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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for...
	I've got a new device, and I don't know where the date is.
	It is the 4th of October.
	It's the 4th of October. No, no, no, I'm looking for the date.
	It's almost green. I thought we were over that period, that dark, dark time of the Lotus Eaters podcast.
	It doesn't actually have the date on my new device.
	Apparently not. But anyway, it's Friday, so best day of the week, obviously.
	I'm joined by Harry and the lads from Voice of Wales, Stan and Dan, thanks for coming in, chaps.
	And today we're going to be talking about how the Diddy situation seems to be getting worse.
	I haven't looked into this, so I'm kind of dreading it.
	How things are getting worse in Wales as well, but we do have some good news to end the day on.
	The red squirrels are conducting a grey squirrel genocide.
	So, there's that.
	LAUGHTER Actually, that's not an entirely accurate characterisation.
	I'll cover it later.
	You mean the red squirrels aren't actively rounding up the grey squirrels and sending them to camps?
	They are according to the AI prompts I've been creating.
	But those memes are for purely personal uses.
	And for my Twitter feed.
	Anyway, before we begin though, for anyone who ordered their copy of Islander before the 18th of September, we have been in touch with the distribution center and they've notified us that the first shipment of the mags were dispatched yesterday, so they should be with you by today or the end of this week.
	If not, you'll get them early next week.
	And with that, Aside, let's get on with finding out how perverse the rich and famous are.
	Yeah, very. The rich and famous are incredibly perverse.
	This is something that we should have all known right now.
	There are lots of different political formulas that exist in the world.
	philosophers for hundreds of years have tried to figure out what is the
	political formula to explain political action and to make so political action
	is is best suited to the interests of the nation and the people as a whole.
	I think in the 21st century I have come up with my own political formula, the
	most accurate political formula, which is the political formula of sexual
	blackmail. If you are wondering why a political actor has made a stupid
	that seems to go against the interests of nation and people.
	Just assume that there is some kind of sexual deviancy in his cupboard, skeletons in his cupboard,
	and then that he's blackmailed for it.
	That, I think, is probably the driving factor in a lot of politics at the moment, and it sadly ties
	into the P. Diddy situation which is currently ongoing.
	I did an update on this a few weeks ago after he was arrested, because he's been arrested as part of a federal investigation into the claims of sex trafficking.
	And human trafficking that were going on.
	But there have been updates since there, and it keeps getting worse.
	And then, at the end of this segment, I'll also take us through a little bit of a look at how deep this goes, because this really is, the more you look into it, a rabbit hole which has connections to everyone and everything.
	So I won't go over all of it, but I'll give you a little hint as to how deep you can take it if you want, and you can go further with your own research if you're interested.
	And if you are interested as well...
	You should do... Buy a copy of Islander, issue 2, available right now for $14.99.
	To cleanse your soul.
	Yes, it will cleanse your soul.
	It will give you inner peace, take you away from this disgusting, filthy, diseased world that we live in currently.
	$14.99 on the website, and as we mentioned at the beginning of the podcast, if you have already ordered your copy, if you're watching this on YouTube, and if you've ordered it before the 18th of September, we've been told that the first shipment of magazines was sent out yesterday, so they should be with you very, very soon. And with that, let's get into an update into what's going on.
	I will need the mouse. Thank you very much.
	So, Forbes happily have a quite simple article going through some of the allegations, some of the updates that have been going on.
	So, first of all, if you go all the way back to September 16th, he was arrested in Manhattan after being indicted by a grand jury.
	Since then, it turns out he was sharing a unit with Sam Bankman-Fried, Of all people at the Metropolitan Detention Centre.
	So, I can only assume what conversations they've been having sat there.
	What do those two have in common?
	I don't know what to do with that information.
	I wonder. There was a documentary released for streaming on a...
	A service called Tubi which featured an interview with Sean Combs his lawyer Mark Agnifilo who addressed the leaked surveillance city of Combs shoving and kicking his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
	If you haven't seen that I did show it on the last segment so you can look at that.
	You don't want to though because it is pretty brutal.
	Here's this woman, she goes into the hallway of a hotel Jesus.
	Jesus. So, of course, he's already going for the racism angle.
	Right, yeah. As we expected.
	You know, it was racism that forced Combs on camera to beat a woman brutally for no reason.
	Combs has also been accused of drugging and raping a woman on multiple occasions, with the woman identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, further alleging that she became pregnant after one of the encounters.
	She's seeking undisclosed damages, according to the Associated Press.
	More lawyers for Combs has filed a notice asking the Second Circuit Court of Appeals In the Southern District of New York to overturn the decision to hold him in prison while he awaits trial, a choice judge, Andrew Carter, made citing concerns that Combs had allegedly tampered with witnesses who had been contacted as part of the investigation against him.
	So it looks like that is not going to be, or hasn't been, he's not been allowed bail.
	Still, because of the fact that there is a worry that he is A, a flight risk, and B, might tamper with the people who are going to be acting as witnesses so that he can try and get them to maybe not be witnesses anymore or withhold information.
	And also, a Houston-based lawyer, Tony Busby, said that he is representing 120 accusers who plan to file civil lawsuits across multiple states alleging crimes like sexual assault, rape, and sexual abuse of minors, 25 minors, are implicated in this in claims that will include many powerful people and many dirty secrets and he is saying that he's promising that he's going to expose these famous accomplices in fact so he's gonna Epstein himself He might get Epsteined at some point, depending on how high profile these people are.
	And supposedly, some of them are very high profile.
	We're talking like A-listers in Hollywood.
	Those types of people. I have heard rumors off the back of this that apparently there are some discussions going on over there where people are having a few sleepless nights.
	I bet. Because they do not want their names to be Uh, included in these lists because it could ruin their reputation, ruin their career, or potentially they go down and go to prison as well.
	So the lawyer has said that the names will shock you, that they will come when we name other names other than Sean Combs, and there's a lot of names.
	It's a long list already, but because of the nature of the case, we are going to make damn sure, damn sure, that we're right before we do that.
	So the victims he's representing, these 120, 60 males, 60 females, 25 were minors at the time of the alleged misconduct.
	They go all the way back to 1991.
	So P. Diddy, his career started in 1990 as an intern or a talent agent, I think it was, for Uptown Records.
	So this is going back all the way to the beginning of his career, a multi-decade criminal career in the music
	industry, if these allegations all turn out to be true.
	The alleged abuse took place mostly at parties held in New York, California and Florida, where individuals were given
	drinks that were laced with drugs, according to Mr Busby, the lawyer.
	Other incidents took place at auditions where, many times, especially young people, people wanting to break into the
	industry were coerced into this type of conduct in the promise of being made a star.
	He carried on with the allegations.
	So, this is sadly...
	It's unsurprising behaviour at this point, but what we've come to expect from Hollywood, it's almost, it is an open secret, has been an open secret for a long time.
	This is all stuff that came out during the Harvey Weinstein allegations and the trial there as well.
	You've also got loads of other people accusing, haven't you?
	What was that? Corey Feldman?
	Yeah. Oh, Corey Feldman's been saying this for a long time as well.
	Elijah Wood said something similar as well.
	Well, it goes back years.
	I mean, the casting couch is a now term in a dictionary because of it.
	So it's not only Hollywood, it's the music industry as well.
	What a surprise. Because all of Hollywood, all of the music industry, and we know for a fact that Hollywood and the music industry have very close ties to Washington because of all of the celebrity endorsements and appearances that go on at political campaigns.
	A lot of money gets raised for political campaigns by celebrities.
	And we also know that Jeffrey Epstein was a man who operated purely by himself alongside Ghislaine Maxwell to traffic and supply small young girls to nobody.
	Yeah, to nobody. Nobody in particular.
	Yeah. We do have other people coming out as well and providing photographs and discussion of what went on at the parties that a lot of these incidents supposedly happened at, where a lot of the lawsuits that were filed at the end of last year were alleging were freak-offs.
	Happened. That's what they're calling them.
	Freakoffs. Where people would arrive who were prostitutes, who would be around, and some of Diddy's associates, people who wanted to break into the industry, would be forced into having sex with these prostitutes on camera, because as well, in March, there was the federal raid at some of his mansions, which found, one, over 200 bottles of lotion.
	Yeah. Lots of sex toys, and also that there were hidden cameras in every room of one of his mentions.
	So it's very Epstein.
	Yes, incredibly Epstein.
	They're calling him Black Epstein, they're calling him Rap Epstein.
	So, let's see what's said here.
	So you've got photographs from some of this.
	So these were apparently called white parties, and I can assume it's because everybody who showed up to them dressed in pure white.
	Here's pictures from some of the parties that happened.
	there's Ashton Kutcher at one of these parties. So from the infamous white parties held at his
	homes in Hamptons, Los Angeles and Miami, to smaller gatherings on a yacht in San Tropez,
	the fallen music mogul quickly gained global recognition in the late 90s and early 2000s
	for his lavish, celebrity-packed get-togethers that often featured an excess of alcohol,
	drugs and nudity. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, celebrity photographer Selma Fonseca
	attended 20 to 30 of his parties throughout her career and reportedly broke the news of
	his romance with Jennifer Lopez opened up with what she witnessed first hand.
	So this woman is an insider photographer for the stars.
