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	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast The Load Seaters for Tuesday, the 7th of October, 2025.
	I'm joined by Josh and Lewis Brackpool.
	And today we're going to be talking about the embarrassing death of the Conservative Party, because you probably aren't aware the Conservative Conference is going on, and no one cares.
	We're going to be looking into how deep the rot goes with digital ID, and it goes quite far.
	Sorry, I think that's mine.
	That's mine.
	That's yours.
	Sorry.
	And we are then going to be talking about the tragic comedy of modern Britain.
	Because if you actually look at what older comedy shows were saying, oh, wouldn't this be funny if this was the future you got?
	It's worse.
	It's way worse.
	Unfortunately, so.
	Anyway, right, let's begin.
	So, like I said, it's the Conservative Party Conference at the moment, and nobody cares.
	Well, it's funny because it's not even the Conservatives.
	I just said to you, like, oh, yeah, you know, people jumping ship to reform or whatever.
	And you were like, you know, it's still going on when I just said, oh, no, it should have been after the conference that they announced it.
	But yeah, I know.
	During the conference.
	We'll get to that.
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	Anyway, right.
	So the Conservative Party will love the Conservative Party.
	And I think it's worth remembering that they are really the stewards of the terrible condition of the country at the moment.
	Labour began the process.
	They set up the institutions.
	They opened all the doors.
	They created all of the stupid hate speech laws and all that.
	And the Conservatives are like, yeah, now we need to maximize this.
	What we need to do is just have more hate speech laws.
	What we need, I mean, for example, Nadine Dorries with the online safety bill or whatever it was.
	We need that.
	We need maximal immigration, of course, under the Boris wave.
	And then, of course, we'll put in the first Indian prime minister, which people didn't vote for.
	And he'll be stood there with a little coin saying, Diversity Built Britain.
	Thank you so much, Conservatives.
	And so, I don't know, man.
	I'm just saying, it was a weird gamble, but it's put them down into third place.
	So this is the second poll that I've seen.
	And this is from after Keir Starmer was like, oh my God, Nigel Farage is the enemy.
	This is from after when he was like, indefinite leave to remain is racist.
	And Nigel Farage is now up two in the polls to 35%.
	This is the second poll I've seen.
	Yes, that resonates with the electorate.
	I've been warning people about this when they were like, oh, Boris called them letterboxes and bumboys.
	And it's like, yeah, maybe that's an advertisement to some people, actually.
	Morons keep saying it.
	So anyway, the point being is reformers storming ahead of the polls and the old parties are just dying.
	Reform has got nearly as much as Labour and Conservatives combined.
	This is pretty bad for the old uniparty.
	And just a quick detour.
	It's especially bad for Labour, but it's also incredibly bad for the Conservatives.
	So this is an amazing seat projection.
	Oh, my God.
	I haven't seen that yet.
	Just 20 seats.
	For the Conservatives, that's 20 seats.
	I know that the Southwest is a Lib Dem stronghold.
	Unfortunately, that's dystopian.
	It is.
	It's annoying because reform could come down here and get some business arguments going for a more open market and for lower taxes.
	Probably went over sort of like, you know, the sort of small businessman down this area.
	Do you know what that could be, actually?
	It's because a lot of lack of proximity to migrants.
	Yes.
	Because that's basically how you predict libdem voters.
	You find the whitest areas and they'll vote libdem.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, which is why Ed Davies on the timer, because he's in like the outer London area, a very wealthy middle class area, but it's the first fighting now.
	So Ed Davies on a timer.
	But anyway, so the point being, I mean, Labour are projected to lose 85% of their MPs, which down to 58, which is bruising.
	You could see the smidge in London.
	Yeah, literally the London party.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And then you've got the Conservatives who'll be down to 20 MPs.
	Which, I mean, like half the SNP.
	Yeah.
	Beautiful.
	It's mad.
	This is genuinely.
	If I were in the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, actually, I'd be panicking.
	Like, guys, we are going to get creamed.
	What are we doing?
	What is Nigel Fry saying?
	What we'll do is we'll just go slightly to the right of that.
	You know what I mean?
	That would be my plan if I were these guys.
	But they're not doing that.
	They're instead having their conference and pretending that the Titanic isn't sinking.
	Oh my gosh.
	This is a speech by the shadow Chancellor Mel Stride.
	Have you ever heard of Mel Stride?
	Nope.
	Who's Mel Stride?
	No idea.
	No idea.
	Who cares?
	I've seen busier local council meetings than that.
	That's really embarrassing.
	Unironically, if I were to be like, yeah, right, I'm having a live event this weekend.
	I would be able to draw more people than that every single time.
	Yeah, not even close.
	Exactly.
	Not even close.
	This is crazy how little people are interested in this party.
	Now, it's not to say that every single one of these is completely undersold or anything.
	I'm pretty sure there are.
	I thought there were.
	I bet.
	I thought there were going to be pictures of the actual.
	I bet you about half of the people there.
	I saw you.
	That made me laugh.
	I bet half of those are journalists as well.
	Yeah.
	Or employed by the party, by staffers and stuff like that.
	So it's just like, okay.
	Very interesting.
	There was another one.
	Here's the members' debate on free speech.
	Gosh.
	55 people.
	Oh, dear.
	Now, it is this one under which they're like, oh, there were, you know, here's Kemi Bade not giving her speech, and the room isn't half empty.
	A lot of those look like journalists.
	They do, don't you?
	I can tell by the backs of their heads for some reason.
	Yeah, but they also look bored, right?
	Yes.
	Everyone also looks bored.
	Some people aren't even looking.
	Yeah, like, look at this guy down here.
	He's just like, God, why am I here?
	This guy here, what am I doing?
	What am I doing here?
	Existential.
	Probably turned up very late, so they're already bored.
	Entirely possible.
	But yeah, so there were people like, no, no, there were some people there for some of it.
	It's like, okay, that's great.
	But I thought there were more pictures than that.
	Yeah, no.
	Like, these sorts of pictures shouldn't really be able to come out of your conference.
	So, in fact, there was, I'm sure there was one in this thread of the reform conference, but apparently it's disappeared, which is annoying.
	Conservatives are censoring the internet now.
	Yeah, look at that.
	Online harms bill.
	But anyway, so yeah, then you've got people who are reporting from it.
	To give you an understanding of how quiet the conservative conference is, the fringe I was due to be speaking at on Wednesday has been cancelled.
	Footfall is so low, it's been decided that it would be largely pointless.
	Something quite sad about how dead all of this is.
	Is it?
	Yeah, is it really?
	Yeah, snap.
	I don't know, Matthew.
	Matthew Torbett.
	That is the sound of people realizing you've betrayed our country.
	Yeah, sorry, bro.
	I think that this is well deserved, frankly.
	Absolutely.
	And then here's one from Poppy Coburn, which is written in the Telegraph.
	There was an eerie quiet about the convention centre beyond what is normally expected of a party shunted in opposition.
	A staffer confessed that there were 900 fewer members than the year prior attending the conference when the thrill of a leadership competition helped draw a crowd.
	Now, shadow cabinet ministers preached the gospel of fiscal responsibility to rooms of plastic falling chairs.
	Oh, God.
	So, this is the end of Thatcherism, guys.
	I saw Poppy did the Vox pops with people there, and it was just like a Titanic sinking, and people were just, it was soulless.
	There was just nothing, but it really captured the mood of like everything that was going on there.
	And it's, yeah, well done.
	Well, a lot of people are asking, well, what's happened to all the sort of twinks who normally go to the Tory Party conference?
	Apparently, they've all gone to reform.
	Part of Niger's harem now.
	Yeah, sorry, yeah.
	The twink defection.
	Yeah, hey, man, you know, like all I'm saying is you can judge it by the revealed preferences, right?
	The real preferences of people are not to go to the Tory conference.
	Anyway, then you had Matthew Syed, who recently joined the Conservative Party, which is a strange thing.
	But you'll see here that he says, Farage is a socialist.
	Well, might be many things, but that is shot one.
	Yeah, Farage is definitely many things, but a socialist issue is a lot of the same thing.
	Is this the same way that the nationalizing the steel is that?
	I think so.
	I agree with that, and I'm about as free as it is rail and there are capitalist arguments for it.
	Any natural monopolies should be.
	I don't want Malaysia owning my water.
	So you need steel manufacturing for defense.
	So there's a national security concern that should override the market concern.
	I don't want foreigners owning our trains.
	I want them nationalized for racist reasons.
	Anyway, then you had James Cludley.
	This is an attack line they're repeatedly using at their conference.
	Nigel Farage is a socialist.
	Oh, dear.
	Morons.
	They just don't know.
	He's a Thatcherite, isn't he?
	Of course he is.
	And actually, like, him towing back the Thatcherism is actually him restraining himself because he understands the sort of blue labor types are also patriotic and will vote reform if he's just not a free market extremist.
	And so to be like, yeah, Nigel Farage is a socialist.
	No one believes that.
	No.
	No one thinks Nigel Farage is a socialist.
	Don't know why you're saying it.
	You absolute morons.
	What are you doing?
	Is this the same James Cleverly that said pale, stale?
	Wouldn't you remember that?
	Do you remember that?
	Pale, stale and male, pale, stale and mail about parliament or whatever or something of the other.
	Well, I mean, that is true, but if we go back to the map, it seems to be what people actually want out of the parliament, right?
	If the diverse Conservative Party was like, yeah, look at this, diversity coin.
