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April 29, 2025 - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1153

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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters for Tuesday, the 29th of April, 2025.
	I'm joined by Beau and Alex Masters, and we are going to be talking about the Canadian elections, which has been a bloodbath by all accounts.
	What am I going to be talking about?
	Oh yeah, how we're getting enriched, and how Serco is going to make sure that the parts of England that weren't actually...
	Completely stuffed to the gills with strangers are now going to be stuffed to the gills by strangers and you're going to be paying for it.
	And how the future belongs to those who show up for it politically.
	So you've got to go and get involved.
	Anyway, right.
	So, no announcements today.
	How do things go in Canada?
	Well, it depends which side of the aisle you're on, isn't it?
	It was a remarkable, it seems like a fairly remarkable thing.
	Over the last...
	A hundred days or so.
	Quite a remarkable turnaround.
	So the headline is that the Liberals won.
	Mark Carney and Trudeau's old party.
	They won.
	And it was only not that long ago, a couple of months ago, that the Conservatives were something in the order of 25 points up.
	So it looks like a sort of a slam dunk.
	Should be a win.
	And something happened.
	Something happened.
	Do we have a poll?
	I think we've got a poll line, right?
	A nice map of the results.
	There you go.
	That's quite a remarkable thing, isn't it?
	And so it's basically the Donald broke their minds.
	You can see by the exact dates as well.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's clear.
	Literally the very beginning of January.
	So Trump said...
	All sorts of belligerent anti-Canadian things.
	We're going to make you the 51st state.
	Of course it's just bluster.
	Of course there's no...
	That was never, ever, ever going to happen.
	Nonetheless, it broke a lot of at least boomers' minds in Canada.
	And so they decided to go, it looks like, well, there's no doubt.
	Yeah, there's no doubt.
	They actually have, right?
	Because you can see there the Conservative vote, you know, dropped a bit.
	Well, substantially, actually, but it's the rise in the lib turnout that's...
	Let's start with turnout.
	So it's 67%, which is not too bad.
	That's quite high.
	By British standards, it's not too shabby.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can see, they definitely cannibalised the NDP vote, which I'm guessing are Canada's Lib Dems.
	Yeah, new Democrats.
	But not by a sufficient amount to justify that rise.
	It has to have been people who otherwise weren't really going to vote who decided, oh no, I've got to come out and stop the Orange Fuhrer.
	Okay, well done.
	So let's just talk about that first of all, because I get the thinking from a Canadian Lib.
	I get their thinking about that, just a knee-jerk reaction.
	It's the evil Republican right-wing new Hitler dude in America is being belligerent towards us.
	So at the ballot box, I'm going to vote Liberal.
	I get it, I understand.
	But my thinking would have been that
	would want, you'd probably want someone that's closer aligned to Trump in order to get a better deal rather than meeting pho.
	Instead of locking horns, try and get someone that can make a deal and defuse Trump in some way.
	But no, they decided not to go with that thinking.
	The Liberals may have turned Canada one-third immigrant in the last decade or so, but Donald Trump was tweeting mean.
	And have you considered...
	The second Twitter link I've got there.
	This is interesting, isn't it?
	Yeah, this is from the BBC.
	So, again, it's the older generation.
	So let's just break this down quickly.
	So on the very far right there, you've got managing the federal budget and deficit.
	Nobody cares, right?
	Protecting public services.
	Nobody cares.
	These are not the most important factors when designed to vote.
	Weirdly, making Canada a better place to live...
	For the red bars, 60 and over, they don't care.
	They don't care.
	I'm going to be dead soon.
	I'm going to be dead soon.
	That is literally the least important thing out of any boomer on my entire thing.
	Also, of course, making housing more affordable because I've got mine, Jack.
	We'll get to that in a second.
	That speaks volumes.
	That one red bar there, that speaks volumes about the boomer mindset.
	We do mean boomer in this case.
	Yeah, it literally is 60 and over, yeah.
	So making Canada a better place to live is literally their last priority.
	It's like, don't you have children and grandchildren?
	Like, it's crazy, isn't it?
	You like to think that the idea that you can make a better world for your progeny should be universal?
	Well, it was universal right up until about 1960.
	And the boomers all came of age in about that sort of decade.
	And for some reason, they decided, no, I'm the end of history.
	After me, the deluge.
	But anyway, so the next one, growing the economy.
	Again, very low, really.
	And then improving Canada's health system.
	Oh, you can see the boom of self-interest coming in here.
	Yeah, the boom is very concerned.
	Well, how do I get my appointment?
	There are too many Indians in the waiting room.
	I definitely need my appointment.
	And then making housing more affordable.
	I own my own house.
	Why would I care about that?
	It's selfish, isn't it?
	It's astounding.
	Just the most selfish point of view.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, every time.
	It's crazy.
	And then, of course, reducing the cost of living is something that impacts boomers.
	So, on the far left there, that was the important thing.
	Then the one just before the far left, dealing with Donald Trump, 50% of boomers said that this was the most important thing to think about.
	Remarkable, isn't it?
	And what do they even mean by dealing?
	Do they just mean, like, conversing with him?
	I assume they mean resisting.
	Like, putting him in a box.
	You know, resisting Donald Trump, I assume they mean.
	And so it seems that the boomers have come out and just said, well...
	To hell with the economy, or housing, or public services, or the debt, or making the country a better place to live.
	I just want orange man to be put in his place.
	Or immigration and demographic.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, no, no.
	Orange man, bad.
	Just sprinting towards the edge of the cliff as fast as possible.
	Donald Trump's like, don't do it.
	And they're like, I'll show you, yeah.
	Crazy.
	Because again, the thing where Trump was talking about all those things he was saying about.
	Make Canada the 51st state and stuff like that.
	When Trump came in, he came in swinging on every front.
	Some would say flailing.
	And from their point of view, you know, like MAGA people's point of view...
	I'm not saying they're wrong, I don't think they are really, but they just feel like Canada's been screwing them over for a generation or more here.
	They're just taking the mickey out of them, at least financially.
	And he just came in with some sort of iron fist.
	So, I've got a few thoughts on this.
	I think that that's giving Canada way too much credit.
	I don't think Canada's capable of screwing America in the way that it's been portrayed.
	But, I mean, this was a definite sort of rake.
	Moment, I think, for Trump.
	What he did is exactly the wrong things in exactly the wrong direction.
	He decided he was going to come in aggressively and start verbally punching at the purported allies of America.
	And then he was going to declare a trade war on China.
	It's like, no, no, you don't want to do that.
	What you want to do is make sure all the allies are on board, declare the trade war first, and point out how they're going to make out bandits from it.
	And then once they're in hock to you, and you've got them on the hook, they're like, yep, we'll put up tariffs against China too.
	And everyone's like, yep, we're all coalition against China because China's eating our lunch.
	Then he says, right, I'm going to need something, guys.
	And where are they going to go?
	Then you've got them on the hook.
	Then you've got the conservatives in power in various other countries and your allies' areas.
	And instead, he's done it the exact wrong way, and he's absolutely destroyed the conservatives in Canada.
	And it's just like, okay.
	You know, America first actually now means America alone.
	And I know there is a contingent of people who say, yeah, okay, that's what I want.
	I say, okay, that's great, but we don't want to be governed by the libs forever, actually.
	And it turns out we've got a lot of flighty boomers who could have been won over by a bit of diplomacy, I think.
	So, it's fair enough to...
	Come out swinging against, say, the Chinese, but you're saying it would have been a better strategy for your closest, closest allies, like Canada, to be softly, softly, catchy monkey, build a coalition from the base.
	Come out swinging.
	Look, everyone knew there was a very high chance leading up to this that Trump was going to win.
	Everyone knew.
	I mean, Kamala Harris.
	You know, Trump was beating her in the polls, like, you know, neck and neck with the polls.
	And Trump, you know, everyone knew that Kamala was definitely being overrepresented.
	It was a very, very likely thing that Trump was going to win.
	And look where the libs are, right?
	They're going down.
	Even into the election, they're going down.
	It's Trump's rhetoric alone.
	I seem to be.
	I'm going to annex Canada.
	They've got them to go, oh, no, you're not, and resurrect from their, like, torpor and actually come out and vote for the libs, who probably can't believe their bloody luck.
	Can you even imagine?
	You're going into an election with this kind of polling.
	You're like, we're dead, guys.
	We're going to get wiped out.
	We're going to get the conservative treatment in Britain.
	We're going to get absolutely stomped.
	And then Trump just like, right, I'm going to take your country.
	That doesn't play well with anyone ever.
	You know, and so...
	Well, it plays well with the MAGA base.
	Oh, yeah, okay.
	Anywhere outside of that.
	I know what you mean.
	I know what you're saying.
	But it just does seem like a...
	Well, it's just that is a remarkable graph to look at.
	Historic.
	Because, I mean, if Trump had come out and said, look, I hate Trudeau, the Conservatives probably would have gone up in the polls.
	Because everyone in Canada probably hates Trudeau at this point.
	Because he's ruined it.
	I mean, Trudeau's kind of accepted he was stepping back because he looked like he'd poisoned the brand until Trump was like, you know what, I'm going to save you, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party.
	And this is just exactly the wrong thing to do.
	The thing is, I mean, it was never going to be an 1812.
	If anyone doesn't know, America tried to invade Canada three times in 1812.
	Yeah, and we ended up burning down the White House.
	But that's not going to happen.
	So there was never...
	All the talk of annexing Canada, making them the 51st state, was always...
	Pure bluster.
	And to me, obviously so.
	It's a lack of respect.
	It's a lack of respect.
	It is.
	It also shows that the one constant in international politics is the Conservatives missing open goals.
	Because all they had to do was match the Liberals' anti-Trump rhetoric punch for punch.
	They go, you know, I'm standing up for Canada.
	Yeah, well, so am I. So is everybody here.
	I mean, that's it.
	I think Poliver did try, but it was too little too late.
	It was like a month later, he'd come out and go, I'm against Trump too.
	It's like, no, everyone thinks you're kind of for Trump, actually.
	He certainly wasn't massively vocal about it.
	I didn't see any clips of him getting red-faced and angry.
	I'm talking to you, Mr. Trump, you'll never take...
	I didn't see anything remotely like that.
	I saw one speech where he looked a bit, not angry, but he looked kind of put upon that he had to make this speech, and it was just like, not.
	Well, it looks like he has even lost his seat.
	Big Paulie lost his seat.
