that Olympian physique.
Well, she's got the perfect physique.
She's perfectly imitated.
Is it the shot put where you have the little ball that they throw?
She's got that down perfectly.
Now, we had the fourth horseman of the apocalypse.
We can't show you video precisely for the reason I told you before.
It was a bit weird.
In this scene, we see the four horsemen of the apocalypse, including the white rider, who represents the Antichrist and leads all nations in his wake.
In Revelation chapter 6, these horsemen are released to bring destruction, death, anguish, and suffering to humanity.
What a great advert for France, eh?
It would have only been made better if he led an army of rats like a weird French pied piper.
Now you see what unite the people may mean?
They're going to create a rat king?
I don't know, the Ratatouille king or something.
And they say this reflects the will of man to hand over global power to the beast.
That's according to the account over there.
Some of the ceremonies lately have some cringe, and I will say this, but 2012 here in London was a bit cringe at some point with Voldemort and the NHS.
Yeah, the NHS worship part.
I had my head in my hands.
Yeah, that was a bit weird.
For goodness sake.
So, David Tandor says, can't help feeling shame about what is happening to Europe.
We can do our best to resist this cultural collapse, but a lot of harm is being done.
Don't forget that innocent children are seeing their lives destroyed because of the movement.
Which we can't even read out on the internet because of censorship.
So everyone hated it.
Everyone hated it.
And I have to say that there were some links that weren't there.
Link number seven.
If we could have this, please.
It's the one mocking The Last Supper, isn't it?
Yes.
I think you That was the David Funder one previously.
No, that was a that was a video.
It's okay.
We'll go back to the Last Supper.
We'll go back to the Last Supper.
Wait, wait, wait.
Okay, so we're talking about this about Jill Biden.
So Jill Biden loved it.
She called the Olympic opening ceremony spectacular.
She said it was spectacular every step of the way I was thinking to myself, oh my god, oh my god, how are we going to top this?
It's Philippe Catherin!
Is that a threat?
Anything I'm going to top is myself.
Not actually, by the way.
That was a joke.
Okay, so...
Let's see the reaction of a French family.
Here.
I've seen this already.
It's great.
It's great.
You see here, the French family is basically thinking that this is ultra cringe.
I'm just shy.
Who has said that this is a bastard?
I don't know.
Most French looking person I've ever seen as well.
They just left speechless.
It's just like you spoke only in English to a French waiter.
That's the closest I've ever seen that look before.
This is why I enjoyed it.
No, no, no, no, no!
She can't stand you.
Yeah, also I enjoy this as well.
I find this hilarious.
I find this hilarious, the reaction.
This makes me wish I watched it.
That's what happens when I'm at planes and I hear children screaming, I don't like it.
But if I see other people as being very, very annoyed at it, very frustrated, I get instantly, I don't know, happy and ultra funny.
You're very similar to me in that you enjoy other people's suffering.
Yes, I think basically what we could do is we could find another post Where it has the Last Supper recreation and we could show this.
Yes.
But in the meantime... Last Supper Olympic Games.
Well, we'll find it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Because... If we scroll down a bit... There we go.
That's close enough, isn't it?
We will find it.
There is another one that is basically showing the parallels to the Last Supper.
That one.
Thank you.
Thank you, Samson.
Yeah.
So apparently, There is a debate about how much symbolism was involved here.
I think it's obvious.
But also the fact that the Last Supper and then Jesus is paralleled by a great big fat woman.
Isn't that suggesting that somehow Christianity has become greedy in some way?
There's a lot of symbolism here that is very anti-Christian.
I mean the fact that it's a bunch of Stunning and brave, real women surrounding them as well.
But you see also, especially in religion and also in ancient philosophy, there was this idea of not being overrun by the bodily urges and it was a virtue, continence was a virtue.
Exactly, yes.
So, Jill Biden loved it.
And French people reacted against it.
Now, Aaron Bastani is having a take that I think is hilariously wrong.
He says, Can you imagine meeting these people offline?
He has laughing emojis.
It's just a really bad opening ceremony.
Chill out.
No, it's not a really bad opening ceremony.
And I will say this because I'm very much frustrated.
About how a lot of leftists are portraying things, because what happens is when they find something from the right that they find remotely weird or bad, they're projecting a patent on it.
And not only they're projecting a patent on it, they're projecting that thing upon the entire right wing.
That's very true, yeah.
And also upon the entire population of non-leftists.
They're saying that it's just very deep, you don't see the white man's gaze, things like that.
Well the interesting thing is that a lot of right wingers that criticised the opening ceremony, well maybe some of the low quality ones, the slot merchants, would say, oh this is the left, this is what happens when they control the institutions, whereas a more specific angle would be the people who were responsible for organising the Olympic Games were a bit strange.
I think there are plenty of people who are left-wingers that probably didn't think it was that good either, right?
As Bastani himself says, right?
Yes, and people from the left, they have a mantra for my enemies, a pattern for my friends, an isolated incident.
That is how they react anytime there is something bad coming from the left.
So, it is absolutely intentional, it is ultra-ideological, and anything that happens that has a woke side and aspect into it isn't just a weird thing.
It's absolutely intentional.
