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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Caesars for today, Wednesday the 12th of February 2025. I'm your host Connor, joined by Harry and Josh.
	Hello, you just held my hand for a minute there.
	You know, sometimes bros, you know, fingertips touched.
	Anyway, I'm not meant to shirt above the table, guys.
	I know, that's resulting in premium content this whole time.
	It's like that time that Rory reached down and tried to reconnect the cables underneath Carl during a lads hour and it just...
	Yeah.
	Anyway...
	A lot of strange stuff, but he is a rugby player, so it's to be expected.
	Fair point.
	Anyway, we're going to be discussing Britain's farmers' protests and how they're progressing, Europe Zoomers copying MAGA's revolution, and how changing demographics will lead to the South Africanisation of Britain.
	Now, because it is a Wednesday at 3 o'clock, speaking of Britain's continued decline, I will be discussing on Thompson Talks with another...
	Oh, it's not that bad.
	Thanks.
	I'll be chatting about the inevitability of economic and demographic collapse with another bespectacled Irishman, except he's got the accent, Philip Pilkington.
	So we're going to be having a good old chinwag about Philip's recent research reports for ARC and the Policy Exchange, which should be good fun if you want to learn about how things are getting South Africanised.
	Anyway, any other announcements before we go on?
	No?
	We'll have a nice Wednesday.
	All right.
	Well, go on, take it away, Josh.
	So, there was another farmers' protest on Monday.
	I was actually there in person.
	You were on deprogrammed for the new...
	I was, yeah.
	That's the original reason I was there.
	I didn't even realise the farmers' protest was going on.
	I actually wrote an article on the website, which I don't think I've got up here.
	But I did write about my experience.
	If you wanted to check out our website, you can find out...
	What I thought of it, but here it is from an aerial view.
	And just to reiterate, I know lots of people are familiar with why they're protesting, but just to make sure everyone's on board.
	In October, the government announced it would change a 20% inheritance tax on agricultural assets worth more than a million pounds for the first time.
	So basically, if you were passing on your family farm, there would be a tax on it, whereas previously it was tax-exempt.
	Government has also said there'd be no tax payable on the first £325,000 above the limit, so it's basically a £1.325 million limit.
	But because, of course, the housing crisis, which is basically caused by mass migration, has bumped up the cost of land so much, family farms have actually shot up in value, which might sound good for them.
	However, what it does mean is more and more...
	Normal family farms are actually above this threshold just by the merit of there are so many people in Britain that the cost of land is extortionate.
	Well, the intent for this is clearly, as Jeremy Clarkson wrote, to ethnically cleanse the English countryside by breaking the chain of passing land on.
	Between father and son for it to be farmed, so that the government or their corporate partners like BlackRock or Bill Gates can swoop in, snap it up for cheap, and build migrant battery farms on it.
	And the point that you're making is that it doesn't actually matter how much money the land is worth, because farmers are often asset-rich but cash-poor.
	They don't want to sell it in the first place.
	So it doesn't matter if the value of their land goes up.
	They just want to pass it on to their kids without a middleman breaking that chain.
	Yeah, and obviously it's a massive hatchet to the British way of life, as well as I think it's being done deliberately to sell it off to Larry Think of BlackRock, because they're buying up lots of arable land.
	So are people like Bill Gates in the United States, largest private farmland owner in the United States.
	It's all very interesting, isn't it?
	And Keir Starmer just happens to meet with both of them.
	We're not allowed to read the contents of that meeting either because Lewis Brackpool's fired off two FRI requests and been told no.
	So it seems like a deliberately spiteful move.
	They've said that they're not going to carry out a U-turn, but that doesn't mean in modern politics that they're not going to do it.
	It just means that they're more insistent that they're going to try and do it.
	You said something very interesting on our new Culture Forum episode, which is out not this coming Thursday, but next Thursday.
	You think it's not just for...
	For Marxist reasons, it's not just a communist grave rob, and it's not just for logistical reasons like selling it off to their rich partners.
	You said something akin to this is a way to psychologically deprive the native population of a living reminder that things do not have to be this way, because the English countryside is so distinct that if you were bonked on the head and woke up like you're an Elder Scrolls character, you'd recognise exactly where you are.
	You can't mistake it for any other country anywhere else.
	So in the pursuit of this sort of cosmopolitan, global...
	Like, world of you can live anywhere you choose.
	They're trying to eradicate things that look like England, and so you can't complain about it.
	Yeah, it makes the multicultural cities that are awful seem less bad if you don't have a point of reference.
	You go to a nice, quaint rural town, it's nice and pleasant.
	You know, farming communities, everyone's lovely.
	Like, I spoke to loads of the farmers.
	Really, really nice people.
	That's one of the main takeaways, is not only are they very knowledgeable about their profession, but also very kind, very pleasant.
	I was just walking up to them as a stranger, just having a chat with them on the streets of London, which you think would get someone's back up against a wall.
	That's the only time you can do that in London.
	They're the only people in London that speak English.
	I know.
	I mean, being a country boy, it's sort of weird to me that people are so distant, but still.
	Also, it hits a lot of people because I've got family who are farmers, and I'm sure that plenty of other people in the country, I mean, everybody's got, you know, some family that will be involved in countryside somewhere.
	Right?
	Maybe not city boys like you.
	My grandparents owned a farm.
	Mine are all Cockneys.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	There you go.
	They're loopy.
	They're the loopy side of the family, but they're lovely as well.
	They're weird.
	I can't deny it, but I don't want them to have their farm taken off of them when one of my uncles or aunties dies or something.
	That would be awful.
	And I think it's summed up, simplified, as you can't have nice things.
	Countryside's nice.
	You can't have that.
	You can't have that.
	And I think to really make the whole thing seem even more of a farce than it already is, Josh, can you remind everybody how much money the government is projecting to make from these taxes?
	It's about £500 million over the course of about five years.
	£520 million.
	I think annually.
	A massive amount in the grand scheme.
	We spend days worth, maybe slightly less, of NHS spending.
	We spend £14.4 billion a year.
	On illegal migrants.
	That's about to go up to 32 billion a year because they're about to give them full access to benefits and welfare.
	So the tiniest possible fraction to destroy our food security to then be spent on boat migrants.
	So as I said, I was there.
	I took this very...
	British-looking photo, but this distinction between Britain and the UK, with a Y and two Os, I think is a worthwhile one to make and hammer home, because Britain evokes this sort of traditional, you know, it was called the British Isles for thousands of years, right?
	And so it evokes a sort of...
	Whereas the UK is just an economic zone for foreign mercenaries.
	Well, this was taken, I assume, right outside Westminster Tube Station.
	It was.
	It's what I saw when I emerged from the underground.
	What about that permanent homeless guy that sits outside that pillar in his cardboard boxes directly opposite the Westminster Tube Station exit?
	That's just out of shot.
	That's UK. You have to crop out the UK from London.
	I did.
	I wanted a nice picture.
	I didn't want to...
	Blackpill everyone.
	And even then, if you scroll back down again, there is a rather suspicious-looking man in a hoodie.
	That's true.
	But anyway, there were some tanks there, as well as tractors, which I was surprised at.
	Here's a picture I took, personally, of some tanks here.
	I didn't see those guys, blimey.
	I did also notice, you notice how Stammer is spelt?
	That's a bit unfortunate, isn't it?
	Stammer.
	Stammer.
	But yeah.
	I was surprised to see tanks.
	I'd love to be the person who said I was annoyed at the government so I drove a tank down to Westminster.
	Pocket on Parliament Green.
	That's got to be a bucket list thing, surely.
	Yes, everyone was very well behaved.
	This was planned in advance.
	The police were cooperating and the farmers were behaving themselves.
	They were just there to demonstrate.
	They weren't causing a ruckus.
	A lot of the press have picked up on that as well.
	But not quite as rebellious as owning a tank, perhaps, but what you can do if you want to signal your rebellion is go to lotuseaters.com.
	I think it's theshop.lotoseaters.com originally.
	And a lot of our Islander 2 merch, all of the Islander stuff, we're going to be taking down because there's going to be Islander 3. If you haven't got Islander 2, by the way, you can still contact us because some people have not got it delivered.
	It wasn't our fault.
	It was a distributor.
	They're rubbish.
	National decline, it always happens.
	I think we're doing our best to send them out, and if people get multiple, then that's the price we have to pay to make sure everyone is happy.
	But we're trying our best to get them to you.
	And yes, if you want to pick up some of this stuff, it's not going via the same distributor as the magazine, thankfully.
	We've got a new distributor for issue three as well, so you will be able to get that one.
	So yes.
	Just mentioning that it's going to be going off the store soon and that we'll have some new stuff eventually.
	But anyway, I wanted to look a little bit at the media reporting because I noticed, because I use Ground News, the bias in reporting weighed more heavily to the right.
	And to be fair, the centrist outlets, according to Ground News, BBC News, Sky News, and some other ones that I don't recognise.
	They're saying LBC is right-wing.
	Really?
	Well, it's probably because of former associations with having Katie Hopkins and Nigel Farage on there.
	And they've got Nick...
	What's his name?
	Nick Ferrari, who some say is a conservative.
	Yeah, but they've also got Ian Dale, who self-styled himself.
	And they've also got James O'Brien.
	It's sort of more towards the centre than...
	You know, you've got a bright butt there in GB News, which you can say at right wing.
	That's fine.
	But it seems like there was a bit of bias in reporting according to this.
	However, I didn't really see it.
	Actually, a lot of the reporting of the farmers' protests was quite fair and sympathetic, and that's quite surprising because normally when something...
	Sensible happens.
	The media is opposed to it.
	And so the fact that all of the press is sort of like, yeah, we kind of understand where they're coming from, sort of signals that the farmers could have some successes here.
	And I think that that's promising.
	And I'm just going to have a look at some of the headlines just to show you what I mean.
	Like, here's the express.
	My family's farmed for four generations.
	Now all of that is under threat thanks to Labour.
	That was on the same day that the protest was going on.
	Here's Sky News.
	The farmers' inheritance tax creates chilling effect on nature recovery scheme, ex-government legal advisor says.
