The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1390
Aired: 2026-04-06
Duration: 01:31:01


=== Voting Against Nigel Farage (14:36) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello and welcome to the podcast of the load seaters episode 1390 for Monday, the 6th of April, 2026.
[00:00:08]  I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Carl and Josh.
[00:00:12]  And today we're going to be talking all about just how mental the Green Party really are.
[00:00:17]  Uh, we're then going to be discussing how victims of diversity don't get murals, actually.
[00:00:24]  And then we're going to be talking about how the king is very much complicit in all of the injustice Injustices that are just strewn across our land.
[00:00:34]  So, a lot to talk about before we do, though.
[00:00:37]  A few announcements.
[00:00:38]  After 40 episodes of Chronicles, I'm glad to finally bring you one looking at a piece by C.S. Lewis, where I was lucky enough to have Nick Dixon on, and we talked all about Out of the Silent Planet.
[00:00:50]  And this was such a wonderful conversation.
[00:00:53]  And it was wonderful to look at how C.S. Lewis is able to weave his own theology and his faith into the sci fi genre.
[00:01:02]  To ask questions about scientific reductionism, Faustian nature, and all of these wonderful things.
[00:01:08]  It's a great conversation, and I do recommend that you give it a listen.
[00:01:13]  Also, of course, you'll be aware by now we have a live event this Saturday, and it's going to be on the 11th of April.
[00:01:21]  Yep, come down if you haven't got your ticket yet.
[00:01:23]  They are selling.
[00:01:24]  We're going to have some wonderful conversations.
[00:01:26]  There'll be a podcast with some segments prepared.
[00:01:29]  We'll have a Star Wars prequel debate, won't we, Carl?
[00:01:32]  That I'm going to win.
[00:01:33]  Well, we'll see.
[00:01:34]  We'll see.
[00:01:35]  Coming off the back of the definitive prequel defense that Harry and AA and I did, you know, well.
[00:01:43]  It's fine.
[00:01:43]  It's fine.
[00:01:44]  All right.
[00:01:44]  I'll have it out.
[00:01:45]  And a live lad's hour as well, and a good chance to get in a lot of banter and a lot of drinking.
[00:01:50]  So be there.
[00:01:52]  With all that said, let's talk about the Greens.
[00:01:54]  Yeah.
[00:01:55]  So this interesting poll came out recently that showed well, the question who would you rather have in power?
[00:02:04]  The Green Pasture Reform.
[00:02:06]  The Green Party are on 57% reform or 43%.
[00:02:09]  And this is just remarkable.
[00:02:11]  Now, this is from Lord Ashcroft polls.
[00:02:13]  Now, Lord Ashcroft is the worst pollster in Britain by the ratings.
[00:02:19]  He gets a D minus in various analyses.
[00:02:24]  But it's still interesting because the Greens have been on the rise recently.
[00:02:29]  They are doing quite well.
[00:02:30]  But I find this just fascinating.
[00:02:31]  So, out of all voters, yeah, about 57% are like Greens, 43% reform.
[00:02:36]  Labour voters.
[00:02:38]  81 Greens, 19 Reform.
[00:02:40]  Conservative voters, 28 Greens.
[00:02:43]  More than a quarter of Conservative voters.
[00:02:45]  Like, yeah, I'd rather the Green Party than Nigel Farage.
[00:02:47]  Like, then you should be in the Lib Dems.
[00:02:49]  Like, that's the Lib Dem vote.
[00:02:51]  What I find really interesting is that 4% of Reform supporters are like, yeah, I think I'd prefer the Greens.
[00:02:57]  Who the hell are they?
[00:02:59]  I really want to talk to them.
[00:03:00]  7% of the Greens are like, yeah, I think I'd prefer Farage.
[00:03:03]  I think those are the most interesting.
[00:03:05]  Yeah, they are.
[00:03:06]  It's like, do you understand how politics works?
[00:03:10]  How is this even possible?
[00:03:11]  Why are you voting for reform if you want the Greens?