	One of the few who has, actually.
	You know, we said this is a bloodbath.
	It's not been a particularly spectacular election.
	I mean, the Libs are in a minority position here, and the Conservatives have done all right, but he specifically has lost his seat.
	I was thinking from his perspective, actually.
	I mean, it's unusual for party leaders, even if they lose an election, to lose their seat.
	Because normally they're chosen in quite safe seats.
	I mean, any other one I can think of in recent years is Joe Swinson.
	Which was hilarious.
	Yeah, it was the next Prime Minister.
	Or not an MP.
	But this is brutal for Polio.
	Because how long was he in that seat?
	He was there for 20 years and he got it when he was 25. Jesus.
	So he's had it for literally half his life.
	And so he's no doubt putting a lot of work in his personal sort of demence and, you know, made sure that people know his name and like him and, you know, for being there for 20 years, they've got to think something of you.
	And then you're literally right up in the polls.
	It's a guaranteed Conservative win.
	Trump comes in and he's like, yeah, I'm going to annex Canada and that's your career over.
	Because he's had it since he was 25. There's not an awful lot on his CV.
	I was going to say that.
	Yeah.
	He'll be pulling pints, I think, or making doughnuts in Tim Hortons.
	The WEF will put him on a board somewhere.
	Oh, yeah.
	He'll be all right.
	He's not going to go hungry.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	That is...
	I mean, he must be seething.
	Can you even imagine?
	He must be devastated.
	Yeah, he must be.
	As you say, his career is over.
	I mean...
	For now.
	It's in the political room.
	Yeah, thanks for nothing, Donald.
	It could have been one phone call in that sort of back end of February just going, Donald, can you just shut up for like six weeks?
	Yeah, then you can do insane stuff, but until then, just shush.
	It's because Trump, literally it's because Trump was talking about Canada rather than Trudeau and the Liberals.
	He should have been making it a direct line at that party rather than your country.
	You know, he could have been blustering up Canada, being like, Canada's got a great history.
	I love Canada.
	You know, the best maple syrup comes from Canada.
	It's the best.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Whatever it is, you know, Pierre Polivet's going to do great.
	Canada's going to be great again.
	You know, instead of, I'm going to annex your country and turn being a shitlib into the nationalist position.
	Yeah.
	That's what the problem that Donald Trump has inflicted on the Canadians.
	And to be honest with you, I don't really know what the Conservatives could have done all that differently.
	Because Polivet and all those, like, Anyone even vaguely right-wing obviously has some sympathies towards Trump.
	And so if Trump's like, right, I'm going to take over your country, you're like, oh, I'll fight you, Mr. Trump.
	Everyone's still going to be like, yeah, but you don't believe it like I know that the Trudeau-style libs believe it.
	They come out and go, no, we will fight you in the trenches.
	And everyone's like, you know, they actually will.
	They've pathologically hated Trump since 2016.
	I agree that they're going to do it now.
	Whereas if you're the conservative, you're going to be like, well, I will.
	Be a bit of a Neville Chamberlain on it.
	I don't know what he could have done.
	The other thing that Trump did, other than just the blustering about annexation, was talk big about tariffs.
	Canada have been eating America's lunch just in terms of trade a bit.
	Trump decided just to put an end to that.
	If you're a Canadian patriot in any way, you're going to hate that.
	If you're a Canadian lib, you can definitely lean into the sort of globalist free trade argument against Trump here and say he's a reactionary, he's divisive, he's this, he's targeting Canada.
	We need to get Mark Carney in charge because otherwise we're doomed.
	Yeah, the adults are back in the room.
	So yeah, a little bit about Carney then.
	All Brits know him because he was governor of the Bank of England for a while.
	He was, yeah.
	And even, I think, during the financial, the credit crunch, I hate that expression, but during that financial crisis, like, what is it, probably 10, 15 plus years ago now.
	So one thing I'll say for him, obviously he's an old Goldman Sachs, you know, globalist, chill type person.
	He's exactly the worst person to have in charge, actually.
	But despite that, he does give off this aura of sort of calm, Competence, like, you know, like, we'll keep the boat on an even keel.
	He does that very well.
	He does do that very well.
	I mean, I don't agree with any of his politics, but...
	Did he handle Brexit brilliantly?
	Well, again, just sort of...
	Because being the governor of the Bank of England is quite different to being an actual...
	An actual politician, much less the leader of a party or a country.
	The whole job of being a governor of a bank.
	And he was governor of the Canadian Central Bank before that.
	Yeah, your main job is to...
	Project stability.
	Yes.
	That's more important than rhetorical back and forths.
	Or actual accomplishments.
	Yeah.
	You are right.
	He does...
	And a lot of them...
	Do a very good job, and I think they're trained, frankly, to project that kind of adults in the room.
	We're presenting stability and calm governance and security for the future.
	And if you're a boomer, well, that's essentially an easy way to one-shot you.
	That's how we've arrived in this position, is that the boomers keep falling for this trick.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So we'll see how he actually governs, because even though they've won...
	The Liberal Party has won the election.
	They're still, at this moment, it may change over the next hours or day or two, they've got 168 seats and you need 172 in the Canadian Parliament.
	I believe there's 343-odd seats.
	They'll be able to form a coalition with their Lib Dems, right?
	Right, either with the Dems or with the Quebec Bloc or whatever, just to get over the line.
	But even if they do that, it's still not a big majority.
	So it's not a landslide.
	His government will still be relatively weak.
	It's not like he can just start doing whatever he wants.
	And moreover, when Trump actually does knock off the I'm going to annex Canada rhetoric, they're just going to collapse in the polls again.
	Well, yeah, because they're going to be like, oh, we have all these problems, we have these problems, we have these problems, and they're going to be like, oh, who is responsible for those?
	Well, us!
	I mean, you know, we've been in charge for the last 12 years or whatever it's been.
	You literally can't point the figure at anyone else.
	So...
	Sorry.
	This is now like their fourth term.
	Yeah.
	So usually it's a trend that most parties in the West, in modern times, post-war times, you don't get much more than that usually, with the best will in the world.
	No, because you're the person responsible for the problems.
	Right, yeah.
	No one else is in charge to point the finger at.
	So yeah, a couple more, just the first few links.
	It's just interesting that, I think it's quite interesting that Paul Polivare, however you pronounce it.
	Lost his seat because that, again, speaks of a personal...
	The electorate are like, it's you, personally, we've got a problem with.
	Maybe.
	Well, it must be, mustn't it?
	Well, I don't know.
	I'd have to look into it, right?
	I haven't had time to dig into his personal constituency.
	Because you would, as you said...
	Normally it doesn't happen.
	The leaders of a party or anyone who's a big beast in any given party, they put you in a safe seat.
	And it probably was the same.
	So you're kind of guaranteed.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Not exactly guaranteed.
	Nothing's guaranteed.
	But as safe as possible so that you don't lose your seat.
	The thing is, Trump...
	No one expected Trump to start talking about Alex in Canada.
	This was just not on the table three months ago.
	And as Boise says, it's quite right.
	That excuse won't last.
	This will probably be the Libs' last government because in four years' time, Trump's out.
	Canada's still an independent nation and it's still broken.
	And to be honest with you, maybe Trump has done the world a favour here, actually.
	So, you know, Pierre Polivet, I liked his eating an apple while, you know, sassing the press.
	Yeah, that was a funny clip.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a very big fan of not treating the press with any respect whatsoever.
	But as you pointed out, how is he different to the arrest?
	He's like, oh, we want you to come here and just leave your ethnic conflicts behind.
	It's like, that's not possible.
	Like, they're definitely going to bring the ethnic conflicts to Canada because you are pro-multiculturalism.
	You're not like, okay, you've got to, like, with the Americans, you've got to, you know, wear a hat and wave a flag, right?
	You know, if you're just going to be multicultural, they're going to bring their conflicts here.
	So saying, like, we want as many immigrants as we can, just try not to be immigrants.
	Couldn't be nice whilst you were here.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's not going to work.
	And that just means that you're just another globalist shill.
	So, but, obviously, on the...
	On the sort of patriotic side of the ledger.
	And so actually maybe Trump screwing those people.
	Okay, listen, you know, at the end of the day, our Tories, you are traitors, right?
	And we all agree that conservatives, and the worst kind of traitors, because at least the libs are like, we hate you when we want you dead, right?
	It's like, oh, okay, well, that's refreshingly honest.
	The conservatives are like, we hate you when we want you dead, but we're not going to tell you that.
	We want you to vote for us and pretend we don't hate you when we want you dead.
	So actually, like, you know, As much as this sucks for Polivare, maybe that's a good thing, as far as I can tell.
	Because the only party I like in Canadian politics is, of course, the PPC, Maxime Bernier's one, which, of course, is getting, you know, UKIP-style numbers at the moment.
	But who knows where this goes in the future, right?
	I mean, you know, his rhetoric is much more akin to what I would like a politician to actually say.
	And he's stuck to his guns on a bunch of things.
	So, yeah, that's...
	Pardon me.
	That's basically the headline for today.
	We'll see how...
	Carney governs, whether he will be sort of Trudeau levels insane, whether his government will be able to do much at all.
	As I say, they'll have a very slim, well, haven't got at the moment, haven't got any majority.
	And even if they do enter into a coalition or even some sort of pact, it will still be quite weak.
	The chances are they're going to have to make a pact with someone more to the left than them.
	So if you want to get anything significant done, OK, you've got to pander to the left.
	Great.
	Well, that's what everyone hated about the Liberals before.
	They'll probably throw a bit of red meat to the KBQ.
	Oh, you know.
	Oh, we'll give you loads of money.
	And they go, yeah, we'll be in government.
	That's fine.
	As they always do.
	But, you know, I do wonder if in the long term this won't turn out to be one of those sort of I'm glad Biden won in 2020 sort of events where I'd be like, yeah, Pierre would have been all right, but not great.
	Whereas maybe, you know, in the next one we get someone based.
	Maybe the Conservative Party in Canada will do a little bit of soul-searching and actually become Conservative.
	And elect a chemi-bade knock of the road.
	Yeah, or go that way.
	Which I suspect they probably will.
	There are only two things I managed to pull out the Guardian coverage of this, which is that they describe Mark Carney's party as a traditional centre-left party, which I just thought was extremely funny, which essentially means it's, you know, the same.
	Globalism.
	Yeah.
	But they've put the woke away, so that's good.
	And the Chinese have already come out and said that they are open to improving ties with their Canadian friends.
