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Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eaters episode 1200.
Nice round number today, folks.
I'm your host Harry, joined by Bo and Dan, because sadly Stephen couldn't make it in today.
So Dan has graciously chosen to jump in and cover Rachel Reeves crying and what it could mean for the future of this country.
Jaguar is being covered by Bo and whether they've hit rock bottom and judging by the new sales figures is not looking good.
What a big surprise.
Who could have predicted that one?
Absolutely no one.
And also I'm going to talk about how Maloney has betrayed Italy.
And you may be thinking, didn't you guys do a segment on that a few months ago?
Yeah, she's done it again.
I was going to say again.
She's betrayed them again.
Yes.
She keeps doing it.
I'm beginning to think that there was something to this idea that populists aren't always all that.
They're not exactly what they make themselves out to be.
Either way, I think we've got Common Sense Crusade going on after this.
Is that right, Samson?
Yes, it is.
So if you've got membership to the website, which if you don't, I hate you.
Then if you do have website membership, then you can watch that later.
And please do give Calvin your support.
With that, let's get into it.
So I was on the podcast on Tuesday, and I made reference to the fact that I felt like one of these foremen at a dangerous work site who has to put, you know, the sign up zero days since last death or something like that.
Except with me, it's number of days since I've had to criticize Rachel Reeves.
And I managed to get up to two days this time, and we're going back to zero.
Some would say your criticism is why she's crying.
She just couldn't be crying.
She'd really count it in hours if anything.
Yes, yes.
I'll get up to slightly more impressive numbers than that.
I also made the comment on Tuesday's podcast that she's clearly out of her depth and she needs to be doing something a bit more her speed.
And I suggested at the time maybe running the finances for a bathroom fitters and daggon or something.
And after yesterday's podcast.
What about doing the dishes?
Well, all that, yes.
I mean, I don't know if she's childless or not.
I mean, it wouldn't surprise me.
Running a school cafeteria.
Well, I think the Daggenham Bathroom Fitters job is out of her league now after her screw-up yesterday.
But, you know, maybe she could manage the finances of one of those little kiosks that pull up and serve sausage rolls or something like that.
She might still be able to get that.
Because, well, yesterday, before I come to the lovely clip of her breaking down in tears in Parliament, I'm sort of sat there and because I've got my portfolio set up to give me an alert if it goes through certain boundaries.
And I looked at, oh, bloody hell, what's happened here?
You know, has the Fed cut rates or something?
Has a new Federal Reserve Chairman been appointed or something like that?
And it's no, it's just that I've got American stocks and the pound tank so much causing stuff to relatively go up.
But yeah, no, what it was is during PMQs yesterday, well, let's play the video, Samson.
She managed to completely break down in tears and start crying, sending market into turmoil.
There she is, breaking down in tears.
Just to be clear, she's crying for herself.
She's not crying for you or all the people that are.
Her career.
Yes.
It's tears for her career.
And it's so performative.
If you get a tear that runs down your cheek, you wipe it away or it tickles you.
don't just leave it like rolling down unless you want everyone to see.
I mean, she looked like she's been on an all-night bend.
I mean, she looks like she hasn't slept for a month or something.
Haggard, AF.
Yes.
There were efforts made by containment media to try and suggest, you know, it could just, you know, let's play this.
Let's listen to the excuses.
And we do not know what is going on with the Chancellor right now.
There are.
Hay fever.
There may be personal reasons.
There might be private reasons.
There might be conditions like hay fever.
To be honest, let you into the sausage factory, Jane, we are asking her team.
We have not had a reply.
I mean, no, I get hay fever, and it's caused by trees.
It's not caused by being utterly incompetent at my job and ruining the economy.
So that doesn't trigger hay fever.
It's like she had the snuffles.
No.
And I get hay fever.
I had it yesterday, in fact.
You didn't get your eyes out, you were.
Yeah, like your eyes itch, and at the very worst, they might water a bit, but you don't stream tears.
Well, okay, in extreme cases, you do.
But that obviously, what was happening to her clearly wasn't a hay fever reaction.
Well, and it's not just her.
I mean, look at the state of the women on the front bench.
I mean, just look at look at this.
They do look like they're hanging.
They look like the HR department of a university that's just been out on the source all night and haven't slept and they're coming for an important meeting or something.
The underlying problem is this.
As was it, Sam Ashworth Hayes makes the point here.
It's that labor is the party of the worklist class.
Disability benefits is basically an honesty box.
I mean, especially after COVID, that was the huge spike in this.
Doctors signed off on basically anything during COVID.
So loads of people thought, well, if they're going to pay people to sit around and not work, why don't I just do this full-time then?
Why don't I just go and get myself signed off?
And you've got 8% of the working population is now just claiming disability benefits.
So, you know, this can't add up.
And they made various promises in their manifesto, but they weren't going to raise taxes and then immediately raise taxes.
They ideologically just can't cut the state.
In fact, they have to keep on growing it until the NHS consumes the entire local cluster.
They just can't hold themselves back.
And these sums aren't adding up anymore.
Thus, the climb downs and the U-turns they made yesterday.
Morgan weighed in on this, making the point that if a male chancellor had cried in the commons.
Oh, and the other story was that it was because of a row with a speaker.
I won't play the clip of the row with the speaker, but he was basically, he was incredibly mild.
She was just waffling on, and he just stood up and cut her off and said, basically, we need to get through this or something like that.
Sort of stuff that Carl says every time he's on the podcast, we've just got to get through this in the interest of time.
It was as mild as that.
And so that was the excuse.
I mean, she looks like...
Yes.
How old is your daughter?
18 months.
Right.
Probably not the sort of exact face.
Probably not bald.
I would suggest that your daughter and Rachel Reeves are unsuitable candidates to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Well, I don't know.
You've not given her a go.
I mean, she can't be any worse.
She can't be any worse than Rachel, but you know, all the same, not necessarily.
This chap is making the point that, you know, as chaps, we do have a sort of visceral reaction to seeing a woman cry.
The first instinct might be sympathy.
And not these people.
I don't see politicians as people anyway, so.
Yes.
My view is that no matter how woeful she feels, it is nowhere near as close as to how she made all those farmers and business owners to, I think the latest figure shows 276,000 jobs have been lost since her budget, where she raised the taxes on jobs.
And you can look at the chart of net job creation.
And basically, it's blue bars until her budget, her last budget, where she put the taxes up on jobs and employers and national insurance.
And after that, immediately red bars.
And the red bars keep getting bigger every month.
So last count, we're up to 276,000 jobs lost as a result of her last budget when she increased taxes on jobs.
Not to mention, you know, the farmer's suicides, because Labour came into office and they just thought, well, farmers are sitting on land worth millions.
Not that they ever asked for it to be worth millions.
They've been farming it for multiple generations.
And it's just that the price of the land has gone up completely outside of their control.
But Labour came in and they saw these farmers got all this land which is worth millions.
Well, if they've got millions, what would take it off them then?
Yeah, they see even hypothetical money as money that is owed to the government.
And ideologically, these people are essentially kulaks.
Yes.
And commies don't like kulaks.
Yes.
They're the type that are likely to not go along with the revolution.
Yes.
Yeah, quite.
And this poor chap on the right, I mean, been farming for generations, wanting to pass his farm on to his son, was looking at Rachel Reed's budget coming and how it was going to hit farmers.
And he thought, well, we can't afford this.
You know, farming is a capital-intensive business.
Just because your land has now, in the last few decades, has shot up does not mean that you suddenly get more capital to invest in the business.
It's locked up in the land.
You literally need the land to farm.
And he was looking at it.
He was like, well, the only way that I can protect my family, I can protect my legacy, is to go out before the budget hits.
And so he did the only thing that he felt he could, which was to basically finish himself so that his farm could move on before the budget.
I mean, that is the, you know, of the many things that Rachel Reeves has screwed up through incompetence, greed, and all the rest.
And there was the other aspect of it as well, which is if they do end up having to sell up the land so that they can afford the enormous bill that you get just for dying.
Sorry, you've died.
Your kids are going to have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds to pay that they don't have in liquid assets.
So they're going to have to sell things up.
Well, who's going to buy it up?
Well, it was probably going to be BlackRock and other massive investment firms so that they can give it off to New Britain so that massive industrial farms can be made and higher.
The redition option.
Yeah.
We just take it off the people who actually know how to farm.
You know, magically it will be okay somehow.
And then it's not.
It's worth remembering what the London intelligence and the media classes were telling us about this incoming Labour government.
let's see we can play this because i completely agree with the questionnaire we have forces of I completely agree with the questionnaire.
We have to be optimistic looking forward.
I think just having a stable government that will be there for five, maybe ten years, who knows, but with sort of ordinary, down-to-earth, serious people talking like the rest of us in charge of the government and a plan that doesn't shift very much for investment is going to mean a wall of money coming into this country from around the world.
You look at the chaos going on in the continent, particularly in France.
You look at the chaos likely ahead in the United States.