	Oh no, won't someone think of the net zero?
	But the thing is, they're saying that actually the inheritance tax thing is the cause of this.
	And so they're saying actually making the farmers lose their land is bad for the environment as well, which...
	Is an interesting angle.
	And if it helps, welcome.
	Yeah, it is probably true.
	Like you say, what's going to replace it if they take these farms off of people?
	Which is just Soviet-era land seizure, as far as I'm concerned.
	Well, it'll either be battery farms for migrants, so shit local housing at affordable prices that they won't have to pay anyway.
	Unaffordable for the taxpayer, but very affordable for some new Somalians.
	Yeah.
	Or massive battery, actual battery farms.
	And industrialised farming, which is going to be far worse than the local farmer who actually is from the area, his family's been in that area for centuries, and they care about the place.
	They have a bit of pride about the work they do as well, which I think is very underrated in the modern economy.
	Breitbart, obviously, is going to be very much against it.
	No farmers, no food.
	Farmers rally outside UK Parliament over Labour's death tax grab.
	I like that.
	Deaf tax grab, because that's effectively what it is.
	It's actually quite good framing of it.
	It's communist grave robbing.
	It is, yeah.
	You know, they're nicking the pennies off farmer's eyes, is what they're doing.
	And here's another one.
	This is from, I think, The Times.
	Heartbroken young farmers protest over Labour's inheritance tax rule.
	And I did see a lot of young people at this protest.
	You think farmers, you think middle-aged or older.
	And actually, it was...
	Pretty large proportion of young people there.
	Like you say, they're family farms, right?
	So they bring the kids along because the kids have been raised to expect to inherit the farm and tend to the land.
	Well, not just that.
	They literally work on the farm themselves in order to prepare.
	So it's already their job.
	So you're depriving them of a livelihood as they're currently doing it.
	Oh, well, the government heard, wait, white kids are still able to get jobs somewhere?
	Can't have that.
	Even the lefty independent just says, why are Britain's farmers protesting?
	And they're drawing attention to the protest and why they're actually protesting.
	And, you know, they're actually saying thousands of farmers and they're...
	Presenting it relatively fairly, which is unusual.
	You don't see this in lots of other causes, do you?
	And then here's another one here from Wales Online.
	Protesting farmers descend on Westminster as pictures show scale of demonstration.
	If this were a right-wing political demonstration explicitly, I imagine the tone would be very different.
	They wouldn't even mention it, or they certainly wouldn't mention the scale and the numbers.
	I mean, the pictures are difficult to ignore as well.
	I mean, it's implicitly right-wing, though, isn't it?
	It is, yes.
	It's sort of coded.
	Because, of course, everyone jokes that farmers are conservative and vote towards the right for years, right?
	Also, you didn't have any representatives of the Labour government breaking rank and standing out there with them, but you did have James McMurdoch, Nigel Farage, and Robert Jemrick hanging off the side of tractors.
	I think this one, we'll look at some of the people who attended, but...
	There weren't many Labour people, let's just say that.
	So even the BBC, their headline was hundreds of tractors block Westminster, which...
	They didn't block it.
	No.
	There wasn't that much traffic there, given it was Tuesday in Westminster.
	Monday morning, wasn't it?
	Was it Monday?
	Yeah.
	I don't know what day of the week is.
	It was Tuesday yesterday.
	Right, there we go.
	Who are you?
	Where am I? But yeah, it's a little bit low information.
	Which I thought was interesting, but then I suppose it's got a video to back it up, so it might just be an engagement thing more than trying to hide the nature of it.
	Even Metro, which everyone knows is being insufferably lefty.
	Major London roads gridlocked during farmers' protests outside Parliament.
	They're at least showing the scale of it, even though they're trying to suggest they're causing disruption, which is about as far...
	To the left as it really gets.
	And speaking of very far to the left, here, I think this is the revolutionary...
	This is basically an openly...
	If I go here...
	We are the British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International, founded by Leon Trotsky.
	We are Marxists and fight for the principles founded by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
	So literal common turn agents, wow.
	Farmers warn of humanitarian crisis if family farm tax not scrapped, and they're sympathetic.
	Oh my.
	1,000 tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday determined to force the Labour government to halt the family farming tax.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we might have found the one example in history where Marxists have sympathised with farmers.
	And property rights, for some reason.
	I don't know, but it's not explicitly anti-farmer, from what I was able to read.
	So, that was interesting.
	So, it seems like a lot of the press sort of read the mood in the country that actually lots of people are sympathetic, whereas people on Twitter ever being stupid.
	I think it's fair to say.
	Did not.
	Have we got the astroturfed people saying that the farmers should have their land taken off of them?
	Because they are greedy and don't want to pay tax like the rest of us.
	Those do exist, but I'm not focusing on them today.
	Some idiots don't think that farmers pay any tax at all.
	So, what I have here, if we could switch that to the actual map view.
	So, here's Whitehall.
	I'm going to change it to the actual map view because it makes it easier.
	Is that right?
	Well, that'll do.
	Oh, go ahead, Samson.
	Thank you.
	So, we can see here, this is Whitehall.
	This is the road that they blocked, obviously the entrance to Downing Street.
	And lots of people are saying, well, they're blocking ambulances.
	Whereas, you have along the embankment here, you have this road here, you've got that road there, and also, if you've noticed, it's London.
	Is Downing Street a particularly high-traffic area anyway?
	No.
	If you were an ambulance, you wouldn't go down there anyway.
	But when it's open to the public and there's not a protest going on, there's a bunch of tourists just walking in the road.
	Yeah, whenever I've been to Whitehall and Downing Street, you just walk down there.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And then you spit at the politicians as they go.
	It's a tradition at this point.
	So, I'm pointing this out just so you all know that there are alternatives.
	It's not a high-traffic area for ambulances and emergency services, right?
	However...
	What did happen were lots of posts like this, pointing out, blocking ambulances with blue lights going on because they don't want to pay taxes and everyone else has to.
	So, it's worth mentioning, the ambulances, and there were also police cars in amongst the tractors, were there on purpose because they had these large protests.
	They always have ambulance and police.
	On staff to make sure.
	When they were arranged in advance, they'd put them in amongst the tractors just for the sake of practicality so they're in useful locations.
	These were people working the event, right?
	The protest.
	It's not that they were blocking them in.
	It's that they were sat there the entire day from when I saw it at 11 in the morning until about half four in the afternoon to sort of early evening.
	And it wasn't that the...
	The tractors were there.
	And you see a lot of this.
	There are lots of these posts.
	That one didn't do so well.
	But, you know, they're saying, oh, they're blocking people.
	This is way more selfish than anything Just Stop Oil did, according to this guy.
	But people are lapping this stuff up, as you can see.
	Blocking Downing Street, as opposed to blocking motorways.
	Covering paintings in soup.
	And covering buildings in orange paint.
	And Stonehenge.
	For the reason as well.
	Leftists, as always, going, won't somebody think of the politicians?
	I know, it's funny how they always come out and defend them.
	The climate protesters are saying, okay, we have to plunge you into energy poverty, let you freeze to death, and only eat bugs and leaves, because, I don't know, I'm going to make sacrifices to the sun god like I'm a Dark Souls character.
	Meanwhile, these guys are going to say, maybe don't steal my land from my children and we might be able to feed you, please?
	I mean, that seems like a much more reasonable demand.
	Well, again, these people all seem to be under the kind of delusion that farmers just don't pay tax.
	They're saying, pay a tax that everybody else has to.
	Well, I'm sure you'd be saying it very differently if you happen to have non-liquid assets that meant that when you died, your children would be stumped with a bill of hundreds of thousands of pounds for no reason.
	And also, why should everyone else have to pay that tax?
	Yeah, while just playing the politics of resentment.
	That's it.
	It's also their property, and it's not the government's to take.
	And here's another one here.
	Aside from the fact these farmer protests, in inverted commas, of course they're farmers.
	It's just a load of theatre kids, like Just Stop Oil.
	Obviously, theatre kids with tractors, the most dangerous force in Britain, are blocking ambulances and hugely inconveniencing people without facing any legal consequences.
	They arranged the protest in advance, actually.
	So why would they face legal consequences?
	There's actual two-tier justice for you, apparently.
	At least they admit that, finally.
	The vast majority of these tractors come straight off the JCB stockyard.
	This is an actual schizopo.
	He's actually suggesting they're paid actors.
	They're not driven by farmers and do not represent farmers.
	The vast majority are paid to protest by tax-dodging millionaires.
	Real farmers are at work on their farms.
	Yeah, because you notoriously pick up loads of mud on your tyres when you're only ever driving down the M25 once.
	But this got a lot of attention.
	And it is worth mentioning, I was there.
	I overheard lots of farmers talking to people on their farm or, like, suppliers whilst they're at the protest because the farm work continues while they're there.
	They weren't directly on the phone to Clarkson saying, plans go in as we expect, boss.
	Suddenly start talking in Cockney gangster accents.
	They're all paid by Big Jeremy.
	That's what's going on.
	Good nickname for him, actually.
	And here's another one.
	Just seeing that...
	Oh, yes, of course.
	This is a person actually pointing it out.
	This is obviously false because the police directed the tractors to their parking positions and no ambulance would have tried to use Whitehall after that.
	Yeah, obviously.
	It's just ridiculous.
	I just noticed the highlighting of the colours of Stuck Farmer.
	I quite like that.
	That's quite a good one.
	James McMurdoch held that sign last time it happened.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, no, not this twat.
	This goes back.
	This is December.
	They're saying the media won't acknowledge this video of farms blocking an ambulance with its blue lights.
	It looks like they're trying to pull...
	They're trying to get out of the way.
	They are trying to move out of the way.
	There's a bus in the way, that's the problem.
	They're trying to get around the traffic to let the ambulance through, and it's just like, they won't acknowledge it.
	Well, curiously, it stops after, what is that, about 5-10 seconds of the tractors moving, so presumably the ambulance just goes around and goes on.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	I also don't think the farmers want to stop in ambulance, because they're not stupid.
	And, uh...
	Here's another one.
	This is a local news outlet, East Anglian Daily Times.