And we will say this, that this is the man who was entrusted with The opening ceremony, to direct the opening ceremony.
This is queer artist Thomas Jolly, director of the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Can you pronounce it in a French way, Josh?
What, Thomas Jolly?
Yeah.
Because I don't know, I don't speak French, you do.
Just saying his name made an object move on its own in the room.
I'm not sure if the camera picked that up or the sound, but that's what I reacted to.
I don't want to say it again in case a demon possesses us or something.
Okay, the artistic director said he wanted everyone to feel represented, apparently even people with red eyes.
So there was considerable debate whether that was intentional and whether that was specifically intended to mock The Last Supper.
And Thomas Jolly said, that wasn't my inspiration.
The scene portrayed Dionysus, god of wine and festivities at a big pagan festival linked to the gods of Olympus.
Well, The bondage-dressed Viking disagrees.
And if we translate the post, we will see here, the Last Supper is not my inspiration, assures Thomas Jolie.
Thomas Jolie.
There you go.
The blonde-bearded transvestite said that it was indeed the Last Supper on BF Merde WC.
I think that's a word for Freddie in French.
It is, yeah.
That's French for Freddie.
Yes.
So if we go here and talk a bit about Dionysus, because they said that this was a bit about Dionysus.
The Olympic Games had nothing to do with Dionysus.
The Dionysian spirit is a spirit of excess, occasionally a spirit of debauchery.
It's the exact opposite with from the Olympic Games.
So, if you want to celebrate the Olympic Games, you don't celebrate Dionysus.
Also, one thing is that, speaking as a Greek, I love my ancient Greek heritage, but there were some customs in ancient Greece.
They are a bit overblown.
The degree in which people are saying that they occurred in ancient Greece is vastly overblown, but the fact that they were customs, and some people did it, doesn't mean that they have to be celebrated.
Some of them were absolutely atrocious.
So Rusty, the idea of everyone should be celebrated and everyone should be represented is obviously too abstract to make sense for any sensible person.
These are not ideals.
So they issued an apology.
It was the worst apology ever.
They said that their intention wasn't supposed to mock.
Now, if it was about Dionysus, who by any account wasn't any avatar of the Hindu god of balance, Vishnu, who had only blue avatars, like Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita and stuff, this is just weird.
That's a salad.
Okay?
Why are you apologizing?
You did nothing wrong if that was a bad diagnosis.
Why are you apologizing?
So they issued an apology and that was the worst apology ever because the important thing is how people act, what people do, not what people are saying.
And it says here the International Committee, Olympic Committee, IOC, is attempting to have every video showing the truth about last night's opening ceremony removed through copyright strikes from social media.
Post them anyway.
Apparently it gave them some blue balls.
Well...
Well, I think that actually there have been lots of things with copyright more generally.
It's not the opening ceremony because the BBC has struggled to get copyright to show some of the things that it wants to on its channel.
And it's just more about exclusivity rights and it's sort of legalistic infighting rather than it being some sort of political cover-up I think.
Although I can see why they might want to do so.
I think that that angle probably doesn't have much weight to it.
But I think that this shows a fundamental immaturity that comes with people who are basically flying the inclusivity banner because they were given, they were trusted with hosting the ceremony and staging the ceremony, and they didn't make it a ceremony about the Olympic Games and the Olympic spirit.
They make it about themselves.
They made it about themselves.
I think that's sad to say.
Yeah, so that's why people don't like this idea of inclusivity, because they don't like people who are making it all about themselves.
So, no, I don't want to associate with people who do this and whatever group they're part of.
I just don't want to associate with divas who are telling me that unless you agree with everything I say, I don't want to hang out with you and you're a bad person.
You don't want to hang out with those people, Stelios, my goodness.
That's so extreme.
Why would I?
I would want to watch videos of people watching them.
You know your full arc to a react video creator is soon to be realized.
Yeah, and I mean 20 years ago this was from Athens from the Athenian Ceremony and you see how things change in 20 years We had this I'll just This is very different.
You don't see any kind of debauchery or something this is celebrating history it celebrates cultural heritage it doesn't celebrate the butcher it's really quite impressive actually i i don't remember watching this but you know the the ancient greek statue style it makes perfect sense and of course you know yeah they didn't make it about them they They made it about the heritage and the culture that created the Olympic Games in 776 BC.
In fact, they're more modestly dressed than the actual statues they're representing.
Yeah, and you don't see anything hanging from their shorts.
No, you don't.
And we saw it multiple times in the French thing.
Also, you have here people from Beijing.
It's, you know, it's a different... Live footage from your average Beijing factory here.
Yes.
Yeah, but it's an impressive celebration of an event that has nothing to do with debauchery.
It has everything else to do with debauchery.
Anything but to do with debauchery.
And the last thing to say is that I think it's absolutely intentional, absolutely intentional, because the spirit of the Olympic Games is the exact opposite from the spirit of DEI.
There's zero equity in the Olympic Games.
There's zero crying over opportunities.
There's zero crying over differences in natural gifts and how they affect people.
There's zero crying about how people are, let's say, engaging in the disciplined effort to train for this.
Everyone knows we're competing at that time.
It's fair competition.