	So she's giving a little bit of information of some of the stuff that she saw.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There are a number of stories of women being given a drink by him going woozy and then waking up with no recollection of what happened.
	He always had this tray and he offered shots to everyone.
	Ecstasy was really in fashion at the time so it's like if you have a drink or take a pill how's anybody gonna know?
	Most of the time Diddy's parties would start off innocent With children of various celebrities often in attendance.
	But when the parents were told to put their children down, things were going to get crazy, she said.
	In a video obtained by Fox News, Diddy can be heard advising parents to put the kids away so that everyone can get their groove on.
	Why would you bring your kids to these in the first place, even if you know they're going to be told to go away at some point?
	Also, if you're the parents and you're taking your kids away, are you sticking around?
	What are you doing at these parties after your kids have gone?
	The quote says, We fed y'all, gave y'all some drinks, now it's time to enjoy life.
	This is a celebration of life.
	This is the legendary white party.
	So, he was very humble, man.
	And to all the kids, the kids of an hour left, get extra comfortable, kids, because after that, y'all got to go.
	It's a wrap for y'all, because this thing turns into something that when y'all get older, y'all are going to want to come to.
	Hmm. So there's Diddy basically saying to these people, parents, yeah, well, when they're a bit older, don't worry, I'll drug your kids as well and have my way, allegedly.
	Let's start to get our groove on and in an hour we'll put the kids away.
	Okay. There are also supposedly sex tapes being leaked.
	I've not been able to find it.
	Not that I've really tried too hard.
	Featuring even bigger celebrities and we can expect as the trial goes on and more information is unearthed and more of these videos are found that this sort of thing is going to happen more often.
	More of this stuff is going to come out. Because again, he had hidden cameras in all of the rooms in his house.
	So, who knows what manner of footage is on there.
	But then, obviously that's the case as it exists right now.
	We'll see as it updates.
	None of that is good. All of it is terrible and all of it is an enormous indictment of the fact that if this is true, which I personally think it is...
	I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
	I'm not going to give Hollywood and the record music industry the benefit of the doubt.
	It's an indictment of these people, the way that they behave, the kind of criminal behaviour that they go in.
	But then you start to look into how weird P. Diddy's whole career is.
	How long this has been going on for, given how far the allegations go back, and start to question, is this just how the whole system works?
	Is this how the political system works as well, given that he has so many connections?
	So, even if you just go on his Wikipedia page...
	You can't say no.
	That's the point.
	Well, if you want to make it in there, and also, you've got to consider that from the perspective of the moguls at the top, if you want to have somebody who's going to consistently make you money, who's not going to cause any fuss, who's never going to cause you trouble, well, you want something on them to know that they're in your pocket forever, as well as the fact that it's also presumably just they get off on this stuff, obviously, because they're disgusting freaks.
	So, interestingly enough, if you go back to his early life, his father, Melvin Earl Combs, was an associate of the convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas, who, in 2009, I think they made a film out of him called American Gangster, Okay, yeah.
	Starring Denzel Washington.
	Melvin, at age 33, was shot dead while sitting in his car on Central Park West when Combs
	was two years old.
	Combs also was a business major at Howard University, but he left after his second year,
	but he was not of the street.
	Yeah. Yeah. Combs became an intern at New York's Uptown Records in 1990 while working as a talent director at Uptown under the guidance of label founder Andre Harrell, who is somebody he had a very, very long career association with.
	He helped develop Joe Deckey and Mary J. Blige.
	In his college days, Combs had a reputation for throwing parties.
	Some of which attracted up to a thousand participants.
	Usher, who lived with Combs for a year in New York City when he was 13 years old...
	Strange.
	According to P. Diddy, he had legal guardianship of him at the time, I think I saw him say in an interview.
	He told Howard Stern in 2016 that Combs' lifestyle was pretty wild during that time.
	In 1991...
	Oh, that doesn't matter there.
	So shortly after he was fired from Uptown in 1993, Combs established his own label, Bad Boy Records, which entered a joint venture deal with Arista Records, or Arista.
	I don't know how some of these words are pronounced, so I apologise.
	And if you go into look into the man who formed Arista Records, you find that it's...
	Clive Davis, a man who was the head of Columbia Records, part of CBS, and then later formed Arista Records after he got fired from CBS for allegedly embezzling funds to pay for his son's bar mitzvah, so another saint we've got here.
	As part of these record labels, he signed people like Barry Manilow, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd.
	Huge, huge names in the record industry.
	In fact, he's been name-checked in quite a few songs.
	Where in 1979, Aerosmith had a song, No Surprise, where Steven Tyler says, Old Clive Davis said he's surely gonna make us a star.
	Gonna make you a star, just the way you are.
	And starting on December 30th of 1978, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead occasionally changed the lyrics to one of their songs to say, we used to play for Acid, now we play for Clive.
	So this is a guy who's very, very deep into the music industry, has been for a long time and was part of P Diddy's rise in it.
	He was part of the reason that P Diddy was able to get his record label started.
	He's still alive. He's 92 years old, he's still alive, and he's still standing by P. Diddy, even despite all of the allegations against him.
	And there are new allegations because the hip-hop and rap side of the music industry in America seems to be its own little ecosystem.
	Where everybody knows everything about everybody else.
	Everybody knows the stories and everybody else knows these allegations that people speak in hushed tones about on these podcasts that nobody listens to.
	But the diehards.
	And there's this guy, Suge Knight, who is a criminal who's in prison for 28 years because in 2015 he ran over and murdered a guy.
	But he was the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.
	So some more context here.
	Bad Boy Records, P. Diddy, East Coast, New York.
	Death Row Records was Tupac Shakur, those types, on the West Coast.
	So rivalries going on there.
	But they know a lot about each other.
	They know all of these stories.
	And he is claiming, in an interview that he did with Chris Cuomo on a place called News Nation...
	He said that his artists used to only smoke weed but were pushed into taking heavier drugs once they were signed to other record labels, including P. Diddy's.
	He claimed that Sean Combs and other music stars are victims of abuse and name-dropped powerful executives who say that he says are behind the alleged misconduct.
	So he says that P. Diddy and others, they introduced cocaine to my artists.
	Once they got on the cocaine, once they got on drugs, once they got on alcohol, then that's when the weird stuff happened.
	I think that's what took Puffy down that lane.
	The convicted felon went on to allege that Clive Davis, Russell Simmons, and Andre Harrell used alcohol and drugs to compromise Combe's manhood.
	And he says that...
	Does that mean? I think you know what it means.
	LAUGHTER P. Diddy was taught that, he said.
	He got Usher as a kid.
	Alcohol, drugs, sex, Justin Bieber, and see, they do these things to take control.
	You choose to be gay, that's your preference, but they're doing this to people for control, Knight further claimed in the interview.
	Davis, Simmons, and Harrell have never been charged with the allegations made by Knight, and Page Six, the website here, could not independently confirm whether these claims are true.
	A spokesman for Davis emphatically denies the claims made about the legendary music producer.
	In January, though, after Combs was sued by Cassie Ventura, the woman he was caught beating on camera, and she sued him for rape, Davis stood by the bad boy for life rapper and did not disinvite him from his annual pre-Grammys bash.
	Puffy is perennially invited to the party.
	He's always on the list, a source told this website.
	So that's interesting, and you can take it even deeper, even further.
	There are these big conspiracy threads.
	Now, I've not been able to verify everything here, but some of the information does seem to check out.
	Where Aristophanes, is that how you pronounce it?
	Aristophanes. Aristophanes.
	What a fail. It's fine, don't worry about it.
	He's very, very close to them.
	There are photographs of them together.
	He's a good friend of his.
	And it shouldn't be surprising that Combs, he says, who was essentially the Jeffrey Epstein of the music world, allegedly, need to make sure that's clear, would be joined at the hip as the made man of the same family as the sisters who ran a sex cult.
	Yeah, I was going to say, I recognize the Seagate or whatever it's called.
	Yes, these women were apparently, the Bronfman sisters, were involved in the NXIVM sex cult, where they were somewhat sort of spiritual leaders in that cult.
	So he's got connections to them, he's got connections to all sorts of people.
	Across the world, there are photos of him in this thread with basically anyone and everyone in Hollywood that you can think of.
	Yep. Lots of photos of him with Obama over the years.
	They seem to have kept a friendship or at least an association with one another.
	There's also an association with the Pritzker family who own the Hyatt Hotels chain in America.
	He's associated with them.
	So if you want to take it down that route, you can find connections with just about anybody
	with Diddy.
	And of course if you want to draw your own conclusions from that, you can, but I do think
	that my theory of sexual blackmail explaining political action is yet to be disproven.
	Yep.
	But we'll see how the Diddy case goes, because, yeah, there's a lot there.
	It's really dark, and it says nothing good about the sorts of people who control our society, control the information that we receive, control the entertainment we consume, and ultimately govern us.
	And it's interesting that the sound of silence, the film that should have hit every single box office for months and months and months and been spoke about, died because...
	Well, it was a QAnon fever dream, wasn't it?
	Oh, yes, yes. It's just nonsense.
	We've got a couple of messages.
	Daveyverse says, If Diddy did diddle dudes, how many dudes did Diddy diddle?
	Well, 120 plus it looks like, actually.
	And that's a random name says, I don't think the man representing the 120 plus victims will expose anyone.
	I think he's signaling so he will get bribed and make some money.
