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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1152
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Hello, everyone.
Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
Today is the 1,152nd episode.
And this is Monday, the 28th of April of 2025.
Monday is not my favorite day of the week.
I bet it's not yours either, but today I'm joined by Bo.
And he will brighten our week.
And we're going to discuss the Irish march against mass migration.
I think that will be an optimistic segment.
The UK's local elections.
And we'll end on a sad note with the tragic Vancouver car-ramming incident, which we must discuss.
We know that there are elections in Canada today.
We are definitely going to do a segment in the days to come.
I think it was prudent for us to wait to see the results in order to talk about them, as opposed to just tell you things you already know.
Oh, you okay today?
Yeah, all good, yeah.
Much like you, much like Garfield.
I don't like Mondays particularly.
I hate them.
And that female spree killer from the 70s.
Don't like Mondays.
No, it's all good.
It's all good.
It's a glorious day outside.
Sunny England.
Sunny Wiltshire.
This is going to be a glorious week because we're going to have, I think, really good weather.
Yeah, apparently towards the end of the week it's going to be hot here.
Right.
Right, so let's go on our first segment.
We're going to discuss about the Irish march against mass migration.
Now, I've covered a lot about the Irish in the last two years because I think I have a temper.
They constantly have had enough.
If you constantly look about Ireland and Irish news and talk about migration, you always see Ireland has had enough.
Ireland has had enough.
Ireland has had enough.
And that reminds me of the Samuel Jackson quote from snakes of an airplane that enough is enough.
I've had it with ease.
I can't say.
Right.
So in the previous days, there was a massive protest against mass migration.
And we can have here several.
We have here several footage.
You see people with Irish flags marching down the street.
Plenty of people.
You don't see any other flag.
It's just Irish flags.
There were some counter-protests.
I think there was one from an NGO, something called Unity Against Racism, which didn't receive that much attention.
And as you would expect, it was people trying to say that these demonstrations were entirely foreign-funded.
Really?
Yes.
Russia?
It's Russia.
Russia's funding Irish nationalism.
Who would have thought?
Who would have thought?
It's an evil plan to destroy the EU, which it could make sense in some countries, but I don't think in Ireland.
But I do think that one of the main things that people in this protest are saying is absolutely correct, is that a lot of the politicians are constantly talking about the EU's problems and foreign problems.
There's a question of, you know, what about us?
And I think that the same thing that happens in Ireland, the same question that arises in Ireland is a question that arises everywhere in the West, especially in Europe.
I always find Ireland a funny, not funny, haha, funny, interesting example.
Because in England...
Or Britain, rather.
They always use the example that, you know, it's colonialism, there's the stain of the Atlantic slave trade, it's payback in some way for colonialism.
Well, Ireland never did any of that.
It's like, so whatever country you're in, they say, like in Sweden, they don't bother going with that.
Or in the United States, it's all about 19th century slavery or something or other.
But for Ireland, what actual reason is there?
To say, let's flood this country with foreign people.
I've heard two things about this.
One, I hear some people who are saying that there were lots of Irish people involved in the British Empire and therefore it's payback time because it's payback against the British Empire.
That's one argument.
The other, but I think the other argument that does make sense is that it doesn't justify it.
In fact, the exact opposite.
But it explains that...
All this anti-colonialist narrative is just anti-West and in many cases it's also anti-white and anti-European.
So it doesn't matter what kind of colonial or colonialist past Ireland had or any other country had.
You're white Europeans.
You are targeted by wokeness and by any kind of, let's say, cultural force that is against you.
And Ireland, of course, the Republic of Ireland, It's got a long and storied narrative about their nationalism.
Yes.
So you can imagine if you were a globalist, you would look at Ireland, the Irish people, and say there are people that need to be sort of stamped down because they've got a strong identity, a strong national identity.
So that needs to go.
I can see why from the globalist cabal perspective.
You know, the cigar smoking.
Yeah, in some back room somewhere.
Yeah, the Irish.
Yeah.
They're too big for their boots.
They've got their own identity.
We have to do something about that.
Yeah.
Horrible, isn't it?
Horrible.
Crazy.
So here we have an independent article for those of you who want to read it.
Thousands participate in Dublin anti-migration protests and counter-demonstration.
And it says here, I think only three people were arrested, or at least that's what I read a few hours ago.
I think that for a protest that size...
Which it's tens of thousands of people.
You see people saying, you know, it's 100, 106,000.
It's, you know, 20,000.
But it's tens of thousands.
It's a big protest.
At a glance, you can see it's thousands of people.
Yes, exactly.
And also, I think Ireland has a population of about 5.5 million people.
So it's not exactly that it's 10,000 people in a country that has 200 million people.
It's tens of thousands in a country with 5.5 million population.
Relatively small, right?
It's less than the Greater London Metropolitan Area.
The whole of the Republic of Ireland is less than that.
So it makes the...
Population-wise, yeah.
So it makes the...
It makes the crime being committed against them sort of more egregious in a way, or more...
No, it's all the same on a moral level.
It's all the same, but still, it's happening more quickly to them because it's a smaller, easier...
Exactly.
And the thing is that we are constantly making segments about Ireland.
I mean, every now and then.
And the things that happen in Ireland are also things that happen here and throughout Europe, especially.
So we're going to give you also a wider context towards the latter half of the segment.
What was interesting now, and I don't know if you are a boxing fan, Conor McGregor was involved?
MMA?
MMA, sorry, yeah.
So he posted on social media in support of the march and a lot of people think that he is one of the very recognisable people who are, in a sense, drawing crowds.
Yeah.
He can draw crowds.
And he recently went to the White House.
Let me show you before we talk about the White House.
Just quickly hover over Conor McGregor and see how many followers he's got on Twitter.
I think it's 10.8 million.
Yeah, 10.7.
So more than twice the entire population of Ireland.
Yes.
Yeah, he's one of the biggest Irish personalities.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Politics is, to a very large extent, about recognizability and brand.
So he definitely has a brand.
Now, whether he could be Prime Minister or not, that's another question.
Right, so he has started making leader appearances.
In a way.
And he makes leader pose.
So he says here, Ireland is too switched on and aware now to be overrun like some of our neighboring countries already have.
I don't know if that's any kind of poking to someone.
I don't know.
It won't happen.
Historical collective trauma to thank.
Thank you, our 1916 heroes forever.
And he says this is a marathon, not a sprint.
And he's talking about here the thousands of people that went to the march.
Right.
Here he is at the White House with Trump talking about the Gulf of America thing.
I don't know if he...
And there was a video where he exited the White House in the way that Vince McMahon...
It goes out in the meme where he's walking like that.
Conor McGregor always had that swagger when he walked into that.
A ridiculously exaggerated swagger.
Yes.
Right.
So here, and he says that essentially what the Irish should do is follow Trump's example.
Trump puts America first.
Why not put Ireland first?
And says the same way that they are going about it more forcefully than others.
Ireland should follow.
And he's here at the White House.
He's saying Europe could use a lesson from President Trump and deport illegal migrants, especially those who refuse to assimilate.
Too many enter European countries to conquer, not join in peaceful unity.
So he is, in a sense, poking Europeans.
That's what I meant before.
They constantly try to say, you know, everyone says we guys are not going to be conquered, but all of our neighbors have been conquered.
It's a sort of a trope, I see.
Lately, I don't know if you see it as well.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, one thing I say about Conor McGregor is, I completely agree, I said this on Twitter, I completely agree with him on this stuff.
Of course, 100%.
But I don't like the man.
Okay, yeah.
You know, all sorts of dodgy things he's done?
There's a long list, there's a laundry list.
Yes, I've heard about things, but I'm not expressing support or pro or against.
Reporting the incidents.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
They happened because he was heavily involved into that.
But there's also another question with respect to who comes into the fore.
And also there's a show of allegations because I've heard lots of allegations about him, but I don't know if they're true or not or if they have been proven in court.
