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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of Lert Seaters for the 27th of November 2025.
	I'm joined by Dan and Josh.
	And today we're going to be talking about the doomsday budget that is way worse than you may have imagined at first blush.
	America is finding out that actually maybe, just maybe, bringing in all of these Afghans has consequences.
	And then we're going to be talking about the motability aristocracy that you're paying for.
	They just love being a surf.
	I love being a surf.
	It's so f ⁇ ing great.
	Anyway, before we begin, tomorrow, Friday at 3 o'clock, we have the gold Zoom call for our gold tier subscribers.
	So if you're a gold tier subscriber, I will see you then.
	But until then, let's begin.
	I think they've also got the Americans have got their warm-up Christmas today, the Thanksgiving thing.
	Oh, okay.
	I've had dozens of Americans over the years try to explain to me why it's not just a rehearsal Christmas because they have a turkey dinner and stuff, but none of them have been able to convince me.
	To be honest with you, I'm sold.
	I like the idea of it.
	Oh, no, it's a good idea.
	Yeah.
	I like the idea of a second Christmas as well.
	So yes, Rachel Reeves' budget, which I am dubbing her choice, your money.
	So one of the things I won't be able to do is go through all the ways in which this budget is bad, because the way budgets work is she stands up in the House of Commons and gives a little blah, blah, blah.
	And then the detail is all buried in the document.
	Yes.
	And so it normally takes a good few days to a week or so to wash through all the things that have gone bad.
	But I mean, this is just one of the things that we picked up this morning.
	You know, this Sasha Lord chap here is saying his phone's off the hook because the Chancellor announced help for hospitality.
	It turns out what that help was, was hospitality was going to help fill the coffers for her.
	Massive tax rises.
	Yeah, because it turns out it's a massive tax increase.
	And we've got various people, such as this poor lady here, saying that her pub rates, business rates, have gone from 18 and a half grand to 73 grand.
	That's almost quadrupled.
	Yes.
	I mean, she posts a screenshot of it just down a little bit, doesn't she?
	I believe it does, yes.
	Like, this is just mad.
	So pretty much every pub outside of London is going to disappear.
	Yeah.
	I mean, look, the rateable value in 2023 was 18,500.
	And now it's 73,000.
	Who can afford that kind of rate of inflation?
	No one.
	That is mad.
	And this went down as helping hospitality in the budget.
	So there's going to be loads of things like that where we're not going to know the true horror of what's in the budget until everybody has a chance to crunch the numbers that have been hidden away in it.
	So I can only give you the sort of top-line stuff.
	But I mean, even that is quite bad enough.
	And this whole thing started with a complete and utter shambles.
	I'll just play you this video because the entire budget, well, as well as Rachel Reeves leaking a whole bunch of stuff that a lot of it she didn't actually end up doing in the end.
	And we'll talk about that in a moment.
	The entire budget was leaked on the morning by the OBR.
	The Office of Budget Responsibility leaked the budget.
	Yes, failing the responsibility bit.
	Who gets held to account for that?
	Does someone hired for that?
	There was a Labour Chancellor a few decades ago who had an offhand conversation with a journalist about half an hour before the budget and leaked an element of what was going to be in the budget.
	And he was basically sacked for it.
	Yeah, so is the OBR not going to be...
	Is someone not getting sacked for that?
	Well...
	Well, the chief certainly isn't.
	He came out and basically just said he's going to do an investigation, sack some mundling.
	Oh, right.
	Rachel Reeves isn't going to resign, even though she'd leaked vast elements of the budget.
	But yeah, I'll quickly play this video.
	You can see her here, if that works.
	Well, he'll only have to wait a few minutes.
	She's getting past the phone.
	Just as...
	Just as Keir Starmer was saying, you're going to have to wait for the full details of the budget.
	She is discovering that the full details of the budget have already been announced much, much earlier, which made it considerably easier for Kemi because, of course, she could stand up and her team had a couple of hours to actually go through all the detail.
	Yeah.
	And Kemi did absolutely thrash her over.
	She did.
	It was a very mean girl as I liked it.
	It was.
	And then the woman who was the chair was like, you know, I'm going to long house the lot of you.
	I said, oh, brilliant.
	Just brilliant.
	I hate the way this country is being run.
	Another small detail is they finally found some money for digital IDs that hadn't been funded before.
	So they're going to take and bear in mind, if you remember, digital IDs were sold as these are going to enhance border security.
	Yes.
	We don't know how, but that was the selling pitch.
	So do you know where they're getting the 1.8 million for digital IDs?
	They're taking the money from border security.
	Right.
	Just okay, so digital IDs, yes, pubs, no.
	Yeah, well, it gets so much.
	I did a little heuristic that kind of points out how it works.
	If you're wondering why this is so beautifully done, it's because I did it myself in paint.
	But essentially, this is the decision triangle that Labour have got.
	They can please, they can kind of put their budget anywhere within this triangle.
	And if it's up here, it's pleasing backbenchers.
	If it's down here, it's sorry, who is it upsetting?
	So if it's upsetting Labour, it's got spending cuts.
	If it's upsetting the voters, it's got tax rises.
	And if it's upsetting the bond market, it's got big deficits.
	Now, the correct answer should probably be: who do you want to upset?
	You probably want to put it, you know, gold means basically A.
	I mean, put it up on A, spending cuts.
	That's the only thing that works.
	What they actually did is they put it down here at B.
	So a combination of tax rises and big deficits.
	Well, at least the backbenchers weren't upset.
	Well, and that was.
	I mean, they're not going to be MPs in about four years' time.
	So, you know.
	I mean, our bottom line, what the strategy is here, the strategy is, and it's quite clear from having a look at this budget, is that Starman knows he is not going to be prime minister in 2029.
	And so what he's doing is he's planting the biggest possible fiscal bomb that goes off in 2930.
	Just past the best argument against democracy has always been, well, people don't have any need for forward planning.
	And it's like, yeah, but what if you had forward sabotage?
	It is precisely what he's doing.
	Well, what seems to be going on here is it's being squeezed from both sides because not only are we getting in more debt because there's more spending, but also there are more taxes as well.
	So it's squeezing productivity and the economy from both sides.
	The Labour backbenchers aren't upset.
	But the spending comes now.
	The benefit spending, that comes now.
	The giveaways, that comes now.
	The tax rises are mainly loaded towards the end of the parliament.
	So people won't feel the pain whilst Labour is in office.
	They feel the pain when reform comes in.
	Unless reform don't do these tax rises, which they shouldn't, which just means they get an enormous deficit handed to them.
	And I'll go into how bad.
	That'll justify enormous spending cuts.
	Yes.
	Well, that is exactly what should happen.
	Yeah.
	So she's dumped a bomb on reform with a huge structural deficit, the biggest tax burden in peacetime ever.
	I mean, I saw people saying there was a calculator on the Daily Mail or something.
	And I put my salary into it.
	And they were just like, yeah, you're going to be a grand off-worce.
	Yes.
	Every month or whatever.
	Yeah, that's basically the deal.
	Up to well, I presume you're mainly structuring things through dividends as would be sensible and orderly.
	But basically, anywhere up to 50, 60 grand, you're about a grand better off.
	But over 60 grand, it then goes to about two grand.
	And then over a hundred grand, it goes back to a grand again because it is a bit weird.
	The big, well, I'll talk in a bit who the big beneficiaries of this are.
	It's the unemployed, isn't it?
	Well, yes.
	I haven't looked at the budget at all.
	I'm just guessing.
	Yes.
	It certainly is, though.
	It's whoever you would assume without doing any research, labor would benefit.
	That is the people who benefit.
	Well, the wonderful thing is that there was a two-pronged attack on working people in freezing the tax thresholds, which, of course, if you're...
	It's a stealth tax.
	It is indeed.
	If your salary rises with inflation, you're increasingly going to be pushed into higher tax bans and therefore pay more income tax without formally raising taxes.
	And also the pension sacrifice spending, whereby if you're putting money away out of your salary into your pension for the future, so to be able to do that, you've sort of got to be middle-income, middle-class perhaps, to be able to afford to do that in the first place.
	Well, if it's over £2,000 a year, then it becomes taxed.
	Which is just going to be a tax.
	It's just going to push people away from pensions.
	Well, it's going to make people only do short-term spending because there's very, very little in the economy at the minute that incentivizes long-term financial planning.
	Everything is short-term.
	Oh, very much so, yes.
	And you think, well, we're in a country that has a demographic time bomb going off.
	We have a pension crisis, long-term saving crisis, and yet she targets pension savings, which is bizarre.
	And that's why you can really see the Starman strategy.
	The Starman strategy is I'm going to blow up the medium term and the long term purely to protect myself with labour backbenchers in the short term.
	That's wild.
	That's what the whole thing is about.
	And, you know, I mean, we've got young guys in the office.
	We've got a whole bunch of editors in their 20s.
	And for some god-unknown reason, Carl insists on paying them more than minimum wage.
	And I've tried having a word with him.
	He claims he's not a liberal anymore, but he insists on paying them a decent wage.
	It's paternalistic conservatism.
	Yeah, you say I want them to have a house and stuff.
	Anyway, so they were having a talk about taxes the other day.
	I'm not glad.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	I'm trying to make it work, but the government keeps putting their knee on our necks.
	I don't know what to tell you, man.
	And yeah, they were saying to me, oh, is there anything we can do about this?
	And I said, well, probably your main decent option.
	I mean, I ran for a couple, but the main decent one for your taxes is probably going to be salary sacrifice.
	You can earn a bit less and put it in the future.
	And you'll actually take up more.
	And a few weeks later, yeah, she torpedoes that as well.
	Oh, Jesus Christ.
	Yes.
	The strangest thing about this budget, though, was that she's been leaking possible ideas for months now.
	Yeah.
	And, I mean, it was things like exit taxes and extra capital gains and extra strategy.
	So if she's like, oh, there are going to be exit taxes and doesn't do it, then everyone's like, oh, actually, it's a lot better than we thought it was going to be.
	Well, that's a really bad strategy because wealthy people don't wait for the exit costs to be put in place.
	There was one billionaire who dodged the other day.
	Oh, there's a few.
	I know, but there was one high-profile one.