	Oh, we're thrilled!
	Globalists have won, say, the Chinese Communist Party.
	Yeah, those red flags firmly being planted on Canada's lawn.
	I tell you, there are a lot of red flags about this.
	Because Canada is extremely resource-rich.
	Unbelievably recent rich, actually.
	It has a fine history of finding Chinese spies in senior positions as well.
	So it's nice to see that that tradition is one that he will be preserving.
	So if they can get their recent history to China rather than evil Trump, probably will.
	It's so clownish, isn't it?
	But at least we're going to have a massive Indian labour force.
	Have you considered the upshot of this?
	Brilliant.
	Brilliant.
	Again, just sprinting towards the cliff as fast as humanly possible.
	At least we're not Donald Trump!
	I bet all of our Twitter feeds are now going to be full of MAGA types going, no, it's 4,000 dimension underwater backgammon and you just don't get it.
	I mean, I hope it is.
	Don't get me wrong.
	Fingers crossed.
	I've never really understood the QAnon thesis, but I kind of want to trust the plan.
	I hope there is a plan, but at this point it looks like things are a bit...
	Dead in the water.
	It does look like it's backfired a bit from the Trump point of view where you could have had a staunch ally and now you've got sort of an enemy.
	But I feel like Trump and MAGA people are sort of in the mindset of I don't care, we don't need Canada.
	We are the United States.
	We don't need anyone or anything.
	We're going to do and say what we want.
	I think that's where their minds are.
	I believe it, and that's great.
	I guess we will just have to make plans accordingly because we aren't the United States and we need to figure things out.
	Starmer got on the blower to Carney apparently already.
	I bet he did.
	Just saying, well done, great.
	It's great.
	The shadow of Tony Blair looming overall.
	I bet AA's making memes about it already.
	Yeah, so, Johan says, the Boomers decided to screw over Canadians one last time before they died.
	That's true!
	I bet they've got a couple of elections left.
	I was going to say, there's at least one more.
	At least one more after this, I would think.
	It is unbelievable, though.
	Absolutely unbelievable.
	Making Canada a better place is just not on their list of priorities.
	They actively don't want to.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Right, it is that, isn't it?
	It is, yeah.
	Half of them as well.
	Half of them are like, yeah, it's Trump.
	That's what I care about.
	They're not my grandchildren.
	Yeah, it's like, no, sink Canada.
	Destroy it.
	Yeah, burn it as long as Trump can't have it.
	It's like, mad.
	I think that's probably where it's going to go.
	The thing is, this is the problem with the plurality of left-wing parties.
	They're all the same party.
	They're all the same party, which is why a bunch of them go from Labour to the Greens over here, and then a bunch of them go to the Liberal Democrats, and it's just like, why not?
	They're all just traitor parties.
	The Habsification says, think of the positives.
	This does open up the opportunity and space for Maxime Bernier.
	Well, that's my cope.
	It's a beautiful dream.
	Yeah, that's my absolute cope.
	I just want to say, right, I've never seen as much great rhetoric coming out of a Frenchman as I have of Maxime Bernier.
	He's genuinely, if you look at his Twitter feed, it's basically Homeland Party stuff.
	It's like, wow, okay.
	You know, he's great replacing stuff and stuff like that.
	It's like, okay, wow, this is pretty hardcore.
	That's a random name says, some context from a Canadian.
	Most Canadians are obsessed with the US and see themselves as superior to Americans and therefore everything here revolves around the US.
	Yeah, no doubt, actually.
	Being so close to America must be uncomfortable.
	That psychology plays itself out all over the place and throughout all of history where we hate you, we despise you, but we want to be you.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Of course.
	Why wouldn't you want to be the top dog, right?
	And be a bit resentful of them.
	But I do think the Canadian boomers here, it's about essentially just respect, right?
	If Trump had shown Canada some deference and respect, I bet he could have won them over.
	But instead, he essentially said, I'm bigger than you and therefore.
	And honestly, it's a really Anglo thing.
	Oh, I'll show you then.
	I mean, if anyone said that to you, you'd be like, right, okay.
	Alright, well, we'll see.
	You know, I will literally cut my nose off to spite my face if that's what it takes to show you that I'm not going to be dumped on by you.
	You know, and so, you know, every Anglosphere country will do this, and that's what we've done since the dawn of time.
	So, you know, this was a very predictable thing, just FYI.
	I think that stubbornness is even worse, because aren't the majority of Canadians Scottish?
	I don't know.
	There's an awful lot of Scots in Canada.
	So yes, they've told a bunch of jocks what to do and they've gone, no.
	Well, that's what you'll get, you know, whether it's a good idea or not.
	Random Name says, furthermore, the government controls almost all the media, so people don't know about the PPC and the few that do vote Conservative because of first past the post.
	Also, Quebec was the leader of the Vax past because of boomers.
	Of course it was.
	Matt says, were Canadian Conservatives willing to do the hard work to restructure their country when they were scared of the media?
	Austerity is forced on Canada by Liberals.
	Yes, the entire thing...
	I mean, again, it's just all conservatives, isn't it?
	It's all conservatives.
	They're just the same in every...
	Anyway, moving on.
	So, let's talk about how Serco is going to be extorting billions and billions of pounds from the British public with the willing help of the British government to make sure that the channel invaders are living in comfort.
	And into every corner of our island.
	Great point.
	No small rural hamlet shall be exempt.
	There will be a couple.
	There will be, I'm exaggerating.
	But that's a time scale, right?
	So there are now, but in a year's time, or ten years' time, yeah.
	So...
	About 11 months ago, Leilani Dowding came on, oh sorry, six months ago, and warned us, actually.
	She was like, by the way, Serco are going to get huge, huge contracts from the government and shove these migrants everywhere.
	And we were like, oh god, that sounds bad.
	And her prophecy has come to pass.
	They have decided, indeed, to carpet bomb us with diversity.
	And this is just, I mean, it's a really long list of places where Serco has planned to house asylum seekers in rented accommodation.
	So, they're just going to give them our money to live in a house.
	It's like, I have to pay to live in a house.
	Do you pay to live in a house?
	Do you pay to live in a house?
	I do, actually.
	Folks, watching at home, do you pay to live in a house?
	Well, these people don't.
	These people who broke into our country don't pay to live in a house.
	You pay for them to live in a house.
	This is mad.
	Absolutely mad.
	And there are just towns on this list where it's those sort of like...
	You know, quaint, minute English villages that are kind of like the picture postcard.
	We think, wow, the idea of someone from France setting foot in one of these villages kind of offends me on a spiritual level, right?
	No, no, you shouldn't know about Knowlesley.
	I don't know where Knowlesley is, but I know that it's going to be a tiny English village somewhere in the northwest of England that nothing ever happens in, and I don't want foreigners in it.
	I want it to leave it like it is.
	So the idea that someone from Mogadishu...
	Gets to go there.
	Or someone from bloody Afghanistan or something.
	It's like heresy to me.
	It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No!
	And these places will be super low crime or almost zero crime.
	Low crime?
	What are you talking about?
	Really high trust.
	What are you talking about?
	Greg from down the road, that time he spray-painted something on his own wall.
	He didn't get permission from the council, though.
	That's going to be the extent of crime in these places.
	Sorry, I know I'm going on, but this really, really annoys me.
	I was going to say, if there is any crime in those, it's that one family at the bottom of the village and everybody knows who they are.
	And they're not actually all that bad.
	No, no, no.
	It's not violent crime or sex crime anyway.
	It's antisocial stuff at worst.
	Oh, the kids have been knocking over the plant pots again.
	Frank, you've been told to cut down the tree that's overlooking my garden.
	The council have said so.
	You haven't done it yet.
	That's going to be the extent of it.
	I just hate to see it, man.
	And the community will be homogenous.
	Completely.
	And all that's just ruined.
	Yes.
	For why?
	For what?
	Because we need to uphold the Universal Doctrine of Human Rights?
	Oh no, it's better than that.
	It's to save the government money.
	That's true, but the overarching goal is to uphold the Universal Doctrine of Human Rights.
	The reason they're taking them out of the hotels is to save the government money, as you correctly said.
	So the director of the Runnymede Trust can twiggle their moustache and laugh maniacally.
	100% true, yeah.
	I think the director of the Runnymede Trust might be a woman, but I think she still has a moustache.
	Like, I mean, Rosendale.
	You know, Sefton.
	Trafford.
	I've heard of that, actually.
	But, like, you know, Wirral Wire.
	South Ribble.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That is the middle of nowhere.
	Yeah.
	No one knows where this place is, and that's just in the northwest.
	And then you've got, like, just, again, ancient Saxon towns.
	The Malvern Hills, which I think is actually an AONB, isn't it?
	It's an area of outstanding natural beauty.
	Probably.
	You know, Melton, where the pork pies come from.
	Just Shropshire.
	Yeah.
	Which is actually one of the nicest parts of England, because nobody goes there.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	So just smear this across the entire country.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's just, it's crazy.
	Great Yarmouth.
	Let's have a look at some maps for a second, right?
	So this is the map of England, scarred as it is.
	The dark blue bits are the most normal and homogenous places.
	This is where the natives live.
	The darker the blue, the more natives there are.
	And you can see that in Norfolk, it's all native.
	You can see that across this area of England, it's all native.
	And across this area of England, it's all native.
	So it's just sort of London to Birmingham, the Midlands area, and then Manchester leads that sort of, you know, scars.
	So that's where the plantations are in England, right?
	Do you want to see a map of where Serco is going to be able to put their things?
	Brutal.
	Absolutely brutal.
	It's all across that area and then up to the northwest.
	It's essentially linking up the plantations now.
	It's literally just going through the remaining English areas.
	It's been like, here are your foreigners.
	Here is your diversity.
	You get to pay for this and you're so welcome, says the British government and Serco.
	I don't know what the problem is.
	It's just bigots.
	I don't want to live near brown people.
	That's all it is.
	I can't stand looking at a brown face.
	That's the only reason why you'd have any issue.
	Some of these areas in West Lancashire, 92%, you know, like 93%.
	Too high.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	You're getting it.
	You're getting it.
	Sorry.
	You're all getting it.
	It's just like, oh my God, man.
	The other thing with these areas is that a lot of them are quite poor.
	Yes.
	And you will have rural families on low wages or seasonal work, you know, desperately trying to get a house.
	And Circa comes in and buys up all the housing stock.