	Protesters in tractors seen blocking emergency services.
	There is a small effort to try this line, but it's not really taking off, except amongst lefties.
	Oh, by a long time!
	The one that did a puff piece on us.
	Thanks, guys.
	Two-tier reporting when climate...
	It was very complimentary, yeah.
	When climate protesters slow ambulances, they're vilified, so why are the wealthy farmers giving a free pass?
	And here they are outside Whitehall again.
	This is from, I believe, was it?
	December, I think, was the article.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I think that's right.
	There's also one earlier in December.
	Go back up.
	Yeah, 12th of December.
	There's Zion Mortimer, the guy that wrote the Byline Times piece on my Liz Truss interview and got literally everything wrong.
	I think that's also the same author.
	But yeah, the difference is that they've scheduled...
	So it's 2-2 on accuracy so far.
	And then it's also worth mentioning Guido have done some good stuff, as they often do.
	They did a Freedom of Information request to the London Ambulance Service, which confirmed there were no recorded incidents of delays attributed to the farmers' tractor protest action.
	What a surprise.
	So we asked the hospital and they said no, which I think is good enough evidence for me.
	But, you know, they're just...
	Crazy conspiracy theorists.
	But of course, they're also doing this back in November as well.
	Like, shock to see ambulances slow down.
	It's because they don't want to hit the people in the road, but the people in the road will move.
	Also, there's a police officer helping it pass through.
	This is, you know, Parliament Square.
	I think if there's going to be one place where it's going to be difficult for traffic to be, it's there.
	Also, I'm sure you're aware of this, Connor.
	You can see all of the defences from vehicles.
	Diversity bollards.
	Yeah, diversity bollards.
	They're protecting people from getting run over by rogue scholars of a certain religion.
	Yeah, being hit by the GDP. I mean, also, just on a Wednesday, loads of this stuff's blocked off so that ministers can have their cars transport them for P&Qs.
	So, on a Wednesday, this is heavily obstructed again.
	By the police.
	So the idea that Parliament Square is not a place where heavy foot traffic and bollards are just ridiculous.
	So I'm going to quickly fire through who was there.
	Nigel Farage turned up for a bit.
	Andrew Lloyd Webber as well.
	Turned up again.
	Seems to be a friend of the farmers.
	He owns a farm, doesn't he?
	Does he?
	Okay, fair enough.
	That'll be why.
	I would have thought he owned a theatre or something.
	Both.
	That is possible.
	You can own both.
	And also, Kemi Badenoch turned up as well.
	She doesn't quite look as at home in that tractor as many other people.
	But I felt like I had to mention it.
	So, the final thing I wanted to end on is I'm going to set out two scenarios for you of different farmers' protests.
	The worst-case scenario is...
	The Indian farmers protest, which had 600 farmers killed, one activist raped, one journalist killed, and a man lynched.
	I mean, it is India.
	That's a very Indian protest.
	Apparently the man who was lynched was paid to throw a Sikh scripture on the floor, and he had his hand and leg chopped off and then was later lynched.
	Jesus.
	And a Sikh group claimed responsibility.
	They were proud of it.
	They did repeal the contentious law, but there are lots of other aims that they didn't meet, and they're still going on.
	So they didn't repeal the minimum support prices for all crops.
	The debt wavers and the compensation for deceased protesters.
	So the people who were killed didn't even get compensated.
	And yes, here's December of 2024, where they're still blocking.
	They're still going?
	They're still going now.
	Bloody hell.
	Almost five years later.
	And it's getting to the point where Indian farmers and their leaders are going on hunger strike for 40 days, which the entire nation of India will go on if they don't sort out their farming situation.
	Yeah, with the sort of population numbers that they have, you'd think that they would want to have as much food as possible.
	You would think, wouldn't you?
	And the best case scenario is this.
	And this is, of course, the Dutch farmers.
	Because they formed a party.
	It was only set up in 2019, and it won 20% of the vote.
	And now they're part of the coalition governments.
	They're actually in government, influencing policy with Wilder's PVV, the Farmers' Party, which is BBB, the Liberal VVD, and the anti-corruption NSC. Nice and simple over there.
	I know.
	I like that they're very efficient with their acronyms, very Germanic, very orderly.
	This is why the Conservative Party and Reform are both turning up for photo ops at the protest.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, you know, Rupert Lowe himself is a farmer, so clearly he supports the repeal of the Farm Bill, but at the same time they're trying to capture this latent political energy and hope that the other Conservatives, you know, nascent Reform emerging right-wing party doesn't get them first.
	So where do you think the Farmers are going to sort of see their success?
	Because I would probably place it more towards the Dutch farmer's side, but not quite as successful as that.
	I don't think it's going to turn out to be, and this could age like milk, but like the Indian farmers' protests, I don't think it's going to get quite so bloody.
	I think actually, especially because the press aren't demonising them as if they are the kulaks waiting to be liquidated, they tried that a little bit with BBC Verify and got caught out.
	I think because the Labour government are losing narrative ground on this, especially with this...
	Chagos deal with the amount of money that they're forking over, but destroying family farms for a fraction of that cost, as well as the illegal migration budget, etc.
	I think they'll have more success, and rather than form their own party, I think they'll be folded in as a power faction into probably reform.
	It's entirely possible, yeah.
	I hope to be proven wrong on this.
	So first I'm going to lay out the more positive prediction, which would be that Labour will turn around and...
	Decide to undo all of the changes to the inheritance tax simply for PR reasons and will try and turn around and people will theorize that that was the plan from the start so they could try and make themselves seem like they are a government that responds to the people.
	My actual prediction, being the pessimist, is that Keir Starmer is an unfeeling psychopath and has been put in position specifically because he is able to take Any and all demonization that is thrown at him from the public and the press, and he is essentially a robot that is meant to push through reforms that the establishment wanted anyway, and that includes ethnically cleansing the countryside.
	And so I believe that he will last till 2029, and I do believe that there may be some pullback from this, but overall the aim is to cleanse the countryside, and whatever they need to do to do it, Storm will weather the storm.
	I think they're both reasonable predictions, to be honest.
	And yeah, obviously, if you're a farmer and watching, I wholeheartedly support you.
	And I think you're the bedrock of British society.
	And I don't think our country could exist without you.
	So obviously, I think it would be a good thing if you succeed.
	And all the best to you, I suppose.
	Excellent.
	We've got a couple of rumble rants, and then we'll crack on.
	$5 from the Engage Few.
	If the global citizens in London don't want local food production, we'll take them here in the US. Oh, I assume the...
	I'm not sure what he means by that.
	Yeah, I think that's confusingly worded.
	Yes.
	From Binary Surfer, for $2.
	To paraphrase Sam Hyde, when we win, do not forget these people wanted you hungry, broke, dead, your kids abused and brainwashed, and they think it's funny.
	Yeah.
	One of his most powerful quotes.
	Yes, and off topic, but how many of our elites in the UK will be on the Epstein client list?
	I'm betting at least a dozen big names should do a special full-length podcast just on this when it's released.
	Well, I have heard, obviously we know that Peter Mandelston had some affiliations with Epstein and he got very angry when he was pressed on it by the Financial Times the other week.
	Part of the reason it speculated why he got the ambassador role is so he has diplomatic immunity when it comes out.
	I wouldn't be surprised, yeah.
	That's why they were pushing him so hard despite the Americans not wanting him, but...
	On Epstein's client list specifically, yeah, maybe at least a dozen.
	In terms of overall degeneracy and disgusting things that they get up to behind the scenes, I'd imagine most of all of them.
	There's a reason I never want to go into frontline politics.
	You hear stories.
	Anyway, speaking of politics, things aren't going so well for us over here in the UK, or broadly, Europe at the moment.
	Things are going a lot better in America, though, and so I thought I'd do this segment About how we can have it so that the MAGA revolution, which when I was over in Washington DC is well in swing, might cross-pollinate over to our side of the pond.
	But before we do that, we are selling the last of our Islander 2 merch.
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	Anyway, I thought I'd get on to this, because there's some new polling out.
	From CBS, you know, hostile news outlet and all that, but they and YouGov, through gritted teeth, admit that despite attempts to depict Trump as a dictator-in-waiting, and then he went on to win the popular vote, it turns out that people all over America are seeing him as energetic, strong, and keeping his promises.
	The most common phrases used for Trump are tough, energetic, focused, and effective.
	Effective.
	Polling in the majority for a politician, that's unprecedented in recent times.
	70% are saying he's keeping his promises.
	That's huge.
	And to be fair, he is, isn't he?
	Yeah, he certainly is.
	He's doing more than he promised in that short space of time.
	Reminder, Keir Starmer and the Labour government are currently on 16% approval.
	Pretty big gap there.
	What's interesting, his deportation policy finds overall majority approval, just as most voters said they'd...
	Supported it during the campaign.
	And that extends to sending troops to the border.
	So marshalling the military down to the border, declaring a national emergency, slapping foreign criminals in shackles and sending them back to Colombia, etc.
	has overwhelming support from the American public, including all the foreign Uber drivers that I did a straw poll of.
	So just for those who are worried that mass deportations of foreign criminals are not within the Overton window, it certainly is in the States, the most powerful country on the earth.
	And what's very interesting is my friend Nate Hockman has highlighted that this is...
	Particularly strong among Gen Z. So here's a screenshot of the approval ratings.
	Gen Z approve at a rate of 55 to 45. It's 52 to 48 for millennials.
	56 to 44 for Gen Xers, who were the strongest constituency for Trump at the last election.
	50-50 for boomers.
	American boomers are just a write-off.
	Like, you've got the peak patriotic...
	Well, you've got the ones that did, like, the boat parades for Trump, which is, you know, endearing and cheesy, and it's kind of that Hulkamania-style patriotism.
	And then you've got the ones that just want to relive Woodstock and are having orgies in the nursing homes, like Harry went over before.
	I mean, to be fair, Hulk Hogan himself kind of straddles the line.
	In more ways than one, yeah.
	True.
	Fair point.
	So, look, the vibe has really truly shifted, and our collective enemies, you know...
	We know that USAID funds these press outlets, which then report on Europe and the UK as well, keeping the Overton Wind in a very confined box.