	Definitely not an out-of-the-rums possibility.
	Yours says, I'm not saying the world is ruled by vampiric sexual deviants, but if it was, would it look any different?
	I mean, did you see the photos of Jimmy Carter recently?
	Yeah. Do you remember Mr.
	House in Fallout New Vegas?
	Yes. Yeah, he looked like Mr.
	House when you find him in his little tomb underneath his office.
	He looked like a corpse. Anyway, let's move on.
	How are things going in Wales, chaps?
	Yeah, well, no better than ever before, but I think it's a good opportunity to explain to you guys what you can be looking forward to, because, as you know, in Wales we've had a Labour government for a very long time, we've had our own Parliament, and it's just been Labour throughout.
	So this segment is titled Tasty Things to Come, because this is what I believe, we believe you can expect.
	And I think, you know, to start off, I don't have the controls of this, I don't think.
	Up on the first...
	This one? Oh yes, of course.
	Well, there we are. It's up the street.
	It says, Keir Starmer points to Welsh Labour government as a blueprint for the UK at party conference.
	Oh, my God. Why? Why, Keir?
	Yeah. What have we done? You hate us as much as that.
	Yeah. Goddamn.
	And that's exactly it, because you'd imagine, you know, if...
	Keir Starmer, and this is pre-election, so if Keir Starmer is going to say something like this, you'd imagine that Wales would be thriving, health would be doing really well, education would be top of the leagues, the economy would be thriving as well.
	However, it's not. It's totally different.
	It kind of reminds me of Kamala Harris saying how she's going to fix the country, and you go, but who's been in charge for the last four years, Kamala?
	Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's quite interesting, actually, because, you know, Labour in Wales have always had the opportunity to point their finger at Westminster and say, it's the Tories, it's the Tories, despite Wales getting more money than anybody else.
	So they're not able to do that anymore.
	So it is quite interesting.
	Although they are still doing it. They are still saying, oh, you know, 12 years, so it's going to take two terms to get out of that before we can even start to judge Labour, apparently.
	Jesus. So it's just absolute nonsense.
	But we can have a little look through, because we've got this first one here, which is Tata Steel.
	Now, Tata Steel has been in the news quite a lot as of late, and how important is this to not just Wales, but to the United Kingdom?
	Yeah, so the Tata Steel...
	Oh God, I closed it, sorry.
	Samson, do you want to get that link back up?
	Yeah, that one...
	There's stupid buttons on the side of a mouse.
	I've never understood why there are buttons on the side of a mouse.
	Yeah, so the steelmaking in Port Talbot was absolutely crucial to this country.
	Defence-wise, although we've never used it for defence purposes, but it was there because in the event of a war, we've got our own source of virgin steel.
	The week that they shut Tower No.
	3 down... Tata Steel India opened one up.
	It's a good thing there's no geopolitical conflicts going on at the moment.
	Yeah. And, you know, if you want to look at global emissions, then, you know, popping down there and popping up there makes no difference whatsoever.
	So, you know, the argument of, you know, this is for the climate, it's just null and void because they've opened up the exact same in India, which is going to produce better steel now than we're going to be able to have.
	But what it has done is, so phase one, the job losses, 2,800 job losses on phase one alone, 2,500 impacted over the next 18 months with an estimated 9.7 job losses UK wide, with 100 million gone to support the job losses and no ability to make our own top quality steel.
	So, you know, you might be able to say that, okay, we close this down for the climate, we need to save the planet and all that.
	But the cost then that's come through it.
	Now this, you know, in Patalbat, everybody in Patalbat has got a link to the steelworks.
	Absolutely. You know, they've got family members who work in the steelworks.
	That's just the town that you have.
	It's very much based around this.
	So this amount of unemployment hitting an already impoverished area, you know, it doesn't matter how good for the planet this is when you've got this many people, close to 10,000 people across the UK, that this is actually going to be forcing into unemployment.
	Yeah, but what the Welsh Government do is they pick on something.
	So this week you may have heard that we've closed down Britain's last coal fire power station.
	Wales did it before you.
	So Wales closed that one down and then they looked around and said, what's the next polluting one?
	Steel. So they closed that one down.
	You know, it's gone. And what they're doing now is they're going to pick on the farmers.
	I've seen this, where 25% of the land or something they want is rewilding.
	Sorry, we're going to lose a quarter of our output, aren't we?
	That's crazy. Yep.
	Which is a huge difference in the farm.
	We've been to a number of these protests and they say their profits are marginal at the moment.
	And they're working ridiculous hours just to break even.
	So taking land off them is just going to destroy the industry.
	Absolutely right.
	And it's driving...
	I mean, the people from Talbot now, the steelworks, they've actually started to travel across the Bristol suspension bridge to do work in the nuclear power station and the power stations across here.
	So it's not changing anything.
	No. Plus, we've got rid of anthracite coal, the best smokeless coal in the world, and India are building coal power stations along with China, burning So we're dirty coal.
	We're de-industrialising ourselves to allow the third world to industrialise.
	Correct. Yeah. And it's worse because they say it's for the planet.
	You mentioned anthracite coal.
	Literally across. So you've got Potabot Steelworks, the M4 motorway, and the hills.
	And in the hills is where that coal is.
	You could so easy mine there, conveyor belt it, straight over the motorway, into the steelworks, and that wouldn't be a problem.
	But what they do, because it offsets it to someone else.
	So when we're importing the steel on dirty diesel tankers from across the world, it's their carbon emissions.
	So even though that's releasing more, it's less.
	And it's also really crazy that we're making ourselves dependent on foreign powers.
	Yes. Why are we doing this?
	Don't worry, I'm sure that if David Lammy goes over and speaks to the third world and reminds them that he's black, then they will de-industrialise themselves as well.
	Well, the Chinese, of course, are saying that you had, Britain had, 150 years of industrialisation.
	We want the same. Yeah, no, absolutely.
	And what are we going to say to them?
	Yeah. I would say, do it yourself.
	Take these islands!
	Has Wales recently given away any territory?
	Was that also a copy? No, we gained some.
	Monmouthshire, we gained that.
	From England, yeah.
	Imperial Wales. Actually, no.
	When we can't give anything away, what we do is we have a Welsh navy That only boards Welsh fishermen.
	And so this is true!
	I believe you, I believe you.
	It's so preposterous that it has to be true.
	So you can see one of these fish-sucking super mega trawlers out there.
	With a Belgian flag on it or a French flag.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	They'll go to the little dinky fishing boat and ask the man who's, because we've got aging fishermen now in Wales, have you got a fishing, you know, equivalent to a license and you've got to have a medical every year apparently now, but they only board Welsh fishing vessels.
	That's like we're occupied by foreign power, isn't it?
	Yeah. I mean, this is what you'd expect if we'd been conquered.
	Yeah, but it's our own power.
	It's conquering ourselves. It's ridiculous.
	But then, so that, you know, Tata Steelworks is the biggest one and it's going to have a massive effect on the whole of the UK. The next one then up here, so Welsh taxpayer unlikely to get back 7.3 million for a failed racetrack.
	So the Welsh government, more vanity, thought, okay, we'll, yeah, we'll have a racetrack.
	Why not? The racetrack fell through, and that money's just done the Swanee pretty much.
	Out of all the things I think we need in Wales, I don't think a racetrack is one of them.
	So is this a photo of it, or is this like an artist's impression?
	Artist's sketch, yeah.
	So what this is right here in real world is a big, empty field still.
	Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. But we somehow managed to throw £7.3 million down the whole floor.
	Yeah, well... This is Wales.
	This is what the Welsh do. It was a very expensive artist interpretation.
	Yeah, well, I bet that cost quite a lot of money, you know, because no expense spared on anything.
	That'll probably cost a couple of million, you know, just to get the artist to draw that.
	I know it's not on the list, but we also threw...
	We threw... Bought a farm, but not to farm, but to have pop concerts there.
	Yeah. And...
	Did you want Welsh Glastonbury?
	Yeah, yeah, apparently so.
	Britain already has enough music festivals.
	Yes, yep, yep.
	So that was a loss-making venture as well.
	Yeah, and then the next one then, we've got Cardiff Airport.
	I don't know if any of you even knew Cardiff had an airport.
	It seems reasonable that it should have one.
	Well, yeah, maybe.
	However, this airport doesn't seem to be performing pretty well.
	So this was purchased.
	So Lee Waters, this is the man behind the 20 mile per hour.
	He's potentially the most hated man in Wales.
	He actually flew to Australia to tell Australians how well the 20 mile per hour is going.
	So he's the man that means you can't have fun driving around Wales.
	Correct. Yeah. Yeah, that's him.
	You can tell by his face. Unbelievable.
	This guy actually thought it was funny to say to the audience inside.
	Yeah, so basically he went into, and I just couldn't believe he said it.
	It shows how silly this man is.
	But he went to Australia to tell them how well the 20 mile probe was doing.
	They said, Lee Waters from Wales, he walks on and everyone's clapping and cheering.
	And I'm thinking, wow, yeah, they obviously don't know who this guy is.
	And the first thing he says, and that's what I've said in my mind, they don't know who this guy is.
	And the first thing he said is, oh, when it comes to something, you've got to travel halfway around the world to get a round of applause.
	And I'm thinking, you just said how unpopular you are with this decision.