	And, you know, he's like, yeah, no, it's the inheritance tax.
	I can't stay here.
	I interpreted this as more of her not really knowing what to do.
	And so she was leaking things to see how people react.
	I think it's more that than a strategy.
	I think it's incompetence rather than tactics.
	If I were the one doing it, it would be a strategy.
	Yeah, right?
	So Rachel, considering a 20% tax on the assets of people deciding to leave the UK.
	Yeah, well, come and get it.
	You know, like, yeah, this is the guy I was talking about.
	So this is Lashtrum Mittel, and he's the seventh richest man in the UK.
	He's an Indian billionaire who came here in about 2000 when he was already a billionaire.
	And he's basically been bringing money into the UK because he decided this is a nicer place to live than India for whatever reason.
	Turns out not to be true anymore.
	Well, yeah, and I'm all in favor of encouraging people to remigrate, but you don't start with this guy.
	Yeah, if we're going to have immigration, I will tolerate billionaire immigration.
	Yes.
	Just on the raw numbers of the dozens.
	So he's paying about 3 million a year in taxes.
	That's from the pubs.
	Was that?
	We'll get that from the pubs.
	Yes, quite.
	But, you know, and 3 million, by the way, that's an average year.
	I mean, he bought some property off the royal family, I think, a while back, and he paid like 18 million in taxes that year.
	So he's actually the kind of immigrant that you can tolerate because even on a quiet year, he is doing the job of about 600 to 700 average taxpayers.
	That burden is being lifted.
	He left.
	Now, why was he the seventh richest man in the UK?
	Because the other seventh richest man left about two months ago.
	That was a Norwegian billionaire.
	Loads of money in North Sea oil.
	And so this is the staggering genius of Rachel Reeves, is that she delivered a budget that does harm, and I'll talk about that.
	But she also managed to do the harm of about three or four other bad budgets for stuff that she didn't even do.
	I don't mean to laugh, but it's so stupid.
	If you made it up and wrote a screenplay of it, you wouldn't get away with it.
	Exactly.
	People are like, well, that's ridiculous.
	That's the big problem with fiction, is it needs to be believable.
	Yes.
	Or the thick of it was actually more sensible than a lot of what goes on in modern politics today.
	Yes, because they were flip-flopping in the background.
	They weren't flip-flopping in public.
	So she managed to cause capital flight without actually doing anything.
	Without actually doing anything.
	To cause hiring freezing, cancelled investment.
	I mean, I could go through a hard, I mean, I won't, but I could go through a whole list of businesses that said, oh, yeah, we were going to invest this money in the UK and expand this, do this.
	We're just cancelling it.
	So she managed to cause capital flight, hiring freezes, cancelled investments, and it was based purely on rumor, and she didn't actually even do them in the end.
	I mean, to my mind, this is a rare talent.
	And her defense was, you're mansplaining at me.
	like just they're any I I saw literally the New Statesman podcast.
	I'm like, going, well, I mean, there was a lot of misogyny directed towards her.
	Not enough.
	Yeah.
	Like, sorry.
	If you think this woke nonsense is going to be a sufficient defense for what she's doing, you are having another thing coming.
	Sorry, go on.
	I'll quickly run through the list of who she punished and who she rewards.
	You have to watch my Brokenomics, which I'm filming this afternoon, which will be out on Tuesday if you want to go into more detail because I just haven't got time in the segment like this.
	But people, she's just carpet bombing every time.
	Let's fly in the B52, shall we?
	So she punishes homeowners, drivers.
	There was an EV tax.
	So yeah, everybody buy an EV because you have to save the planet.
	Right.
	Now don't buy an EV because how are we going to tax it?
	Yes.
	It's because fuel duty collapsed, didn't it?
	because lots of people bought EVs because the government incentivised them buying EVs, and then all of a sudden...
	This is the thing that government does not understand.
	When you tax something, so for example, we tax speeding and cigarettes because we don't want people to speed.
	We don't want them to buy cigarettes, okay?
	Yet we tax work and driving and all of these other things.
	And they expect it to have no effect.
	So she taxed, what was it, homeowners, drivers, savers, pensions, online shoppers, because, of course, there's a bit of revenue hiding in your Amazon package.
	That needs to be done.
	Landlords and the self-employed.
	All of those were the big ones hit.
	Oh, plus pubs, which we found out this morning.
	She also had a raid on...
	Anything productive in this country?
	Yes.
	She also had a raid on online gambling and tried to frame it as a moral thing.
	Yep.
	Just like, well, these people are, you know, they're exploiting people, but then left.
	So are you.
	Brick and mortar gambling untouched.
	Amazing.
	Yes.
	Interesting, isn't it?
	It's funny how morality is that selective.
	If you're going to gamble, make sure you turn up in person.
	More fun that way, anyway.
	Who did she reward?
	Labour mayors.
	They got a chunk of new cash.
	So they're getting billions more.
	Sadiq Khan got more money.
	Yeah.
	And the other ones.
	Andy Burner.
	Large immigrant families were probably the biggest winner, and I will come back to that in a minute.
	The two-child benefit cap thing is disgusting.
	Well, if you're disgusted with it now, let me come to my numbers in a minute.
	No, it's not going to get worse.
	Benefits, green grants, and bureaucrats.
	And after that list I've given you, bear in mind she described it as a growth budget, which is...
	I just don't understand.
	I mean, oh my God.
	Literally just the worst things you could have gone for to pay for the things that we basically don't need.
	And also, she gave lots of money to Scotland.
	Another thing we barely.
	So she raised 26 billion in taxes.
	And actually, your point that you made early on about the tax bans, when you factor in even modest inflation and just taking it out to the end of this parliament, really it's a 40 billion tax increase, which is the same as the last budget.
	That was also a 40 billion tax increase.
	Mind you, I didn't include the inflation in that calculation, but fine.
	So we've had 80 billion of extra taxes, and yet her black hole keeps getting bigger because she can't understand that the Laffa curve exists.
	She doesn't think that anybody is going to leave the country.
	Any responsible journalist should literally ask her, could you explain the Laffa curve to me, Rachel?
	Yes.
	That would be the thing to ask her.
	Yes.
	She also assumes that nobody is going to refuse overtime or promotion.
	Why wouldn't I just work harder for longer for less money to watch it going in the pockets of foreigners and bureaucrats?
	I guarantee that most people watching this have considered refusing overtime or promotion or whatever it is in order to avoid higher taxes.
	What a wild position we've ended up in.
	I'm thinking about quitting my work and just living off of the state, finally getting my tax rebate.
	I'm coming to that bit, and you might actually want to go for it.
	I mean, legitimately, you might want to actually go for it.
	And also, I mean, it's not in the budget, but she also assumes that Labour's right-to-work reforms that they're bringing in won't impact hiring.
	So they're getting rid of things like the probationary period.
	Right.
	So you can't hire someone for six months, find they're not good, and then get rid of them.
	Yeah, and who does that hurt most of all?
	It hurts young people.
	Because if you're going to hire somebody and you can't get rid of them, well, you're safer going for somebody who has a track record.
	Whereas you're really taking a gamble with a young person.
	They might be brilliant, but they might be awful.
	Yeah.
	So you're just not going to hire young people.
	That's such a common sense thing as well to overlook.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, I talked about it being, you know, she says that it's a growth budget.
	Before Tony Blair took office in 1997, growth was 4.9%.
	Yeah.
	Which meant the economy doubled every 14 years.
	Right.
	And what is it now?
	1%.
	Which means it now takes 70 years for the economy to double.
	I've been beating this drum for a long time that people understand this on an individual level.
	That if, for example, I actually wrote this in an article that's coming out soon, but if a millionaire makes £15,000, that's 1.5% growth.
	You'd think that they'd probably failed that year if they had a million pounds and they only grew their wealth by £15,000.
	That would be a shocking result.
	It would be.
	Whereas when it's the government, that's presumably an achievement.
	And of course, everyone understands the more wealth you have, the easier it is to generate more money.
	And that doesn't disappear.
	The laws of economics don't just disappear at scale.
	Actually, that scales brilliantly, actually.
	It does, yeah.
	The other thing is what changed after 1997?
	We were told that mass immigration was going to lead to high growth and it led to an absolute collapse in growth.
	As it stands today, taxes are 39% of GDP and state spending is 45% of GDP.
	Communist China, it's 26%.
	That's just mad.
	For every pound that is in the British economy, the government spends £45.
	I used the analogy of when we ran the British Empire at its height in the 1920s, tax rarely exceeded 25% of GDP, and we ran a quarter of the world's land mass and population from Westminster.
	Before 1905, for the century before that, it averaged about 15%.
	So, I mean, we have a state which is twice the size of communist China and three times the size of communist Venezuela.
	I mean, just, you know, bear that in mind.
	There was also a mansion tax introduced.
	Oh my God, I can't afford to live in a fucking mansion.
	Well, it depends.
	to attack this is like helping the bloody this is like helping the bloody pubs isn't it Well, mansion tax were introduced at two levels, £2 million properties and £5 million properties.
	Now, you might wonder why those particular numbers were picked.
	I can tell you now, it's because Keir Starmer and David Lamy live in a property that's worth just under £2 million.
	Oh, really?
	And Ed Miliband lives in a property which is worth just under £5 million.
	So that's why those two numbers were picked.
	However, a £2 million mansion tax.
	You've got to remember that the debasement of sterling is running at about 11 to 14% a year.
	So just run that forward.
	It means in 14 years, the average free bedroom house in the south of England should be worth 2 million.
	Jesus.
	Yes.
	So everybody will be paying this mansion tax.
	And your kids, give it another 14 years stuff that your kids will be paying a mansion tax on their starter flat.
	So on a long enough timeline, we all become Zimbabwean millionaires.
	It's basically the story of higher rate tax all over again.
	So higher rate tax was introduced in 1988.
	And at the time, it only hit about 2% or 3% of earners.
	I mean, even a lot of premiership football players didn't pay higher rate tax when it was introduced.
	I mean, that's partly a function of premiership football players earning less at the time.
	But still, it was a very select few group of people.
	In 1988, paid high rate tax.
	And now it's going to be, well, it's already over 15% and it should get to 25% before the end of the decade.
	So it's basically the standard rate is now the higher rate.