	Jacks, the price is up 20%, 30%, 40%.
	And it's the natives who then can't afford to live in the area their ancestors grew up in, let alone themselves.
	What party do those people vote for?
	Well, I don't think Asylum Seasons get voting rights.
	No, but the people of that area, Norwich and the sort of east side, yeah, that's conservative, that's fine.
	In fact, Great Yarmouth voted reform.
	They did.
	In fact, it's now an independent.
	I tell you what, East Anglia is going to be basically the last English area of England by the way that they're politically voting, which is superb.
	But all of the people in the northwest, sort of like, you know, from the centre going upwards on that left side, they're all Labour voters.
	So enjoy that.
	Old Labour voters.
	Old Labour voters.
	That's correct.
	So not only is this a betrayal of England, but it is a betrayal of the Labour voting public themselves.
	This is pretty much a good reason why you should vote for something else, maybe.
	You know, loath as I am to support Nigel Farage at this point.
	Anything?
	Anything that's not the Labour Party?
	I mean, what more could they do to stab you in the back?
	Like, genuinely, I want to know, what more could they do?
	They're going to make you pay for a bunch of invaders to live next to you and live at the end of your street.
	So good luck with your daughter walking to school.
	Like, seriously, I mean, this is just mad.
	But some of these areas are tiny.
	Rutland, 40,000.
	You're still going to get some.
	Half a million people in Shropshire.
	You're going to get two sites.
	Mental, isn't it?
	Absolutely mental.
	Yeah, it's completely malevolent.
	Yeah.
	Deliberate and evil.
	I mean, it's not the words for it.
	Weirdly, like, the South West and the North East haven't got any.
	Wales hasn't got any.
	Like, for some reason, it is targeting mostly the poor Labour voting areas.
	It's just like...
	I mean, like, okay, in East Anglia, okay, they're targeting the Conservative areas a bit there.
	You know, but, like, it's really weird because it's almost like they think...
	Well, if we're the MPs in this area, they can't really kick up that much of a fuss because they're going to email us and not like, you know, if they'd stuck them in reform areas like Great Yarmouth or Clacton-on-Sea, Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe are going to make a big stink about this.
	So I guess we'll put them in the labour areas and then we'll just get the emails and we'll just ignore them, right?
	They can't even use the excuse of easy transportation because places like Norfolk and, you know...
	The west coast of Cumbria.
	It's a complete pain to get to.
	So you've got these people who are apparently in the system.
	Their asylum seekers, their applications are being processed.
	And you go and stick them up the other side of the lakes, where it takes like two hours to go 20 miles.
	Yeah, how are you going to...
	I mean, maybe that's the point, right?
	We're never going to see them again.
	They're never going to escape.
	Imagine coming from Hillman.
	Or Darfur.
	Or Bangladesh or something.
	And you end up in Cumbria.
	Rural Cumbria.
	Rural Cumbria, yeah.
	I think I personally would really like rural Cumbria.
	Oh yeah, no, it's lovely.
	The people are probably very nice.
	I like the idea of this sort of bucolic lifestyle where you just go to the local tea room, get some cakes, get a pasty or something, whatever it is they're eating up there, and just not do much all day.
	That sounds lovely.
	Sounds like a great retirement.
	Take you out of the mountains of Kashmir and stick you in the Norfolk broads.
	Yeah.
	And unemployment.
	I mean, I know it's, for me and for most people, that's actually low on the list of why this is a problem.
	It's still unemployment in the North East.
	So where are all these people going to get jobs?
	They're all going to be Uber riders, are they?
	Yeah, exactly.
	How much demand for Deliveroo is there in the North West of England?
	Probably not on that much.
	Can these people even speak English?
	How are they going to understand a Cumbrian accent?
	It races to even us.
	But seriously though, you've got a bunch of people who are just, you can't speak to them and you're paying for them to live here and you don't know what they want, you don't know why they're here and I don't think they do either.
	I think they're just here for the money.
	And so it's just like, okay.
	Again, massive betrayal.
	Thanks for paying Serco, by the way.
	Anyway, so yeah, you are right.
	They're doing this to save money because the hotels, which, I mean, have the advantage of at least isolating them and concentrating them in, you know, certain places.
	Yeah, it's costing us 8 million a day, which is 3 billion a year.
	But they've decided, no, we need to save some money because of course, 22 billion pound black holes.
	We need 44 billion pounds of tax risers.
	20 billion over to Ukraine.
	And 20 billion for carbon capture.
	I don't understand Labour economics, to be honest.
	But anyway, yeah, so the Telegraph reported on this.
	The reason this is even something we're talking about is because Serco decided to post something on their website.
	And people were like, what?
	And they were like, oh no, we'll take that down, actually.
	But it was too late, because once it's on the internet, it's on the internet forever, right?
	So Serco, in promotional literature...
	The firm boasts that it was already responsible for more than 30,000 asylum seekers in an ever-growing portfolio of more than 7,000 properties.
	Oh, brilliant!
	It's an economic success for Serco.
	The move comes after a record new daily boat arrivals set for this month because, of course, we've got nice weather because we're being betrayed by the god of the sea.
	The landlords were invited to a Serco event at a four-star hotel in the Malvern Hills next month with a contractor saying it was, quote, looking for landlords, investors and agents with properties in the northwest, the Midlands and the east of England to lease for over five years.
	So this problem isn't going away anytime soon.
	A website page with the heading Calling All Landlords told prospective clients, We are confident that our lease provision offers an attractive and competitive proposition within the industry.
	They are promised rent paid on time every month with no arrears, because of course it's coming from the government, why wouldn't they?
	Of course we can guarantee your rent, we're stealing it from the public.
	Full repair and maintenance, free property management and utilities and council tax bills paid by Serco.
	What an amazing deal!
	What an absolutely incredible deal.
	If you were a landlord, you would be a madman to turn this down.
	Of course, if you're a patriot, and there were lots of hotels that just said, no, we're not doing this, but of course more hotels agreed to it.
	I'm so glad they're being so generous with our money.
	Isn't that nice?
	All maintenance, repair, property management, utilities and tax bills, all paid exactly on the dot on time.
	For five years every month, you get a cheque in your bank account once a month.
	Why wouldn't I sell my country out for that?
	It comes at the low, low price of demographic replacement in the end of your nation.
	But Bo, have you considered who owns the properties to be rented?
	What, they're already sort of foreign people?
	What age?
	Oh, right.
	Boomer age.
	That's correct.
	I actually forgot to get the link for this, but it's something like three trillion in properties that the boomers own.
	And they just don't care about the future.
	Now their pension portfolio isn't performing as it did because Trump and Orange Man bad and there's no businesses left in the country.
	The only way you can make retirement pay is to buy property.
	And the only way you can guarantee that income is to have the government pay for it.
	Solid circuit.
	When you speak to older people, which I have done a number of times, three or four times this exact thing has played out, I know it's only anecdotal evidence, but you talk to older people and you say, what do you think about...
	Demographic.
	All sorts of things that are going to play out in the 2050s, 2060s and onwards.
	And they say, oh, I'm going to die.
	I'll be dead before then.
	I'll be dead then, yeah.
	I want to rip my teeth out.
	I'm just going to pull my hair out.
	Too late for that.
	I sort of can't believe my ears.
	Yeah.
	It's like, it's beyond infuriating.
	Yeah.
	It's insane.
	I look at them, like, you're insane, insanely selfish.
	That's good.
	Like, what is that?
	I mean, if it helps, not every boomer is like that.
	It seems to be about half the boomers that are like that.
	About a quarter or a third of the boomers that I interact with are utterly based.
	Some boomers are way-based.
	And so to those people out there, you're all right.
	Exactly.
	We don't mean you.
	But unfortunately, about half of the boomers, and the boomers are a large generation as well.
	Because every now and again on Twitter, I'll get a boomer saying...
	Don't smear all boomers.
	And that's a fair point.
	Yeah, that's a fair point.
	I was based before when using short trousers.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So to those people, I do want to say, fair enough.
	And we obviously don't mean you.
	Yeah.
	So the data is that the Home Office has 38,000 asylum seekers in hotels as of December last year, which is costing five and a half million a day, which is up from last June, which was 29,000.
	So, I mean, you know, because we have a record of them just breaking into our country.
	And Serco said that this will cut the cost from £145 a night.
	And £145?
	What hotels are you putting them up in?
	That's the sort of price I pay in London.
	Yeah, it's decent.
	That's a great hotel.
	I buy cheap hotels, rent cheap hotels, but down to £14 a night.
	Oh, great.
	I suppose that's something.
	So at least there will be some economic saving.
	Brilliant.
	Still a net drain, though, obviously.
	Yeah, of course.
	Why are we paying for anything?
	Just to jack them off the cliffs.
	And as if it's in the 30,000s as well.
	38,000.
	As if the real number isn't way higher than that.
	As if they're not twiddling those.
	Well, we won't count these because of XYZ reasons.
	We won't count those ones.
	Yeah, the people who are currently being processed, maybe.
	The people who are waiting.
	Any old trick.
	That's what Whitehall do.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Are those tricks.
	Absolutely.
	So yeah, it seems that Serco put up the list, and so the government had to put up a statement in response, being like, ah, statement on Serco asylum accommodations list, says Keir Starmer.
	And it's really funny, because they're basically like, yeah, it's all true, but they shouldn't have told you.
	A home office spokesman said, the list of local authorities Serco shared in his website was for landlords.
	It was not a home office list, nor is it a list of any future existing asylum accommodation.
	It's like, bollocks.
	Why would they have put it up?
	Of course it is.
	You know, Circo aren't in the business of being frivolous.
	Their second line of defence to that is, what's Circo do?
	They're a private company.
	They can do what they want.
	They do say that.
	Circo is one of several companies contracted by previous governments six years ago to provide asylum dispersal, accommodation in different regions, and this list simply appears to reflect the geographical list of local authorities covered by the Circo contracts at that time.
	Yes, but why would we think anything different would come out of this?
	And if Circo are literally like, hey, landlords in this area, get in contact, we want your properties to rent.
	No, no, sorry, government.
	I think we can take them at their word.
	I don't think they're tricking us.
	So six years ago we did this.
	No, this is obviously...
	This is just policy laundering, this is, isn't it?
	We'll give it to Serco and it's none of our concern.
	We are restoring order to the asylum system.
	Sorry, go on.
	What a crap argument that is that they were contracted by the previous government.
	So the Tories were punching you in the face repeatedly.