	Just straight out of the horse's mouth.
	Yeah. Everyone hates me back home.
	Yeah. Democracy in action, right?
	This guy knows how unpopular he is.
	He's still in position anyway.
	He's closing down the roads.
	He's making everything one way.
	He's building bridges that cost eight million.
	To go to nowhere. Literally, we've been on the bridge.
	It goes from nowhere to nowhere.
	It's not even a cycle track.
	It's just a bridge. And, you know, but yet...
	He is the man then that will make everybody miserable, but he will fly to Australia to give his speech.
	So it's just carbon emissions.
	He's heavily into cycle trucks, and he used to be...
	Right, he used to work for a cycle firm.
	Yeah, Sir Strands, a charity.
	This is the charity that pushed for the 20 mile per hour and he gave them millions of pounds to push it.
	And they came up with nice statements then.
	If you then follow the cycle path in your car, you'll find that they've ripped down thousands of miles of hedges to build a tarmac Road, which is almost like a single lane.
	Next to the road. Next to the road.
	Exclusively, four bikes.
	And you know what? I bet he's still the kind of cyclist that rides right in the middle of the road next to the path anyway.
	Yeah, he's Jeremy Vine style.
	He's the Welsh Jeremy Vine.
	What was that?
	A bike nonce? Yeah, well I wasn't going to say that because it's ongoing legal for some days.
	Yeah, no, you don't say that. So just to give people an idea on the airport itself.
	So the loss in value that they're talking about there is £38 million.
	So it's only a small amount, you know?
	Pissing money away so we don't need this.
	The Welsh Government bought this for £52 million in 2013 and in 2021 is valued at £15 million.
	So it's a huge loss.
	It just did for inflation.
	Is it what, sorry? For inflation.
	But today, you was looking it up earlier, it's worth around 7 million.
	It's worth around 7 million. What?
	And they've given it to consultants and it's now not called Cardiff Airport.
	It's Wales International.
	Wales International. So they thought the name, that's what's dragging business down.
	Yeah. Well, if then we go on to the next article, the next article shows...
	There we go. There we go.
	So, you know, this is more recent because obviously it was 2023.
	So this one then, 2024, showing that it is making a 4.5 million loss per year at the moment.
	And then on to the next one, they're giving the solution, which is basically to plough another 206 million into the airport.
	So an airport that's worth 7 million today, you know, massive, massive loss on funds, not succeeding.
	When you compare this to Bristol Airport, so there's 150,000 last year used Cardiff Airport, 9.3 million or something used Bristol.
	So it's not even, or it's close.
	It's nowhere near.
	But you are right, this is definitely a taste of things to come.
	It is. Incompetent governance.
	Yeah, yeah. If I ever need to get a flight back to Britain, though, if it's really that quiet at that airport, I know where I'm coming back to.
	Yeah, but the thing is, you'll have to get off at Bristol to transfer the card.
	So, yeah, long haul isn't a really good thing.
	It's an airport that doesn't go really far, you know?
	It's like, you know when you get a train and you have to get off and get on another train?
	Yeah, that's basically what it is.
	But there is an honesty box there, you know, for declaring.
	Oh, okay, all right.
	LAUGHTER The next one then is the M4 Relief Road.
	So if you've ever driven into Wales, you will know around the Newport sort of area is where it's chock-a-block.
	And not only that, it's 50 mile per hour as well now.
	So everybody's driving like snails anyway.
	And you've got everybody, man, woman, dog, that's on the road there at that point.
	So there was a plan to build a relief road, which definitely would have, you know, eased that traffic, but would have made it a lot easier for businesses as well.
	You know, when you've got delivery firms and you've got, you know, This is a main road.
	It's the only motorway really going into Wales.
	You need it to be clear.
	But that's scrapped because Lee Waters, the climate guy, said building roads is not a good thing for the planet.
	So we are... Psychopaths.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Psychopaths.
	I don't care about the planet. It's radicalising me against the planet.
	Yeah. I think we're going to be anti-planet soon, aren't we?
	Yeah. But had they spent £144 million on something that went nowhere?
	Well, and this is it.
	It literally went nowhere. And I've got a little breakdown.
	I'm not going to go through...
	I won't go through every detail.
	But just to give you an idea of where this money went.
	You've got £80.1 million spent on a joint scheme run by construction firms or consultation.
	£15.3 million went towards a public inquiry and legal costs.
	Why aren't we getting any of this money?
	Well, you're giving it to us.
	I know! Why?
	10.7 million spent on buying up land around the area, so they own all the land.
	Oh, great. Yeah, solar farms will probably be going there.
	Yeah. 5.4 million spent on technical, commercial, and contractual advice, so more consultation.
	1.7 million spent on development costs.
	1.2 million spent on designing and preparing the necessary utilities.
	All for nothing.
	No spade when in the flow.
	And there's 144 million.
	You couldn't make up this level of incompetence.
	It's genuinely mind-bending.
	How... I mean, there's obviously no accountability.
	That's the thing. And there's no accountability.
	No one is accountable for it. But we are to blame for that in Wales because the people don't vote.
	And when they do vote, they're voting for this.
	But it's the Owen Glendower party.
	Why aren't they...
	Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, absolutely. Well, I think the Owen Glendower party is called...
	They're stuck on the motorway. Yeah, they're stuck on the motorway.
	But yeah, so that's just economy.
	We move on then. But they went against their own consultants.
	The consultants said, this will spare on industry.
	It will get stuff from A to B quickly.
	Instead, people are now thinking, well, we can't go to Wales because you've got 20 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour.
	Of course. I wouldn't go. And every other day, I've shown you, every other day there's a blockage on the motorway due to an accident.
	So people are relocating to Bristol and that area because, of course, you've got the network.
	It doesn't take a great engineer or even just anybody with any qualifications.
	Common sense. Common sense.
	The lack of it in the Senev is amazing.
	You can see, oh, this will spare industry, and they're like, oh, I'll check that off.
	Nope. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And just to make sure we're going to charge people to come in again.
	Drakeford wants a universal wage.
	He wants it. A universal wage?
	Yeah, the only universal income.
	He wants UBI. He wants it in Wales.
	Well, he's already doing it. And he's already doing it.
	Yeah, but it's only for migrants at the moment.
	$16,000 a month. Oh, well.
	£1,600 a month. So more than the minimum wage is what they're getting.
	How do the Welsh live with this?
	It's driving me crazy just hearing it.
	It took me years working jobs here and there to be able to get to that kind of way.
	Yeah, absolutely. But in Wales, it's to help the underprivileged, the people leaving education to get on their feet £1,600 a month.
	That's not teaching them any less, really, is it?
	As far as I'm concerned.
	But we've got hope because...
	With the morons. Yeah, no hope.
	Yeah. Because if England collapsed, When?
	We can stop enabling.
	Yeah, when England collapses, the Welsh will stop giving the migrants money.
	Thank God. Yeah, well...
	It's the light at the end of the tunnel.
	Well, it is, isn't it? Because at the moment, we're the only place that's like a nation of sanctuary.
	Now you've got Keir Starmer.
	The buffer zone's going to spread out, you know, to you guys.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, the hope is there that the education must be performing really well for Keir Starmer to want to emulate and module his government on Wales.
	Yeah. Only if you don't read the headlines.
	Yeah, well, yeah, and yeah, absolutely.
	I was going to say something else that I want. But Welsh school standards dropped by the equivalent of a whole year in PISA education report.
	Jesus. That's huge, you know.
	Yeah. That's massive.
	That's, you know... It's so impossible to try and get your head around how it can be this bad.
	And I can tell you, because I've got children in schools in Wales, I can tell you how it's this bad.
	Because you've got LGBTQ plus everywhere.
	You've got Sam Smith up on the LGBT wall of fame.
	You've got black history, which we're going to go into in a second, which is just ongoing in Wales.
	You've got a model, which is...
	Black history is happening every day in Wales.
	It's a hot spot for black history.
	But I guess, you know, the worst thing is they go at the slowest person's pace.
	So, you know, the slowest person in the class.
	So when, you know, my daughter, you know, they were like, right, Phoebe come to five, she'd come to 25.
	No, no, no, slow down, we're going to five.
	You know, and they pull back the people who are accelerating, you know.
	A great level of socialism.
	Yeah, yeah. Lowest common denominator.
	Absolutely. So then the next one then, major changes for education in Wales.
	So obviously this is from a report.
	High levels of inequality?
	Yeah. Inequality is good in education.
	It means the smart people are getting ahead.
	Yes, yeah. Or they should be.
	They want everybody to be as one, don't they?
	They brought in a new education system.
	During COVID and said it hasn't been looked at for two decades and so we're going to change it and we're going to make it so that every lesson will have LGBTQ and we'll weave it into maths, we'll weave it into English. Oh yeah, I've looked at these as well.
	Full-spectrum wokeism.
	Well, yes, it's that sneaky way of doing it so that, well, you're going to learn in the English class, but what they'll do is they'll put a story that's all about the LGBT stuff so that they can turn the conversation into purely being about that and have an open discussion.
	So it's just propaganda rather than actually...
	Learning anything. Yeah.
	And in fact, the only thing that they have done that they would say is successful is we've now got sanctuary schools.
	Yeah, that's... Yeah. And they actually took it down, but they did an advert...