	So the mansion tax, it is going to be that all over again.
	Now, going back to my original point, you know, couldn't they save the money elsewhere?
	If you took the welfare bill, just the disability welfare bill, back to pre-COVID levels, she'd wipe out this black hole that she keeps talking about.
	Right.
	Because it's gone from 15 billion to 50 billion.
	Well, a quarter of the country is apparently disabled now, which I don't see one in every four people going around in a wheelchair.
	So I presume that there's some fraud going on.
	Probably wasn't that bad off the Battle of the Somme.
	No, of course not.
	And that 50 billion will probably be rising to about 70-something billion very soon.
	And Robert Peston had this observation.
	Over the next five years, the OBR is forecasting that welfare spending will rise from 70 billion to 400 billion.
	It's not the next 50 years, guys.
	Next five years.
	Sorry, five years.
	Sorry.
	There's a light on my screen.
	100 years.
	Not 100 years.
	Five years.
	Five years, welfare spending will go from 70 to 400.
	If any of you can't see that this is unsustainable, if any leftists have stumbled across this channel and you genuinely can't see that this is unaffordable, I don't know what to say to you.
	Where's a lot of that money going?
	Matt Gidwin points out that 500 immigrants a day are now signing up for welfare benefits in Britain.
	So we're just importing people, 500 a day, and basically giving them free house and benefits.
	We're already spending over a billion a month on foreigners claiming welfare.
	Yes.
	And for those of you like Bush or Saka who can't understand per capita, yes, more natives are going on on welfare every day.
	So something in the region of 1,000 to 3,000 people a day are going on welfare because they're just saying, what's the point?
	What is the point?
	Well, that's a good question.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's a fair question.
	That's a good question.
	You know, Alison Pearson points out here.
	Thanks, Rachel.
	If you don't work and have six kids, the hard-working taxpayer will give you 14,000 a year.
	Actually, that's just for the child element.
	I was going to say, they actually get way more than that because they're going to get housing benefit.
	They're going to get, like, what were the other things they get?
	I don't know, because I don't get...
	Well, shall I run you through it?
	Yeah, please.
	This is the highlight of the segment.
	This is.
	I ran through the calculations.
	And I did these manually and I couldn't believe the answers it gave me.
	So I then went to three different AIs and got them to run the numbers.
	They all came out the same.
	And I still can't believe it.
	I can't believe that I'm right.
	And I can't believe that these three different AIs are right.
	So I'm desperately hoping somebody in the comments is going to say, oh, you've forgotten a key element here.
	But I'll give you my numbers, okay?
	So let's assume you're welfare and you've got six kids.
	So child benefit, first of all, £112 a month for the first kid, and then it's £75 a month for the following kids.
	So that's close to 500 quid you're getting for that.
	Universal credit child element, that was the bit that became uncapped.
	First child, £333.
	Additional child's £289 each.
	So that's another almost £2,000 a month.
	The standard.
	£1,000.
	Yes.
	The universal credit basic allowance for a single parent, that's £400 a month.
	Or if you're a couple, it's £600 a month.
	Then you've got to look at the housing element.
	So we're at nearly $3K a month now.
	You look at the housing element.
	A four or five-bed house, which you will get without many children.
	I mean, realistically, you're looking at somewhere between £1,200 and $1,500 a month in benefit that will give you, depending on where you live in the country.
	So let's just assume a midpoint with that.
	Then let's remember that you get 100% council tax relief.
	Of course.
	So let's tot it all up.
	It's unbelievably expensive.
	Yep.
	We tot it all up.
	£4,008 a month.
	Right, now that is annualized an income of £48,000 a year.
	Free housing, free health care, free school meals, free child support.
	Well, because you don't need any, because you're not working.
	No tax, no national insurance, no commuting, no pensions, no deductions, no buying work clothes, no buying lunches from the cafe around the corner, right?
	This is the equivalent to a disposable income of somebody earning £70,000 a year as a gross income.
	Now, at that point, there might be some people in the comments saying, ah, you've forgotten the benefits cap.
	Okay, so let's include the benefits cap.
	Didn't she just remove that?
	No, that was the child cap.
	There is still a benefits cap.
	So if you put the benefits cap in place, it caps out some of these elements down to £2,300 a month.
	Just for free.
	For free, yes.
	Again, you don't need to buy work lunches or work clothes.
	You don't need to do anything.
	And that's the equivalent of about £28,000 a year.
	so okay you think okay so you can get and that i would say that is a equivalent in disposable income terms because you're not paying for your housing Yeah, of course.
	Which is a big factor.
	Yeah, it's massive.
	In disposable income terms, that is equivalent to £50,000 a year.
	Actually, £52,000 something.
	Right.
	And then let's roll it back a bit.
	Because I said there's a benefits cap.
	That only applies if you're not qualified as disabled.
	So actually, if you can say, if you're going to find a reason, like, I don't know, I'm terribly inbred or something or whatever it is, and I've got a large family.
	I have a nervous disposition.
	Yes.
	Then it is the equivalent to 70 grand a year.
	So you basically got to ask yourself a question.
	What is easier?
	Is it easy?
	Say you're, you know, you're a recent arrival to this country.
	You just got off the boat, you and your misses.
	Is it easier to learn the language?
	and get a £70,000 a year job or is it easier to have six kids and fake a disability?
	I mean, you just give yourself a disability for that amount of money.
	Yes.
	I'd cut off a leg for that.
	I'll just, you know, maybe, you know, a couple of toes or something, so you've got a bit of a limp.
	And 500 immigrants a day are doing this.
	Is anyone surprised that we are falling down a financial black hole with this stuff?
	Black belt barrister here, who, by the way, I want to do a brokenomics with about the juries being removed, which is crazy.
	I don't know if we covered that, but that is absolutely mental that they're getting rid of juries.
	So if anybody knows him, or if he's watching this, get in touch because I want to do a brokenomics with you.
	He points out 16 billion increase in welfare payments in this budget alone.
	I mean, it's just wild.
	I mean, it's just crazy.
	I mean, I don't even agree with welfare in principle.
	Yep.
	And if I did, I don't anymore.
	Yeah, well.
	Oh, Christ.
	I want it to be done privately.
	Charity.
	Any money that we give away for free has to be charitable.
	Sick of this.
	The funny thing is as well, this sort of thing, by doing it via the government, it does further fracture communities as well because people grow resentful and rightfully so.
	But not only that, you don't have to...
	If you're going to a charity, at least you've got to be thankful.
	No, this is pure entitlement.
	You don't have to be thankful shit.
	You are entitled.
	It's crazy.
	It's completely unaffordable.
	The numbers don't even add up.
	I mean, they're all basically done on this fake headroom trick.
	Because the OBR makes wildly generously assumptions for labour, and it's all based on growth that won't come through.
	It's all based on people not changing their behaviour.
	So the state that this country is going to be in when reform take over, does Nigel Farage understand the absolute shitpile, the amount of work he's going to have to be ready to do from day one?
	If he doesn't, I mean, we've got real big problems coming down the track.
	God, I just can't believe how bad this is.
	It is a bit mental.
	141 Paladin says, he talks about the National Guardsman, so I'll save that for after my segment.
	Josh did a UK manifesto segment.
	Mr. H did his too.
	I'd love to see a video on Danifesto on how Dan would run the UK economy and in need of this government.
	I did a UK manifesto segment.
	I don't remember that.
	That's worth thinking about, though.
	Maybe I'll do a broken officer.
	Have I invited Viva Fran to the podcast yet?
	No, but he can come on whenever he likes, obviously.
	Arcadia says, is the idea to destroy the UK economy and the country at large?
	Because that certainly seems to be the direction of travel.
	Everything raised to the ground in order to usher in the socialist utopia.
	Well, like we've said before, it's all about equalizing everyone into the same income band.
	Well, I've got an answer for this, though, on the is it a strategy.
	If you were to take, if I had the opportunity to assemble the greatest financial minds in the country and told us to destroy the economy as quickly, as efficiently as we possibly could, I don't think we could do it as well as Rachel.
	So I don't think that this is genius strategy.
	I think this is just incompetence that just finds the line somehow.
	Because her claim to being an economist was she worked in IT support in a bank, right?
	Yes.
	Well, although she rarely worked and she would have got fired for not turning up if it wasn't for the fact somebody in HSPC management twigged that she might be a up-and-comer in labor one day.
	Astape says, what is a milkshake tax and why will I be £5.20 a week worse off because of it?
	Let me enjoy my milkshake in peace.
	Is there a milkshake tax?
	There is applying the sugar tax to that.
	So you're safe finally, Carl.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	The public is red-pilled on immigration, but are they really ready to accept that millions of Britons must be booted off benefits to balance the books?
	This is going to surprise you, but yes, actually.
	I think the average person actually hates benefit culture, and they have done for a long time.
	And the more we make salient that actually it is foreigners disproportionately claiming it, well, we can marry racism with a hatred of loafers and poor, and we can actually get the public supporting that.
	It was my original xenophobia before I moved on to immigrants.
	Oh, we still hate them, though.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We still hate scroungers.
	We haven't forgotten about them.
	Anyway, can we get the next one up, please, Samson?
	Excuse me.
	I've had this cough for ages.
	Very, very annoying.
	Anyway, so there has been a shooting in Washington, D.C. of two National Guardsmen, and I thought we would talk about it because actually it's very instructive.
	It's actually reflective of the difference between Trump's government, which is, for all of his faults, at least pro-America in some ways, and our government, which is pro-oblivion for some reason, pro-the complete obliteration of the country in every way that you can imagine.
	So anyway, you'll remember that, of course, Trump back in August deployed the National Guard into D.C.
	He declared that there was a crime emergency, deployed 800 National Guard, and then sent in another 1,200 from West Virginia, Ohio, various places.
	And these troops patrol tourist areas, metro stations, assist with beautification tasks like rubbish collection.
	And of course, the Democrats are like, how dare you do this to the anarcho-tyranny that we've been busy creating?
	You know, there was a huge crime wave, but we basically would just keep letting these people off and not prosecuting them and not recording it.
	And so it didn't show up in the stats, and therefore there was no problem.
	And so the Democrats are like, right, okay, we can't have Trump saving America against our concerted plan to destroy it.
