The Lotus Eaters #1361 dissects the chaotic 2026 Trump assassination attempt by Austin Tucker Martin—a 21-year-old North Carolina charity donor—shot dead by Secret Service after a "laughably inept" standoff while Trump was in DC, mirroring Thomas Crookes’ 2024 plot. It ties Peter Mandelson’s "Prince of Darkness" scandals (£400k donor gifts, Hinduja passport, 2010 EU bailout leaks to Epstein) to elite networks and Keir Starmer’s controversial 2024 ambassador appointment. Farage’s ethno-political contradictions—Chagossian support vs. London residency rules—and the Green Party’s Hannah Spencer (£1.2m property portfolio, Urdu ads) expose British politics’ fractured demographics and hypocrisy, questioning whether mass appeal or ideological clarity prevails amid conspiracy theories and occult speculations. [Automatically generated summary]
Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1361.
I'm joined by Josh and Nate.
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It is the 24th of February, year of our Lord 2026, and we are going to be discussing yet another assassination attempt on Trump.
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Well, let's talk about Trump then.
Okay.
So, you might be excused for not actually hearing about this latest assassination attempt because it didn't get nearly as much attention as I expected.
Exactly.
It's all new to me.
And so I wanted to draw attention to this because this one, I think, actually is one of the more interesting ones in terms of motivations and the background of the guy.
And we'll be talking about that because lots of people have been talking about it.
Lots of people have been getting it wrong, at least from the evidence I've been able to see.
Obviously, there's nothing conclusive yet because investigations aren't over.
However, I think people were jumping the gun and assuming things about the person that are not necessarily true.
Given president, I don't necessarily blame people.
Well, honestly, I don't even know the basics, but I mean, to be fair, once you've had a bullet through the head, any other assassination attempt is going to look a bit lame.
That's true.
He's going to have to lose a hand or something for it to make the moves next time.
I think he would look quite cool with an eye patch, perhaps.
Yeah.
Very scary.
A bit piratey, perhaps.
Difficult to imagine how he could still be president after.
Or a senator with an eye patch.
That's true.
Yeah, Dan Crenshaw.
What did he actually?
How did he lose it?
Don't know.
Looks cool though I think he's Isn't he ex-military Or something I think so Yeah, he is.
And we always assumed he was quite based because he looked like he looked like a pirate and therefore he should be based.
He looked like a Bond villain more than anything else.
And then he started speaking and you kind of lost all respect for him quite quickly.
Was he one of those rhinos?
Yes.
But to summarise the actual assassination attempts, obviously there was the one in Butler, Pennsylvania, which at the time I covered, which was July 2024.
And that was perpetrated by Thomas Crookes, who was shot at the scene.
Interesting-looking fella.
Fascinating physiognomy.
That was the 18-year-old without any social media or online presence whatsoever, wasn't it?
Who defeated the BlackRock advert.
He did appear in an act BlackRock advertise.
Like the other one as well.
Yes, but he cleverly managed to defeat the Secret Service by using a roof with a 15-degree gradient and therefore eliminating their ability to respond to him.
Yes, it was a little bit absurd that he got to that point in the first place.
Massive failure of the security services.
And then there was this one.
This was the arrangement that he had.
And this was at Trump's International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
I believe that's in Florida.
This is with the older guy, isn't it?
It is indeed.
It's this fella.
It's also, you know. Ryan.
And he was also in a Black Rock video, wasn't he?
Yeah.
Bit odd.
BlackRock's media team really needs to re-evaluate who they are.
Now to pick him.
Or what's that saying actually about the people that appear in BlackRock advertising?
They're just self-selecting Trump assassins, apparently.
It's quite weird, really, isn't it?
Well, I suppose I'm on a list.
Bit of a coincidence that it happened twice.
A massive coincidence.
Maybe it's some sort of training camp exercise, and they just do the adverts as a cover.
Although they have like cameras and then a subliminal hypnosis machine outside.
Exactly.
So this guy was insane around Ukraine and was really big in supporting them.
Is that different to the entire mainstream media and most of the political class?
It's not.
Right.
Which is amusing, isn't it?
And there's also this one as well, which not many people heard about: that Iran was also planning to assassinate Trump at some point.
This was from November of 24, where they're talking about bringing charges against an Afghan national in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate him, which didn't get much attention, to be honest.
But was another one that I just thought I'd throw in there to mention.
But let's get on to the latest case, shall we?
Because that's why we're all here, isn't it?
And that was here at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
Here is an aerial view.
And as you can see, as many of you can probably read, it says here: suspect was found near the North Gate, which funny enough is here.
Yes.
So around Mar-a-Lago, because, of course, Trump is quite a desirable assassination target, which is probably not the nicest way of putting it.
But there is an outer cordon of local Palm Beach sheriffs.
So an outer ring, and then there's an inner one maintained by the Secret Service.
So to get into the residence, you've got to go through two cordons of law enforcement, effectively.
And all visitors are searched.
Cars and bags are swept by dogs and metal detectors.
So there's security, I think, is safe to say, is about as high as it can be for a private residence.
Must be really annoying to live in those houses right next to it.
Because, I mean, I know people who have been next to a big international conference thing and lived next door to it.
And they so much as open an upstairs window and they get a thumping on the door from the police saying, why is that window open?
So, I mean, they don't have to worry about burglaries, I suppose.
Well, because the safest neighborhood is going other than you know, stray bullets.
Yes.
But yes, about half one in the morning or 1:30 a.m., security services spotted a man carrying a shotgun and a fuel can.
And then he was asked to halt and to drop what he was carrying.
He dropped the fuel can and then raised the shotgun to a firing position, which, as you can imagine, when dealing with trained law enforcement, resulted in getting shot and killed.
He was shot by both a Secret Service agent and a sheriff's deputy.
So he managed to Sunday morning.
Why has this not been more mainstream news?
I don't know.
It's a bit weird, to be honest.
I suppose because I may as well mention it.
Trump wasn't even at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
And so it was someone just turning up while Trump was in DC, thinking he might just be there.
Which, you know, if I'm not an assassin, but if I were, I would at least check to see if the person I was trying to kill was in a highly secure place that I was trying to break into.
But that's just me.
What about you, chat?
Have you heard about this?
Because again, I'm like you, I'm really surprised that this didn't warrant a mention.
He didn't even truth social it, did he?
No, he's not really mentioned it much.
All right.
So it's the most hush-hush, understated assassination attempt I think I've ever heard of.
But that might be because of the motivations a little bit.
It could well be, actually.
Yes, we'll be getting on to that.
Don't worry.
So who was the person trying to shoot him?
It was this kid, basically.
He was from North Carolina.
His family had reported him missing in the early hours of Sunday morning.
He didn't have any criminal prior history.
By the way, his name is Austin Tucker Martin.
You said kid.
How old is he?
I think he was 21.
Exactly the same age as the first guy.
The first guy was 21.
Very young.
Be fair, throughout all of history, most assassins are quite young.
It just goes back to that argument of the people that want to kill him have only ever known him as a Trump as a divisive figure.
Because their lifespan doesn't allow them to know Trump as anything other than their sort of political boogeyman.
Well, here's the interesting thing.
So I think it was the Daily Mail spoke to his cousin, and his cousin was saying, Everyone in the family is a Trump supporter.
Like, we all get along, everything's fine.
So it's strange that he went out because he's also allegedly Christian as well, which seems to suggest that he's more likely to be a Trump voter than not, at the very least.
And if his family are, he's Christian.
People who know him said that he was a vocal Trump supporter only a year ago.
So what has changed recently to make someone who would have otherwise supported him, may well have voted for him, to go out and want to kill him?
And we'll be getting to that in just a second.
He doesn't look half Iranian to me.
No.
It doesn't look like he's got much in the way of T-levels either.
Probably not.
I think that might be a factor.
I don't think it's the main reason.
He's shooting Trump because he stole his testosterone.
But no, he also worked at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in North Carolina, and he reportedly donated a portion of his paycheck each month to charity.
There are conflicting reports around his online presence.
Some people claim he had no online presence, like this first guy, whereas others have claimed that he did have socials, but they were deleted when it emerged what actually happened.
And I can imagine that if it's a secret service thing, they're plugged into social media companies.
They're saying, take it down so we can have secrecy and privacy while we investigate the background of it.
Which is entirely possible.
It doesn't necessarily need to be anything conspiratorial.
However, it could also be that it could be another sort of normal explanation outside of the.
Who are these people with no profiles whatsoever?
Is that the kind of people who are prone to doing something that throws away their life easily might not have much of a stake in say, social media, because they're a bit of a loner, don't have much of a social life?
It's not necessarily a guarantee that people have social media.