	I think we covered this on the podcast when it first came out.
	They basically hung up the small girls as red meat for migrants, didn't they?
	Yeah, absolutely right.
	And that's at Schools of Sanctuary where they've got to hit certain check marks and for some reason all the schools are aspiring to be the School of Sanctuary.
	So may I ask, in the past year or two before this report came out saying that school standards had dropped, Had there been a big drive to diversify the schools and add in new populations, because I would expect that that might have something to do with it as well.
	Well, there's an inequality there.
	Uneducated people from countries that statistically aren't as intelligent as us, all of a sudden they get injected into the schools.
	And school standards and grades drop markedly.
	It's like when you hear them saying that for the first generation in hundreds of years, Brits have been getting shorter.
	And you go, oh yeah, because you're getting loads of Indians and third worlders in who are shorter than we are, bringing the averages in.
	Yeah, and that is how it's been.
	Wales has been a nation of sanctuary for, well, it's about four years now, isn't it?
	Swansea's been a city of sanctuary for about 12, 13 years.
	So it's been something that's in Wales for some time.
	And, you know, when my daughter started school, the class was so big, they had to split it.
	There were 60 children and they had to stagger the starts.
	Now, there was two teachers or three teachers at the time where seven kids needed one-to-one assistance.
	So when you've got three teachers, seven kids out of 60 need one-to-one care.
	The rest of the children are suffering.
	Obviously, the education's not going to be as good if you're not able to actually teach kids.
	Educate. Yeah, absolutely right.
	And this is it. It's not called teaching, is it?
	It's called controlling. It's controlling 60 kids.
	That's all it can be.
	It's managing the mass of children.
	You don't have time to teach.
	Yeah. And then we'll go through the next couple now really quickly.
	So this next one...
	Let me get the mouse.
	I don't even know where we are on the thing.
	There it is. Sorry.
	So sliding education results as high inequalities should prompt a big rethink in Welsh education policy.
	The problem isn't inequality.
	The problem is the fact that everyone's failing.
	Yeah. Well, the inequality is, believe it or not, It's white boys.
	Oh, I believe it. It's the same in England.
	It's white boys. Yeah, yeah.
	Then you've got this one. Welsh education in crisis as fears mount that reforms will leave poorer children worse off.
	Oh, we're going to try and make it so the poorer...
	Oh, no, we've made it so they're worse.
	Oh, you... Yeah.
	Who are these incompetent fools?
	Yeah. But it's okay because, you know, when they've got all this reform and they've got everything that they need, you know, they've got the plan in place and the plan is, you know, it's going to be Wales kicks off a year-long Black History celebration with major Cardiff events.
	So this is from a group called Black History 365.
	Now, everybody's here to Black History Month.
	It's a year, all year, every year for Wales.
	Yeah, yeah. Black history life.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We're not called Wales anymore.
	Oh God, why was I born?
	Oh, to celebrate black history.
	Yeah, yeah. You know, a month is too late.
	I always compare it to Remembrance Day where you get two minutes, right?
	And you get two minutes to honour the people who should be respected the most in our country, and you get a month for this.
	But now it's 365 days.
	I mean, there's just nothing they could do to make it more woke, right?
	Or more socially. What else is there?
	You can look forward every four years to one day off.
	I do like taking a day off.
	I'm sorry as well.
	We'll launch a 12-month program celebrating black contributions to Wales culture.
	Do you even have a day's worth of material in that?
	No. Unless you are literally going to do the meme route and just say, all of these coal miners covered in sweat.
	They're black. Yeah.
	Well, this is exactly it, because there isn't a black history in Wales.
	Unless you're going to literally go, Tom Jones, eh, black enough, I suppose.
	Yeah. Bit swarthy, curly hair, sorted.
	Yeah. Well, you've got, you know, the thing is, they don't focus on Welsh black people.
	We had, you know, they were celebrating Barack Obama and people like that.
	So they just try and find black people and they're going to spend all day celebrating these influential black people.
	Barack Obama. Martin Luther King.
	Martin Luther King. Maybe Malcolm X. Yeah, yeah.
	I'm going to read the radical writings of Malcolm X. Yeah, don't forget Hlantricent.
	The Royal Mint is in Hlantricent in South Wales.
	And if you remember when they did the diversity collection of coins, they actually lied in their own magazines.
	You know, they had fake history in there.
	It was like we had a black monarch at one stage.
	Did you know that? Yeah.
	I didn't know that.
	Breaking news. Breaking news.
	You learned it here first. Yeah.
	And then, obviously, we got them to, you know, economy and education is important.
	Health is probably one of the, another important thing.
	So, you'd imagine the hospitals must be performing really well in Wales.
	Unfortunately not.
	You can see here, Betsy Cadwalla, University Health Board and Special Measures.
	So, obviously, and this, you know, I would say pretty much every health board in Wales is teetering on special measures.
	This only came out as special measures for the election.
	Yes. And then it went back in again. Yeah, the election.
	Yeah, yeah. And it went back in.
	And you do see a lot of political games with health.
	And we're going to come on to that as well.
	So the next thing then, this is close to us.
	We've just been up there covering this.
	Prince Philip Hospital minor injury unit to shut at night.
	Now the thing about this is it was an accident, an emergency there.
	That was taken away on the promise that the minor injuries unit would be 24 hours.
	Now, Lletley, where this is, is the largest catchment area for Carmarthenshire, the company that it's in.
	This has no maternity.
	The minor injuries are now being reduced to 12 daytime hours, so the busiest time it's closed.
	And also no accident and emergency, meaning people will have to either drive to Swansea, which is a good, you know, from here, what, 40 minutes-ish?
	And a different health authority, so you're burdening them.
	Yeah. Do you know of anywhere in the United Kingdom, which is a large town, where you have to have maternity problems, you have to go to another town?
	Well, no Llanetli people are born in Llanetli, unless they're born at home.
	They have to go to Carmarthen.
	Yeah, yeah. It's a sanctuary city, okay?
	Yeah. But, you know, the point is that this is the largest catchment area.
	I think it's something like 53% or 56% of the people who live in the whole of Carmarthenshire live in Llanetli, where this hospital is.
	But they're stripping the services away.
	So, again, you know...
	Well, there's no public money we've been spending on roads that we aren't building.
	Well, yeah, we did bring it up.
	The last time we came here, we had a graph and it showed that nearly two-thirds of the Welsh budget was for climate change.
	So, you know, that was what was important.
	You know, don't worry about health and education, climate change.
	Same zealots, man. Yeah. So there is now, so this is what I mean by the politics, a protest camp set up outside the hospital.
	So we are coming up to, and we have to give a shout out to the Straty Park protesters, because on the 10th of the 10th is the day that the Home Office, we received the phone call from the Home Office that they pulled out of the hotel.
	After 100 days of 24-hour camping and protesting, they won.
	So this is what they're doing now.
	However, the support isn't as strong because these people doing it are all the Labour politicians.
	Now, Labour NHS, or the Welsh NHS, is run by Labour.
	So they could potentially be responsible for this closure, but they are there 24 hours a day, one or two of them for 24 hours anyway, fighting this.
	So if it does win, they get the kudos for it.
	However, they're the reasons it's happened for in the first place, you know?
	But just have a look at who the health secretaries in Wales were.
	Mark Drakeford. Oh, really?
	Ellen Morgan. Ellen Morgan, the now First Minister.
	The now First Minister, who said it was too hard to do the health portfolio.
	She's now running the country. Jeremy Miles.
	Von Gethen. Von Gethen.
	Von Gethen was in COVID. Yeah, yeah.
	So write the passage, isn't it?
	You have to be Health Minister, it seems, before First Minister.
	And the problem is we haven't had any success.
	Ministers, never mind specifics.
	None. But it's okay because while everything crumbles around us and we have to sit in a hospital corridor for 14 hours because there's no beds or sit in the back of an ambulance or something like that, it's interesting to see how the other half are living.
	So we go on to this.
	So this is Welsh Labour.
	So Soho House and Manhattan restaurant, how Welsh Labour splurged 1.5 million.
	On company cards, 2022 to 2023, an 81% increase in the previous year.
	So this is both ends of the M4, Westminster and average socialist government.
	Yes, absolutely. Well, this is just an absolute mick take.
	But the Welsh Labour government used taxpayer money to pay for meals at restaurants in Manhattan and visit to Soho House in Hollywood in a £1.5 million spending spree.
	You're getting looted. We are literally...
	Looting your country. Yeah, yeah.
	They're going to loot our country.
	I mean, $51 for a lobster kebab.
	Yeah, well, we'll go for it.
	It doesn't even sound nice, does it?
	No. Yeah, no, it doesn't sound nice.
	I totally understand Cromwell at this point.
	It's just like, no, I hate the King, I hate the Parliament, I hate everything, I hate the activists.
	I'm just going to leave the army.
	I totally understand why he did it all of a sudden.
	Yeah. And then we just fly through this and then we'll finish up then.
	But documents show Welsh Government cards were used in March and April of 2022 to pay for bills of 7,949 and 15,953 at Zuzu's, a Manhattan restaurant serving eastern Mediterranean dishes.
	15 grand at a restaurant?
	Yes. That's our politicians.
	16! Just paint me warts and all, that's it.
	I'm done. Yeah. Why are they even in Manhattan?
	What's the Welsh Government doing?