[00:03:15]  Such polar opposites.
[00:03:17]  Anyway, so what I thought we would do is just explore what the Greens actually want, right?
[00:03:23]  Their stated policies and what's on their website and in their manifestos and things like this.
[00:03:28]  Because.
[00:03:29]  I think people don't understand just how bonkers the Greens are, right?
[00:03:32]  Now, I think that Zach Polanski, kind of like Nigel Farage, actually, has been running his campaign on vibes.
[00:03:38]  It's like, yeah, I'm from the left wing and I'm not part of the establishment.
[00:03:42]  And Nigel Farage can't really argue that he's from the right wing or that he's not part of the establishment, but I think that's why they're tanking the polls.
[00:03:49]  So there we go.
[00:03:50]  But this has been quite a maverick campaign.
[00:03:53]  I get the feeling that a lot of people who are like, yeah, yeah, I think I might just vote for the Greens because I don't want something, you know, led by Nigel Farage, but I also don't want the mainstream, I don't want the establishment.
[00:04:02]  But I think they also don't know what the Greens actually stand for.
[00:04:06]  Because I think a lot of people are thinking, well, I mean, it's about the environment, isn't it?
[00:04:10]  I would imagine it depends on the conscience of whichever party member from the Greens it is, what party stands for.
[00:04:17]  It's quite interesting.
[00:04:17]  So we'll get into it.
[00:04:18]  So they've got fairly bog standard things here creating a fairer, greener economy in which they plan to nationalise all energy and create a carbon tax to drive fossil fuels out of the economy and raise money to invest in a green transition.
[00:04:34]  They want to bring railways, water companies, and the big five retail energy companies into public ownership.
[00:04:39]  Now, I'm actually not terribly against railways, water companies, and the retail energy companies and public ownership.
[00:04:44]  I actually think that's not a bad idea, especially the railways, frankly.
[00:04:48]  But of course, we already pay the highest energy costs in the world.
[00:04:53]  I think this is just going to make it worse.
[00:04:55]  There's also a weird contradiction there in that they're going to bring the companies into public ownership, but also they're going to tax them for carbon.
[00:05:06]  Yeah.
[00:05:07]  They're going to tax themselves.
[00:05:09]  Like these two policies don't mesh together particularly well.
[00:05:12]  Yeah.
[00:05:13]  Why not just impose on them since you'll be the ones in charge of the companies now rather than trying to incentivize them into it?
[00:05:21]  But anyway, they're also going to produce their 1% wealth tax on assets above 10 million and 2% on assets of 1 billion or more.
[00:05:29]  And they're going to remove the upper earnings limit that restricts the amount of national insurance paid by house owners.
[00:05:34]  So this is all fairly on the box stuff that Zach Polanski has been talking about.
[00:05:37]  Everyone is aware of this.
[00:05:38]  And honestly, These aren't the worst sounding policies, right?
[00:05:41]  Now, the energy stuff yes, your energy costs are going to go through the roof, but they're already through the roof.
[00:05:48]  So, I mean, like, you know, how's that?
[00:05:50]  I think the Greens' policies, though, are probably the most devastating thing that could happen to Britain's economy possible.
[00:05:58]  Yes, they would.
[00:05:59]  Other than like a random act of God.
[00:06:02]  Yeah, or a, you know, random act of Donald Trump.
[00:06:05]  But the thing is, like, this everyone's like, yeah, the economy's terrible.
[00:06:09]  And the Greens' like, well, we can just mess around with it some more then.
[00:06:12]  It's like, well, I mean, it's not getting any better anytime soon.
[00:06:15]  So I think that there's a kind of, you know, these sort of younger voters who are like, well, I'm never going to buy a house anyway.
[00:06:22]  You know, who cares?
[00:06:23]  There's no light at the end of the tunnel.
[00:06:24]  Let's just take a leap of faith off this cliff and see if we land in water or something, right?
[00:06:29]  And so, I even I am like looking at this going, well, who cares, right?