	All we're doing is continuing to do that.
	You can't blame us.
	Yeah, no, that's exactly what's happening.
	We're restoring order to the asylum system and cutting costs to taxpayers by reducing the number of people, blah, blah, blah.
	It's like, yeah, but just deport them.
	And they're like, well, we removed 24,000 people.
	Well, then get rid of the rest.
	Like, why have any of them here?
	Anyway, they say at the bottom, we have no role in Serco Communications and understand the page is now being removed.
	Yeah, well, there we go.
	So it was a mess up by Serco.
	You weren't meant to publish this.
	It got into the press, and now it's been removed because they're ashamed of it.
	Why have you removed it?
	Why get it removed?
	If this is just totally all above board, keep it up so we can all see it.
	Circo were obviously bragging to the Guardianistas, to the Ash Sarkars.
	Probably, yeah.
	I think they were probably just looking for business.
	I genuinely think they thought they weren't going to get any pushback to this.
	Why would they think so?
	It didn't happen under the Conservatives.
	Six years ago, it was 2019.
	When the Boris wave was hitting.
	It's only people like us that were any pushback.
	You're not going to get Newsnight talking about this, are you?
	True, but people like Rupert Lowe and us and various others, you know, Lawrence Fox and all that on Twitter, like, we are talking hundreds of millions of views.
	I should say as well, Asylum at 1999, the dark hand of Blair.
	Yeah, they're everywhere.
	Yeah, exactly.
	To make sure that they aren't left destitute when their claim is being processed, we have to put them up.
	Hotels at your expense.
	It's like, okay, that may have made sense when we had like 10 a year or something.
	But when we've got thousands a year...
	Rubbing our noses in diversity.
	Now you've broken our nose on the bottom of the barrel of diversity now.
	I think there's been something like 8,000 across this year alone.
	It's crazy.
	So anyway, yeah.
	So, I mean, people were like, well, this is bad.
	I mean, this will increase rent prices, which isn't exactly the real problem.
	You know, the housing crisis is going to get worse.
	But, like, okay, but that's a downstream effect of what the real issue is, which is stealing my goddamn money, dispossessing me and my children of our paternal inheritance.
	Like, sorry, these people have no right to our country and they shouldn't be here.
	Get rid of them.
	Flooding us with chances.
	I was actually thinking that.
	In the asylum system, is there any way to say, sorry, we've got a massive backlog, we can't actually take any more additional applications at the moment.
	You're going to have to go somewhere else.
	Because I'm sure the government could do that quite legitimately.
	Sorry, I've got 38,000 people.
	Sorry, we're incompetent.
	Yeah, we've got 38,000 people on the waiting list.
	I can't put any more on.
	No, go elsewhere.
	I don't think so.
	I think they'll keep going until, literally, quite literally, everything's full, and then you can live on the street.
	And then you can live in a small tent in the village common.
	And even if they did, I bet they'd get lefty human rights lawyers going, Article 7 of the ETHR.
	You can't refuse entry.
	Exactly.
	It's going to be some absolute nerd.
	Who honestly should have just been shoved into a locker harder.
	I wonder what the 13 comments are on this article.
	This is an archive because of the Telegraph.
	So the real problem is the housing crisis, of course.
	Sorry, just look at these guys.
	I don't want any of them near any of my children.
	I just don't...
	Don't know them, don't care about them, don't want them here, don't trust them.
	Anyway, so another one by Tom Jones here.
	I like Tom Jones, but complaining about the social contract isn't exactly the issue either, I'm afraid.
	The point is that we're having our rightfully earned money extracted to pay for a bunch of foreigners who ought not to be here.
	No sort of social contract whiff-waff is, you know...
	Going to, like, make it so if this was done correctly, oh, the social contract's being restored, therefore this is fine.
	No, no, no, no.
	Tom's a good guy and I'm not trying to have a go at him.
	The social contract thing is way in the rearview mirror.
	Yeah.
	Way, way, way, way, way back.
	Clement Attlee.
	In the rearview mirror levels.
	Well, we were never a social contract country anyway.
	Well, fair point.
	Fair point.
	Yeah, it is.
	Fair point.
	To have a social contract, you literally need a written constitution.
	We don't have that.
	We never had that.
	So we're not a social contract country.
	So, again, I like Tom Jones a lot.
	He's a nice guy.
	But, you know, this is just...
	Closing the door off the horses bolted years ago.
	Just very broadly speaking, just in a very broad sense, extremely broad, the idea of there should be some sort of trust between the people and their elected representatives decades and decades ago.
	And to be honest with you, it is actually a really well-written article, and if it was written like 10 years ago, it would have been very incisive.
	It's just that we're so far beyond all of this that, unfortunately, we just have to come to terms with it.
	And, of course, like you say, yeah, it was done by the House.
	It was done by the Tories.
	It was done five years ago or six years ago, whatever it was, by the Tories because, for some reason, they are just as big a group of traitors as the Labour Party.
	The Labour Party are just competent traitors.
	That's the thing.
	The Conservatives are incompetent traitors, which, honestly, is kind of better because at least...
	At least, like, their failures get to blow up in their faces, right?
	Like, I don't want competent treachery, like, of all the worst of all worlds.
	Anyway, Hewitt says, the Lake District Super Mosque suddenly makes more sense.
	I think that was being funded by Qatar, and it got cancelled, didn't it?
	I don't know the details.
	No, the last I heard was that the building contractors were refusing to work.
	Yeah, based.
	Yeah.
	That's the best.
	Good lads.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Well done, gentlemen.
	But I don't think the Lake District Super Mosque is actually in any way connected to this.
	I think it's just coincidence.
	I mean, I can't imagine that these absolute chances, as you put it, Beau, I don't think they go to the mosque all that much.
	Probably not particularly devout, no.
	No, I mean, they're wearing their Nikes and their Adidas.
	Well, they will do now.
	Now that they're not in a Muslim country, they'll go to mosque every Friday.
	No, no, no.
	The thing is, I don't think this is.
	So these guys aren't from any one place, right?
	If you've got a bunch of mirpuri Pakistanis who all moved to Bradford or something, they know each other, they're related to each other, probably more closely related to each other than they should be.
	But they've got a sense of community, and so they're like, oh no, we're in foreign land, we have to go to the mosque, right?
	These guys are the sort of scum of the earth who are coming over.
	These are the chancellors and the grifters, the people that they don't want in their countries.
	You know, at all.
	And they're just coming over here to make money and to shag girls.
	So they're not going to a bloody mosque.
	Rootless family-less drifters.
	Looking at the number of people on there and the crime stats that you were doing a couple of days ago, one of those is an Albanian drug dealer.
	100%, yeah.
	Fiktagis says, none of the leftist MPs or voters would want the newcomers to live in their areas next to them and their children.
	Yeah, Lisa Nandy's a great example of this, where she was like, refugees, welcome!
	And then the refugees started harassing 14-year-olds on the way to school, and she was like, we need to talk about these refugees, guys.
	And it's like, yeah, no, we're racists, according to you, Lisa.
	Wasn't it her father who started the Running Me Trust, or was one of the people who started the Running Me Trust?
	Is it?
	Something like that.
	She is connected to it.
	I didn't know that, but that would explain a lot.
	Just an arch-arch traitor, Lisa Nandy.
	Matt says, what caused the Western boom mentality that refused to be inconvenienced or sacrificed to ensure their countries are a good place to live?
	Liberalism won World War II.
	That's it.
	I think.
	And they told themselves, right, this is it.
	We're in the end of history.
	We just have to show the communists that it's liberalism that arrives in the end of history and not communism that arrives in the end of history.
	Because the big actual war in the Cold War was, who's going to create the prosperous post-national world?
	And the communists collapse.
	And we didn't.
	So it's like, yep, that's going to be us.
	So that's the reason.
	And the whole point of the end of history is to be liberated from constraints that you didn't choose.
	So, brilliant.
	Joan says, I hate when boomers say not all boomers.
	Of course not all boomers.
	Sounds like a feminist now.
	Those are not all men.
	Just enough men.
	When boomers talk about millennials, I don't say not me.
	Once again, the boomers can only think about themselves.
	And that is also a true thing.
	Women are shorter than men.
	Well, I'm not shorter than men.
	That's a good point.
	Tennant says, have you guys heard recently that Royal Marine has been interrogated by the British establishment voicing concerns about DIN
	I have not seen that.
	I saw that in passing.
	Yeah, you get one of those stories about every sort of six months where somebody comes out and says they're dropping standards to increase the representation in ex-military.
	And then he gets absolutely hounded by the establishment.
	So, yeah.
	No, I haven't...
	I personally haven't heard of this one, but the thing is, they're not rare, so I just take it as a given that that's what they do.
	No, last one was fighter pilots, this one's the Royal Marines, the next one will be somewhere else.
	Right, well with that, let's move on.
	Right, well, that's my bit.
	And in my quest to do perennial sections, last time I came here I was talking about international regulation.
	Which is something perennial.
	Yeah, voting doesn't matter because the International Maritime Organization runs everything anyway.
	I thought I'd come to talk about how voting doesn't matter because what makes your society a nice place to live is the fact that you make it a nice place to live.
	So...
	A lot of what I do, people name me on Twitter for doing a lot of volunteer work and being a sort of pillar of the community.
	And I think it's because, really, as right-wingers, we seem to be very, very quick to run from confrontation.
	We're talking about the Conservatives in Canada.
	You know, there was a confrontation there with Trump, ran away from it.
	Lost.
	And with the Tories and immigration and all the rest of it.
	And you see it...
	Nigel Farage and mass deportations.
	I wouldn't want to be a racist.
	I don't want to have my name associated with mass deportations.
	Why not Kissed Armouries?
	But anyway, sorry.
	So one of the examples of that is National Trust.
	A brilliant, astute organisation, historic, looks after an awful lot of our national heritage and our story in some wonderful places.
	You would think it would be the most conservative institution in the country.
	Yes.
	There was a couple of entryist bad apples.
	You know, there was a little bit of woke, as the Daily Mail likes to say, and 89,000 members, was it?
	It lost 89,000 members last year.
	Doesn't this have, like, millions of members, though?
	Yeah, it's quite a lot.
	I mean, we're members, because if you visit two places a year, it works out.
	There's also English Heritage.
	Yes.
	I'm a member of that, actually.
	In the past, I've been a member of both the National Trust and English Heritage, but not four years.
	Because even...