	And so they're like, look, you need to start refusing unlawful orders.
	Because they would start basically lying, saying that Trump was going to use the National Guard to just shoot Americans.
	I mean, here's one example on American TV.
	Look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago.
	It makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.
	It is a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground.
	That's responsible, isn't it?
	By the way, you're going to have National Guard in your city because of the insane ethnic minority crime rate that we have allowed to foster there because of the Soros-Banked judges who just keep letting them out, which is why we keep seeing, I mean, like, there were three recent ones where a deranged black guy murdered or attacked just some white girl.
	And I saw this going on because between them, they had 126 convictions.
	The only thing that makes me hesitate on this, though, is that the Democrats have done this before.
	And if you remember back to the early 2010s, the narrative were that all police were basically walking murder bots, who the moment they saw a black person, they would immediately open firewall.
	And God forgot the body cams.
	And the result, yeah, the result was a push for body cams, which has been a gift.
	It has.
	And something similar is happening in this, actually.
	But the point is, is that responsible rhetoric?
	You know, is that the sort of thing that really the American public, by the way, you're going to have National Guard there.
	They're not your fellow countrymen watching out for criminals who are going to do terrible things to you.
	No, they're actually going to start shooting you.
	I mean, they are literally fellow countrymen who have normal jobs and just volunteer for this.
	A padded room in a straitjacket is missing an occupant.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, yeah, exactly.
	If they were like, you know, special forces or something, okay, maybe that's a bit of a different thing.
	But they're not.
	They're actually normal people who are volunteering.
	And the propaganda coming up, the Democrats, yeah, they're going to start gunning you down the streets.
	Yeah, the dentist who volunteers the National Guard is just going to mow you down.
	Mad.
	Mad.
	So anyway, like I said, two of them are shot, and the first thing that happened was people went to Blue Sky to cheer about it.
	Now, apparently, we can't get that up because, as you can see, due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age.
	Oh, thank you, online safety bill.
	Yes, the online safety bill.
	But this is from Andy No, this tweet.
	And the quote is that I can't show you.
	Quote, don't enforce fascism and you won't get shot.
	But it's the National Guard deserve it, say the very same people on Blue Sky.
	This is a point I always have to make: that the American system is set up in such a way with the separation of powers that even if Donald Trump was this evil fascist that they claim him to be, he still wouldn't have as much power as your average British prime minister.
	And no one's saying the evil, well, actually, some people are these days.
	Yeah.
	The evil fascist UK.
	But, you know, it's silly.
	Well, if Trump is watching this, consider a job swap with Kia Starma.
	We take you on give you unlimited power.
	There was actually a poll the other day that showed that Trump was something like third for people's preferences to be the prime minister.
	Who was first and second?
	Farage, and I can't remember who the second one was.
	But anyway, so the Democrats were like, right, you need to be seditious.
	You've got to refuse unlawful orders because they think that Trump's going to start ordering them to just fire on random civilians or something.
	And so Trump was like, well, that's punishable by death.
	and they were like my god he's threatening his death and it's like well i mean you know anyway the point being can i just say when i die i want to go to heaven which was created in the mind of a lefty Why?
	I want to live in that right-wing world that they're imagining.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's true.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so this is the context.
	This has been happening the last week.
	And this is the context in which America has been discussing the deployment of the National Guard to prevent crime in Democrat cities.
	Oh, no, actually, we did get that one.
	Sorry, which one was this?
	Sorry, this one was actually the video of the shooting that I can't show you.
	But no, we do get the Blue Sky lunatics who, of course, the Guardsmen are there for target practice.
	Literal target practice.
	The fascist regime hopes they will draw fire and justify retaliatory measures.
	Yeah, okay.
	All right, mental.
	Absolutely mental.
	Anyway, so like I said, two National Guard soldiers were shot in a targeted attack.
	Just read you the details.
	They were shot on Wednesday near the White House, which is, you would think, a concerning thing.
	In what officers describe officials describes a targeted ambush, the suspect was in custody after suffering gunshot wounds during the attack.
	The guard soldiers were part of a high visibility patrol around 2.15 p.m. near the corner of 17th and 1st Streets, a few blocks from the White House.
	And when the suspect came around the corner, he ambushed them, says the Metropolitan Police Assistant Chief Jeff Carroll in a press briefing.
	The shooting unfolded near Farragut Square, a popular lunch spot for workers just a few blocks away from the White House.
	The park where the light posts are wrapped in wreaths and bows for the holiday season is flanked by fast casual restaurants and a coffee shop as well as two metro stops.
	After the exchange of gunfire, the guard members, the other guard members were able to subdue the suspect.
	Two wounded soldiers were in a critical condition at the hospital, say FBI Director Kash Patel, which, as far as the best of my knowledge, is the current situation as we are broadcasting.
	The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, but they believed the shooter acted alone.
	The identities of the suspect had not, when this was printed, made public.
	In a social media post, Trump called the suspected shooter an animal who would pay a very steep price and praise the National Guard.
	Do we want to play some bets?
	What kind of person decided to ambush the National Guard in Washington, D.C.?
	Hmm.
	Well, that's tricky.
	Couldn't I know, right?
	Is it a million-pound Christian conservative?
	It could be.
	Could be.
	He's disappointed about the amount of money that Trump sends to Israel, maybe.
	Was it a Girl Scout, perhaps?
	Maybe a grandmother.
	It could be anyone.
	I don't actually know.
	I haven't seen this.
	Well, that's the point.
	You don't actually know, right?
	Because it could be some insane radical lefty, like the type of who shot Charlie Kirk.
	It could be some ethnic minority who's been radicalized by the Democrats.
	But we're playing tranio ethnic game.
	I mean, it's difficult to know at this point.
	It could be anyone.
	Yes.
	And so, for anyone who was placing their bets, it was an Afghan immigrant.
	Ah, right.
	Okay.
	Ramanullah Lakanawal, the Muslim migrant suspected of launching the attack, as Andy No reports, had entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan after Biden's ridiculous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	So Biden had brought in an Afghan refugee, someone who worked against his own country with the US forces and British forces there, and had fled because, of course, the Taliban probably have something to say about being a traitor.
	But he claimed to be a refugee and applied for asylum in 2024, which was granted in 2025, April.
	The Custom and Immigration Service says.
	And this is something that, well, again, it could have been anyone.
	It just happened to be one of the American supporting Afghans who was brought over, decided for some reason to shoot a bunch of the National Guard.
	I don't know how many the Americans are taken in, but we recently got an extra batch of 23,000.
	We'll get to that.
	We'll get to that.
	So anyway, Trump has obviously condemned this monstrous attack that was carried out by the Afghan national who arrived during America's chaotic withdrawal from Kabul.
	This attack underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.
	He has vowed to quote re-examine every single alien who has entered the US from Afghanistan under the previous government.
	Because, of course, this is just pure Biden, all Biden's fault.
	I'm determined to ensure the animal perturbator of the Trusty will pay the steepest price.
	And what's really interesting is they spoke to his family members.
	It's like, yeah, he served in the Afghan army alongside US Special Forces troops for 10 years.
	And then when Biden's chaotic, catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, for no reason.
	It's not like the Taliban, just for anyone who forgot, didn't have like five divisions marching on Kabul or something.
	The Americans were like, well, we're going to get overrun here, lads.
	We have to get out.
	Purely ideological.
	And for some reason, they decided to pull these soldiers out first, leave loads of military equipment there, and then had to struggle to evacuate civilians.
	Like, there was no pressure.
	No one was making them do it.
	It was just completely ideological.
	Shambolic.
	It was because Biden wanted it to be on 9-11, I think, wasn't it?
	Something like that.
	But, you know, it was just no reason for it.
	It didn't have to happen.
	13 people died during it.
	Not killed by the Taliban, by the way.
	This whole thing, he'd been serving with the Afghan army alongside the U.S. Special Forces for 10 years.
	Comes to the US four years ago, given citizenship, and then, like, yeah, now he's shooting a couple of nationalists.
	I mean, I think the point you're making is no matter what level of vetting, he would have passed it.
	Exactly the point.
	He would, he, oh, he did pass it.
	He did pass all of the vetting, and yet he still went on a mass shooting.
	It's almost as if Western countries should be inhabited with Western people.
	Bold idea.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	But it's also the mythos around, well, these people served with us in Afghanistan and therefore.
	And therefore, what?
	Tell us what.
	They could still kill you.
	They didn't sign up from another country.
	They were fighting in Afghanistan because they're from Afghanistan.
	Yeah.
	And they were on a specific side of the war, basically.
	Yeah, exactly.
	He grew up in Cost Province.
	He was living in Bellingham, Washington with his wife and five children.
	So it's not like if he was just some sort of loner, radical online, radicalized online by bin Laden propaganda or something, okay, a bit more understandable.
	No, he's living a family life.
	And he hated America more than he loved his wife and five children.
	Yes.
	That seems to be the case.
	I mean, we haven't got any direct statements from him.
	But from what we can take so far, it's like, but you spent 10 years working with America.
	Then you fled to America.
	You'd think, okay, fine, this was what I was aiming for, really, to bring America to Afghanistan.
	You know, that's what I was fighting for, the Americanization of Afghanistan.
	That failed, but they at least took me in.
	They gave me citizenship.
	I mean, if that were me, I'd be living the life I to the Western mind, you cannot understand how they would not be eternally grateful for that.
	Exactly.
	But to the Afghan mind, something different.
	I guess so.
	And the wife and five children must be like, what happened?
	Your dad went on a shooting spree.
	Luckily, he's not dead, but he's definitely, he's probably going to get the death penalty.
	Two guardsmen are, though.
	Well, they're not dead yet.
	No, I believe it's been confirmed there.
	Oh, has it?
	Yeah, I think I saw something from the governor that...
	Well, no, I think there's been mixed signals on this.
	That's the thing.
	I have seen that people have said that, but I think they just assumed that they were dead because they were shot.
	So I'm not convinced.
	But, you know, either way, they're in critical condition, so not good.
	So what's Trump's response?
	Well, I mean, his response is, we're not having any of this, actually.
	He's going to send more troops to Washington, D.C., deploy more National Guard, 500 more.
