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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #980

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	Music Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters This is episode 980 on today the 16th of August 2024.
	Almost forgot what month it was there for a moment.
	I'm your host Harry, joined today by Bo and special returning guest Rafe Haidelmanku.
	Apologies, I had to double check the notes for you.
	Not the first time that's happened.
	So how are you doing today, sir?
	Excellent, great to be with you.
	20 away from 1,000 episodes.
	That's very interesting.
	You've got a big episode lined up, I imagine?
	Closing in, yeah.
	We do have something very big planned.
	I don't know if the plans are out there for the audience to know yet.
	Are they, Samson?
	Well, Gold subscribers, continue to send in your video comments for us.
	And remember as well, later on today, we'll be joined, this panel here will be joined by Stelios, where there will be a two-on-two pub quiz that we've got some questions come in from our audience members, Gold Tier members I assume have sent in their video questions as well.
	Should be good fun.
	These two are going to be a team.
	Myself and Stelios are going to be a team.
	And I've said before, if these two get any history questions, we are going to get steamrolled.
	So hopefully there aren't too many of those.
	That is the problem with a pub quiz, is it does show that actually you don't know what you're talking about quite often.
	You know, someone's actual level of general knowledge.
	There's no hiding.
	Could it be that in suggesting the pub quiz, I have accidentally tanked my own career before it even really started?
	I'm all wondering that right now.
	Oh god.
	But yeah, other than that, today on the podcast we're going to be talking about the continued persecution of the British people, the trouble with Disney, I don't know what that one's about so I'm quite interested, and how our green and pleasant land will be turned into our grey and unpleasant land under current Labour plans.
	We already spoke on Wednesday about their plans to pave over the countryside for new housing estates for migrants, so look forward to the wind farms and solar farms as well.
	With that let's get into the news.
	So over the past few weeks the talk about and media reporting on the riots has and the protests that have been going on has died down somewhat since last Wednesday when there was the hoax of all of the different riots supposedly being organized that were then all simultaneously counter-protested against nobody who showed up by thousands of leftists who all happened to show up with Stand up to racism and Socialist Worker Party, professionally printed placards.
	Things have died down since then.
	It was a very successful operation, sadly.
	It was just a complete win for the forces of anti-racism, wasn't it?
	The forces of evil.
	Yeah, the fash were well and truly bashed and now there's nothing you don't need to worry about.
	So bashed they didn't even show up, in fact.
	It's quite remarkable.
	The politics of hate were defeated thoroughly on that day.
	It was a new cable street, I understand.
	Oh yeah, I've heard that as much as well.
	But obviously for the people who were involved in the protests and the people who were arrested, the ordeal is still very much going on and there are going to be people included in those cohorts who absolutely engaged in violent activity against the police and involved themselves in looting.
	There was some infamous videos going around of people breaking into a Lush and nicking bath bombs and if you're going to get arrested, nicked for anything, I think that's a pretty rubbish reason.
	There's that Greg's kid.
	He's got a well-finished load of sausage rolls.
	Being from the North, I can at least sympathise with the temptation there.
	But yeah, it's still going on, and the way that it's still being prosecuted, the convictions, the charges that are going on, is still showing very much that there is the two-tier system in place.
	Nothing has been done to address that, and nothing whatsoever has been done to address the initial root causes for why these protests erupted in the first place.
	There is still no justice for the family members of the three girls and including the eight other children who were murdered and stabbed.
	That trial, I believe, is still planned at the moment for next January.
	So, again, it's incredible how for white British people they can get very, very quick convictions, but for foreigners they can't.
	It has to be extended, delayed.
	So, I've made the mention that speedy trials are a function of white privilege.
	I can only assume so.
	That's interesting actually because just today, Neil O'Brien, who's a Conservative MP, has just posted stats showing that since 2007, 50,000 people who have previous convictions have escaped prison despite having convictions for carrying a knife, sexual assault, robbery and burglary.
	50,000 people.
	Yet if you're a 55-year-old carer for your husband, Who's never done anything wrong in her life, has led a life of decency and respectability, and in one moment of madness posts something on Twitter, on Facebook, and then deletes it immediately, you go into the clink.
	I mean, it's clear evidence of two-tier policing.
	Look, as somebody who's rather conservative, I'm of course in favor of law and order, In the 2011 riots we also saw draconian action taken to to quench that but as you say it's the hypocrisy, it's the double standards because of course we've had scenes of Muslim gangs rampaging in the streets.
	Have we had any charges there?
	I haven't heard of any.
	We've had you know scenes even during the Palestinian marches of course we had calls for jihad and for intifada on the streets.
	We have Nothing offends the British more than hypocrisy and double standards.
	bombs of people cycling up to the reporters screaming "Free Palestine" surrounded by large gangs of people with weapons.
	And nothing offends the British more than hypocrisy and double standards.
	If everybody was treated equally draconian, in an equally draconian manner, I think there'd be far less of the anger than we're seeing now.
	There'll be another debate that will be being had but it's a severity with which decent law-abiding people are being treated at the same time that we see reports of you know remember that Muslim migrant who was let off because he raped a 13 year old girl but he didn't know that it was illegal to have sex with a 13 year old girl.
	Sadly there's a shocking number of Time and time again, and that's what sticks in the craw.
	And as you say, when we had the rioting in 2011, what did we hear from Labour and from the Tories?
	Well, we have to deal with the root causes of why they were rioting.
	2020, Black Lives Matter, same thing.
	You had Starmer and Rayner saying, we understand the feelings over the death of George Floyd, you know, this criminal in America who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman's belly.
	We understand how you're feeling about this.
	This time, not once have I heard anyone say, actually from the senior front benches of the Tory party or the Labour party, we have to understand the root causes.
	Instead, they're blaming bad faith actors in the UK, from Tommy Robinson to Lawrence Fox and everybody else.
	And bad faith actors abroad, you know, from France to China.
	No one is listening to the people who feel that they are having their country taken away from them, they're feeling dispossessed, and they've seen their towns and cities change beyond all recognition in the space of two decades.
	No, all very well put there.
	I feel like they can't admit it because it's a keystone of their entire worldview.
	They cannot admit that multiculturalism is a disaster, is a failure, is an insane experiment really.
	They can't admit that.
	Because it's what most of their world view is based upon.
	And absolutely what you say about two-tier justice, I've said it before but I'll say it again, I'll probably say it more times in the future, that justice is quite often personified as a woman holding a sword and scales, for obvious reasons, but she's blindfolded.
	Because she's blind.
	Justice is supposed to be blind.
	It has to apply to everyone equally.
	It has to.
	Otherwise it's not real justice, it's not proper justice.
	So, you know, calling things a two-tier care or two-tier policing system, two-tier justice system, it's actually a very, very polite way, isn't it?
	It's a very, very kind, soft way of saying that the rule of law has been subverted, the rule of justice itself.
	It isn't applied properly and, you know, you're very close to having a civilizational collapse at that point.
	Yeah and we have to realize it isn't just two-tier policing as you say, it's two-tier government, it's two-tier reporting, we now have a two-tier nation and in many senses you could say it's the British state versus the British people.
	That's where we've got to right now when you see a concerted effort by our courts, by our police, by our media and by the state to suppress anybody who dares to contradict the established narrative and you're quite right Beau, it's precisely because they are the ones who are complicit in all of this.
	They laid the foundation for, they created the tinderbox that's now igniting through mass immigration.
	You know there should, reform shouldn't have any seats in parliament if the Tories simply acted like a 1980s conservative government and was tough on crime and tough on immigration and tough on asylum seekers who are here illegally and not here for genuine purposes.
	There were so many opportunities that the establishment had here to try to get in control of the situation in quite measured ways.
	None of that was done and consequently we're seeing the results of that which is of course people think where else can we go what other routes do we have we've elected in government after government to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands
	The British people have been betrayed every time they have elected a government and now they've just elected a Labour government, well they didn't elect a Labour government, they threw out a Conservative government and by default got a Labour government and they can see that there's no hope for at least another five years for any of this to change and so whilst of course you condemn utterly the violence and the terrible scenes we've seen, nevertheless there are millions more people who are just as angry and who have not taken to the streets violently but who feel
	And two points I'd like to address there before we move on to go through the links that I've got here.
	So first of all I think it cannot be stressed enough how much that this is all a result of mainly the elite class absorbing and drinking the Kool-Aid of the utter insanity of the ideology of a globalist multiculturalism where you can have
	Foreign populations move to anywhere in the world en masse, create ethnic enclaves that don't deviate from their original culture, and then expect them to somehow mix and get along with an already established population with their own culture.
	Some, again, have said that this is some kind of 4D Machiavellian power moves going on behind the scenes.
	I disagree completely.
	I think these people are, on a certain level, insane.
	I think that the actions of our leaders cannot be explained outside of them genuinely believing the rubbish that they spout about multiculturalism.
	And second of all, when it comes to the riots and the people who are being persecuted, as we'll find out as we go on, obviously there are people who have been caught on camera committing violent acts Looting, breaking into shops, those people absolutely we can condemn.
	I do think for most of these people who have been arrested and are being charged and convicted, especially of the very broad charge of violent disorder, there are a lot of questions and there's a lot of uncertainty over the legitimacy of such charges.
	Because as we go on, it seems that a lot of these people have been picked up off the streets for being around or in a crowd of people.