[00:06:35]  But these, like I said, these are the things they tend to lead with.
[00:06:38]  And like I said, some of them are not that bad bringing railways, water companies under public control.
[00:06:42]  Yeah, great.
[00:06:43]  I don't want foreign governments owning our railways.
[00:06:45]  Yeah, that's really something that should have been a very nationalistic position, to be honest with you.
[00:06:50]  It's certainly something that the right have just given away, you know, in the name of free market economy.
[00:06:55]  Economics, which the conservatives just given away to foreign countries, and I don't understand it.
[00:07:00]  But yeah, so you know, renationalize, but for xenophobic reasons, not for absolutely they're using.
[00:07:06]  I agree with that, but then and I'm not even against the wealth tax or anything like that.
[00:07:11]  I, you know, I think there is a conversation to be had.
[00:07:15]  I would argue that we're already past the point of return where the government's getting diminishing returns on taxes.
[00:07:20]  We probably are, we probably are, but the but that's you know, at the end of the day, we're taxed on everything all the time.
[00:07:29]  Forever, even when you die, what's a 1% wealth tax going to change?
[00:07:33]  You know, it's like the taxes are unbelievable.
[00:07:35]  If we're going to get rid of, if we're going to lower taxes, then we would need massive structural change.
[00:07:39]  We're not going to get it.
[00:07:39]  There are going to be green staffers writing all this down, just like, yeah, this is great.
[00:07:43]  Quite possibly.
[00:07:44]  But then, so on the face of it, you can see why someone who doesn't know much and just hears these talking points is like, yeah, okay, fair enough.
[00:07:51]  But then it gets slightly more crazy, right?
[00:07:55]  As in completely bonkers.
[00:07:57]  So the first thing is just a complete amnesty to all illegals in the country, right?
[00:08:01]  So They want to, and this is on the website.
[00:08:04]  Immigration is not a criminal offence under any circumstances.
[00:08:07]  So Britain just doesn't have borders anymore.
[00:08:09]  Yeah.
[00:08:09]  I'd say they're borrowing from the Spanish in this respect.
[00:08:11]  Yes, they very much are.
[00:08:13]  The Spanish socialist government, by the way, wants to give amnesties.
[00:08:16]  What is it?
[00:08:16]  Half a million legal, something like that?
[00:08:18]  And we've got way more than that.
[00:08:19]  Yeah, we've got way more than that.
[00:08:21]  And also, it's even unpopular if you look at opinion polling on the left.
[00:08:25]  That's amazing.
[00:08:26]  Yeah, no one actually wants this.
[00:08:28]  Do you want to have no borders to your country?
[00:08:30]  It's like, no, not really.
[00:08:32]  But anyway, migrants would be allowed to stay in Britain even if they'd failed asylum claims, and immigration detention would just be abolished.
[00:08:38]  New arrivals would also be allowed to use the NHS on day one and would be paid a wage without being required to work.
[00:08:45]  Anyone with a visa other than a tourist visa would also be allowed to work under the plans.
[00:08:49]  So complete open borders.
[00:08:50]  And this matches up quite nicely with their migration policy, which is just mental, right?
[00:08:55]  They're like, oh, we're going to implement a fair and humane system of managed migration.
[00:08:58]  Because the problem with migration is just how it's been managed.
[00:09:01]  It's not the numbers or anything.
[00:09:03]  But look at this.
[00:09:04]  Just how it's been managed is some people have actually not been allowed in.
[00:09:07]  But treat all migrants as if they are citizens.
[00:09:11]  The entire world is just a perspective.
[00:09:14]  Do you want to create just a beacon on the country?
[00:09:17]  Say, look, if you can get here, You get benefits.
[00:09:19]  Bear in mind the fact that all of the economic incentives are already reason that they're stacking up at Calais as we speak.
[00:09:26]  Exactly.
[00:09:27]  Before any of this even gets implemented for the rest of the world.
[00:09:30]  If you think it's bad now, imagine what it would be like when this beacon goes out across TikTok for all the migrant networks.