And suddenly, for once, for the first time in many of our lives, actually Britain looks like a little haven of peace and stability.
and that is...
Andrew Maher is an idiot and a douchebag and a wolf in sheep's clothing and a globalist, pretending that he's some sort of reasonable thrown ups on English history, don't you know?
But you get the expectation.
We're going to be an island of stability.
Inward investment is going to soar.
Sensible people in charge, maintaining calm.
I made the point yesterday on the podcast that the international and financial markets are basically a confidence game.
You need to project confidence internationally so that investors can think there's going to be stability so they invest and bring money in.
That's not confidence.
No, I mean the international markets see that and they go like, well, I'm taking my money elsewhere.
I mean, they're redesigning the banknotes at the moment, as they tend to do periodically.
I mean, this has been suggested as a possible design for the £20 note.
I mean, it just sums up the UK economy at this point, you know, beautifully.
This.
I've been there.
Getting the job versus actually doing the job.
Remember the message when she came in?
You know, first female Chancellor.
Now, you know, I think the idea is something like little girls get to grow up saying that, you know, one of their own gender can screw up a job that was traditionally done by men and that's supposed to inspire them somehow.
So, yeah, I forget the exact logic, but...
Not entirely, is it?
No.
What did she expect?
You're Chancellor of the Exchequer in, what, the world's fifth biggest economy, or eighth biggest economy, whatever.
Yeah, it's a really, really important, high-power job.
Yeah, it's going to be super stressful and it will age you beyond your years.
Yeah.
Yes.
It's a difficult job.
Yeah.
But they didn't think in those terms.
They just think, yeah, I got the job.
On the first one.
Yeah, it's fine.
Put a picture of a commie up in the office.
Stephen, who was going to be on the podcast, who can't make it, he has relevant points that he made all the way back in January.
Let's go to 249, I think, somewhere around there.
You know, you've got to look at the way that she has come in.
She has seemed erratic to me in many ways in some of these statements that she's coming.
But really, when she's turning around and saying that she's got the whole of the economy set, that public finances are set, and yet she's got worse debt figures coming in.
The markets have risen interest rates to a higher level than that of Liz Truss.
And we've already seen markets fall.
We've got the aim market now collapsing by another 6%.
Companies relisting in other countries.
And business people turning around and saying, this is only the start with Sterling falling too.
Yeah, I mean, he's absolutely wrong.
I mean, talking about businesses relocating, I mean, he's talking there about smaller businesses, aimed businesses relocating.
But we just found out today that AstraZeneca, the largest company in the UK stock market, wants to relocate to the US.
You know, we did all lockdowns for them.
And they said, thank you very much.
Now we're off to the US.
Well, but also, let's not think, we did lockdowns to save Granny, and now Labour's voted to kill Granny.
Well, that was the purported reason why we did it.
Actually, they voted in multiple ways to kill Granny.
Oh, yeah.
They're going to get Granny one way or another.
No farms to feed them, no electricity to keep them warm during winter.
And now if it all just gets a bit too much for them, the NHS will...
You've been put through to the, you know, they'll just say death squads through the death squad.
This is the sort of point I was referencing when I sort of got my alert earlier.
I mean, the effect.
So I mean, you made the point just now that Chancellor needs to project confidence.
And look, fundamentally, the reason is, and actually, there was a brilliant quote from an MP, a Labour MP.
It was overheard.
And it was, I don't understand why this means tax rises.
Talking about the U-turns on the spending bill, what they're doing.
I don't understand why this means tax rises when it's only a few billion pounds.
That's how MPs think.
Well, you can see the result there of the pound, which sort of immediately tanked after this.
And the other thing you always say, and you've seen it on Twitter with lefties basically making the point, well, why should we have to care what the bond market thinks?
Why are we being hot to the bond market?
I'll tell you the reason why we're in hot to the bond market is because we're borrowing 25 billion a month from them.
That's why you cannot fund this government, with this socialist program, without going to the bond market for 25 billion every month.
I mean, put it this way.
If you were running your household and you were earning, you know, whatever it was, £100 a week, but you're spending £125 a week and some bloke down the street was lending you the difference, what the bloke down the street thinks matters.
And to put this again in bond market terms, what the bloke down the street is looking for is that you have a plan, that you have some level of confidence, that he's going to get his 25 quid a month a week paid back at some future point.
He doesn't necessarily have to love your plan.
He doesn't have to think it's the plan that he would do, but he wants to see that you have a plan for how you're going to get back on your feet.
And that requires, to your point, the confidence.
If she has a plan and she's acting on it, fine.
If she's losing her shit in Parliament, clearly there's no plan.
It's all got away from her.
And that face earlier was the face of somebody who has lost control of the situation.
Of herself.
Don't cry in Parliament.
No.
Sorry, don't do that.
You don't do that.
Especially not in this role.
Like on the front bench during PMQs.
It's all performative.
Now, if you really need to have a little grizzle, love, go do it in your private office when there's no cameras on you.
You're supposed to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for God's sake.
You're like the rest of us.
Go cry in private.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, especially for the job like the Chancellor.
You're supposed to be a bulwark of strength, right?
You're supposed to be this indomitable, like money master.
You're supposed to be an unflappable genius, right?
That's what a Chancellor you want in a Chancellor, right?
I mean, again, I'm no huge fan of Margaret Thatcher, but like if you're comparing to former female statesmen in England, then did Margaret Thatcher, after Falklands, during that, at any point, did she start weeping on the weekend?
On stage?
On the day that she left, her eyes were moist.
Yeah, that was it.
Yeah.
Her eyes were starry on that day.
During the big important stuff, when she was addressing Argentina or something, did she break down crying?
Would that have been great for the war effort?
No.
And even when she did get mistaken, that was only a paparazzi caught that through the back of a car window.
Yes.
She wasn't like giving a press conference.
No.
I'm trying to remember.
Did Liz Truss even cry?
No, no, Theresa May did, though.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
In the back of the car, yeah.
When Theresa May resigned, she came out and had a little cry, didn't she?
Yes.
Yes.
The girls can do these jobs too, you see.
Reuters have got some reaction from bond traders.
Again, these are the people who are funding the UK government.
The UK government cannot meet its monthly obligations without the bond market.
So it does kind of matter.
So I might pick out a few bits of this.
This guy's saying the welfare U-turn is a signal that the Labour Party is a lot less concerned about what the guilt market thinks.
And they're the ones that are borrowing the money from.
I continue to view it as if you breached your own commitments, it sets fire to your credibility in a world where there's increasing focus on the solvency of governments.
He's saying, you know, we're lending them all this money.
We're increasingly worried that we're not going to get it back.
So you need to project confidence that we're actually going to get our money back.
Otherwise, we're not going to lend you any money.
And then the whole thing falls apart.
I mean, it would have to, I mean, if the bond market just said, yeah, no, we're not doing this anymore.
It would have to be rapid wholesale cuts.
I mean, it would be, you know, welfare's just turned off tomorrow, pensions turned off tomorrow in order to sort of meet this.
Honorius's letter to the British Legions.
Sorry, we're rolling back all government and all security and from like now.
So good luck.
Well, I suppose if they did that, though, it'd be an excellent test case on how strong our diversity really is.
Because you switch off the tap for them, the thing that's keeping them happy is their bread and circuses.
Yes.
Making sure they've got all the halal meat stocked.
How are they going to react to all of this?
There might be some undocumented shopping that takes place afterwards on maps.
peaceful shopping.
This quote here, the Bank of England is obviously reviewing quantity tightening, which is basically...
What he's basically saying is the government's going to have to start printing money again by autumn because it can't get the money otherwise.
So we're going to go back to printing money.
And that'll be a slippery slope to hyperinflation and the next massive collapse.
Yeah.
And all they'll be able to do is inflate the money, inflate it, inflate it, inflate.
There's nothing else to do.
And we already saw that after 2020.
I mean, everyone noticed that from about, say, now to, say, 2019, I bet everybody's felt that their shopping bill has basically doubled.
The amount you spend on your weekly shop.
I feel like this might age badly, this take, but I feel like in the future, in the next 10 to 20 years, we might get hyperinflation in this country or in the United States.
I mean, hyperinflation has a specific meaning, which is really extreme, but I know what you mean.
But I still think it might get there, where they just keep quantitative easing, trying to print their way out of the problem.
I mean, certainly won't work.
You could see a sustained period of 15, 20, maybe even 30, 40% year after year, which will be absolutely ruinous for your costs and your weekly shop and the money.
It can fall off a cliff and then suddenly just be thousands of percent a week.
I mean, if it did get to that, I'd be very interested because the hyperinflation that I've read about in the past has been like you go into a restaurant, by the time you've finished your meal, it's more expensive than when you got in there.
I mean, that would be disastrous.
I mean, it probably wouldn't get quite that bad, but I mean, just 20% a year is utterly ruinous.
Utterly ruinous for a nation.