The winner takes the gold medal.
The second gets the silver, the third gets the bronze medal, and that's it.
No steroids should be allowed, yes, but that's it.
And that is precisely what wokeness hates.
And I will say this, because people were saying it mocks Christianity.
It mocks Christianity, but it also mocks ancient Greece and the spirit of nobility.
And that was casting two birds with one stone for the world people.
That was the symbolism behind it.
And I will end with this.
They hanged the Olympic flag upside down.
Now, again, is that a coincidence?
No, that's not a coincidence.
Usually you do this in camps that have been taken over by the enemy.
So, again, these are too many things for that to be a coincidence.
There are too many incidents.
That's absolutely deliberate.
It's a projection of cultural might from the woke side.
Here, here.
Right, let's...
You've got some comments if you want to read them.
Okay, that's a random name.
This Thomas Jolie fella looks downright demonic.
He dressed like such.
His eyes...
The more these degenerates, pollutes society, the more I understand why our ancestors would basically...
Encourage them to self-immolate.
Yeah.
Some non-spontaneous combustion.
And I say this as an atheist.
Bald Eagle 1787.
At this point, if Trump wins the election, I'm all for a 100,000% tariff on all products from the EU and an active blockade to prevent Phil from leaving continental Europe.
Oi!
The woke side started from the US!
Come on!
Stelios, you know, Greece is still in the EU.
He may be over in the UK, but he does still care about Greece and, you know, a blockade of Greece.
That's a random name.
This is what happens when you allow Saruman of many colors to take charge of the opening ceremony of the Gondor Olympics.
The king must return so the orcs can be expelled back to Mordor.
Yes, and this is why they hate the Lord of the Rings and they say it's extremist because it shows basically Grimm a warm tongue and the vastly bad influence he had on King Theoden.
Yeah, he would have been granting the Orcs citizenship and allowing them to ride in the Rohirrim, wouldn't he?
He was preventing him from unleashing his inner Chad.
OK, Sean 487.
Heard Carl and a bunch of talk of J.D.
Vance and popular with suburban women.
You guys are clueless.
We're not going to vote for Trump in any measure.
Suburban women, 92% Biden.
Well, I think that what Carl was trying to say there to sort of defend him without him being here and potentially put words in his mouth, so sorry if I get it wrong, was that ideally Trump would pick someone who polled with demographics that were not his strong suit and what he's done instead is basically get someone who is very popular with the base because he's basically mini-Trump.
Yeah.
And that was the point I think Carl was making.
Right, I'm aware that we are quite over time.
However, I have a relatively quick segment.
It's also another fun one.
So Stelios' jacket is still appropriate here.
I'm going to drink some water because I've got a very dry throat.
Sorry, I hope you didn't hear that.
Don't worry, it's going to be a good one.
This is the island of Torsø.
It's called Thors Island in Old Norse.
That's where it gets its name.
It's on the west coast of Scotland.
And it has, can you guess the number of inhabitants on it, Stelios?
Zero.
Yes.
Got it in one.
It's only Thor.
It's only for, for gods there.
Yes.
It's, it's, it's God's country, but not the one you think.
So here we are, zooming out of Scotland.
So it's, it's pretty remote.
You look, say, In the sum of Europe, it's right on the edge of Europe.
I think it's fair to say, other than Iceland, but you know, they're kind of their own thing.
So you get the gist, and let's have a little picture of an aerial view.
There's the island.
It does look beautiful, doesn't it?
It looks lovely.
It looks majestic, and it's precisely the place I'd want to go there, because there's no one there, and I want some silence.
Notice the only building in the middle there?
That little place?
I would love to live there.
This is like my ideal place.
If I had the money to buy this, I would.
Almost certainly.
Now I'm just having images inside that this is a lovely distillery where you have some good smoked scotch.
I would like to have a little deck chair, prop it up on the beach with a fishing rod, have a bottle of scotch next to me, just put my feet up, maybe a pipe, and just catch some, you know, mackerel and salmon, and enjoy, watch the day go by.
That would be lovely.
And, you know, here is the island.
I'm going to showcase it a little bit more.
This is a video, it's a promotional video for trips to this island and you were previously able to stay on the farmhouse.
We'll be looking at some more details of it but there's the, yeah there's no one on it, yeah we get that idea, there's the one building on the entire thing.
Obviously very few trees, pretty rough terrain, you're right next to the sea, it's harsh but beautiful.
You can almost train like to be a Jedi there.
You could, yeah.
It's a good place for religious meditation, isn't it?
It is, yeah.
You could say that.
It's a good place to sit and contemplate, perhaps in a more Buddhist vein, where you're exploring within rather than without, right?
Reject the worldly affairs.
Be in the world but not of the world.
Exactly.
That's perfect for it.
I mean, you've got dolphins, you've got otters, you've got a beautiful landscape.
Look at that, there's an eagle.
It's lovely, right?
You get the gist of it.
Nice island, lovely place.
Perfect for self-discovery.
It is, yeah.
If you love wildlife, if you love nature, if you love being in harmony with rural Scotland, it's the perfect place for you.
And it's good news because it's for sale, actually.
Here it is on Savile's website.
Offers over 1.5 million.