[00:09:36]  And it's like, yeah, by the way, the Brits are just giving away free money.
[00:09:39]  All you have to do is just get there, right?
[00:09:42]  Then how are they making it?
[00:09:43]  Don't know.
[00:09:43]  Yeah, next thing.
[00:09:44]  Well, no, the Greens, remember, they're going to implement the fair and humane system of managed immigration, they're going to bring them in.
[00:09:50]  They're going to bust them in, right?
[00:09:52]  And then give all residents the right to vote.
[00:09:54]  As in, not citizens, residents, right?
[00:09:58]  You get here, apparently, you're fully enfranchised.
[00:10:00]  Well, this is just a license to be in power for the rest of your days because you're using the power of the state to give tax money to people you import.
[00:10:10]  Yeah, but the people you import, we've already learned, start voting for themselves.
[00:10:13]  That's true.
[00:10:14]  We've already learned that they do that.
[00:10:16]  They can't import Muslims anymore because they keep on going independent.
[00:10:19]  That's why we have the Gaza MPs.
[00:10:21]  So this is the Green Party essentially.
[00:10:23]  Causing the country to commit suicide and itself and itself, right?
[00:10:28]  And so, I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm up for dismantling the Home Office, but for like I said, xenophobic reasons.
[00:10:34]  But dismantling the Home Office, yeah, I guess we won't need passports anymore because we will literally just be an open borders country, right?
[00:10:41]  I think if the Greens do win, you've sort of got an obligation to become your very own welfare queen, like all across the country.
[00:10:48]  It's just like an act of protest to make it untenable for them to do all this, but it just gets madder.
[00:10:53]  Abolish the no recourse to public funds condition, right?
[00:10:55]  So They're just going to get any amount of benefits, any amount of money that we can give them.
[00:10:59]  Abolish the 10 year route settlement.
[00:11:01]  Stop profiteering from application fees.
[00:11:03]  Stop putting people in prison because of their immigration status.
[00:11:06]  Accept our responsibility for the climate emergency and support the people forced to move because they think that, oh, it's just too hot in Africa now and the people in Africa just can't live there.
[00:11:16]  Right.
[00:11:16]  And so they give us their principles.
[00:11:18]  And the first one is the Green Party wants to see a world without borders.
[00:11:22]  Okay.
[00:11:23]  But I mean, I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad they're just coming out and saying it.
[00:11:27]  This is migration.greenparty.org.uk slash migration policy slash.
[00:11:32]  This is their website.
[00:11:33]  I'm not like, this isn't like a right wing parody of the Greens.
[00:11:37]  This is their own website, right?
[00:11:39]  So, anyway, so that's that's mad and I mean, just utterly destructive, completely ruinous.
[00:11:45]  I mean, what's the point of nationalizing something when you abolish the nation itself, right?
[00:11:49]  But anyway, so moving on to defending human rights and democracy.
[00:11:53]  This is basically sort of full republicanization.
[00:11:56]  But let's begin with the woke stuff, right?
[00:11:58]  So, obviously, they're going to campaign to end violence against women and girls, whatever that's supposed to mean, while bringing in unlimited open borders.
[00:12:07]  I've always found that people who are violent towards women listen to government campaigns.
[00:12:13]  Venn diagram is a circle.
[00:12:15]  They're very receptive to that kind of thing, aren't they?
[00:12:18]  Fingers wagged at them, right?
[00:12:20]  So, they're going to, yeah, like you said, open borders to all sorts of cultures they would probably describe in the abstract as misogynistic.
[00:12:28]  And wonder why violence against women and girls is skyrocketing.
[00:12:31]  But they want to scrap various sort of acts that erode the right to protest and free expression, which came under the Tories.
[00:12:38]  And honestly, I'm in favor of those getting scrapped.
[00:12:41]  Campaign for the right for self identification for trans and non binary people.
[00:12:44]  Brilliant.
[00:12:45]  Scrap the Prevent program.
[00:12:48]  Prevent, for anyone who doesn't know, is the anti terror program.