So generally speaking, I like to avoid things like that if they haven't been proven inquiry.
But you know more about MMA than I do.
I don't know if it's...
Well, there was the rape stuff.
Are we not supposed to say that word, are we?
Might have to bleep that out in post.
Maybe, yeah.
But the sexual assault things.
I think that went through a civil case.
And I think he was found, I'm pretty sure he was found guilty.
So there's that.
But there's just a load of other things.
Like one time, he owns a whiskey...
I think he owns a pub as well.
One time there was a guy in a pub who's an old dude who refused to have a bit of Connor's whiskey.
So Connor punched him in the face.
That's not nice.
Not a hard punch.
If it happened that way, that's not nice.
It wasn't a hard punch at all.
It was a little jab.
But still, who does that?
Yeah.
There was another time he threw a dolly, a wheelie dolly into a...
A coach and it broke the glass and a couple of people got injured.
One guy got a bit of glass in his eye.
Another time, at MMA now, they have...
This is inside the knowledge you possess, I don't.
There are dodgy...
It's sponsored by Monster, and they'll have Monster cans on the table.
And they're always empty now.
Yes.
Because one time, a few years ago, Conor started throwing them around.
Okay.
And his opponents, and they missed them and hit normal people in the crowd.
And there's just a number of...
Okay, that's not entirely civil, let's put it this way.
Yeah, he's a loose cannon.
But he's an MMA fighter, they're all going to be loose cannons.
But also he's getting much advertisement by Trump, because if he's close to Trump, it kind of looks like he gets the Trump endorsement.
And this matters, especially on social media and in politics, and especially when Trump is representing, whether allegedly or not, that's another matter.
But if Trump is representing another paradigm, a paradigm that is different to the European paradigm, Conor McGregor at the White House means that, in a way, Trump wants Conor McGregor to be advertised.
And also, Tucker Carlson wanted him.
There's an episode of Conor McGregor at Tucker Carlson's, and they're talking about erasure of identity, and I have here some talking points.
He makes some good points.
So he says, for instance, that we should continue to highlight the wrongdoings of the government, and he constantly hears Irish people saying that the establishment is constantly full of people who are thinking about Their own careers, their own CVs,
their own positions in separate national organizations.
And in order to go forward to take place in those positions, they just constantly say their piece about foreign affairs.
They constantly talk about minorities.
They constantly talk about foreign conflicts.
At the end of the day, people ask, what about us?
It's the same way somehow with men in the Western world.
We're constantly...
Bombarded with a message that we're constantly thinking about, you know, the criminals, those who are not law-abiding, or, you know, X, Y, and Z minorities.
Okay, who's going to think about me?
And I couldn't agree with him more.
Like I say, I don't particularly like Conor McGregor as just a human being.
I think he's exposed himself as not a particularly nice person.
But regardless of that, this stuff is just exactly right.
And I couldn't agree with him more.
And yeah, so you don't have to like people in order to agree, like them personally.
I wouldn't want to go for a drink or a meal with Conor McGregor.
Not that he'd want to go with me, but that's not the point.
Would he try to punch you or something?
Yeah.
But you don't have to like people in order to agree with their politics.
Yeah, right.
Here we have the Taoiseach of Ireland, Michael Martin, saying that he isn't particularly nervous about the tens of thousands of protesters and the size, and he said that we recently had general elections.
They had general elections in December 2024, and he said we won the vote.
I want to say one thing about the issue with voting and mass migration, because in voting, We vote and people vote every four or five years, it depends on the country, about overall agendas.
But if both parties agree on some policies, that doesn't mean that people agree on it.
It doesn't mean that people consent of it.
Because what happens is that we are presented more often than not with two parties, perhaps a bit more sometimes, who have different overall agendas.
And people don't vote on what they find better as an overall agenda.
But both parties seem to have opt for the EU migration pact, which the Irish Parliament voted a few months ago.
Yeah, so it's a sneaky trick to say, we had a vote, and now we've got a mandate, and the people have spoken.
Like, no, they actually weren't allowed to...
Not on this thing.
Not on this particular thing.
We shouldn't allow them to get away with it.
Right, so when it comes to the wider context, I want to say really briefly because I think it's important and a lot of people don't read about Ireland and Ireland, I think, is a bit further ahead with respect to woke erasure of culture.
I think the woke onslaught there has been incredibly strong and still...
It hasn't gone away in a sense.
So they have, I'll just mention four factors.
They had a very discussion about a very severe hate speech law, Criminal Justice Bill 2022.
I have interviewed Dr. David Thunder about this.
That was, I think, about two years ago.
Definitely check it out on our website.
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A few hundred hours of history-themed content there alone.
Exactly.
Right, so they also had the Irish referendums in March 8th last year.
And they tried to do something incredibly sneaky.
In both referendums they lost.
They had the family referendum and the care referendum.
And what they wanted to do was to do the following.
They wanted to change the definition of the family within the Irish constitution.
And they wanted to use it in order to expand.
Another definition when it comes to financial support.
Why?
Because the Irish Constitution says that mothers who have children, by definition, they shouldn't be forced to work.
They should have financial help.
So what they wanted to do, they had two referendums for the following questions.
Number one, they wanted to change the definition of the family from a biological family, a traditional family.
To involve and include durable relationships which were incredibly vaguely defined.
If you talk about durable relationships almost anything could count as a family.
And change the other bit that says that not just mothers but any member of the family should be liable for financial support.
So I think if we bear in mind what the Irish government tried to do they tried to basically change the definition of The Irish
rejected both of them overwhelmingly.
Good.
Yeah.
I mean, it's crazy.
I think in Ireland, it's even more clear than in places like England or Germany or France or Sweden or whatever.
It's even more clear that it's this phony, fake thing imposed from above.
Yeah.
Like, you're trying to redefine the family in Ireland.
In Ireland.
Yeah.
Right.
Historically very Catholic.
Yeah.
Historically very traditional, historically very sort of nationalist.
Yeah.
You're trying to do it to Ireland.
Yeah, and you had people like Leo Varadkar, the previous PM, and Helen McEntee, who was really, she was pushing the hate speech law like a Terminator.
She just wouldn't.
And they rejected the really bad clause.
And she said, I'm going to keep campaigning for it.
And a day before the referendum, the double referendum, she was saying, these people who vote against don't express our Ireland.
So the question is, who does we refer to?
What does our refer to?
And we did a really good segment last March about it.
Definitely check it out.
In Ireland, the EU migration and asylum pact, it's the same thing the EU is using in order to punish Viktor Orban and people who are skeptical about the relocation and scattering of illegal migrants.
They voted for it.
That's why we constantly see lots of Irish villages and lots of places in Ireland where you may have a village of 120 Irish peasants and suddenly you have 300, 300, sorry,
people.
If it sounded bad, I retracted.
I couldn't help but smug.
Okay, sorry.
I retracted.
That's fine.
You have 120 people and you have 200, 300 illegal migrants being bussed there, completely changing the nature of the landscape and the city.
And also the housing crisis affair.
This is definitely causing a massive strain on the housing market.
It makes things much worse for the Irish.
So...
I mean, as much as I said I don't particularly like Conor McGregor, I would still love it if he made his own party.
Love it if he made his own party and bloody won.
Okay.
That would be so cool.
Okay, yeah.
And he actually started...
Governing the country in the interests of the people of Ireland and reverse migration trends and all that sort of thing.
It would be pretty amazing.
It would be really amazing.
It would be fun to watch.
I don't know if it would help or not because I'm thinking that sometimes things do well on social media.
And don't necessarily do well in real-life politics.
This could be a good social media campaign.
I don't know if it would work in actual politics.
On the other hand, lots of people are telling me, well, how about the actual politicians?
Are they working?
They're not exactly putting a good name for themselves.
They're making everything they can to ruin their reputation.