	And the police just picking them out and deciding we're going to nick you.
	Right here and now.
	So we'll get on to the evidence that we've got for that as we go on.
	So first of all regarding the... I should say, sorry, a friend of mine actually just before the riots started, you may remember there was a protest outside Downing Street.
	And my friend who's a suit and tie wearing chap, wouldn't say boo to a fly, was simply there to show his support and wasn't taking part in anything.
	And he was simply standing on the wrong side of the street to the recognized area where you could protest.
	Wasn't even told that he was on the wrong side of the... Never given an opportunity to be informed.
	Actually, you need to be standing over there.
	Was handcuffed, kept for a couple of hours on the street, then transported to a police station for over 20 hours before being released.
	And this is somebody who's never been in trouble with the law before.
	It's absolutely remarkable that we're in this sort of a situation now.
	Yeah, there's been a shocking amount of footage similar to that coming out of people who have been a little bit close to the edge of a pavement, who have been arrested by the police, or, again, being part of a larger crowd who are not doing anything violent, and the police decide that they're going to go in, rough a few of them up, and take them, put them in cuffs, and put them in the back of a van.
	Again, the implications this has for the police just suggests, as Beau said, that there's a complete breakdown of law and order and that the state are using their stormtroopers, as I've seen, quite catchily named, to persecute people who are political dissidents for no other reason than the fact that they are protesting against the state.
	And again, on the subject of the two tiers, here's Jess Phillips, who has admitted that she had a mistake Over a tweet addressing the unrest, this was in response to Richard Tice, who played the clip that I mentioned earlier of a Sky reporter being approached by a man on a motorbike who swore about the EDL, who again do not exist anymore.
	And this was of course done by Middle Eastern and Asian populations.
	men surrounded the reporter and made gestures to the camera very threatening behavior nothing that anybody should support and this was of course done by um middle eastern and asian populations um and sharing the video on x mr tice said keir starmer and labor no doubt think these pro gaza mass folk are far right too and then uh jess phillips responded saying these people came to this location because it has been spread that racists were coming to attack them this information was spread entirely to create this content don't spread it mr tice
	so jess phillips quite reasonably could be accused of supporting violent actions supporting harassment supporting the thoughts of things that if she was on the other side of the aisle or not within labor she would get arrested for these days because she's playing to her constituents uh but this is now able to say oh i made a mistake i should have addressed it different i should have worded it differently and she gets off scot-free whereas your mate from down the pub who maybe tweeted out something inappropriate and then deleted it
	sorry he's getting two years quick word about sort of making a mistake It's not a mistake, okay?
	For a start, you're a professional politician and have been for many, many years.
	You don't accidentally say whole sentences.
	You don't accidentally type out a sentence and press send by mistake.
	That's not what it is.
	You might think it's a political mistake in hindsight, but the thing itself wasn't a mistake.
	We speak for a living, so I know what it's like to misspeak.
	A number of times I've said Victoria when I meant Elizabeth and vice versa.
	Sometimes I'll say Orson Welles when I meant HG Wells or something.
	That's a mistake!
	That's misspeaking.
	You don't accidentally have an opinion and type it out.
	And press send or verbalise it by mistake.
	I just hate this, it's such childish nonsense.
	People like Jess Phillips are so used to excusing away behaviours and practices that it's an automatic, it's akin to putting a hammer onto her knee and having the knee go up.
	And when anytime she sees threatening behavior from the Muslim community, the default reaction is to issue a statement like that.
	And she knows full well how, you know, the dark side of elements in the Muslim community.
	You remember when she was facing down Muslim protesters outside schools in Birmingham?
	You remember when she was seated there during the election campaign surrounded by Muslim male elders.
	She's had a lot of attacks from Muslims over the whole Palestine issue in social media and so forth.
	She's not naive to what's going on and yet even when it's against your own interest Even for a campaigner for women's rights like Jess Phillips, as most feminists are, they're very quick to forget about the misogyny and the violence against women and so forth from the Muslim community.
	It was interesting that the rioting from the working class was filled with men and women.
	Those scenes that I saw that we're referring to here were exclusively male And noticeably faces were covered up.
	Now innocent people coming out to defend their community don't have their faces covered up.
	They come out, we saw in 2011 when the Sikhs and Turks came out to defend their shops from rioters, they didn't have their faces covered.
	This was a very very sinister gang, this Muslim Defense League perhaps and Jess Phillips thinks we're all fools and you know the level of willful blindness here I think is completely outrageous but unfortunately it's par for the course.
	They have to lie.
	It's baked in.
	I mean, as you say, a lot of feminists will just be blind to the misogyny that's in Islam.
	But they'll go further.
	When she was at least verbally attacked, or people in her campaign were maybe physically attacked, or their cartels were during the general election, she said it was just men.
	It was just men that did this against women.
	Nothing further than that.
	I mean, they have to lie and misrepresent a bad reality.
	They love their euphemisms.
	They really love their euphemisms.
	Well, the alliance between the left and radical Muslims always ends one way.
	Just look at the Iranian revolution.
	You know, the students allied with the Ayatollah to overthrow the Shah.
	As soon as they came into power, the students were the first ones to be strung up.
	So, you know...
	I mean look at the Palestinian activists who ran for the Green Party earlier this year and won, and the first thing they did, did they jump on saying right now it's time to tackle environmental issues?
	No, they certainly did not.
	They immediately got out their Palestine flags and started shouting slogans.
	Moving on to the police...
	So this was footage that Turning Point released the other day coming from the August 14th, Pakistan Independence Day of the police not in riot gear.
	We mentioned the instances that we'll be referring to in a moment of the police just arresting English people for gathering in crowds.
	They were in full riot gear and decided to arbitrarily pick people out.
	What happens when it's a large foreign Pakistan population celebrating the independence of a foreign nation?
	Well, what do the police do here?
	Do a little dance.
	I don't recall them doing any Morris dancing on St George's Day, do you?
	Oh God, if only I could see something like that.
	No, this is clearly again the police showing their biases, showing who their real constituents are.
	And keep this in mind as well as we go along.
	So this is what they do when it's foreign populations in large crowds out on the street dancing and causing a ruckus as these sorts of things always do.
	What happens to the British population, the actual people who
	and one way misguided in the ways that they do it or not maybe trying to protect their country or do what they think is protecting the country well they get more than a thousand of them arrested the national police chief counsel said 1024 have been arrested and 575 charged across the uk we are getting some very very quick convictions from this there's this large article talking about it so here's some here's one that i picked out here andrew mcintyre
	In Liverpool Crown Court today, charged with encouraging murder, violent disorder and possession of a bladed arsehole.
	Of course, if that's true, then of course he needs to be punished for such a thing.
	Joseph Bradford, Jamie Eastbrook, Ellie Jane Cox and Lisa Bishop are set to be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court for violent disorder.
	And that's where you start to see violent disorder.
	Very broad, very vague, ambiguous term in the way that they're using it here.
	Jerry and Boyce and Daffron Williams sentenced today for publishing threatening material on a Facebook account intending to stir up religious hatred.
	So again, free speech in this country.
	Completely, completely dead.
	Whether or not it was religious hatred or ginning up anything like that, it is a post on Facebook.
	You shouldn't go to prison for it.
	Violent disorder suspects have been warned that they could face more serious counts after a 15 year old boy became the first to be charged with riot And, uh, rioting carries a maximum of 10 years in jail.
	And there's more reporting from the Metro talking about specific instances.
	Of course, there are people who did loot, riot, do bad things, and they deserve punishment for it.
	But there was one that I wanted to highlight here who got arrested for violent disorder.
	who is Stephen Malin and Ryan Shears.
	They were each jailed for two years and two months after ending up at the very forefront of the mob during unrest in Hartlepool.
	Malin was described as one of the main instigators of a large-scale disturbance on Murray Street, while Shears was bitten on the backside by a police dog during the incident.
	And judging by this, in a moment that I'll show you, it basically just looks like assault by the police.
	So this is what they got arrested for.
	If the clip pays.
	. - Yes, they are acting like dickheads.
	This is what working class people can be like after a few drinks.
	It's one of the charming things about them.
	To be fair, he's been belligerent and I have he's been belligerent and I have given him a couple of warnings, but you don't get two years in prison for that.
	Well, you do.
	But you shouldn't.
	Apparently now you do.
	You should get a slap on the wrist and a warning, especially because neither of them had any prior convictions.
	He's obviously had a couple of drinks, and he's being a dick, as you say.
	Yeah.
	You don't go to prison for two years for that, though.
	I mean, come on.
	Yeah, a slap on the wrist.
	Certainly not a custodial sentence.
	Perhaps nothing at all.
	Perhaps not even a fine.
	And again, you shouldn't get a police attack dog on you for that either.
	And again, contrast this, again, with these guys.
	What do the police do?
	These are a bunch of working class yobbos getting rowdy and drinking.
	They're in full riot gear, they've got the dogs out.
	What happens when a situation like this is happening?
	You know, you don't know what's going to happen at a large crowd gathering like this.
	Well, they're fine, they're happy, they're dandy, they're dancing.
	I think a better comparison is with the Hare Hills riots where we saw the police actually running away from the Roma and Muslims who were rioting on that occasion.
	You know, again, I'm in favour of law enforcement.
	I believe in tough enforcement of the law.
	I like the German and the Dutch police because they aren't afraid to get hands on.