	Aren't you thrilled with immigration?
	No, everyone hates it.
	Look what we're going to do to you.
	In all fairness, reform does have the Bangladeshi nationalists lining up waiting to do, but they will complain that reform is far too white when they win.
	Anyway, so then you've got Kemi Badenot being like, right, okay, we're going to get these reform guys.
	We're going to show them what for.
	You know what you are?
	Trans-conservatives.
	You wear the clothes of conservatives, but they aren't real conservatives, says the African immigrant, who's like, I identify as British.
	Are you trans-British now?
	Is that how this works?
	Also, that's not really a very good attack line because it's just like, you know, this thing, the Conservatives that you all love, you know, they're trying to be like us.
	Yeah.
	You know, you're dragging yourself down as well if you're saying that.
	Other people aren't real conservatives as we crank open the borders, ramp up the amount of public spending.
	Like, you know, like, sorry, sell everything we own off to foreigners.
	Like, sorry, I'm not really buying it, African immigrant in charge of the Conservative Party.
	I actually now agree with the journalist who said it's quite sad.
	Yeah, you know, I get that now.
	It's incredible.
	I love this one at the bottom.
	I've never physically cringed harder at any time.
	I thought calling Farage a socialist was bad, but also like saying they're trans-conservative.
	That's just embarrassing.
	You guys are useless.
	And the real cherry on the cake here is this.
	When Labour negotiates, Brittany Ann loses.
	Oh, no.
	Also, the packaging looks like budget chocolate.
	It does look like budget chocolate.
	Oh, dear.
	It looks like the stuff you get in Tesco for 20p.
	But moreover, why do we care what you think of Labour?
	Because they're not going to win either, right?
	Like, not only is this not like a hard line, this isn't like a killer line, this is also kind of, you know, not if you've misspelled it, but Labour are not really going to be sticking around for much longer if the polls are as the polls suggest.
	And so, like, going, oh, look, this is a kill line.
	No, it's not a killer line.
	You've misspelled it.
	And you're attacking the wrong target.
	Nigel Farage is going to eat all of your lunches, including that cheap.
	So Farage is a socialist and Britain can.
	No, sorry, Labour cannot negotiate.
	That's the lines they're going with.
	And what?
	Trans Conservatism.
	Yeah.
	It's a flawless campaign.
	Yeah.
	I can't believe that.
	They've really read the room.
	Well, everything is going so well.
	It's time to have a little song in a dance.
	Now, I don't think I'm going to play the audio to this.
	Sweet Entire Tory party membership in that room It is, but like, this feels like condemned men.
	But look at this guy here.
	Just like, what are we doing, guys?
	We're about to get waxed.
	Everyone's about to lose their job.
	Like, the 120 odd Tory MPs that are left, they're going to be down to 20.
	How many of you need to lose your jobs before you realise whatever it is you're doing is not working?
	And again, this is just in the middle of the conference.
	Councillors are just Nigel Farage tweeted out that 20 actually defected today, two hours ago.
	So just, it is just falling apart.
	And so if you go to the dear leader, who remember did say, look, if you don't like my leadership, you can just leave.
	They are.
	She came out and said, well, you know what?
	Actually, quote, we are shedding the baggage of 14 years to Nick Ferrari.
	We had a historic defeat last year.
	It's going to take losing support.
	You're losing members and you want more time.
	You are the Ruben Amerim of politics, Mr. Badenbach.
	Well, that is certainly not the case.
	What we are doing is shedding a lot of the baggage of the last 14 years.
	I remember last year, we had people defecting to Labour because Labour was doing well in the polls.
	Now we have people defecting to reform because the reform is doing well in the polls.
	We need people who are in our party for the right reasons.
	Uh-oh.
	It sounds like the party's just falling apart.
	If they're defecting to both sides, then there's clearly a problem.
	It's not one or the other.
	It's you.
	It also makes them sound very self-serving, doesn't it?
	Which we know is the case.
	Yes, indeed.
	But yeah, I love this with shedding the baggage of 14 years.
	It's like, no, you should be firing people, right?
	If you actually wanted us to believe that you're like, oh my God, this party's filled with communists and lib Dems.
	I repeat myself.
	Then you should be firing them.
	You'd be chucking them out.
	You should be disinviting them.
	You should be going, no, you're all gone.
	So they've got no chance to defect.
	Like, this is weakness on your part, and everyone can see it.
	This is your own party dying.
	But what I love is kind of how delusional the Tory party is.
	Now, a lot of them are actually well aware that, of course, half say that Kemi should not be leading the party into the next election.
	Or at all, I would suggest, because she's obviously terrible.
	She's obviously killing the party.
	But then you've got 39% would vote for Bade Nock versus 46 for Jenric, which, okay, Jenrick, not exactly the world's strongest.
	Get a majority.
	Yeah, not exactly the world's strongest either.
	But I love that 14% of them expect the Tories to win the next election.
	Who are they?
	Who are these people?
	Lunatives.
	They've been abroad for the past few years.
	What's going on?
	True.
	In a coma, maybe.
	A two-to-one margin back a Tory reform pact.
	Why would reform possibly want a pact with the Tories?
	To be fair, they're already doing it with the defections.
	Sorry, we're going to reduce you down to 20 men in the parliament.
	Why would we need we're going to have 400 people?
	Yeah, true.
	Why would reform want a pact with this dying party?
	This is the most desperate thing I've ever seen.
	And then there's this.
	This really amused me.
	This is a series of polls that the Telegraph did.
	And so reform voters are like, about half of them are just like, no, I'm not having any of it.
	You know, only 30% are like, yeah, I would vote for the Conservatives.
	But in the Conservatives, only 80% of their own supporters would vote for them in the next election.
	That's pretty poor.
	The Conservatives are like, no, I'm not going to vote for our party.
	Oh, no.
	Nearly.
	Yeah, what's that?
	I don't know where the additional 1% went, but that's nearly 19% that's either no or I'm not even sure I'd vote for the party I'm a member of.
	Yeah.
	That is okay.
	As you do, you know.
	And so this is very, very, very strange, very strange things going on in their own party.
	As far as I can tell, the only thing that came out of the Conservative conference that was actually good was ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, because he was just like, just capture them and release them in the wild.
	On the border problem, as you say, should this party, if they're in government, do what Australia did?
	Or is that not possible?
	Because you think of the amount of waters around Australia.
	It's not like the English Channel where there are basically no international waters.
	That's correct.
	But you could certainly pick up people in the English Channel, hold them on some kind of a mothership, and send them back to the land from which they've come on some quiet and moonless night.
	And I think there are all sorts of things that a determined government could do to absolutely stop these votes once and for all.
	But in Australia, obviously there was Pauline Hansel, but you didn't have Nigel Farage in Australia.
	He's a formidable challenge to the two main parties, isn't he?
	Look, I don't deny that, but in the end, you've got to be able to implement policy.
	So he goes on to talk about that.
	But yeah, so that's basically the only good thing that came out of the entire Conservative conference.
	It's genuinely embarrassing.
	And it's a party that is on its own.
	It is on its own self-imposed death march at this point, literally like a baton death march in the Conservative Party.
	You've done this to yourselves.
	You've betrayed us repeatedly, and we're very tired of you.
	And frankly, I'm glad to see Nigel Farage just stomping all over them.
	Like, you know, got my objections to some of the things Farage has said in the past, but who cares, man?
	You know, he needs to wipe out the old consensus from the 20th century.
	He needs to destroy these people.
	It's glorious that it's happening so quickly as well.
	I thought the death of the Conservative Party would be a gradual decline, but no, it's rapid and it's well deserved.
	It's Nigel coming into the nursing home with a pillow, smothering it.
	The last Tory.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, no, I'm really enjoying watching it because you get what you deserve.
	The Engaged View says reform should make the hotel migrants an offer.
	£1,000 and get on the plane or get on the plane without £1,000.
	I wouldn't offer them any money.
	I'd flog them and deport them.
	Sooner take their assets for the cost of deporting them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sorry, get out.
	Would recommend Joseph Heller's Catch 22 novel Picture This, which is Aristotle contemplating Rembrandt contemplating Aristotle.
	Well, that sounds quite esoteric.
	But right, let's move on.
	Cool.
	Let me just grab the grab the cursor back onto the.
	Oh, there we go.
	Perfect.
	Thank you very, very much.
	Right, as we are all aware, Kier Starmer confirmed last week that his government is mandating a digital border and identity system as part of a plan to crack down on illegal migration and modernize border management.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sounds lovely, doesn't it?
	Oh, yeah.
	But what does actually, what does that mean?
	Actually, well, it means a digital ID system for all UK residents, not just for migrants, beginning or starting with migrants and visa applications or applicants and expanding to citizens through quote digital credentials linked to the NHS app and the government UK accounts as well.
	The system will merge between biometric verification, immigration records, and potentially employment and benefit eligibility checks.
	So in this segment, I wanted to just showcase just how deep this digital rot is and goes and emphasize why this is something that, if it's not obvious already, that we should all be resisting.
	Yeah.
	A little preface, actually.
	We were talking just off air beforehand.
	And I actually don't think this is going to go through, if I'm totally honest.
	So I'm actually quite optimistic.
	I hope you're right.
	Yeah.
	Because if I'm agreeing with Owen Jones, of all people, and they have ties to the Labour Party as well.
	And I've even spoken to or had ties, yeah.