I think I'm right in saying, I don't think I'm going out on too much of a limb, that a lot of Irish people...
I idolise Colin McGregor.
Okay.
I think he might do very well at a party led by him might do very well at the polls.
I think it would.
But you're quite right.
Things that do well or seem to be extremely popular on X in real life.
Don't.
At the ballot box in real life, actually.
Don't.
But who knows?
But not just any person goes to the White House and have a press conference and also an interview with Carlson afterwards and being at the Oval Office.
So, perhaps...
He's not just any person.
Yes.
I've actually thrown a little bit of shade at his actual fighting career once or twice on Twitter.
But to be completely fair, in his prime, he was special.
I mean, holding a couple of different weight class championships, that's extremely, extremely rare.
For a small window of time there, he probably won't fight again, I don't think.
I think he's done.
But for a window of time there, he was the best.
Certainly in his weight classes, he was the best.
I think it's probably fair to say he's the most famous Irishman in the world, right?
I think that's fair.
Who else is there?
Depends on the audience, I think.
I can't think of a single other Irishman, full-blooded, proper, born in the Republic of Ireland Irishman, that's got more brand recognition than Conor McGregor.
And in a way, it's good that he backed this, because whatever the personal stuff, which I don't know, and I'm not qualified to talk about.
And he's a bit of a loose cannon.
He's not exactly evil.
Okay.
He's a wild man.
But that's what you've got to be, to be an MMA dude.
You've got to be a bit wild.
And he is.
But he's getting older now.
He's actually chilled out a bit.
You know, when you see him in an interview, I've seen him in an interview a few times, where he's not being the Conor McGregor.
He's being a normal person, saying normal things.
He's perfectly reasonable.
He's a family man.
He's married with kids and stuff.
Right.
So I think that this was a massive protest and I think it's not going to be the last because although there were elections and there have been elections in other countries within the EU, lots of people are fed up with just mass migration being forced on them.
And yes, a lot of the times we're having enough.
Everyone has enough, but...
It actually creates more problems than the people who claim to be in favor of it think it does.
Right.
Let's go on our comments.
Alex Adamson 55 says, as the sharp books to frequently point out, a third of the British army at the time of our colonizing the world was Irish for economic reasons.
I don't know if it's quite as much a third, but certainly, yeah, they were involved, like the Enniskillian and stuff.
Yeah, the Sharp books, I love the Sharp books.
I also like, I have some of them with Sean Bean there.
I think that, Sean Bean was playing in the series.
In the TV one, yeah.
Yeah, I have the Shards, Waterloo, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
Who's his, Pat?
His best friend is an Irishman.
Yeah.
And there's often, or all the time, in fact, banter about the English and the Irish in it.
Yeah, it's funny.
And Logo17pine says, there was a judge in the AZ that was housing a terrorist in his house.
Just off deep is the rot with the left.
Okay, I need to check out more on this.
That happens, I think, in Arizona, yeah.
We'll check it out.
I think obviously this judge should...
Harbouring a terrorist?
Yeah.
Okay.
People should investigate it.
That's new to me.
I've not heard of that one.
Sounds pretty bad if it's true.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
So should we go on the next segment?
All right, yeah.
So we'll have a little bit of a look ahead at the elections and all the politicking that's going to go down in England.
Okay.
So on Thursday, it's just a bit of a look ahead.
On Thursday, there's all sorts of elections going to happen in Britain.
There's the local elections, voting for councillors, but also some mayoral elections and a by-election for an MP.
So a whole bunch going down.
I imagine probably on Friday, or maybe even on the following Monday, but on Friday or Monday, someone or other...
It might be me, hopefully me.
We'll talk all about the results.
So this is just sort of a look ahead, a bit of a heads up, and just a little bit of a chat about what we might expect.
Looking at the Palantir.
Yeah.
And trying to see what, the orbs.
Yeah, yeah, looking to the crystal ball.
Yeah.
See if we can see what might happen, make some predictions.
So, okay, one of the first things I want to say, especially for people who are younger, who might not know much about this, or people that are foreign, that don't know about our sort of local, Politics.
Anyone that's an old hat and British, this will all be obvious and what I'm about to say.
But OK, so the thing is, the mainstream media and all the sort of the chattering classes, they always, always do the same thing, is that whatever happens in local elections, they say, oh, this is a bellwether for what's going to happen in the next general election.
And it very rarely is.
Sometimes it is, but nearly always it's not.
Because people vote differently in local elections.
In America, right?
You probably have different things on your mind when you're voting for your state senate and your state congress or your governor to what you vote for for the national congress in Washington or the president.
It's just a whole different set of calculations.
Turnout is always lower, way lower.
Yeah, people want their councils often run with a different frame of mind or different...
Political, economic philosophy than what they want their actual MP in Westminster to do.
So there you go.
And the same thing, the exact same thing, what I just said, goes for by-elections.
Someone will win a by-election.
I'm making this up now.
But say the Lib Dems win a by-election against the odds.
Everyone says, oh, the Lib Dems are going to do brilliantly then at the next general election because that's the trend.
That's what people want now.
And it never really pans out like that.
Nonetheless, I think it is important.
The other thing is that a lot of people think, I used to think when I was younger, all through my 20s, I used to think that local elections, it just didn't matter.
Who cares?
It's a big deal.
But it does.
It really does matter.
In some senses, in some ways, it matters more than who your MP is.
Because you can vote for your MP and they're just a backbencher or they're in opposition.
Effectively got no power.
No power over government policy anyway.
In fact, that will be most people.
Their MP has got no...
They could even be in the party of government, but they're a backbencher and the leadership of the party don't care what they think.
But when it comes to local elections, they're the people that run the budget for where you live, you know, getting your bins collected, filling in potholes, all that stuff.
It actually matters in a day-to-day...
Yeah.
I have a question.
Wouldn't you say that these people could be involved in, let's say, government, not necessarily directly, but indirectly?
They could work behind the scenes.
Because most people are focusing on the Prime Minister, in a sense, the leaders of the parties, but a lot of work is being done from the other people.
I don't know.
Or would you say that this is crazily misrepresenting?
Yeah, it's quite optimistic, I think.
For example, if you've got the Tory government or Labour government...
The leadership, the cabinet, they're not asking their councillors what they think about things.
You might get the odd one.
You might get the odd councillor who's actually genuinely a friend with the Foreign Secretary or something.
So it's not unheard of.
It's not impossible by any means, but not really.
Not really.
It's not like, you know, the...
The MPs, the ones who are popular, the councillors have lots of info about them and they call the shots behind them.
No.
There's the odd exception.
For example, Labour have got...
Andy Burnham is mayor of, what is it, Manchester.
So he's sort of a grandee.
He's sort of a big beast.
Even though he's not an MP, he's actually a big...
Or look at Sadiq Khan.
He's not an MP.
He doesn't sit...
In Westminster, he's not in cabinet, but he's sort of a powerful voice within the party.
Or as we'll talk about a bit later, Aaron Banks for reform is standing to be a mayor.
Yeah.
So, you know, and he's an important voice.
Like Nigel will probably sit down with him and have lunches and dinners and ask what he thinks about things.
So there are exceptions.
There can be certainly exceptions, but your average councillor.
It doesn't get anywhere near the policy for the whole party, usually.
Are they the ones responsible for the constant rising of the council tax?
Oh, well, that's a much bigger question.
Okay.
Again, it's not usually an individual councillor, but, I mean, that's a big, complicated maelstrom of a question there.
But, okay, so let's have a quick look at what it is.
So it's just in the news a bit, just to show people, look, the Independent is saying...
You know, just looking ahead.
Next one.
Can you go to the next one?
Alright, so yeah.
The Telegraph.
Key seats to watch.
But if we go to the...
They're going to debate the height of the hedgerows.
Yeah, right.
It's all stuff like that, yeah.
But it's actually important, isn't it?
Your day-to-day thing.