	I think if this chap had just got a A sharp hit to the head with a truncheon or something.
	He probably would have retreated and would have escaped his two-year prison sentence.
	So I don't mind police engaging.
	Well, no one was being violent in this thing, right?
	No.
	That's the big difference here.
	This chap was just being provocative.
	He could easily have just been carried off and made to cool down in a police van for a couple of hours.
	There are so many ways you could have de-escalated that rather than having such a two-year sentence and probably this chap's career prospects also because now his name is everywhere.
	Anyone who does due diligence.
	But yeah I'm all in favor of the police getting tough with all rioters and getting very hands-on.
	We have such a limp wristed police usually except when it comes to the native population.
	No, absolutely, and then it gets even worse when you go to Belfast and see what some men are being charged with.
	So, this was an 18-year-old Cameron Armstrong of Lewis Gardens who was charged with rioting and the police told the court that footage had been captured of a male heavily involved with the riot that seemed to match his description, judging by the clothes, but his legal team has said that he had just turned 18 and was there to have a look.
	Now, again, you know, this is going to court.
	We'll see what happens with it.
	sister to stay home.
	When he saw the situation deteriorate, he decided to leave.
	Now, again, you know, this is going to court.
	We'll see what happens with it.
	But I would not be surprised if the situation as laid out by the legal team is correct.
	And he was basically just an onlooker who was like, what's going on here?
	And he was basically just an onlooker who was like, what's going on here?
	And they decided to pick him up because that has been what has been happening.
	And they decided to pick him up because that has been what has been happening.
	And I wonder how much of this kind of behavior is accounted for all of the violent disorder convictions and a lot of the people who were picked up, particularly in London, such as Sutton Mann, 61, a 61-year-old man named David Spring, who was making threatening gestures a 61-year-old man named David Spring, who was making threatening gestures at police and chanted, who the F is Allah during large-scale disorder in He's been jailed for 18 months.
	So this is a picture of him, and you can see him from the bag and the particular shirt that he's wearing.
	He's an older gentleman, and this was apparently all caught on police cameras.
	So he's going to prison for 18 months.
	So it's only alleged that he chanted that and was being threatening.
	In that image, it's a very carefully chosen image.
	Well, even worse...
	But the footage seems to show he wasn't really doing it...
	Anything of the sort?
	Well, we've got the footage as laid out by this account, Guy's Channel, on Twitter, and if I go to a particular timestamp here that I've made a note of, we can see the footage laid out pretty well.
	So you can see here, I'll go in full screen for the audience, this is the same gentleman.
	Same shirt, same rucksack, would you agree?
	It's definitely him.
	Yeah, it's definitely him.
	So what actually happened?
	There is no doubt that the man you're going to see in these video clips is David Spring.
	And the leader and context of him being arrested was a woman being arrested and then a second woman being arrested and literally thrown to the ground by the cops.
	And you can see him right at the beginning here, meandering around.
	Then the cops arrest the first woman and assault the second woman and he's right there.
	You can see him.
	Excuse me, what have you done?
	Nothing!
	Disgusting!
	Look at this guys, this is the British Police.
	Shameful!
	Why are you grabbing her?
	Why are you grabbing her?
	Shame on you!
	Shame on you!
	This is disgusting, look at that.
	Three officers trying to grab a woman.
	After that, they punch a bloke to the ground.
	This clip is only 17 seconds, but there are two focuses.
	One of the bloke, in the middle and towards the right, who is being set upon by the cops, and the other of David Spring, to the left, where he's initially talking to the cops, then he sees what's going on, and he starts to remonstrate with the cops, and presumably swear a little bit at them.
	This is an image from the beginning, just so he's easier to pinpoint.
	OK, and straight on to the video.
	Oh my goodness.
	Immediately following that, he's arrested.
	This is just a few seconds after the video you just saw.
	And again, that's where he is at the start of the short clip, and you'll see him commit the crime of walking forwards towards the police, after which they arrest him.
	This is his crime.
	Thank you.
	He's an old man!
	What are you doing?
	He's a f***ing old man!
	What's wrong with you?
	18 months in prison.
	And this is the sum total of David Spring at Whitehall.
	Yeah, that's all the footage that we have of him.
	He's surrounded by police officers and a large group of people who seemingly are arbitrarily being picked out for heavy-handed treatment for getting a little bit too close to the police each time.
	He steps forward.
	What's going on?
	Boom.
	Arrested.
	And so where's the evidence of him quoting who the F is Allah?
	Apparently it's part of the police body cam footage but we don't have access to any of that so we have to take their word for it.
	What makes this scenario, this situation here particularly egregious in terms of two-tier policing is we just recently of course we know that the those chaps who were in a car chanting we're going to rape your Jewish daughters
	Got off I haven't been sent to prison or anything else and you know I don't know if you want to weigh up which is more extreme and saying who the F is Allah or we you know rape we're gonna rape your Jewish daughters you know I think the jury is out on that one at least you know hopefully this guy would could have had a jury trial because I think if there was a jury trial rather than the quick way we're seeing these things being dealt with I think there would be perhaps more more common sense being used in these situations.
	I think Blake says that probably these people got convicted so quickly because they pleaded guilty.
	Don't plead guilty.
	You have to do a proper file on me, take it to the CPS, they have to think about it, then we'll go to a trial, then a magistrate or a jury can convict me.
	I'm not just going to let you send me to prison for 18 months.
	The problem, of course, if you don't plead guilty, then you're going to get a tougher sentence.
	If you're guilty?
	If there's video evidence.
	In this case, unless the body cams show him saying that, I think, yeah, this would be a situation in which I wouldn't have pled guilty.
	I mean, what has he done?
	Nothing noticeable.
	Again though, there is probably a lot of strong-arming going on with this.
	You see the way that they're treating them, do you think that kind of heavy-handed treatment is ending the second the camera is going off?
	What have they been told when they've been being transported in the police vans?
	What's been going on there?
	I would imagine that a lot of these people feel that there is no point in pleading anything other than guilty because they've been told that your life is over.
	Your life is over, there's no point.
	And on your point there as well, you know, he...
	He himself, David Spring, according to the article, is recently retired and now spends a lot of time for his wife who's in ill health.
	So he has dependents who are basically depending on him.
	But of course we've seen that if he was a Muslim, as has happened in the past, who has sexually assaulted children, That defence alone, oh I have dependents, I have family dependents who rely on me, would be enough to let him go.
	That is sadly, shockingly enough something that has happened in Britain.
	It's a classic, classic thing that claiming ignorance of the law is no defence whatsoever.
	Oh I didn't know it was illegal to do this or that.
	That should be, has always been, absolutely no defence whatsoever.
	Suddenly it is!
	For certain people only.
	Yes.
	Again, justice turned upside down.
	And again, if we go back to the root causes of this, a lot of this is to do with the mass migration that has particularly ramped up in the years since Covid.
	Who was the person who was administering over that in the Home Secretary position?
	Well, that was Preeti Patel.
	This interview has recently come out with GB News, where the interviewer was asking her about this, asked if she felt a need to apologize for record numbers of migrants.
	Two million net EU over the past five years to June 2023, and that's from non-EU net migration.
	As well, people who are predisposed to not integrate as well, especially, again, if they're allowed to make their own enclaves and not put under any pressure to assimilate.
	And she decides to get legalistic about it.
	Oh, well, have you considered the context?
	Have you considered the social and health and social care visas that were necessary for solving COVID during lockdowns?
	Have you considered that?
	Have you considered the Ukraine and Hong Kongers?
	Well, The fact of the matter is that she is lying.
	She is lying to deflect either that or she is completely ignorant of what her own department was doing.
	When you talk about health and social care, Connor has spoken about this quite a lot.
	In 2021, I believe it was, 70,000 health and social care visas were granted and only 11,000 positions were filled.
	Precisely.
	So, if you're going to use that argument, it's a failed argument, and you mentioned, actually, Neil O'Brien.
	At the end of last year, he released these figures, total net EU migration over the last five years, slightly over 2 million.
	Of the non-EU, only 15% of them.
	Only 15% of them were here to work.
	Almost the same amount were here as work dependents.
	So that's them bringing their own families over.
	The studying, 450,000.
	They brought a lot of dependents over as well.
	Over 250,000, 269,000, I should say, asylum.
	And then we've got humanitarian as well.
	So she's trying to use that argument.
	It is a complete lie deflection, a complete non-acceptance of accountability and responsibility for the effects, the long-lasting and long-term effects that her own policies have brought to this country.
	Yeah, and I should say also, I can't remember the exact statistics, but a shocking percentage of those who come on these visas, say for care homes and so forth, come for care homes that don't actually exist.
	And the number of student visas who come here, for people who say they're going to become students, who immediately disappear into the underground economy, Or don't continue their studies after six months.
	It's shocking.
	And this woman is running to be the leader of the Conservative Party and she's supposed to be one of the hardliners.
	They simply don't get it.
	They still don't get it.
	They've been given a trouncing, not enough of a trouncing unfortunately.
	The Tory party needs to die because even now they haven't learned the lesson of the level of betrayal of the British public.
	And the problem also here is that I tried to tell everyone to stop using net migration figures.
	Because net migration figures, if you have a million coming in and 400,000 leave, then you've got a net figure of 600,000.