	This happens just steps from the White House and will not stand.
	And that's why Trump asked Hegseth, and I will ask the Secretary of the Army and the National Guard to add 500 troops to the National Guardsman, says Hegseth.
	So you double down on what you're doing, right?
	The first thing is you double down.
	It's like, no, we will not tolerate this.
	You will not do this.
	If you're like, we only had 800 National Guard there, but now we're going to, or 2,000.
	Now we're going to have even more.
	But the most pertinent thing is you make sure this doesn't happen twice.
	And Trump is like, yeah, right.
	Okay, no more Afghans then.
	Oh, God.
	It's so weird watching somebody who actually likes their country govern a country.
	I know.
	The US has just suspended all immigrant requests, immigration requests from Afghanistan after this.
	And it's like, yeah, that should have happened on the first day in the first one.
	He didn't do that after bloody Axel Rubana hacked up a room full of bloody school children.
	No more bloody Rwandans.
	Sorry.
	God, I'm getting serious leadership envy here from the UK.
	I know.
	And, you know, I know people complain about his stance on Israel or whatever.
	I don't care.
	I want no more Afghans, right?
	And the services that are involved are making a review of security and vetting protocols.
	The problem is, he passed all of them.
	He would pass all of them because he literally served 10 years with the US Army in Afghanistan.
	So there's not a lot you can do.
	Well, if there's a tiered list, he'd be right at the top.
	Exactly.
	And that's why they evacuated him when they left Afghanistan.
	Because he was right at the top.
	Because he was exactly the kind of person that they thought, oh, well, we can integrate that person.
	He will, you know, yeah, exactly.
	They thought wrong.
	Trump's called this an act of terror and said he would take steps to remove foreigners from any country who does not belong here.
	Which, okay, great.
	You can cast that net as wide as you want.
	So what are we like in Britain, right?
	Because there's a general maxim that the Americans now have, which is whatever Britain does, just do the opposite of that, right?
	Just do the opposite.
	That's actually quite a good maxim.
	It is a good maxim because it's true, right?
	You have on the economy, on immigration, on free speech.
	If you watch the Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan chat, like there's just whatever we're doing, just do the opposite if you want a good country and you'll get it.
	Because, I mean, you may remember that based conservative Robert Jenrick in 2023 under the Rishi Senate government was like, yeah, no, we're going to sneak in tens of thousands of Afghans.
	There was a lot more than that.
	You covering the lying and hiding.
	I'm just going to summarise it for the sake of this segment.
	But something like 25,000 in total they snuck in.
	And then they took out a court injunction to stop us knowing about it.
	They did.
	And that was overturned only very recently.
	So that's why we're allowed to talk about it.
	But they were also allowed to bring their dependents.
	Now, that could be who knows how many per one.
	I mean, this guy who was just, he was, that was six dependents for that guy, his wife and five children.
	So if we multiply that by a factor of six, we are talking about 200,000.
	They do have large families, don't they?
	They have very large families.
	So 200,000 Afghans were snuck into the country under the cover of night by the Conservatives on the premise that, in fact, we've got a statement from Robert Jenrick in this.
	This is from 2023.
	The immigration minister Robert Jenrick said two years ago, we undertook one of the largest evacuations in recent history, bringing 15,000 people, and the rest, Robert, from Afghanistan safety in the UK at short notice.
	Through the tireless work of our dedicated Home Office staff, we now have provided these Afghans with the home they need to begin the next chapter of their life.
	You're paying for it.
	You're paying for this.
	Not only can Afghan families now fully integrate, find employment, and provide their children with stability.
	Yeah, that's ending the temporary use of hotels will save the taxpayer millions.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Right, okay, whatever, Robert.
	But on that, he says, we have evacuated them to safety.
	Yeah.
	What about our?
	What about our safety?
	What about my kids' safety?
	Well, since that statement's been made, I can think of several cases of Afghans brought over to this country where they've, you know, attacked people.
	Well, there was one that raped a 12-year-old girl the other day.
	And of course, you'll, in fact, this is again from September 2025, right?
	So you're like, oh, well, this is in 2023.
	Maybe he's walked back.
	No.
	In September 2025, in the Daily Telegraph, this is on his website, by the way.
	But it's just a copy of his Telegraph article.
	So again, he's doing the Trump double down, but in the complete opposite direction.
	In the opposite direction.
	As the last US military aircraft lifted off from the airport that had witnessed unimaginable tragedy and remarkable heroism, just an eight-hour flight away in my Nottingham constituency, I walked to a house in a peaceful corner of my local town to meet an Afghan family who are my newest constituents.
	What a cuck.
	Ahmad Dullah and his wife and daughters had arrived in the UK a few weeks back.
	Their quarantine was over.
	We salute the armed forces.
	Ahmad Dullah had served as a translator with British Special Forces in Hellman Province.
	He'd risked his life assisting our troops.
	He was fulsome in his pride and loyalty to the men and women he served with hopes to reconnect with them and perhaps even serve alongside them again should the opportunity arise.
	Just like this other guy.
	Just like this other guy.
	And then, of course, I mean, people all remember the Uxbridge triple stabbing, this Safi Dawood.
	I'm just missing.
	Is this the same Robert Jenrick that everybody is saying should be Tory leader because he's the most based one?
	Yep.
	The very same.
	Right.
	Speaks to the dire state of the Tory party, doesn't it?
	Yep.
	And so, I mean, you know, there was another one more recently, the raping of the 12-year-old girl, but then you've got it was Safi Dawood, who broke into the country on a lorry in 2020.
	So this was even before the evacuation of Afghanistan.
	And these are also the ones that get immediate coverage because there's an inordinate number of these sorts of level of crimes.
	Maybe not a triple stabbing, but crimes of this sort of nature and severity that just don't get picked up by the media because there's so many now that they can only pick up.
	If your wife gets harassed and grabbed and all the rest of it on the way back from the shops, that's not ending up on Sky News, or even going to be on the local news, really.
	Because it's just normal.
	But anyway, this Safi Dawood champ, he'd broke in in 2020 via a lorry, and guess who gave him leave to remain?
	Guess Jenrica Ginny.
	It is Jenrick!
	In 2022, Jemrich, Minister of State for Immigration, decided he was granted asylum and indefinitely to remain.
	And then just three years later, he thanked Robert Jemrick for his service by murdering a guy who was walking his dog and then stabbing two other people.
	Thankfully, they survived.
	Very best the Conservatives have to offer is a massive immigration cuck.
	Yes.
	It's just, it's just like, sorry, actually, I don't really want Afghans in my country.
	It's just the way things are.
	Too many of these things have happened.
	And Trump has taken the right move by just suspending immigration from Afghanistan.
	George says, here's my humble contribution to a year's VPN subscription for £100.
	Thank you very much.
	That's very kind of you, sir.
	Oh, we have an update.
	The National Guardsmen are dead.
	They died about three hours later.
	Right, okay, thank you.
	I saw people contradicting one another, and there have been various reports.
	There was another one.
	It's been a regular occurrence for years now that the National Guardsmen get deployed with empty rifles.
	I was in Germany during Allies Refuge.
	They had to do 12-hour shifts as an MP for these allies.
	Military police anyways.
	Right, okay, I didn't even know, but these guys were actually armed.
	So they were able to shoot the attacker.
	And for some reason, he was naked when they were arresting him, like completely naked.
	I have no idea why.
	That is so weird.
	I know it's really bizarre.
	But anyway, let's move on.
	Thank you.
	Do you want to imagine what it's like to be a feudal serf in the medieval period?
	Well, you don't have to, because you can be a feudal serf in Britain for the motability aristocracy.
	But first, I'm going to give you a quick rundown on what the motability scheme is, because on the face of it, it doesn't actually sound that bad.
	So the read-up here is it says, use your qualifying mobility allowance to lease a new car, wheelchair accessible vehicle, scooter or powered wheelchair.
	We also have adaptations to help with driving, getting in and out, or storage.
	So obviously helping disabled people to drive is not a bad thing, especially people with serious disabilities.
	Obviously, you know, if anyone deserves help in society, it's probably them.
	And so I'm not having a go at them when I talk about some of these other things.
	So please bear that in mind.
	Not having a go at actual disabled people.
	We're always having a go at the government.
	Yes.
	It's always the goddamn government.
	Speaking of the government, this scheme is not government run.
	The government just provides the money for it.
	The motability charity does the policy and oversight and grants.
	And then there's a limited company which does the leasing services.
	And then there are a network of private dealerships and adaptation specialists in the private sector that give you the cars and adapt them to your needs.
	And to be eligible, you have to receive one of the following.
	Higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance or DLA.
	Enhanced rate mobility component of personal independence payment or PIP.
	Armed Forces Independence Payment, which I think few people are going to be taking, or War Pensioners Mobility Supplement, which again, I imagine very few people are probably taking to get these cars.
	And the general idea is the recipient of this welfare can direct their welfare money via the government to pay the lease of the car directly rather than them having the money sent to them and then paying the lease.
	And so it makes it simpler for people with disabilities.
	That's the principle of the thing.
	And in return, they get a brand new car leased to them for three years before getting another car when the lease expires.
	And it also includes insurance for up to three named drivers, which is interesting.
	Servicing, repairs, and breakdown cover, replacement tyres and windscreen repairs, routine maintenance, and road tax.
	So pretty much everything is paid for by this allowance.
	And the person who receives this car only personally pays for fuel and optional extras on the car that are not covered by the scheme.
	And of course, the scheme also covers any modifications to the vehicle to accommodate for the beneficiary's disability.
	And there is a bit of a problem with this, and it is this.
	The latest survey reveals 25% of the UK's population now has a disability.
	Yeah, well, I mean, that's because you get what you incentivize, as we have seen so far.
	If you incentivize people to be disabled by giving them free cars.
	But I mean, that obviously isn't true.
	No, of course not.
	When you walk around, and people like to say, oh, well, not all disabilities are visible, but I feel like if you're getting a free car for your mobility, I want to see something that signifies you're not able to move.
	What if I have anxiety?
	That's not a disability.
	We'll see the criteria soon.
	So obviously, if you're a beneficiary of one of these, and one of the main ones is PIP or payment independence or personal independence payments.
	Sorry.