I mean, I only have it because of my job.
Other than that, before I started Twitter's for people who don't have any actual friends, they still.
That's why it's so insufferable then, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean, what was the other one?
The Instagram, that's if you're good looking.
And then there's Facebook if you have actual friends or you're a boomer, and then Twitter's people who just like to argue, yeah Twitter's, just all of them are bad, arguing.
So when I actually went to look up his socials, I couldn't find anything on him, so it seems to be That they're definitely not there.
What the reason is it's still up in the air.
Maybe we'll find out.
Probably not, to be honest.
Also, he seems to be quite an artistic person.
The only thing people could find was he had a Facebook page where he drew golf courses.
I mean, it's not bad.
And he was apparently doing this even a few days up until that was a drawing, not a black and white photo.
Yeah, that right-hand side.
That's really quite good.
It's a shame, really.
He should have stuck to that.
Like, drawing golf courses, donating to charity, all of this is good stuff.
I mean, it's not.
He's going to throw his life away.
It's not master level, but it's certainly up to Austrian Peter standard.
Yeah, well, maybe he got refused from art school.
Maybe that was it.
Yes.
So people have been calling him a liberal and things like that.
And I think that that's jumping to conclusions.
The MAGA loyalists as well are trying to paint him as a fan of Thomas Massey, which is MAGA people having their own political agenda because Massey is critical of Trump and was pushing for the Epstein releases, which takes us on nicely to this.
So TMZ had an exclusive report, which, of course, you know, TMZ, take it with a massive block of salt.
But what they found was quite interesting, and it was...
Just a quick point on TMZ.
I might be remembering this wrong, but aren't they the ones that when Charlie Kirk got shot and was rushed to the hospital, you could watch their live reporting and then suddenly there was massive cheering in the background.
Exactly the one.
Yeah, and then it went through to the guy's mic and it was like, oh, we've just heard that Charlie Kirk has died in hospital.
I think that was TMZ.
It was TMZ.
Okay, scumbags.
No, of course they are.
And even when they're not reporting on politics, aren't they?
Just Hollywood bottom feeders going through celebrities' rubbish to get stories and things.
So yeah, no credit to them.
But this one report was quite interesting.
And I'm going to read some direct extracts from it.
So make up your own mind whether you believe them or not.
But I think it's quite compelling because they spoke to one of his co-workers and they say he was deeply disturbed by what he believed was a government cover-up and often talked about powerful people getting away with it in regards to the Epstein files.
That is.
That is objectively true.
Yes.
It's not even up for debate.
That is objectively true.
I mean, that's what my segment is about.
So yes, I agree.
We should have had him on.
Well, not now, obviously.
We wouldn't be saying much.
We don't have any necromancers on staff, so it's a bit difficult.
I've never liked the word necro-romancer because necro is the word for dead, isn't it?
And romancer is, you just don't even want to think about it.
Yes, that's a different kind of necro thing.
Different suffix.
Necro Manta.
Oh, I thought necromancer.
Okay, never mind.
Forget that.
It's not necro-romancer.
That's why it always seems so strange to me.
Okay.
Right.
Sorry.
Composing.
I don't know if that hard hitting you.
Kamikaze Motives Explained00:11:54
It does make sense, actually, now, yeah.
A good conversation.
At the same time, Austin was outspoken about his Christian faith and political views.
We're told he regularly expressed support for Trump, telling colleagues as recently as late last year, he believed Trump was a strong leader, which, to be fair, doesn't necessarily mean you have to support him.
I mean, you could argue that Kim Jong-un is a strong leader.
It doesn't mean you have to agree with him.
Yeah.
I mean, you can say Hitler was charismatic.
Doesn't mean you liked him.
So I don't know whether that's actually the most resounding evidence, but the fact that he was vocal in his support and he spoke to his co-workers about it, I can believe that.
I think that seems feasible.
And it carries on to say, people close to Martin describe him as well-meaning but increasingly frustrated, particularly about the economy.
We're told he often complained that young people need two jobs or roommates to afford moving out.
Our sources say he still lives with his parents.
I mean, he's right on that as well.
Did this guy have any bad takes on him?
Apparently not.
But this is the problem, isn't it?
When you create a society which is basically built to subsidise the elderly at the expense of the young.
What do you think that's going to happen to them?
they're going to radicalise themselves, aren't they?
Well, yeah, this is one...
I'm not saying it's just or anything like that, but the anger has to be directed somewhere.
Well, yeah.
People are going to get angry.
That's a foregone conclusion.
Throughout all of human history, people have understood that a sort of misanthropic, disenfranchised young population, particularly young men, is not a good thing.
The Vikings would send them off to raid and then come back with their wealth so they're established.
They don't have to upset the social order as much.
Many such examples.
And at the minute, we are sort of creating the perfect conditions to maximise male discontentment with the world.
Well, we're taking the group that is historically the most action-prone, which is young men, and making sure they have absolutely nothing to lose.
And no stake in society whatsoever.
Yes.
Smart, real smart.
And then wondering why things are getting all a tad explosive.
And then on top of that as well, you've got all of the stuff around politics in America where everyone's acting like the sky's falling.
When actually the difference between Republicans and Democrats is not nearly as large as it possibly could be.
And a lot of the anger and frustration with one another is basically tantamount to supporting a football team.
It's my side against yours.
When, if I'm being honest, Trump could be a lot more right-wing.
Trump could be less like what came before.
And I think he had a mandate to be given his election results.
And it's what people wanted.
And there are lots of people that are disappointed with him.
And I think that that ties in quite nicely with it, that he's someone who's frustrated and disappointed with Trump potentially.
That's my understanding of what this is if this information is to be true.
The Epstein farmers have basically been the sort of canary in the coal mine.
People have been like, so why aren't you releasing them?
Why did it take so long?
I'm definitely going to do it.
Definitely going to do it.
Oh, no, it was a hoax.
Oh, it's all fake.
It was this.
Oh, it was like, are you still talking about that weirdo?
It's like, come on, man.
Like, you know, that's real bad.
I don't understand how Trump is playing it so badly.
I think the only explanation I can think of that explains all of the behaviour clearly is that there was an intelligence connection there, perhaps to a foreign country.
And part of the agreement is you don't expose our assets and we share some of our intelligence with you.
I wonder what country that might have been.
Oh, no, no.
I've watched the BBC, so I can answer your question.
It's Russia.
It's the Russians.
Oh, yes.
Inexplicably, they're covering up for the Russians.
It's definitely the Russians doing it.
It's the Russians, yes.
But yeah, I think that people looking at that must think, well, obviously there's some sort of cover-up going on.
And it could be a cover-up in that all the elites are implicated.
It could be a cover-up in that the intelligence agencies had their fingers in lots of pies and they don't want to upset it and therefore they want to keep it hush-hush.
There are lots of potential ways.
None of them are excusable, by the way.
I think that all of this should be transparent.
I don't think there's really much of a good reason to keep crimes away from the public eye.
I think people need to see these things.
And if you're meant to resolve the problem, you need to expose it to the general population at the very least.
And so it is sort of like you're trying to engineer discontent by doing this.
And that's what the best explanation we have so far as to why he carried out a laughably inept assassination attempt is because he was annoyed that the Epstein files were redacted.
I guess so.
We still need some more information.
It only happened on Sunday.
But that is the only thing I've really seen to suggest a motive so far.
It doesn't mean it was his motive.
We'll still have to find out.
But this is the closest we've got so far.
Because other than that, he seems like your standard Christian Republican 21-year-old.
Just imagine the extraordinary list of hugely improbable events that had to happen in order for your one spark of sentience in this universe to come about.
And you piss it away on a haphazard assassination attempt when he wasn't even there because you were annoyed at his stance on the Epstein files, which he had actually released.
I mean.
In part.
He's got further to go.
But I agree with your point.
People shouldn't view their own life as so cheap.
Don't throw it away for politics.
it's not worth it but um the final thing i wanted to mention was that i mean if i was gonna throw my life away i'd at least want to take out i don't know a battleship or something Are you going to be a Japanese kamikaze pilot?
I mean, no, but...
How would you do it, then?
I don't know.
just saying i don't want to set because you You want to go out in a blaze of glory.
You often have those questions, don't you?
a billion but and i'm just trying to set dan's price i'm just trying to set I'm just trying to set my price here.
It can't be less than a battleship, can it?
Okay, so you're saying you've got the barrier of criteria.
I'm not saying we're going to do it.
I'm just not this.
It sounds like you are.
A well-thought duel, perhaps?
I don't know.
Yeah, Jules got class.
So the final thing I wanted to mention was that he also tried starting a union at work to push for higher wages, but no one signed on.