	But the people who are leaving our country and the people who are coming here are vastly different because there's a huge element of white flight going on.
	People going back to Europe, British people going to live in Canada, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, and the idea that you can just replace one for the other.
	That works on an economic or infrastructure level if you're talking about school places and so forth, but the culture is changing fundamentally because of that.
	People are leaving here and people who are coming here have no understanding of our ways and our culture, and I fear too much of the discussion is about net migration figures.
	Last year we had 1.3 million Yes, absolutely.
	And even if you want to take the economic argument, well GDP per capita is 4.
	So that doesn't work either.
	2 million over non-EU over 5 years.
	That's an unparalleled crime.
	In all of our history, that's how I would characterise that, we've had many enemies of England over the years, I think maybe the Duke of Parma or something, or whoever, Napoleon, Piers Gavison, many sort of traitors and enemies.
	That's one that Peter Patel is one of the worst of all time.
	And how dare she sit there and smirk, smirking away that she didn't do anything wrong and that she did the right thing, didn't she?
	No, you didn't do the right thing, Preeti, no.
	You did a terrible, terrible thing.
	Guilty of a terrible, terrible degree of treason.
	We must never forget and never forgive because this was the, not just her, but the last 20 years has been the greatest act of harm in our history, in 2,000 years of our history.
	Far more consequential than the cost of fighting the Second World War.
	You know we were never given a vote on this, we were given a vote on Brexit but this is far more consequential than Brexit.
	We must never ever forget and forgive those who've done this to this nation because of course you know we've gone through bad times of economic crisis but an economy can rebound because we were culturally intact in previous generations in the 70s and so forth.
	That's no longer the case.
	Yeah, the invasion they've allowed to happen is worse than the Roman invasion, worse than the Norman invasion.
	And the Romans, as far as I'm aware, didn't even really leave any genetic trace in our own population.
	They came here, they built a bunch of infrastructure, and they left.
	And on that, I think that's all I need to say on that subject, so let's move on to your segment, Beau.
	Would you like the mouse?
	Yeah, or if you could just, or Samson, can you sort of scroll down for me on the document and do my clips while you say?
	I think there's something rotten in the state of Florida.
	And that something rotten has got a name.
	That name is the Walt Disney Company.
	There's something terribly wrong.
	OK, so recently in the news, in the last few news cycles, there's been the story of a very unfortunate poor lady who died from an allergy from eating in a restaurant or a pub, an Irish-themed pub, in Disney World in Florida.
	I'm just looking at this headline.
	I've not seen anything about this.
	OK, yeah, I mean, it only happened a couple of days ago, I think, or it only got in the news a couple of days ago.
	So I'm not going to do a segment all about this, so don't worry.
	But this is just the latest thing, latest example of where Disney are acting like they think they're above the law, like they think they're masters of the universe.
	Very, very conceited and arrogant.
	Are they acting like an evil corporation from RoboCop?
	Yeah, exactly, yeah.
	Yeah, it's like that.
	So this woman, the details of this, they were told that you don't need to worry about your allergies, we've got that covered, and they specifically asked at the table, and they served her food, and she went into anaphylactic shock, I believe, and died, unfortunately.
	Very sad.
	What, the D.E.I.
	policies at Disney World?
	Yeah, yeah.
	D.I.E.
	in this case.
	Literally in this case.
	People make the joke, but...
	And so the husband wanted to, he's trying to sue Disney and they said you can't sue us, you can't bring any sort of big suit against us because when you signed up to Disney Plus, the TV thing.
	The completely unrelated to Disney World you would think.
	There's a line in there that says you cannot bring a class action against us or something like that.
	And so they're trying to extend it to this.
	But of course, that's nonsense, because effectively then what they'd be saying is, if you sign up to Disney+, you're signing away all your rights, effectively.
	That they own you now, like chattel or something, they can kill you, they can dispose of you, and you can't, they've got no legal recourse.
	It's crazy, it's nonsense.
	It's rather crass, but there was an episode of South Park about 10, 15 years ago now, where it makes a joke out of the characters signing up for Apple terms and conditions, and everybody's going through them with a fine-tooth comb except for one or two people who do what we all actually do, which is we go, scroll to and everybody's going through them with a fine-tooth comb except for one And it turns out that in the Apple terms and conditions in this episode, there's a clause that says, we can conduct human experiments on you.
	That's like this.
	Well, yeah, caveat emptor, right?
	Who knows paragraph 206 of any of your app what it says there?
	I mean, the thing is, this doesn't have any legs at all.
	I think this was a decision made.
	They were getting bad PR over this and I think some, you know, rookie lawyer must have put out this statement because You know, putting my lawyer's hat on, you know, even if a paragraph of this contract says that you must go to arbitration if there's a grievance, any judge will look at the entire contract in its broader context.
	You can't just take one paragraph out and the entire contract is about a streaming service, not a visit to a resort.
	And so it's not going to fly.
	I think, you know, Disney has gone down so dramatically in the public's estimation.
	Its share price has collapsed.
	It's had flop after flop in terms of films.
	It's losing subscribers to Disney.
	Plus, this is the last thing, this PR is the last thing it needs.
	So I'm absolutely sure they're going to come to some settlement or they're going to make some sort of gesture towards him.
	And this was a very bad PR disaster.
	And I'd be surprised if that lawyer who advised this is still working there.
	Yeah, I mean, this isn't going to boost Disney Plus subscriptions, is it?
	Yeah, I mean, so it's... but it's just the latest.
	Disney are embroiled in lots and lots of legal battles.
	And as you say, I mean, they're on the way down, hopefully.
	They used to be, it used to be such a wonderful thing, you think of the original Snow White from the late 30s, or you think of something like Fantasia, or Dumbo, or something.
	It's just, it couldn't be more family-friendly, more wholesome.
	And now, it seems... Even up to the 90s, Lion King, like childhood classics.
	They are involved in all sorts of crazy stuff.
	One of the things, if you can play that link that I put, anti-white policy secret footage.
	This guy, this one guy, who was a... I think it's this one.
	No, where is it?
	Oh, excuse me.
	Let's not play that.
	So anyway, this guy was... That was the GB News, it was the GB News.
	Fired from Disney and he put on one of those little fake, not fake, hidden tiny little cameras where it just looks like the button on your shirt, one of those.
	No, it was that link, Samson, it was the GB News.
	And he was recorded talking to various people and they just absolutely came clean when they thought they were off the record, saying, yeah, no, we don't hire, we don't want to hire White men, or white people in general really, which is, you know, it's actually against the law.
	You can't actually do that yet at least.
	I love this.
	He claimed that Disney uses buzzwords to avoid legal action and Giordano, the name of the man who was caught, alleged that a mixed race candidate was not hired because he was not visibly black enough and did not have the look that they wanted.
	So they literally got the colour swab out for him.
	Yeah.
	To make sure.
	Are you black enough?
	You're not a Joe Biden voter, clearly.
	Well, that's where this sort of virtue signalling spirals down into, isn't it?
	You're not black enough.
	You're not gay enough.
	You're not disabled enough.
	It's, it's, it's... I'm not sure how your not gay enough works, actually.
	Yeah, right.
	I'm quite curious about that one.
	Well, we know how Hollywood works, so they have way of testing.
	Well, Disney have also very, very, have leant heavily into the pride thing.
	Crazily so.
	Where, you know, products, merchandise and things that are explicitly for little kids got rainbows all over them and stuff.
	It's weird.
	It's really weird.
	Well, you know, we're in this weird world now where, you know, Milton Friedman famously said, the only motivation for a company should be the profits for its shareholders.
	And we're now in a state where corporations, woke corporations, are deliberately self-harming In order to pursue a completely irrelevant ideology.
	We've never seen this phenomenon before.
	It's, you know, it's the most weird sort of masochistic practice that's being undergone.
	And of course, it is biting them in the arse.
	I mean, you had the head of entertainment at Disney saying that she wants to ensure that 50% of characters are LGBT or diverse.
	Oh, just like in real life.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You had the head of animation saying, what was it that she said?
	That she tries to insert queerness into every cartoon that she deals with.
	The not-so-secret gender.
	Yeah, it's remarkable.
	But then you've got the backlash, right?
	So you had the best thing, Ron DeSantis, who was putting through a bill in Florida So you can't teach children under 10 about gender identity and sexual orientation and Disney put up five million to fight this as a result of which DeSantis revoked all of their tax breaks by having them there.
	So that came back to bite them very very painfully.
	They are paying the price for this and their share price has plummeted because nobody wants to watch She-Hulk You know, nobody wants to watch marvels of, you know, all these ethnic minorities, women, who are just clearly there, not because of their talent or characters, but because of what they represent.
	And why crowbar them into content that's meant for small children?
	Small, like, prepudescent children, who have got no carnal concept.
	They don't need to know about sex one way or another.
	And you're crowbar-ringing homosexual stuff.
	It's freakish.
	Well, you know what they're saying.
	Get them while they're young.
	I'm going to talk about Santa's in a minute.
	But if you go through the next few slides, just about the various sort of sex crime.
	Oh, bloody hell.
	Sorry, I keep pressing play.
	There we go.
	The various sort of sex crime that Disney have been embroiled in.
	Oh, this is a Chris Rufo article.
	They've got like 75,000 employees and tens and tens of thousands of other employees that might not be directly exactly on the books of Disney, but work for other companies that work directly for Disney.