If your council goes bust financially, for example.
Yeah.
It would be a very, very real impact to your day-to-day life, potentially.
So it does matter.
The older I've got, the more I've realised something or other happens.
It's like, oh, the council decided that.
That didn't come from Westminster.
The council decided that my life is now different because the bus route's been cancelled or the bins aren't being collected or there's no police on the streets anymore.
It's because the council buggered up.
Not the dude sitting in Parliament.
So it does matter.
Okay, on this one, if we could scroll down a bit.
Can we scroll down to...
Keep going.
There you go.
Up a bit, up a bit.
There you go.
This set of videos they've made there encapsulates everything you sort of need to know in a way.
Okay, so first of all to say that the Tories control loads of...
Loads of the councils.
If you've got enough councils all from the same party, it's said that they control the council.
Obviously.
But lots and lots of councils, you don't have a majority of any one party.
Loads of them, half of them or something.
A lot of them anyway.
They're not controlled by any one party, so there will always be horse trading stuff.
The idea, the best thing is, the true win, is if your party controls the council.
So out of the ones that are controlled by a single party, the Tories at the moment are quite dominant.
Last time it all went to the polls was in 2021.
And at that point, it was Boris.
And he was still riding the crest of a positive, optimistic wave at that point.
And Labour were massively out of fashion, out of favour.
It's still dealing with the Corbyn stuff.
So in the last big local elections, the Tories got, I wouldn't quite say a landslide, but they did very, very, very, very well.
So now this time, just the way, apart from anything else, the way the pendulum swings, the Tories are set to lose loads.
I mean, in this election, there's going to be...
1,641 seats are going to be up for grabs in 37 different councils.
And as it stands, 1,182 of those are Tory.
So dominated by the Tories.
So even if there wasn't for Kemi Badenock and the way the Tories from Westminster have run the country into the ground over that 14-year period, even if it weren't for that, you would expect the Tories to lose a bunch.
Just because.
So from the Tory point of view, you can see on the far right there, Badenoch warns Tories of difficult local elections.
Yeah, you're going to get pwned.
They're going to get their asses handed to them.
And of course, the chattering classes, perhaps even including us, will point at it and say, look, Kimmy Badenoch's a terrible leader.
Look how terribly she's done.
And it's not really fair because it was going to happen anyway.
It was going to happen.
Yeah, but I mean, wouldn't you say that her attack on the sandwich as not being a real food would...
Would actually cost people.
No one...
Would cost in that election.
She's not popular.
Nobody really likes her.
The only people that really likes her is a bunch of Tory MPs, obviously in the leadership election.
Who are cheering about how diverse they are.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, virtue signaling.
Not realizing that the Rishi thing didn't work and that your average person, your average conservative person with a small c is not up for being led by...
A Nigerian immigrant.
So yeah, there's a big bunch of the Conservative Parliamentary Party that like her and want her, and not many others.
She's not broadly popular, right?
I don't know anyone, even die-hard Tory supporters in real life, that is enthusiastic about Kemi Badenod.
Haven't heard either.
I've just seen some people who are posting really cringe stuff that are obviously forced on X. I haven't heard.
There seems to be no organic support.
There's certain people who vast numbers of people get enthusiastic about.
In hindsight, they nearly always turn out to be a bit of a disaster.
But a few examples off the top of my head.
Nelson Mandela.
When Nelson Mandela in the 90s was allowed finally to run for president, it was sort of like a vote against him is a vote against hope.
And it was the same with Obama in, what, 2008?
I mean, Obama now is thought of by a lot of people, certainly on our side of the aisle.
It was a complete disaster.
But in 2008, it was like, who's going to vote for John McCain?
You've got to vote for Obama.
It's the future, right?
Yes, we can.
I remember in 1997, I was like, what, 16 years old or something?
So old enough to fully remember it and be taking note of things.
And even though Tony Blair now is sort of as the Dark Lord and the root of all evil, believe me, in 1997, he was the bright new shining hope.
John Major and the Tories were old and grey and broken.
And bad.
And Tony Blair, Mr Blair, was young, charismatic, good-looking.
He was like John Kennedy.
He was like, who is not voting for this guy?
Right?
Okay.
Kemi Badenoch isn't that.
No one's dying to see a Kemi Badenoch premiership, are they?
Okay, so expect to lose, she's basically saying.
And yeah, I bet that will happen.
Let's see, the Greens.
Who cares about the Greens?
They're insane.
They constantly find themselves in coalition governments, though.
What, in other countries?
In other countries.
Here, I mean, it's funny, really, the Greens.
There's a few small pockets.
I mean, Britain is so, sort of, got, what's the word to say?
Well, yeah, just sort of small pockets that will vote certain ways.
And that's what the Greens have got.
Like, literally a small...
A few small enclaves that are likely to vote Green.
Beyond that, it's laughable, isn't it?
Okay, Labour, because they're already at such a low ebb, without even sort of really trying, that's not really the right way of putting it, but I'm sure the people on the ground are trying really hard, but without even going full bore, sort of total war footing,
they're going to pick up a bunch of...
The barbarian style.
Yeah, yeah.
They're still going to pick up a bunch of seats and a few councils.
Oh yeah, sure, sure.
Just because the Tory's going to lose so many.
Now the Lib Dems, they will probably do reasonably well.
What everyone's going to do well apart from the Tory's is probably what's going to happen.
The Lib Dems, which you see there, aim to become the party of Middle England.
Yeah, middle class, Middle England midwit.
Yeah, mid everything.
But they'll probably pick up a few.
But so now the big story is reform.
They're set to do quite well, it looks like, if we believe the polls.
I mean, really quite well.
They might pick up, well, they'll certainly pick up, I would have thought, dozens and dozens of councillors, maybe in the low hundreds.
Maybe.
Now, one thing I've got to say, if anyone doesn't know, my history with reform and the amount of shade I throw at Nigel and Zia Youssef and Richard Tice on Twitter or whatever.
One thing I will say is, When I was involved with reform, your average person, your average volunteer, were diamond.
They were the salt-of-the-earth people.
They were good, honest, hard-working, sort of middle-class and working-class people.
And they meant well, 100%.
They were just conservative people with a small C, or with a big C, that had enough of the Tories.
And so, yeah, it's another way for me to put it than that they were solid, real people.
So I wish them the best in that sense.
And as we said, councillors and your average foot soldier doesn't get to dictate to Nigel what his immigration policy is going to be.
So I've got nothing against those people, nothing at all.
In fact, I wish them well.
You know, I don't agree with the...
The reform leadership on loads of their policies, the key ones particularly about immigration and stuff.
But I wouldn't mind seeing a few reform councils.
That'd be nice.
Give them a go.
Give them a shot.
See what they can do.
You know, why not?
If nothing else, it sort of moves the Overton window a little bit to the right.
If nothing else, I'll take that.
It's a small win.
Very small, but yeah, I'll take that.
If on some level you can point to a trend.
As I've said earlier, albeit how hollow that trend might end up being, but if you can point to a trend saying people are moving away from Tories to reform or moving away from Labour and Lib Dem a bit more to reform, there's worse things that could happen,
put it that way.
But yeah, so it may be that reform do quite well.
I know they've been trying, I think they are standing in most places.
That's a feat in and of itself.
Yeah.
That speaks of a groundswell of support.
I think there is a sort of good momentum for reform.
Yeah, big fan.
I think this matters and they will cash it out in a sense.
Yeah.
That's my hunch.
I would absolutely...
Have no problem.
I'm not sort of so bitter and twisted that I resent reform getting any councillors.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
You're going to campaign for Labour or something?
Yeah.
Together?
No, no, no.
It's all good.
Whether they win any full councillor, like control a council, we'll see.
If they do, it won't be many, probably.
Who knows?
But probably maybe one or two.
And if they do, it'll just be interesting to see.
If they can actually, you know, govern that small bit of the country better than...