	So whatever they say in America happens over here.
	They've also taken notice.
	So you've got these sort of seething, screaming hit pieces by Ben Rhodes, former Obama administration official, saying, this isn't the Donald Trump America elected.
	Well, it clearly is, actually.
	Yeah, yeah, he's keeping his promises.
	This has been the one thing that they keep going to.
	They keep returning to this well of saying, nobody voted for this, and everybody who voted for Trump saying, this is exactly what I voted for, actually.
	It's a terrible line.
	It's one of the worst things they could have done, really.
	Again, they just...
	To make him look really cool.
	It's the respectability principle.
	Seen this?
	Embarrassed yet?
	Thing you literally voted for.
	It's the, Reagan's a Nazi.
	Bush is a Nazi.
	Not like that nice Republican Reagan.
	Yeah, now Reagan's the respectable Republican.
	Yeah, and in 2016 it was, Trump is a Nazi.
	Not like the respectable Republican that we were calling a war criminal Bush.
	And now it's like, Trump is a Nazi.
	Not like that respectable Republican Trump in 2016. To be fair to war criminal Bush, didn't he accidentally name himself as a war criminal once?
	Yeah.
	He's got a sense of humour about it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I too think man and fish can coexist.
	Trump's executive order does not.
	So I'm coining something called the Conan principle.
	What I mean by this is you can infer the level of winning directly from how much your enemies are driving themselves before you and wailing and gnashing their teeth.
	And they seem to be doing it pretty insistently in the New York Times.
	This seems to be the paper of disrepute at the moment.
	Here's another one.
	Musk's Lost Boys and Trump's Mean Girls by Maureen Dowd.
	In this, she writes, How do I join?
	Exactly.
	I think we're all too old for it, actually.
	That's true.
	Yeah, I might just be a bit past it.
	Again, this from the party you think 16-year-olds can vote, who trotted out Greta Thunberg in front of the UN as an expert on climate policy.
	Who didn't even go to school.
	Quite.
	And who just appointed David Hogg vice-chair of the DNC. They also, as part of Kamala's thing, had all of those TikTok influencers trying to come out for her.
	Oh, Harry Sisson.
	Yeah, yeah, Harry Sisson and the others, who now, I'm told, are in a Navy SEALs basement somewhere.
	Quite, yeah.
	And she writes, As seen here in this very famous piece, in this image, where they tried to make us look awful, but, I mean, they just picked all the attractive people.
	I mean, the people here, compared to America more generally, are more clean-cut, more in shape, more presentable.
	Happier.
	Oh, how terrible.
	And that one in the black tie actually looks like you, Josh.
	I'll take that.
	He looks a bit like you.
	He's a more handsome version, to be honest.
	Oh, very modest.
	Originally, this image was sort of slightly cropped because they cut the black guys out of it on the left to say that this is an entirely white party.
	Bear in mind, this was organised by CJ Pearson and my friend Chris Barnard.
	I was at this party.
	It was good fun for a while.
	And CJ Pearson himself is an African-American gentleman.
	So...
	Yeah, the idea that this is just...
	The problem was happy white people.
	Yeah, quite.
	That was literally the problem.
	People were sharing other photos from this, where a few of those girls, especially that one who looks like she's in her nightgown, were all hanging out and smiling together, and people were actually posting pictures of women from the Third Reich, saying, oh, it looks the same to me.
	It's just happy white people.
	That's what really annoys some of you.
	I wonder why.
	It might annoy the writer in question.
	For context, this is it.
	What the hell is that?
	That was defeated at the ballot box in November.
	I wonder why they might be envious of these women.
	That thing going, none of you ever voted for this.
	You didn't vote to be happy.
	That person was calling them the mean kids, were they?
	The cruel kids.
	I'll read an extract from the article because it's appallingly written.
	It's easy to see the festivities as an obnoxious victory lap of the MAGA coalition.
	And of course they are.
	They're referring to two parties, by the way.
	This one and then one earlier...
	Oh, no, sorry.
	The following day in Butterworth's a sort of watch party for an American moment.
	I posted a photo of it.
	Everyone was attractive, happy, and wearing MAGA hats.
	It was jubilant.
	They say conservatism as a cultural force, not just a political condition, is back in a real way for the first time since the 1980s.
	But here in DC, among the tourists from Tampa, the donors and the last politicians Trump-wimped...
	into submission, one can also witness the emerging influence of a newer type of conservative.
	They are not disenfranchised, or working class, or anti-elite, or many of the other adjectives used to describe Trump supporters since 2016.
	Rather, they are young, imposingly well-connected, very online they are rebels once again storming the capitol hill though without the pathetic scariness of january 6 rioters they are crypto nerds and influencer girlies and recent make america healthy again converts and gays of all stripes plus your standard fair seething rogan listening bros few of them would call themselves republic unless they be so it's the main complaint that there are loads of gays that aren't attracted to this writer Yes.
	I mean, I can see why you're at this party with this description now.
	Not the gay part.
	No, definitely.
	They're always online.
	Yeah, cheers, thanks.
	No, just keep digging.
	Thanks, man.
	Appreciate it.
	At least I had the guts to call him Gay Josh.
	Come on.
	I mean, he did hold my hand earlier, so...
	You know, it takes one to know.
	Oh, I've just dubbed myself in.
	Point being, the reason I say this is appallingly written isn't actually because it's a badly written article.
	It's because this was written to make us, let's say us collectively, transatlantic, look terrible.
	And what's fascinating is now, they're coping and seething...
	Being an accurate depiction of us makes us sound great.
	So, this was meant to be a hit piece, and it just coded as an endorsement.
	Like, yeah, funnily enough...
	Same with byline times.
	Quite, exactly.
	Kamala Harris's promise of being brat, which means having your mascara streamed and doing a walk of shame home straight into a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, didn't appeal to attractive, non-demented young women and the men who might like to marry them one day.
	Turns out that...
	Being attractive and financially successful and having children was a better sales pitch.
	Weird that you would just concede that ground, guys.
	Anyway, so the UK is looking on in envy at the moment.
	Speaking of mass deportations overwhelmingly supported by Gen Z, the Telegraph did a great comparison piece between Trump's deportations and the UK's deportations, spelled Y-O-O-K-A-Y. This is Trump's deportations, taking foreign criminals, slapping them in shackles and putting them aboard a military aircraft.
	This is the UK's...
	Hi-vis health and safety deportations, where you've got nine people for every one illegal immigrant.
	And by the way, the overwhelming majority of these deportations that Labour are boasting about, it's over 16,000, they are voluntary returns, which means they get a £3,000 stipend after breaking the law, just to bugger off home.
	And it doesn't stop them from breaking back in, either.
	I prefer Josh's idea of we seize their assets.
	Yeah.
	Tax remittances, 95% as well.
	You know how, um...
	In 2020, we would hear about how cramped all those ships were.
	You know what I mean.
	Very cramped conditions, 400 people to a boat.
	I would be okay with that if it meant we could send people back.
	Anyway, funnily enough, lots of people probably agree with you, because now the overwhelming majority of the British public actually back Trump's policies too, so it's not just popular in America, but let's say if there were a party in Britain looking to emulate the MAGA revolution, they could just...
	Just copy everything that Trump did.
	So this is 2,000 voters surveyed.
	And the questions were fairly clear.
	They laid them out here, but I'll summarise the results.
	58% of the public support mass deportations.
	So that's very encouraging.
	So that is well within the Overton window of acceptability.
	53% support ending DEI and restoring free speech protections.
	And 55% support fracking and North Sea drilling, ending net zero.
	So ironic that these are all the policies that terminated Liz Truss's tenureship.
	Turns out you can probably just copy the policies but not resign.
	And also clear out the civil service while you do it so you can actually do the policies.
	And you'll be fine.
	I like how we live in an alleged democracy, whereas the government is doing the opposite of all of the popular things.
	Well, that would be populism, which would be fascism.
	Populism is bad.
	Maybe, like, seven MPs.
	Every single party is doing all those things as well.
	You've just been given a Hobson's choice for absolute decades.
	And therefore, no wonder, Zoomers are not too enthused with democracy, as we've covered before.
	Of the people supporting this, you might be thinking, well, you know, America's Zuma revolution is unique to them, right?
	We haven't had the same infrastructure or the same culture.
	Well, you say that, one in three Brits would vote for Trump.
	Now that's good.
	That's pretty encouraging.
	I mean, reform was already the joint top party in its infancy with young men at the last election.
	And now we've got polling that says more young men would actually vote for Trump than Farage.
	I assume on pure memetic equality as well.
	Well, I think also that Trump has proof that he's going to deliver on his promises.
	Whereas I think that the main concern with Nigel is that...
	The association with the Conservative Party, you know, the talk of Conservative defectors and potential pacts makes people think that they're going to go the same way as the Conservatives and stab their base in the back.
	I think there shouldn't be as much of worry about pacts because, just speaking anecdotally, Reform really hate the Tories.
	But they're very happy to allow lots of Tories to wear a teal tie if they just renounce the former Tory membership.
	Conservative MP, they announced like it was a famous football trade.
	He had previously stood in the seat against Rupert Lowe in the 2019 election when he was a Brexit party MEP. And when Rupert magnanimously stood down in the non-aggression pact against Boris, all he did was badmouth him.
	So, weird that you take him aboard.
	It needs to be more radical than just saying that, oh, I'm not part of the party.
	It needs to be Maoist.
	It needs to be...
	You need to denounce everything that your party did.
	You need to be harangued and harassed in a large public forum until you understand...
	Perhaps build a guy of Boris Johnson and burn it in public.
	Burn an effigy of Johnson for every Tory to reform move over.
	So about two weeks before Andrea Jenkins joined reform, or maybe it was a couple of months, anyway, I spoke to her about this and she said reform had been courting her defection before the election and since she's now there...
	And I like Andrea.
	She's always been a pretty solid Brexiteer, good on migration.
	But when I pressed her, she said that she wanted Priti Patel to win the Tory leadership election and that she still defends Boris Johnson's Covid decisions.
	And...