	You know, and people like Bastani as well don't think that it's going to go through.
	So if people like that as well are saying exactly what some of us are thinking, then I don't know.
	I'm quite optimistic that I don't think that this is going to fly.
	I don't think Labour have the political capital for it.
	And I think, I mean, Nigel Farage has already said that he's going to get rid of it.
	Get rid of it.
	And it's quite evident that if nothing dramatic changes, Nigel Farage is going to sweep the board.
	So this seems like a last desperate Hail Mary that the Labour Party is trying to do for some reason, which is going to kill them off.
	Yes.
	So go nuts.
	It's one of Starmer's favours to Blair, isn't it?
	Because of course, Blair wanted to pass this and failed in 2006.
	And it's been his pet project.
	Ever since he's been trying to revive it.
	Exactly.
	Well, one of the big concerns regarding the push for digital ID, I think you might have remembered this particular article back in 2021 during the height of the lockdown madness.
	But all of this is all to do with the centralization of power and notably, obviously, through various means like we just touched on, such as healthcare, welfare, but also storing and spending your money.
	That is crazy, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	The Bank of England has called on ministers to decide whether a central bank digital currency should be programmable, ultimately giving the issuer control of how it's spent by the recipient.
	Yeah.
	That is nightmarish.
	Yeah.
	The only implementation I could see of this that would be good is if we must insist on welfare payments.
	It would stop people spending it on booze and cigarettes and things.
	You shouldn't be giving them free money.
	That's like the one thing that I could think of that it could actually be applied to.
	But even then, I don't want it.
	Giving the state the ability to intercede in your transactions.
	It's scary, isn't it?
	Insane.
	It's mental.
	Unfortunately, this sort of, and we'll get into it and I'll show you some of the requests that I put out through Restore as well.
	And I've been doing it for a couple of years now to try Obtain these particular documents from the Bank of England that has stuff all to do with this, pilot schemes, all sorts.
	But I think the infrastructure, I say I think, I know the infrastructure has been there for a while and it's just a case of, well, putting it out there, essentially.
	But even as far back as 2016, where unfortunately these guys seem to just crop up every single time that, yeah, I saw that your eyes then.
	Yeah, these guys are like, who are literally.
	Of course, it's them.
	Well, in August 2016, the conglomerate or the corporate conglomerate of the WEF or the World Economic Forum published a paper called A Blueprint for Digital Identity: The Role of Financial Institutions in Building Digital Identity,
	where the report argues that once you have a trusted digital identity, it can become the key accessing services from banking and payments to government benefits and healthcare.
	Why would I want that?
	What exactly?
	Why would I want you to have this kind of power over me?
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is very much the sort of pet project of the sort of techno-globalist elite faction, isn't it?
	That's why Blair's so heavily involved.
	That's why World Economic Forum is involved and this sort of network of sort of globalist leaders and many European leaders that have been this way aligned have all been pushing for this at the same time.
	I know it exists to a certain extent already in some countries.
	Estonia is the big one where they've had digital ID for a while now.
	I heard them arguing, well, they're doing it in Estonia.
	Oh, are they?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, well, former Soviet Republic.
	If Estonia are doing it, it's good enough for me.
	Shut up.
	Exactly.
	Well, I put in a request quite a while ago to try and ask for documentation on the links between central bank digital currency and digital ID systems.
	And it's taken me two years to actually get a proper answer.
	And they've turned around and said, well, after your internal review, disclosing this would have a chilling effect on deliberations and risk for destabilizing speculation.
	Essentially, if we put it out, it's going to create so much speculation that people are going to be...
	Everyone's going to panic.
	Everyone's going to panic, essentially.
	Everyone's going to be like, oh, right, that's an insane plan that you've had for years on the back burner.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Okay, that's very interesting.
	That's as good as an admission of guilt, really, isn't it?
	Essentially.
	So it says, in summary, my view is that the bank was correct to withhold the requested documents in response to your request of June 2025.
	The outcome of my review is therefore to confirm the refusal under section 36 and section 36.2.
	The reasoning for my decision is set out below.
	Disclosure of the information would or would be likely to inhibit the free and frank exchange of views for the purposes of deliberation.
	How would that be the case?
	How would it be if I gave you this information you want to discuss?
	This would inhibit deliberation.
	So to frame this, I suppose, you know, we have the legal right to do freedom of information requests for public good.
	And this is going to impede the discourse by allowing people to know what's going on.
	I don't understand that argument.
	Look at that next line.
	The disclosure of this information would otherwise prejudice or be likely to otherwise prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs.
	If we tell you what we're going to do, it'll be difficult for the government to do it because everyone will hate it.
	Everyone will hate it.
	And everyone will be up in arms about it.
	And suddenly the government will find itself blocked by public opinion.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, there's a few more bits on here.
	The issuance of CBDC and Digital Identity Framework remains a live and sensitive area of policymaking.
	Disclosure at this stage could inhibit the free and frank exchange of views, essential for robust policymaking and may lead to destabilizing speculation or confusion in the market and the public.
	So everyone will hate it and you won't be able to do it.
	Yeah, essentially.
	I think what's going on there is if they announce this now, it's going to have a very detrimental effect on the economy.
	And that's how I could interpret it.
	Yeah, market as well.
	Because it's dictated by that, usually, the markets.
	But I've done an internal review and we've sent that off.
	And I think in the comments section, you can read the full thing.
	If you do want to get involved, I have written out a template and you can find that on my Twitter.
	Don't use my FOI reference number.
	You have to do your own FOI, but you can use the template to help you.
	And maybe it might add some public pressure.
	But with some consultation, Rupert Lowe, I'm very grateful.
	I'm not being biased, but I'm very grateful for his support on this, where he's written a letter to the Bank of England asking basically why have you refused this?
	The public interest in transparency on money, privacy, and the relationship between citizens and the state far outweighs the supposed risks of public debate.
	Sorry, sorry, what are the risks of public debate?
	I know.
	I know democracy is meant to be.
	I know, and that's an omission within itself.
	It very much is.
	So we're applying a lot of pressure at Restore to try and get hold of these documents because the public has the right to know.
	And they very clearly don't want to release them.
	Yeah.
	Because they, as you say, Josh, this is definitely an omission.
	If this all came out, everyone would be like, oh my God, that's terrible.
	Yeah.
	And so they're like, well, we can't have that coming up.
	Can't have that.
	No, indeed.
	Well, as we know, that we've been chatting about earlier, the Tony Blair Institution have been talking about this for quite some time.
	But Big Brother Watch actually put out something that was really interesting.
	I don't know if you guys had seen this.
	It says Tony Blair's think tank wants digital IDs to turn neighbours into informants, including for noise complaints.
	This is definitely informal, isn't it?
	Yes.
	They're noisy past 10 o'clock.
	That's it.
	Gulag, no currency for you.
	This was the thing about Labour going like, oh my God, the indefinitely to remain is racist.
	Nigel Farris wants to support my neighbours.
	Like, what if your neighbours are foreigners you don't like?
	What if they're noisy like my neighbours?
	My walls speak Hindi at the minute.
	It's terrible.
	Well, with your digital ID now, Josh, you can now snitch on them and help with your social credit score.
	You know what?
	They're selling it to you.
	I've changed my mind.
	They're actually saying your community impact score.
	It's literally just a social credit score.
	If I can get my annoying neighbours debanked, I'm willing to risk it.
	He says the proposal is buried in a report released just two days before Kier Starmer announced plans for a mandatory digital ID.
	The Prime Minister is saying publicly that the government is mandating them for every adult for right to work checks, but keeping quiet about how many areas of our public life they could be used for.
	And I think this is the source from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, and it has like a pilot scheme.
	Report new issues on road damage, fly tipping, street lighting, vandalism, fraud, and noise complaints.
	You know what?
	I've changed my mind on social credit scores.
	If I can twist the knife on the disruptive proles, I'm going to love it.
	I can't help but notice this wasn't actually necessary before Labour began the project of mass immigration.
	That is true as well.
	It's quite nice.
	I'm being facetious, of course.
	I don't actually support this.
	Yeah.
	I hate my neighbours, but I hate the government more, says Josh.
	I've got enough hate in my heart for many.
	As we heard recently, I think I posted this the other day about Palantir.
	And I made the comment that you know you're in trouble when even a CIA-founded data mining surveillance firm thinks that Starmer and Blair's digital ID scheme goes a bit too far.
	Palantir are terrifying.
	Yeah.
	And it's also named Palantir.
	That's Sauron's like ball that Vue, you know, he communicates through.
	Like, you don't.
	I didn't, I forgot about that.
	Like, yeah, that's lively.
	Like, yes, we're Sauron's evil machinery.
	You know, like, such bad optics.
	I don't know why you'd call it that, but okay, fair enough.
	Yeah, software.
	Even they're like, we're steady on kit.
	Yeah, literally.
	Software giant Palantir snubs undemocratic digital ID scheme.
	And that is the US-UK.
	Adolf Hitler tells Israel to knock it off.
	They're going a bit too far.
	Yeah, literally.
	Lewis Mosley, who is Oswald Mosley's grandson.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, really.
	Is the UK-US representative for Palantir, which I don't know if you knew the team?
	It's very, yeah, indeed.
	But as we know, yeah, Palantir is a massive, massive deal when it comes to this.
	But there's also something as well that was picked up.
	Let me just go down to here.
	It was picked up by Bernie Spoforth.