It's 270.80 acres.
Or 109, almost 110.
I think that's hectares.
I don't know.
I don't tend to deal in large plots of land because I don't even have any property.
But here it is in Oban, Argyle, It's even got a postcode.
So I'm going to read some details about it.
So, successful holiday Latin farm business.
Over 2.5 miles of coastline and foreshore.
Permanent grazing and woodland if you, you know, want to bring over some cattle.
Superb sailing, fishing and water sports.
A modest three-bedroom period farmhouse with stunning views.
Attractive traditional stone farm building with development potential.
Sheltered anchorage and mooring because of course you want to take your boat out if you've got, you know, 1.5 million island and an abundance and variety of wildlife and habitats which, you know, for someone with a keen eye for the natural world, someone that appreciates it, that'll be lovely.
The only problem really is that the person interested in buying it isn't interested in any of those things.
Actually, he wants to turn it into an Islamic state.
I mean, It's a Scottish Isle.
I know, yeah.
So this guy here is called Sheikh Yasser Al-Habib, and he's from Kuwait.
And do you know, Stelios, he's lived in England for 20 years.
Do you know how he came here?
No.
He claimed asylum.
Okay.
So he is an asylum seeker and now, he's been here for 20 years, he wants to create basically a secessionist Islamic state on a Scottish island in Western Scotland.
Yeah, a bit left to field, isn't it?
Well, this is of course a good continuation of the increasing Islamisation of Britain and the sort of ghettoisation.
We saw the Leeds riots where the police were driven out of a largely Muslim community.
You know, they're rejecting the authority of the native British because they're getting in larger and larger numbers in the UK.
Their population is one of the largest growing ones out of any demographic or religion.
So the Times reports he was jailed in his home country in 2003 for inciting sectarianism after attacking key figures of Sunni Islam.
Now I don't know why we granted asylum to someone who was Encouraging sectarianism in an Islamic country.
And they also report his Kuwaiti citizenship was revoked in 2010 after he described Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad, as an enemy of God.
And I thought this was a bit strange because I'm no Quranic scholar.
I was just like, why would he say that?
Obviously she's the wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
You'd think that she would be venerated, right?
And then I looked into why.
So at the Battle of Camel, yes that's what it's really called, Camel, as in humps that live in the desert.
Okay.
In 656 AD, Aisha led an army against Ali, the fourth caliph and cousin of the son-in-law of Muhammad, who Shia Muslims regard as the rightful successor to Muhammad.
And so by her opposing him, it's seen as an act of rebellion against the divine I mean, it's so complicated because in any tradition you have people who are trying to reinterpret it and just, yeah, but the point is, people can't keep up.
No, I don't know about this stuff, but that's supposedly my best guess at why he said that sort of thing.
It just sparked my interest.
I'm going to throw in some tidbits of history, plus I thought the Battle of Camel when talking about Islam is funny.
So he also runs a TV channel from a converted church, ironically.
I know, it's kind of awful and I'm smiling about it because it's so poetically unjust.
It's almost comical but I'm genuinely annoyed by it, in Buckinghamshire and his TV channel is called Fadak TV.
So Ofcom, the regulator that regulates TV channels, have criticised his channel saying it causes sectarian violence.
Interesting how an Islamist can set up his own TV channel and off comes just like her, well we're gonna give you some strong words but you know GB News on the other hand are we're gonna fine you lots of money and basically persecute you.
So his supporters are called the Mardi Servants Union and so far they've raised 3.5 million to take over this island and what his plans are are as follows he plans to build a school, a hospital, a mosque, And he wants people on the island to practice Sharia law.
It didn't seem such a big island.
I know, yeah.
I don't know how you're going to basically recreate your own parallel civilization on what amounts to a small island.
Also, food?
It doesn't look like the best place for agriculture.
You could probably have grazing animals at best, but they kind of need the whole island.
So you can't have all those buildings, otherwise the grazing animals aren't really going to be able to support the population you have for schools and hospitals and a mosque.
And they also need a square for the Queers for Palestine protests.
Don't worry Stelios, there'll be plenty of rooftops.
So, he says he wants Muslims from all over the world to be given a visa in order for them to live in their new homeland.
And this is a direct quote here, if you want to live free under the banner of the Imam in a special homeland where you feel everything in it reminds you of the awaited Mahdi, which is the future messianic figure.
That's from Dune.
That's the Lisan al-Qa'ib, isn't it?
Everything is the Shia homeland support this project.
So basically he's been rallying his supporters to give him lots of money to create his own parallel society.
And do you want to see what else he's been up to?
So he's been giving his supporters military style training.
What for?
I don't know.
I don't think there are many Viking incursions into Western Scotland anymore.
So I'm not sure what he's going to have to defend his property from.
I think it might be a bit more aggressive.
Also, funnily enough, he's marching them here in a mosque car park.
It's from the wildlife.
From the wildlife!
All those otters, scaring them.
But yeah, they're larping in military uniforms, some of them overweight, some of them old, and they're walking around a mosque car park to train.
So I've actually got some live footage here from some of his other training here.