	Other than if Priti Patel hadn't gone on the sun the other week and defended the Boris wave and told us to all apologise for the infinity Indians she's dropped on us, which she called living bridges to the Modi regime in a foreign affairs...
	And then there was Kemi Badenoch's incredible trigonometry interview.
	Yeah, which everyone should watch.
	If Priti Patel hadn't have defended that, would she have been taken in as a defector?
	That's a genuine question.
	So reform needs to be a lot more stringent about who they let in so it doesn't just track Tory.
	I agree.
	And so Trump is perhaps looking like a more...
	Mimetic, but also politically strong figure, and so they need to match the Trump energy.
	We might be getting onto that in a bit.
	So, Zoom is a...
	With this as well, this headline, the one in three British young people would vote for Trump.
	I wonder if it would be an even greater percentage if they were to separate the British young people from the British young people.
	Yeah, we don't have an ethnic and gender breakdown.
	No, we never do.
	Which is funny, because we do for literally everything else, except...
	Polling, which is really annoying.
	I think polls need to start doing that because there's such discrepancies in the British subjects, should I say.
	Here's a perfect example.
	It's this Times polling that we actually discussed on New Culture Forum that's coming out soon, which is that 41% of young people today are proud to be British.
	15% believe the country's unified.
	48% believe that Britain is a racist country.
	50% believe the UK is stuck in the past.
	I mean, if you're trying to get a house like me.
	You might be sympathetic to thinking that.
	11% would fight for Britain.
	41% said there were no circumstances in which they would take up arms for the country.
	This is compared to in 2004 when 80% of young people said they were proud to be British, which is almost twice as much as today.
	And 60% said the country was united compared to 15% now.
	I mean, the united aspect just means that we've got more political choice, whereas Blairism just gave you...
	Hobson's choice between two cheeks of the same backside.
	But what is interesting here is a quote that I've pulled out from this from one Summer Nesbeth.
	It's very revealing that this polling doesn't interview any of the broccoli-haired, disillusioned white guys that are more likely to vote Trump than anyone else, right?
	Summer Nesbeth says this...
	We don't learn about black history, but we were built on racism.
	It's not right to say we aren't racist.
	It might not be blatant, but it's systemic racism, deeply entrenched unconscious bias.
	She's saying that about the UK. Who's this person?
	Summer Nisbeth.
	She's half Indian, half Jamaican.
	The poor.
	Um, careful.
	Anyway, point being, she says this.
	Britain was built on racism.
	There's just a rote-learned American talking point.
	Like, we never had chattel slavery.
	Hengist and Horsa weren't sub-Saharan.
	Africans didn't build Hadrian's Wall.
	So, She's brought that sort of cross-pollination of American race politics over to here, probably from social media and the UK education system.
	So can we cross-pollinate the American Cultural Revolution back in the inverse?
	Well, there wasn't any racism in Britain, you know, going back 300 years, because it was all British.
	Well, maybe it was directed at the Scots from the English and vice versa, but...
	It was all domestic racism, therefore okay.
	She's just a fifth columnist who wants the entire politic of Britain to be revolving around giving her free things.
	And benefiting her particular ethnic groups.
	This is the interesting part.
	Nesbeth is half Indian and half Jamaican, as it's printed here.
	So she doesn't identify as British.
	She identifies as a mix of separate ethnicities.
	The ethnic and gender breakdown that isn't provided here is very important.
	Why don't Gen Z like democracy?
	Why do they think it's a racist country?
	Why don't they trust the police?
	Well, there are three factions, right?
	There are these second-generation, third-generation migrants who might think that Britain is a racist country because they don't see Britain as their country because their parents are not British or from Britain, ethnically or culturally or whatever.
	And so they just accuse it of racism by learning, rote learning, American talking points.
	There's another...
	Subset of that diverse diaspora, who don't like democracy because they want a caliphate, and that's a very real thing, given Muhammad is now the most prominent baby name in England, and a third of British babies are born to non-British mothers.
	And then there's, of course, the, let's say, woke students, largely young women in this country, who have just bought the British values rendition of history that the empire is uniquely guilty for slavery and racism that they've been fed.
	But then the other demographic is someone who would agree that Britain's a racist country.
	They would agree they don't trust the police.
	They would agree democracy isn't very good.
	It's young white guys like us who are like, yeah, Britain is a racist country against me because of DEI and the Equality Act.
	Yeah, I don't trust the police because the McPherson report said the police were systemically racist and now any time I put a tweet out saying, hmm, don't really like the level of foreigners playing their phones out loud on public transport, I get a non-crime hate incident.
	So I think we're all watching the same TV screen, just coming to different conclusions and we're not told which groups are saying what.
	I mean, as a social psychologist...
	You must be bloody tearing your hair out on this methodology.
	Oh yeah, it's terrible.
	Like, I've long said that the people that go into political polling quite often are the people who failed in academia and so aren't, you know, worth their stripe.
	And even in academia, you've got to have multiple studies to verify a trend.
	So it's just like the lowest of the low most of the time.
	Not that I'm bitter or anything.
	Yeah, we're getting the dregs of democracy over in the UK, but something that's funny, right, is that...
	In the European continent and in the US, you're not getting the same disenthusiasm with democracy.
	And it's because in the US, it's worked for them.
	In Europe, some of them are starting to cotton on.
	So this is the AFD in Germany.
	And reminder, their national election, if you are German and you fancy voting, is on the 23rd of February, 2025. Now, there are some reservations about the AFD, mainly because Alice Veld herself is...
	Quite a liberal person, but there you go.
	She's got an interesting life.
	She's a lesbian married to a Sri Lankan woman, I think, isn't she?
	I could be wrong there.
	So she's not quite the ambassador of the far-right.
	But at her conference, and this was at the Saxony conference, January, I think it was the 13th of January this year, Vidal said to the party, I have to be honest with you, if it's going to be called remigration...
	Then that's what it's going to be, remigration.
	And so she's adopting the pantsuit girlboss position because President Trump, of course, used the phrase remigration to refer to the mass deportation of the millions of illegal criminals let in via the sovereign border under the Biden administration.
	So it seems that the AFD are actually hardening up their migration policy and catching up with the Trump revolution.
	And now it looks like they're in with a chance to win, mainly because lots of young men...
	As the BBC are petrified of this, are turning to, they say the far right, but this is the AFD. They're a liberal party first and foremost, aren't they?
	Well, they're very market liberal, yeah, definitely.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But they have a national preference policy, as do National Rally, as should Reform UK, because the obligation of the state should be to its citizens, and its citizens are a particular people, otherwise the country.
	Doesn't exist.
	So they interview a chap here called Nick, who's 19, and Dominic, who's 30. One reason why Nick and many other German men say that they are concerned about immigration is because they're afraid of the number of attacks in Germany involving suspects who were asylum seekers, most recently the fatal stabbing of a toddler and a man in a park in the Bavarian city of Schaufenberg.
	I wonder why he might be afraid of that.
	Perhaps the Christmas market as well attack.
	There seems to be a sort of trend stacking up here.
	Must just be racism on his part.
	He says, And he says, but these days, such statements are seen as hostile.
	You're called a Nazi because of Germany's past.
	Yeah, he's not looking to kick out the Japanese businessman who's married to a German woman and actually contribute taxes.
	It's just all of the, you know, stabby Afghans that might be a bit of a problem.
	Hence why, pure research found in 2024, 26% of German men had positive views of the AFD, compared to only 11% of women at the time, and the share of men holding this opinion has risen 10 points since 2022. In September 2024, when they had their regional elections, I think it was in Thuringia, and I can't remember the other place off the top of my head.
	Thank you, sir.
	One in three Germans under the age of 34 voted for the AFD. So we're seeing comparable levels of support from Zoomers, as we did in America, for now the German equivalent.
	Although they might be a little bit softer than Trump, even.
	One of the reasons why the BBC attributes this to is that the AFD dominates TikTok compared to other German parties.
	It has 539,000 followers on its parliamentary account, compared to 158,000 for the SPD, who have the most seats in the German parliament.
	One AFD influencer called Selina Breitsche, who's a 25-year-old, has more than 167,000 followers, 53% of whom are male, with 76% aged between 18 and 35. Now, they say 53% are male.
	That means, near parity, women are following her.
	We've seen the similar trend over in National Rally for the French, where...
	Almost an equal split of young men and young women are voting for Le Pen's party, maybe because they think Jordan Bardell is a bit dishy, but also because they've turned immigration into a women's safety issue and snatched up loads of the French feminist.
	So we're seeing an encouraging wave across Europe of young people copying the same trends as in Trump.
	All fun.
	And here's one last one.
	Denmark.
	Now, Denmark is a good case study.
	Because if Alice Vidal was trying to model herself on pantsuit deportations, well, the Danish centre-left, of all places, have been doing this since 2019, and they've pursued some pretty radical hardline policies that are actually now just sensible and mainstream, and the way that you deal with the problem of...
	Criminal asylum seekers.
	So in 2018, Denmark introduced the so-called anti-ghetto law to reduce the number of non-Western residents in certain areas to below 30% by 2030. It's the only 2030 goal I endorse.
	Prime Minister Meti Frederiksen, who's leader of the Social Democrats, has pursued a zero-refugee policy since 2019. Ms. Frederiksen told the Financial Times in 2024 that the country's approach to crime in immigration, including revoking residency permits for Syrian refugees in 2021 and 2023, Now that the war's won, they can all go home, I suppose.
	Was popular with left-wing working-class voters.
	She said, An unsafe society is always a bigger challenge for people without a lot of opportunities.
	If you have the money, you will always be able to defend yourself.
	Last year, the authorities granted the smallest number, and that's only 2,300, residency permits to asylum seekers that we have seen in recent years.
	This is Kare Yivbad Beck.
	Apologies if I mispronounce that.
	Who's the immigration minister?
	Whereas here, let's use a comparison, the Home Office figures in the UK, which have a population more than 10 times that of Denmark, granted 67,978 asylum claims in the year to June 2023 to 2024, which is more than triple the previous years.
	So Europe's Zoomers are just sort of hoping for a fraction of what the Americans and Europeans have got.