	Let's have a look at this, shall we?
	So I'm going to scroll down a little bit.
	So personal independence payments can help with extra living costs if you have both a long-term physical or mental health condition or disability.
	Very anxious.
	Difficulty doing certain everyday tasks or getting around because of your condition.
	Yeah, I'm depressed at the state of my country.
	It makes me, I find it difficult to go outside.
	I'm scared of going outside.
	Yeah.
	I'm allergic to knives.
	You can get pip even if you're working, have savings, or getting most other benefits.
	So, you know, it doesn't matter.
	You can get this regardless.
	And, you know, there's not really any downsides.
	And then I looked up, well, how many people are getting this?
	Because it's got to be a fair few.
	3.7 million claimants in England and Wales alone.
	And there was a 2% increase from last year as of the 31st of October.
	And apparently, 37% received the highest level award, which qualifies them for whichever car they want.
	Yeah.
	And people have cottoned on to perhaps this could be abused.
	And so is this right?
	Is that the right link?
	No.
	It's not the right link.
	But that should be Motability Check, which is a website which allows you to check whether a car is motability or not.
	Okay.
	I have a guy.
	Is this Max Tempers' website?
	I think so, or at least he's associated with it.
	Okay, links to the motability scheme.
	So this isn't this is new, isn't it?
	Because Samson, I saw you copy that paste in the URL.
	So motability check.
	Let me see.
	Now links to motability.
	Okay, I don't know.
	Because that is the right link.
	Never mind.
	That's weird.
	That didn't happen yesterday.
	But anyway, there's a website where you can check whether a car.
	It's just it.
	It's motabilitycheck.com, yes.
	Is it working for you?
	No, you will be redirected to the motability that.
	Oh, right.
	No, right.
	The website itself has been shut down.
	There's a little message there that says it served its purpose, therefore we've shut down.
	Yeah, they heard you were going to segmentation.
	Wait, budget.
	Well, it did exist.
	Max Tempers wins again.
	He does, yeah.
	So, where were we?
	Sorry, I need to get the mouse back.
	So The government did attack this website when it existed, so they were changing things like the API and the like where they were getting the data from the DVLA to deliberately sabotage it.
	They actually had people saying from the DVLA that the only reason this update's gone forward is to sabotage your motability checker.
	Which sort of stuff is living in the minds of these people?
	There we go.
	Here he is talking about it, how the DVLA has produced a special patch there to sabotage this.
	But that's what it would look like when it existed.
	I checked it yesterday.
	This is annoying.
	I liked it.
	Rip the motability checker.
	But let's have a look at some of the abuses, shall we?
	So this TikTok estate agent with his fifth floor flat in Bradford.
	He's got an expensive BMW behind him.
	Walking around perfectly able.
	Only problem is that this guy has a motability car and he also has a private plate worth around 20k on it as well.
	So a BMW sport private plate.
	Clearly he's fine.
	He's disabled.
	Oh, he's got deep anxiety.
	So what about this one?
	An immune park that I don't know.
	But oh, there you go.
	That's who parked it.
	An immigrant park that.
	But this is a motability car provided.
	Two disabled young men just down there.
	Stood up miraculously cured by the impact.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I see why this was such a great website now.
	Because if I could just check.
	Yes.
	Oh, bloody.
	That's a shame they got shut.
	Genuinely.
	But you can see why it was looming large in the minds of the people running this.
	Oh, and that's why the government had to get it shut down.
	Yes.
	Oh, I get you now.
	Because people start to realize who's benefiting from this.
	Like getaway drivers for multi-million pound heists.
	This was done in a motability car, even expressed a 99.9% certainty that it is motability.
	Mercedes, nonetheless, as well.
	A guy driving around shouting free Palestine in a largely Jewish area of Manchester.
	A lot of immigrants just ripping us off and getting BMWs from the taxpayer by lying that they're fucking disabled.
	Black Volkswagen for free from just the state.
	Oh, God.
	Why are all the immigrants disabled?
	Because they know that we'll give them free cars.
	Ah, well, and yeah.
	Going back to my segment earlier.
	And 70 grand a year disposable income.
	Oh, my God.
	I hate this country so much.
	So even this guy who had stood there with David Averton with a patriotic car with a union flag, Welsh flag.
	Even this guy, Sir Shoeb, he actually had an altercation with Tom Harwood of all people who called him out.
	So you know it's going to be bad when he's doing it.
	Even the patriotic immigrants.
	Yes.
	He had a motability car, which is very amusing to me.
	Also, quite a nice BMW.
	It's incredible.
	Incredible car.
	Is the inability to use toilets considered a disability or something?
	I don't know.
	But this driver here, this was in London, in Uxbridge, Boris Johnson's constituency, driving like a complete idiot.
	That's motability.
	But they didn't pay for the goddamn things.
	Why would they care about the upkeep or maintenance or anything?
	Exactly.
	If I crash this, they'll give me a new one.
	Because I am disabled.
	I wonder why we're bankrupt as a country.
	So someone harassing people with a drone late at night.
	Someone posted that it was a motability car based on the registration.
	Of course, Max Tempers, it's worth mentioning, has been fantastic on this.
	Single-handedly pushed this into Rachel Reeves' budget more than anyone, I think.
	It's like the Puppet Master meme, and it's just Max Tempers at the end of it with the British budget.
	I like to joke that when disabled people go to bed at night, they check under their bed for Max Tempers.
	Rachel Reeves does.
	Good for him.
	Seriously.
	But no, great work.
	No one tells you that one person posting on Twitter doesn't do anything because apparently it does.
	You should get him on the podcast.
	Well, I mean, I think his anonymity is part of the.
	I think that's a picture of Albert Camus with a Christmas hat on.
	He's only got 21,500 followers.
	That's the thing.
	I'm going to follow him.
	He started as a really small account.
	He was just pinpointing that precise weakness.
	And suddenly, Rachel Reeves is like, yeah, you know, in the budget.
	So well done.
	Yeah, Max Tempers.
	Here's another one.
	He uses the term motability aristocrat.
	They parked in the middle of the road, and you'll see them in a second coming back.
	Oh, yeah.
	Walking, of course.
	There she is.
	Oh, yeah.
	Clearly, disabled person buying crackers.
	Look at the state of it.
	Yeah, just holding everyone up with second generation Caribbean.
	There it is.
	That's the car, motability.
	And here's a woman on social media bragging about getting a free car.
	So glad she's driving around.
	She says, I can't do public transport as I fall asleep randomly and miss my stops.
	Jesus Christ.
	What?
	So I've been given a brand new car.
	Let's hope it doesn't happen.
	I can't use a bus because I fall asleep randomly.
	Therefore, I should be in charge of two tons of car.
	So other than this being completely insane, it's worth mentioning that the data for people's sort of medical records and the reasons for getting it, technically this is a disability, yes.
	Sure.
	But it's not a disability that you should get a car for.
	Like if you're narcoleptic, well, yes, apparently.
	Right, okay.
	Because you think that there'd be certain disabilities that prohibit you from driving.
	Well, I imagine the sort of person defending this, they would argue, well, this is for other people to drive her, but she can own the car.
	Let's hope so.
	Yeah, because I don't see that happening, though.
	She also says it was from Kia in Bath, so you live near Bath.
	Watch out for that Kia.
	It won't be somebody else driving it.
	No, of course it won't be.
	This is a bit like saying we've got to take somebody off their job because they've got Parkinson's at their handshake, so we're going to put them in charge with a nuclear button instead.
	How difficult is it to fake a narcolepsy?
	I can deal with a new car.
	I mean, I don't even have to fake it anymore.
	Well, I bet almost everybody watching this will be better off on welfare.
	As long as you can fake a disability.
	I hate the way this country's run so much.
	So I was curious: well, if one person on narcolepsy can get a car, how many actually have one on motability?
	But thankfully, Max Tempers actually beat me to it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Apparently, there's 190 motability cars have been awarded for narcolepsy.
	Jesus time bombs.
	It's just like, you know, bombs moving around slowly around, hopefully slowly, around the country.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's presuming they're actually narcoleptic and not lying.
	Yeah, I'm sure they're lying.
	I hope these ones are lying.
	Yeah, of all the people, I hope.
	And here we go.
	A case of bad parking here.
	That is a motability.
	Also, this is a page that shows you bad parking.
	And up until today.
	But they had a lot of bloody motability on it.
	They did.
	In fact, Max Tempers points out that most of the cars on that bad parking page were motability, which is interesting.
	These are brand new cars.
	A year of manufacturer, 2023.
	Makes you think that the kind of people who get free stuff from the government might not be particularly good people.
	Not necessarily if you're actually disabled.
	Again, if you're actually disabled, fine.
	But that's not what's happening here, is it?
	I don't think an actually disabled person parked there and got a parking ticket.
	When I was living in London, I often wondered why all the ethnic types had brand new cars.
	And I always just assumed it was because they were just remortgaging their house irresponsibly.
	It never occurred to me that they didn't even need to do that.
	The government would just give them one car if they would lie.
	The safer assumptions are they're drug dealers.
	That's what I always appreciate.
	But at least they're being productive in some way.
	They can't all be rappers or drug dealers.
	There can't be that much demand for a brand new car.
	There's a lot of organised crime going on.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	They work at a Turkish barber's.
	To be fair, those two industries do feed off of each other quite well.
	Yeah, but they can't all be that.
	It turns out they're not.
	I mean, a lot of them just being given free cars by the government.
	Yeah, well, apparently so.
	I just think we're so stupid.
	And also, I saw this when I was searching.
	This is from July.
	Just a sporty Mazda convertible.
	They're just advertising that it's on the notability scheme in the actual advert.
	Just like, yeah, you can get this.
	So my brother's got one of these, and I'm not disabled.
	I can barely get into the thing.
	Oh, they're tiny, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	I've seen them before.
	They're not.
	Jesus Christ, that's 26 grand worth of car.
	Oh, it gets more expensive than that.
	Some of the BMWs are like 45 grand.
	Oh, my God.
	It's ridiculous.
	And I just couldn't believe it at this point.
	And it's also worth pointing out as well that send kids can use their benefits to get a motability car.
	That's like disabled children.