[00:12:53]  Well, given that they spend more time watching right wingers.
[00:12:56]  Yeah, I'm coming round to this.
[00:12:58]  Well, no, they don't.
[00:12:59]  They still spend more time monitoring the Muslim community.
[00:13:01]  Mm hmm.
[00:13:02]  By a factor of like three to one.
[00:13:04]  So, you know, it's like, right, okay, we're not going to worry about the terrorism, but we are going to tackle hate crime, misogyny, Islamophobia, and anti Semitism.
[00:13:12]  Oh, thank God.
[00:13:14]  Thank God.
[00:13:14]  That's going to restore trust and confidence in the police.
[00:13:17]  So that's great.
[00:13:18]  And then they want.
[00:13:18]  You're blown to bits then, but you at least won't be offended when it happens.
[00:13:23]  It's kind of mad the country they expect to create out of all of this complete open borders.
[00:13:30]  Obviously, all the white people won't be allowed to be misogynistic or commit hate crimes or anything like that.
[00:13:34]  And occasionally, there'll be an explosion in the background.
[00:13:36]  Right.
[00:13:37]  So it's just like, right.
[00:13:38]  In their defense, to be fair, it sort of makes terrorism redundant if you do nothing and it just becomes more Islamic.
[00:13:47]  Like, they don't need terrorism.
[00:13:49]  The methods are rendered obsolete when the government does more for their cause than anyone else.
[00:13:53]  You think so, but there's loads of terrorism in the Muslim world.
[00:13:56]  That's true as well.
[00:13:57]  And there's way more terrorism in the Muslim world than there is in ours.
[00:14:00]  So, you know, just becoming Islamic doesn't solve that problem.
[00:14:05]  Anyway, they're also going to fully republicanize the country.
[00:14:08]  They're going to replace First Past the Post with.
[00:14:11]  Proportional representation.
[00:14:13]  So, you will find it far easier to get Gaza MPs all across the country.
[00:14:17]  They're going to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber and, of course, votes for 16 year olds and residence based voting rights.
[00:14:23]  So, literally, this is going to be mad.
[00:14:26]  I'm always very cautious of any party that campaigns for proportional representation because if you win by a majority, then the reason to implement it just withers away.

=== Fully Republicanizing The Country (04:22) ===

[00:14:36]  Yeah, which is why we don't have it.
[00:14:38]  But to be honest with you, I'm finding myself against proportional representation anyway.
[00:14:41]  Yeah, me too.
[00:14:42]  No, you've got to win the arguments.
[00:14:44]  You know, you've got to actually win people over to get the vote, I think.
[00:14:48]  Anyway, so then we've got their plans for Israel and Palestine, which is just wishful thinking.
[00:14:54]  Why don't they make them both implement open borders?
[00:14:58]  Great question.
[00:14:59]  Open borders for Palestine and Israel.
[00:15:04]  I'm a Green Party voter.
[00:15:06]  But this is just fancy politics.
[00:15:08]  An immediate bilateral ceasefire, end arms sales to Israel, but release the hostages taken on the 7th of October, and an urgent effort to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
[00:15:17]  Yeah, they're not going to listen to any of this nonsense.
[00:15:20]  Sorry, how can it be an illegal occupation if you believe in no borders, though?
[00:15:25]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:15:25]  Well, great question.
[00:15:26]  Well, borders only exist if it's politically expedient.
[00:15:29]  Yeah.
[00:15:30]  So, anyway, that's mental, right?
[00:15:32]  That's just mental.
[00:15:33]  They're going to increase international aid.
[00:15:34]  We'll get to that in a minute.
[00:15:36]  By just 1% of our gross national income by 2023, we're just going to give away just 1% of everything we make.
[00:15:43]  Just give 1% to the third world, which will then move to our countries more.
[00:15:48]  Actually, it's more than that because, as I say, increase climate finance for the global south to 1.5%.