	Why is the Welsh Government in Manhattan?
	Why are they spending 15 or 16 grand on a meal?
	Our portfolio is education, health, the economy and housing.
	So why are we there?
	Yeah. But that's, you know, this is it.
	And this is everything.
	We have got the left as well.
	We haven't got time to cover it now, but you can jump onto our Twitter, VO Wales Official.
	They're all on there. But, you know, you've got the left who will basically fight for the government, the brown shirts, to stand up for all this sort of stuff, the champagne socialists themselves.
	But this is basically what you guys have got to look forward to.
	Well, on that depressing note.
	Enjoy. If you need any advice, let us know.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Winpillseeker makes a good point.
	The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man, says Malcolm X. That's probably true, to be honest.
	I've decided. Anyway, so, right.
	It's Friday afternoon.
	Let's end on some good news.
	I have some good news.
	And that is that the invading foreign grey squirrels are actually being beaten back and there is a resurgence of the native red squirrel.
	What's more is the way this is happening is very interesting because it's about the intentions of the institutions, right?
	You can see the people on one side are pro-red squirrel and anti-grey squirrel And it has tangible results.
	But before we go on, of course, get your copy of Islander.
	The ones that have already been ordered have been shipped.
	There will be another batch that are printed and shipped shortly in the near future.
	And it will be going off sale soon, so do go and get it.
	So, let's talk about the grey squirrel, right?
	So, I had to do a bit of research for this, obviously.
	I didn't know a lot about grey squirrels.
	But grey squirrels aren't on the continent, right?
	Europe is all red squirrels.
	Grey squirrels in the UK, however, were brought here by the Victorians from North America in the 19th century.
	The species spread rapidly and is now common across the UK, according to the Woodland Trust, with the exception of North and Western Scotland and some islands.
	There's an estimated 2.7 million grey squirrels in the UK. So probably more grey squirrels than Welshman.
	Yeah, not far off.
	Not even joking, yeah.
	And so you think, okay, well, big deal.
	It's a squirrel.
	I mean, it's pretty cute, right?
	It's adorable. It's also diseased.
	Yeah. So they carry something called squirrel pox.
	Now, again, I hadn't heard of this.
	Squirrel pox is a threat to the red squirrel because the grey squirrels carry it asymptomatically.
	But it does affect the red squirrels.
	As you can see there, it's a red squirrel pox.
	So the grey squirrels, they're like koalas with chlamydia.
	They all carry it, but they're all asymptomatic, whereas the red squirrels, of course, are completely effective.
	Being a reliable chap, the red squirrel.
	Yeah, and so the red squirrel population is being decimated to it, but the grey squirrels, of course, are not affected by it at all, which is not good.
	The situation seems somewhat familiar to me, but I can't put my finger on where it is.
	Weirdly analogous to other things that are happening.
	And as they point out, it only takes one grey squirrel to introduce this virus into the population of red squirrels, and then boom, it devastates them.
	And so this is the sort of map of the red squirrel over time.
	You see, in 1945, the grey squirrel was already making inroads here, but by now, it's atrocious.
	It's a proper demographic replacement of the red squirrel by the grey.
	And it's happening in Ireland too, as you can see.
	I heard that sort of conspiracy theory.
	The grey squirrels have always been here.
	Yeah, this is anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
	We have always been a nation of mixed squirrels.
	Yes. Even though we know exactly when they came in.
	And so, this is not good.
	But some good news is that the red squirrels have decided to band together into legions and decide simply...
	No, I'm joking. What's actually happening is the institutions, the wildlife trusts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, are like, you know what?
	We need to do something about the grey squirrels.
	And so I'm just going to give you some quotes from this GB News article, which is just some good news, right?
	So, a project has announced a significant decline in grey squirrels, which they believe will be completely eradicated from Aberdeen in the near future.
	Right, so this is interesting.
	Complete eradication of greys.
	That's a bit racist, isn't it?
	Very strong language.
	Yeah, it's very strong language from the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
	Like, Jesus Christ!
	Yeah, and didn't grey squirrels build Britain?
	Yeah, exactly! You know?
	Exactly, the grey squirrel scourge.
	Because the red squirrels have been struggling to establish themselves around Aberdeen because the grey squirrels had a stronghold there.
	But they've been under siege, thankfully, because Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels, which is led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, has trapped over 10,000 greys since 2009.
	They're deporting them.
	They're trapping and deporting the grey squirrels.
	To Rwanda? Not to Rwanda!
	I actually don't know where they're going.
	Yeah. Who cares where they're going?
	Who cares? It doesn't matter.
	Haven't they got all good human rights over there?
	Or squirrel rights? Yeah, exactly. Where are the lefty lawyers on this day?
	But no, you'll notice that many countries around the world are doing deportations.
	We are one of them, but only for grey squirrels.
	But on the plus side, 10,000 have gone.
	And so they've only seen 12 instances of grey squirrels in Aberdeen since this program began.
	So deportations work.
	Yeah. The red squirrel is coming back, the grey squirrel is being sent back to North America.
	And the red squirrel is naturally coming back.
	Yes, the red squirrel is naturally coming back.
	You get rid of it, there's a void, and they will come in to fill that void.
	Yes. And they say, you know, in Aberdeen, we've seen over the last four years, there's a consistent and significant decline in the number of grey squirrels trapped.
	So when the institution is acting on behalf of the native population, you actually get a flourishing of the native population.
	When it's against them, as we see in other aspects of life, the native population declines.
	It's like these things matter.
	Absolutely. That's what the Scottish Wildlife Trust is showing us.
	You know, it would just be nice to have an institution on our side for once, rather than constantly against us.
	And so yeah, they think there are just three grey squirrels left in Aberdeen.
	So this has been a real campaign of ethnic cleansing against the greys.
	But this is also happening in Ulster too.
	So this is ulsterwildlife.org, and as they say, recent data has showed that the grey squirrel range is contracting and the red squirrel range is increasing.
	They, as far as I'm aware, haven't been deporting them.
	They believe it's something to do with the recolonization of the Pine Martin.
	I have no idea what this is.
	But again, I like the language, right?
	It's vital to avoid complacency.
	As long as the invasive American grey squirrel remains, there will always be a threat to red squirrels in Ireland.
	You know, I'm hearing this.
	Yeah. As long as there's just one left on the land, there's a threat to them all.
	There's still a threat. The blood of squirrels alone turns the wheels of history.
	It says Ulster Wildlife.
	See, we could never be done for racism again if we say it's grey squirrels.
	Just against the grey squirrels, just like Ulster Wildlife, just like the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
	We just agree with them on the squirrel question.
	And so this has been hilarious online when the news broke.
	This is just GB News posting that, and I just thought we'd just look at some of the replies.
	You can imagine...
	You can imagine from Mark there, you know, beware of him that's slow to anger for when it's long coming.
	The stronger it comes, the longer kept.
	Abused patience turns fury.
	Yes, there's something...
	People are feeling this.
	We need to understand their plight.
	Remigration. They are actually remigrating the grey squirrels.
	Are the red squirrels racist for not wanting to be replaced?
	Are they celebrating the diversity?
	Well, that's a great question. That's a great question.
	I'm surprised Labour haven't come out against the red squirrels at this point.
	Well, they will after this.
	Yeah, they will after this.
	Grey squirrels. I suppose if they repatriated them to Canada, they'll have to be French-speaking as well, won't they?
	I guess they will, yeah. There's a traitorous and subversive red squirrel there.
	Yeah, let's see how people...
	I'm going to just... Yeah, 94% there.
	That's good. We've got 5.1 that need to go with the greys.
	Yeah, that's 5.1.
	Literally the grey squirrels voting.
	So, deport the greys now.
	We're going to win.
	Oh, I like him.
	Yeah, yeah. Lovely. Yeah, I mean, I was enjoying this too.
	It's only a matter of time until the reds decided that they needed to organise into their legions face down the greys.
	I love... These are all done by Grok AI, by the way.
	Like that. These amazing little pictures.
	And they've actually got the right number of fingers, which is weird.
	I'm not used to that on an AI. A squirrel's got five fingers.
	Well, no... If you might want to use a spear, they'd need five fingers.
	I actually don't know how many fingers squirrels have got.
	But yeah, and like I said, the Scottish Wildlife Trust has said no mercy to the greys, which is a policy I agree with.
	So anyway, I thought we'd end on just some good news there.
	The red squirrels are making a comeback because the greys have just been devoted.
	They've got four fingers, and it's very cute when you find a picture of them holding them out.
	Oh, do they? I'll send it to Samson.
	That is adorable. Okay, so well done, AR. You got the wrong number of fingers.
	No, no, it's fine. They need it.
	If a squirrel was to go into battle, as they are, they would need that many fingers.
	So yeah, not exactly hard-hitting news, but I thought just a feel-good story to round off a Friday.
	It shows the importance of, you know, looking after the indigenous to an area, doesn't it?
	It does. I've got some extra meanings coming out.
	I don't know why he rings a bell. There you go.
	Oh, look at that. What a lovely little fella.
	Adorable. Oh, wait, no. He's actually shouting, freedom!
	Yeah. Yeah, exactly. He's reaching out to Excalibur to claim his birthright and take back his lands from foreign hordes.
	Have you ever seen a red squirrel? Oh yeah.
	I've never seen one.