	Like work on something, you know.
	Like this pub for example.
	It's not actually a Disney pub.
	It is in Disney World and they are affiliated but they're not actually Disney employees for example.
	Which is why Disney can't be held liable for anything that they do I assume.
	Well, they can though, because they have a duty of care, because they're on Disney's property, aren't they?
	Of course they can, yeah.
	So, the fact that if you employ 100,000 people, 150,000, 250,000 people, some of them will turn out to be sex criminals.
	Okay?
	One or two might even be a serial killer.
	And that's not your fault, right?
	Okay.
	So, but nonetheless, there are patterns and mergers.
	You just want to click through the next few links.
	There's just all sorts of stuff where it's a bit beyond Like, well, that's just what you're going to get if you're dealing with large numbers of people.
	There's just loads and loads, over the last few years, there's just lots and lots of stories of all sorts of things coming out of Disney, being involved in... But of course, if you're a paedophile, you're going to want to go to these sorts of places, right?
	Exactly.
	Well this is actually quite interesting because recently I did a segment on the Mr Beast controversies that have been coming out.
	There's been another video come out since then by one of the people who's making a lot of accusations against him that alleged that there is a registered child sex offender.
	Being employed and Mr. Beast.
	So it does seem that a lot of these sorts of companies that are targeting towards child audiences, as you say, attract these sorts of people.
	It would, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, I suppose.
	So anyway, just moving on to Florida itself, the state of Florida and DeSantis himself.
	So as Rafe mentioned, originally what it was DeSantis brought in a bill in Florida saying, making it illegal for sort of, I think it was under 10s, to be taught sex education.
	Perfectly reasonable in my opinion, in most people's opinion.
	There's no need for it at that age, I don't think.
	And it got labelled as a don't say gay bill.
	And the LGBTQ plus community got extremely up in arms about it, because for some reason they want to indoctrinate small children with all sorts of concepts of sex, whether it be straight or gay.
	They just want to do that, that's just part of their thing.
	Have you ever heard of drag queen story time going to an old folks home?
	Yeah, they're not interested in that.
	And so DeSantis made for himself a lot of enemies in the LGBTQ plus community and of course Disney being so heavily infiltrated with it, they had to come out and say something, well they didn't have to obviously, but they felt they had to come out and say something and at least to begin with it was fairly mild criticism.
	But they did come out and criticise it.
	And then people, the community and people within their own ranks said, that wasn't enough, you have to go further.
	And they kept goading their own senior management to go further, say more and more, until DeSantis hit back.
	And then it becomes a tit for tat thing almost.
	And anyway, I won't bore you with the details.
	It was a year, a couple of years ago now.
	But the point is, is that the state of Florida and Ron DeSantis himself, the governor, it has been a war of words and lawfare between him and Disney.
	And then Disney owned a big massive plot of land, what was it called, the Reedy Creek sort of reservation, Reedy Creek bit of private land, and they had all sorts of special tax relief.
	But that's not unique in Florida.
	The Daytona Speedway has got that, for example, and those other places.
	But so DeSantis tried to strip them of that, or did, I think, And anyway, it got into a bit of a tit-for-tat law fair, and the state essentially won nearly everything, I think, if not everything, in that.
	Because, like everything else, Disney tried to argue just ridiculous things.
	Just tried to argue that they can do what they want, in essence.
	I'm boiling that down to its very, very low resolution.
	But, I mean, they're actually based in California.
	You know, that's actually where they're sort of registered and stuff.
	I think it's Burbank, California.
	Ron DeSantis is saying, look, just because you bring in a billion dollars of tax revenue a year, It doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, it doesn't mean you control Florida, right?
	And Bob Iger, you know, the CEO now, Bob Iger, you know, there's just a war of words.
	But again, the point of mentioning all this is that in the last few years, Disney Company has been acting as though it thinks it can do whatever it wants, act however it wants.
	But it's hurting it.
	That's the problem.
	It's gone down in popularity by 25 points, I think, last time out, because I discussed this on another show.
	And, you know, every film has bombed since in the last five years that it's done, and people aren't subscribing to Disney+.
	And you think, why on earth would any business want to alienate potentially half or even 60 to 70% of their audience?
	People who used to go to Disney, who simply don't want to support them, given the politics they're espousing.
	Why do non-political institutions need to get political and alienate a vast segment of what should be their customer base?
	It's just mind-boggling.
	And make their shareholders poorer.
	Of course, I think there are a few influencing factors in this.
	One is that we now have the newfangled conception of stakeholder capitalism rather than shareholder capitalism, which is promoted by things like the World Economic Forum, that you are not working on behalf of the shareholders, you're working on behalf of Stakeholders, which are seen to be the entire world, and you need to have a responsibility to promote certain values, which are of course always incredibly revolutionary leftist globalist values.
	And then there's also the fact of the legal requirements for a lot of companies to have certain diversity quotas in the first place, but then that becomes rather circular.
	You've got the ESG that suggests you should do that, and also now bridge is another avenue for them trying to do that.
	The problem is that once you get those positions, those people, those diversity hires in those positions, they work within their own sectarian interests to propagate more people like themselves.
	Especially if, God forbid, if they get into some kind of hiring or executive position, they're only going to hire people like themselves.
	So it starts off as legal requirements before becoming just the normal corporate culture within those organizations.
	And you mentioned all of the footage that you see from these leaked Zoom calls coming out.
	Well, these are the sorts of people who are now in charge of broad swaths of the companies.
	It does beg a belief though.
	Don't you want to make entertainment content which people like and will pay for and you'll make a profit out of?
	Don't you want to make your share price go up so your shareholders will be happy?
	Apparently not.
	No, apparently it's more important to Bob And his senior team to push THE MESSAGE, as Critical Drinker says.
	Well a lot of the narcissists as well, in these creative positions, they go, well I can't sympathise with a story unless it's explicitly about me, unless the character looks like me, acts like me, sounds like me, and therefore who's it going to appeal to?
	Well, you.
	That one person.
	I mean, one example is the movie they're trying to make, what's been in production for, I think, like three years of Snow White, where they had, like, they replaced the dwarves with, like, hippie-type people, and then the dwarf community weren't happy with that.
	The little people community weren't happy with that, so they changed them out for little people, but not live-action people.
	Peter Dinklage is furious.
	They're going to be CGI little people.
	Dinklage pulling up the stepladder behind him.
	It's just nonsense, and it is a complete departure from, like, the 1937 original Snow White, which is, you know, a really wholesome, lovely thing.
	But that's what Disney is now.
	A car crash.
	And one last bit, sort of, couple of last things to mention, is Gina Carano.
	She was let go from Disney for sort of daring to have Republican leanings or anything remotely like that.
	And even though this is, again, being played out over a few years here, Uh she's going to sue them and uh they tried to have it thrown out before it even got to trial that was that this is a couple of weeks ago now that was dismissed so it looks like she has is actually going to go to trial against Disney and probably win depending you know what the judge decides what was it what was it they fired her for it was because she was speaking out against the Covid restrictions at the time and against And against people being demonised for being unvaccinated.
	And she had the gall to compare it to German persecution of the Jews in the 1930s.
	It was just having an opinion which isn't in line with the Disney party line, if you like.
	It's as simple as that.
	And even though people on the left have said that Trump trumps America is like Nazi Germany.
	That's fine, apparently.
	Right.
	Yeah, I know.
	So, but of course, if you go up against Disney in the courts, They are going to throw, you know, a dozen of the most expensive lawyers in the world at you.
	And any normal person, even an actress, couldn't dream of being able to afford it to stand up to them.
	So, stepping good King Elon, first of his name, Elon is basically bankrolling it.
	Oh!
	All of her fees, which is kind of cool, because he's got some sort of Again, great thing he's got some sort of personal boggle, some sort of beef with Disney and Bob.
	Well he's got a lot of children, one of whom hates him because I think it was his son decided that he was a girl all of a sudden.
	So yeah, I can understand that Musk has a personal stake in this.
	Yeah, so he said he's just going to bankroll her.
	Which is great.
	So Disney are actually looking at, you know, actually staring down the barrel of a very, very serious legal battle.
	But as I say, it's one of many.
	I think they're in the courts for like 10 or 15 different things all at once at the moment.
	All sorts of things.
	People dying, unfair dismissal, all sorts of crap.
	Can I just say thank God for Elon Musk?
	Yeah.
	It seems as if he's fighting every battle that needs to be fought on our behalf, you know, including in this country.
	Yeah, I would love him to do, at least in America, do sort of an anti-Bizarro Jules Soros and fund DAs all over the country, based right-leaning DAs.
	That would be a very good use of his money.
	Yeah, that would be cool.
	And he's just, everyone knows this, But obviously he's fantastically rich.
	I'm not sure everyone really knows how rich he is.
	When I looked up last week, Google just said 223 billion.
	So I think that's like 40 or 50 billion more than Bezos.
	Isn't that more than... It's way more than Bill Gates, way more.
	Isn't that more than what he had when he bought Twitter?
	It may well be.
	That might be, you might want to fact check me.
	But it's a silly amount of money, you know, like the latest space telescope cost like 10 billion.
	The Channel Tunnel, even though it's quite a couple decades ago now, that was like 15 billion.
	He's got over 220 billion.
	It's honestly insane amounts of money.