And then, yeah, maybe that was the thing that he felt like he had no future.
I've seen a few people speculate maybe because it was so bad that it was a, I can't say it because of YouTube, a life-ending attempt via police.
By cop, as people call it.
YouTube will flag it because it has the policy of children.
For some reason, you can't say the S-word, the life-ending S-word.
Oh, right, yeah, yeah.
I hate it.
Self-deleting.
Yes.
So there are lots of possible explanations.
I think the Epstein frustration one is the most credible, particularly because if we actually look at the message he sent to a co-worker, here's the screenshot.
I don't know if you've read up on the Epstein files, but evil is real and unmistakable.
The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have, tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it, raise awareness.
I also like that the person replied just, hey, where are you?
The following day.
And he could have started a podcast or something.
I know.
And this was also a week before the actual assassination attempt as well.
Right.
So, I don't know.
If this was what was on his mind, I think it's pretty fair to say that this was probably the reason he did it.
But yes, that is the summary of it.
Yes, another young man threw away his life for no reason.
Trump wasn't even in Mar-a-Lago to begin with.
He was in DC, and so he got shot for nothing.
But there's a summary of what we know so far.
I mean, imagine being the kamikaze pilot who just bows into the sea because the ship's still at port and hasn't set out yet.
I mean, you'd feel like a right twat, wouldn't you?
Yeah, kamikaze pilot that has to get picked up.
Yeah.
Doesn't even die.
I'm pretty sure that was a curb your enthusiasm plot line is that he comes across someone who claims their dad was a kamikaze pilot that survived.
And he's like, oh, he skimmed the edge of the ship.
It's like, was he really a kamikaze?
Yeah, it doesn't really work.
You're going to do your comedy common things.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about those for some reason.
Luke says, the news talked about he wasn't happy with the Epstein files not being released properly and no one has been arrested.
That is true.
Luke, again, my tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.
This is a great excuse now for Trump to start going after Democrats who were buddies with Epstein and used as an excuse to tone down the rhetoric.
I could be horribly wrong.
I would like to see people arrested, even if it's just the Democrats.
At least that's half of them.
Half is better than none.
I would take 100%, though.
Sigil Stone says, are we taking bets on him having an SSRI prescription?
I'm placing 10 on yes.
Well, I mean, they're so bad for you, aren't they?
I mean, one of the reasons I didn't go into clinical psychology is just the medical-industrial complex of it: you have a problem with your life, your life is terrible.
Here are some drugs that make you feel better.
Well, how is that any different?
Drug dealer.
I mean, they are basically drug dealers these days.
Yeah, which also seems to be going against the sort of philosophy of psychology to a degree.
Well, it's treating the symptoms and not the cause a lot of the time, isn't it?
That's Random Name says, I personally prefer the term.
I don't know why there's a six in there, but I didn't understand that one.
Oh, I think I see what you're trying to do there.
It's a six, but it's meant to be a G if you turn it around, and then it's a rude word.
Ah.
Sigil Stone.
Word for black.
I've seen nothing from Trump about the Mexico situation.
Has he made it statement, or is he continuing to be devastatingly weak on domestic security?
I've got it.
Yes, the word for.
Yep, I've got it now.
Yeah, I haven't really followed the Mexico thing that closely.
I saw that someone was covering it yesterday on the podcast, but I still haven't watched it yet, so I need to catch up on that.
But I'm pretty sure it'd be an easy win for Trump, right?
You want to get rid of Mexicans, and the Mexicans are doing bad things, and you just need to say, look at what the Mexicans are doing.
Do you want them next to you?
And you say no, and then he gets rid of them.
It's that easy.
Luke says, if the Democrats truly want to help the economy, stop getting in the way of ICE and let them deport all the slaves.
Sorry, I mean illegals.
Yes, they are basically treated like paid slaves, aren't they?
Lord Mandelson's Fall00:15:36
Right, let's talk about the Lord Mandelson of Foy, who yet again has come crashing down.
The Dark Lord or the Dark Princess.
It's fortunate for Foy, a place which I think he has no connection to.
Getting dragged down by his bad reputation there.
Yes.
Is Foy a nice place?
I don't know it.
I don't know it either.
It's a good name, it's a good title for him, though.
It's a bit like FaZe.
There's something otherworldly about it.
Something bottom of the garden in the world.
Kind of thing.
But no, so Lord Mandelson, I won't recap the man's whole life at this point, but I did actually over the weekend do an interview with Jay Burden.
Good channel.
He does some great interviews.
You can tell because he's had me on.
But he doesn't get the views he's deserved.
So if you want a deep dive into the whole Mandelson thing, you know, there is that there and check out Jay while you're there as well.
But no, it's this.
Lord Mandelson, oh, well, this morning this headline read, arrested for suspicion and misconduct.
They've updated it now to bailed on release.
So there we go, we can just watch a few seconds of, so we don't need the sound.
Mandelson turning up at his central London gated community house.
Do you have any idea how expensive a gated community in London is?
Incredibly.
Indeed.
He has multiple houses.
He does.
He lives in Wilkshire as well, doesn't he?
I mean, can't expect the poor boy to, you know, manage one house when he is the Lord Foy, of course.
But yeah, so he has been finally arrested after, I mean, Andrew got arrested first.
I always find that surprising, to be honest.
Yes.
Here's a very clear instance of treason.
Actual treason.
Indeed.
I think it's very interesting that literally the king's brother was a safer target to go after first.
I think that's very required.
I think that's a clear politician.
As to the true structures of power.
Indeed.
It's not the 12th century anymore.
I thought that same thing that Andrew was a safe fool guy.
And so, you know, they tested the waters with him.
Maybe, you know.
Yes.
You give Mandelson a little slap on the wrist and he'll be back to his usual antics again in a year or two.
Yeah, I mean, well, and the king clearly hasn't got his brothers back.
If anything, every public statement he's given has been like, well, if you want to go after him, you know, I'm certainly not going to stand in your way kind of thing.
Well, I think the monarchy has its own challenges in this day and age, doesn't it?
And I don't think it needs covering for Andrew's sordid affairs to add to its list of reasons people are opposed to.
Makes me wonder if Andrew was a bit of a bully towards his big brother when they were little.
I don't know.
But yeah, clearly he was a safe target.
But no, Mandelson has now been taken away.
We don't know yet whether he's been charged or warned or arraigned or whatever it is that has happened to him.
But the big wheel of state is finally grinding on him after doing everything in its power, including appointing him to one of the most senior roles in government, is finally going to have to grapple with some of this.
I thought I might give you a little bit of background on Mandelson, because I remember Mandelson, because I've been a political nerd for a very long time.
I remember when he looked like this with a kind of slug effect mustache thing that he had going on.
This is a documentary that was made about it.
I actually started searching for a different documentary because the reason I pointed out that very expensive house in that very expensive gated community is there was another documentary made a bit before this one.
I think it was channel 4.
And I remember so clearly one scene, but I couldn't find it.
Him with his mustache and his little grey suit, sort of brownish grey suit.
And he was in his flat and he was complaining about the damp coming up the walls and the living conditions that he had and how poor he was and about what a social justice warrior he was and about how he was going to change things.
And then after just a few years in government, he's buying a multi-million pound house that overlooks Hyde Park.
And it's like fascinating.
And bear in mind, I mean, in the early days of New Labour, I mean, this didn't exist.
I mean, Sargon only started in 2013.
So the media mentioned it and then was just like, he's bought a house.
Anyway, on to the next thing.
It's like, well, wait a minute.
How did he go from there to there?
There's also the funny thing of he seemed to have these massive delusions of grandeur in the...
I saw a documentary of a behind-the-scenes thing where they were filming New Labour at government, and he was sat at a desk and he'd eaten a yogurt.
And then when he'd finished, he just held it up without saying anything.
And one of his aides came and collected it from him.
I mean, to be fair, and I will come into this.
He didn't have really delusions of grandeur.
He had actual grandeur.
That's true.
I mean, he was elevated to that point.
Yes.
I'll bring you back to this.
But no, let's just play a little bit of Mandelson in the early days.
And this documentary is basically covering his rise to power and how he got into the Labour Party and the kind of functions that he produced for them.
And I'm just going to pay you a small extra that kind of explains why he became a pivotal force in Blairism.
It's the modern techniques, the effective techniques that we've reintroduced to the Labour Party, and which are what my job is all about.
Labour's journey away from the left was to be forcibly impressed on journalists.
If you went along with what Peter wants, and in the 80s it was primarily the way the party was changing and he used the newspapers as a vehicle to change the party, then you were part of the favoured group.