	You told this story yesterday.
	I messaged my mum to find the photo.
	She messaged me today saying she can't find the photo.
	So I used to live in Germany and all of the squirrels on the continent were red squirrels, right?
	And when I was about, I don't know, 13, 14, me and a friend of mine were walking through these woods, and these four baby squirrels came out of the woods just, you know, out of nowhere, and we were just like, oh my god, what's going on?
	And we just had a look around, and we could see this big dead squirrel in the back, so we assumed that's our mum or something, right?
	And so we find these four baby squirrels.
	And so I'm like, okay, well, we'll just pick them up and take them home, right?
	We only got two of them.
	I forgot this part when I was telling you.
	We only got two of them because this couple came along with their dog and chased two of them back into the woods.
	But me and a friend of mine were carrying these squirrels around.
	And so he took them back.
	So I took mine home and he took his home.
	And his parents wouldn't let him keep his.
	And so he brought it to mind. But the thing is, my parents were soft touches, and they did let me keep mine.
	And so we had them in just a fairly big hamster cage.
	And so one of them choked to death on a sesame seed.
	And it was honestly one of the most harrowing things in the world.
	So I've got this thing, it's choking, there's nothing I can do to get this seed dislodged from its throat, and it just dies in my hand.
	I'm like bawling with tears.
	Oh, no. Buried it in the back garden.
	But the other one was fine, and it was really...
	Just lonely. Well, no, no.
	It was really affectionate, right?
	So, like, you'd come in from school, and it had free run of the hallway and the stairs and the top of the hallway.
	So you'd hear this, as it ran down the stairs.
	So you'd go and hang up your coat, and it'd run up, and it'd run around your waist.
	And no one's going to believe this story, but I swear to God it's true.
	I'll find the photo and put it on Twitter or something.
	And my mum had a big wax jacket, so it was hanging up in the hallway.
	And every morning you'd go in, you'd pull the wax jacket and it'd be curled up inside the pocket.
	Oh, it was absolutely adorable. The thing is, it would be like, you know, stop it, stop it.
	Because, you know, yeah, you're waking me up.
	But the thing is, it got quite big and obviously the hallway's not big enough for it.
	So we put it out in the shed and cut like a hole in the door so it could run out.
	And the first night it did that, we had like a pebble dashed house.
	It managed to climb up onto the roof.
	So my dad had to go into the attic and get it back in.
	The next night, it was fine.
	And after a week or two, it had just gone off.
	And I'm pretty sure I saw it wandering around because at one point, like a month later, I was wandering through just a different patch of forest.
	And this squirrel came near me.
	And I was like, oh, that must be him.
	But he didn't come over.
	Yeah, yeah. We called him Cutie because he was adorable.
	That's a lovely story. But no one's going to believe this story.
	I appreciate no one believes this story.
	But I swear to God it's real.
	I will find the photo of me feeding a squirrel a nut on my stairs.
	And he was adorable. Like, you used to play a game with him.
	You'd hold the nut in your hand and he'd peel your fingers back.
	Absolutely adorable. Really, really cute.
	He's a very affectionate animal.
	Red squirrels are great. Gray squirrels, evil.
	The Scottish Wildlife Trust.
	Needs to get rid of them.
	And like I said, I promise that's true.
	Let's get the video comments.
	Lindsey Graham is the finest example of what we call a REMF, a rear echelon mother f**ker.
	Never served, never sweated, never sacrificed, like so many modern politicians.
	And if there is a draft, his family will be, quote unquote, protected.
	This is the greatest problem, how far the political class is from those who served.
	And to Beau, no, no, no.
	These aren't brass knuckles.
	This is an attractive and utilitarian paperweight.
	I tell you, that Illuminati game is superb, by the way.
	Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a copy of it years ago.
	It's really, really good. Basically, you build up a conspiracy board where you're controlling different parts of things and you're fighting the other players.
	And you've got institutions and factions.
	So you've got the bank or the militant feminists or something like that as cards.
	It's really good. But anyway, let's go on to the next one.
	So as a follow-up to your most recent video game segment, you should check out the story with the Godot game engine, right?
	Because, yeah, one of their moderators went woke and turned out he, she, whatever, was a complete hypocrite.
	And now a lot of people are forking the source code for Godot and they say they're going to make their own version, including me.
	Next video comment is going to have a showcase of the game that we've been making for the last couple of months.
	Cool. That's really excellent.
	It's always good to see people, you know, taking charge of this stuff themselves and actually making things.
	That's always good. Yeah, but why would you hire someone like that for your community manager?
	Yeah. Like, come on. Obviously a problem.
	You can tell, can't you? Yeah, exactly.
	Was that the last one, Samson?
	Or is there another one? No, there's a few more.
	Oh, sorry, okay. We missed one yesterday.
	Okay. Go ahead.
	Well, David Lammy is like a case of venereal disease.
	He's the gift that keeps on giving.
	He reminds me of Fruity Gatwa, the current cultural rapist and vandal who's playing Doctor Who.
	Gatwa has made statements about white actors being mediocre, while considering the fact that white actors have to compete against a wide range of talent.
	It's amazing that a man so mediocre who plays only one type of character, a mincing gay black man, has the temerity to suggest that others are mediocre.
	I just want to stand in defense of David Lammy at this point.
	David Lammy is actually unintentionally funny.
	Venereal disease is rarely funny.
	So, you know, I would choose David Lammy over the clap.
	You wouldn't. But by a small amount...
	But would you choose him to represent your country on the geopolitical stage?
	Or have an itchy crotch?
	It's a tough one. That is a tough one.
	Do you want him negotiating with Russia?
	Or do you want an itchy crotch?
	Let's go to the next one. Alright girls, sit. Sit for the Lotus Eaters.
	Sit!
	As you can see, we all made it through the storm okay.
	Ah, you didn't sit, you didn't get a trip.
	Look how friendly and excited they were.
	So there's a storm there.
	Yeah, there was a big storm.
	On the Zoom call last week, loads of people were saying about how, you know, we've just missed it, thank God.
	We're gonna get it later on today. So I hope all of those people are okay. Yeah
	I've been making nice habitat for the red squirrels and we'll see you next time.
	I Absent grey squirrels, that's what I like to see.
	Also, why is my hydration routine so inspirational?
	What's a hydration routine?
	I assume drinking a lot of water.
	Oh right, okay. It's not inspirational, it just means I wee a lot.
	Let's go to the next comment. I'm feeling so superior.
	Understandably so, to be honest.
	Let's get to the next one. See, that right there is a problem because they have a strategy.
	It's all in the book. Their fucking book.
	The only book they ever read.
	They read it all the time. They never stop.
	Well, what would you do? I'm offering you a hypothetical.
	200,000 American troops on the ground indefinitely to provide security and support for an equal number of doctors and elementary school teachers.
	Well, that's not going to happen. What else?
	What else would make a difference?
	Hit reset. Meaning pound Raqqa into a parking lot.
	You told me you prepped him.
	I did. He went off book.
	We're sitting in a bunker here talking to ourselves.
	Good for everyone to hear the truth.
	I didn't hear what option two was.
	I think it was basically glass the place.
	Yeah, yeah. Turn it into an enormous Middle Eastern parking car park.
	I just don't see why it's our problem.
	Well, this is true, but if you were in that situation, what do you do, Carl?
	I'd quit. You know, why am I in this job?
	I hate this job. It's not my business.
	Head of Homeland Security suddenly looks around and goes, wait, why am I doing that?
	I don't get some leaves.
	Look at Rue the Days.
	You know, look, I could just go for a walk.
	I could be out in nature.
	I could be friend-led squirrels.
	Yeah. Jerome says, Yesterday we welcomed our first daughter, Hilda, to the world.
	We just got released out of the hospital and are heading home.
	Well, congratulations. Congratulations.
	Russian says, say hi to Dan and Stan for me, please.
	In meetings, I can't watch live.
	Always love having him on the show. Moose says, happy Friday, everyone.
	It's two months for me in England.
	Both love it and hate it here.
	Moving to my own flat on Monday in a very small English town.
	Well, congratulations. Biggie Bigfoot says, hello, lad.
	My friend is having a baby and wants to give him the traditional Welsh name.
	We are currently considering Mohamed, Axel and Twa Girl Mama.
	Any thoughts? Well, if they didn't give examples, I was going to say Mohamed.
	Yeah, yeah. Nicholas says, when it's all blown over and it gets its inevitable Netflix documentary, are they going to title it Diddle by Diddy?
	If they had a sense of humor, but Netflix would be pro-Diddy.
	Yeah. Netflix is, and this is my opinion, I'm not making any legal statements, pro-Diddler.
	Have they made cuties?
	They did. They'll have Diddy played by a white guy, won't they?
	Yeah, they would. Yeah, Ryan Gosling, the role of a lifetime.
	Lord Nerevar says, Oh, would you look at that?
	A rich person in a position of considerable power has taken to doing unsavouring things, possibly including children.
	Surely we've never seen this before.
	I'm sure this is a shock to all.
	It's a complete one-off.
	Thank God that, just like Epstein, nobody else was involved.
	Yeah, yeah. And I think Wimpelseeker's comment is probably right.
	Like, why would you be signaling so loudly?
	Oh yeah, I'm going to get 120 really important, really rich and famous people in trouble.