	Again, I always point this out is that Elon Musk has a certain level of immunity to a lot of things as well because of the fact that the US government is so reliant on some of his own companies with their own government contracts.
	Yeah, if we're going to go back to the moon and therefore onto Mars, We need SpaceX.
	NASA can't hack it on their own, they cannot.
	So yeah, I might do a bit all about Elon's vision of going back to Mars soon.
	Going back to Mars?
	Sorry, sorry.
	Getting his arse to Mars in the first place.
	Are you revealing some secrets there though?
	You've got some insider info.
	Going back to the moon and then on to Mars.
	So, one last thing.
	People might have seen this clip for a while ago and I don't know if the clip actually bleeps out the F-bomb.
	If it doesn't, apologies for anyone today.
	I hope they stop.
	Don't advertise.
	You don't want them to advertise?
	No.
	What do you mean?
	If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising?
	Blackmail me with money?
	Go f*** yourself.
	Go f*** yourself.
	I'll keep the audiences.
	But go yourself.
	Is that clear?
	I hope it is.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Hey Bob!
	He's talking to Bob Iger.
	That's Bob Iger he's addressing there.
	So that's just brilliant.
	It's just like, because another thing, just very, very quick to say that a whole bunch of people withdrew their advertising off Twitter and sort of Disney and Bob Iger seem to have been some sort of nexus for that.
	So that's why he's addressing Bob Iger there.
	So it's like, no, no, you think you're a big fish.
	You're the CEO of Disney and yourself a multi, multi, multi-millionaire.
	Yeah, no, you're nothing.
	Don't advertise then.
	Yeah, go F yourself.
	It's brilliant.
	That's the true definition of F you money, isn't it?
	And the last thing, the last thing I would say is you mentioned the price, the share price.
	If you look at, I've got it on the six months at the moment and you can see it looks pretty down.
	It is down in the last six months.
	That looks terrible.
	If you click on the year to date, can you click on the year to date?
	So it actually looks a bit different.
	And then the one year, if you can.
	All right.
	So again, if you look over one year, it's not that bad.
	If you look over five years though... Ooh!
	Yeah, not too great.
	So when was it the end game came out?
	The last big hurrah in Marvel?
	To be fair, I can understand around here, 2021, we're still in the middle of the pandemic lockdowns.
	So presumably a lot of people all buy Disney Plus so that they can try and, you know, drink the Soma during lockdowns.
	And then all of a sudden they go, hold up!
	Everything on this is terrible.
	All of the new Disney programs are terrible.
	Oh, Mandalorian Season 2?
	Oh, there we go.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	And if you finally go to the max on that graph... Now, you know, I worked in asset management for many a year, but not that I was ever a Chartered Financial Analyst or a trader or got anywhere near those roles.
	Nonetheless, I've looked at lots and lots of charts in my time.
	It still looks really overvalued to me.
	I think it'll keep probably dropping down.
	And that spike there, that's just obviously a massive bubble for them, I would have thought.
	And if they keep going the way they're going, keep doubling down on the ideology, and keep making the crap content, That they are.
	I can only imagine that price will keep plummeting.
	I for one hope the Disney Company implode and die.
	We'll still have the VHS's or the digital versions of Fantasia or whatever.
	So that's fine.
	They're not going anywhere.
	The world doesn't need Disney Company anymore.
	And on that, to be honest, Disney, given their immense level of power, like a lot of the film studios, they do act as gatekeepers for filmmakers and creatives of real talent and real vision, who don't care about the ideology.
	They've got a story that they think is good, that they want to tell, and they want the money to do it.
	And so many of those people, I would assume, given that they're giving all of their money to insane ideologues, aren't getting those opportunities.
	They're getting pushed out in favor of other people and they're having to stay to maybe indies or there's very few people who are given big budgets who are still of real creative vision these days.
	The only one that I can really think of who I really like is, do you know Robert Eggers?
	Robert Eggers?
	He did The Witch, The Lighthouse, Northman.
	Oh yeah, I saw The Lightman.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's a very messed up film.
	But he's obviously got a creative vision and I think he's a real exception.
	Because his films don't have any ideology in them, they don't actually have any diversity in them whatsoever.
	So I find it remarkable that that man has been given budgets.
	And I'm very grateful but I want more people like him.
	More insane visionaries, please.
	Less insane ideologues.
	North Bend was good.
	And the final thing to say on this is of course that they've also destroyed established brands like Star Wars.
	So many fans are annoyed and upset by what they've done.
	George Lucas is upset by what happened.
	Not even touched, other than Gina Carano, not even touched on Star Wars.
	Yeah, what a complete dumpster fire that is.
	Run it into the ground.
	The Acolyte was one of the worst, most boring things I've ever sat through.
	You were forced to watch that by the fandom menace, weren't you?
	Yeah, I was Mr. H Reviews.
	Great channel, check it out.
	Had to review it on that.
	And just complete indifference.
	You know when something's so bad?
	Like the Toxic Avenger movies from the 80s or something.
	It's so bad that it's funny.
	It's so bad that it's good.
	It's not that.
	It's pure trash.
	Anyway.
	Screw Disney.
	I wanted to start talking about terrible 80s films then, but I shall refrain.
	We can talk about those in Lads Hour.
	Hopefully some questions pop up.
	All right, so let's finish all of this off by talking about our green and pleasant land.
	Would you both agree that Britain has one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world?
	Certainly.
	I'm from Cheshire.
	Cheshire is home to a number of areas of great beauty, great natural beauty.
	Some of the market towns I'm familiar with are noted for having beautiful areas that are very well kept by local authorities.
	Well, prepare to say goodbye.
	To that, under Labour, because Labour is planning a shake-up, according to this Telegraph article, that will force councils to back onshore wind farms.
	And not just normal eyesore onshore wind farms, but enormous eyesore.
	Onshore wind farms with potentially wind turbines going over 800 foot.
	This is what has happened is Ed Miliband has refused to set a height limit and as such in Scotland for instance which never I don't think had these height limits to begin with but they've approved one which is going to stand more than 823 foot.
	823 feet in the air.
	You mentioned that Britain actually has got some very, very beautiful landscapes and vistas.
	Absolutely.
	Even sort of the South Downs and some of the moors.
	Yeah, the Welsh Valleys.
	Unbelievable.
	Cumbria and the lakes.
	Yeah.
	For me, one of the most beautiful things on our isle are the Scottish Highlands.
	They're absolutely breathtaking.
	Often.
	Absolutely breathtaking.
	The amount of shade I've thrown with my tongue in cheek at Scotland.
	Their land is absolutely beautiful.
	They know how to take it.
	It's alright.
	They've actually got a sense of humour.
	Most jocks have got a sense of humour.
	Scotland is lovely.
	It's absolutely lovely.
	So to spoil it with gargantuan wind farms.
	Presumably they're going to go on hills and so forth to get the maximum wind flow.
	And of course, you know, one of the beauties of England are its deforested hills, because I just love the moss and the grass.
	And there's, you know, you just think of, you know, Elgar, you know, thinking of Nimrod going through the Morvins.
	And the idea that you're going to see a bank of these white elephants there is just tragic.
	And, you know, I'm coming on a train here to beautiful Swindon.
	I passed five of these things, none of them doing anything.
	The fact is actually if it was windy every day and if it was sunny every day we actually do have already enough capacity to energize the country.
	But of course it's not windy every day, it's not sunny every day and the big problem here of course is that we don't have storage technique.
	You can't store the energy from wind power or from solar power and I just think what are we doing here when we don't actually have the mechanisms yet to actually cope with having a solar and wind power Absolutely, from what I've read and I was looking, I'll refer to a Bjorn Lomborg article at the end of this.
	He was saying that basically if you wanted to have the capacity to store all of the energy that would be produced by this, if they were running at max efficiency all the time, which as you say would mean that you would need to be windy and sunny every single day of the year, then you would need to develop new technology.
	For it, the technology for battery storage that we have would not reach the capacity needed and also that means that a lot of batteries end up getting chucked away and they end up in places like Africa and in the subcontinent where they end up clogging up rivers, releasing toxic agents into the rivers.
	Terrible, terrible effects on the environment, ironically enough.
	And that's not to ignore that I actually looked up before this, okay, how many How many wind turbines would you need in Britain if you wanted to power the entire grid all year round?
	And it said 7,000.
	And then I looked up, well how many are there?
	11,500.
	Okay, so why aren't we entirely wind powered all of the time then?
	It's because they're rubbish.
	They only work, they only work when the wind is blowing, and even then they only get maybe 40 to 60 percent efficiency anyway because a lot of the energy doesn't get transferred to the grid that they produce.
	And of course what happens now is when it isn't windy or sunny, the government, the country, fuels up the gas power stations to fill the void.
	But of course, with this government's ridiculous 2030 policy of stopping and having net zero by 2030 in terms of energy, there won't be any gas-powered stations to actually fill that void.
	My main concern about all this is energy security.
	And solar and wind power right now will not provide us with energy security and we could have avoided everything we've avoided post the invasion of Ukraine if we hadn't had someone like Nick Clegg and his time in office when he basically said in 2010 or 2011 oh we're not going to go down the nuclear path because it'll be 2022 by the time that comes online.
	Well I'm sorry that was more or less just before we had the invasion of Ukraine all of our prices went up.
	One of the reasons the economy tanked was because of our high energy prices and we now have these wonderful small nuclear reactors we could have put in place.