It could be because if you say that there is a huge discrepancy, which there is, between leadership and the base, and people who form the councils or people from the base as opposed to the leadership, then they as councillors wouldn't face the sort of...
Problems or pitfalls of a potential leadership going second Kemi way.
Sorry, what do you mean?
If Farage started becoming a Tory down the line, a few months from now or a few years from now, if he essentially started saying, no, I'm Tory-er than you, and he started portraying himself as the real Tory.
And that would mean that the base wouldn't have to follow, and they wouldn't have to govern the councils like Tories.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know about that.
You know, the future's not yet written.
But actually, I was watching some news earlier today, and they were talking about...
I mean, it's four years away, so it's a long way off.
Anything could happen in four years.
But talking about the possibility of a coalition at the general election, this is, between reform and Tories.
At the moment, both sides are saying they don't want that.
Do you think it could happen?
Oh, it could totally happen.
Could happen, for sure.
Whether it will, I don't know.
But at the moment, both Kemi and Naya are just saying they don't want to do that.
I think Nigel's...
Position has always been, or for a long time, publicly, has been, we don't need you, you need us, if anything, when it comes to the crunch.
And so imagine at the next general election, you know, let's say maybe Labour get most overall MPs, or say the Tories and reform between them get way more MPs than Labour.
So if they formed a coalition, they could be in power.
What would Nigel and Kemi be saying then?
The real reality, if that became a real, real reality.
Probably quite different to the noises they're making right now.
You can't really blame them because that's just got to deal with real life, haven't you?
Okay, but that's something else.
That's for the future.
The other thing that's happening is some mayoral elections.
I think five or six.
Are they going to be there in London?
No.
I think there's one way down south, but the rest are all sort of Midlands and up north, sort of the northeast mainly.
So Andrew, talk about the reform Tory nexus.
Andrew Jenkins, I think, is probably going to win one.
Is it Hull or Lincolnshire?
Somewhere up there.
There's four Labour mayors which are all set to lose.
I think Reform will pick up two of them if the polling is anywhere near correct.
I think the one Aaron Banks is standing in, he's probably not going to win.
So Reform will probably get a couple of mayors.
That could be good.
Not super important ones like Manchester or London or anything, of course.
In fact, another thing to mention, just to say, is that it's not all the councils in Britain.
There's a whole bunch of them, particularly in the South East, which aren't having elections at the moment for technical reasons because they're reworking the boundaries and a few things.
But quite a lot of...
Quite a lot in the South East.
So what is it?
East and West Sussex, Essex, Thurrock, Hampshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey and the Isle of Wight.
They're all having their local elections next year.
That's quite a big swathe.
That would encompass millions and millions of people.
So it's not the full shebang.
It's sort of local elections light a little bit in that sense.
But still.
And then there's the by-election.
Because that Labour chap punched someone, Mike Amesbury.
Do you remember that?
I remember, yeah.
So he got convicted.
He went to trial and he got convicted and he sort of has to stand down.
So it triggered a by-election.
I will say, just sorry, very quickly, a small parenthesis.
I find it weird that he was convicted before the other Labour councillor who was talking about throats.
I think we haven't...
Ricky Jones.
I think we haven't heard about him in a long time.
Yeah.
If Samson, you know something and you can tell us.
If there are any updates, please tell us.
But I think...
You remember the Labour councillor who was talking about the throats of fat?
Yeah.
We haven't heard about him in a long time.
Yeah, delayed till August.
All right.
Close parenthesis.
Yeah.
So in...
Runcorn and...
Was it Hellsby, is it?
Yeah, there's a by-election.
Yeah, Hellsby.
Runcorn and Hellsby, which is up near Liverpool, isn't it?
So...
So Mike Amesbury MP decked a dude in the street late at night for...
As I understand it, the guy wasn't even being that aggressive or anything.
He totally didn't need to punch him.
There's no question that it was self-defence.
He thought the camera wasn't rolling.
Well, yeah.
It wasn't recording.
Yeah, I think...
Actually, I don't want to...
He showed him some leftist compassion.
Right, yeah.
Yeah, the party of compassion.
So he's sort of removed, so they've got to have a by-election.
Now, all the pollsters are saying that this is going to be a close-run thing between Labour, a Labour replacement, and reform.
I know reform are putting a fair amount of time and effort into it.
Because it's a possibility they'll win.
I think Labour are our favourite because if you scroll down on this webpage, I keep going just to see the results.
I just want to show people.
There you go.
So it's a big majority.
It's a safe Labour seat.
It's a really safe Labour seat.
It's not always the case, but it's a little bit of a cliche that Liverpool vote left, that they're red.
So, if reform were to win, that would be, as I said right at the top, people always exaggerate the significance of by-elections.
However, if reform were to win, that'd be quite a big majority, like a majority of over 14,500.
To overturn that, that's quite something.
That's a bit of a turn-up for the books.
I suspect they won't be able to, because that is big.
That is really big.
Even despite the fact the MP decks someone unnecessarily.
And Labour are quite unpopular generally in government.
Starmer's government is pretty unpopular.
Despite both those things, if I had to put a tenner on it, I'd say Labour will win.
But once again, even though I've got all sorts of issues with reform, I think they're a containment project.
Despite that, I would like to see them beat Labour here.
Why not?
Why not?
Yeah.
They're going to be more sensible in the council, definitely.
Yeah.
Running things.
Yeah, just for the general, just for the optics of it, if nothing else.
Yes.
Just one in the eye to the crypto commies.
I'll take that.
So, okay, so a fair amount going on.
In the last link I've got there, Financial Times, is it?
Yeah, people just saying it will actually be close.
So keep your eyes peeled for that one on Thursday.
That's probably the thing that most people, certainly I, am sort of interested in.
You know, the local election results come in and you sort of run your eye down it and go, huh, right, mainly.
But if reform were able to overturn Labour there...
Well, that would be a story.
It would actually be a bit of a story.
So the only last thing to say is whether there'll be any of the really much smaller parties and or independents do well.
I'd be interested to see that trend.
Okay.
Because when it comes to completely independent MPs in Westminster...
They're quite rare.
They're less rare now than they were because of the rise of some Islamic ones.
But all the time when I was growing up, they'd be very rare.
You'd have two or three.
Martin Bell was always a famous one.
They were really quite rare to have any independent MPs.
A bit less so now.
But in local elections, you're much more likely to win because if nothing else, the turnout is much smaller and sometimes people work really, really hard.
They're literally like a local hero.
Yeah.
Right?
And they literally go door to door.
And people, you know, like a residence association type deal or a local group.
It might be a really, really small ward.
And everyone there, they care about one thing.
They care about maybe their local hospital.
And there's like a local pressure group is made to just campaign on that.
And everyone in that area knows about it and votes for it.
Stuff like that happens a lot, lot, lot more at the local level.
Yeah.
So anyway, I'd like to, I'd be interested to see how well independence, or just much smaller parties, both left and right, like you've got like the Communist Party, or the Socialist Workers Party, or you've got the English Democrats, or UKIP, or whatever, all sorts of crazy parties,
dozens of them, dozens of them.
I'm always interested to see how they fare.
It shows trends and whether people are interested in supporting something new, as opposed to just...
Keep voting for the same thing, even after being routinely disappointed.
And you know everyone at Lotus Eaters, most people on our side of the aisle, and I think increasingly most people in general, I hope, I think, are rejecting the old paradigm of that only the Tories or Labour are worthy of running a council.
Maybe Lib Dems are a push.
They're like the elect of God.
And anything other than them running your council is craziness.
I think, I think, I hope, I think that that paradigm is...
It's crazy youth, idealism of youth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Let's hope that that whole, as I say, that whole paradigm is not just wounded, but like shattered for good.
I've got my fingers crossed for that.
I think a lot of people out there have.
Probably a lot of our viewers.