No, it's actually from the film Four Lions, but this is what I anticipate will be We've got a prediction of what it will look like.
training on this island right because of course it's basically going to be them no trees just some sheep and uh it's going to look something like this i think how can you recreate battle conditions in so there we go we've got a prediction of what it will look like here it is um there we go It's great to be able to see the future, isn't it?
But yes, sorry, you were going to say something.
No, no, no.
And I wanted to make the point that Western Scotland might not be the best place, because if you look at the Muslim population of the world, you're not exactly spoilt for choice, are you?
I mean, look at this.
I'm just going to open it in a new tab here so we can zoom in a bit.
I can't really scroll across, but you get the gist.
There's lots of territory here that the locals probably wouldn't object to having the Islamic way of life because they are Islamic.
Yeah.
Why does he want it in Western Scotland?
Is it possibly because, even amongst Muslims, his sect of Islam is so unattractive that he only can find sanctuary in the UK because we're such a pushover that even Islamic countries won't have this sort of thing going on in their country?
Yeah, even though he's more culturally similar.
That's the issue that Western governments are right now closing their eyes to, is that there is a lot of infighting in people from these countries and this world, so if any person who says that I originate from a country that has a particular conflict and there's infighting, claims asylum seeking, that means basically that the West is Hosting people from this world and that's it.
But I don't think that, when I'm thinking about the duties of a state and the duties and responsibilities of people who are governed by the state, I just don't think that cultural self-implosion is the only thing that is... Cultural self-implosion is bad.
It's absolutely bad.
The duty of a state is to its own people and no one else.
Yes.
Quite often other people's interests are antithetical to those of your citizenry, so considering them is actually at the expense of the native population, which is going on in many of the Western countries today.
Exactly.
And I have to point out that a lot of the Intellectual, let's say multiculturalist.
We're saying that for multiculturalism to work, you do need a particular framework of law that everyone respects.
So if there is sectarianism where people have their, there are pockets, geographical areas, where people have their own laws, that means that you don't have a country anymore.
No, of course not.
And also, this reminds me of, there was an account, I can't remember which European country it was, but the Japanese, one of the first sort of envoys to Europe, they were going around Europe, some of the European countries to sort of explore our way of life.
And I think it was either, I think it might be Portugal, but it could have also been the Netherlands, where they asked, well, We really like your castles.
Could we buy one of your castles?
And they're like, yeah, of course.
And then they said, well, if we were to buy one of these castles, is there any law preventing us from garrisoning it with our own men?
And we were like, no, no, no, it's your property.
You can do with it as you wish.
And the Japanese were absolutely shocked at this.
They were like, hang on a minute.
So we can...
Buy a castle, a military structure in your country, move in our soldiers and occupy a plot of land in your country and you're perfectly happy to sell us it.
They were absolutely dumbfounded by this and I think that that is quite the parallel to this sort of situation.
The fact that it's even possible that a guy can do this in our country and launch something that is antithetical to Britain, which is Sharia law, an Islamic island.
This is the worst remake of Jurassic Park I've ever heard of.
Because, you know, rather than it being cool dinosaurs trying to get you, it's going to be Muslims, which is kind of anticlimactic, really.
We've seen it before.
But what it also reminds me of is this.
I covered this a long time ago, and it was the Black Hammer Commune.
And their plan, their weirdo, their sort of gay black nationalist communists, I think it's fair to say, led by Garzy Kodso, who calls himself Black Hitler, or at least is referred to as Black Hitler.
um Known for greeting each other and going Uhuru in a really camp voice.
They planned to buy some land in the Colorado mountains and build a commune up there, these little homes, and I talked about it all the way back in May of 2021.
They were going to say they were going to practice agriculture and be self-sustaining, but the thing is they were so high up in the Colorado mountains that nothing would have grown.
And that their ideas were so ridiculous and it showed that they were so out of touch with the local area that they thought that they could do this, that it was hilarious to me.
The same goes for the Islamists.
They think that they can build a parallel society on a small Scottish island.
That is delusion to the point of laughability really.
I mean, especially about the communists, because it's just always, it's a patent.
They just think that it's all a matter of intention.
They don't do their due diligence.
I think we've got some communists in the walls at the minute.
Yeah, so I mean, a commune going wrong is basically hardly news.
And also, the leader, Garzy Kodzo, was arrested after a dead body was found in his home.
So it didn't go too well.
Turns out if you're a weirdo that wants to move away from society and create your parallel society in an inhospitable area that's not inhabited for a reason, bad things happen.
Who would it attract?
You know, just living somewhere where there are no doors, no locks, no nothing.
So, the funny thing is as well, Blackhammer even has an ADL page.
B.H.O.
Even though, obviously communist, right?
And they still say they're far-right.
They promote far-right ideas.
Basically, it means nothing now.
They wanted to start a commune, they were anti-capitalist explicitly, and look at their logo!
It's a hammer and a cog and it's red.
Is that the BHO organization?
What?
BHO.
Black Hammer.
Yeah.
That's the same one.
BHO.
But thankfully.
Thanks to the based owner of the island, they refused to sell to the person, no matter how much money he raised, because they were worried about what they were going to use the island for.
So thankfully, the only check in place was the fact that the Scottish owner was just like, no, I'm not selling it to this guy.