If he gave someone a briefing and they wrote exactly as he briefed without deviation or contradiction, for the next few days, other editors of other papers would get a call from Peter saying, could I draw your attention to the very, very accurate and very insightful report by Seven Such a Paper.
So this person would have his reputation sort of lauded throughout Fleet Street for doing as he was told.
If you didn't go along with it, then you would literally be sent to Siberia in terms of getting information.
Peter was watching this broadcast.
As it was going on, he picked up the phone and rang this guy's editor.
And so as soon as he came off...
Peter Allen, ITN, Woolworth Road.
Contacted headquarters to see how he'd done.
He had relayed back to him the fact that there had been a complaint about what he said.
No, it was too late to do anything about it because it was a live report.
But he said that from there on, he was always wary.
He always knew he had to be careful because Mandelson might be listening and Mandelson might tell his bosses.
Now, there were occasions during the campaign when I felt I had to make an informal representation to the broadcasters about the treatment of the Labour Party and the treatment of our campaign, in particular news bulletins.
So you can see he's a bit of a master of the dark arts.
Journalism.
Journalism.
No, but he knew how to sort of worm his way into these things to twist the influence.
So, very much a...
I mean, you can see his name, the Prince of Darkness, because he used...
He also liked that nickname as well.
He reportedly said that he quite liked, I think, what was it?
Someone said there was something of the night about him.
And he said he quite liked that people were saying that about him.
Yes.
Which, you know, given his proclivities, makes one wonder.
Well, that's why a lot of people, he didn't like the other version, which was the Princess of Darkness, given the proclivities.
But you can kind of see this is the point where politics twists from being, you know, stand up, give your speeches, do your thing, resign if you get it wrong, to everything as a sort of dark spell about it.
Everything is curated and controlled.
Yes, manage.
Manage the narrative, not the reality.
Well, he's the main man behind Spin, isn't he?
He's the guy.
Yeah, very much so.
And that's why he was the real Blair Holy Trinity was Blair himself, Alistair Campbell, and then this guy.
The three of them were the drivers.
I mean, they were Blairism.
They're the ones who drove it all.
In fact, I'll play just one more little bit from this.
Let me see, 48.10 I've got to get to.
I'll play just a little bit here because, again, it just shows why he was so useful to the regime.
He had the chance to show his mettle as a minister.
It was a very good choice, not only to put him in the cabinet, but also, given his very good links with British business and the trust they had in him, that he should go for that particular job.
He is an entrepreneur.
So there you go.
What made him valuable were his links to the system.
The fact that he was trusted by the system, and this is why they liked him.
Makes one wonder about the implications of his involvement with Epstein, doesn't it?
That they're like, we've seen who you're connected to, and we like the cut of your jib.
We want you to be a government minister.
Well, yeah, because he knew how to speak to people and twist things and get people lined up in the background.
And presumably he had some sort of compromat on him that meant that he could be controlled himself, potentially.
Well, very possibly.
It's possible.
Yes, I mean, there is a certain pattern here.
I mean, I'll go through a CV, if you like, talk about who this chap is.
So 1985, he gets to be the Labour Party Communications Director, and that's some of where we saw him just now.
And he kind of architects the media strategy that goes along with it before even Campbell came on board.
So he's been around since the Neil Koenig days, not just the Blairite days.
He was already there.
1992, he becomes the MP for Hartleypool.
And never again would he hold such a lowly title.
1997, when Tony Blair won the election, he became president of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.
So he certainly wasn't going to take on just one department.
No, he had to, they had to smash two things together to make it worthy of him.
Now, how did that go?
Well, he resigned the same year.
Within the year, he had resigned.
And the reason was, is because he had taken lots of money from a rich man, explanation for which has never been offered.
He probably forgot as well.
Well, funnily enough, he did.
Did he?
Because that's his most recent one as well.
I don't know what that's for.
He took a large amount of money and he bought his first of his many houses.
Wasn't it nearly 400,000 in 1997, 98 money?
Yes.
So a small amount of money to buy a house.
And if you price that in houses, that's easily one and a half now.
Yeah, easily, yeah.
Yeah.
Especially in London.
In fact, in London, it would probably be more.
It'd probably be a couple of million by now.
You say that, but London house prices are actually going down at the minute.
Oh, actually, yeah, at the moment they are, yes.
Yes, because it's a hellish.
Everyone's moving out, yeah.
Yes.
Which is a shame, isn't it?
The third world.
Well, quite.
Well, London is the third world now.
Yes.
But anyway, so no, he took lots of money from a rich man for reasons that have never quite been explained and then forgot all about it and didn't tell anyone, including Tony Blair or the staff or.
Because if I borrowed £400,000, I tend to forget about that as well.
I mean, it'd be very convenient about it, wouldn't it?
I mean, every time you walk through your front door, that's hardly going to be a reminder that you've got something you're supposed to at least mention.
So anyway, so yeah, he managed to last a year before he had to resign in disgrace.
Or I think he resigned.
I can't remember if he was resigned or sacked.
He was so close, he probably resigned rather than actually being sacked.
Anyway, so but because he's still there weaving the dark arts as you do, you can't have a you don't want to have a force like that behind you.
That would be very unsettling, even if he's on your side.
You want him in front of you.
I wouldn't want Peter Mandelson behind me.
No, Rex.
Well, yes.
Quite so.
So anyway, a year later, he then comes back and he is now the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Which, I mean, you might not think much of it now, but at the time, that was a major, major job because there was a civil war going on.
The last civil war, not the next one, the last civil war, where people found themselves separated by irreconcilable ethnic considerations.
And they just found it was incompatible to live together.
And so it evolved into civil war.
Anyway, we've learnt all the lessons about that.
And again.
No, we would never make that mistake again.
Not in this country.
Not after that.
Ethno-religious conflict eradicates.
No sectarianism.
I mean, we went through basically a 30 or 40 year civil war, so we're hardly going to immediately repeat that mistake, are we?
So anyway, so he becomes Northern Ireland Secretary.
And how does that go?
Well, this time he makes it to two years.
Two years he makes it.
Doubled his time.
Yeah.
Office.
That's pretty good.
I mean, you learn by doing, don't you?
So clearly he was.
And this time he had to resign because a very rich man he had done a favour for.
He likes really rich men, doesn't he?
He does, doesn't he?
Yes.
He arranged a passport for someone called.
Would you like me to read it?
Yes, please.
Sir Richard Hinduja.
Sir Richard.
I mean, it is actually just S. Richard, isn't it?
Sir Richard Hinduja.
Hinduja.
So anyway, very rich man asked him to do something and he did it.
So yeah, anyway, he's gone.
A couple of years go by and he's still there weaving his dark arts and stuff.
I presume that in the early days people were thinking, well, he's into the dark arts.
If you work in the dark, you're going to get some stuff in return, right?
So a little bit of dirt on you in return makes some sense.
Yes, and I mean, and you know, no, I'm not going to say anything libelous, but you know, I would just mention this is the stuff that we know about.
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That's perfectly reasonable to say.
This is the stuff that came to light.
I'm sure there's probably more to it.
Yes.
And quite frankly, if you're let me see, if you're capable of forgetting a large house being bought for you in central London, it's very possible that the reason you're able to forget that is because actually there's quite a lot going on.
I'll leave it at that for now.
Anyway, so a few more years in the wilderness and then he comes back as European Commissioner.
Now, that at the time was an incredibly senior position because the EU ranked above Parliament and it was run by the Commission.
So to be an EU commissioner is, I mean, it's at least parallel with the prime minister.
It's like being in the Politburo in the Soviet Union.
Yes, quite right.
And he actually managed to not get sacked or resign in disgrace from that one before moving on to Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Again, they started smushing things together for him to make it up to a standard.
And then he became a life peer.
He was created the Baron of Foy.
How the people of Foy manage without a Baron for all that time, I don't know, but they got one.
And then anyway, and then not so long ago, in late December 2024, he then came back as a UK ambassador to the United States.
Now, the reason that is so interesting is because as a US ambassador, you are privy to basically the highest level of security clearance.
You know stuff that even cabinet ministers don't know.
I mean, again, you're on a par with the prime minister at this level because the US president can call you into a meeting and you need to know exactly what is going on on a military and intelligence level.
So it's an extremely senior position.
And again, once again, he got in trouble by being a bit too close to a rich man, as we know, to the point of.
So, I mean, we've got a pattern here, haven't we?
And the pattern is he keeps getting a bit too close to people who are a bit too wealthy and doing them favors.
And, you know, I'm sure you've seen this.
Well, I mean, we've covered it.
I mean, I'll just skim it over here.
Lots of stuff between Mandelson and Geoffrey Epstein when he was in, as I've established, he was in very senior roles.
Here we go.