	To get a motability car for their parents to drive them around, but the parents can still apply for a taxi service on the council bill and then use the state-given car not to drive their kids around, but get the state to ferry them around for them while they drive around the kids' car.
	This costs us something.
	I saw it today, actually, before the podcast.
	Lancashire Council has asked for something like $1.6 billion for taxis for schools, for kids to get to school.
	I'm sorry, but I can understand why the disability bill is about to go to 400 billion.
	Yeah, you can, yeah.
	I walked to school, and the people who didn't walk to school, weren't dropped to school, got a bus, or they cycled.
	I mean, just went to a different school.
	Does Rachel Rees spend all her time trying to find somebody who's come to this country who hasn't got benefits and then rectify the situation?
	I mean, Labour did canvas for people to bring here initially.
	So it's not beyond the realms of possibility that we find out they do do this.
	So even former Met Police detectives say certain people have motability cars sitting on their driveway and yet their disabled children still get transport to and from school.
	So apparently this definitely is happening according to this man.
	So it's not just a possibility.
	No, no, it's absolutely happening.
	And I found this quite funny.
	So yeah, basically my ideology is raising taxes on people working here to pay for BMWs for people with anxiety, which is exactly what's going on.
	And this did very well.
	And people have observed that in dealerships, the motability scheme logo is actually larger than the BMW logo.
	There's a dealership near my house that we drive past regularly that has this giant motability sign outside of it.
	Because they obviously know it's guaranteed money.
	If you like, okay, I'm going to sell a car to a guy who's going to pay me £500 a month.
	Well, there's a chance that the average private citizen might not pay you that.
	You might have to then involve debt collectors.
	There'll be a long hoo-ha to get that money.
	But if it's coming straight from the government or the charity paid for by the government, that money is guaranteed.
	It's a license.
	You want to print money, yeah.
	Not just license print money.
	It is just incentivizing you to know I'd rather sell motability cars because I know I'm getting that money rather than selling to the private the entire economy is fake.
	Yes.
	Of course it is.
	And there is some good news though because the only good thing really to come from Rachel Reeves' budget was this.
	The luxury cars are being removed.
	So all of the most expensive ones, so the BMWs and the like are being taken away and all of these people flaunting their expensive cars that they got through the state are going to have to downgrade, which is, I suppose, something.
	It's a start.
	All the car manufacturers have high-end luxury versions.
	Yeah.
	That's true, yes.
	So luxury.
	So how much in total have we spent on motability?
	How many billions was it?
	Oh, many, many billions.
	Trying to find out how.
	But the point is, you could have spent all of that money on designing essentially like, you know, some sort of Soviet-style car that was like, you know, small but designed for people who used to have the free wheelers that you gave to disabled people.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you could build them for Mexico.
	I didn't realize they were for disabled people.
	But the point is, you could just, you know, design, okay, we need a modern car for disabled people.
	So you have a particular kind of, you know, wide opening thing so they can get in and stuff like that.
	You could design it for far less than we're spending on this and then just give them one cheaply.
	Here's another idea.
	A car is not a human right.
	If you can't afford one, don't buy one.
	I don't have a car.
	I haven't been given one by the government.
	If you're disabled, you have even less reason because you can't move.
	Josh, why do you work?
	What's the point?
	Yeah, I think that every day, to be honest, unironically, at this point.
	It's like, what is the point?
	But yes, apparently, luxury cars from a whole host of manufacturers, including Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Alfa Romeo, and Lexus, are no longer going to be available on the motability scheme.
	And I was able to look up the numbers, and currently 860,000 people get help with their whole lease, or at least in part.
	And apparently, the higher-end vehicles account for about 50,000 of the vehicles leased.
	So it is a minority, but it's still 50,000 that shouldn't have been handed out in the first place.
	Obviously, we're not going to be going after people like that estate agent with the 20 grand private number plate and saying we want all of this benefit money back.
	Obviously, we won't do that.
	And I found something very interesting buried in this BBC article.
	It's somewhere down here from a guy called Matt Ryder.
	Where is it?
	After this foreign woman saying how a motability car made her want to drive again.
	Shut up.
	It says, Matt Ryder, who used to work on motability policy for the Department for Work and Pension, said the problem with the scheme goes beyond offering premium brands.
	He said the scheme, which only leases brand new cars, which are replaced every three years, could become more efficient by supplying nearly new cars instead.
	Yeah, why do they need brand new cars that most people can't afford to buy themselves?
	But the thing is, this is kind of like trivial to point out because, I mean, of assets that depreciate in value, cars are the big ones.
	It got to be the top one.
	You buy a car for like 25 grand and then you sell it the next year, it's worth like 10, right?
	There's a huge amount of depreciation on cars.
	And so the question isn't why are we buying them luxury cars?
	Why are we buying brand new luxury cars?
	Like that, that's a choice, right?
	Like anyone who is approaching this with like, okay, we've got a budget to fill and we need to keep it within these particular lines and we want to make sure that the people who are paying for this are being given value for their money, they would obviously be like, yeah, well, you're getting second-hand cars, right?
	These people would be getting old bangers off of second-hand car websites.
	But that's not what's happening.
	So this isn't about goodwill that underpins it.
	This is about you being taken advantage of on purpose.
	Like imagine the conversation that led to brand new luxury cars being provided to people like that guy with the 20 grand license plate from your money.
	Like that conversation must have involved a significant amount of malice towards you as the taxpayer.
	Just saying they must know.
	They must know.
	So like this like, oh, well, why aren't they just using second handcuts?
	Because they don't want to because they hate you.
	That's what.
	So you would presume, okay, that this is pretty unobjectionable to most people, right?
	But let's go to some of the reactions from the left.
	And I'm going to show you the one reasonable reaction I was able to find from Aaron Bastani, who said that actually the clause that says they have to be manufactured in the UK is a good one because it will help British manufacturing, which is, you know, okay, fair enough, I guess.
	It's still the economy being fake.
	Yeah, of course.
	And then this isn't growth of production.
	It still falls off a cliff now with people like this saying the same people who complain about disabled people getting BMWs are going to complain about six to 12 months time as secondhand BMW prices skyrocket because these idiots didn't realize who was propping up the secondhand car market.
	Was our tax money you moron?
	Yeah.
	Like, I'm sorry, you know, even if what you say is true and the second-hand car market does go up, at least we would have more money.
	Sorry, look at this reply.
	Genuinely a nation of spiteful, miserly, miserable, typical Protestants.
	Yes, get out.
	If you don't like it, get out.
	Surely.
	Sponge.
	I mean, quite possibly, God in.
	There's more.
	Actually blows my mind that the people who are jealous of disabled people have caused this change.
	What about a free new luxury BMW, did I?
	If owning an Audi is such an important part of your fragile identity, then take my illness and go grab your.
	Notability user speaks out.
	Right, okay.
	Yes.
	Here's another one.
	Everyone who participated in the discourse and decisions who brought us to this point, up to and including the people making the final decision here over the last 18 months is a disgrace to humanity, just to be clear, because you can't get free luxury cars.
	Shining shutters.
	Parasites.
	But no criticism of the people who've been abusing it, the immigrants who've been doing it.
	They're all disabled people, you see.
	Finally, the government is doing something to stop society's most evil group, disabled people.
	Thank you, Archie.
	But people aren't complaining about this because of genuine disabled people, are they?
	We've seen all of the numerous examples of people abusing it.
	And it's obviously just rife for fraud.
	The mindset of this country is, if I can't have it, no one can, and it's disgusting.
	Well, if I can't have the tax money stolen from me, I would rather no one had it, yeah.
	I can't have it because they have it, Archie.
	And what difference has that made to anyone literally just appeasing the right wing for the sake of it?
	Your taxes, mate?
	You do realize there's no such thing as free money?
	I bet that if we were to calculate which side of the political spectrum pays the most tax.
	Oh, it's going to be the right, isn't it?
	Of course it is.
	The worst thing half the country can imagine is a poor person consuming a luxury.
	Yes.
	Yes, unironically correct.
	My payroll, yes.
	If you're literally just gaining benefits, you shouldn't be having any luxuries.
	I personally would have it so that people on benefits would never actually take or handle money in any way, shape, or form, right?
	You would literally get like red dwarf style grey cans.
	Here are your beans.
	Here's like grey bread.
	Here is the bread.
	Well, I would go back to work houses myself.
	Well, sure, but like if we had to like be in this paradigm.
	No, you will never get a penny, but you will get, okay, you've got a government house.
	What's it look like?
	A Soviet tenement?
	Enjoy.
	Here's the Soviet bread.
	You want to live like you're in the Soviet Union?
	Fine, here you go.
	Anytime you like, go and get a job.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you don't like it, you can apply for a job.
	I very much agree.
	And Max Tempers here, laconically enjoying his victory here.
	Good for him.
	On your good for him.
	Good for Max Tempers.
	Right on Max.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Salutely.
	Salute you, sir.
	And the final thing he said was, or at least the one I'm including here, is: it looks like insurance premium tax exemptions on motability are going, but not the full VAT relief.
	So motability posting has saved this country 300 million.
	ATRA.
	Patriot.
	So a niche poster on Twitter saved the country 300 million pounds.
	Unfortunately, Rachel Reeves is going to completely obliterate that saving, but the principle of the thing.
	Yes.
	And the moral of the story is: if you bully disabled people.
	No, not really.
	If you point out fraudulent government schemes on the internet actually does seem to have some sort of effect, and you can, in theory, at least, save the taxpayer 300 million for a start, but there's still an angle of attack here.
	It's not entirely gone.
	And so there is more to be done.
	But well done, Max Tempers.
	Okay, let's go to the video comments.
	George says, Do you reckon that Rachel is going to trigger narcoleptic order 66 and mass car crashes will start happening?
	I mean, I couldn't rule it out.
	Give them all ration books.
	That's the point.
	That's the point.
	You should be on rations if you are getting free money from the government.
	God, I hate this much.
	All right, let's play.
	Too late for that.
	But I appreciate that.
	Let's go for the next one.
	It is important to know that China only projects the illusion of power.
	They don't actually have power.
	A notable example is this purported giant fighting robot they built back in 2018.
	It is supposed to be able to walk on four legs and fight other giant robots, and yet it is attached to a massive metal grid conveniently not shown.