	I wish we had embraced France's policy on nuclear power.
	We wouldn't be in this situation.
	It would be far easier to get towards this 2030-2035 policy that the government foolishly is pursuing.
	That's ridiculous logic as well, because the idea that Clegg was putting forward is we can't do that, it would take too much long-term thinking.
	And that's the problem with all of our governments for far too long, is that they are entirely in the short term, except at the same time they're holding these two ideas in their mind at the same time.
	Well, we can't do nuclear because it's too long-term planning needed, but also we can do Project 2030, Net Zero by 2030, which also requires lots of long-term thinking, except long-term thinking in the entire Thanks for that Nick.
	Thanks Nick.
	Just another example of you being a failure as a politician.
	I would actually, if it's up to me, if I was Lord Protector, absolute monarch or something of England, I would open up a new coal seam.
	Just to annoy the climate leaders.
	The Green Party's going to be furious with this on LOL, signed in.
	We've still got, I think, millions and millions and millions and millions of tonnes of coal in this country, under the ground, just sitting there.
	And if anyone's got a problem with it, or take it up with China and India, they still burn loads of coal.
	And on the nuclear issue as well, I've seen some graphs... The real answer is to build half a dozen nuclear power stations, isn't it?
	That's the real answer.
	Well, I've seen some graphs talking about, if these plans go ahead, how much of the power grid will be powered by however so much by renewables.
	And on those, nuclear, from right now to 2025 to 2030 to 2035, Barely shifts.
	It's at however so many percentage points now and then by the time we get to 2035 it's maybe one or two percentage points.
	Whereas wind and solar explodes and that's incredibly wishful thinking.
	And we were the world leaders with nuclear power.
	You know, Britain led the whole world from the 1950s onwards when it came to nuclear power.
	Yet another of those great achievements of the genius of the British mind which we actually have never actually lived up to its full expectations or haven't pursued as other countries have taken that mantle from us.
	Yeah, a little bit of milk got in.
	Was it the wind scale?
	There was a slight problem at wind scale, wasn't there?
	They needed to put, after the fact, some giant filter on one of the funnels.
	But then it was fine.
	But people say, oh, there's Three Mile Island.
	There was a bit of a problem.
	Fukushima.
	Don't you remember Chernobyl?
	We can't do it.
	It's like, well, that's not... You're being silly.
	Come on, you're being silly.
	Chernobyl was just the Soviets being, you know, typically Soviet and incompetent.
	Not really, wasn't it?
	I mean, we can do things better than that.
	This is one of the ways in which, you know, I think Angela Merkel in the history books will go down as one of the worst premiers rather than, you know, she was adored when she left office, not only for letting in a million Syrian migrants, but also because after the Japanese tsunami that destroyed the power plant there, foolishly decided we're going to abandon our German nuclear projects because there are so many tsunamis in Germany.
	Every weekend there's another tsunami coming into Germany.
	Those North Coast men, they're dangerous.
	And then went on to cozy up to Putin and the Russians and became dependent on the Russians for oil and gas, and of course, and then you had that famous scene of Trump at the UN chastising the Germans for being reliant on Putin, and they cut to scenes of them laughing, and then of course we saw what happened afterwards with Ukraine, didn't we?
	Yeah, and everything that happened with Nord Stream as well, which I covered a bit of what was going on with that yesterday.
	A lot of the reporting, as I said yesterday, very suspicious regarding the narratives that are suddenly being produced about Nord Stream.
	There's Ukraine, it was all very, very strange.
	I feel like it's one of those stories like JFK or 9-11, just you're not encouraged to really look at any of the detail properly.
	Forever.
	I loved it.
	The Wall Street Journal manages to somehow get very confidential information from four Ukrainian insiders who all reveal that no, no, it was come up with, it was a plan done entirely by Ukraine over a drinking session in May of 2022.
	Really?
	Really?
	Anyway, that's neither here nor there.
	But anyway, so what's actually going on is that the Housing Communities and Local Government Department, which I believe is headed by Angela Rayner, they've released new national planning policy frameworks which say local planning authorities should support planning applications for all forms of renewal and low-carbon development, and what this will mean is that they will push through They will push through anything.
	Any council or other planning authority rejecting a proposal will risk expensive legal appeals that developers are more than likely going to win, which I'm sure is going to be real windfall, no pun intended, for the renewable companies who are going to be getting government contracts and building all of this.
	It's going to be great profits for them.
	Ed Miliband, as I mentioned, he's not setting any height restrictions on them, so you're going to get wind turbines literally the size of skyscrapers that would dwarf the shard Uh, that would dwarf the, uh, the, um, the Gherkin from London all across the countryside.
	Under the new rules, councils and other planning authorities will be obliged to identify suitable areas for renewable and low-carbon energy sources and supporting infrastructure in their local plans, and the, uh, they will become responsible for approving all applications for wind and solar palms up to 100 megawatts, which is double the current limit.
	So these will be Not just larger wind turbines, but larger onshore farms than we've ever had before.
	The aim, they say, is to remove the bottleneck created by the last government's rule, and a spokesman for Miss Rainer said that she wanted wind and solar developers to engage with local communities, which should also benefit from hosting such projects.
	He said, under our plans, communities will still have a say in what is built in their area.
	I very, very much doubt And we have been clear, the rollout of renewables must not come at the expense of nature.
	So, as well, from what I've seen, the ones that have already been approved have been in lots of Lib Dem areas, but also graphs that you see from another Telegraph article printed about the Ed Miliband's decision to not set height restrictions show that, of course, with these things that you always get a massive problem with nimbyism.
	These people in these Lib Dem areas, these people in the areas that really support onshore wind farms, saying upwards of 80% of them say, oh, we absolutely support these onshore wind farms.
	Less than 40% of them would want them in their local area though.
	Always the case, isn't it?
	Somebody else's problem.
	They're an eyesore.
	I don't want them across my fields.
	I don't want them across my hills.
	They can be somebody else's.
	Is Ed Miliband really the calibre of minister or person, you want to be in charge of energy policy.
	Is Angela Rayner?
	It's a tough area of policy.
	I just don't know if Ed Miliband is tough enough to actually be able to do that.
	Well, he's been dealing with it for quite a few years now, right?
	It's his sort of pet hobby, but of course his policies are all wrong.
	But this goes hand-in-glove with the Labour government's policy on freeing up the planning system, some of which I'm in favour for, on housing.
	Because we have had a problem with NIMBYism with the Conservative shires and Conservative MPs not wanting to have any development at all in their neighbourhood and we do now have to have more houses built but I'm just curious whether the Labour government are going to be building these primarily in Conservative and Lib Dem constituencies knowing that after this election you can tell Fulwell who's never going to vote Labour.
	We now know which constituencies aren't and rather than annoy their future voters you may find these now in the home counties and the shires.
	Yeah, I do find a lot of government policy tends to be based on spite for the other team's voters.
	It's shocking that it would have to work that way, but unsurprising sadly.
	So it says as well, some areas will retain protection from large developments and organisations like Natural England are trying to accelerate efforts to classify parts of the English countryside as national landscapes in order to protect them from this happening to them.
	In particular, the Yorkshire Wolds and Cheshire's Sandstone Ridge are both currently unprotected but are considered particularly vulnerable and are in line to be classified as protected areas.
	Now, I've not been to the Yorkshire Wolds, but being a Cheshire man, I'm very familiar I've walked across parts of it.
	Absolutely gorgeous walk with gorgeous views.
	I hope that they're able to protect it because I do not want something like that destroyed or ruined with these hideous eyesores put in place and I want that to be available for my own children to enjoy as well.
	So that's that's quite a personal thing for me that I don't want to see that ripped away for the sake of Unreliable, terrible energy sources.
	Because of course you can say there's obviously utility in building homes for people.
	I would say that the problem is that most of these homes are being built off of the back of mass immigration causing such a huge spike in demand.
	Robert Jenrick, what was it, 89% of the housing crisis identified in his report was due to mass migration.
	But there's nothing wrong in principle with building I think we really should drill baby drill.
	quality houses for British people.
	This is a complete waste, a destructive farce for no reason other than for the egos of the people who think that they're going to what?
	Save the world by putting up these terrible, terrible wind turbines.
	I think we really should drill baby drill.
	I love, I love the idea of offshore oil rigs.
	Are you going to sign up for them?
	I think they're engineering marvels.
	And they don't hurt anyone out there.
	There was a really bad disaster during the Thatchers, wasn't there?
	The Alpha Piper thing, where a bunch of people died.
	That was terrible.
	But that's very, very rare.
	It's like a nuclear power station blowing up.
	It's extremely, extremely rare.
	And again, in the North Sea, there's huge, huge oil fields there.
	But yeah, no, build these giant monstrosities on our landscape, sure.
	Why not?
	Why not Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner?
	Why not do that?
	We're getting a 500 foot one.
	In Swindon?
	In Wiltshire.
	Yeah, in Wiltshire.
	Is it going to tower over Stonehenge?
	They're going to build it in the middle of Stonehenge, probably.
	Maybe.
	That would be awful.
	But no, it's for an Amazon factory in Swindon.
	Oh, yeah, there is a really big Amazon factory.
	Yeah, yeah, because they want to have their 100% renewable energy plans on track to meet their goal by 2025, five years in advance.