	And the only glimmer of hope is that we have Rupert Lowe retweeting fan cams of his speeches now.
	So, perhaps we have our Trump in waiting.
	We'll have to see.
	Right, gents.
	You might pass me the things and you can go through some of the rumble rounds.
	Sure, will do.
	BaldEagle1787.
	With these polls, I'm wondering how many approvals they tossed out to make the approval and disapproval look closer than it is in reality.
	We never really see much of the background.
	I know that CBS did actually post the full data.
	It's like 50 pages from YouGov.
	But you'd need someone to comb over that with the fine tooth and see how legitimate it is.
	All we can really judge is that, I mean, beforehand, Trump's approval was meant to be down, especially among young people.
	Now it's soaring up to the point where they can't even deny it.
	There you go.
	The Engaged Few for $5.
	To paraphrase a famous saying, there are lies, damn lies, and there are New York Times op-ed articles.
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	Trump Salt Incorporated is back in business and business is good.
	You guys in the UK, fight, fight, fight, and keep up the good work.
	Thank you very much, sir.
	The engaged few.
	We would never have gotten this from Trump 2020. He needed four years in the wilderness to have the scales drop from his eyes.
	Maybe America at large needed it too.
	Quite.
	The narrative arc is very beneficial.
	And I'm not going to read out that username.
	And I'm also not going to read out that super chat.
	Behave.
	Harry, go for it.
	Alright then.
	Do you want to get my links up please on the screen, Samson?
	Thank you very much.
	So, in Britain we have a number of problems that we talk about constantly, including the numbers of people coming into the country, but I think something that we really need to hammer home is the fact that even if we were to close the borders today, we are sitting on a demographic time bomb, and the clock is ticking.
	Even if we were to close the border right now, due to the way that birth rates are in this country, by the end of the century, it's likely that white British will become a minority.
	By 2083, we will become 54% first-generation immigrant with current trends, and that doesn't count the second-generation babies, so you will be overwhelmingly a non-indigenous British country.
	There you go.
	And at that rate, this population will have essentially been well on its way to being replaced, and this will not be Britain.
	Anymore.
	That will change the way that this country looks.
	That will change the lives that our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren get to live.
	Because when it tips over the scales that much, the only solution is what the Spanish managed to achieve.
	But we are not in a position to be thinking of such things.
	At the moment, before I go any further, I need to point out that we do have merchandise on the website.
	This is the Islander 2 merchandise, which is still available, but now only for a limited time, because Islander 3 will be coming out soon.
	There have been distribution problems with the second one.
	If you're still having issues getting a hold of your issue of Islander 2, please get in touch with us and we will sort it ourselves because the distributor was rubbish.
	But Islander 3 will have a different and better distributor, so hopefully we'll not have those same problems.
	But make sure to buy this merchandise while it's still available to pay the bills, feed and clothe us, and make sure that Josh does not die naked and destitute at the side of the road.
	Please do.
	And this is old news at this point, really, but it's been recirculating with a new map to go with it, and visual aids always help because people don't like reading.
	And that is this, that in 2023, only 56% of births in England were of white British.
	And here is a helpful map to show you where exactly those places were that had the worst birth rates for white British.
	London...
	Clearly, being an extreme outlier in just how bad it was, with Devon, Cornwall, parts of Wiltshire looking alright, and the northeast as well.
	However, even then, 77%, 80%, not high enough, as far as I'm concerned.
	Some people will tell you that the only way to fix this is through increasing the birth rate of the natives, and I would never...
	I was going to say it would be like, you know, the nuclear build-up with the US and the Soviet Union, right?
	Except...
	I think that our immigrants would be better suited because the British cultural practice is to have as many children as within your means and to spend a lot of time cultivating their education and making sure they're well-rounded people, whereas having 15 kids on welfare, some of us might do it, but it's not necessarily as enculturated into us as some of our house guests.
	Well, not just that, of course.
	Paul Morland, a very good demographer, has been on my show before and has said the link between family size and housing affordability is not exactly one-to-one because there are areas in the northwest of England where housing is cheaper, but among the native population the birth rate is still lower than new migrants.
	But you can see in the areas where immigration is the highest and therefore immigrant birth rates are even higher...
	That can also map as a kind of social housing heat map.
	There's not that much immigrant-occupied social housing in Devonshire, for example.
	So if you withdraw NHS access, benefits and social housing from foreign nationals and make it much harder to get British citizenship or indefinite leave to remain in the first place, you might have that arms race improve.
	But the fact that we're in an arms race at all...
	Speaks to the level of betrayal.
	It's a complete betrayal of the people of this country, our ancestors, our descendants, and as one wise man said, quite recently was done entirely on purpose.
	It was not an accident.
	And this, of course, was taken from information that people like you, Connor, were reporting on all the way back in November using these graphs.
	The information was taken from the ONS website and then put into these graphs.
	So here is a breakdown.
	So you can see that other white is still 11%, so overall the white population of Britain in terms of births is about 67%, but still, this is Britain, this is England, I would prefer for it to remain that, rather than just an economic zone for even people from the rest of Europe to come to.
	Other white includes Albania.
	Just for a heads up.
	That's something else.
	And even then, other white, which you would imagine is European people, is still dwarfed by Asian births in this country.
	And we can also see from some of the other information that you found in the Daily Mail article, live births for the most common countries of birth for non-UK-born mothers in England and Wales.
	India!
	21,000 Pakistan, you've got Afghanistan, and this was, I think, the first year that Afghanistan entered into these figures because of the refugee scheme following the pull-out of our forces and the Taliban takeover there.
	So on my show later, I'm going through again the indefinite leave-to-remain rules.
	It turns out that indefinite leave to remain is only meant to be granted after five years of being in Britain.
	That's when you can apply.
	They automatically granted indefinite leave to remain to every recipient of an Afghan humanitarian visa.
	So they don't even need to wait.
	We're just stuck with them forever.
	Oh, brilliant.
	And as you point out in this as well, 31.8% of births, almost a full third, were to non-UK-born mothers.
	And, with all of the migration coming into this country as well, this will continue to get worse and worse, because these figures could remain perfectly static, and even with closed borders, we would still find ourselves being outnumbered.
	This will only accelerate going into the future.
	Callum pointed out that we need to decolonize London.
	I absolutely agree.
	Nice screenshot.
	It is a nice screenshot, but you've got to zoom in nice and close for this.
	But, of course, if you want to see what will become of England and the rest of Britain, if these kinds of figures are to continue at the rate that they are, just look at parts of London.
	Or, as I will do later on in the segment, look at South Africa.
	But first...
	There is some very, very astroturfed-looking posts going about on social media from fellows like this.
	Toby Foster, who managed to get almost a million views and 12,000 likes on this, said, actually, there's nothing wrong with London.
	Just got back from there.
	No one tried to nick my watch because that's the sign of a quality city.
	If that's the bar that you're going with, that's a very low bar.
	Nobody tried to mug me this time.
	This time.
	No one mugged me, everyone in the shop spoke English, and most people smiled at me.
	That is the baseline standard of all of England at one point.
	But also, London.
	Okay, where?
	Which part?
	Richmond?
	Harrow?
	Did you go to Bexley, possibly?
	Because those are the more...
	Kensington?
	Chelsea?
	No, also, just because you didn't get mugged this one time does not contradict the fact that there is a rape reported every hour.
	It's a failure to understand per capita.
	I, alongside other people, responded to this.
	Maven responded to this saying that the last time he was in London, about two weeks ago, he was in a cab, and while they were waiting at a zebra crossing, he literally just saw a woman crossing the road, and a guy ran up and nicked her bag.
	And when I was in Brixton a few years ago, I responded, saying that I went to a corner shop after a gig, and while I was in there, it ended up being robbed by a gang of tiny drill rappers.
	Little pocket drill wrappers.
	Yeah, little pocket drill wrappers.
	Held them down like it was Gulliver's Travels.
	Yeah, and it was being flanked on the outside by an elder drill wrapper.
	He was about 18. They don't get much older than that.
	Elder drill wrapper.
	Sounds like a video game boss variant.
	He had a great big grey beard out from under his balaclava.
	Yeah, and he was staring at me as if to say, you try anything, I'll stab you.
	So you know what?
	I chose to not get stabbed.
	So that's other people's experience of London, but this one data point here, this anecdote, got 12,000 likes and is basically a little bit of nice astroturf propaganda to remind everybody that there's nothing wrong with diversity.
	London is fine.
	It doesn't even need to be criminal to be unpleasant.
	Just walking through the dystopic tunnels of the Elizabeth line, having someone in a heavy subcontinental African accent shout the train announcements at you, with British transport police staff walking towards you, again, in the full face coverings, indoors, so it's not that you've even got the wind buffeting down on them, having second-generation diversity burst so it's not that you've even got the wind buffeting down on them, having second-generation diversity burst through the barriers as you're paying exorbitant amounts in order to get to work on time so that Just all these small things like that really start to grate on you as a long-term.
	It almost makes you feel as if society is built against you at this point, doesn't it?
	But that would be systematic oppression, which only happens to non-white people.
	Anyway, this will, of course, as I mentioned, keep getting worse with the way that things are going, because if you believe that the palace...
	Palestinians, when they are inevitably pushed out of Gaza, are going to be going entirely to Jordan and Egypt and other parts of the Middle East.
	You are wrong, because we've already got an example here of a Palestinian family allowed to remain in the UK after applying through the Ukrainian refugee scheme.
	Before the election, they had a debate about this in Parliament, where members of then every party, there was one Conservative that ended up defecting to Labour, but Labour, S&P, Greens, Lib Dems, etc.
	Came along and said, we should recreate the Ukrainian refugee scheme for Gaza.
	Fantastic.
	The Labour immigration minister at the time said, we've already got this drafted.
	Now, they don't even need to pass it, it turns out, because even if the Home Office oppose it and Labour haven't put the legislation forward, judicial activists can just sign it off and stick families of six in our country.
	Judges, as happened in this case, can just say, oh, well, it's for humanitarian reasons.
	European Court on Human Rights?
	It was using Article 8 of the European Convention for Human Rights, which protects the right to family life, because it was a mother, father, and four children.