	You know, just letting, we're just preparing it.
	Just, you know, it's a really weird thing to do, isn't it?
	Yeah. You know, you would just file it and get on with it.
	Yes, you would. Yeah. Right, where are we?
	You obviously have no flair for drama.
	No, I don't. I'm terrible.
	Arizona Desert Rat says, what's likely to happen in Wales is a few farms will continue operating that will eventually end up buying out the others, thus creating a monopoly.
	Well, the Welsh government will take them.
	Yeah, I think the Welsh government wants to gain control.
	They do. Well, yeah, like most monopolies, it will be done in conjunction with the government.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	I can't think of any monopoly that's existed that hasn't been with support of governments, actually, and I can't think of any.
	No, I really can't think of any.
	Go back to the guilds.
	Exactly. Express license from the king.
	The letter M isn't friends with school shooters.
	Man, that was funny as well.
	That entire debate, that was such a meme treasure trove.
	I've seen that picture of J.D. Vance doing the...
	Yeah, yeah, it's just a great picture.
	In so many contexts.
	But the fact that he's like, yeah, I'm infertile and I'm friends with school shooters, it's like...
	Who the fuck is this guy?
	So I didn't see that bit.
	Did he actually admit that he's infertile?
	Yeah, they'd had fertility treatment, so his balls don't mow.
	And he hangs out with school shooters.
	But anyway, he says, this Lee Waters guy went to Australia.
	That explains why a lot of the speed limits are going down everywhere, damn it.
	Yeah, it's coming to Australia.
	Australia falls behind 20 mile per hour.
	Really? Yeah, so our infection has spread that far.
	Can you imagine doing coast to coast?
	No. They can't...
	Trundling along.
	Yeah, I think, obviously, my sexual blackmail political theory, it has a lot of explanatory power, but I think also explanatory power for the particular policies that they're choosing also have a lot to do with the fact that in the Anglosphere especially, All of our politicians are dull, boring, reprehensible,
	blood-sucking bureaucrats.
	They are the fun police. The same with what they're doing in England with the pubs.
	With the way that they're attacking the pubs at the moment.
	They just hate other people having fun because in school they had no friends except the librarian.
	Well I'm surprised any of them have got kids.
	Every time I hear Lee Waters talks about his children, it's like, How have you got children?
	You know, like, there's too much fun involved, you know, to have children.
	I assume it's, you know, the losers of the men and the women got together in the government, and they're like, yeah, okay, we'll get married, hate each other, the kids that we hate, hate everything.
	They're just such hateful people.
	Colin says, at least half the medieval reenactments I do are in Wales, probably along the M4 corridor, and the travel is a nightmare.
	If the government does bring in the paper mile, though, I probably won't be able to do them anyway.
	Yeah, that's another thing. Have the Welsh government done paper mile?
	They're going to be bringing it in, yeah.
	We were talking about it about three, four years ago, but obviously we were mental.
	And now it's making the headlines that it's in their plans.
	I got snapped down the M4 once in Wales, coming out of Cardiff, so I already have vendetta against that one.
	I had to attend the most boring and dull two-hour Zoom call so that I could be re-educated on how to drive.
	Was it Black History Speed Awareness as well?
	No. LAUGHTER Not yet, at least.
	Yeah, it wasn't from Wales.
	Jimmy says, this is the stuff revolutions are made of.
	And honestly, people have revolted for far less in the past.
	They really have.
	There's a lot that's gone on in the UK that I've said to myself so many times, surely now.
	You know, surely now.
	It'll be when the lights go out.
	After pushing all this crap of green stuff...
	When the lights finally go out.
	When the electricity goes off and people can't be placated and complacent by Netflix anymore.
	And Netflix and video games are the ultimate anti-revolutionary app.
	Yeah, absolutely. It is.
	Not that I would ever advocate anything like that.
	No. Just in case, for anybody listening...
	Moving on to the red squirrels though, because we're not talking about human beings, red squirrels rise up with guns, says the letter M. Yeah.
	Should we go around Scotland handing tiny guns at squirrels?
	Ruther Day says, hail our ginger overlords.
	With a salute. Jack Lang says, in Australia, we use biological warfare against invasive rabbits.
	We've killed at least half a billion using myxomatosis in the 1950s.
	Been experimenting with other diseases to get rid of them.
	See, the Geneva Convention just goes completely out of the window when it's talking about domestic animals, right?
	Yeah. Like, okay, no, we're going to just genocide the grey squirrels.
	We're going to... Biological warfare and chemical warfare are the rabbits.
	Australia are examining the works of Joseph Mengele.
	When you first introduced that, I thought, oh, great, they've brought in, you know, a new hunting season.
	Not our leaders.
	Yeah. Grey squirrels are probably ending up into our kebabs.
	I mean... I guess squirrel pox doesn't affect us.
	I don't eat kebabs. Yeah, I don't.
	I'm safe. But Eric says, as an American, the red squirrels are coming.
	The red squirrels are coming. Yes.
	No, that's the problem, though.
	We've been colonized by you.
	Yes. Oh, God, what does squirrel taste like?
	Squirrel meat has a light flavor and a fine texture.
	If there can't be much of it...
	It tastes like a cross between rabbit and chicken.
	Everything tastes like chicken, apparently, doesn't it?
	I'm up for trying it. If it's light meat, yeah, imagine it all tastes pretty similar.
	I'll hunt myself a grey squirrel.
	A Davy Crockett hat.
	Yeah. Beggarhero says, squirrel genocide's always bright in a Friday.
	Obviously, I won't mention grey squirrel crime statistics.
	George says, Squirrel Wars...
	The word squirrel, right?
	It's a weird thing to have to say repeatedly.
	I can feel myself stumbling over it.
	Squirrel Wars sounds like a 90s cartoon.
	The saga of Red Prime and Mega Grey.
	Yes, but on the plus side, we're winning it.
	After decades of the Red Squirrels losing.
	I love how parochial everyone suddenly gets.
	Oh no, we're insanely nationalistic about the Red Squirrels.
	No time for diversity.
	All the liberal programming goes straight out of the window with the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
	You would think it would be, oh, we're very green environmentalists, but there's grey squirrels.
	I'm just imagining someone in the Scottish Wildlife Trust experimenting horrifically on a little grey squirrel.
	And he looks up for a moment and he thinks to himself, does this remind me of him?
	And he shakes his head, no, no.
	What I like about it, though, is it shows you the sort of particularism is still in them.
	No, no, they still can have a love of something here.
	It's just transferred onto squirrels.
	But at least we can live vicariously.
	Yeah, exactly. What's funny is that it's like, right, no, that's not acceptable.
	We can't have that to our squirrels, nor we.
	People? Yeah, fine. Squirrels?
	No chance. How many kids get stabbed?
	How bad things get for you, but not for the squirrels.
	Anyway. We do also have the rumble rants.
	I did read a bunch of them.
	Boss Neeson says, the ultimate source of carbon isn't coal, it isn't steel, it's you.
	They will make your lives progressively worse until you flee abroad or are demoralised to the point of not having children.
	Yeah, that does seem to be essentially what's going on here.
	Or kill them off with the winter fuel allowance.
	Yeah, I just, like, everything that's being done is done to immiserate us.
	Yes. To make our lives worse, to make Britain a worse place to live.
	And, I mean, it's got to the point now where I see loads of videos of immigrants going, God, Britain's shit.
	Yeah. I'm leaving.
	It's like, okay, well, great, you know, thanks.
	Well, there's videos of Brits coming back from abroad, where they've had a lovely time on holiday, they've gone to the continent, or they've gone to Australia or somewhere.
	Everyone I know who goes to Australia and comes back goes, God, I wish I'd stayed.
	I wish I'd stayed in Australia.
	It doesn't have to be this way.
	It didn't used to be this way.
	We're old enough to remember that this used to be a really nice country.
	It used to be really good.
	So if you're a Zoomer watching this, you're wondering, why do I live in this absolute dump?
	The government. The government is the reason.
	It's purely government action.
	Anyway, on that note, we'll end it there.
	So, where can people find more from you guys if they would want more?
	Website, voiceofwales.com.
	Main one is X at the moment, loving X, at VO Wales Official.
	We've got YouTube, VO Wales Official.
	Elon Musk's Twitter or X. We're actually larger than the Labour Party in Wales.
	Yes, we are. We have more followers than Welsh Labour now, than our own government.
	So I'm really happy with that.
	But yeah, you know, we're... The cover photo you've got as well.
	It's good, isn't it? And some chaps.
	We might have to change that today then.
	No, excellent. Right, so go follow VO Wales Official on X and visit voiceofwales.com, was it?
	Voiceofwales.com, yeah.
	VO Stan, is it? Oh, yeah.
	Stan Voice of Wales. Stan Voice of Wales.
	He had to have his own onesie. Oh, of course.
	Couldn't have a team, one not. That's the one he's constantly tagging us with, isn't it?
	Yes! Yeah, that's the spam account.
	That's right. Yeah, once you let him in, that's it.
	He's like the grey squirrel. LAUGHTER Colonize my timeline.
	Thank you so much for joining us, guys.
	Guys, we'll be back in half an hour for Lads Hour where we're going to be discussing stereotypes regarding grey and red squid.
	No, no. Stereotypes around people.
	So we probably won't put that much of that on YouTube.

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