I won't go through more quotes, but the effect on bond yields, because when they went, basically what happened, and I didn't go through the rest of those quotes, but cut a long story short, one of the things they're most worried about is that she gets replaced.
And this is not because they think that she's a good chancellor, it's that they think that every other option is probably worse.
You know, can you imagine who's that?
Oh, the ginger one.
What, Angela Rayner?
Yeah, I mean, she could be chancellor or David Lammy or something, or any one of the other socialists.
So the bond market is like, yeah, she's a goner.
I don't know.
Have we ever given Chav economics a go?
No.
Yeah.
Well, and look at this chart.
Let me just translate this chart for you.
That's an extra $2 billion in funding the debt short term.
And if it persists, it's an extra $5 billion in servicing the debt, that little movement.
So it doesn't look like much, but this is bonds, not stocks.
So a movement like that is actually fairly meaningful.
I'm going to pick up an article by Ray Dalio.
He's one of the greatest investors of our age, and he's written some very good books, which I talked about on Brokonomics, which are worth reading.
Now, there's one bit of this that I want to pull out, which is...
*sad music*
The Labour government that came to power in July 2024 and launched its first budget, blah, blah, blah, is in danger of spending more and more on debt servicing costs with a damaging effect on the rest of the economy.
Dalio said that this malaise leaves the government with three options.
Borrow more, cut spending, or hike taxes.
Now, I'll tell you why you can't do two of those.
Borrowing more is because it's not within your option.
The bond market says, no, we're not lending it.
It doesn't get lent.
Cut spending, I mean, that is the only real option out of all of this.
However, that's the one that they've ruled out, and they just ruled out yesterday with their U-turns.
So that is the only one that you can actually do, but it's the only one that they won't do.
And the last one, which they can't do, but they will try to do, hike taxes.
The reason you can't do that is because each country basically has a kind of natural ceiling for taxation.
In the UK, it's about 30-something, maybe 37%, if I had to put a number on it.
and we're basically already past that.
No, as in total share of national income that you can gain in taxes.
And the reason it's set to that is because if you push it beyond that level, you get all these feedback mechanisms, such as rich people leaving the country, people just working less, people not bothering taking a promotion or changing a job if it means an extra 20 minutes of travel in the morning, or people basically going to the black economy.
There are a whole number of mechanisms that stop, and the UK government has never been able to get past that 37%.
It just doesn't work.
So once you're at that level, tax rises actually decrease your tax take because rich people quit or people stop working or whatever it is.
And we are already at that limit.
We've already had people leaving the country, like rich people leaving the country, taking their businesses.
Tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands.
And more are considering all the time because it's just not worth staying here.
So they will try and raise taxes, but it will not work.
So they have to cut spending, which the Labour government, they're never going to do that.
And all the time flooding us with a million more people a year.
Yes.
Which needs to be paid for as well.
I mean, Stephen makes a point here with a video.
I won't play the video in the interest of time, but when Reeves started crying, and you can see it On the chart, quite clearly, the market reacted.
That's what they're reacting to.
They're reacting to the weakness that they should have seen.
And I'll just point out that Kia Starma came out and basically said that she's doing an excellent job as Chancellor, fantastic job.
She and I will be will work together and think together.
So my reaction is that we're gone in a month then.
Yeah, where's the results?
If she's doing a great job, you'd see positive results.
I even tried to go on Bethair to see if I could place a bet on her being gone in a month, but I couldn't find that option.
But yeah, no, Rachel Reeves absolutely ballsing it up.
Yet again, making a complete mess of it.
And as usual, it's costing you.
She's not crying for you that she's making life more difficult.
She's crying for herself, of course.
She'll do those comedy things.
Oh, blimey, there's lots of that.
It's the high cost of being on the rag in Parliament.
You've got a mouse.
Yes.
I better do just a couple of the Tomos Grinder says, Dan, can you explain?
Can you explain why hyperinflation wouldn't happen today?
Well, because hyperinflation is a technical term that means like 1,000% a month or something.
So it's really extreme, but.
There's nothing preventing that from happening.
If they run out of ideas and just keep printing money.
Yeah, I mean, if the debt spiral got bad enough, it is possible.
It's just less likely.
But, you know, even 20, 30% is viable.
What safeguards in place that didn't exist in previous years?
I mean, yeah, I mean, technically, it can happen.
The Engaged View says, in Bows Britain, if someone cries in the Commons, the PM will drag them out behind Parliament and give them a reason to cry.
Unfortunately, we don't live in Bows Britain.
Yeah, any MP caught crying in the House.
Yes.
That's a gibbering.
Yes.
Log at the least.
Bit harsh.
Bit harsh.
All right, so let's talk a little bit about Jaguar, an English car company, although they are owned by Tartar Motors, which are Indian, the Tartar Steel Group.
But they're a wholly subsidiary company, so they're essentially still their own thing.
I mean, they're based in Coventry.
But ultimately Indian now.
Well.
Their overlords are Indian men in India, yeah.
Right.
Oh, well.
But it's still like a British company, Jaguar Land Rover.
You can sort of squint.
I've always been a Bentley supremacist, anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah, I want a McLaren or nothing.
No, so yeah, it was in the news a few weeks, wasn't it?
A few months back, where Jaguar came out with a super woke ad and everyone was just laughing at it.
Well, now the story's come full circle because we've got some data.
And in fact, it did totally tank them.
So that's funny.
Oh, the surprise.
That advert, yes.
Oh, I forgot about that.
Yeah, it was, here's, I think it was, here's an androgynous black person by Jaguar.
Yes.
Well, it was it.
Didn't work on me, I gotta say.
I didn't rush out and buy one.
Yeah, there we go.
Let's see the ad.
I didn't see the connection, to be honest.
Let's see the ad.
So this is like a shorter version.
I think there's longer versions of it, but.
Oh, dear.
What a freak show.
Create what exuberant.
What music have they got over here?
Sex music.
Yeah.
So remember that if you're in the market for buying a jag, you're almost certainly male, pale and stale, right?
You're almost certainly an older dude.
You're wearing a burn.
You're wearing tweed jackets.
You're spending your weekend at the golf club.
Yeah.
You're not looking at that going, yes.
So there is one guy on my street that has a jag, and he is exactly what you just said.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've met jag owners as well.
Yeah.
So it's just a classic example of perfect, almost a perfect example of going woke means you go broke.
Yeah, so apart from anything else that they decided to sort of abandon their audience base by making it like trans, racial and transgender, obviously that was a...
I mean, one of my dream cars of all time is an XJ6.
That is gorgeous.
Yeah.
The XJ6, the XJ12, both lovely motors.
Used to be a prime ministerial car back in Thatcher days, John Major days, early Tony Blair days.
Then you can get, they had a special prime ministerial one that was sort of bomb-proof or semi-bomb proof and bulletproof windows and stuff.
I'd like to get that.
My dream car is an ex-prime ministerial XJ6.
One of my favourite Blair clips is just after he's lost office and he's no longer the Prime Minister.
And he gives his press conference and he walks out and he sees one of those.
And he walks over to it and tries to open the door because he assumes that's the car that he's being chauffeured in.
And it's not.
It's his Vauxhall Corsa behind him.
He was so disappointed.
See, I remember when Top Gear back in the day did a big documentary piece in one of the episodes on the Jag E-Type.
And of course, it was Jeremy doing it because it was the Jag, the way he pronounced it.
And I thought that that, because of that, and also I think the E-Type was used in a Bond film, perhaps.
I know it's always been an Aston Martin, but it might have been shown in one of them.
It just looked like the coolest car ever.
Well, yeah, I was just going to say quickly run through a few.
the XJ series are beautiful, I'd really if I could own any car it might well be They look more like art pieces, don't they?
It's a classic, it's Bill Nighy's car in Sean of the Dead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's an XJ in British Racing Green.
You've got to get it in British Racing Green, if possible.
Oh, look, that is actually Sean of the Dead.
Nick Frost is screaming up to the curb in it.
So yeah, the E-Type, the classic E-Type, beautiful work of art.
I know it's a cliche.
Everyone says they're one of the most beautiful cars ever created, but they are lovely.
Very lovely.
It's a hard top.
Yeah, your classic E-Type.
Yeah, look at the lines.
Any angle.
Yeah, beautiful.
Beautiful cars.
Yeah, more classic stuff.
What is that?
The XK120.
Obviously, very old.
Very old now.
Yeah, but look at that.
Beautiful, right?
And they weren't copying anyone.
And you'd feel a cut above driving around in there, wouldn't you?
Yeah.
I mean, I imagine the brakes are docking.
I imagine there's, like, no brakes.
No power steering.
Yeah, really skinny tyres.
You're not going to have a huge amount of grip.
But it's not about that.
It's about taking your time, isn't it?
It's not about racing.
A Brit, not an Italian, designed that.
Sorry?
And all the more impressive that a Brit, not an Italian.
I mean, because, you know, we get a stick for our design.