	I believe I said a surname correctly.
	Oh, yeah, sorry, I must say, yeah, the digital ID cards petition or do not introduce 2.8 million.
	Pretty impressive.
	But then the government turned around and said, no, we will introduce them.
	That was their response.
	I mean, this is something that I've said for a long time, that if a government wants to do something, your petitions and protests will do nothing.
	Yeah.
	In the immediate.
	It's important to try, obviously.
	In the immediate, but it does show the, I mean, like, it shows the government that this is something that is deeply unpopular.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	I'm of the opinion that you don't point out the bear traps for the government.
	You make them fail as quickly as possible.
	Well, maybe.
	Yeah.
	I do agree with AA on the idea that protests or 95% of protests is just the marching up and down the square to quote.
	But you've got to work for that 5%, haven't you?
	Yeah, when it does.
	I mean, like, Kirstama the other day, when he was announcing all this, was like, oh, we're in a battle for the soul of the country.
	I saw the Tommy march and a million people on 150,000 might rethink spots came out.
	And that clearly put the fear of God in.
	So, I don't know, man.
	I think they can have an effect.
	Yeah.
	Fair enough.
	Maybe.
	He tells us.
	I hope so.
	I want to be wrong.
	He literally tells us that he's deeply afraid watching all of these patriots flying the flags.
	So it's like, okay, good.
	I don't believe Starmer actually feels any human emotions.
	I think he can feel fear.
	Starminator.
	You reckon Starmer could feel fear?
	Well, he tells us he does.
	Well, fair enough.
	I think he just can't feel love.
	Well, what was that Ukrainian rent boys scandal that's gone completely missing?
	Yeah.
	Anyways, enough about that.
	There was something that has been overlooked, but Bernie has actually brought it to our attention.
	And we are collaborating.
	I can announce that now about looking into this particular bill called the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is in the House of Lords as we speak.
	And just a quick rundown.
	It's been put forward by Bridget Philipson and Baroness Smith of Malvern.
	And the bill empowers the Secretary of State to specify a consistent identifier for children.
	And it's to be used by designated persons when processing information about children in safeguarding and welfare functions.
	And this is extremely sinister.
	And I hadn't seen or heard about this bill for a while, but it's really at the late stages of it going through.
	And you can check out a bit more details on the parliamentary bills.
	It lets children be tracked across multiple domains and agencies using a single key.
	And over time, that key can be reused or cross-linked beyond initial purposes.
	And it gives power to, or legal powers, new legal powers to local authorities, such as the council, that creates and maintains registers of all children, including those not in school, such as home-educated children.
	It collects and stores personal data about those children, parents, and education providers.
	They can share that information with other bodies, for example, the Department for Education, safeguarding agencies, or even across UK nations.
	And parents might be required to provide any other information about the child that the Secretary of State considers should be included under certain clauses.
	So, for example, it allows ministers to expand the data required over time, creeping into monitoring of beliefs, behaviours, and family contexts.
	Jesus.
	That's horrifying.
	Horrifying.
	And there's also the added dimension of, this is the elites doing this, you know.
	Yeah.
	It's, not to get too dark here, but it's like giving a menu to an Epstein-like character, isn't it?
	I was thinking, like, in Rotherham and stuff.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Council directly involved in the grooming gangs.
	Well, the prevent will be all over that.
	Yeah.
	Like a rash as well.
	Would you trust the authorities with this much information on your children?
	Exactly.
	And you shouldn't.
	And there's been a massive crackdown on homeschooling as well for a long time, and they've crept that in with this particular thing.
	So, essentially, it's not just digital ID for adults.
	It's now for children, and it's being used.
	I hate it when they do this, but it's so obvious.
	They go, oh, it's for children's well-being.
	It's for, you know, it's for helping children, you know, going through, like, rough times.
	It's putting them on a database to make sure that the state is monitoring them and that they're okay.
	They go through rough times so they need to go on a database.
	Yeah, literally.
	You know.
	Silly.
	But another, a few more things before we wrap up this segment.
	Silly.
	Silly.
	There is some strange things that I've noticed with regards to filing these FOI requests after Keir Starmer announced the digital ID mandate.
	And requests that I submitted earlier in the year are now coming through.
	And I thought that was bizarre.
	And that was after Kierstama announced about digital IDs.
	For example, this one.
	I asked back in July, and I totally forgot I even sent this, by the way, asking for copies of memos, internal briefing notes, and summary reports from the government on their involvement with the World Economic Forum and the United Nations on digital ID programs.
	And the government has just pinged me an email months and months later saying, oh, by the way, the government is delaying releasing them, citing a public interest review.
	Oh, really?
	Saying, yeah, there's no guarantee the child parent can decline or opt out of how.
	Oh, sorry, no, that's something else.
	Sorry, forgive me.
	So they're basically coming through and saying that, yes, we do have programs and pilots, and we have there's confirmation that the UK government is in coordination with the UN and WEF, like we've seen, but they're now delaying it.
	But they've just been sending me these emails like just randomly out of nowhere, months later.
	And they did it again with this one.
	You can see the date there, 3rd of October.
	It says, thank you for your email in the 16th of June, 2025.
	And this one in particular, I asked the Home Office about documents relating to digital ID systems for use in immigration enforcement long before the government publicly announced it.
	And suddenly they sent me this email on the 3rd, so only the other day, saying for the parts two and three of your request relating to monitoring illegal migration or undocumented individuals and the use of digital ID systems to enforce border protection, including identity verification at ports of entry, after careful consideration, it has been decided that the information is exempt.
	These sections provide the information can be withheld that prejudice the formulation of government policy.
	And I was like, why am I being received this now?
	Like this was back in June.
	Like Kier Starmer has said this will help us with immigration.
	So that has to be the case.
	Yeah.
	There's digital identity verification at ports of entry.
	Otherwise, what would be the point of it?
	Exactly.
	It's all very weird, isn't it?
	It's all very, very bizarre.
	So it was very bizarre to receive these emails just randomly.
	But it confirms what we already knew, that this was live for a long, long time, like before the announcement was made.
	It was just a case of when.
	So what are we doing at Restore to investigate a bit more on this?
	But obviously Rupert, like I mentioned earlier in the segment, has written to the Bank of England and we're trying to investigate whether we can uncover these particular documents about CBDCs.
	We're trying to uncover documents and plans for the use of the ID system to manage criminal records, illegal migration and border identity verification.
	So we're really pushing to hopefully, I think Rupert's putting in questions about trying to see whether we can get these documents in the House of Commons library so we can access them and to showcase them.
	We want to get some briefings and memos about the involvement of the World Economic Forum and the UN.
	I think that's incredibly important.
	And yeah, more parliamentary questions and FOIs on the child well-being bill, which seems to be, you know, has slipped unnoticed until now.
	But it is going to be one of the fig leafs they use to impose this upon us.
	Indeed.
	So that's it.
	Of course, it's I'm sorry for the black.
	No, no, it's fine, but it's just like it's so insufferably dystopian.
	Yeah.
	Where they're just like, oh, yeah, well, you know, we're going to do all of this, and we're not going to tell you why, and we're not going to tell you how.
	And if we do, it would prejudice public discourse or whatever it is.
	You can make that argument for any policy.
	It's a proper argument there.
	Exactly.
	It's pathetic.
	It's weak.
	Arcadia says you need to understand that Labour is not trying to ram through digital IDs at their own behest, but on the orders of the WEF masters.
	Absolutely.
	Clearly, I mean, I do think that basically Keir Starmer has employed Tony Blair here to shore up his position as the Labour Party.
	And, okay, well, you're going to throw the digital ID out because Tony Blair is going to force you to do that.
	That's going to be the price.
	And I think it was AA that brought up an old tweet of Keir Starmer saying how he was really against it.
	Really, he originally was really against the idea of about eight months ago, didn't he?
	And then now he's like, no, I have to obey my master, the Dark Lord.
	FaceTape says, trans-British is actually great rhetoric.
	We should start seeding this.
	They can't push back on it because they aren't socially bound to act as if trans means legitimate.
	Well, nobody really thinks so.
	Annie Benlock is trans-British, though.
	I mean, that's literally when she came out and said, I identify as British.
	What does that mean?
	What of me?
	That's the same as saying I identify as a woman, right?
	Like, you are, in fact, a male.
	You are, in fact, a Nigerian.
	Like, you know, that's just literally what she was doing.
	So, anyway.
	Yeah, explosion says, like all things, political parties have expiry dates.
	That's right.
	Reform are basically the shit of Theseus.
	Yeah, well, I'm not saying they're not, but the point is, we have no other options.
	Cranky Texan says, what if digital ID isn't supposed to succeed?
	What if they just want to change the conversation?
	I think that Tony Blair has been banging the drum far too long for it to not be something he seriously believes.
	I agree.
	It ties too well into all of the architecture of other projects.
	Yes.
	The technocracy needs the digital ID to actually.
	It's kind of like the final piece in the puzzle that makes the whole thing light up, you know?
	Yeah.
	But I don't think they're actually going to do it.
	I don't think they're actually going to make it messy.
	I agree with you.
	Yeah, despite talking about all of that, I actually don't think it's going to go through.
	I think it's actually sort of desperation on the technocrats' part to throw this out.
	I don't think.
	I'm just hoping, I'm hoping and I'm praying that Farage, when he does get into power, because it looks like he is going to become prime minister, that he will just repeal it.
	Yeah, it's the first thing.