	Don't believe everything you hear and only half of what you see.
	Especially when it comes to supposedly advanced Chinese technologies.
	I mean, our economy's fake, but so is China's.
	Well, the Chinese just copy the West, but do it slightly worse and cheaper.
	I saw a video of just a Chinese bridge collapse the other day.
	I couldn't help but laugh a little bit.
	I hope no one got hurt because obviously I don't wish any harm, but I was just like, well, when your philosophy is use concrete that's so crumbly that it collapses.
	You've seen them like in the buildings where they can just break off bits of the wall.
	It's just like, Jesus, I haven't seen that.
	Well, you know, I'm going to look that up now.
	Yeah, you've got the chorify.
	And they've got empty cities where they've just built cities for the second.
	There's a term for it.
	It's called tofu dreg.
	Well, tofu drag, apparently.
	Calling Samson.
	But yeah, no, literally, you know, you accidentally punch a hole in the wall.
	It's terrible.
	Let's go for the next one.
	Seriously, Harry, these things really aren't that bad.
	But if it bothers you so much, don't do a soy face when you get it.
	Instead, get one of these and make a man face.
	By the way, I'm wondering if you guys would be able to get Matt Dillahunty onto your show and ask him what he really thinks about what new atheism has done to the world.
	I very much doubt it.
	I've no idea who that is, I'm afraid.
	He's a new atheist YouTuber, and unlikely is definitely the answer.
	Kevin says, unemployed Ahmed with four wives in four different houses and 14 kids under 16 could conceivably already be on 117k a year.
	Add in the extra money, he will now get the no-child benefits cap.
	And you're looking at 160k.
	Yeah, it's just mad.
	I mean, you get what you incentivize.
	Yeah, and of course, a lot of these people will be holding their full-time job being an estate agent in London, as well as claiming all the rest of it in benefit.
	And that's not talking about the ones who are just unemployed, but then working in the black economy.
	So, you know, selling drugs or whatever, and just claiming loads of money and bringing them another 100k, yeah.
	I just oh, it's radicalizing me, man.
	It's absolutely radicalizing me.
	The fascinating thing from this podcast is not why 25% of people are disabled, is why aren't 100%.
	Yeah.
	I actually want to throw myself down the stairs after this podcast just so I can offend you.
	Well, you don't need to do that.
	You can smell it.
	I've got narcolepsy.
	You know, just honestly, I'm just so radical at this point.
	I sort of hope that they make racism a mental disorder, and then I can just say, I'm a terrible racist.
	Look at my podcasts.
	I can't go outside.
	It'll be terrible for them.
	Please give me money.
	Maybe for 70k.
	Yeah.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, at this point, we should confiscate MP's possessions so they will accurately portray the people they're supposed to represent.
	Yeah, unfortunately, they're the ones who make those decisions.
	Ris says, I can't believe it, but for once, I'm glad to be in Scotland.
	It takes a lot worse than the SNP to be takes a lot to be worse than the SNP, but Reeves is certainly giving it her best go.
	I just can't believe she managed to do like four budgets worth of damage to the economy.
	One budget.
	That's just mad.
	It's amazing.
	Baron von Warhawk says, Rachel Reeves' doomsday budget reminds me of Frank DeCotta's quote about how people survived under the rule of Mao Zedong.
	The quote goes, They lied, they cheated, they pretended, they hid, they feigned obedience while protecting their own.
	Survival depended on outwitting the state.
	Oh, God, I just happened with the motability.
	I've just seen something bloody awful.
	A comment from Lord Inquisitor Hector X, Did you see there was a woman who intentionally blinded her child so she could get more benefits?
	Oh, her first child was already blind, and they believe she caused that too.
	I was gonna say, yeah, he's already blind, was he?
	Yeah, oh, God, that is dark, isn't it?
	Yeah, the illegal truth says, one of my local rags did a sob story about a single mum with four kids who couldn't leave on the universal credit of $3,900 a month.
	Oh, fuck off.
	Just, I just.
	When we win, there's not going to be much mercy for this sort of stuff.
	Like, oh, I need my money from the government.
	That's too bad.
	That's too damn bad.
	What will I do?
	Not my problem.
	I tell you that.
	Brian says, the London School of Economics was set up by the Fabian Society and it shows.
	Yeah, I know.
	Derek says, two words to describe Rachel from accounts budget: girl maths.
	Whoa, whoa, right.
	Derek, that's the misogyny that we've heard so much about.
	Probably not inaccurate, though.
	No, no.
	I didn't.
	Well, then they never say.
	Look, they'll call you all sorts of names, but they never call you a liar, do they?
	You know, Ewan says, if you phone up Pip, the first thing you were asked by the robot is, if you speak English press, one, after that, it's all in foreign languages.
	Of course, it is.
	Of course it is.
	Oh, my God, man.
	And again, like, there are actual disabled people who actually need this, and this is running for everyone.
	Taffy says, self-employed man here, listening to the vampire budget breakdown while painting us a customer's kitchen.
	Annoyed is a very mild way to describe me right now.
	Yeah, I know.
	I've just been in a bad day, a bad mood all day, frankly.
	Just grim mood.
	Hector says, Carl Bose Gazman are alive with their families in hospital.
	It's just been reported.
	This is the thing.
	It's all over the place.
	I don't know why I'm getting so many reports.
	That's why I was just like, you know.
	Omar says, I wonder how quickly selective pressures will turn every Gazman racist.
	Nobody wants to die.
	And if racial profiling keeps you alive, no amount of woke scolding will turn off the colour vision.
	Yeah, it's a really great question, isn't it?
	Really great question.
	Warlord Wu Too Tai says, My mother-in-law has a gun variety Dacia on most motability because her knee doesn't function.
	Right.
	That's fine.
	You know, if that was like, look, we're going to spend like $2 billion a year or something to make sure that old ladies who can't walk, or can't walk properly, have like a very small normal car, I would be like, okay, well, it's not that big a deal.
	Dases aren't exactly luxury, are they?
	Exactly.
	They're not luxury cars.
	Can't exactly get on my high horse about it when you've got Ahmed the prick with his 20 grand fucking private license plate swanning around in his suit with his bloody brand new BMW.
	And the point is, if we cut down on all that crap and all the immigration benefits, we could afford to be significantly more generous to the actually disabled whilst at the same time saving hundreds of billions.
	Yeah.
	Easily.
	Literally that simple.
	Roman Observer says, Carl, you still complain about the Italian drivers?
	Well, I mean, they are still really bad, but at least they pay for their own cars.
	You know, like, Jesus Christ, man.
	I am just honestly so angry.
	I know that, like, it might not seem it, but I'm just genuinely furious about everything in the way that this country is governed.
	It's like antithetical to an actual just way, isn't it?
	It's like everything that is moral, let's invert it.
	Profound injustices over and over and over.
	And we are just treated like slaves.
	You don't have a right not to have the government steal everything you've got and give it to some foreigner.
	Honestly, I'm so angry.
	I can see why a quarter of a million people a year are just like, I'm out of here.
	Why would I stay here?
	Well, I mean, actually, there is a reason as to why you should work as opposed to just make up a disability and go on it.
	It's because this shit cannot last.
	It's mathematically impossible for this shit to go on much longer.
	And so where are you going to be in a few years' time?
	Are you going to be the person with a CV or the person without a CV when this country is bankrupt?
	I assume the answer is I'll be the person on the barricades.
	Oh, that means the insurrection begins.
	I'll be leading the sort of Kaczynski-esque anti-technology cult living in the woods, I imagine, behind the battalion as we sort this all out.
	I mean, if you're not furious about this, this whole thing is just, you know, you're not paying attention.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, tempting as it is, I don't think my conscience would let me scam the system.
	Well, that's the thing.
	A lot of people just don't care, though.
	The illegal truth says there are £70,000 electric cars still on there, even though the luxury brands have been taken off.
	Of course, there are.
	There are any vehicles where Burkers in the cars universe?
	Good question.
	Without motability, the electric vehicle quotas would never be hit.
	This is one of the biggest reasons why the gov is so happy to hand out loads of pip and DLA because if they don't, the illusion that people actually want electric vehicles fails is there's no real market for them.
	I think there is a real market for the electric vehicles.
	They do have some advantages.
	Oh, they're really good.
	I like them.
	Yeah, but it's not nearly what the government wants in order to save the planet.
	Can I just go back to Fuzzy Toaster's comments?
	As tempting as it is, I don't think my conscience would let me scam the system.
	If you think what a disability originally was, I mean, even the way that the word is put together in the first place, it was something that limited you.
	Yeah.
	Well, in modern Labour's Britain, having a conscience is the only genuine disability.
	Because it stops you from earning free money.
	I mean, it is just such an awful system.
	Yeah.
	It's genuinely.
	I'm trying not to fed post.
	I really am.
	The depreciation on luxury cars is higher.
	Depreci on cars is higher on luxury cars than on basic cards.
	So by giving up luxury cars for motability, it means the government is losing a fortune on the resale value after the three-year contract as well.
	That's a great point.
	It's ridiculous that they then say you need a new one after three years because in reality, who's doing that in the actual true private sector?
	Who actually has a job and works is getting a new car every three years.
	Hardly anyone.
	It's unbelievable.
	I think that at some point, in 50 years' time, after the collapse has come, the base revolution has happened, we clear out everything, however that has to be done.
	People are not going to believe what we are saying, right?
	They're not going to believe that this was the case.
	If you tried telling people about some of the stuff that went on in Wemer Germany, they just simply don't believe you.
	It'll be like that in 50 years' time.
	People talk about this, or they'll just be like, no.
	Historians will be like, well, I mean, we don't have the data, but like, you know, that seems unlikely because of these reasons.
	Yeah, that seems mathematically impossible.
	You could run an economy like that for 30 years.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, exactly.
	They'll say stuff like that.
	It's like, you know, Xerxes didn't bring 2 million people.
	That's mathematically impossible.
	Okay, well, I wasn't there.
	Trust me, I was here.
	And Sneeder Chuck, I think the good point that we're going to end on is the new budget is so bad that Dan can't even afford a tie.
	Yeah, it's getting really bad in this country.
	Yeah, it couldn't be worse, frankly.
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