But, you know, that's what homegrown, beautiful design looks like.
When Brits make classy cars, we make them good.
Yes.
Yeah.
The D-type.
A bit like an E-type, but a race type.
I mean, it's a race car, essentially.
You get race replicas of them.
I think, actually, some D-types did really well in competitive racing.
Back in the day, I'm talking in the 60s.
The 50s or 60s.
I mean, again, another sort of work of art sort of a thing, isn't it?
But, okay, now, after that advert, that sort of that freak, those freaks, why would you want, why would any Jag, potential Jag owner, see that and think, hmm, that's for me.
Yeah.
That's what I want.
Well, if anything, if I had an outstanding order, I'd cancel it.
So, gynephilia?
Sorry?
Well, if anything, if I had an outstanding order, I'd cancel it, I'd have seen that.
Right, yeah.
Right, you might do.
Well, apparently, they sold practically none.
Well, not none, but they sold, like, 40 or 50 or 80 or something.
I believe if we look...
It's like none.
It's like none.
In April of this year...
I've seen a couple of different numbers, but...
In April of this year, 49 compared with 1,961 last April.
If you scroll up...
So, basically nothing.
I've seen 97% and 98% bandied around.
So, obviously, almost 100%.
It's...
Yeah.
How can you fail any harder, really?
This might even be on Bud Light levels of advertising value.
Yeah.
It's a great example.
The only reason you don't have, like, what's his name?
Kid Rock going out and shooting Jags is because, I mean, that would be a crime if you just went out and shot an old Jag.
Like, because he was shooting the Bud Light cans, wasn't he?
Yeah, the guy collapses to the tune of 98%.
And even look at the way they redesigned the logo of it.
I know.
It's the same kind of, like, minimalist, corpo look that everything has these days.
That's the sort of font I would expect to see on the box of a dildo.
Do you handle many dildo boxes?
No.
No.
And I'm...
It's just an assumption.
But that is what I assume the font is.
Just an assumption.
Yes.
Their tagline was, copy nothing.
Like, they're super original and they're trendsetters.
But no, they're totally copying...
Maybe not in the design of the actual car we'll look at in a sec, but just copying the whole zeitgeist of being really...
I mean, all corpo logos look like that nowadays.
That's like Apple have a similar logo.
Google have a similar logo.
Just stripped back to the bare minimum because that's what's trendy.
But that's not what people are going for with Jaguar.
A while ago, they got rid of the prancing Jaguar that was on the bonnet, on the hood.
Got rid of that.
It's just a token thing.
I actually made this point to Bob Ayling, who's the CEO of British Airways, 25 years ago now.
But do you remember when they redesigned British Airways and they got rid of the flag on the tail and they started putting ethnically diverse people on the wing of it?
And I was talking to him and I was saying, I think this is going to be damaging.
And he shot back.
He said, no, the very worst impact that an advertising campaign that goes wrong can have is no impact.
He can just belt it.
And I was like, no.
Why is he saying that?
If stales stayed the exact same, that would be the worst result as opposed to an almost 100% collapse.
And I tried telling him, no, because your brand is all about Britishness.
The reason people all around the world fly on your airline is because it's British associated and you are detaching the Britishness from the brand.
It will backfire.
And it bloody well did.
Two years later, he had to put the bloody flag back on.
Do you think this might be some kind of roundabout scam where they can say sales collapsed entirely?
They'll do another marketing campaign reversing everything later this year so that next April they can say, see, sales up by 50,000% because we sold more than 49 cars.
They made their connection.
I mean, if we look at the new car, that's what it looks like.
What?
What?
And it looks, who wants to buy that?
It doesn't look awful.
It just looks generic.
Yeah.
Right.
It's interesting they say copy nothing when they've sort of copied the lines from a load of different cars.
See, at the time people were saying...
Recent Bentleys, they still look like Bentleys.
People were saying at the time that it was an awful design.
It looks horrible.
I don't think it does.
I think it looks all right.
If that was in matte black or gunmetal or something, and there was like a Maybach badge on it, or a Bentley badge, people would probably be salivating over it.
I think it looks all right.
I mean, it's not amazing.
It's not like a need to own one or something.
But where are the arches?
Right.
It doesn't look like a Jag.
Yeah, it's not classically Jag, no.
No, that's right.
Yeah.
I mean, it's an EV car, so...
They don't have to be ugly.
I mean, you can make them nice.
Yeah.
Make them however you like, actually.
The other thing is...
I think you've missed the memo on what the past 80 years have been in terms of general design.
The other thing is there's like the show model prototype ones, and then there's the actual car you would get.
Right?
And they're a bit different.
Like the showroom model prototype things, they're a bit cooler, a bit slicker.
The real thing's a bit more squared off and bulky.
It's already pretty box-like.
So, yeah, it's actually not quite...
as slick and as cool as that if you were to buy one.
And they are expensive, you know, tens and tens and tens of thousands of pounds.
It's not like you're only buying one if you're middle-aged or older and you're either a Brit or an anglophile.
Yeah.
They're the only people buying jags.
And they don't look like the people on the advert.
No.
No.
They're like Bill Nighy, like a perfectly reasonable chap.
Perfectly corrupt, Barbara.
I ran it under a cold tap.
That sort of dude with like elbow pads.
Yeah, elbow patches.
They're the dudes, not some weird transgender black Gen Xer.
So, okay.
I say younger, millennial.
Millennial, sorry, yeah, sorry, not Gen X, millennial, yeah.
No, it's boomers and Gen Xers that buy Jack, older Gen Xers that would buy a jag.
I mean, I'd buy a job.
No Gen Zers, no young people are going to buy a jack.
I mean, if I had enough money, I'd buy an old jag, but because of, as we pointed out, the terrible brakes, thin wheels, no power steering, it probably just as like a showpiece, if I had the money to afford something like that, I'd have a part of an enormous garage just sectioned off for like fancy show pieces, which is even what some people that I know, I've met people who have had jags before, like old jags, and they have just done that, even if they're older.
They don't go around driving them.
God, no.
God, I don't drive in it.
No, this is a piece of art.
Come take a look at it.
You can rev the engine if you behave yourself.
Yeah.
My dad did exactly that.
He got a really old jag, the one with the white ball tyres.
Like 1930s, and he just sat in the garage forever.
Show it off to your mates after you're done with your round of golf.
Yes, but he didn't play golf, but yeah.
Again, like Inshawah said, if you dropped a blob of ice cream in the back seat, you're in his bad books forever for the rest of your life.
Yeah.
So yeah, just lots of different, a few different links here, just showing that people have noticed that Jaguar's sales have just imploded.
I don't need to say it.
Look at the weird, smug, just weirdness, just deranged.
Perverted nightmare fuel that's got nothing to do with Jaguar.
Yeah, pass.
Yeah.
I see people, I can't remember if it was Babylon Bee or a similar sort of comedy skit channel did a bit on it and it was right on the money.
It was like normal marketers, senior people in the company sitting around saying, what will our sales strategy be going forward?
There's a pitch from a few different people with serious office talk and real marketing lingo.
And then this like this sort of hyper camp queen comes into the room, the boardroom, going, no, we've got to make it all super woke, super fabulous, super gay, super androgynous, super diverse, super black.
Like not just a bit black, super black.
And if there's any white guy in it, make him like a weirdo.
Make him a freak.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Has he got a deflated rubber ring around him?
Let's make it all as freak as we.
At least this is a long-sleeved turtleneck with trousers.
Like, what's this?
Yeah, I know.
What is that?
These are the people designing this, presumably also in charge of designing the new cars.
Again, confidence game, not inspiring confidence.
All their outfits look like dildos, which takes me back to the font.
I think somebody was thinking dildos when they sat down in that meeting.
One of the things about owning a Jag, when we looked at the detract...
This one's got some accessories on it.
Yes.
What you're saying is that you can differentiate between something that's classy and something that isn't.
Look at that image on the right there.
You've got terrible taste.
You've got no taste.
You like ugly things, if anything.
So that doesn't marry up with Jaguar at all.
So, okay, so one of the stories is that Jaguar actually fired their consultancy agent.
Oh, look, and the first colours it came out in was like the baby blue and like this dusky pink.
Okay, I've changed my mind, actually.
I forgot about this.
If the side view made it look okay but generic, the front view, if that's actually what they look like, looks terrible.
You think so?
Very boxy.
Yeah, that's really boxy.
It also looks like it's like scowling at me.
I still think they look kind of good.
Again, if that was in black and there was a Mercedes badge on it.
And it'd look a bit like kid.
It would like what?
oh they're Night Rider.
Or whatever it was.
Just needs a little red bar on the back of it.
So, yeah, we covered this.
This was Lotus Eaters Daily back in six months ago.
Is that long ago?
was it when it first came out?
We did another...
Do check out Nate at Mr. H reviews.
Do subscribe to Mr. H. Horrible vent on the back of it.
It looks like a, you know, remember those things.
Does this also look like a dildo, Dan?