[00:15:53]  So 1% is just going to be general international aid, but to the global south, a 1.5% extra with an additional contribution because of climate.
[00:16:03]  So the Bangladeshis that have built in flood.
[00:16:07]  Planes and the Pakistanis, where it floods every year without fail, and a third of the country goes underwater, and what have you.
[00:16:13]  We're just going to give them free money because of their poor decisions.
[00:16:17]  Because climate change.
[00:16:18]  Anyway, then we've got nuclear weapons and NATO.
[00:16:20]  So they're going to push for the UK to sign a UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, and then they're going to immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons.
[00:16:30]  It's full Jeremy Corbyn.
[00:16:32]  It's amazing that people say reform other people funded by the Russians.
[00:16:37]  Yeah, they're right.
[00:16:39]  They're the ones that want to disarm our nuclear arsenal.
[00:16:42]  That's just mad.
[00:16:43]  It's like, imagine, right?
[00:16:45]  You're in a standoff and you're like, you know, I'm just going to put my gun away.
[00:16:48]  In fact, I'm going to take the bullets out of my gun and throw my gun away.
[00:16:50]  And the guy's like, oh, great.
[00:16:51]  Now, right, the standoff.
[00:16:53]  You've never put your gun down, Mr. Putin, yet.
[00:16:56]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:16:56]  Yeah, bang, you know.
[00:16:58]  Anyway, so he's going to abolish our own nukes, which is just mental.
[00:17:01]  And then it goes on to the NATO bit, which I think is genuinely funny because on the website it says the Green Party recognizes that NATO has an important role in ensuring the ability of its member states to respond to threats to their security.
[00:17:10]  Yeah, it would be helpful if we had nukes to do that, wouldn't it?
[00:17:15]  But they would work within NATO to achieve a greater focus on global peace building and a commitment of no first use of nuclear weapons.
[00:17:21]  Again, literally telling the Russians, yeah, we're not going to nuke you first.
[00:17:25]  But the fear of us nuking them is surely one of those things that keeps them, whatever, right?
[00:17:29]  Whatever, right?
[00:17:30]  But the thing is, that's what they say on their website.
[00:17:33]  Now, when Zach Polanski is actually asked about this, you can actually see the sort of Farageism in him, because actually he seems to be going on policies and vibes, right?
[00:17:45]  Like instead of policies, he's going on vibes.
[00:17:47]  And this is a very interesting sort of ad hoc description of what his plan for NATO is.
[00:17:56]  Step one, which is what has been trying to happen and clearly is not working, is to work with the United States.
[00:18:01]  But we have a dangerous, unpredictable man who considers Vladimir Putin his friend, but brings Zelensky into the White House and shames him and disgraces him in front of the world.
[00:18:10]  So whilst a few years ago we voted to reform NATO from within, what I'm saying is it's time to look at step two.
[00:18:16]  Step two is to work with our European neighbours to build greater alliances alongside security and defence, alongside those countries, plus Brazil and Mexico, and countries in the global south.
[00:18:27]  To look at how we stop American imperialism and also conversations about China and indeed Russia too.
[00:18:32]  And in our own country, step three is to look at our own economic sovereignty.
[00:18:37]  Okay.
[00:18:38]  So his plan seems to be NATO can't be reformed from within.
[00:18:44]  So create a new bloc with Brazil and Mexico.
[00:18:49]  I don't understand.
[00:18:50]  Our closest allies.
[00:18:51]  Yeah.
[00:18:51]  I don't understand why they were randomly thrown in there, to be honest.
[00:18:54]  Because they're socialists.
[00:18:58]  That's true, yeah.

=== Building Global Alliances Now (11:14) ===

[00:18:59]  What he's doing is just pinpointing those.
[00:19:01]  People who agree with him ideologically, right?
[00:19:03]  And I want to build a block with them.
[00:19:05]  It's like, okay, well, that's also dangerous sounding.
[00:19:09]  Imagine this from the American perspective.
[00:19:12]  You're trying to unite Europe, Mexico, and Brazil in a separate block to the United States.