So okay, that was just a little bit of a look ahead to what's going to happen on Thursday and after all the results are in, we'll talk about it again.
Thank you.
Right, so we are going to talk about a very tragic incident that happened in Vancouver, and some people in the police department of Vancouver, but also in the local council and the politicians of the area, have described it as the darkest day in Vancouver's history.
It's going to be a bit grim, and it involves lots of statements about cars with mental health.
So there was a 30-year-old man who drove his SUV, an Audi Q7, into a crowd at a Filipino-Canadian festival called the Lapu Lapu Festival.
I think Lapu Lapu was a Filipino national hero who led the Filipinos against the Spanish and their local allies.
I think the Spanish were ruled, the leader was Magellan at the point in the 1520s, early 16th century.
Anyway, so there was...
I just happened to know a load about that.
Yeah.
Over the last year or so, I've read three different books.
I'm finishing the third book.
I'm reading all about Magellan.
Yes.
Yeah, Magellan got to the Philippines.
I think it was like 1519.
And...
I got involved in sort of inter-Ireland politics.
Yeah, big mistake.
And tried to convert loads of them to Christianity.
And he ended up fighting on behalf of one king against another, against Lapu-Lapu.
And lost.
Got himself killed, yeah.
Got himself shot with a poison arrow until he slowed down.
And then they swamped him and cut him to bits, literally.
Chopped him up into little bits.
Philippine point of view, sort of a Philippine nationalist point of view.
Magellan's a baddie.
Yeah.
And Lewu-Lapu's a goodie.
I think there's a massive...
I might be wrong, but I think there's a massive statue of him.
So...
Yeah, it's considered a national hero, someone who, in a sense, defended their country.
And there's a big Filipino-Canadian community in Vancouver, and they are celebrating this Lapu-Lapu festival, and there have been reports of around 100,000 people who went there to that festival, and someone just rammed a car in it,
killed 11 people, one of which was a five-year-old girl.
Right, so here we have several of the mainstream media headlines we see here.
11 killed in car ramming attacked.
Man charged with murder after 11 killed in Vancouver vehicle attack.
Vancouver car ramming victims aged between 5 and 65. No doubt there are a whole bunch that were injured as well.
Yes, they're saying more than two dozen are injured.
And the number of fatalities could rise in the days to come.
They were transported to local hospitals.
I think it was nine hospitals by ambulances.
And no one was expecting that many.
Yeah, right.
Right, so you have here, generally speaking, statements and headlines about cars.
Right, so let's go here.
We also had a girl, five-year-old, among the Vancouver dead.
That's a particularly...
It's a particularly mad thing.
So here we have a map overview from above.
It says here the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival area.
And here they said that the SUV drove through crowd on East 43rd Avenue.
Here it's a long distance.
It's not an accident.
It can't be an accident.
You don't just ram through.
Of course not.
It can't be an accident.
No, no, no.
Right, so the Vancouver police rushed to say that there is no...
It doesn't seem to be an act of terrorism.
Okay.
Right, and here I want to say one thing, because it looks like...
I'm reading about the case.
I can't find things that we find usually in other cases, but it reminds me a lot.
I'm thinking that Canada has elections today.
So that was a very topical weekend for something like that to happen.
So there are all sorts of motives for people to suppress news about the nature of the attack, because they are going to see this as somehow reinforcing one narrative and going against another.
But also, we have come to the point where the media resembles the boy who cried wolf.
If they constantly say wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, mental health, mental health, mental health, people are not going to believe it.
So I think we are at the point where people don't believe it.
So can I say, because I haven't looked into any of the details of this, and I'm going to let you do that, but I'm just going to say what went through my mind when I first heard about it, and then you can correct me.
So I imagine it was the thought process a lot of people went through.
You assume it's an Islamic terrorist.
And then I thought, before I even heard it was a Filipino thing, then I hear it's a Filipino thing, and I think, alright, so the Philippines are famously Catholic, highly staunchly Catholic, again, from their Spanish heritages and things.
In fact, the Philippines are a very, very interesting place.
A lot of them originally are sort of ethnic Chinese.
I did not.
But there have been wave after wave after wave of migrations through the Philippines from Asia.
So it's sort of a little bit of a melting pot.
But anyway, after the Age of Discovery, it became Catholic, sort of staunchly Catholic.
So my first thought was, oh, and when I was told that it was not like an Arab or a Pakistani person, it was a Filipino person.
So I thought, Oh, maybe...
Because not every single Filipino person is Catholic.
There are some Muslims there.
Because they had influence from the Muslim world as well.
When Magellan first went, they'd already had contact with the Chinese and the Muslim world.
So anyway, there are Muslims in the Philippines.
So I thought, oh, maybe it's a Filipino Muslim that wants to take out some Christians.
But from what...
You said, and from little I have seen, it looks like that isn't the case.
Is that right?
From what I've seen right now, it looks like it isn't the case.
Right.
But I think that the kind of mentality you describe and the kind of what you thought crossed my mind as well.
Yeah, right.
It's still difficult to think, isn't it?
Because we're exposed to so many of those incidents in Europe and in other places of the world.
So, it looks like this wasn't.
But, again, take that with a pinch of salt.
So, the point here is, though, that there is a considerable attempt to not disclose information.
But also, why did they...
Go out and say, we are ruling this out.
And we have here someone saying, Mindy Robinson says, authorities want us to believe another SUV drove itself into a festival in Vancouver and it's totally not terrorism.
That it didn't stop until it killed nine people.
At some point, I think yesterday...
It was nine fatalities.
Today it's 11 or they didn't know yet of the actual number.
Anyway, so anyone else getting sick of this selective fake news woke reporting yet?
It's a question a lot of people have in mind.
One thing we need to say at this point is that it's still really early on.
It's very early on, yeah.
So, and we certainly, and it's what you're saying right now, we don't have all the details.
The point is, if they routinely do this in several cases where People think something and it is correct.
Well, we develop the habit of thinking that every time the media reacts this way, they're trying to hide an incident of a nature that resembles the nature of the incidents we have in mind.
Right.
Anyway, so Vancouver police says here a suspect has been charged with murder in death of multiple festival goers of the Filipino community.
And it looks like he tried to escape.
People from the festival detained him and then the police came and arrested him.
So people from the festival there, they were horrified.
They were traumatized, but they were brave.
Brave enough to also detain him.
And I think that takes courage.
That's good.
And the point is that, yet again, though, we have other pieces of the puzzle that remind us of something.
This person was known to the police.
Yet again.
Mental health incidents.
So, again, we see the same narrative that is used for all other incidents that we're talking about so often, unfortunately.
In Europe, the same thing they're saying.
They are talking about mental health.
But that said, I will say that we have reports, extra reports, that do suggest something of a different nature.
It looks like a person from his family did phone the police and did say that, I'm afraid this person is deluded and suffers from illusion and may be harmful to people.
But that isn't the kind of tribalistic, you know, just I don't care about others we are exposed to in other incidents.
Anyway, so we have here the interim police chief who says...
The person we have in custody does have a significant history of interactions with police and healthcare professionals related to mental health.
I am unable to publicly identify the person who is in custody.
Because charges have not yet been laid.
So, again, the same thing.
He was known, mental health incidents.
Do we know any of what the motivation is beyond?
It's just completely insane.
From what I read about it, and some information has come out, which I will give you in a minute, it looks like it is insane.
There seems to be no rationale there.
Right, okay.
So he was apprehended.
This looks like it was him.
And they're talking about a 30-year-old Filipino man.
And if you see here...
I'm not going to show this.
If you see here a post by David Atherton, if you see this, this is no accident.
This is how the whole SUV happened.
He literally destroyed it.
I don't think that if you just hit someone with it, the car goes like this.
So, he literally wanted to harm people.
Yeah, yeah.
We can't explain it this way.
So, I have an article here by the Vancouver Sun.