Doesn't matter how much you pay me.
I'm not passing on the island to you, which I wholeheartedly commend.
I imagine you'd probably do it if they were English as well, but still.
He might have even thought he was English if he's, you know, an S&P voter.
But sorry, I'm insulting you.
I don't know anything about you, but credit to you for this because I think that that is actually a responsible thing and it is a failure of the British state to prevent Islamists from purchasing autonomous zones, basically, we've raised money to create their own Islamic homeland within our country, within our nation, you know, a brilliant place, a beautiful place.
And yes, I'm sort of glad it's, it's been prevented, but also it's worrying that it got this far in the first place.
Okay.
So we have a lot of comments here.
In fact, I'm going to have to scroll down.
Okay.
Hirosan Japan says, sell him the island, let him declare a sovereign state, then invade it and take it in war.
Then keep him as a war prisoner.
Easy peasy.
That is probably what would happen to be fair.
BaldEagle1787, guys, The problem of the Barbarians is solving itself.
Give them an island, set an armed perimeter around it, relocate all the Barbarians to there, and then, contained.
It's like that Anphrax island, isn't it, in Scotland, where they just put a bunch of Anphrax on the island.
Just left it there to rot.
Same thing, really.
That's a random name, says Ofcom, turns a blind eye to Grimmer Wormtongue, turning the Shire to S. Meanwhile, Tommy the Hobbit gets arrested for terrorizing the child-eating orcs infesting his Shire.
Hard times ahead, lads.
I like that comment.
I like the Lord of the Rings analogies.
Please keep those coming.
Um not just a string says Labour seem to have immediately dropped the ball on internal security.
See Southport stabbing now we have a fifth column separatist.
Do we have to choose between securitory incompetence and Labour?
You don't have to actually pick either of those.
Um O-P-H-U-K, I'm not reading your name of course.
Europe was better without Muslims, change my mind.
I don't want to change your mind, I agree.
Bald Eagle 1787, the US is dealing with the Japanese buying Hawaii out from under them, businesses are buying land on the island, raising rent to force the locals out and allowing the Japanese to move in for cheap.
Yeah, you should have dropped another nuke, America.
That's a joke, by the way.
Please don't do that.
I like Japan.
However, they did sink my grandfather's ship in World War II, so... Nuke one.
The Germans did that to my grandfather, but it's okay.
We could have turned the other cheek, Stelios, that is apparently the way they used to do it.
No!
No, I'm being silly, of course.
Hell no!
I'm being tongue-in-cheek, if anything.
That's a random name, says just drop all these undesirables, Muslims, commies, LGB, rude word, on a deserted island and make money from filming the battle royale that will ensue.
I have suggested this many times, alas, no party wants to take on this policy proposal.
It's a crying shame.
Right, onto the website comments, and don't worry, can we have like an extra 10 minutes or so, Samson?
Yeah, let's do video comments first.
Oh, two video comments first, okay.
I joked with my friend, since we've had the last two weekends have some quite significant historical events happen.
I wonder what historical events will happen this weekend.
And then I found out about the Olympics happening.
I knew something would happen.
And a lot has happened, and I'm sure you guys have talked about it, but for me the most interesting thing was the blackout where the only thing with a light on was a single lone Christian church in the background.
How poetic.
Astute as ever.
Something did happen as well.
Thanks, California refugee.
So to be serious for a moment, I think the question should be thrown up to the gentleman.
How do you view the fact that when you look at the American electorate, one of the biggest problems we're going to run into is there's always going to be that group of people that is going to vote Based on a checkbox.
As in, as long as you fulfill this criteria, this criteria, this criteria, it's no longer about the content of your character, it's the content of your underwear.
So, and getting back to my usual theme of not taking anything too seriously, keep in mind that Kamala's famous book, The Secret to My Success, is my ability to suck seed.
So I think the best thing to say about that is that the sort of push towards having self-confidence, you know, in your principles, having a sort of a muscular approach to politics of, yeah we're the best, you know, we don't care about these demographic categories, we don't check boxes, we're better because we say we are, because we know we are, because everyone can see we are.
We need that sort of confidence.
That's how you beat those people because if they're there like a weird nerdy bureaucrat ticking boxes about their candidates and saying my candidate's the best because they're black and they're a woman and they're Muslim and they're lesbian and they're disabled and all of those things.
No one really cares about that.
People care about their life getting better.
It's much easier to say, well, your life gets better if you're not, you know, your life gets better if you're not in a discriminated category, right?
Your life is better if you work hard, you get just desserts.
It's always an issue of numbers.
I mean, let's hope we do things to keep those numbers down.
I think that it's certainly doable.
And I think people just need confidence in their own ability and righteousness to prevail.
What you're looking at are linden trees, the pride of our town that the mayor fucked by keeping the roots open for two winters while he was repaving with these ugly-ass tiles.
So cheers, councils!
Do work!
Good luck with your taxes.
Yeah, I think that that style of tree next to stones doesn't work because they have them in Swindon.
The ground in, like, central Swindon now looks like the ground of, you know, the Somme or something like that with the brickwork.
It's all over the place.
There are great big trenches and pools of water when it rains.