[00:19:17]  Yeah.
[00:19:17]  Can't say Venezuela anymore, can he?
[00:19:19]  No.
[00:19:21]  But if it were looking like Europe were looking to invade the US, that is exactly what you would do.
[00:19:28]  I guess.
[00:19:31]  It sounds preposterous.
[00:19:32]  Mamdani would be there to welcome the launch party.
[00:19:34]  I guess he would be.
[00:19:35]  Anyway, so that's like all quite bonkers, just by the way, you know, like completely mad pie in the sky student politics.
[00:19:43]  But then it gets worse.
[00:19:45]  For example, he wants to impose a 55 mile an hour limit on our motorways.
[00:19:50]  Isn't that what America has?
[00:19:52]  Why would anyone who drives vote for the Green Party?
[00:19:55]  This will be universally unpopular.
[00:19:58]  Like 99% of motorists are going to say that's insane what you're talking about.
[00:20:03]  Yes.
[00:20:03]  And it's, I mean, apparently, I quote, war on motorists.
[00:20:07]  That's in quotes in the thing.
[00:20:08]  So I don't know if he said that.
[00:20:10]  Not that it was enough to obviously supplant Sadiq Khan in London, but the whole Warren motorists and ULES in London was one of the few issues that actually took a big chunk out of his voting.
[00:20:23]  So if you do that nationwide.
[00:20:25]  Oh, yeah.
[00:20:25]  Brilliant.
[00:20:26]  Also, 20 mile an hour speed limits imposed in all built up areas in sort of Welsh style, because the Welsh Zenith has made it so that you can't drive through towns and cities anymore.
[00:20:37]  So.
[00:20:38]  Just imagine how popular it's going to be, right?
[00:20:41]  There will also be taxes on driving that would be increased incrementally, while parking spaces will be steadily reduced in a bid to drive people off the roads.
[00:20:51]  Just what interesting use of words there as well, drive people off the roads.
[00:20:55]  Yeah, all right.
[00:20:57]  To be fair, that's the Daily Mail's uh usage, but still, like, thanks.
[00:21:01]  That's that's what I want is fewer parking spaces, actually.
[00:21:04]  That's and I also want increased road taxes, and I also want to be limited to driving at 55 miles an hour and 20 miles an hour in towns.
[00:21:11]  Yes, that's that's precisely what I want.
[00:21:14]  I'm pretty sure every boomer in the country is going to become a jihadi because I don't know a single anyone who drives a car, I don't know a single boomer man that sticks to 70 on the motorway.
[00:21:23]  Well, the thing.
[00:21:26]  People forget that the motorway speed limit was set like in the 50s or something, right?
[00:21:31]  When technology, cars, braking technology, you know, all these sorts of things were far less developed than they are now.
[00:21:37]  You didn't have ABS brakes and all that sort of stuff back then.
[00:21:40]  And so, actually, like the Germans haven't got a problem with it on their autobahns and they don't have a speed limit at all.
[00:21:44]  So, it's okay, what are we doing here?
[00:21:47]  I'd feel a lot safer if everyone else had a speed limit and I didn't.
[00:21:51]  That'd be the ideal situation.
[00:21:52]  But the point is, this is again one of Polanski's sort of Farageisms because the deputy leader had no idea about any of this.
[00:22:01]  This came out of the blue, just like with the NATO thing, where it's just like, so did you just make that up on the fly?
[00:22:06]  Like, what are we talking about here?
[00:22:08]  Anyway, then we've got the legalization of all drugs, which is as cut and dried as it seems.
[00:22:13]  Like, literally, all drugs decriminalized.
[00:22:16]  It's going to get rid of the pain of a green government, though, if they start heroin.
[00:22:20]  I imagine.
[00:22:20]  A bit brave new world, just.
[00:22:22]  It's very brave new world, isn't it?
[00:22:24]  And that's the thing.
[00:22:25]  Because all this is going to do is create the sort of California, Portland style drug culture where, oh, people who have got addictive personalities will start taking drugs and the state will be forced to give them their drugs.