	First thing that he does.
	It's an obvious move for us.
	It's an obvious and it's an easy move, and it's red meat to the base.
	I don't get it.
	There's no argument against it.
	No.
	Like, you know, would you like a tyrannical dystopian system or should I get rid of that?
	And Nigel's like, hmm.
	But they need a communications department to actually convey, like, for example, that Sarah, is it poaching who went on talk TV and said, oh, no, I think digital ID is a great thing.
	And it was like, oh, what are you doing?
	What happened to message discipline?
	Nigel came out on day one and was like, no.
	Yeah.
	You get in line, Sarah.
	But this is the Tory defection that's showing its colours.
	Scott.
	Scott says, really enjoyed your interview with Jay Dar on the Fabian Space.
	Thank you very much.
	I must hook you up with Jay.
	Yeah, yeah, that's a good chat.
	Right, let's move on.
	Okay.
	How bad is Britain?
	Oh, at the minute, I don't even have my segment up.
	There we go.
	So recently we did a rather controversial Lands Hour talking about British comedy TV shows, some of the classics, and although we didn't get through all of them, some people were upset about our placements.
	But we're not talking about that because as part of this, I should go and watch that because I regret nothing.
	I've heard of unrepentant.
	Oh, the thing isn't working.
	But anyway, I re-watched some episodes of The Thick of It in preparation for this.
	And then a sudden thing hit me.
	I was just like, wait a minute, these scenarios of these members of parliament and ministers messing up, they're not actually nearly as bad as our current situation.
	Thank you.
	And I wanted to go through just some recent events in politics that seem like they're from a series like this, that are just so absurd that you sort of can't believe it.
	Things like this, for example.
	So the YouGov logo changed, and it has now become blue, and they've moved the dot up a little bit.
	And this sounds blue.
	Yeah, it's less readable.
	And this costs over half a million pounds.
	I could have done it for half of that price.
	Hit up YouGov if you need it, redesigning.
	YouGov 200k.
	Don't listen to him.
	£150.
	I don't know, that's 50 quid.
	That is five minutes in Photoshop.
	That's easily done.
	And also, you know, what were they doing to spend all that money?
	Consulting people?
	Yeah.
	No, I bet it was a case of, you know, they were thinking, what should we do?
	And they've got all these elaborate ideas.
	And then someone just comes in and goes, should we just move the dot and just change the colour?
	And then all of that money is and then all that money's like gone.
	Well, why does it need changing?
	Everyone's like, the GovUK website needs to be fancier.
	Do you know what I hate about the government?
	The website's logo.
	That's what I hate.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That was the problem.
	Yeah.
	If they changed that, it'd be perfect.
	It's so ugly and unreadable now.
	At least it was like, look, we're the government, which is black and white, you know, straightforward.
	And of course, there is a budget shortfall.
	And one thing that you need to be doing is sending £46 million to help the Lebanese police, don't you?
	That's very pertinent.
	Wait, what?
	Why are we sending £46 million to the Lebanese police?
	I don't know.
	But what's even more annoying is the not-for-profit directors of this charity also took out 3.6 million in that taxpayer cash as a director's fees.
	So it's absurd.
	I don't understand why we're assisting the Lebanese.
	Do we have a name of this director?
	It will improve interagency coordination with the Lebanese armed forces.
	Ah, yes, vital for our national security.
	What?
	Lebanese police.
	Yeah.
	I haven't actually looked at the details of who it is, but it was just the cost of it.
	Like, why are we doing this in the first place?
	Obviously, these directors have got a good thing going for them.
	Yeah.
	They're just stealing from the tax.
	Shame and shame them now.
	That's my character.
	Like the migrant charities, same thing.
	Name, shaman, honestly.
	So another thing, this is straight out of the thick of it, is the new tech secretary, Liz Kendall, went on TV and wore a green shirt in front of a green.
	It's transparent.
	Oh, no.
	And so when she went on Good Morning Britain, they actually had to print out a physical copy of Parliament to put behind her because they couldn't use the green screen because it's basically the spot-on colour green of a green screen as well.
	Which when you're tech secretary and do media appearances, that's a bit of a mishap, isn't it?
	It's a bit unfortunate.
	And it's not nearly as bad, though.
	This is, you know, forgivable.
	And she laughed it off.
	She was a good sport about it, at least.
	But this is terrible.
	This is not necessarily the government, but the shadow government.
	So in recent weeks, stung by criticism that she was aloof from her MPs, Badnock, as in the leader of the Conservative Party, has began inviting small groups for lunch.
	Well, platters of shop bought sandwiches.
	And when I point out to one invitee that Badnock famously declared last year that she hated sandwiches, which was a bit of a scandal, by the way, in line with just 1% of the British public, they replied, oh no, the MPs had sandwiches.
	Kemi had something hot brought in, which is how you really ingratiate yourself with your own MPs, is you make yourself look more important.
	You have a hot meal brought to you.
	There you go.
	There are your sandwiches, private.
	I love the sand.
	By the way, I said that I hate them.
	And that's like the worst thing she could have possibly done.
	It's just like, she may as well get brought in in a litter and sit on a throne.
	I don't know what's wrong with her.
	Well, many things.
	So you think, okay, well, let's have a little look at the left, shall we?
	Well, the Green Party has adopted a potential motion banning landlords, which I don't know how this is going to help people get on the housing market.
	Genuinely Maoist as well.
	Yeah.
	We just need to ban landlords.
	Landlords are the problem.
	Next, they're going to declare a war on sparrows and they're going to get farmers to melt down their equipment and make it into pig iron.
	This is after his appearance with Is it Ash Sarkar?
	And she was talking about banning landlords and you must have gotten an idea from that.
	Ridiculous, isn't it?
	Well, they're a communist party, so it's kind of what I would expect, actually.
	Renting property as intrinsically exploitative.
	What?
	What?
	If I rent a bicycle, is that being exploited?
	Yes, you should own that bicycle.
	That's literally what they think.
	Yeah, but I don't have the room for it.
	Too bad.
	It's easier for me to rent it.
	I'd prefer to rent it.
	Too bad.
	The Green Party can't allow me to do that.
	Sorry, not to.
	I don't understand.
	I actually do not understand it.
	So you ban landlords, then what happens?
	Like, what actually happens?
	Children never move out of their parents' homes.
	That's what.
	We're trapped with them forever.
	Oh, gosh.
	Unintentionally bringing families together or making them hate each other.
	I don't know.
	What they think they do, they think they're solving the housing crisis here.
	Obviously, they're not.
	I just don't get, I don't get it.
	They could be sold to foreigners.
	Actually, most people, when they move out of home, don't just buy a house.
	I've still not done it yet.
	I'm 30 this year.
	There's also polling here that thankfully suggests that the Green Party isn't exactly polling that well.
	So I think we're going to be safe in our rental properties for now.
	Reform leading the pack by a pretty significant margin.
	But you might think, okay, so a lot of these elected parties are a bit crazy.
	We've seen the Conservatives, we've seen the Greens, we've seen Labour, all the left-wing parties.
	And maybe you want to vote for an independent.
	Maybe you're sick of the party system.
	Well, the Independents want to declare war on Israel.
	Hang on, are they independents or are they part members of your party now?
	I don't know.
	But this was only a couple of weeks ago and they were still independents then.
	I guess, yeah.
	Who's the car on the far right?
	I don't know.
	He's the one token Quizling that doesn't make any Islamic.
	But where's Jeremy Corbyn?
	He's occupying his spot.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But yeah, I love the idea of, you know, like a bunch of Muslims being like, yeah, we hate what's happening in the Middle East.
	So declare war on Israel.
	It's like, why is this my problem?
	It was like the other day with Siobhan and Mahmoud, like, oh my God, all the pro-Palestine protesters are protesting Israel, so we're going to have to ban Englishmen from being able to protest.
	It's like, oh, why do I have to get banned?
	Yeah.
	You know, thanks.
	Anyway, sorry, Carol.
	But my point being is that the independents only want one thing.
	It is war with Israel.
	That is why they're independent.
	That's, you know, it is why they don't belong to any other party because they're not going to endorse that.
	But because they're independent, they can.
	They're the sectarian violence independents.
	They're sort of their own distinct block.
	And another thing that happened that sort of went a bit under the radar is that the Libyan army is more interested in helping our border than our own.
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, my gosh.
	So I'm going to read this.
	Really embarrassing.
	Libya taking pity on us.
	The military leadership insists that their capacity to halt migration flows across North Africa towards Britain and the EU faces significant obstacles due to existing United Nations sanctions that restrict their access to advanced surveillance technology and search and rescue equipment.
	So they're basically appealing to us for a bit of help here.
	Libyan maritime forces currently intercept as many as eight vessels daily during busy periods.
	So they're doing a better job than we are already.
	Our ones ferry them across the channel.
	They do.
	Major General Khalid Al-Shreer, I think it's pronounced, I don't know, Deputy Chief of Illegal Immigration Combat Department, said, we want to cooperate with the UK.
	Libya is in the place where your crisis starts.
	We are the first point of contact.
	We are also the ones who are trying to stop the problem with almost no international help.
	We don't need money.
	So they're willing to do it for free.
	We gave France £250 million.
	I wouldn't give France any money.
	We have.
	You know, it's ridiculous.
	It's a quarter of a billion.
	And there's still a lot of people.
	And they're still every day a thousand come across.
	And the Libyan losses.