This is probably the key one.
So this is 2010.
I mean, Europe is absolutely breaking apart at this point financially.
And an enormous bailout has been arranged.
500 billion.
I mean, this is, I mean, you shouldn't have to be a financial person to understand the advantage that knowing when a 500 billion or the fact that a 500 billion Euro bailout is going to land, what that can do for you if you're in the markets.
And yeah, I mean, he walked straight out of the cabinet meeting and immediately sent that.
Now, again, I'll just refer you to my earlier point.
You can see the reply here, are you at home?
I mean, Epstein understands in this instance that actually this is one of those conversations you have on the phone, you don't have by email.
So even Epstein was a bit, and Epstein is all over the place and incriminating himself all over the place on email.
But even Epstein realized, oh, bloody hell, Peter, you know, this is one that we do by telephone.
And again, it comes back to that point I make earlier.
This is the stuff that we know about.
And the real action happens by telephone.
And at least Epstein has the discipline to try and enforce a little bit of that.
So God knows what he did.
But I mean, this one email alone, that is treason.
That is a moment of crisis for the British government.
And he gave crucial information to an enemy of the state.
Yeah, because here you can see Epstein saying sources tell me and then that there's going to be a bailout and then Mandelson tells him it's to be announced tonight.
So he's giving him exactly the information you need to be able to act in the market to capitalize on that, which is by definition insider trading, right?
Yeah, I mean, there's lots of other stuff in here as well.
Presumably, this is Jamie Diamond, he's talking about, yeah, JP Morgan.
So, I mean, he's just leaking information to a hostile actor repeatedly.
To my mind, I know it's not the technical legal definition of treason, but I regard this as clearly...
Treason should cover this.
I think they abolished that as well.
They abolished the treason.
Well, a powerful figure in the Blair government, one of the first things I did was remove the death penalty from treason.
So treason is still on the book, but it's been narrowed and the death penalty has been taken away from it.
We don't know which of the powerful figures in the Blair government pushed for that, but it certainly worked out for one of them.
Coincidentally, isn't it?
and again you know just just just whole whole batches of this show us that picture again Please scroll up.
Yes, this is the one of... I'm not allowed to say who lots of people think that is.
I'll at least scroll up so that his pants aren't visible.
So there you go.
That's not too bad.
I mean, I've seen the unredacted version of her face, and I still didn't know who it was.
Oh, there's an unredacted version.
I think so, unless my memory is...
Yeah, there is.
You always wonder because AI can do wonders these days.
I'm pretty certain there is an unredacted one.
Okay, that is interesting.
But now, you mentioned earlier that he has delusions of grandeur.
Maybe aspirations is a better way of putting it.
No, no, I'm going to go with actual grandeur.
Shall I read for the audience his actual title?
Because he kept on accumulating these levels as he went.
He kept on levelling up.
And at his peak, and by the way, this is at a single point in time.
I'm not reading his list of titles over his entire career.
I'm picking one particular point in time.
And his title was the Right Honourable Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson of Foy in the County of Herefordshire, member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Council, Secretary of State for Business, Innovations and Skills, President of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Board of Trade, and Minister of Crown serving in Her Majesty's government without portfolio in the Cabinet Office.
Also, it's worth mentioning, Minister without Portfolio basically means that you're whatever you want.
Yeah, the person who the Prime Minister just says, you know, do your own thing.
You're just a net good for me.
Yeah.
Says a lot, doesn't it?
Yes, very much indeed.
And look, for me, this is not really a story about one man's arrest.
This is a story about this is how the British state actually works.
You know, this is the crucial thing.
You know, policy is routinely done by influence channels.
And it's done through influence channels by individuals who owe each other a series of favours and rely on each other's discretion and are able to position themselves in order to gain maximum leverage out of it.
That is how our state actually works.
He was appointed US ambassador despite all of this being known.
So the system clearly did not regard this as a showstopper in any way.
I think the scandal wasn't that he'd done these things.
The scandal was, to Keir Starmer at least, him getting found out.
Yes.
I think the reason that everyone's so critical of Starma for appointing him is that this information was publicly available.
Even the intelligence services were saying, are you sure about this to him?
And he said, yes.
Well, yes.
He's the guy.
I mean, that's quite revealing for Starma, isn't it?
It's like one terrible judgment or two.
What does Woodard Mandelson have on Starma?
But I'm not sure that it was just a terrible judgment.
What it was, it was a calculation.
And the calculation was: yes, he's exposed, but we don't know to the extent that everybody else in that system is also exposed.
He's more beneficial.
The exposure was judged worth the risk because of his network connections.
And that's my point.
This is how the state actually works.
That's why this is revealing.
It is, I mean, this is elite networks made real, shown to you.
It shows you how, you know, in crisis, it crystallizes around people and their network connections and their series of obligations to each other.
So, yeah, in Daly Real.
And I did promise I did have one extra link.
Have we got time?
Have I got two minutes or one more source?
Yeah, go on.
Because I wanted to try and make this as authoritarian as possible.
So I wanted to go to the highest standard of journalism that I know how to find.
Is it the Ministry of Truth?
No, it's BBC Pidgin.
Unfortunately, they haven't updated it yet.
Nobody has managed to.
Why is this happening?
Nobody has managed to dumb it down enough for BBC Pidgin.
But there was just a couple of extracts from the earlier part of his story of Andrew being arrested, which I would like to read to you.
That photo, by the way, is just unbelievable.
Yes.
Presumably, he thought he was hiding from the press somehow, forgetting that they have telescopic lenses and they can go through the front as well.
Police day search Royal Lodge has Dem released Andrew Mountbatten's Windsor under investigation.
Andrew turns 66 on Thursday.
Did they dem arrest him?
And then they got to the Magic Binks is on the back all of a sudden.
And then they got a lovely quote from the king.
Dig King, way dim bound, tell him no dear rest in advance.
Release statements say de law must take its course.
You turn into a Dalek for a second there.
Ye understanding nay say de Prince of Prince and Princess of Wales support remarks.
I like how it goes from somewhat standard English to complete nonsense.
And why do they leave in words like confidential, but they have to replace but have to replace the with the anyway?
I wanted to have the BBC Pidgin article on the Mandelson arrest, but this is as close as I could get.
So there you go.
Right.
Oh, good.
I've only got one chat.
Chavos Baron Mandelson of Goy.
I mean, that should have been good.
Here we go.
Oh, I love it.
Right.
We're going to.
Oh, cheers.
There we go.
Cool.
All right.
I just wanted to talk about politicians being massive hypocrites, to be honest.
So not just focus on Nigel Farage.
I know.
i know it's like state the obvious but you know we get so many black pills this is it's not even really a white pill because some of this stuff will really annoy you I can't mean really annoy you, but people who annoy you.
It's kind of like the barefaced lies and the barefaced hypocrisy.
Like, really?
Really?
You're doing that?
So I thought this was actually one of the funniest ones to pull up first.
So this wasn't even going to be on this when I was sort of constructing this as a segment, but lots of people.
Oh, is that a feature views, Chab?
He's a handsome fellow with a great new tie.
Anyway, so lots of people would have seen this restore Britain.
Sign up if you haven't already.
I have myself.
Post, which is a fantastic one.
won't play a lot of it but just a little bit if the government oh sorry music probably will be demonetized um But you can kind of just see the vibe here as they sort of draw out, they, you know, pull out, zoom out, zoom out.
Oh, it's a TV.
It's an old TV.
Oh, yeah.
And it's brilliant.
Basically, we could have just done that as a segment.
It's all Nigel Farage just flip-flopping like a fish out of water, right?
And then, you've got to love the Zoomer edit.
And then Nigel Frege posted this.
What?
Direct response?
No.
Consistency is key.
That's like a direct rebuttal to...
yeah but it's all about is there a battle of the zoomer edit Non-EU migration, if you have no control over EU migration.
We're saying, let's freeze immigration.
So no more immigration.
No more immigration until we sort out the mess of who's here.
Calais and these areas are acting as a funnel for large-scale...
So, I mean, I just thought this was funny because it's...
I just thought it was really, really funny just to point out straight away.
But we'll play a little bit actually of this because you can hear it, how just mental it is.
Live-streamed, covered properly by mainstream media.
Will you have the statutory powers that would be granted to you through a public inquiry?
No, I won't have the statutory powers, but I tell you what, I think this would garner such massive public support that anybody that was asked to appear that didn't appear would look terrible.
There's no point me holding an inquiry into this.
That's him saying, yeah, I'll do the rape gang.
Oh, grape gang inquiry.
Grape gangs.
Oh, no, I can't possibly do it.
So that's his sort of hypocrisy, contradictions.