No, it looks like it should be three inches long and clean your floor, like one of those robo rack things.
That's what this looks like to me.
The reason because it's battery, so you don't.
It's battery person.
There's like no grill, no air intake and stuff.
So it can be sleeker.
But I don't know.
I don't think they're like a disaster in terms of design.
But yeah, not really Jaguar.
And they are copying people.
That thing of copy nothing.
No, you are.
This is generic.
Loads of companies are making cars that look like this.
Yeah.
Anyway, so go on.
Oh, I was just going to say, like when we were looking at the other ones, it was any angle, it still looked beautiful.
This one, it was like the side view.
I was like, oh, okay, it's not bad, but then you start to shift to different angles and it gets worse.
Yeah, well, they sold 49 of them, so no one wants it.
No one wants it.
If you're in the market for like a 70, 80 grand, 100 grand, 120 grand high-performance EV, you're not going to buy one of these, are you?
Yes.
You'll get something better for your money.
It's not just this.
I saw the other day somebody bought a top-of-the-range Bentley and they opened up the bonnet and they, you know, they've got those little plaques that said who it was inspected by.
And it was like, you know, Mufasa Kebab or something was the guy who inspected your Bentley.
And it's like, well, it doesn't really fit with the image, does it?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a shame.
Mufasa Kebab.
There's another Mr. H video on it.
I believe I was on that.
Might have been, anyway.
Also did Drinker.
I was on that one as well.
What was the price for these ones?
Obviously, like you say, tens of thousands of pounds.
Yeah, I think it was in the ballpark of 80 grand, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the Drinker After Hours one.
On there with the likes of Amaula, Chris Gore.
Anyway, one of the stories that came out was that they had fired that marketing agency for screwing them over so badly.
Okay, though.
Well, that was my next point.
If I was a shareholder, I would want an EGM and I would want to find out exactly who ordered this particular agency to go ahead with this.
Every single person that was responsible down the line for going in this direction with Jaguar.
Every single one of them needs to be fired and replaced if I was a shareholder.
I've got no confidence in them.
It's your job not to drop the ball to the tune of 97, 98% of your market losing your market.
You can't really fail much harder, really.
The only people that bought those 49 cars are either just die-die-hard Jaguar fans, which there's not many of those, brand loyal to Jaguar.
Or made their millions in the dildo in market.
Friends and family of like the senior bald and a few that they would send out to showrooms.
They will send some out to showrooms and stuff.
I tried to answer your question as to how much these things cost and I went to the Jaguar website and I can't even find them.
So they must have been binned already because they've got a different set of designs out now.
Well, they've not exactly been an overwhelming success.
So maybe they've just reverted to type and gone, right?
Just get something a bit more classic out the door as quickly as possible.
Yeah, no, I can't even find it.
Yeah, okay, so just one more example of going woke, going broke.
Unfortunately, it's happened to Jaguar, which is one of our last remaining companies in Britain to be at least remotely proud of in some way.
But yeah, they've now shit the bed, basically.
Still got Bentley.
Yeah.
Even if Mufasa kebab is the one inspecting them.
Still got McLaren as well.
Got McLaren.
Is Aston still being produced here or are they offshored now?
Yeah, I'm not sure actually.
No, Aston was bought by someone or other.
I think some are manufactured here.
But it's not.
Yeah, it was bought by someone.
Rolls-Royce?
No, that was bought by someone.
That bought by...
Thank you.
I'd rather say it on the internet because someone's just going, you don't even know that.
But it was bought by someone like Audi or BMW.
People in the chat are saying that it's 200,000.
So you need to be both rich.
One of them.
No, £200,000.
One of the new ones.
Yes.
So you need to be both rich and retarded at the same time.
Money to burn.
Money to burn people.
Yeah.
But obviously there were 49 people in the country who meet that criteria.
All right.
It's the sort of thing you would only buy if you've honestly got money to burn.
You've got like the five different houses around the world you want.
You've got the yacht or two.
You've got a fleet of 20 cars.
Every car you've ever coveted, you already own.
And you've still got millions and millions and millions.
You can have your mates on and say, I bought this one for a laugh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's all throw things at it.
Yes.
Okay, all right.
Let's move on.
All right.
I'll go through some of these rumble rants that we've been getting.
So Habsification, you're better off getting a Tesla or Cybertruck.
At least it looks cool and you get full self-driving mode.
I wouldn't get any of them.
I want to get a Cybertruck.
Also, I can't afford any of them.
You do or don't?
Oh, yeah, I want to get a Cybertruck.
They're big and fast.
Sigilstone, so in the interest of time, why buy chats?
If they're not going to get read, I'm starting to get annoyed by in the interest of time.
That's fair, and I'm going to go through the ones that we've missed so far to make up for that.
Engaged few, copy nothing, jagger, please.
Habsification, if the government was clever, they're not.
They'd invest in the farms to provide more precision, automation, and AI systems for farmers making farming more efficient.
The tech is available, yes, but that's not the interest of what they want to do.
They want to destroy everything.
Sigil Stone, Rachel Reeves' econ knowledge works about as well as Christopher Reeves' legs.
Also, he's dead, so the rest of them is roll.
Yeah, that's a random name send in two.
Dan, a few things in this world.
A few things in this world have less value than a woman's tears.
All I feel when I see a woman cry is fatigue and disdain.
And following it up with politicians' tears on the other hand, now that brings genuine joy to my cold, dead, shriveled heart.
Normally it's hot when a woman cries, but not on this occasion.
Interesting.
And a drunk changeling, our main export market is the United Arab Emirates.
Let's make it gay.
Good point, actually.
Good point.
All right, time for the last segment.
So If you've clicked on this video and you're watching on YouTube, you may be thinking to yourself, didn't Josh do a segment on this exact same thing a few months ago?
And I would say, yes and no.
Yes, because Maloney has already betrayed Italy a few times.
No, because she's done it again.
And this is another follow-up.
Isn't that our most popular segment of all time?
Yes, it is.
That's why you're making it.
You want the top slot.
Well, it would be nice, but also just...
This is...
Again, like, this whole thing just makes me completely distrust mainstream populists, right?
Like, AA has his book, The Populist Delusion.
I would rather say The Populist Deception at the moment, because you have populists in the UK, like Farage.
He talks a big game for a few years, and then the second he gets in charge of a party that comes close to a whiff of power, he's like, all of those things that you'd want to vote me for, I won't do them.
Completely unlikely.
I will hand it to Maloney.
She has a superior political now so that she waited until after she had been elected before she exposed herself as containment.
Well, this is true.
But yes, then you do get people like Maloney who's like, well, let's just see what she was saying a few years ago.
Just quickly, Nigel did say absolutely explicitly a few weeks ago, I'm not a populist.
Do you remember that?
Oh, yeah.
Well, he was sold to us.
I am not a populist.
He was sold to us as a populist, and reform are like sold to us as the populist party.
Either way, whether or not they call themselves populists, they're sold to us as populists.
And they're sold to us not just as populists, but literally the rise of new fascism is what Maloney got everybody excited about a few years ago.
Back in 2022, it was, oh my God, she's the second coming of Mussolini, except this time in a skirt.
She's going to put up naval blockades across the Mediterranean as part of the EU-Sophia mission so that she can stop all of these illegals coming in.
And then she gets in and you start to get articles like how she learned to stop worrying and love migration.
Because don't you know, of course, what was the logic and explanation for this?
Well, we need the jobs.
We need the jobs.
Everybody's worried about the pension system.
That's another huge one because the pensions were sold to the boomers years and years and years ago as this thing that means that you'll have infinite wealth going into your later years and you don't need to worry about having to save up money yourself will do it for you.
Then the government spent all of that money, badly invested all of that money and need like a constant revolving door of new people in the country to pay taxes so they can continue to pay the pension.
But that is almost certainly what happened.
She got into office and somebody showed her the projections of the Italian boomers pension demands.
And she was basically told, look, you can either find a way to do this through immigration or you can lose your voter base.
It doesn't make sense though.
At the very least, it's just kicking the can down the road because won't all those new people want pensions?
Well, if they're granted citizenship, the key factor is, is it then becomes a problem for the person who takes the job after you.
Right, so you're just kicking the can down the road.
So you're not solving anything.
No.
In fact, you're making it worse.
You're digging the hole deeper.
Yes, but politics in the democratic system is all about kicking the can down the road and making things bad for the next guy after.
Because, God, I'm not going to be in office after I'm done.
So what does it matter?
So with this, this was back in mid-2023 when this quite infamous article came about now where it was how she learned to stop worrying and love migration.
Her legal migration decree estimated that Italy needed 833,000 new migrants over the next three years.
So that would be up to 2026 to fill in gaps in the labor force.
And it opened the door to 452,000 workers over that same period to fill seasonal jobs in sectors like agriculture and tourism, as well as long-term positions like plumbers, electricians, care workers, and mechanics.
And because that's what I want.