	I think when I was relatively new, or when Lotus Thesis was relatively new, I did a segment about the subversion of the National Trust and or English Heritage.
	But 89,000, the margins at the National Trust...
	Maybe you're going to go on to talk about this, but the margins have always been quite slim.
	They've never been swimming in money.
	No.
	So to lose 89,000 to me suggests something like an implosion.
	Yeah, but the fact I want to say is, you know, there was a couple of left-wingers got into the National Trust, got into a position of reasonable authority.
	Put up a single pride flag.
	Yeah, and 90,000 people left instead of telling, you know, the woke is just to bugger off.
	And that would have been the end of it.
	Seeding the ground.
	Yeah, and they've seeded the ground.
	And then they go to this thing, is it called historic houses?
	But it's, oh, we'll just build another one.
	Or we'll just build another one.
	I'm very tired of this conservative attitude, actually.
	Where it's like, yeah, we'll build a new institution.
	It's like, then we're just giving them our old one.
	Yeah.
	Just giving them over.
	All that legitimacy, and of course all they'll do is they'll put two subversives in your new place, and then you'll leave that.
	Exactly, and all that effort.
	I have this with conservatives in America.
	They're like, oh, I just want to give California to Canada and then we can live happily.
	You want a seed, a third of America to the woke, to the communists.
	Why aren't you taking that back?
	It's also been announced, I think, California is something like the seventh largest economy on Earth.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, it's bigger than Britain.
	Yeah, so you want to give Canada the whole of Silicon Valley.
	Yeah, genius move.
	And the same people then criticise someone like Scott Presler for getting on the ground and actually registering voters and stuff like that.
	You want a million of him going around every day, in every place, getting more people on your side.
	What are you doing?
	It is capitulation, of course.
	Completely.
	Of course, we've had something some historians call the long peace, i.e.
	no massive war since World War II.
	So even the oldest people...
	A lot of people that are members of the National Trust, they've never ever had to draw a line in the sand and square their shoulders and stick their chest out and fight to the bitter end.
	They've never ever had to do it their whole life.
	Even take something of a beating.
	I don't want to be unpopular.
	I was like, well, you're going to have to be, unfortunately.
	So I looked at English Heritage.
	English Heritage is actually doing all right in its membership numbers, but its workforce might have to shrink by 7% because of funding concerns.
	And they cite the cost of living and the rising prices of everything and all the rest of it.
	So English Heritage aren't in the best of places.
	In my own field, which is, of course, steam engines, the National Railway Museum.
	They dropped the national bit about two years ago.
	So they are now the railway museum.
	Why would they...
	Why am I asking?
	I know the reason.
	Our master plan becoming the world's railway museum.
	It can't be ours.
	It can't be this one...
	It's just the globalists everywhere.
	They've put a Chinese QJ in the main...
	Auditorium, and that's it.
	It's the world's, you know, and they've got a Eurostar.
	Okay, well, let's talk about the world's history of railways.
	Where does it begin?
	Here.
	I know!
	So, they're trying to do this because they're trying to appeal to government funding and things like that, and it's infuriating, and they will be losing support in the steam scene to this.
	Not that it's working anyway, because...
	There's 15 million quid's worth of funding there, which is in dispute because it was awarded by the Tory government and Labour are saying that it might be withdrawn because one of the big things they're trying to save money on is cultural projects.
	Well, they've got budgetary concerns.
	They do indeed, yes.
	£100 billion black hole.
	Now, unfortunately, this isn't a government investment, so they don't want to do it.
	But it's also the Victorian Albert Museum in Dundee and the Leeds Poetry Centre.
	This was the levelling up funding, I see.
	So, all that's going.
	And, of course, it leads to things like this, which is demolition of a dangerous building.
	Now, it just looks fairly inconsequential there.
	But that building there is actually one of the last parts of the original Robert Stevenson and Company works in Newcastle, which was the first ever...
	Railway locomotive builders, and it was built in 1825.
	You'd think this would be something we'd take care of and make a museum out of.
	Yes, but there's nobody on the ground to look after it.
	It's exactly the same with the goddamn Mechanics Institute here.
	It's a gorgeous building.
	It's amazing, and it's the birthplace of the NHS, we keep getting told.
	It's just in a complete state of disrepair, covered in scaffolding, and nothing's happened in 20 years.
	Yeah.
	What are we doing?
	Buy it.
	Just the government, buy it.
	Have it as a museum.
	What are you doing?
	So this one, they just go, yeah, but it's full of asbestos.
	Get out then!
	What have you been waiting for?
	And of course, what's it going to be turned into?
	Well, it's going to be turned into housing as part of the Stevenson District.
	So you get a weird facsimile of what it actually was, and then some hutches.
	And although he's not...
	Filled by a first-generation...
	Well, by Serco.
	The spokesman for the property developer company, he's not actually named here, but in a different article, he had a just-as-British-as-your surname.
	Oh, right.
	Need I say any more?
	So really one of the problems that we're finding is that in the voluntary sector there's been an absolute collapse in the amount of volunteering.
	Here are the demographics of volunteers.
	This is from the Civil Society Almanac.
	So there we are.
	For formal volunteering it's people aged between 65 and 74. And the lowest levels are between 25 and 34. This is not a surprise in any way, because if you think about it, the mindset of people who were young back in the 60s,
	the government wasn't the author of everything.
	Now, the government, since 1997...
	The government has taken on this full-spectrum perspective where charity is essentially irrelevant because the government will just tax people and redistribute that money.
	So why would young people bother volunteering?
	There's no need for it.
	Charity has essentially become NGOs.
	It's just things the government gives money to as opposed to something you do in your own...
	Correct.
	Society.
	The number of times I've gone to a National Trust, a smaller, more obscure site of the National Trust or English Heritage.
	Not a big famous thing, but a lesser known one.
	And I'm the youngest person there by a long way.
	And yeah, the volunteers, of course, are that age as well.
	They're also retired, so they've got time.
	Right, yeah.
	But it's absolutely tragic, because you know that old dear who was sat in the corner of the dining room or whatever, who spent 40 years there, you know, researching all that.
	And once she...
	Left because she was made to feel awkward or, you know, stale and pale or whatever it was.
	That's it.
	All that knowledge is gone.
	And it just hollows out the experience.
	So volunteering has been in sharp decline since the COVID pandemic.
	That is a choice of picture.
	It's the Guardian.
	This is actually from May 2023 and it was one of the things that they noticed, you know, the numbers aren't great.
	So second-generation Caribbean, Nigerian, Indian people don't want to volunteer for the national...
	13% of people there volunteering last year, so that would have been 2022, with 17 pre-pandemic, which is 1.6 million fewer people volunteering.
	That's giant.
	That's horrendous.
	That's huge, yeah.
	And you wonder why all of a sudden, you know...
	There's not the Amdram clubs not putting on shows anymore.
	If it was a reduction of 10,000 people, that would be a crisis for them.
	Yeah.
	But that...
	What did you say?
	1.6 million.
	That's crazy.
	So...
	That whole edifice is going to collapse.
	Yeah.
	And the thing I've been banging the drum on for years is that the reason that the woke get to any position of authority in any organisation...
	It's simply because they're prepared to turn up on a Thursday evening and hang coats up and take coats from people who have attended.
	They're prepared to do it for the cause.
	They think...
	And I literally...
	It was the Young Humanist Society I went to a few...
	You know, like 10 years ago or whatever.
	And I saw exactly this happening where some wokey on the door...
	Everyone else was completely normal, but it was the wokey on the door taking your coats.
	And then when I ended up speaking to them, they just came out with those woke garbled nonsense.
	And I was like, right.
	Oh.
	And then, like, literally, the year later, the Young Human Society were and were and suddenly woke, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's like, it didn't have to go this way, but it's just we allow these people to take over because we're not prepared to be the guy standing on the door taking the coats.
	Their resentment and hatred and self-loathing is plenty enough to motivate them.
	It's quite an animated force, yeah.
	So...
	Oh, no, that was that way.
	So...
	This is the Community First Lot have done a thing on causes and solutions and I thought it was quite interesting just to go through a couple of these because as we say Why is this coming down?
	So we've got time pressures and changing work patterns.
	I think people are feeling the pinch, along with economic pressures, because we're all poor now, because we're not allowed to do anything.
	The perception of volunteering is a really interesting one.
	Younger generations might view it as unpaid chore, unconnected to their career aspirations.
	I think that actually shows something really devastating there, that civil society is basically dying.
	We don't...
	Do things anymore just because it's the correct thing to do.
	And if anything, I want people to take away from this section that it is the right thing to do and you, watching this, need to finish watching the podcast and then go out and do it.
	Because, yeah, if it's not us, it will be some wokest.
	I think people underestimate the intangible benefits of doing this, which is like, oh, this has no connection to my career aspirations.
	It's like, well, you don't know who you're going to meet, right?
	And if you meet some chap who's starting a business or something and he wants to hire a manager for the region, well, someone who willingly volunteers to organize these things for free, that's a notch on your CV above some guy who doesn't do this, right?
	And so you don't know what networking potential this actually has, which is what it used to be for the boomers, frankly.
	And obviously the next one, it says lack of awareness and accessibility.
	I think this is a bit of a stretch in the social media age, really.
	That people just don't know that volunteering opportunities are out there.
	You know, I can believe this, actually, because it's the sort of siloing effect of social media, right?
	If it never pops up on your feed, then you just don't know about it.
	I think as well, a lot of the people I've had a chat with about this at various events is to say, well, I live in a city.
	And you go, okay.
	There's loads more.
	It's like, well, everywhere's got a parish council.
	You know, everything's...
	And in fact, the park's probably got a volunteer organ.
	You probably have a museum.
	There's probably, you know, two dozen within a mile of your house.
	And you just need to go out and find them, really.
	So, you know, what can be done?
	We've got to promote flexible volunteering options.
	I think that's, yeah, micro-volunteering and all the rest of it.
	This is something that I've actually come across.
	Through the Robey Trust is a lot of it's things like the Duke of Edinburgh's award is a really, really good one and other sort of things.
	I've done little bits with apprentices where they need a community engagement thing and they've come and helped us for a couple of afternoons.
	The incentives, a lot of professional...
	Registration stuff.
	I know that the IMEC and the, to get charter's engineering status, you have to show work in the community and sort of extolling the virtues of engineering.
	Public awareness campaigns, yeah, using social media, national and local stuff.
	Again, things like the National Trust, it's fairly self-evident.