I just thought that was a really good example straight away, just how mental this guy is.
That is a good analogy for him.
A turn-switch TV from the 1960s.
Yeah, yeah.
So there's that.
So there was this.
Nobody voted for the Boris Wave community note just doing absolute wonders there.
Five out of the eight current Reform MPs were Conservatives under the Boris Johnson government, and some voted for Johnson's immigration policies.
Yeah, well, their natural home is Reform UK then.
There are more former Conservatives in Parliament under Reform's banner now than actual Reform elected MPs, aren't there?
Chagossians and Island Contradictions00:05:22
As far as I'm aware, I'm probably going to continue as well.
Which one isn't?
I mean, Farage himself.
Well, he tried to get in the Tories, didn't he?
Yes, and he's only there because he couldn't get in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who's the other original intake Lowe's in there?
He's now gone, obviously.
Tice?
Well, James.
Tice always wanted to be a Tory, though.
He did.
But they wouldn't give him a seat.
There was that James guy who's an independent.
Oh, he's gone.
McMurdo, you mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's no longer a reform MP.
That's what I mean, Independent.
They chucked him out.
But he was there.
I don't think there is anyone now.
There was one other person.
Poaching?
No, Lee.
Lee was a Tory.
He was a Tory too.
And Labour as well.
We're trying to think of somebody who is a reform MP who hasn't been a Tory.
Oh, none.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah, no, literally none.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think there might be one.
I'm just going to look it up.
Oh, okay.
Well, anyway.
Well, it's steepest law at this point.
Yes, but you can just sort of see the sort of contradictions, the hypocrisies that are coming out here.
And these are quite, they're still pretty major.
Like the inquiry that Rupert Lowe held, that's major.
Yeah.
that's disgusting right and getting getting a already bankrupt Not only that, you've got all of the rhetoric.
I couldn't find it, but the rhetoric that he had surrounding Axel Rudikabarner.
Do you remember this?
Oh, I've got something.
I'm going to let you.
Frankly, it'll take everyone down.
Crickets, mate.
Nothing happens.
Also, I looked it up and there are no current reform MPs other than Nigel Farage and Tice wanted to be conservatives.
They wanted to be conservatives.
Who haven't been members of the Tories?
So they're blue in their blood, basically.
And then we started to get a stuff like this.
So he recently took a little trip to the Maldives.
Took a little trip to the Maldives to go and look at Chagos Islands.
Now, again, I didn't include the clips because we all know what he's been saying.
What was his commentary about being Welsh?
remember that yeah i i got i got no because i i hammered on the podcast for a couple of weeks We got to ask Farage to define an Englishman.
And what actually happened is a journalist asked him to define a Welshman because he was in Wales.
And his answer was somebody who's lived in Wales for five years.
And hasn't committed crime.
Yes.
So if a Welshman who has unbroken ancestry from Wales for thousands of years, but they commit a crime, then they...
If they committed a crime four years ago, they are less Welsh than somebody from Eritrea who's been there for six years.
Precisely.
Don't question the logic.
And more recently, Farage came out.
Anyone remember what he said about being English?
Just vibes.
Oh, yes.
Basically, it's what you feel like.
can be um what's the term transnational now or but isn't that exact and this comes back to why i originally pushed him to be asked this question It's his whole thing with trans women was you can't just be what you feel like.
Yes, but no, but you can.
If it's ethnicity.
So gender, no.
Ethnicity is a feeling.
Well, English isn't an ethnicity, according to him.
One would imagine, based on that.
However, it is when you're the Chagossians.
Oh, it is for them.
It is for them.
Ethnicity outside of the British Isles, just not within it.
An emotional moment for the Chagossians as they visit the graves of their forebears.
These people deserve a future.
What are presumably a homeland as well, Nige?
Presumably a homeland.
Is that why you're there, mate?
Is that why you're on Chagos?
I don't disagree.
But same energy here, Nige.
So the majority of the Chagossians don't actually live in Chagoss.
Nope.
They live in London, don't they?
They're all expelled.
They're all evicted, basically.
And a lot of them have been living in London for more than five years.
Yeah.
So surely they're English now.
They're not Chagossians.
No.
Also.
I don't know.
They might not feel like it.
They only came to the islands after.
They only came to the islands after we turned up and took them.
When we got there, they were uninhabited as far as I was aware.
I could be misremembering that, but yeah, if they have a right to the land having moved there after the British Empire took over, then how do we not have a right having been here for thousands of years?
Yeah, exactly.
You can start to see the sort of layers of hypocrisy.
This is, I mean, again, this is not like this no-brainer with all politicians, basically.
They all spew absolute nonsense and they can't have a consistent logic because they're all trying to please different factions in different client classes.
That's why all of their logic is just so inconsistent from policy to policy.
Well, the problem with anything that seeks mass appeal is that, I mean, you'll know this doing film reviews, that anything that seeks mass appeal has no substance because if you stand for something, if you're representing something, then that can put people off.
Therefore, it doesn't have mass appeal, which is why things that are popular are usually pretty bad.
Politicians As Scumbags00:11:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah, to a degree.
To hit a four-quadrant movie that is actually pretty decent is actually quite difficult to do.
It's very rare, isn't it?
Yeah.
Super Mario Brothers was a four-quadrant movie, they're just saying what is a four-quadrant?
Super Mario.
What?
What's what are these four quadrants?
Oh, like all four demographics.
They were four demographics.
Well, in movie terms, like old, young men, women.
Basically.
Effectively.
Okay.
Yeah.
So to hit that is actually quite difficult to do because to please squibbling, squabbling.
Anyway, point is: so, this is all Nigel Frye's massive rampant hypocrisy.
But this is every single politician, every single politician.
Would you like to see one of the most funny, also not examples of this?
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, let's go.
We're familiar with Hannah Spencer, aren't we?
From the Green Party.
Wasn't she the plumber who's running for.
Yeah, well, she's actually got a £1.2 million pound real estate portfolio.
Does she do her own plumbing on it?
No, she does pretend to be at work whilst in one of her own houses, though.
Really?
As in, she's pretending to be doing a job.
Yeah, but she's at her.
It's all a photo op.
She's at her house.
Interesting.
Yeah.
She's charging that.
That could be fraud.
Well, so it's important to know, actually, Green Party policy is to end private letting.
And she herself, presumably because she's based in Manchester, if she's got a property empire, 1.2 million, that's going to buy a lot.
Two or three houses, maybe.
Yeah.
At least.
Oh, it gets way worse.
It gets way worse.
I saved the most egregious and most comical one till last, to be honest.
Like, everyone knows Nigel is a moron and a massive hypocrite.
Everyone knows this.
Everyone knows he contradicts himself left, right, and center because he has no actual strength of conviction.
So, Nige, if you're watching this, mate, maybe grow some stones, grow a pair, and have like a dead set thing that you, you know, you agree on, right?
Rather than flip-flopping like a fish.
But this is very, very funny.
This is genuinely very funny, but also really awful.
So, Hannah Spencer, 34, has amassed a £1.2 million pound property empire and offers tips on how to rip off first-time homeowners, flipping properties, and also to intimidate buyers.
She didn't strike me as very intimidating, to be honest.
No, no, she lulls you into a false sense of security with a where she gets you and then she takes away your U-bends and then you can't go to the toilet.
It's not so much her, it's the small army of bearded, macheteed men behind her that she's intimidated.
Well, she was boasting on Mum's net.
Well, she uses mum's net.
Yeah, exactly.
She looks the sort, doesn't she?
Urging sellers to avoid first-time buyers because they are usually gifted money from a family member who makes sure they're getting a good deal.
Ah, so says the woman that bought her first house at 24 when her mum helped her buy it.
That's a little bit, innit?
I'm still renting, I'm 30 years old.
Little bit, innit?
Typical lefty.
Oh, this is quintessential champagne socialist.
So, Ms. Spencer, the Greens candidate for Manchester, has also criticized second homeowners for hoarding properties and accused struggling landlords of pulling a woe is me act.
But Ms. Spencer appears to be a second homeowner.
If it's 1.2 million in Manchester, she's almost certainly a third homeowner.
So maybe that's why she's picking on people who only own two.
Picking on the little guy there.
Yeah.
Two homes.
The second house she bought was worth $736,000.
Right, okay.
Which in Manchester, that would be a pretty house.
It'd be better than my house, that's for sure.
So she advises others on how to squeeze more cash out of people.
In one case, where her buyers knew that they were paying too much, she threatened them with selling to another buyer until they found the money.
Face of a scumbag.
I really hate this woman now.
She even refers to those who hike offers in increments as stingy and more likely to haggle.
Have you seen the political ad that she's just put out in Urdu?