That's what I want is somebody not from Italy, if I'm a tourist in Italy, showing me around ancient historical sites in Italy.
It makes perfect sense.
The latest betrayal is that she's now going to be issuing half a million non-EU work visas over the next three years.
So this is on top of that.
So that one was projected to 2026.
Now it's from 2026 to 2028.
About 497,550 new entries will need to be allowed in by 2028.
And again, this isn't like taking, this isn't taking people from the rest of Europe, like a labor surplus from Eastern Europe or something.
This is just like explicitly non-EU.
So this will be subcontinentals, Middle Easterners, North Africans.
They might as well just build a bridge from the bottom of Italy over to North Africa.
Well, she is currently trying to build a bridge from Italy to Sicily.
So you don't have to take a boat.
Just extend it a bit further and just let the Africans just come in.
you might as well, and they point out this is the second time that she's done this, when you see the other 500,000 that she was, That was slightly less ambitious than this one.
The quotas, according to a spokesperson who gave a statement, were determined taking into account the needs expressed by the social partners and the actual applications for work permits submitted in previous years with the aid of a program that responds to the needs of businesses and is also realistic.
So it's just keeping labor costs down.
It's just like there's big business which bankrolled this party, I would assume, and they want cheap labor.
Simple as that.
And also our pension scheme is a complete scam, as all pension schemes in the West are.
Therefore, we need to keep the scam going.
And they also say an aging population and sagging birth rate highlight the need to attract foreign workers in the Eurozone's third largest economy.
There were some 281,000 more deaths than births in 2024, and the population fell by 37,000 to 58.9 million, continuing a decade-long trend.
To counter the ongoing depopulation and maintain current levels of inhabitants, Italy would need to take in at least 10 million immigrants by 2050, according to research by some think tank, which means that, okay, right, so Okay, the population drops to say 50 million.
You've already got lots of migrants in Italy.
You need 10 million new, presumably non-EU people in.
So at what point does Italy no longer meaningfully remain Italy when the population is completely replaced?
At what point is the tipping point where Italy is just like just another economic zone for vagrants from across the world?
It's like that logical test of Decius' ship or whatever it was where they replaced the parts and at what point is it no longer Theseus.
These ship.
How many Africans in Italy before it's just another province of Africa?
Yes.
How many handles and broom heads does triggers broom need replacing before it's no longer triggers broom?
Yeah, that whole thing, I've never understood, I've never bought it, the fact that, oh, your population is declining or your older population as a percentage is increasing.
There's problems with the pension, there's problems with GDP.
Therefore, you must just have millions of new people.
No.
No, let the population go down.
Let GDP decline.
Let the pension scam collapse.
As long as that means we're not replaced in our own ancestral homelands.
Let population and the economy decline.
The entire rest of the world manages without a pension system and they just put the grandparents in the attic if they can't afford to keep themselves.
Do that.
Or like, just as you're growing, as you're getting older, you could maybe try and squirrel away a little bit more money yourself independently without relying on the government to do it for you?
I mean, Morgoth has said it, but many different people have said it.
I just completely agree with...
I'd rather be a bit poorer, where unemployment is relatively high because there's so few people, than be swamped by Arabs and sub-Saharan and Bangladeshis.
Well, the problem is with...
The problem is with that is that Italy actually is an excellent test case against that because like with everything else, actually, if we were to get rid of all of these people, we would be immensely richer.
We'd be much better off.
And Italy kind of proves that because instead of hire, like getting in half a million mercenaries into your country, why don't you just provide incentives for all of the people who are already unemployed in Italy as of two months ago, May 2025, it's got 6.5% unemployment rate, which is pretty high.
And among youth defined as 15 to 24 year olds, it's 20%.
It's ridiculously high at all times.
We've got massive unemployment.
And has massively dropped below 20% for over 20 years.
So we've got massive unemployed people, and therefore we need to bring in people from outside to do jobs.
Do jobs and in the agricultural sector, which will probably be automated away in 10, 20 years anyway.
Yes.
Which is part of the other part of the equation that they don't like to talk about.
I mean, that's also a possibility.
What if we really do get a breakthrough in robotics?
Then all of those people you've imported are going to have to go on welfare.
Yeah.
But I mean, this is always the thing.
Is it about actually helping those sectors when you've already got, you know, I mean, in 2014, they had 42% youth unemployment, right?
Overall unemployment across Italy is 6.5%.
But agricultural jobs, those kinds of jobs, perfect for young people.
You get outside, you move about, you're still young, you're still healthy, you can do that kind of thing easily, right?
Do we give them incentives to do those jobs?
Or do we replace them so that we can keep labor costs down for the sake of big businesses?
Well, I mean, I see what the obvious answer is.
The one that doesn't replace your historic population and have it so that Ahmed is showing you around the Colosseum of Rome when you're on your tourism trip.
I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous.
There are other things that go on in Italy with the migration.
The way that Maloney seems to try to sell all of this is that, ah, but undocumented arrivals have more trouble.
Is she wearing trainers?
Yes.
Yes.
Just to pick up on your last point, I'm not fundamentally against seeing Ahmed in the Coliseum.
Well, that's a conversation at a different time, though, isn't it?
Yes.
So two years into her term as Italian Prime Minister, I want to say, you know, there's other things that they try and do.
She's established herself among several European leaders as a model of anti-immigration policy.
She's setting a great example for them.
In particular, she had a more recent measure, this article is from October of last year, which is sending migrants, illegal migrants who arrive in Italy to Albania.
However, the transfer of the first 12 migrants who arrived in Albanian centers in October of 15th had already been cancelled by the Italian courts.
As always happens, despite the fact that this was a very popular policy across basically all of Europe, even Keir Starmer at the time was saying what a great policy it was.
Just the courts say no.
The courts say no, this is some kind of illegal or arbitrary, unfair detention.
European Convention on Human Rights say that you can't do that, so you have to house them in Italy instead.
What's so wrong with Albania?
The decree requires ships to immediately request a port of disembarkation, to which they must, I don't even know if that's a word, which they must head to without delay after a rescue intervention.
This is if they're picked up on the Mediterranean, rather than staying at sea to help the occupants of other boats in danger.
So this was one that was trying to target NGOs that like to, like foreign, often foreign funded, foreign-funded NGOs that like to patrol the Mediterranean.
And if they see a ship sinking of a bunch of people who want to come over and assault your women, they make sure that they can get over onto the mainland to assault your women.
Thank you very much for that.
The decree also requires the crew of rescue ships to inform migrants they welcome on board of the possibility of requesting international protection in any country of the European Union and not only in the country of disembarkation.
So they're just trying to kick the can down the road here.
It's just like, we'll put you in port in Italy, but you can always just go further inland.
Please go to Germany.
Yeah, you can go to Germany instead.
Thank you for that one, Italy.
In April of 2023, when the island of Lampedusa was experiencing large arrivals, Italy declared a state of migratory emergency for six months.
This provided for the appointment of a special commissioner to manage immigration.
Fund of 5 million Euros was created.
Barely a month later, the Cutrio decree went into effect.
This text, named in reference to the city of Calabria, toughened migration law.
The law limited special protection, a residence permit granted to migrants who cannot benefit from asylum or subsidiary protection.
So most of the actual positive things that she's tried to do against immigration has all been against illegal migration, which, to be fair, is a huge problem.
I think only a few years ago, there was like 500,000 border contacts across the southern European border with the Mediterranean of people trying to get, and that has reduced significantly.
But again, it's only really a drop in the bucket when then you're going to throw all of that away.
And over the course of, what, five years from 2023 to 2028, invite in an extra million non-EU people on work visas who, again, just like happens in England, are probably going to overstay their visas.
And if they try to get kicked out, ECHR judges will turn around and say, can't do that.
that's illegal.
There are other things that have been a...
Oh, yeah.
And of course, generating filth.
And because of all of this sort of stuff, you get stats saying that immigration and emigration are both soaring in Italy.
Guess who's coming in?
Guess who's leaving?
Well, it's Italians leaving.
Actual Italian people leaving their country, whereas the people coming in are foreigners.
So last year, 382,071 foreigners moved to Italy, which was up from 378,000 in 2023 and the highest since 2014.
So evil, far-right, fascist Mussolini 2.0 gets in and has record immigration numbers not seen in 10 years.
Amazing.
Amazing.
And in that same period, 155,000 Italians emigrated.
So clearing them out.
Clearing them out.
Brilliant.
They're also still being forced by the courts to compensate stranded migrants from a case from 2018.
Maloney couldn't do anything to stop that because it turns out these populists are pretty useless, sadly, a lot of the time, because they talk a big game and then they get into government and don't know how to manage any of it.
They don't know how to get their way through these civil services.
They don't know how to navigate the courts.
So they just get bent over.
Simple as that.
And on the Albanian migrant detention centers, so back in January, nothing was happening with them.
They were ghost towns because the courts said they couldn't be used.
In February, they were still not being used.