	So that's six new entries.
	Gaza's just right next to Latvia, if I remember correctly.
	What we need, I feel, as a country is a people that have had a direct hand, you know, homebrewing explosives and making armaments.
	That's what I find really enriches our society.
	I think you've got to remember how it works, Josh, is that while they're in Gaza, they're dangerous to terrorists and they harbour Hamas.
	When they cross onto European soil, they're sympathetic victims and displaced persons.
	They are indeed as British as you and me.
	I forgot.
	Suddenly, the scales of...
	75% of people in the Gaza Strip last year.
	Registering to Pew Research having supported Hamas.
	Just fall from their eyes.
	And they won't blame the British at all for setting up Israel.
	There'll be no civilizational baggage there strapped to a bomb at all.
	It's amazing the power of that magic soil.
	We should bag it up and sell it.
	We could fix the whole world, couldn't we?
	Surely if the soil itself is magic, we could dig a load up, gift it to those countries, and then they'd be just as successful as us once they're through.
	Put it on the ground, right?
	That's the liberal promise, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	So the judge explained it by saying that the evidence shows Yeah, I agree.
	It can't be...
	Anywhere around Israel that should be accepting these people if they're so desperate to support them?
	Weren't all of those countries, you know, pleading their support of Palestine, but when it comes to actually taking the Palestinians there against it, it's almost like those lefty activists that were holding the refugee welcome signs, but when asked, would you take one right now, they go no.
	Well, I agree.
	We should keep children safe and with their parents, which is why we shouldn't use the asylum system to, I don't know, import child murderers like Axel Rudakabana or, you know, potential Hamas terrorists, for example.
	Well, at least we can be assured, because the judge and the Home Office have said that this case is only very specific and doesn't set precedent for other potential applicants for the same process.
	It doesn't?
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, that's how the law works.
	Yeah, I think that's how it works, right?
	The president's not set by prior decisions, no.
	No, that's not how it works.
	Don't lie to me!
	That's just a lie.
	That's just a lie.
	And there is only one MP that I've seen speaking about this.
	Of course, it was Rupert Lowe.
	King.
	Saying that they shouldn't be welcomed into the UK. No ifs, buts.
	It simply can't be allowed to happen.
	Because...
	Obviously it's a stupid idea.
	If, again, the rhetoric and the standard is that when they are in Gaza, they are evil terrorists, how does that change by a short boat trip or a plane ride over here?
	Credit to Rob Jemrick as well, he has been tweeting about this.
	And Suella Braveman.
	I've missed those two.
	Both of them, again.
	It's because they have Jewish family members so they're particularly concerned about this.
	But everyone should be concerned about this because even if you're as indifferent to we are about Israel because we've never been and they're not Jewish, Hamas also hate every single British person for being at least latently Christian or because their ancestors were involved in setting up Israel.
	So a target is on all of us with this.
	Yeah, and again, that's just why if things carry on with the kind of refugee, asylum, and immigration policies that we have at the moment, things will get worse.
	But I think it's important to say, as I mentioned at the beginning of this, what happens when we do become a minority, right?
	Because Britain...
	When we had an empire ruled as a minority over our colonial states, we had, what was it, maybe 15,000 to 20,000 people in India that ran most of the country, and it ran very, very well.
	It was a much better country then than it is now, frankly.
	What happens when we are no longer in charge, and other people who hate us are in charge?
	Well, we become South Africanized.
	South Africanization will begin to happen, and if this begins to happen elsewhere in the West, we will eventually end up with what I call Global South Africa.
	I think I would argue that it's already started happening.
	Oh, it certainly has in some parts.
	And happily, I found, thanks to Josh, that there is an account called Josie vs.
	Josie.
	Dedicated to tracking the decline of Johannesburg.
	And it just contrasts images.
	So this first one, that's 2010. Skip ahead.
	2023. So at first these just become, you know, it's a visual sign of decay.
	But one after the other, it begins to accumulate and you can see that the sorts of people who may end up being a majority of this country...
	Are not going to look after the country.
	It will not be the same country with these kinds of people in charge.
	So, on the left, 2009 to 2023. You can see how rapidly it goes.
	And it wasn't even amazing to begin with.
	But you see basic standards thrown away.
	Is that a Mad Max, like, we all worship altar?
	Yeah.
	You've actually got the architecture of the post-apocalypse.
	It must also be said that...
	Outside of even the cultural safety, any considerations like that, on a purely aesthetic level, if you have eyes, you're going to put up with this for the rest of your life.
	So here's a simple one.
	This is 2009 versus 2024. You can see that there is a semblance of a road traffic system.
	There is a traffic light, there's road markings, you've got a street light system.
	Next one, oh god, sorry.
	I pressed the wrong thing.
	Now, you've kind of still got street markings.
	A little bit.
	You just have to chance it.
	A little bit.
	And see how quickly it happens as well.
	See how quickly it happens.
	So 2009 versus 2023. Looks like not a very nice city, but functional.
	Oh, it's a shithole.
	It's like if you remove the Europeans, it just defaults back to Africa again.
	I know, right?
	And that's what has happened.
	Yeah, and if you also import lots and lots of Africans who are used to living on the right and see nothing wrong with it, because there's no such thing as a public space that you treat politely, we're starting to look like that one on the right by moving that population here.
	I'm pretty sure that looks like Swindon.
	Yeah, that was actually, yeah.
	Here's another one.
	2015 versus 2022. So we see the timescale for the decline is becoming more rapid.
	So this is only a difference of seven years.
	Again, not the best-looking street in the world, but literally open sewage on the ground.
	Rubbish, trash, everywhere.
	And here is the best one that I saw shared by Callum, who sums it up perfectly.
	Let me ask you the question before I show you.
	What is it that you think South Africa had before it had dirt roads?
	Paved roads.
	Yes!
	2017 versus 2023. Oh, is this when they go...
	Six years.
	Well, it's either flooded, or is this when they go around just randomly breaking up the tarmac with pickaxes and selling it off?
	Because I have seen those videos before.
	Right, yeah.
	Do you know what's really weird as well?
	When we reviewed...
	Black Panther.
	Is that the futuristic utopia envisioned by Africans...
	Had more Africans.
	Had mud huts inside the palace, but also dirt roads.
	Why can you develop spaceships and invincible armour, but not tarmac?
	Even the utopia envisioned in Africa is still...
	Horrible to my eyes.
	If that's how they want to live, that's their preferred way to live.
	This is how South Africa is now.
	I don't want England to be South Africa.
	I don't want global South Africa.
	I want individual nation states to be able to determine themselves and to be able to run themselves how they want the preferences of the people.
	Our governments have been betraying us for years and replacing the people for draconian reasons and so that they can turn us all into South Africa.
	Because, of course, South Africa was a functioning country in Africa.
	You're not allowed to have that because it's racist.
	Obviously, South Africa had its own problems, but still, the decline is real.
	Rhodesia, functioning country in Africa, not allowed to have that because it's racist.
	So you have to destroy it.
	It went from the highest living standards in all of Africa in the early 60s to having a famine which killed a million people.
	Well, the reason they're doing this is for the GDP, right?
	So I'm assuming South Africa's GDP, with all the people originally being there, is phenomenal?
	No.
	Shockingly enough, when they're destroying paved roads to make them dirt roads again, the economic benefits are hard to discern.
	But, how will they treat us?
	outside of just the aesthetic and infrastructure problems that global South Africanization will cause, how will they treat us, the despised minorities, in these new frontiers?
	Well, they hate us and they will steal our things.
	This has been reported on by Josh recently, but there is the new South...
	Yep.
	Carrying the box on the head.
	We've now seen this in random towns.
	I've seen it in the flesh, walking home from work.
	I've seen care workers do it.
	Yep.
	Just like an African woman with a bag of rice on her head.
	Just carry it like that!
	I was thinking as well, she had two hands free, and it's like a heavy multi-kilogram bag.
	One of them must have been holding the speakerphone.
	That's true, she was talking very loudly in African to her.
	Phone.
	Sorry.
	Yeah, so this is the South African expropriation bill, which allows land seizures by the state without compensation.
	But don't worry, guys, don't worry.
	There was a clause in it that means it's only in circumstances where it's just an equitable and in the public interest to do so.
	So to whites.
	Yes.
	So sad to say that you, the hated white minority, will not be in charge of what is in the public interest and what is considered equitable, and so they will just decide, well, it's just for us to do this.
	So we're stealing your stuff.
	Without giving you anything in return for it.
	So thank you very much for that.
	We're basically seeing that at the moment in the UK, in Britain, with the inheritance tax, because if there's one thing socialists really hate, it's farmers.
	Thankfully, there is one regime trying to stand up to this at the moment, which is Trump, because of course it is, because he has signed an executive order over the weekend which has frozen aid to South Africa and said the US cannot support the government of South Africa's commission of rights violation in its country.
	It also said as long as South Africa continues these unjust and immoral practices, the US will not provide aid or assistance.
	The White House has also said that Washington is trying to formulate a plan to resettle South African farmers and their families as refugees.
	This is because of Elon Musk, of course.
	This picture is uniquely beautiful for Africa.
	It almost looks like Europe.
	It's funny, that, isn't it?
	It is funny, that.
	And, of course, in response to all of this, as with the farmers' protests in Britain, we have astroturfed accounts showing up to say, actually...
	White people owning farms in a country that they established before the Bantus even arrived there was racist, so this is long overdue.
	Taking back land from white colonizers, they were settlers, you retard.
	Should be a given!
	It's justice, not discrimination.
	And then you get random South Africans of backgrounds that...
	I won't mention saying that no white person is indigenous to Africa.
	White South Africans like myself, hello there, and like Kali Creel of AfriForum all come to Africa from other parts of the world.
	Africa belongs to Africans, except when that's applied to Europe, then we're an open economic zone that's open to everybody.
	You can be European as long as you step foot here.
	So what is the solution to global South...
	Africa.
	There is only one solution, as it exists in England right now, because we cannot get into a demographics arms race with birth rates with these people.
	They will, due to their nature, always outbreed us, and so there is only one solution, which is remigration.