And also thanks, Ruther Day, for sending this because we haven't seen some of, I haven't seen some of your comments in a while.
So happy to see you.
Whilst not common, certain phrases are typical of a people who will do anything to survive when brutalised by a communist regime with surprising longevity.
Accordingly, if you can cheat, then cheat, is a phrase in China.
They say it as 能骗就骗.
It couples nicely with the phrase 恰不得, which is similar to ah, good enough, said dismissively to emphasise that least effort is the order of the day.
I mean, mostly, I think Alex is raising a really good point here because most of moralizing assumes normal conditions, whereas being a prisoner of war and warfare is entirely different.
Yes, also I think the tyranny of the Chinese state has done a number on the culture of China to the point where Chinese culture in the modern day is virtually demonic.
To make a reference that the boss man will like, it's like all the forces of chaos have got their champions in China.
Chaos space marines coming out.
We need some space marines, that's for sure.
Let's have a look at this next one.
Look at all those terrible racists, Stelios.
Singing songs together and flying flags and having a good time.
It's nice to see this because tens of thousands of people don't go out to a rally just like that.
No, they don't.
It even got me to go to London.
That's quite an achievement.
Right.
Any more?
We got some comments.
More Rumble ones through and then we've got plenty of time to do website comments as well.
Reform should campaign on giving us back our guns.
If Labour and the Tories insist on turning us into Afghanistan, I want to be able to shoot back at the terrorists.
I do think that self-defence laws need to be reintroduced because if you import the third world and when seconds matter the police are minutes away, I want to be able to shoot the person trying to kill me.
This is my right.
It used to be a right and it was taken away from me and I think that it's perfectly reasonable that self-defence is a part of a country's culture.
I mean, it has to be.
It has to be.
I mean, every culture has some laws about self-defense.
At the current moment in time, we have sort of state-enforced cuckoldry in terms of defending ourselves.
That's a random name for the final rumble chat.
My candidate is the best because he has a sword that killed Sauron and has a hot elf wife.
What does your candidate have?
I enjoyed that.
So we got some general comments.
Alex Ogle says, the dream team of Stalios and Josh, the two Lotus Eaters who really keep the quality up.
Thanks Alex, that's beautiful.
Talking of quality, you've always got good quality video comments.
There we go, right back at you.
Lady Dragon Hawk says, Dear Stelios, please show us your Mr. Freeze impression.
Thank you.
A fan.
Okay.
Tonight's forecast.
A freeze is coming.
The funny thing is, at the minute, it's like 27 degrees Celsius outside.
It's really hot.
It's funny because Samson is in the other room and it's incredibly hot in the other room and he came here before and I asked him, can you be cold, Samson?
You remember the Mr. Freeze quotes?
If revenge is a dish best served cold, then it's time to feast.
Yeah, this is the tyranny that Karl has set up that the presenters get a nice cool studio and Samson is being cooked in the booth over there.
Stay cool.
You alright Samson in there?
We can't hear you.
We can't hear you.
He's mute.
He's melting.
The microphone has frozen.
Okay, George Happ.
Carl's speech was great, but I'm afraid his message to Farage will fall on deaf ears.
Nigel will never associate with the football lads or Carl, who he has denounced.
He either pledges his allegiance or his political career dies.
It's as simple as that for Farage.
Because people aren't going to wait around for him.
He's let people down enough that their patience is wearing pretty thin with him.
Rue the Day.
Ah, the contemposium continues.
Thank you.
Garlic Goblin.
You can't get more wrong than Corbin.
Stelios.
When is this being put on a t-shirt and sold in the Lotus merch shop?
That's a good idea.
It needs you in a toga looking very noble, like an ancient Greek scholar, and then it's just you with a sandal on Corbyn's head.
After a whole life devoted on reflection, you know what my verdict of wisdom is?
I'm gonna crush your head.
Yeah, it cannot get more wrong than Corbyn.
TMK out of context.
My Islander arrived this morning.
A much-needed ray of positivity for the upcoming week of a S-show at work.
Well, I hope it all goes alright and enjoy the read, I suppose.
So for the Patriot Rally, Biggy Bigfoot says, my wife was in London that day and she said she noticed the flags and the gathering.
I told her it was a peaceful rally in celebration of British culture and identity with speakers and gospel music.
She said, oh, that's actually really nice to see, but I don't know if you know, but I heard there was this other thing going on with that far right Tommy Robinson, probably trying to ruin it.
I had to smile, bless her.
Well, I commend you for, you know, entertaining it.
Yes, patience is still a virtue, at least in a marriage.
Hector Rex says, really like Carl calling out Farage and saying, we are your constituents and we will not be ignored.
Yes, that was one of the best notes of the whole thing, I think.
Lord Nerevar says, bravo to Tommy.
Carl and everyone who organised the Patriot Rally while I was once again confined to the grey wasteland that is Birmingham.
Sorry to hear that.
Just know that I was cheering you on all the way.
That's very nice of you.
Thank you.
X, Y, and they've spelled out Z, but I'm going to call it Zed because I'm English.
This would be one public gathering I'd gladly take my kids to.
Glad to hear it went well for you.
Well, thank you!