Yes.
It's a I hate it, yes.
Misspelt February and the constituency she's running.
I'm surprised you didn't include it actually, because it is the most radicalizing thing you ever say.
It's just an advert.
I didn't know how I'd be able to work it into this.
It's just an advert entirely in Urdu, apart from, I think, a little bit when she speaks.
Yeah, it's mad.
And it's just like the Green Party, they are speed-running civil war.
They're just going to say, yeah, we're making this whole situation utterly intractable.
You know, it's not about losing an election anymore.
It's about losing your country.
Yep.
And they are just going straight for it.
Yeah, well, I don't know if Samson could pull that up in the background.
We could probably get that going on here as well.
I'll find it in the Urdu campaign video.
So in another extraordinary post, she admits discriminating against those who need to borrow more to meet her asking price.
This is a.
I mean, what are we doing here?
What are we doing, guys?
Isn't that Polanski's entire economic model is to borrow as much money as possible that he doesn't have?
Pretty much.
So by her standards, she's going to be like, no, we're not having you as prime minister.
You borrow money.
And then she goes, the banks are getting warrior by the day, she said.
Adding, she wouldn't accept an offer from anyone needing to borrow more unless I absolutely had to.
The Urdo thing is in studio one, Samson.
Brilliant.
So she endorses second homes as an investment, which is, again, as we've established here.
That's the only way you can grow money in this economy, really, other than maybe crypto and some tech stocks.
Yeah, you just got to attach yourself to the debasement of currency and just find something that runs a bit faster.
Yeah.
It's not like bloody working for it is going to work.
It's mad.
It's absolutely mad.
Can we, Samson, get that video up now?
Dude, please.
He's got it.
Yeah, but prepare to be radicalised, people.
Oh, not again.
This is a terrible idea.
So Keir Starmer with Modi to try and get the Pakistani vote.
They want to deport the people who live here for years.
And Joe Lobahar Pedawa unpar Zada tax lagana chati wa Islamophobia ko hawade hai.
Likini kor rasta bi ha hai.
Many of you are still wondering if we've been colonized.
for rent caps, for bills, and for clean guns.
Goten and Denton have made us all together, and we are all right here.
What a weird ad.
Wow.
I swear, weird-looking middle-class women are going to be the death of our entire civilization, pretty much.
I hate it.
Also, like, that was so obvious.
Like, we're going to pander to the Pakistanis as much as we possibly can.
We're going to release it in Urdu.
We're going to show Keir Starmer next to Modi, who obviously Pakistanis don't like because he's Indian.
And all of the things.
For some reason, Bannon was in there.
I don't know what he's got to do with Gorton and Denton.
Saying that anyone that votes.
The only argument I can make for her is that politics in this country is divided into two groups: those who have picked a side and those who are trying to split the difference.
And the Tories, Labour, Liberal Democrats, and Reform UK are all in the trying to split the difference.
There's only two parties that have picked a side.
One is Rupert Lowe, who has picked us, the natives, and Greens who have picked the Pakistanis.
So the least I can say for her, she's picked a side.
Yeah, it fits quite neatly.
Each party has its own sort of religious group or ethno-religious group.
Reform has the Sikhs.
The Conservatives have the Hindus, especially with Rishi Sunak.
Labour, perhaps, you know, is very favourable to Israel.
So maybe they've got a large Jewish vote, although there's not a very large population.
However, they're still battling for the Islamic vote with the Greens, which the Greens at the minute, I think, probably don't want to run the Jewish vote alongside the Muslim vote.
Well, that's what Labour have been trying to do.
Yeah, it probably won't work.
I don't know.
Maybe they'll storm the next election on the basis of that.
I don't know.
Mental.
So there was another thing here, which just talks about her work as a plumber.
Yeah.
So Ms. Spencer posts on Instagram about being at work, but the background shows one of her homes.
She even says she's heading home, but she was already at one of her homes.
In another post, she says she's looking for reformers, Matt Goodwin, posting with sight gear, complete with work gloves.
But she was at one of her houses.
Why would Matt Goodwin be in your house?
Outside of the constituency.
She doesn't want her.
She doesn't actually live in the constituency either.
Or one of her houses, yeah.
One of them, yeah.
Oh, okay.
I mean, this is mad.
Another one, she said, when you're a plumber and Zach P is making sure it's not your taxes going up, but her million pounds plus of assets would also be targeted.
I don't know how she can't understand.
What does she think is going to happen to little girls who look like her when she was 12 if her politics wins?
Well, probably stuff like this.
She later said in a video shot at her detached house that she would need to sell shots of her feet online to afford new tools.
So probably.
Dear Lord.
I mean, I don't know.
She's mad.
She's in Cuckoo Land, isn't she?
I mean, a Ginger Feet special in some way that you can charge for...
How does that work?
You're thinking about getting into the industry.
I don't know.
But you can actually make money doing that?
I hope not.
With only fans, I guess, is the implication.
Yeah, but you can have the proper naughty bits on new fans.
I would imagine it would be a way of getting the money without necessarily committing to the bit, so to speak.
Okay.
Okay.
So basically, in short, hopefully we can illustrate, which we all know anyway, but this is my sort of white pill, funny haha moment, is that politicians are scumbags.
They contradict themselves pretty much all the time.
They have no strength of conviction because they are trying to please constant, constantly different demographics, different client classes, which is why my, You know, Nate's new Britannia part, if I ruled the country, was one of my first decrees was to destroy all client classes.
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Because I hate you all and you're destroying my politics and my country.
And you shouldn't be here.
So basically, if you want to go to a party with conviction, that would be Restore Britain.
So go do it.
There you go.
Do you fancy any of those commenting common things?
Yeah, why not?
They're lowballing us, but fine.
It's fine.
Sigil Stone says, I think I like the Chagos people.
Their minister told Keir to get effed, and Trump can use Diego Garcia however he likes.
Yeah, my bit's not against the Chagos people.
Like, I actually do think, sure, like, crack on.
Like, I'm fine with them.
I mean, most of the island's not a military base anyway, so if they're on, like, the other side of the island, living in huts, who cares?
Yeah, I just don't like the contradiction.
Hang on a minute.
You might have missed one.
You might have missed one.
Well, well.
Yeah, I did, yeah.
Well, now that there's a base party in Britain, the country can have what it desperately needs, Dan Tubb MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Is that really what you want to be reading?
I don't actually want to be Chancellor.
I'd rather be Energy Secretary.
Okay, great.
Hey, good thought, sir.
Fantastic, we got that's a random name When we win, we need to institute a caste system and put people like actors and politicians at the very bottom.
That's very true.
I hadn't thought of a caste system.
Well, we almost had that fairly recently.
Hey?
You don't know that?
You don't remember this?
there was that judicial system that was going to bring in place and it was specifically...
Oh, yeah, natives at the bottom.
Yeah, there you go.
Now, jogging your memory.
But it was stopped at the last minute.
It was quite literally going to implement a caste system into law.
I mean, I'm all for, you know, established hierarchies, but I want them to be neutral.
Yeah.
I want them to be in favor of strength and competence.
I have seen a caste system thing.
It went around on Twitter for ages a while ago.
The one with the blue eyes and basically, based on the colour of your eyes, you've got to be like a general or philosopher or whatever.
So if you've got good blue eyes, someone with hazel eyes, I reject this notion.
No.
Sorry.
True-blooded Celtics.
At the bottom of the pile.
Somebody will know what your daddy is.
Chocolate eyes are rarer than yours.
I've got Eastern European ancient Viking in me.
I mean, I've got some Dane and Norwegian.
Well, yeah, Mono, yeah.
Eastern European, but never mind.
Don't hold it against me.
We get into video comments now.
Is that what we're doing?
Do we have any video comments, Mr. Sampson?
No.
All right, well, we do.
Look at it.
We'll do website comments then.
Okay, that'll be me.
Weald and Wake says, really strange how all these young guys who were real quiet and from conservative families suddenly get activated and do this.
I wonder if he was in a gifted children's program and drank the pink drink.
I knew stuff like this would come about in that people are speculating because of the similarities between all of the assassins, basically.
It is a bit weird, but then also, if I were to sort of design a demographic profile of someone who would conduct a political assassination, they all sort of meet it.
And so I'm not yet willing to accept the more conspiratorially minded explanations until confronted with more evidence of it.
I mean, let's put it the other way around, right?
I like evidence.
I like to know for certain.
Most of the time, I just say, well, we don't know.
There's some evidence suggesting multiple different things.
You know, we need more.
Okay, but let's turn it around the other way, right?
Let's say that AOC becomes the president and there were four assassination attempts on her.
And all four of them are former Lotus Eaters presenters.