	We'll do it for free.
	Just help us.
	They just got free money from us, basically.
	Why did we give money to the French?
	I can't believe it's the Libyan Navy that's that meme where it's taking all the daggers and stuff in the backs of brink of all the people.
	Yeah, the Libyan Navy.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Based bros, I guess.
	Hey, Libya, if you want to get revenge for colonialism, we'll help you.
	The French have ripped us off.
	Let's get them back, we've both got an enemy here, haven't we?
	We've got a new best friend, you know.
	Portugal.
	Portugal, yeah.
	We like you, but I'm afraid you're not offering us military assistance.
	You know, we're still good friends, but Libya is our new best friend now.
	And he carries on to say, he cautioned that Britain's welfare provisions were creating powerful incentives for migration attempts.
	Even in Libya, they can tell that.
	He explained that successful arrivals share their experiences with communities back home and it encourages future migration.
	And all they want in exchange for our help is just helping exchange our experience, basically just training them, which is a win-win.
	I would be more than happy to do that.
	If I were Prime Minister, I'd be like, listen, we'll sort you out, Libya.
	You're our new best buddy now.
	No more sanctions for you.
	We're going to help train you up.
	We're going to make you a powerful country.
	He's turning into Donald Trump now.
	Such an easy win, though, for the British government.
	So what does the British government do?
	Well, they release an app that makes it easier to become a UK citizen or a British citizen, which immediately skyrocketed to third in the Apple App Store amongst the life in the UK test.
	I like the way you have to pay five quid for it, though.
	They're pretty low quality.
	We have to pay for that.
	We pay that.
	They get their.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, no, yeah.
	Yeah.
	But they're thinking we'll recoup some of our money here.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And you might take some consolation and say, well, at least some things are outside of the purview of the government.
	But it's not much better.
	Here's a railway bridge, which I've actually seen in Field.
	I've been through Field Station a few times.
	This took longer than the Empire State Building to build.
	I saw it, wasn't it a Lib Dem constituency?
	Sounds about right, yeah.
	I saw something very similar, the Lib Dem, not a debut, but just some other random Lib Dem standing on a staircase saying, this took 10 years to build, but it's finally done.
	And it's like, isn't that not good?
	That's really bad.
	Can you guess roughly what it was predicted to cost originally in 2011, I think it was?
	Like 3 million or something?
	Less than that, 1.25 million.
	And who can guess what it actually costs?
	10 million?
	That's really close, actually.
	9.5 million.
	So significantly £10 million.
	And the worst thing is, it's hideous.
	Yeah, it's not even good.
	We could have an empire state building, but we have this.
	It's ugly.
	It's overpriced.
	It took 10 years to build.
	What is going on?
	Country just.
	There's another HS2.
	Yeah.
	It is, yeah.
	And Lewis, you'll definitely remember this because I nearly broke you when I talked about this last time.
	Oh, no, this isn't right.
	I'll go back to that in a second.
	This was the African tribe that had moved to Scotland.
	And they've finally been arrested and evicted after all that time.
	I don't know what's going to happen to them, but they've been living in the woods LARPing as an African tribe, even though two of them actually are African.
	It's not much of a LARP, is it?
	But they were wearing Nepalese clothes.
	And the supposed tribal leader was walking around with a stick in his mouth all the time, rolling his eyes into the back of his head.
	He's just like, what are you doing, you weirdos?
	But they also have seven children in care, which I hope also get deported with them.
	But here's Birmingham as well.
	By the way, with that African, you've got the Libyans on the phone, going, look, we can deal with it.
	The Libyans.
	You send them to Libya.
	They'll be on the market though.
	You know what the Libyans are like?
	Not my problem, bro.
	You came to Britain.
	We're bringing back this.
	No, I'm not going to say that.
	But look at the state of the streets.
	It's all just declining.
	Obviously, there was a big scandal with the Birmingham bins.
	That's still happening.
	Well, obviously.
	Yeah, it's still happening.
	It's a state on an estate, by the way.
	As you can tell, I don't keep up with what's going on in Birmingham.
	Lucky you.
	It's also worth mentioning that this tribe, a woman in Texas, is pleading for her daughter to be deported, and she still hasn't been.
	So we've got her family members actively saying, please deport her.
	And yeah.
	Right, she's been living with the Scottish tribe.
	Yes.
	It's ridiculous.
	They can't even deport someone whose family wants them to be deported.
	Just want an Oliver Cromwell.
	Come in and just cut through all of this.
	A man can dream.
	And you know what?
	What's being put to close some of the budget shortfalls?
	Banks are now being ordered to sneak on pensioners, notoriously very wealthy pensioners with no money to heat the houses.
	Pensioners committing all that fraud.
	It's not pensioners that are fraudulently exploiting the British government, is it really?
	Hmm.
	I don't know about that.
	And a bit more of a darker turn, obviously.
	There was the attack in Manchester.
	The anti-terror police, the arms response police, accidentally shot one of the victims.
	I'm reminded.
	I know it's perhaps not the nicest way of putting it, but there's the one thing you shouldn't have allowed to happen, right?
	If you're responding to a terrorist, you don't shoot the victims.
	It's just the worst thing that could have possibly happened there.
	And the statement for this, it was darkly amusing.
	It was just like, you know, we are aware that this has happened.
	It's like, so you rocked up.
	Some guys are, I've been stabbed.
	And they're like, bang.
	Just come on.
	Yeah.
	You know, come on.
	Yeah.
	Dreadful.
	It'd be interesting to see the religious affiliation of the armed response officer.
	Anyway, I'm sure you've seen this already.
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to.
	The real problem with Britain is middle-aged white men.
	Yes.
	And he was walking around Manchester at the time, talking about the synagogue attack and saying that it's just men.
	It's white men putting up flags that did this.
	It's not a far-off Middle Eastern sectarian conflict that's been going on for many, many years.
	It's just one of the worst takes I think I've ever heard.
	I saw it trending as well.
	He's also funded by the BBC.
	So that's taxpayers' money going to pay this moron.
	Well, there were signs, wasn't there?
	I think someone, I can't remember who shared it, of the England squad and them singing the national anthem years ago when he was part of the England squad and he was the only one looking down, not singing.
	So there were signs.
	Yes.
	And one thing that hasn't got much attention, this is absurd.
	So masked man, Metrolink passenger, they've changed it to now, released gas into carriages in three disturbing incidents.
	So what happened is his name is Ghalib Saeed, by the way.
	He's 31.
	tree um he boarded the tram with a gas mask for some oh my god Well, because he knew what he was planning.
	But why people were just like, okay, this guy's just got on in a gas mask.
	This is normal.
	And then he let off some butane gas inside the tram carriages on three separate occasions, the 15th of March, the 20th, and the 22nd.
	He's still in the country for some reason.
	Gosh, that's like biological.
	What is it?
	The biological warfare activity.
	Well, butane is just flammable.
	So it would just give you a funny smell and it might make you a bit lightheaded.
	It doesn't actually do anything.
	So he's just a weirdo.
	You know, he wasn't lighting it as far as I'm aware.
	He can do, apparently.
	Yeah, the biological warfare.
	Inhaling butane can cause serious health risks, including respiratory distress, hypoxia, cardiovascular issues.
	I didn't realise that.
	It can lead to long-term damage to the brain, liver, kidneys, and nervous systems.
	That explains why when I go camping, I'm slightly more brain dead than normal.
	That does.
	Oh, well.
	But, like, okay, great.
	Thank you, Islamic terrorist.
	What are we saying here?
	Why did he do this?
	There's no reason given for whatever reason.
	I'm sure they'll try and explain it as well.
	He's mentally ill.
	Yeah, I'm sure it's not.
	No, we've got to stop.
	No, he's high on butane.
	I mean, by this standard, though, anyone who does anything wrong is mentally ill.
	So it's not an explanation, really, is it?
	Yeah, they use he's mentally ill to say, we don't understand why he did this.
	Yeah.
	That's what they use it for.
	Yeah.
	It's also not a problem.
	We allowed him into the country wrongfully.
	He shouldn't be here.
	Yeah.
	He shouldn't be randomly gassing people.
	And it's a low bar, but yeah.
	I'm going to, you know, it might be controversial to some, but I'm against gassing people.
	Yeah.
	And finally, I wanted to end.
	Is this what I'm going to get?
	I've got a gas mask.
	If I just get enough butane, I'll do what?
	Give everyone on the tube a headache.
	Like, thanks, you.
	It is like four lions.
	He does realise he could do far more damage speaking on speakerphone.
	That gives me a headache when foreigners doing it.
	Yeah, but rubbed in you rapids.
	Yeah.
	So I wanted to end on a bit of a bit of a hot fuzz moment.
	So overly confident black swan with a bit of an ego banned from town.
	This black swan was living in Stratford upon Avon, and he's called Reggie, as you suggested.
	I don't know why.
	Despite being 13% of the swans in Avon.
	So, yes, we've got authorities rounding up swans.
	Hot fuzz is real now.
	And the funny thing.
	I've never seen anything come out and condemn this as racist yet.
	Funny thing is, it does have a racial element because he was targeting the native, as it says here, native white mute swans.
	And just don't point out that foreign black swans cause a majority of violence to native white swans.
	Otherwise, you'll be called racist.
	And on that wonderful note, I wanted to point out that Britain is a ridiculous country full of silly things.
	And I would like it to change personally.
	We've got any video comments today, Samson.