	You just go along to a...
	You know, a National Trust event.
	And the same with English Heritage.
	Corporate volunteering, that's quite an interesting...
	That interested to go back to corporate social responsibility and, of course, ESG and all that sort of stuff.
	What is the corporate social responsibility?
	What is that?
	That is getting brownie points for...
	It's a WEF.
	It's a WEF thing.
	Okay.
	Yeah, fostering team building, employee satisfaction, positive brown reputation.
	Yeah.
	Business community to adopt such programmes.
	So it's all sort of, you know, we're nice people, buy our stuff.
	And finally, the engagement of the younger generations.
	Unfortunately, the last bit of the paragraph where it says, additionally, using social media to promote volunteering in a way that resonates with younger audiences by aligning opportunities with their passions, such as environmental and social justice causes.
	And this is one of the things that...
	It's totally true.
	Yeah, this is one of the things that I find infuriating.
	You look at the demographics.
	Voluntary sectors are dominated by the boomers.
	The boomers get their information from TV.
	There aren't any youngsters, because you haven't shown up, to go, well, what do young people want?
	So where do they go?
	They go to the telly.
	And what do they see on the telly?
	They see some blue-haired weirdo.
	And they go, well, that's a young person, so we must make our organisation like them.
	And one of the big things that we can all do is simply turn up and go, no, actually young people are just normal.
	We do actually align and I want to be a member of the National Trust or I want to be a member of the local museum because I want to preserve the heritage.
	It's not so I can turn it into a social justice anti-slavery campaign.
	I bet if English Heritage came to me and were like, Carl, we need a based campaign that will appeal to the Zoomers, I'd be like, I've got you covered on this.
	It's not going to be very inclusive.
	It's going to be epic.
	I will get you tens of thousands of volunteers.
	And they'll all be lily wet.
	I promise I won't say deus vault too many times.
	So, looking at where it is, I think every town, this, for example, is Tavi, where the Ruby Trust is.
	Every town council has a what's-on section.
	So, you know, you sort it by month.
	And, yeah, it's Zumba classes for, you know, the mums and the art market.
	But there's loads and loads of stuff.
	Happening.
	All the time.
	And there's the annual meeting of the Town Council, and there's all the stuff going on in Butchers Hall.
	You could probably do your own based event that got on this list.
	You could turn up to every single one of these.
	You could probably start something.
	It can be based, but just make sure it sounds like it's normal.
	Absolutely.
	I would say that the Trust event is in there, but I haven't actually told them yet.
	It will be in there imminently.
	Well, there we are.
	My next event with the Roby Trust is our Steam and Vintage Fair on the 1st of June in town.
	So come along and have a chat.
	And it is one of those things, because that was not only was the Trust run by a bunch of original members, but it was also the events were run by the old people.
	And one day they go, well, I don't want to do it anymore.
	And you've just got to step up and you've just got to do it, because if you don't do it, it doesn't happen anymore.
	Or someone woke does it, which is probably worse.
	Which is probably worse.
	Actually, I was talking to the secretary of the trust, who is two years my junior, and he's got a job on South Devon Railway.
	And the manager of the South Devon Railway is now a chap in his 30s.
	And it very much seems that it's our generation are slowly sort of clawing off the older ones.
	And it has led to...
	Unpleasantness in the past.
	A lot of these organisations, you know, I say, yeah, go and join.
	Find something in your town and go and join it.
	And you'll probably find it's full of old people who've been doing it for 40 years.
	And they'll go, oh yeah, lovely, lovely, lovely.
	And then give you a job to do.
	And then because you've not done it as they did it, then they'll want it back.
	And it might come.
	You're just going to have to wrestle.
	Our nation's heritage out of the boomers' claws, because they, again, being the last men of history, they'd rather see it die with them, and you're going to have to go, no!
	Actually, this medieval manor house has been here for eight centuries, and it will continue to be on, and that means you have to die, and I have to keep it going!
	And that's not an imposition on their character, that's just the way of the world.
	It's just the way that they were as well.
	I do think that the millennials are slightly better at it because we're in our 30s now, the sort of tranche that I was in, and we're already looking at the next lot.
	So we've already got 15, 16-year-olds and we're training them up.
	We're quite old now by the standards of them.
	So there was definitely a disconnect and it's our job to re-stitch that.
	Links back together again.
	And it is going to be hard work, unfortunately.
	But it's satisfying, right?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's the thing.
	You actually get to do something you enjoy and actually make sure that, you know, it's all in good saying, oh, someone will do it.
	Well, no, you can be that someone and make sure it's done.
	You know, you can guarantee it's done.
	If not you, who?
	If not now, when?
	And it's not to brag or anything, but I'm on...
	Chair two committees sit on a further two and watch another three.
	And it's like, yeah, it's hard work, but it's got to be done.
	But again, you open the doors to networking events you didn't know could come along because you weren't there to get that opportunity.
	Well, it's funny, after the...
	If you weren't doing these things, you wouldn't be sat here now.
	Well, exactly.
	So it's like you never know where you'll end up.
	After the last Witan, I started playing with the idea of putting gasworks in town.
	And because of all this stuff and going to the Civic Ball and all the rest of it, the town was fully on board.
	They were like, yeah, it sounds amazing.
	What do you want?
	In fact, you could go there.
	Brilliant.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, you go to the Civic Ball and they get six drinks on board and then they come up and say, oh, what's the latest on that?
	You know, so it's all about building the social capital.
	Yeah.
	And actually, if you...
	This is how you do it.
	If you can get into these circles, because they're very, very small circles.
	It's not hard to break into them.
	And it's not hard to break into them.
	And then they suddenly go, oh yeah, that chap, he's sound.
	Actually, he's alright.
	He's alright.
	So, yeah, it's a quick little section, really, just on the importance of getting involved in a non-political way.
	Because a lot of this is like litter picking and making sure the parish hall is painted.
	It's not glamorous.
	No, and the church graveyard is kept clean.
	The lawns are mowed and the allotments look nice and all that sort of stuff.
	But it's all the stuff that is necessary to live in a nice place.
	To have a civilisation.
	And if you live in a place that's a bit rough around the edges, maybe you could be the one to smooth them off.
	Because if it's not you, it's going to be somebody else.
	And it'll probably be some insufferable pink-haired wokist.
	Or it doesn't get done at all.
	Or it just falls into complete dilapidation.
	So, yes.
	One of my other projects, of course, is I'm still working on the coal replacement for the steam engines.
	Because coal is being an interesting issue at the moment.
	I think I've got some Polish at the moment.
	We did our South African, which was like burning bricks.
	It was useless.
	Don't we have British coal anymore?
	Oh yeah, but we can't get it.
	Lots and lots and lots.
	I looked this up the other day.
	We've got something like 108 billion tons of coal.
	Oh, it's mad.
	And we're importing coal from Japan instead now.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Yeah, the reason this gun thought works is where it is.
	You're saying South African coal is of a poor quality.
	I'm saying that the coal merchant wasn't entirely truthful about the quality of his coal.
	It turned out a third of it was rocks.
	Yes.
	My engine's not steaming properly, clunk.
	Oh, right.
	That doesn't set fire.
	So you can support me there, you can support me on...
	On Ko-Fi, if you're still mad at Patreon for kicking Carl off all those years ago.
	Which you should be.
	Which you should be.
	I haven't given my account back yet.
	Have they not?
	Everything else I've got back, apart from my Patreon account.
	That's amazing.
	Not allowed to use it now.
	Or you can simply follow me on Twitter, where you get a selection of either base takes or pictures of my onions on the allotment as they come up.
	There's another couple of weeks and I'll be able to take the nets off them.
	So yeah, that's mine.
	Get involved.
	And not in a political weird way, in a normal, I want to live in a nice place kind of way.
	That's the important distinction.
	Do we have video comments today, Samson?
	And lots of people are very happy that you're back, by the way.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	RGH particularly.
	That's very kind of you.
	Hosep says, Beau's miscalculation with Canada is because he isn't Canadian.
	The Canadian identity has been completely destroyed and replaced...
	By the idea that they just aren't Americans.
	Trump is a threat to the only semblance of national identity they have left.
	It's kind of like the Irish identity.
	It's just hollowed out.
	It's like, oh, we just hate the English.
	It's like, okay.
	I mean, there is, like, an authentic Irish identity, you know, based on strange answers and things like that.
	But now it's just, we hate the English.
	What a pathetic thing.
	It's sad.
	It's not casting shade at Canadian people.
	No.
	But what a pathetic thing.
	It's sad.
	Yeah.
	Squalid.
	Because the Canadians, I mean, when I was young, Canada had a very definite identity, right?
	It's like the Mounties and the politeness.
	Yeah, right, yeah.
	You know, like, very no-nonsense chaps, you know, is how the Mounties were portrayed.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And now it's just, like, woke liberals screeching about Trump.
	It's like, okay, that's a downgrade.
	Like, per capita, I think Canadians have won the most VCs.
	Stuff like that, yeah.
	You can't live in a place like Canada and not be an absolute chad.
	And for some reason, they've got wimpy wokists representing them everywhere on the international stage.
	I thought it was really sad when...
	In Keir Starmer's comment about the election and he said, oh yeah, you know, it's great.
	We're looking to build our relationships with Canada, you know, based on history and values.
	They're literally ruled by the king.
	They're literally like our actual cousins.
	They're not history and values.
	It's blood.
	It's our second cousins out there.
	They're literally like a core part of the British Empire.
	What are you talking about?
	As if this is a newly discovered nation or something in the Amazon.
	Yeah.
	There's no history there at all.
	We're going to build a new relationship with our ancestors.
	Yes, with people who are English-speaking, English common law, have a parliament, are ruled by our king.
	What are you talking about?
	Anyway, let's go to the video comments.
	And so it was that Carl Benjamin stepped off the path of destiny and into the wilderness of cosmic chaos.
	For in refusing to have more children, never would Alfred Benjamin be born to overthrow Parliament and establish the English Wet in Agamot.
	Nor would Edward Benjamin, who would subjugate the Scots and the French.
	Nor Oliver Benjamin, who would re-annex Ireland.
	Nor would Victoria Benjamin, who would suppress India and China.
	Worst of all, we would never have Richard Benjamin, who would lead us in the first great cyber crusade against the forces of Mecca Islam.
	He eschewed hope and chose the dark timeline.
	Look, man, I've got four kids.
	It's enough.
	It's enough.