Like, do you think the Secret Service will go, like, hang on a minute?
That's worth looking at.
But when it's Blackwat commercials, it's like, yeah, whatever.
Yeah, but do you really think that a BlackRock ad, they're going to be like, so you're really good in the ad.
Have you tried becoming an assassin?
Yeah, but like I said, just run it the other way around.
I think questions would be asked.
I mean, there are certainly questions, but I just don't know definitively, right?
I've got a very high threshold to believe something to be true.
Michael says...
I'd ask questions.
I'm on your side, Dan.
There's no size.
Dan's highest level of baseness revealed as he points out that his assassin looked low-tye.
you want you want height mind you i did a brokonomics on assassins a while back and and they're all skinny little spiteful mutants I mean, going back like hundreds of years.
In fact, probably the ones that went after Thomas Beckett are probably the last low-T assassins that I could think of.
The Knights.
I think to be an assassin, it's sort of low-T anyway, isn't it?
Yes.
You want to be a warrior.
Yeah.
I mean, we've got to remember where the word comes from.
Isn't it like Hashashin, which is from Syria?
Yes.
All very feminine.
You want to march towards the enemy and say, defend yourself, sir.
If you don't duel them in fair combat, you're not a man.
Pistols at dawn.
Cumbrian Kulak says, Trump has been compromised for a long time.
His very powerful and wealthy donors, same ethno-religious group as Epstein, are wanting to maintain their control over their puppet.
I can't read that.
Bring on Thomas Massey, who's better than JD Vance.
Charlie Kirk was Gollum who became a liability?
Blyme.
You're making me read a lot of things here.
Very legit questions about the shooting.
I don't know about that.
You walked right into that.
I mean, we need to see more evidence.
That's a random name says, I learnt of the assassination attempt from Twitter.
I was hoping you guys would cover it since nobody else seems to.
Yeah.
It's lucky that you're in today because I wouldn't have covered it because I didn't know the gun exists.
It's all new to me.
I found out about it on Twitter as well, to be honest.
Well done, Elon.
You must fish deeper than the rest of us.
Yeah, well, I'm a deep sea trawler.
I'm a Chinese industrial fishing fleet.
And also part Cornish, so thus.
Only 3%, though, for some reason.
Even though my main group is Devon, which is right next to it.
Yes.
I didn't cross the River Tamar, apparently.
Richard says, it sounds like this kid was just a moron who got brainwashed by people like Dave Smith and Candice Owens, who keep claiming that Trump is definitely an Epstein collaborator and is covering it all up because he's definitely guilty.
Yeah, it doesn't have to mean that Trump's in with Epstein.
It could just mean that he's doing it for the intelligence agencies, as we touched on.
There are lots of other reasons he could be dragging his feet other than that, although it's still possible, right?
We don't know.
I mean, that's a fair point about Candice.
I mean, I only ever see clips of hers, and I used to quite like it, but she has got a little bit, isn't she?
One of my favourite things to point out is that in the United States, black people are diagnosed with schizophrenia at 2.5 times the rate of white people.
And I think that there's a good case study in her, like she's saying, like, Charlie Kirk.
Was it, sorry?
Same here.
It is.
It's the same across the entire world, yeah.
But she's talking about, like, Charlie Kirk came and visited me in his dreams.
He's an astral projector, and lights would flicker when he's.
She actually said this stuff.
Yeah.
Time traveler, time-travelling alien.
I heard that, but I just assumed it must have been a malicious quote out of context.
No, no, she's properly saying that, right?
Yeah.
It's weird.
I don't really understand how you can say that publicly, and people are like, Yeah, that's who I want to financially support.
Although she doesn't need it, she's married to a billionaire, isn't she?
I wonder what he's thinking now.
He should have listened.
That's all I'm saying.
All you want to be?
Yeah, I'm done.
We want to be Jimbo G says, Mandelson probably knows way too much, truly face punishment.
I would imagine he would have had lots of assurances.
There's a reason they kept welcoming back into the fray for three decades.
It's probably way worse than anyone thinks.
Yes, well, like I said, there aren't that many people who can do the dark arts, and that's kind of why.
What's his name?
The guy that was running Starmer's government.
Sweeney.
Sweeney meaning that's the one.
Yes.
Yes, Morgan McSweeney.
The dark arts of necro-romancy.
Yes, exactly.
Well, it's important to get this stuff right because if you don't have somebody who knows how to do it, they're going to draw the pentagram wrong.
They're going to put the candles in the wrong place.
And then that poor kid is going to be let out of the basement for nothing.
They're going to summon the wrong demon.
Yeah.
George Hab.
I can't shake the feeling that Andrew and Mandelson are four guys while most of the big fish will remain untouched.
Has anyone from the US been prosecuted yet?
Yeah, what's going on with the US?
Because we had like we had like we had like two guys mentioned and both of them have been arrested.
And in the US, they got people literally talking about child sacrifice and prostitution.
Jerky and food.
Yeah.
And their response is like, oh, well, I wonder what's unique about the US's geopolitical context.
And Bondi was asked.
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Yes.
And she was like, oh, but it would dismantle everything and just move on or something like that.
Oh, no, I was thinking of the bit where she was asked about this.
Yeah, don't you think maybe it's a little bit of a problem that the world is run by an international ethnic network of child sacrificing Satanists?
And she was like, yeah, but the DAO is over 5,000.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing when that happened.
Yes.
That woman.
Mandel.
What the hell is she thinking?
Anyway, Cumbrian Kulak says that he's not a fan of Jack Straw because he said some nasty things about my ethnic group, the English.
Yes.
And.
Here we go.
We've got a Michael Dribalis or Dry Belbis, whatever it is.
Mandelson sounds like something from a Monty Python skit.
He used to do things for them, sir.
Judge, what kind of things?
Lawyer.
Oh, I should have read this before I started reading it out.
Okay, anyway, moving on.
All right.
From mine, we've got Man of Kent, Reform Recruitment.
Have you ever wanted to be a Tory and failed?
Are you a Tory and see the end of the political gravy train?
Then join reform and keep the Tory S show rolling for a new generation.
They're a joke.
Aim high, vote low.
Aim high, vote low.
They all must go.
I love that.
Yep.
It's true, though.
Or millions must go.
Aim high, vote low.
Endorsed by the Lotuses.
Ewan Baker.
In a real Britain, we would have BBC Cockney.
That's true.
Yeah.
I mean, Pidgin, they should be forced to speak English like the rest of us.
That'd be awesome, wouldn't it?
BBC Cockney.
Yeah, it'll be in Russia.
Got them on the dog and bone.
Yeah, he's in the dog and bone having a, I don't know.
As being from the opposite side of the country to London, I've never really understood why you would want to say something in such a convoluted way.
Not that I don't find Cockney rhyming slang funny, but it's a weird thing to have a convention on.
Just saying things to rhyme with the word you actually mean.
Just give it a rest.
Having a glass of the most ping-pong tiddly they had or something.
I don't know, something like that.
Good effort.
Lucas Mustache says nothing is more destructive to Western civilization than leftist women's hunger for rancid halal meat.
She's probably a vegetarian, so I think that's probably Bilbo Bagains says, are you sure this advert in Urdu will help us save the environment?
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Environment?
Yeah, the Green Party, man.
Don't care about the environment at all.
I didn't see them comment at all about the Oxford massive fly tipping situation.
I mean, they must have noticed that every time they succeed in their ethnic replacement, the environment goes to shit.
They care, really, do they?
They're not exactly going to be talking about how desertification is Islamic conquest now, are they?
Dudley Douchebag says, The Times 2030, why Hannah Spencer is a scumbag politician with unkempt hair and why that's a good thing, but the headline is only in Urdu since English is a dead language.
Don't say that.
There's a terrible pun that I think you need to read in the honourable mentions, Dan.
Yeah, that's one just for you, mate.
oh hang on let me let me just click the button and a legend that is hector rex Yeah, and technically, all vampires are necromancers.
Oh, I didn't think of that.
Yes.
Clever.
There's a space between neck and romancer.
Well, now, yeah, okay, I'm a little bit dyslexic, and now I see it.
Yeah, I had double counted the RO.
I give you that.
It honestly makes a lot more sense now.
I had for years been wondering about that and just thinking, what?
We've blown your mind.
The etymology of the term necromancer is just necro meaning dead and manser meaning like sorcery.
It's not like you're taking a zombie on a date.
I wish somebody could have told me this 35 years ago because it would have saved me a lot of sitting there watching films thinking, oh my God.
When's it gonna, you know, Day of the Dead?
When are they gonna start kissing?
And it's just like, oh, I know what's coming next, and I don't want to see it.