	Michael says, Kemmy is just the kind of charismatic leader the Tory needs.
	Yeah, that's another thing as well.
	Kemmy's just not very likable, right?
	I don't really want to hang out with Kemmy.
	Like, why would you put her in charge?
	Anyway, let's go to that.
	I'd be interested to hear about her, you know, when she's talking about being a Yoruba and a blood feud.
	Is that genuinely the ethnic conflict that she has or something?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next video coming.
	They're shipping the pets turning and they're shipping the cars turnin' and they're taking the wealth of the people that live there.
	We ship pets to Pakistan.
	Because if you're moving to Pakistan, that's something you need as a service.
	Lovely musical rendition, by the way.
	But obviously, this is just a way of moving your stolen car.
	Didn't get pink Mercedes transported to Pakistan.
	Sorry, I don't mean to be insensitive, but I thought in Islam, dogs weren't because they're showing dogs.
	I thought it aren't compelled.
	Women allowed to drive.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is another thing.
	Frash has just come out with a 15% tax on remittances as well.
	You're not sending money without us having some of it.
	The Chinese just have a solid cap on it.
	And I think that's the way to do it.
	Just like you can't send more than X amount of money, which is quite a small amount of money as well.
	People would probably get up in arms about that, though.
	Do who?
	Well, yeah, but you don't want to end up in the labor position where everyone hates you.
	If it's foreigners, though, they're not going to be around for long.
	It's not that.
	You just want to make sure everything's kind of lubricated, right?
	So it's just like, okay, yeah, no, you know, it's just 15%.
	It's not much.
	Can't really complain about that.
	Carry on.
	You know, and that the incentive will just slowly but surely ground it down because it's just not worth it.
	But I think the idea of people coming here extracting wealth from the country, I suppose if we have massive free marketeer here.
	Well, I thought you were, you know, that's the thing.
	I'm not in favour of remittances.
	Well, I'm not either, really, but it is one of those things where there'll be a lot of people who are throwing up objections.
	So, actually, I mean, you could cap it, but like, and just put it as a hard cap.
	But, like, if you just put a tax on it, I think that it would go through quite smoothly, and then it would just be a disincentive to the thing.
	Anyway, who cares?
	Yeah, even if you're a net tax contributor, if you're sending remittances back, you're still a net financial drain unless you're earning an absurd amount of money.
	Yes.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Evening, loaded citizens and crew.
	I will not be attending the first fleet forum because I have to attend a rifle shoot in order to remain in compliance for having a New South Wales firearms license.
	And that is a 700-yard target that I'm shooting off the shoulder with a sling using target sights at 700 yards.
	And yeah, if Carl ever wants to see what rifle shooting in Australia looks like, I'm more than willing to show him.
	And Sam also goes for Craig Cooper if he ever wants to see what rifle shooting looks like in Australia.
	I'm more than willing to teach him.
	Very cool.
	the next one so
	we couldn't use the doodos that we usually use because they got copyright claimed on youtube So people submitting more music.
	That was a perfectly fine piece of music, but I feel that it was more appropriate for like a naval invasion rather than the beginning of the podcast.
	I'm going to save that for our reconquest of Britain.
	But it is a great piece of music.
	I really liked it.
	It was very good, though.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Hey, guys.
	Feynes Gussie of Swindon did a few video comments about 50 P's and I fired chase for my mine.
	The Battle of Hastings.
	Oh, very cool.
	Cool.
	Sherlock Holmes.
	Yep.
	The Battle of Britain.
	The Victoria Cross.
	Paddington Bear.
	And here's some two pound coins.
	Charles Darwin.
	Isn't Bird Kingdom Brunel?
	William Shakespeare.
	And the abolition of the slave trade.
	How have I never seen any of these?
	I've seen the abolition of the slave trade one, and I was like, ooh.
	The government wants to get rid of it.
	I don't know.
	I've not seen any of those.
	The government wants to get rid of it as well.
	What?
	Capitalists.
	The abolition of the slave trade.
	Oh, right.
	Oh, sorry.
	Yeah.
	Nearly caught me out then.
	So from the website, Michael says, sorry, no, yeah.
	I hope reform is smart enough not to run any of these Tory defectors.
	Defectors cannot be trusted.
	Yeah, and also they're the losers.
	I don't know why France wants them.
	I found all of these losers in the Tory party.
	Why?
	Literally.
	Yeah, literally, what do you need Dean Doris for?
	I suppose when there is another election, they're going to get replaced by reform anyway.
	So it's just like a way of sort of controlling it for a bit.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	I mean, maybe just, you know, like he's like, yeah, walk through the store and there's a back pit just through the door.
	I don't know.
	But politically.
	There's a lot of Tories down there.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Omar says, while I applaud the use of socialists as a pejorative, the Tories are very much casting stones in a glass parliament.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's just like the idea that the Tories have got any room to be like, yeah, look at Niger Farag's state spending plans.
	Socialist.
	Yeah, what a socialist.
	You can shut up.
	It's just highest tax burden since the war under you.
	What are you talking about?
	Jimbo says, I'm glad the Tories are dead in the water.
	Kemmy is still a weft shill, no matter what she says.
	Is she a weft shill?
	I don't know.
	Yep.
	There is a photo of her at the World Economic Forum with the banner behind her.
	Yeah, that's been circulating.
	So, yep.
	See, I actually think that's giving her too much credit.
	Right, you reckon?
	Yeah, I don't think she's actually a weft shill.
	What I think she is is a massive opportunist.
	And she was just like, oh, right, if I go to this, there are people there that might give me something.
	Well, that's how I've seen the World Economic Forum really now.
	I've been to Davos and done like the, you know, gone round and seen the pop-up shops with Palantir there, Meta, doorstepping some of the people trying to go in.
	And it's so much fun because it's just a conglomerate.
	That's getting edited.
	I've been to Davos.
	It's so much fun.
	It's so much fun.
	The doorstepping.
	But it's just corporate grooming.
	That's all it is, really, to all the people on the lower levels of it, because there's obviously levels to it.
	It's just a networking event, isn't it?
	Yeah, for globalists.
	Techno-Globalist elite.
	Yeah.
	Not a Fed says, with these kind of polling numbers, would anyone honestly complain if King Charles intervened and demanded Parliament hold a snap election to restore the legitimacy of the democratic system?
	Well, even if they complained, what would they be able to do about it?
	Like, Parliament is not going to be able to raise an army to fight the king.
	Like, you know, there's no way in hell anyone would be happy with them at all.
	So, like, I don't even know what their plan would be.
	I think Charles has got to keep his nose clean.
	Doing something like that is the actions of a popular man, you know, you don't have the legitimacy to start doing meddling in the political system.
	Let's keep Rawland says the Conservatives read the room and they found it empty.
	Just brutal.
	Yeah.
	Russian says, want to report a pothole?
	You better hand over your latest colonic map, Irish scan, and fingerprints, citizen.
	It's really bizarre, isn't it?
	As if we can't see through what it is they're trying to do.
	This is the final piece of the entire puzzle that gives them complete, total control over the entire country.
	It's like, yeah, can we just do it?
	No.
	Kevin says, Keir was against digital ID, but is now pushing it.
	Wait for the 2029 election.
	Labor has been against compulsory idea voting for years, but you can bet it will be the only form of acceptable ID for voting.
	Everyone can refuse to take part in the majority will refuse to take part while these migrants, given ILR, indefinitely to remain, will be giving it straight away, and Labour will depend on them to vote back in because everyone else will not be allowed to vote.
	I think it's over.
	I just don't think they're going to be able to get it.
	They can't bring in enough migrants and give them digital IDs to get Labour elected again.
	That's just not happening, frankly.
	You are right, though, that a lot of left-wing parties, but they're basically relying on importing in new voters because they're alienating the own native electorate.
	Yeah.
	And now Nigel Farage is looking at 400 seats.
	That's insane.
	It's wild.
	We are still here, you know.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, we are actually still here.
	And, you know, I mean, I don't have any great faith in Farage, but he'll probably do some things that are good.
	You know, I guess he's going to delay the decline.
	Yeah.
	He just needs a proper right-wing opposition to sort of nudge.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, I will relinquish my private financial affairs to the government the day they display all their own private financial streams when the public person is no longer being so horribly wasted.
	Oh, and when pigs fly.
	The thing is, though, even if they could do that, I still don't want to relinquish all of my personal autonomy to them.
	I actually don't want the government having control of everything that I do, which, again, radical.
	I'm the problem.
	George says, after seeing the compliance during the COVID lockdowns, I'm worried that a lot of normies will accept digital ID to continue living normally.
	The only thing preventing it is how unpopular Starmer is.
	Yeah, I mean, it was like polling, like 60% until Starmer suggested it, and then it went down to 13%.
	Because it came out of his mouth.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So thank you, Keir Starmer, for killing digital ID, moron.
	Derek says, government should be the neighbor everyone hates.
	I think it is.
	Oh, they are.
	Yeah, yeah, they are.
	They're hiding under my bed, it seems.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Grant says, the chilling effect is on the bank employees who discuss pros and cons, not the public discourse.
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	It's like the chilling effect is just them being inhibited in their own spaces.
	And Scott says they're stamping kids with the number of the beast.
	It kind of is.
	I mean, I'm not some sort of person who believes in prophecy and revelation or anything.
	But that is actually what the mark of the beast is in Revelation.
	Where everyone gets stamped and it prevents you from trading and doing and selling.