And it says some of the things that we know about this person.
So I'll give you the information.
His name is Kai G. Adam Lowe.
He has no prior criminal record, according to the online court database.
He had dozens of interactions with police due to deteriorating mental health, and he was very much known to the mental health services and people who deal with it.
And according to some sources, here is where it happens.
It's interesting.
Hospital psych ward hours before the attack saying that he was suffering from illusions and paranoia and that he should be taken into custody.
I think that this isn't typical behavior when it comes to the other hits we are unfortunately talking about.
It's not the family that is going to hide everything and never say anything bad for someone from their own.
But also it's common sense because if you think a member of your family is going to harm himself and do something that is going to be bad, you want them to be prevented.
Because, yeah, I don't want a member of my family to go to jail or destroy his life or her life.
Anyway, so, and there is a sort of family background.
He did suffer some really traumatic things.
Last January, his brother was murdered.
By someone who was apprehended and he staged a fundraiser for the funeral costs and people helped him.
I think he raised about 9,000 Canadian dollars, which doesn't exactly suggest a callous community that doesn't care.
And then his mother in August 2024 tried to commit suicide because she lost her son and she...
And she was about to lose her house.
And he was making posts about how tragically his brother died.
His mother was about to kill herself due to his brother's side.
So the things he was saying are the things anyone else would say against him two days ago.
This happened Saturday, I think about 8.14, 8.15 p.m.
Local time.
Right, so it looks like I don't see any motive here.
I don't see any motive other than crazy psycho reverse victim psychology.
I don't see anything, but I'm not a TV psychologist.
I mean, obviously it has all the hallmarks of a lot of Islamic attacks, but there are truly sort of mass spree killers that do it for no reason.
Right?
I mean, quite often.
We will have to see.
Yes, we will have to see.
Just because he used a vehicle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We will have to see.
I mean, quite a lot of spree killers.
Yeah.
There'll be a reason in their mind, but it's not actually sort of a good enough reason or whatever.
I'm thinking, I don't know why, but it springs to mind there was one in Tasmania, a shooting that I did, or the Hungerford shooting.
Actually, there's endless examples.
When someone goes on a spree kill thing, and there's hardly any reason.
Yeah.
Maybe it's sort of incidental that he used a vehicle.
We'll have to see, but I think that one of the main reasons that we don't listen to the police and also the political establishment to talk about motives is because Canada has elections right now, and we had politicians speaking about Speaking about the incidents,
Pierre Poilier again expresses his condolences.
We also had Mark Carney who went there and attended the vigil in support of the victims.
But there is a larger question here because I think that the modern liberals, the liberal parties, they're insanely sympathetic, let's say, to criminals.
And they're constantly...
Advocate a system that is almost entirely focused on not harming the criminal and has zero concern and consideration about the victims.
And I think that there was a ruling in Canada in 2022, I have it here, where it says that the Supreme Court of Canada in 2022 declared that life without parole for mass murderers is unconstitutional.
Why?
Yeah, I mean, all this suggests that there is a system that constantly says, pardon me, but, you know, go do something to yourselves, law-abiding citizens.
I'm going to constantly be there standing for criminals.
Won't somebody think of the mass killer?
Yeah.
It's crazy, right?
Perverse.
Yes, and here I have a clip here from a debate about 10 years ago.
That's, I think, in French.
Mark Carney calls jailing mass murderers for life unconstitutional, and Pierre Poiliver is holding him accountable to that.
That is something that should change.
When you have a constitution that has clauses that are against, in a sense, that are not promoting the common good and they're against the people, you need to start the process of changing that.
That was also what I was trying to say last week when I did a segment about Garcia and Trump and the due process.
I see many people misunderstood what I said, but that's okay.
So we have several posts here talking about the elections and talking about this.
And we have a woman here who was brutally attacked in Vancouver, still voted for the Liberals after the attack.
People will think this way, so I think that we have reached definitely what Gadsad describes as suicidal empathy in some places.
The whole system seems to go against law-abiding citizens and disrespect them in legislation.
The spirit of legislation of the contemporary state is entirely disrespectful of law-abiding citizens.
And I want to say that to what we said before about the way that the media portrayed the incident, if they constantly cry wolf, at some point people won't believe them.
So even if that isn't an act of terrorism of the kind that we're constantly worried about and we constantly talk about correctly, People won't believe them.
And that contributes to extra delegitimization of institutions and social decay.
The term, what do you call it?
Suicidal empathy.
Yeah, I think that's Gadsad's term.
That's quite good.
I like that.
That's on the nose, isn't it?
I think there was an example of a Scandinavian, maybe it was a German, politician, and she got sexually assaulted, seriously.
By an illegal immigrant, an undocumented alien.
And she still said, you know, we shouldn't, there shouldn't be any sort of judgment, stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Turkey's voting for Christmas.
Yeah.
If it was up to me, in Britain anyway, I'd increase, in America they say life without parole, but we call it sort of a whole of life order or something.
We've got a slightly different term.
I'd throw those around like candy.
This guy should never, ever, ever be in the general population ever again.
No way.
And there are people who...
Bring back the death penalty.
You can't reason with.
Get rid of him.
It's like a rabid dog.
It's no good to anybody.
You can't reason with something.
Oh, yeah.
And that's something that...
You can never trust them again.
The left can't understand.
Or pretends to not understand.
Right.
So, we have a comment by that's a random name.
On the paper, a God telling me where my voting station is.
There is a phone number to call if I need a linguistic interpreter.
Foreigners can vote in our elections.
Trump needs to annex us ASAP.
To be honest, I think that this actually helps Carney.
They are saying that most people in Canada, especially in the voting population, they link somehow poorly over to Trump's paradigm.
So the more Trump is talking about an ex in Canada, the more they rally in favor of Carney.
But that's what I've heard.
It makes sense, though.
Yes.
And also, that's a random name.
Thank you.
Thanks for this.
And by foreigners, I'm obviously referring to people who have immigrated to Canada and can't even speak the language.
Why are these people here?
Because we're a Chinese colony.
That's what it says.
I think probably on the west, well, on the west coast of Canada.
That's going to be a thing, right?
Yeah.
Obviously, I mean.
Looks like, yeah.
Right, let's go to our videos.
This is a video by Eloise.
Dan's segment on the girl looking at men in the 1950s and the yearbook is attractive speaks to me.
Men in suits are classical.
It suggests that they may be paternalistic, they mean business, they're coordinated in some way, they're responsible.
All other fashion can speak to you on a sexual level because it might be associated with subcultures or things you're interested in, but it might not be as long-lasting.
So I can understand why.
And it's the same with men.
Men also, I think, have fast fashion and fast girls or...
Like a more classical, traditional look that they might find appealing for other reasons.
Yeah.
Who doesn't like someone that's better turned out than not?
Both men and women.
I suppose there are some people that find someone that just looks like a scruff bag attractive.
There will be some people, but most people not, right?
Yeah.
Like most people you prefer if you actually...
Maybe sheepies wouldn't like it.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
I think...
When it comes to us men, I think the suit is just the perfect, it's the platonic idea of the perfect attire.
Yeah, maybe.
I mean, I'm quite preppy anyway.
Like, even in my downtime, I'm not going to be on camera or anything.
I'll nearly always still be wearing a shirt.
Yeah.
Right?
So, I own one pair of jogging bottoms.
One.
And I very rarely ever put them on.
So I would always wear trousers and a shirt.
Nearly always.
I'll be a bit soft.
I'll poke a bit soft about me.
But sometimes I'm dressed like an Italian, they're telling me.
What do you mean?
In what way?
In my house.
It's like Robert De Niro or something.
You're calling me that.
I have some outfit and you're wearing the Nicolas Maduro outfit again.
Like a string vest or a wife beater vest.
You don't grill with a suit.
Right, yeah, yeah.
You need to have the Tony Soprano or something, you know.
Yeah, sure.