	I do not have a plan, but there has been a plan that's been elaborated.
	I won't go over all of the points, but I will just throw a few out here that are sensible.
	Common sense, and realistically over a long term, the only way that these problems get solved peacefully, as far as I can tell.
	Deport all illegals in the system and close the border.
	Remove all benefits for illegal immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
	Step two, deport foreign criminals.
	All very, very simple, right?
	Very commonsensical.
	Stage three, all who've entered illegally, regardless of when it was, return them.
	Step four, all immigrants on benefits are not working.
	They are a complete drain on the system, stealing our tax money.
	Why are they here?
	Get rid of them.
	And step five, any foreigners who are actively working against our interests, so the activists, the agitators, people working for NGOs to bring these people into our country, carry on.
	By step four, or step five, People will already have gotten the hint and begun to return back to their homelands in the first place.
	There are other steps, but they're not necessary to go over here.
	That is the only solution to global South Africa.
	I do not want to see my homeland turn into South Africa, and you shouldn't either.
	Right, on with the video comments.
	Yeah!
	Right at the bottom where I belong.
	Don't worry, I'm on top of you.
	Just how you like it.
	I'm worried about being in the middle here.
	I used to have a boyfriend who would only- Oh my god, he's a queer.
	That doesn't- I was just joking, by the way.
	If only you knew.
	There's gonna be another clip from- Yeah, there's gonna be another one there.
	Damn it.
	Alright, next one.
	Red, Red!
	Red, if you go, where shall I go?
	What shall I do?
	Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
	Great film. um Which one is it?
	I've never watched Gone with the Wind.
	I've never watched Gone with the Wind.
	You'd love it.
	You're so certain there, and I think I know why.
	Hang on with the next one.
	Jared Diamond has travelled the world and met numerous people.
	He's gathered data about life, environment, and industry, and is evidently hugely observant.
	Unfortunately, he assumes that his observations point to certain ineluctable conclusions.
	The trouble is that, once he set out those conclusions, I was left wondering how he could have leapt to them.
	I've noted in previous comments that leftists are superb observers, paralleling Isaiah Boleyn's comment about the Jewish diaspora fitting in wherever it may be, but they never truly understand what they observe, and therefore always arrive at the wrong conclusions and inappropriate actions.
	Yeah, I still need to read that book on the left.
	I need to get a copy of it.
	Or The Kindergarten of Eden.
	Yeah.
	Eden, sorry.
	Yeah, I've had it recommended to me before, and it's in my list, but I haven't picked up a copy.
	That's Jared Diamond on the screen.
	It is, yeah.
	That's who he was talking about.
	I always forget, he's a bit of...
	Why has he got the Amish beard?
	I was thinking that as well.
	What's the Muslim beard?
	They shave off the moustache, and they just leave the handle strap.
	Very strange.
	Anyway, on to the next one.
	It looks like one of those Australian aboriginals.
	What?
	One of the mixed ones, you know.
	Gun channel of the Lotus Eaters.
	Here we have a Rock River AR-15 Varminter.
	So-called because of the extra-long heavy barrel.
	Last week, I used this rifle in an NRA high-power competition and came in third.
	Congratulations.
	Well done, mate.
	That's awesome.
	Also, I like your coffee cup.
	And your rifle.
	I reflect very often on critical thinking and higher education and credentialism a lot because I went through the process and some days I think to myself what do I and what have I learned apart from destructive tendencies because to be critical is then to teach oppositional thinking to find fault with something instead of us telling people to be critical in the sense of finding the critical reason as to why it should be maintained and why it is a good thing.
	If you are interested in the corruption of higher education I this morning filmed an episode of my show that will be going out next week pre-recorded with Matt Goodwin about the fall of universities and he gets into some very interesting stuff.
	There.
	So that might be of interest.
	We've got some rumble rants and...
	Oh no, actually, we've got one more.
	We've got another one.
	The NPCs see Trump as a tyrant ruining everything, but ask them if they would like to limit the power of government to prevent this, and they'll say we need more.
	They simply want to win, not solve the problem.
	They're learning no lessons.
	We need more freedom-friendly people in Congress and as judges.
	Executive orders aren't reliable.
	One election doesn't undo a century of tyrannical encroachment.
	The celebration on the right is premature.
	Well, let's not teach them the lessons, I say.
	Let them keep making the same mistakes.
	Well, they're going to try and rebuild the infrastructure, but the...
	Point well taken.
	I don't want to get arrogant.
	Read Josh's piece in Courage Media, by the way, on this.
	The Democrats have, and I've written about this as well, Democrats have no room to move because you can't really put the woke away when woke...
	Led you to select people on diversity bases, so they can't pivot when the top-down narrative changes.
	Like, for example, Jasmine Crockett cannot put the woke away.
	She's too moronic.
	Like, she can't rotate an apple in her mind.
	It's not like she's going to get the received wisdom from Chuck Schumer.
	She can't picture an apple in her mind.
	Let's not give her the credit of going all the way to rotating it.
	And so, if she's in Congress, she's going to be generating clips for the next how many years are going to go viral on X? The Democrats don't look like a...
	I want her to stay in Congress because it shows the absolute clown show that government is.
	Exactly.
	The fact that that retard can get up and give speech.
	So to worry about immediately handing off to the Democrats in 2029, don't want to shoot myself in the foot.
	Probably a bit premature.
	Think Vance is a shoe-in at this point.
	I think that's a safe bet, to be honest.
	There we go.
	We've got some rumble rants before we do the written comments on the website.
	$20 from Sad Wings Raging.
	Buying a Lotus Eaters mug for the next two guests you have on set so there won't be another Daisy mug debacle.
	What's that in reference to?
	Did someone nick Daisy's mug?
	I think it was someone used a mug that...
	I don't know.
	The chat will know.
	While we're waiting for them to come up with an answer, that's a random name for $1.
	I work in the obstetrics department at a hospital in Montreal.
	About two-thirds of the pregnant women are foreign, many of them refugees who can speak neither French nor English.
	Most are Muslim too.
	Yeah, there's a story.
	One of my friends, you both know him, I'll say it off there.
	His missus is a midwife.
	And through the training, she used to have to frequently ask...
	Are any of you related by blood?
	And she used to be really nervous about it.
	She now works in a particularly diverse area and now she just rattles it off because the majority of her patients say yes.
	Well, in positive news, my best mate, who I was the best man for at his wedding a few months ago, has just become a father today.
	Oh, excellent.
	Congratulations, Harry's friend.
	Yes, so I just wanted to let everybody know there is good news and English people are still having adorable little children.
	Very good.
	There's a random YouTube link there, and I'm not going to read that out just in case, because we don't know what it is.
	When did these Scots become so money-grubbing?
	They've always been money-grubbing, the Scots have.
	They're notorious for it.
	I'm serious here.
	Half of my Scottish family.
	Yeah, they're known penny pinchers, yeah.
	Threadnought for $5.
	The great scholar Dagoth Ur once said, Together we shall speak for the law and to the land, and we shall drive the Mongol dogs of the WF from England.
	And then he called me an Enwa.
	Good Morrowind reference.
	I'm not going to read your name out.
	$5.
	In a recent speech, the leader of the largest French leftist party, Jean-Luc Mélicon, openly called for creolisation, and I quote in French, Le Grand Replacement, no longer a conspiracy theory.
	We're going to need a source for that, because that sounds almost like a parody.
	Is that real?
	I've seen it.
	It was being shared on Remix's Twitter account.
	Blimey!
	He actually said that France needs to become a Creole nation.
	Right, so just a completely mixed nation.
	French people?
	No.
	Apparently he himself is not actually French, but is Algerian.
	Ah, that explains it.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Given the wording of that one, I don't think it's wise to read it.
	I agree with Harry's fix.
	I just want to add, revoke citizenship of every Brit, foreign-born or not, who participated in betraying your nation and send them to the third world they so love.
	I agree.
	Not legally possible, but there you go.
	Yeah, not legally possible, but a man can dream.
	A man can dream.
	I think we just try and prosecute them for treason, you know.
	That too.
	Once we kick 11,000 foreign criminals out of the prisons, we'll have the space.
	Carl was saying we need to get the stocks back into style.
	He said that for Fraser Nelson specifically.
	I agree.
	I feel like the stocks would be good for petty crimes like graffiti and littering.
	Your local community pelts veg at them.
	Some of them, that'll be the first vegetables they come into contact with.
	Me, for instance.
	Yeah, pelt, fruit and veg at Harry.
	We'll do a couple more, just because we're slightly over time.
	Josh, do you want to do a couple from yours?
	Sure.
	Omar Awad says, putting aside how despicable it is to demand tax on already taxed assets, no other business has to sell off assets every time it gets a new CEO or shareholder slash owner.
	Farmland and equipment aren't personal belongings, it's their entire livelihood and way of life.
	Neurotic, spiteful mutants don't care, they just see a productive member of society.
	That's a fantastic comment.
	Very astute, Omar.
	I very much agree.
	Big Jezza.
	Someone's already adopted it.
	We've got the Clarkson Bucks coming.
	Yes, please do.
	Chairman Clarkson.
	It obviously isn't about gaining the estimated 500 million in tax revenue, or they wouldn't simultaneously pledge the same amount in aid to foreign farmers.
	That's true.
	I forgot they did that.
	It's so transparent.
	Tea farming in Rwanda.
	I also don't buy that it's about creating food insecurity.
	You know, Rwanda at the minute also invading the Congo.
	We'll be covering that tomorrow.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	You're going to learn all about the Congo now.
	Rape capital of the world.
	I wonder where London's getting worse.
	I know.
	And where was I? So I don't buy about creating food insecurity.
	It's about ethnically cleansing the natives who refuse to get with the program.
	I have no doubt Starmer would have.
	Dissidents face the wall if he knew he could get away with it.
	Yeah, he does have the emotional range of a shark and is a lifelong Marxist, but anyway.
	Again, he's like evil Robocop.
	Thanks for joining, ladies and gentlemen.
	We will be back tomorrow with a regular podcast and I will be back with Thomason Talks in less than half an hour live for those of you who subscribe to Lotuses.com and please do.
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