	So they're going to build an enormous 500-foot wind turbine in Swindon.
	I mean, to be fair...
	I'm surprised they haven't got their workers running in a hamster wheel, given how they treat their employees.
	Yeah, they might be more efficient as well.
	500-foot...
	Wiltshire's very, very flat, the Swindon's planes and such.
	You'll be able to see that from everywhere.
	I will admit there's not much you can do to make the skyline of Swindon worse.
	Right.
	But...
	Still, the point still stands that your point that you're making there that yeah, it will be visible from a great distance because I think the tallest one in England at the moment is less than 500 foot.
	It's somewhere in the 450 to 490s.
	So this will be the biggest one in Britain or in England so far.
	We've got solar farms planned in New Forest.
	Which are going to be equally useless.
	I know that it's in the south coast of the country, but they get lots of grey, rainy skies as well.
	Solar farms only as useful as your country is sunny.
	And again, talking about how rubbish most of these are, Bjorn Lomborg writing an excellent article for the Financial Post.
	He's talking more about the costs And how the costs are far too high once you count into the fact that you have to have battery backups and fossil fuels anyway, but it also just points to how unreliable all of these are.
	He's saying that governments around the world felt that they had to spend 1.8 trillion dollars on a green transition last year despite the fact that wind and solar only produce power when the sun is shining and the projections that they do for how efficient they will be seem to be always based off of best case scenario.
	If the sun's always shining, if the wind is always blowing, we'll be able to power it no problem.
	Oh no, that's not what happens because we live in the real world.
	Guess we're going to have to spend loads of money on battery backups and fossil fuels anyway.
	I mean, it's all fine if you're talking about Arizona or Darwin in Australia.
	Or Nevada.
	The Isle of Wight is not really probably going to cut it, probably, do you know what I mean?
	The silly isles, as nice as they are, probably is not going to quite cut it, I wouldn't have thought, you know?
	Well, maybe if we just build them bigger.
	Maybe if we become even more insane and tunnel vision things will eventually work out.
	He says fossil fuels still account for two-thirds of global electricity and why on current trends we're a century away from eliminating their use in electricity generation, at least.
	The usual way of measuring the cost of solar simply ignores its unreliability and tells us the price when the sun is shining.
	The same is true for wind energy.
	If you account for reliability, their costs explode.
	In 2022, one peer-reviewed study showed an increase of 11 to 42 times the cost, making solar by far the most expensive electricity source, followed by wind.
	Research shows that every winter when solar is contributing very little, Germany, for instance, has a wind drought of five days on average when wind turbines deliver almost nothing.
	So if we get anything similar up here, similar problem.
	Is it worth destroying large swaths of the countryside over by top-down fiat because the government has policies that say you can't do much against it?
	and exhausted solar panels.
	Already one small town in Texas is overflowing with thousands of enormous blades that can't be recycled.
	So these are all of the problems with it.
	Is it worth destroying large swaths of the countryside over by top-down fiat because the government has policies that say you can't do much against it?
	No.
	Surprisingly not.
	I don't think so.
	And Anything to add?
	No, I mean the only green power that I've really seen working effectively is hydropower.
	I lived in Canada in the 80s and 90s, and hydropower, you know, it's from harnessing the power of these mighty rivers, and with the dams and so forth, and that wasn't done for environmental reasons, it was done simply because it worked very effectively and efficiently year-round, so I'm not opposed to renewables per se.
	So long as they're efficient and cheap and they're implemented in a gradual manner rather than having these arbitrary dates as we now have of 2030, which seems to have been plucked out of the air and which every single expert says is not only unfeasible, even if you attempted it, it would cost something well over a hundred billion between now and 2030.
	Yeah, on your point with the hydropower, if it worked so well, you would just do it as a natural course of generating electricity, not by having the government force you to do it by arbitrary means.
	Anyway, with that, do we have any video comments today, Samson?
	We have two, and Samson wanted us to finish at half-pasty if possible.
	Oh, we'll try and speed through some of the comments.
	Something I found rather interesting about Jesse's segment about Hamza Yusuf.
	While being interviewed by John Sopal and saying about welcoming his third child, he was about to say welcome his third child there, but he then caught himself and corrected himself to say here.
	I I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this.
	It's telling, isn't it?
	I think Humza, whether he says it explicitly or not, sees himself as a representative of a foreign population and a foreign culture.
	He does not actually see himself as a representative of Scotland or Scottish culture.
	So, that's how I see it.
	Have you seen that interview?
	No, I haven't.
	Sorry.
	It's annoying.
	It's annoying.
	Let's carry on.
	People are blackmailing about the UK situation, but remember, the Tootsies were in a far more dire scenario during the Rwanda genocide.
	Remember, the Hutus were the ethnic majority that controlled the government, the police, the army, the media, and had broad international support, all while having the Tootsie militias completely outpositioned at the beginning, and yet somehow the Tootsies completely won.
	Remember, it's never over, and don't drink the water.
	Yeah, never ever, ever drink the water.
	I was not expecting a positive to come from looking at the Rwandan genocide.
	Don't worry guys, it can always be better.
	I've looked at the Rwandan genocide multiple times over the years.
	I'm also very interested in the war in the Balkans.
	Both of which are actually really complicated.
	The war in the Balkans much more so.
	Anyway, both Carl and Josh fancy themselves as knowing loads about the Rwandan genocide.
	So at some point... He's got the eyebrows out.
	Yeah.
	Not that I'm sceptical about either of their claims.
	They really know what they're talking about.
	Anyway, that's needlessly rude.
	I think maybe me, Josh and Carl should do a thing at one point just talking about it.
	Because like, you know, any good historian, the real story goes back a long, long way.
	A long, long way.
	It's not just like the few years running up to it.
	The real story of it goes back, well, we could take it back centuries if you wanted to, but maybe we should do a piece about the Rwandan genocide at some point.
	That would certainly be interesting, and I would watch that, because I don't know that much about the conflict myself.
	But with that, let's quickly go through the Rumble Rants.
	Apologies to our regular commenters, we do have the pub quiz in half an hour, so remember to tune in for that, and there'll be plenty of interaction there.
	So Josie Angels on Rumble for $2, thank you, says, Thanks for having Rafe on.
	I could listen to him all day.
	Looking forward to Lads Hour.
	Let the bloodbath begin.
	Me and Astelios aren't going to do that badly.
	Come on!
	We've got WinPillSeeker for $1 saying, regarding my segment, Bo is right, it would be arrogance to attribute ignorance to long-standing pattern of evil.
	Your leaders aren't dumb, they are importing a population that will keep you in check.
	They have security.
	I personally do think it's a mix of both.
	I think they have malicious intent and are insane, mainly because of the fact that they are Uh, working to the detriment of their own quality of life and the quality of life of their own children as well in the future.
	I said this to Richard Tyas, to his face, two or three years ago, whenever it was I interviewed him, he tried to say it was just incompetence.
	Oops, we're accidentally letting people come across the South, uh, across the channel every single day.
	Oops.
	And I was saying, is it, it's not incompetence though, is it?
	It cannot be.
	Anyway.
	Windpill Seeker again says the point of giving your taxes to them is if you ever rise to rally and show your numbers for your rights peacefully it will become a false flag to label you islamophobes by all establishment or istaphobes by all establishment institutions.
	I don't know necessarily if I follow the logic of that coming from taxes.
	That seems to just be more a function of government power and collusion with the media class.
	Josie again for $5 says, can Iger, that's be Bob Iger, be getting enough subsidies or guarantees from BlackRock or Davos that they won't go bankrupt?
	Does the WEF have enough in the bank to keep this sort of thing going?
	Yeah, there is the Black Rock connection with Disney, so perhaps ultimately they don't need their own shareholders, but still, I don't think that's really... That's not really the case.
	They know there's a crisis because they had to get rid of the previous CEO, Chappack, to put in Iker, so they realise that something's amiss.
	Yeah.
	And, uh, Sad Wings Raging for $20, thank you very much, says, A segment on Churchill's Gestapo speech seems in order now.
	No longer servants, no longer civil.
	That might be interesting.
	I'm not familiar with that one.
	Windpill Seeker again.
	Malthusians never win the Simon Ehrlich Wager.
	There is no group of experts more consistently wrong than TV environmentalists and TV economists.
	They go all by Beach Housers, 100% NIMBYists.
	This is true, although you mentioned Milton Friedman.
	Milton Friedman did actually used to have a very useful economics TV show back in the 1980s, which you can find on YouTube.
	Still worth watching.
	Although, you mentioned Milton Friedman.
	Milton Friedman did actually used to have a very useful economics TV show back in the 1980s, which you can find on YouTube.
	Still worth watching.
	Windpill Seeker, again, says, Well, I like your economists.
	Brocanomics is great.
	That's Dan's show.
	And yes, it is very good.
	I've appeared on it once or twice.
	It's well worth a watch.
	With that, that's all we've got time for.
	Thank you very, very much for tuning into the podcast.
	Rafe, anything you'd like to say before we go out anywhere you'd like to direct people to where they can find your work?
	Oh, well, you follow me on Twitter, R-A-F-H-M, or my YouTube channel, just Google my name on YouTube, and do please follow and subscribe if you want to see more of this sort of stuff produced by me or my think tank, the New Culture Forum.
	There you go.
	Well, thank you very much.
	We'll see you again in half an hour for the pub quiz.

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