	My other kids will have to have those things placed on their shoulders instead, but that was very good.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Something perhaps I didn't explain well enough on the last hangout was my idea of stormtrooping.
	Rather than seizing and holding a point against a foe, humans have throughout history resulted to striking hard and fast and then withdrawn quickly, like the Vikings or the trench readers of World War I. The left uses this strategy when criticizing their opponents, mocking a disabled reporter, transgender mice, saying the Nazis show the Jews' compassion, and then moving on to criticize the next thing without defending their last point.
	The seriousness of the accusations and the sheer volume of criticism paints a negative picture in most people's minds, despite the individual claims being obvious bunk when examined.
	Great point.
	And a great way of describing it as well.
	The way the left uses the headlines.
	It's like stormtroopers and then just retreats from the point and don't care.
	The damage is done, so what difference does it make?
	The only problem I'd say about that is it is still a deconstructivist outlook.
	You're not building anything in the back lines.
	And of course the stormtroopers ultimately lost because they burned themselves out.
	Sure.
	And they also sound cool.
	I don't want to make them sound cool.
	Stormtrooper, yes.
	Well, just stormtrooper makes you sound like a boss.
	It sounds cool.
	That's not good.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Poachers killed 35 rhinos in South Africa's Kruger National Park in January and February.
	A sudden increase in rhino poaching can be attributed but mostly to continuous demand by an international market.
	120 rhinos released into Greater Kruger as part of the rhino rewild following the purchase of the John Hume herd of 2,000 animals are not thought to be among the dead.
	The question around do we have enough manpower and I think the answer is really simple, we will never have enough manpower.
	you.
	I didn't even know this was happening.
	Rhinos are one of my favourite great animals.
	I don't know why.
	I just always like the sort of attitude they seem to have.
	It's just strike first, ask questions later.
	They don't seem to be as openly malevolent as hippos either, which is nice.
	They don't want to keep to themselves until you...
	Piss them off and then they charge you.
	Whereas hippos are malicious and just like blood.
	I like rhinos as well.
	It's a shame if they did go extinct.
	Oh yeah, it'd be tragic.
	Let's go to the next one.
	There's an ongoing debate in Australia about the welcome to country ceremony, often claimed as an ancient tradition, but created in 1976, not part of Aboriginal culture before then.
	Many want it removed from government and public events, arguing it divides Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
	I understand their frustration.
	These ceremonies are designed to make non-Indigenous Australians feel like outsiders in their own country.
	you
	I haven't been following this.
	Yeah, it's a very interesting point.
	I've not seen it, but it is one of those things like Welsh nationalism is these days, whereas actually it was all invented in the 80s.
	Wicca.
	Yeah.
	It's all nonsense.
	So, yeah, get rid.
	Yeah, I totally agree.
	Is there another one, Samson?
	The last one.
	Here's just a short bit of wholesome content to show you the blooming of our cherry tree in the back of my yard.
	We'll be having a little Sakura Matsuri, or a cherry blossom celebration, this evening.
	We have cherry trees in England.
	You can use the English word.
	We've got cherry trees on my bloody estate.
	They look lovely as well.
	I like spring a lot because of the blossoms, blooms.
	Yeah, mine's come out as well, although mine's an ornamental cherry, so it doesn't look quite that nice.
	Actually, no, the pear tree is usually the one that looks better.
	Do we have a follow-up on the stormtrooping?
	In my last video comment, I explained what stormtrooping was, and the reason it's important is because in a democracy, public opinion matters, and if you can convince the wider public that a person or an idea is good or bad or misinformation, no matter how you do it, you can sway elections and receptivity to legislation and public policy.
	The best way to counter stormtrooping is to challenge a person when they make a claim, preferably publicly, and then demand they stake their stance on a bunch of other issues they already supported, which you can then debunk one by one, pick the battle, and defeat them in detail.
	If you can make them seem not credible to everyone else, you can more easily convince people that their claims are not to be taken seriously.
	Spot on.
	And this actually goes into my bit about volunteering, is that you have to stand there and accept battle, essentially.
	They come in and say, you're a racist, and you go, well, that may be, but I'm not going anywhere.
	And then they have a mental breakdown and leave.
	Thanks so much for noticing.
	Mason says, sorry, gents, but sometimes I think the blinkers can be on when it comes to Trump.
	I don't think we were very complimentary towards Trump, this podcast.
	Trump acts on instinct, not 4D chess out of the deal cope.
	Agreed.
	He was fed bad information about the impact on the Tariff War, and slapping widespread tariffs on both friend and enemy was foolhardy.
	I was literally criticising him.
	Sorry, what was that?
	You said that so fast, I didn't...
	Like, the Tariff War, he had bad information about the impacts of the tariffs, and slapping widespread tariffs on both friend and foe was foolhardy.
	I thought I said that.
	Sorry, I...
	I don't think...
	That was the expert advice to Trump.
	I think it was rather the other way round.
	I think that was Trump acting out.
	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
	Because all of the experts are going, are you insane?
	Trump has had this be in his bonnet for literally decades, like since the 80s.
	You can see him talking about Oprah Winfrey and stuff like that.
	And so I just think he's just carried that across to now.
	But yeah, I don't think we were being complimentary towards Trump in that.
	I'm pretty sure I was saying that he was...
	Wrong.
	So, I don't think we have the blinkers on there.
	Rob says, I get the triumphalism that Trump and the MAGA movement have, but saying that this 51st state, the American right, pulled up the ladder for conservative elsewhere in the West.
	Yeah, that's the issue.
	So we now have really ludicrous reality that liberals are claiming the cause of national patriotism.
	Yes, well, in these countries, they made being patriotic left-wing.
	That's silly.
	Gabriel says, It just seems obvious that this 51st state nonsense in conjunction with the tariffs has handed it to the Liberals who previously had zero arguments to stay in power.
	Yeah, I'd be immensely pissed off if I were a Canadian Conservative that Liberals have been given the ammunition to mobilise the vote in their favour.
	And yeah, like I said, Pierre Polivier must just be like...
	Brilliant.
	That's me done.
	He's not even old, is he?
	So, you know, he's like, what, 40 or something, right?
	He must be 45, yeah, so he's got 20 years left.
	Yeah, yeah, so that's...
	Thanks, Trump.
	Chase says, the Liberal victory is largely due to Trump resurrecting civic nationalism in the boomers' minds.
	They're consumed by TDS.
	Look at the polling among old and young voters.
	Yeah, we did.
	We did.
	Let's go on some other parts.
	Grant says, I'm so effing annoyed at Trump.
	His bull in a Chinese shop approach to international affairs cost Polyver a massive lead and our country is effed now.
	I don't think Carney
	Yes, it will.
	Poliver losing his seat is fine because the deputy conservative leader is also based.
	But more importantly, Jagmeet Singh, our insane leftist party leader, also lost his seat.
	And there's no one else in that party that can do anything.
	Well, that's good to know.
	That's interesting.
	And that Texas gal says, it's not Trump's fault that Canada is cucked.
	It's a fair point.
	It's a fair point, but the thing is, the thing is, again, I can't help but come back to Machiavelli on this.
	It's like, look, you have to accept men as they are, not how they ought to be.
	And unfortunately, the Canadians are cucked and have been for quite some time.
	But if it helps, we're cucked too.
	The West everywhere is cucked, right?
	So, you know, you've got to accept us as we are and help bring us into the base new future rather than being like, well, I guess it's just...
	Globalism everywhere but here.
	It's like, okay, well, you know, see how that works out.
	Korak says, this Serco thing could be a good thing.
	As you said, the Lib Dems would be the biggest racist if they experienced cultural enrichment.
	Just a thought.
	Well, none of them were Lib Dem areas.
	No.
	Lib Dem areas are all the sort of southwest and southeast.
	They were all in the northwest and sort of...
	East Anglia.
	Middle band, wasn't it?
	Yeah, these are traditionally labour areas, and so the Lib Dems are still not getting the machetes running down their streets, unfortunately.
	Because I am right about the Liberal Democrats.
	They are racists.
	They're just really polite racists.
	And so Ed Davey and his talking on the train thing, that's a purely English prejudice.
	Oh, yeah.
	Deeply, deeply English prejudice.
	And it's just like, no, I hate whoever's making that noise.
	I'm totally colourblind as the person.
	Okay, yeah, no, I agree with you, Ed.
	But every single one of them will be brown.
	Every single person you arrest on that will be a foreigner.
	So, you know, they are a racist party, which is just really funny.
	Omar says, a lot of people want to be compassionate, but it's such a blatant kick in the teeth that foreigners are prioritised over struggling natives on the back of our taxes.
	Yeah, it's crazy how insulting it is.
	It's really insufferable.
	That's one of the fundamental things, is the English are a very, very generous people, but we...
	The reason we invented all sports is because we like fair play.
	And this is just so obviously unfair.
	This is no argument.
	How dare you?
	I don't know.
	I hate to think about where it's going to go, but you're exactly right.
	The English obsession with sports has often been quite a strange thing to foreigners.
	They're not into sports in the way that we've been into sports.
	Most countries just haven't invented a sport.
	What do you think about?
	What's the German sport?
	What's the Italian sport?
	They're all playing football.
	That's our sport.
	You know, what's the Indian sport?
	Cricket.
	Because we invented it.
	Like, Pakistan, cricket.
	Like, you know, what's the African sport?
	What's the South American sport?
	They don't care about sports.
	We care about sports.
	We're weird about it.
	It's funny, we're, not funny, haha, but when we talk about this thing, well, because sometimes you say funny and there'll be a fedora tipper saying, What's funny about it?
	Where I've talked about, and other people have talked about, that the consequence of all of this is sort of a balkanisation.
	And then the nightmare scenario of what happened in Yugoslavia in the 90s.
	And some people, I hope not hate people, or just lefty traitor people, say that I, or people that say that, we're the insane ones for thinking that's where it's going to end up.
	That we've got a bloodlust, that we want it to end up that way.
	I never wanted any of this.
	Of course not!
	I'm trying, doing everything in our power to avoid it ending up in a Yugoslavia 1990 situation.
	I just wanted to play video games.
	Yeah.
	I really did.
	I didn't want any of this.
	But anyway, unfortunately at that point we're out of time.
	So, Alex, thank you so much for joining us.
	Go follow him on his socials.
	And we will be back...
	Is tomorrow?
	We're not doing anything...
	No, I think it's just tomorrow.
	So have a great evening and we'll see you then.

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