It's not like I always wear a shirt.
If you go to the gym or you go jogging or something, I'm not going to do it.
Or you go paintball.
I'm not going to be wearing a shirt, right, but still.
Okay, let's go to the next one.
Video bike.
This is in my backyard.
And this one's helping me kind of clean the lawn, keep the grass managed.
The dogs, of course, are absolutely going nuts for this thing.
It's so wholesome.
That's a lovely, lovely patch of land.
I like to think that if I won the lottery or something, I suddenly found myself JK Rowling rich, Bill Gates rich.
I had a giant estate.
I would have a pack of deer on my estate.
Or even there's quite small deer.
There's dozens of different breeds of deer.
Some are really small, like the size of a terrier dog.
In South Africa, I think they're called Dick Dick or something.
They're really cute.
Little Richard.
I'd have 50 of those running around.
Yeah, they're cute.
Right, so let's go to the comments.
Was that all the video comments we had?
I think so.
Samson, do we have more?
Yes, Samson is giving us the thumbs up sign.
Right, so the monkey.
Get out and enjoy the sun, fellow Brits, before they block out the sun.
I just don't understand what their government is talking about, dimming the sun.
It looks like they're playing way into the Matrix analogy.
It's like decreased brightness of the screen.
Come on.
How would they even do it?
I haven't even, I think it's such nonsense that I haven't even bothered reading up about it and what they're really talking about.
How would you even?
I know, perhaps the sky is going to wear sunglasses or something.
I don't know, but today is a beautiful day.
It's sort of a perfect day for me.
Yeah.
Because I like, I mean, you're from a hot country, but I like a day that's nice and bright.
And just a little bit above room temperature.
Yeah, me too.
That's what I like.
That's my perfect day.
I dislike the heat.
With a slight breeze.
Yeah, if it's too hot, yeah, I just turn into like a red, sweaty mess.
Yeah.
Because I'm so pale.
I'm so pale.
So yeah, I like a day when it's just a little bit above room temperature with a slight breeze, but it's nice and bright.
And that's what today is.
It's actually...
Almost a perfect day in Swindon.
Right, so, just another Irish peasant.
It is sad that the Irish government is acting like a bunch of globalists when it comes to immigration.
Here's hoping that McGregor can help them with the invasion of the country.
Here's hoping he can rise to the occasion like Trump did and change the direction of the invasion.
Yeah, fingers crossed for him.
Baron von Warhawk, McGregor's new policy to reverse migration is to punch every single migrant as soon as they show up in those rubber boots.
Sophie Liv.
I'm going to be careful.
Liam Neeson, lead actor in Taken, is probably the most famous Irishman, to be honest.
He's completely indoctrinated by Hollywood and is a anti-gun, Trump derangement syndrome, so yeah.
Let's flesh out Liam Neeson is at least as famous as Colin McGregor, yeah, and been around a lot longer.
Do you remember the story when he said he wanted to kill a black man?
Do you remember that?
No.
I don't remember, no.
A few years ago...
He came out and he said that years before, when he was a young man, someone he knew, some woman I think he knew very well, was assaulted or sexually assaulted or something terrible happened to her at the hands of a black man.
Yeah.
And he said, he went on record and probably said, I wanted to go out and find a random black man and beat him up or kill him or something, he said.
Something crazy like that.
I don't remember.
And people were like, that's a bit crazy, dude.
But Sophie is...
Trashing him and may get a phone with someone saying, Sophie, I have some good skills from a career.
I'm going to use them.
But then he's saying Taken.
I remember.
Where he was talking to Marco from Tropo.
I'll find you.
I'll find you.
When I do, I'm going to kill you.
Something like that, wasn't it?
I can't remember.
Hopefully not that.
Sophie, you know I'm joking.
General Hyping.
Notice to anyone considering taking part in a march or anything, wear all the flags and insignia you can.
That sounds a bit...
All the...
Sounds a bit...
At least you buy yourself some time as the Roses try to work out if they can charge you with a hate crime or not.
Roses?
That's just a euphemism for the cops.
Yeah.
Yeah, it would be quite funny, actually, if you went on some sort of demonstration march and you got rowdy.
Started doing criminal things, throwing a Molotov.
But you were wearing a suit that was a patchwork of all the flags?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What were they?
Globalist.
Yeah.
Do you want to read some comments of your own?
If you don't mind, can you?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
Okay.
So, Maria Mansi.
Regarding local elections, I suspect for some areas the vote will perhaps push more independents forward.
This, of course, could perhaps reduce reform more than the unit party.
It will also sadly allow more Islamists to capture some areas.
Yeah.
The rise of the independent, whether it be at the local level or the national level, it's a double-edged sword, of course, isn't it?
Hopefully, I would like to see patriotic, nativist, right-wing independents.
You'll probably get a load of Islamist ones.
We will.
Or socialist ones, commie ones.
They never get tired.
You know, if that's the price to pay for breaking the uni party, then, in my mind, so be it.
It's a terrible price to pay.
But I would rather Parliament is filled with every stripe of independent than that Labour and Tory lock it down for all time.
It's a letter of two evils in my mind.
Okay.
I think.
Naomi Roberts says the only Labour representatives left after this will be followers of a certain prophet that haven't gone independent and they're fine boys.
Yeah.
Kalein Sloan.
The problem with US local elections is that unless they're so visibly and vocally corrupt, like Tiffany Henyard, the vast majority don't care and don't vote.
They especially don't know or don't care about state legislature.
I think they should, though, because a lot of the times when it comes to legislature, people are bored of it.
They think it's boring and beneath their...
Attention, for instance.
And a lot of things happen just in legislation.
That's how the culture changes, sometimes without us noticing.
What do you think?
Yeah, no, absolutely, yeah.
As I say, as a younger man, I absolutely thought that.
I mean, even to this day, I can't name many Swindon councillors, South Swindon councillors.
I know the name of one or two, but I certainly couldn't name the council.
And I'm heavily involved in...
Relatively anyway.
Henry Ashman says, one thing to be mindful of is these could be the last council elections in the current model for a lot of places.
With Labour's proposals to collapse a lot of the layers of councils down and incorporate the traditionally centre-right shires into larger authorities dominated by the left-leaning cities.
I wonder how many non-Labour councils are first on the block for these changes.
Interesting.
Good point.
And let's go to Ramshackle Otter.
From experience, it's almost impossible in this day and age to alert authorities to someone you have concerns about.
You're dismissed as a Karen or a phobic of whatever kind.
Remember, the Don Blaine killer was reported to police by his gun club before the attack.
That's sad.
And also it's sad because if that were the case with him and the police did nothing, it's sad because his family did it.
A family member called and also they had all sorts of records with him.
He was dangerous.
It's difficult though because I suppose it's two different things if the person is extremely well known to mental health services and the police or not.
If they're not necessarily, it is a difficult thing to ring up, say, the police and say, there's this person I know, whether he's in my family or not, I know this person.
And I'm pretty convinced they're going to hurt themselves and /or others.
And the police say, "What have they actually done?"
And you say, "Nothing yet."
Yeah, yeah.
It's tough, right?
It is, yes.
I'm not trying to make excuses.
Furthest thing from it.
No, no, no.
It's the actual case.
We should be saying this because the police may get hundreds of telephones.
You have to have a way of filtering this.
In some cases it can backfire.
Right, so Jordi Swartzman says, mental health could be here, he said.
I hate mental health.
And Omar Awad says, much like with hate speech, the motive or lack thereof behind indiscriminately harming people shouldn't affect the just punishment of it.
I don't care if he was having issues.
Anyone carrying out such acts cannot be allowed in any society.
Yeah, who's going to think about us?
Anyway, so on that note, I think that we have reached the end of our podcast.
And this is a beautiful day.
Do take advantage of it if you can.
And thank you, Bo.
Thank you.
And see you tomorrow at 1 p.m.
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