And most recently, this month, just a couple of days ago, the courts are still saying no.
The Supreme Court of Cassation said that they can't do it and gave a statement explaining why, which said that if they are in Albania on prolonged detention without a clear legal basis, despite the fact the legal basis is they broke into the country, well, that's arbitrary detention.
You can't have that because the ECHR says that that's illegal.
I will say that the Supreme Court of Castration is well-named.
It is.
It truly is.
So in terms of her actual attempts to prevent illegal immigration, again, border contacts on the Mediterranean seem to have actually dipped low, but the judges are still attacking them.
They're not allowing them to be detained in processes that even Keir Starmer and other EU leaders are saying were really intelligent and well thought out.
And in terms of legal migration, which is always the main problem because of the huge numbers of people coming in, she's just invited a million people in over the course of five years from 2023 to 2028.
A million non-Italian people coming in while record numbers Italians are leaving.
So good job.
There we go.
That was a nice fun one to end on.
Sorry to bring everybody down there.
Let's see if that displaces Jotry's segment.
It probably won't.
It probably won't, unless Samson can come up with a particularly devious Maloney Bikini shot for the thumbnail.
So I'll just read through the two rumble rants we've had in from that, both from random name.
There is no fertility crisis.
People aren't less fertile.
Our youth's vitality and potential is simply siphoned by the parasitic elder class.
All of our problems are self-manufactured.
I definitely agree that all the problems are self-manufactured.
People probably would have more kids if it was economically viable for them to do so.
And also if feminism hadn't been promoted to make all women frigid hags.
Also, the scum ruling our nations keep whinging about the rise of fascism, yet are hell-bent on turning the whole West into IMR 2.0.
They are to blame for the S-Torm that is brewing.
And yes, that is exactly what Nigel Farage was talking about the other day when he was saying, oh, if you don't let me into government, you won't like what comes next.
I am literally containment to stop actually useful people from getting into government.
He makes what comes next sound awesome.
Yeah.
Two thumbs up all for it.
Let's do roller.
I'll pour one out for Jaguar.
The worst part is, I kind of understand the thinking of a radical shift.
Some of the best Jaguars ever built were built under Tata, but no one was buying them.
Despite being a magnificent car, the F-Type only sold 16,500 units in 10 years, and I don't know what else they could have done.
And as great a man as Sir William Lyons was, perhaps it's best if his legacy dies here and now, rather than the company be hollowed out into some EV homunculus, an embarrassing shadow of his former self, another English institution in ruin.
That is the fastest produced response video to a segment I have ever seen.
It's lovely, though.
You always post interesting videos.
That just looks so relaxing just going around.
He's responding to his own segment within 20 minutes.
I mean, well done, sir.
I think he might have already been just like posting this anyway, but that is lovely.
Yeah, those F-types are quite nice.
He had a Rolls-Royce sitting in that in there as well, didn't he?
Yeah.
No, it's a shame, and it probably will be, as he said, ended up hollowed out.
It's just some shadow of what it used to be.
Yeah.
Let's ruin this pristine waterfall by making a second waterfall of garbage.
Is this the India you want to live in?
Hell yeah!
Garbage city, India?
I don't mind, bro.
You don't mind garbage waterfall?
Nah, man, throw some more.
Oh, that's a great attitude.
Why would we want him in our country?
Why would we want him in any other country that would accept?
You got to get a million of them immediately.
Okay.
Great.
It's a fundamentally different way of looking at the world, isn't it?
Yeah.
Do you want everything spic and span?
A place for everything and everything in its place?
The right tool for the right job?
Keeping things tidy and neat and disease-free?
Or do you not want that?
Well, one person is civilized, the other's a barbarian.
It doesn't bother me, bro.
Throw more, bro.
Yeah, you can stay in your country then.
There is a fundamental difference in the mindsets that build civilizations if you can look at that garbage waterfall and go, fine, I'm okay with that.
No.
No, no, I'm not.
And related, actually, Sigil Stone in Rumble Rant says, I've got a segment idea.
The Patel Motel Cartel in the US.
And that's a great name for it as well.
Are you guys familiar with this?
No.
Basically, I think one particular Indian family, or just Indian families in general, began buying up motels in parts of the US.
And then because of their just natural in-group preference, only allowed, like, only started selling them to other Indian people.
And so like a ridiculous number, like 70% of the motels in America now are all owned by Indians because they all bought them off.
It's very interesting how that happens.
It's not just limited to Indians either.
It's probably the same with Mexicans.
If Mexicans and other people get a hold of a particular industry, they'll only sell to each other.
The vast majority of all peoples in the whole world across all of history have had massive in-group preferences because that's normal and reasonable.
Yes.
It's only the liberal West in modern times that thinks there's something wrong-headed about having an in-group preference.
It's mad.
It's pure subversion.
Of course it's not.
Of course it's okay to have an in-group preference.
Also, that's a random name.
So, by the way, Harry, why don't you have your own premium show on Lotus Eaters?
Or are you so based it'd break too many ratings and get you unpersoned?
Stay based.
Thank you very much for the question.
On that, I like spending my time doing larger research projects that turn into larger documentaries, like the Stonewall thing, which has been in editing for like a year now, should be out soon.
And I've got a script for my Weimar video, which is done.
I'm filming that next week.
Who knows how long the editing will be done?
And after that, I'm also doing currently doing research for another project.
In terms of more frequent shows, Samson and I are working on like a manga show, which should be happening soon.
I just need to read through all of Akira and watch the adaptation of the film.
And then we should actually film that.
And that'll be slightly more regular, maybe once a month like Comics Corner used to be.
There you go.
Go through the...
Yes, uh...
I mean, you'd be hard pushed to find one these days, considering the cost of the land.
And that's why all new farms are these mega farms at considerable scale because it's the only way that you can make it work.
Fuzzy Pollard says the government should have let the banks fail in 2008 as the money printing led to inflation and asset price rise and other bond market, which essentially bails the government out, needs to let the government fail.
Yeah, 2008, there's too much debt in the system, so it got pushed up to the sovereign level, and there's now nowhere for it to go.
There's no more bag holder.
Well, apart from us, and it will be us.
So we're the ultimate bag holder.
But yeah, I would have let it all collapse in 2008, and it would have been horrendous for a couple of years.
Lots of people would have got wiped out.
The pension system, disability welfare stuff, that would have got wiped out.
But it would have been clean and we could rebuild fresh.
Whereas now, basically nothing has, there's been no growth, no progress since 2008.
So in order to avoid doing what this guy is saying, we're basically just in permanent malaise now, where nobody can get ahead.
Stephen Stevens says, so good then twice, why couldn't we just remove our currency from the stock market?
Or why is it even there to begin with?
It seems stupid to make our currency volatile like this.
Well, the only way you could do that is capital controls.
And then you basically wouldn't be able to go on holiday because you wouldn't want to get your money out.
Foreign exchange market.
Don't confuse foreign exchange markets with commodities markets or share markets or bond.
he's wondering why our stock market is linked to the currency market.
And he's like, well, The FTSE 100 or the FTSE T200?
Well, I mean, I suppose anything.
It's linked to the.
If you're in Britain and you've got pounds and you want to buy something else, or somebody else wants to buy something in Britain, then you're going to go through the currency markets in order to get the currency to buy the thing.
So unless we walled ourselves off, but that probably wouldn't work.
So wouldn't go down that route.
Northblood says, she has a plan.
I thought all Labour Party's plans are just spend money, raise taxes, blame the previous government, even if it was them, then crash the economy.
They caused to spend so much, and then there's nothing left in the tinny.
Then continue to spend money that they don't have and somehow profit.
Well, yes.
Yes, that is entirely their plan.
That's a very succinct explanation of the cycle.
Yes, yes, very good.
Sophie Liv says, yes, Laz, I'm saying this as a lady.
Trying to get favours through sympathy and playing the victim is outright instinctual to us.
Don't fall for it.
I catch myself doing it when even I try to be a base person who wouldn't, yes.
Well, you're a higher tier lady, of course, Sophie.
You're very good.
Justin B says, to be fair, Rachel from accounts, maybe she didn't wipe the tear away to avoid drawing attention to it.
I suspect that's probably what it was.
She didn't realise that people could zoom in or something.
Yeah, whoever was filming PMQs that day literally zoomed straight in on her face.
That cameraman might have just destroyed our bond market.
Yes.
I think that's enough of me.
All right, Bo, do you want to go through yours?
Do you want the mouse?
Oh, you've got the mouse, haven't you?
Oh, yeah, alright.
Jaguar hits rock bottom.
Rock bottom.
Oh, my God.
No, what, sir?
You totally weren't listening.
I wasn't.
I'm sorry.
I did my impression of JR pulling out a rock bottom.
Oh, yeah.
Rock bottom, rock bottom.
As we're calling the Jaguar thing, Jaguar Hits.
Stone Cold!
Stone Cold!
This isn't right.
Somebody stopped this.
Okay.