Kevin Fox says, I was petrified as a woman.
No, Narinda, you're petrified as a race baiter.
Good reframing there, Kevin.
One more.
Justin B. Don't remind us of Narinda's appearance on the Lotus Eaters.
My ears still bleed from the memory of her voice when I see her.
Also, I saw that name, someone with my name there.
I'm not going to read it though.
I'm going to read your comment at least.
Seeing something like the Patriot Rally really puts a smile on my face.
It shows that we are not few, we are not alone.
We can act when called upon, we just need to keep up the momentum.
Hear hear, writes Stelios.
Okay, Thane Scotty of Swindon.
The modern left will point to the ancient Greeks being somewhat flexible with their sexuality to justify being absolutely degenerate in their behavior today.
But there are two important things they forget.
Number one, the ancient Greeks would have considered them barbarians and would enslave them in a second and probably beat the degeneracy out of them.
I mean, if where Macron said, this is France, you'd have King Leonidas saying, this is Sparta.
Kicking him into a hole.
And number two the ancient Greeks diddled little kids are the modern LGBTQ plus activist communities absolutely certain they wish to outdo the ancient Greeks in terms of subverting social norms.
I have to say to this that it's vastly over the degree in which this happened is vastly overblown but it did happen.
I spoke to you about this because when I read Plato's Symposium there's like one dude talking about it and a lot of other people are disagreeing and saying you're kind of a weirdo.
What are you doing at my banquet?
Platonic love is non-erotic, but you do get some characters in platonic dialogues who are a bit homoerotic because the dialogue takes place out of nowhere, you know, the dialogue takes place in a gymnasium where people are exercising naked, you know, random.
Is it just a coincidence they're all chatting and that you've got all these gym bros talking philosophy and then you've got the sort of guy in the corner in the bushes.
Oiling themselves.
Nice.
Okay.
Baron Von Warhawk.
It's telling that once you give these people any platform or attention, then they will do the most degenerate nonsense possible.
They simply can't help themselves when it comes to the possibility of flashing the world with their rainbow paint covered ball.
Kevin Fox, calm down Stelios, it could have been worse.
They could have got Sam Smith to play the Smurf.
French, Sam Smith.
Horrifying.
Chad Koala, as much as I'd like to attribute the Olympic Opening Ceremony to the French being well... French.
I think we'd see similar insanity from any Western European or English-speaking country these days.
In which case, buckle up for 2028 because I wouldn't count on the LA ceremony to be gashing with class and sophistication.
I think Chad Collar is right, because this is not about, this is just about virtue signaling.
Is it being held in LA in 2028?
Because if they do, I'm going to look forward to the procession.
It is, Samson says.
They're going to have a ceremony where there's going to be lots of homeless people taking dumps all at the same time.
Imagine, the same way in the London opening ceremony you had the people with the NHS trolleys and stuff, you had the fentanyl.
Yeah, there's a giant needle that descends from the heavens.
No one's moving, everyone's just there sitting like a zombie.
There's actually no chairs in the stadium because everyone's on their face on fentanyl, it's all handed out in little bags on the entrance.
Andrew Narak, honestly, Stelios, calling the opening ceremony cringe is an understatement.
I like understatements because I like making people think it's blasphemous.
It revels in its deformed, perverted ideals, spitting all that is normal and good.
Absolutely.
Captain Charlie the Beagle.
Hello.
Haven't seen you in a while.
Hey guys, regarding the French Olympics, I personally am not surprised by this at all.
After all, isn't the idea of the opening ceremony supposed to be about showcasing the rich cultural heritage of a nation?
There was a lot of degeneracy to get through in French history, I suppose.
That's mean, yeah.
Shall I go on to my comments?
Yes, of course.
Lord Nerevar says, hear this Muslim guy out.
We move all the Islamists onto one island in Scotland, hold a referendum to grant it independence, then sever all diplomatic ties.
The religion of peace gets its place and we get our island back.
Yeah, that probably would work.
Eloise says Ron Swanson would approve of the island and Josh's desire to sit with Scotch in peace.
Please make it happen.
It was also my desire.
Yes.
It's alright, you can come and visit Stelios.
You're welcome.
I had some Lagavulin 16.
That would be, yeah.
Lovely whisky, isn't it?
Yeah.
Lovely and smoky.
Thane Scotty of Swindon says, I think we should create a refuge on this Scottish island.
It'd be great.
I've been assured that everything bad I've ever heard about communism is Western propaganda, so I think we should model this refuge after Nazino Island.
It can clearly hold 6,700 people.
So we should send them there to help our comrades seek refuge from the evil Western Imperial Project.
How about it, lads?
I thought the first sentence was something Chomsky wrote.
No, no, no.
Yeah.
And finally, Kevin Fox says, what's the first thing you notice about Torsa?
Very few trees.
Tells you a lot about the weather.
I lived in the Hebrides for a few years and all the trees leaned east.
The Muslims will hate the place.
Yeah, I mean, it's damp and miserable.
So it's perfect for the kind of ethos of their religion, which is also pretty miserable.
And I think on that note, we should probably end, shouldn't we?
Yep.
Well, we're back again tomorrow.
Hope you enjoyed it.
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