	Yeah, buying and selling.
	Literally, like that's like that's actually the wording of it.
	Bizarre, isn't it?
	Yeah, and so it's just like, huh.
	Try not to get caught up with all that.
	Yeah, because we don't know.
	That's the primary part of the principles and the theological undertones of Revelation is, you know, you don't know the hour.
	It's like a thief in the night.
	So just don't dwell on it, really.
	But it's important to obviously read it and understand it and to see signs.
	It's actually kind of crazy.
	Like, so it's Revelation 13, 16, and 17, right?
	Revelations 13, 16, and 17 verses.
	And he causes all both great and small, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand or in their foreheads.
	And that no man might buy or sell save he had that mark on the name of the beast and the number of his name.
	That is weird, right?
	You should do a thing on Revelation, go through it from your perspective.
	Revelation is mental.
	Yeah.
	And I can't make any sense out of it because I assume the things that it was talking about happened thousands of years ago.
	It's heavy theological stuff.
	But it's also, it makes a series of predictions.
	It's like, okay, but those predictions only made sense in the context of like 2,000 years ago.
	So like, you know, they're like, oh, yeah, in 500 years.
	It's like, okay, but 500 years ago.
	A lot of symbolism.
	Yeah.
	It's all changed, so it doesn't make any sense to me.
	But yeah, it's genuinely weird, though.
	Jimbo says, I have a bad feeling that reform, if they win, will face the same lawfare and media bombardment that Trump did, rendering them unable to do anything and getting the blame for it, which will be a gift to people like Zach Polanski.
	Yeah, this is the thing that reform should be planning for, though, right?
	Reform should be like, right, this is going to happen.
	Basically, what they should have is probably like 20 or 30 people for each institution, right?
	Prepared for each institution.
	Just go in and just fire the top 20 or 30 people in each institution.
	Replace them with your own people.
	Let the people on the ground, let the grunts do the day work, but replace the people in positions of authority with your people.
	It's actually a different scenario than in the US because the US, because of its division of powers, it has more pressure points externally on the political system, whereas the British system, because we have the government coming from the legislature, if you have a majority government, you can basically be an elected dictator, in effect.
	And so it's a lot harder to interfere.
	But the problem in Britain is that the civil service are sort of their own shadow government.
	And so that's a sort of different but parallel problem in that Trump has that to a certain extent, but it seems like he fired loads of them.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He fired tens of thousands of them.
	And I think Nigel should do the same.
	I think it would be a little bit more difficult here, but it should be done nonetheless.
	Day one, pass a law.
	I can fire any of the civil servants I like.
	Day two.
	Pretty good.
	You know?
	Seriously, you've just got to be really, really uncompromising about it.
	So we're like, sorry, no, you're all going.
	They're all Labour voters anyway.
	You're not missing out.
	Yeah, the remainers.
	Like, you're Nigel Farage.
	You're Mr. Brexit.
	And the civil service is 95% remain.
	So just fire them all.
	Yeah, when Nigel walks into a room, a civil servant should be visibly shaking in his presence.
	Probably will be.
	Probably will be.
	No, I'm not even joking.
	They probably won't be.
	They're pretty pathetic, aren't they?
	Zesty King says, in case you don't mention it, Josh, the British government recently gave Kenya 2.1 million because last year the British military did an exercise there and started a fire.
	Well, at least we actually did something to give them the money.
	Normally we just give it away for free.
	So it's almost in ordinary times I would be annoyed at that.
	But we give away so much free money that it's actually not that bad.
	I'm so tired of how shit everything is.
	I'm so tired of it, man.
	I'm just so disappointed day after day of how rubbish everything is.
	People really appreciate your rants.
	I appreciate that, yeah.
	Yeah, I do.
	There's no need for it.
	It does make me sort of a little bit depressed that I worked so hard to make something of myself and then I emerge into the world to discover that, oh, right, everyone's a loser now.
	Yeah.
	And no one can do anything right.
	Yeah, it's not even that.
	It's just whenever there's a decision to be made, every single time the wrong decision.
	The opposite decision of success and prosperity and decency is made.
	It's like.
	I'm quite optimistic, though, you know?
	Yeah, yeah, no, it can't go on forever, right?
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	The pendulum must swing the other way finally.
	So bad.
	The system has to collapse at some point.
	Oh, that's half full there.
	It is.
	I mean, it is.
	And the speed things are changing.
	It's going to be within our lifetimes.
	Furious Dan says, in the government, paying people is more important.
	Paying people is more important than the work that comes for it.
	GDP go up.
	Yeah, that's genuinely what they believe.
	Paul says, the new government logo is preparing for a reform government.
	They kindly changed it to the reform teal blue.
	Yeah, I did see that.
	Oh, yeah.
	I didn't think about that.
	It's like, you know, why have they changed it to like they want to keep their jobs, I guess?
	Yeah, no.
	They want to spend two days a week gardening on taxpayers.
	Nigel, I want an absolute bloodbath in the civil service.
	I'd actually genuinely be interested because one of the main ways you get toxoplasmosis is through contact with cat excrement when you're gardening.
	And I bet you, because there was a big scandal with the civil servants spending their time gardening, I bet you there are higher rates in the civil service.
	This is going to be my quest for knowledge.
	I do just genuinely want to see them frog marched out of the buildings and change, though.
	You remember the civil service?
	You're under arrest.
	Just wheel up at a massive trebuchet outside to intimidate them as they're wheeled up.
	Not actually use it, but just scare them.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, YouGov, I offer my services for five grand.
	Forget these jokers asking for hundreds of thousands.
	I think he's underbid us there, man.
	Derek.
	4,500.
	Derek says, Dan does the green screen better, if you know, you know.
	That was from the election stream.
	Yeah.
	The new YouGov logo is also blurred.
	They really just used an image of Photoshop.
	It's crazy how we're allowing everything to be this crap.
	Like, it's just, I mean, I'm not going to go on.
	I'm just going to enhance my car.
	Channel it, mate.
	Yeah.
	So, Sophie says, just reminds me of the movie Death of Stalin, where the director had to turn down events because real events were so ridiculous that any audience wouldn't believe it, even as a comedy.
	Life has always just been more ridiculous than fiction.
	Yeah, well, I mean, that Hmong Britain has, anyway.
	Yeah.
	Moomin says, Reform have leafleted my area.
	227 asylum seekers are now being housed in our city as a hotel in a hotel adjacent to our local airport.
	What could go wrong?
	Well, again, it's like a brass eye episode.
	It's like this is the one thing we didn't want to happen.
	I mean, in Epping, in particular, where it's literally within sight of a school.
	We're just going to put all these weird men that we haven't vetted and have an unhealthy interest in children right next to the school.
	It's like, yeah.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	It's the last thing we wanted.
	Unsurprisingly, they start molesting the kids.
	Sorry, it's not lost.
	Although, no, I'm not laughing, but it's so ridiculous.
	It is.
	Wasn't there the other day, the school got shut down because someone was breaking into it.
	Was that in Epping?
	Yeah, that was in Epping.
	Yeah.
	He was loitering around the school grounds.
	Yeah, but then apparently you had to break into the back of it or something like that.
	And it's just like, gosh, what's going on?
	I just.
	It's like.
	I'm almost kind of impressed at the commitment to evil and crime.
	If I went somewhere, I probably wouldn't commit very many crimes.
	But these guys seem to really be like, yeah, no, I've got a quota.
	This is cartoonishly evil.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It is cartoonishly evil.
	If I were conspiratorially minded, I'd think that reform is like paying them off to be worse, just so they get more voters.
	Well, it's working.
	Explosion says there is a Black Mirror episode where people give each other essentially Yelp reviews that actually affect their ability to get loans and access higher quality services.
	That's the future you want.
	Yeah.
	Isn't it?
	Wait, what?
	She couldn't get on a plane, I think, the main character.
	Have you not seen that Black Mirror episode?
	I have, yeah.
	I just think it should be, you know, there should be the only person in control of it.
	Yeah, I want to pick and choose how people are punished.
	Do you speak loudly in public transport bans?
	Oh, we've got some breaking smelly food.
	Okay.
	Apparently, police have charged a man named Arif Ali Rafiq with that mosque arson.
	So, I mean, what?
	So someone tried to set fire to a mosque the other day, right?
	Right.
	And the security camera footage captured it.
	And everyone's like, look, this is the far right.
	The far right's on the rise.
	Someone called Arif Ali Rafiq.
	I mean, if Humza Yusuf is in reform, who knows?
	There's an Al Murray joke somewhere there.
	There is, isn't there?
	Very much so.
	But the point is, like, notice how this is not about what's actually true or false.
	This is just about.
	It's basically about stigmatizing the native British population.
	Well, it's mudslinging seeing what sticks because most people are going to hear, oh, it was a far-right person, and they're not going to look up the revised information.
	It's not going to get as much public attention as when the original thing happened.
	And so a certain amount of that mud sticks, and it is enough to shift discourse.
	What I love about it is it's another proof that multiculturalism is just working so brilliantly.
	I know we've already mentioned it as well, but that is literally the plot or one of the lines from Four Lions.
	Yeah, bomb the mosque.
	Bomb radicalize the mirror.
	Yeah.
	It's literally what's just happened.
	I'm sorry.
	Chris Morris is sitting there going, the prophet.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You can't say that these days.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	But genuinely, I look forward to finding out that guy's motivations.
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