Man of Kent said, the problem with Jaguar is that they're always punching up towards BMW's mercs, etc.
They should be competing, ideally, as the possible version of Ford.
But better than VW.
They should be able to operate in the premium market.
They're doing it right.
Yeah, it's funny.
Jacob's made some really weird decisions because, yeah, they're neither the super higher, sort of hyper-car, sort of super high-performance, you know, Zondas, Lambos, Ferraris, whatever.
And they're not just a production car, well they are a production car, but they're not just a mass-produced Hyundai type thing.
So, yeah, that's already a bit of a niche market.
It's already niche.
And then to go in the direction they went just in terms of EV and then to do the woke marketing on top.
It's like, are you deliberately trying to destroy this company?
Because you've done it really efficiently.
If that was your goal, you've achieved that perfectly, almost.
The other man of Kent comic calls it Faguar.
I like that.
I'm going to use that.
I love the XJ series, and I can only thank Faguar as they are now on crushing the second-hand market value of the new shape XJ as now I consider a full one.
Second-hand buyers rubbing their hands together greedily, right?
Yes, crash it even more.
Riding around in the dildo mobile at the moment, it's quite cheap.
Problem is, if Jaguar completely died, it might be really difficult to get parts for your old 1988 XJ6.
Apparently, Annie Moss, it's not been included here.
Annie Moss has said, Bo, I'm surprised you didn't mention the managing director of Jaguar, Rawdon Glover, who is gay.
You can also pronounce his name as Raw Dong Go.
Raw Dog Lover.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he is.
Is that his actual name?
It is.
It is his name.
Raw Dog Lover.
Raw Dong Glover.
Mind you, when I drive into Swindon, I drive past a BMW garage called Dick Glove.
Oh, yeah.
I've pointed that out.
No, it's Dick Lovett, which is a question and an answer.
Yes.
Dick Lovett.
Imagine your name's Richard Lovett.
I want to be known as Dick, though.
Don't call me Richard or Rick or Ricky.
It's Dick.
In more ways than one, I'm going to lean into this.
Yeah, yeah, right.
It took me about two months of driving past that place to stop giggling every time.
Dick Lovett, yeah.
Love it sales place, yeah.
Okay, AZ Desert Rat said, the first time I saw that ad, I thought it was a new clothing line.
Yes, right, it's what it looks like, isn't it?
Okay, Incorrigible Frog said, my dad owns a JAG 2.1 X type.
It's his pride and joy, even though it's a newer model, 2008.
He's not happy about what's happening with them and wouldn't dream of buying a new one.
No, quite right.
Why would you?
Yeah.
You'll have a perfectly restored original D-type.
Yeah, I'm one of those.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, not one of these newfangled ones.
Let's see what happens in the second hand market, eh?
Michael Dre Bilbis.
Dre Bilbis says, correction bow, those type of older English or Anglophile men used to buy jags, not anymore.
The old buyers don't want to be associated with this poovery.
Yeah, no, quite right.
Yeah, I get it.
And if you were like an XJ man, say, or a E-type man, you would be slightly less proud of it now, wouldn't you?
Ever so slightly.
Less proud of the Jaguar badge.
I'd hold it as like a relic.
As a beautiful relic of times gone by.
Like you hold onto your cherished memories of friends who you hate now.
You know, like, oh, I remember the good times.
Fuck them now, though.
Yeah.
Somebody in the chat put forward a name while we're talking about silly names, and he said there's an American politician.
And I've just checked, and this is actually true.
Oh, yeah.
There was an American politician called Randy Bumgardner.
No, there is.
No, there actually is.
He's got a Wikipedia page in this film.
Randy Bumgardner.
Randy Lee Bumgardner.
He's a divorce lawyer.
He's a divorce attorney.
Again, Randy.
When the Bumgardner family were welcoming their newest arrival.
I know, let's go with Randy.
Perfect name.
Yeah.
Perfect name.
Yeah, why not?
I mean, I met a woman called Rolene Stones once, and I thought, oh, that's a good name.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the Stones family picked Yes.
Okay.
I quite like that.
Randy Bumgun.
I mean, to be fair, Americans are the people who name their kids Gaylord.
Yeah.
So, you know, they're insane.
Insane, some of them.
Also, Rumble Ran, Habsification, Berserk Part 3, Harry.
Yes, yes, it will happen.
Lord Nerevar, I speak Italian and have Italian friends, and unfortunately, Maloney has proven to be the Italian Boris Johnson.
Her campaign was born of the same hopeful spirit of Boris's, and she's proceeded to systematically betray almost every principle on which she was elected by the Italian people.
She hasn't quite reached the point that Boris did, but once the Maloney wave comes in, they'll really start to feel it.
A real shame.
Yeah, actually.
Good point.
Going to be talking about a Maloney wave soon enough, aren't we?
And it's already there.
Looking at the figures that we're already getting from how many people are coming in and leaving.
Roman Observer, Harry, all fair criticism to legal mass migration to Italy.
For sure, corporations want to keep labor costs down, and this is spoken about.
Maloney's main jobs are consolidate the station in international relations and avoid being Liz Truss, which we have seen multiple times here.
We also have a massive lawfare problem 35 years going, and so you see judges stopping any government action.
Yeah, of course, I'm not going to say explicitly that that was her fault because the case about these compensating migrants was from 2018, but it's the fact that they come in and just can't do anything about it.
The system is purposefully built to bend people out of shape and force them to break their promises.
So I'd say hers is a long-term action, only some things can be done at this time, really.
Well, it's just a shame that the one thing that she could do, potentially, which is stand up to corporations, is not being done.
Because frankly, it seems that in the long term now, for a long time, corporations and big business has been against the interests of nations.
And as far as I'm concerned, your nation should not be there for the bottom line of big business.
And big business, if that's how they behave, should be brought to heel.
But that would be maybe erring a little bit too close to Italian history for some.
Not me, though.
Baystape, how Maloney learned to love migration.
New notification.
You just received 50 million Euros from Klaus Schwab.
Or a little bit of nose candy, judging by some of the videos that we've been seeing from her recently.
Baron von Warhawk, I hope Maloney has read the words of Dante Alighieri, because I think she should learn from the fate of traitors and backstabbers.
David Ward also says Maloney equals Farage.
Two more, three more Rumble Rants, in fact.
The engaged few dildo-shaped jags give a whole new meaning to the second-hand market.
Oh, dear.
Sigil Stone, there was a US politician named Harry Balls.
I mean, we've got our own Balls in this country, don't we?
Ed Bulls.
And that's a random name as well.
Speaking of Berserk, what would you sacrifice to the eclipse to restore the West?
Somebody else in the comment has pointed out that the Dutch used to have a prime minister called Dick Shove.
They're Dutch, though.
You expect that from the Dutch.
And he's got a wicker.
I think he was a golden key.
Right, none of you nick this.
Right, my next segment is going to be on naughty named politicians.
I can get a segment out of that.
I'm sure it'll be a hit.
That sounds a fun one, actually.
Like Virginia Bottomly.
Yes.
Yeah.
It is.
And I like the idea for the segment on ethnic cartels operating in the US and elsewhere as well.
Like with the motels.
I've been threatening ever since probably more than two years ago, me and Josh talked about doing a bit of content, whether it was going to be a contemplations or an epochs or something about the Mexican cartels, a deep dive into the Mexican cartels.
It never came about and Josh has left now.
And I still reading around it.
It's stupidly complex.
Like it's really, really, really complex.
It's not a really, it's not a straightforward linear story.
They're just endlessly subdividing and having in-wars and changing sides with each other.
So at some point, I want to do a bit of, I know that's not necessarily what he's talking about.
No, no, no, no.
But I want to do a bit of content.
Even when the other day, Carl did a segment talking about the CJNG and the Mexican cartels.
I'd like to do content on them, but it's one of those ones as well where some people know it inside out.
So if you get any tiny little detail wrong, they're like, you don't even know.
You don't even know.
Well, it'll be a multi-part series.
So if people correct you, just say, oh, thank you for the correction.
Here's the correction issued now.
Come to think of it, when I was in private client, we had a client, and his name was Roger Myhole.
And every time a call came in from Roger, there was a girl on our desk who would basically fall off her chair laughing every single time she heard that name.
Well, there are people called like, there's all sorts of cops, aren't there?
Like Pocock.
Quite a common name or.
Yes.
Winkleman.
We're out of time, so I'll just highlight that that's a random name and Sigil Stone are now bullying each other through the rumble rants.
So thank you for sending us money to do that, where random name is saying that he would sacrifice Sigil Stone, at which point Resigil Stone is calling him a book-broken twink in response.
So if you'd like to start sending more and more money to insult each other in ever more interesting ways, please feel free to do so tomorrow because we're done now.
Tune in for Common Sense Crusade in about half an hour if you are my friend.
And if you don't have a membership, get out.
Oh, and I fuck got the Dutch guy called Tiny Cox.
Really?
Yeah.
I think we're done now.
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