[00:22:35]  Otherwise, their human rights will be denied or something like this.
[00:22:37]  And it's so.
[00:22:38]  Human rights are heroin.
[00:22:39]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:22:39]  And it's just like.
[00:22:40]  Scotland all of a sudden goes green.
[00:22:42]  But then combine that with a bunch of foreign dependents who have come in and just voted themselves.
[00:22:48]  More money and more drugs.
[00:22:49]  And you said, okay, so the streets are going to be filled with foreign drug addicts just everywhere.
[00:22:54]  There's going to be no limit to any of this.
[00:22:56]  It's like, you are mental, mate.
[00:22:59]  And the thing is, we're not even finished being mental.
[00:23:01]  So, of course, he's against nuclear power, right?
[00:23:03]  We'll skip him talking about it, but basically, he's against nuclear power on the basis that it's impractical.
[00:23:08]  And it's like, no, it's not.
[00:23:10]  But he also wants to stop all oil and gas.
[00:23:13]  So, okay, great.
[00:23:15]  Let's just stop all oil and gas.
[00:23:17]  Don't worry about that.
[00:23:18]  Renewable energy, doubtless, will.
[00:23:21]  Power the tractors that make the food.
[00:23:23]  I don't know, you know.
[00:23:24]  This is just nonsense.
[00:23:27]  But then his own party started to be like, well, are we really that green?
[00:23:32]  Because actually, a lot of people who vote for the Green, who are asking for the Green, can we get the background light on this so I can see the things, please, Samson?
[00:23:40]  Then they're not for it, right?
[00:23:43]  So, it's down here somewhere.
[00:23:48]  Sorry, no, it's bloody not.
[00:23:50]  It was.
[00:23:51]  For some reason, that hasn't come out.
[00:23:52]  Anyway, I'll read the text.
[00:23:54]  So, the proportion of Green considerers saying the party's stance on climate change is the thing that attracts most of the party has fallen from 49% to 22% over the last year.
[00:24:05]  So, less than a quarter of people that are supporting the Green Party are like, yeah, it's because of the climate.
[00:24:10]  Policies and values not related to the environment are the main reason to vote Green for 38% of those considering the party.
[00:24:17]  And people aren't so concerned about it being a wasted vote.
[00:24:20]  And even 40% of the Greens are like, yeah, we should start drilling in the North Sea.
[00:24:25]  So, obviously, most people are in favor of drilling in the North Sea.
[00:24:28]  But even amongst the Green Party, like a third of them are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, why not there?
[00:24:34]  And like this, you would think.
[00:24:36]  Would be like completely out of bounds for Green Party supporters.
[00:24:41]  But this is just not what the Green Party is about anymore.
[00:24:43]  I mean, even if you do want eco things, the strongest argument to get to getting affordable green technology is make energy as cheap as possible by drilling as much as possible, therefore lowering the cost of energy and therefore lowering research and development in the green sector.
[00:25:01]  Yeah.
[00:25:02]  I mean, this New Statesman piece ends with the following paragraph, which is just amusing.
[00:25:10]  They are no longer just an environmental party with a tightly defined ideologically consistent base.
[00:25:15]  With a larger share of the electorate behind them, their voters are more diverse, more economically driven, and less singular in focus.
[00:25:21]  The appeal is less all things green and a broader left leaning protest oriented politics, Labour adjacent but distinct.
[00:25:28]  So they're just a lefty party now.
[00:25:30]  Well, I think it's just because the bottom has fallen out of Labour on the left.
[00:25:34]  And so all of those people have migrated to the Greens.
[00:25:37]  Yeah.
[00:25:38]  But like Zach Polanski has demonstrated himself to be just a vibes based leader who.
[00:25:44]  Like Farage just makes up policy on the fly, and then everyone's like, Oh, right, are we doing that?
[00:25:48]  Are we?
[00:25:49]  It really seems that the outer, the sort of inner core of the party, the internals of the party, just do not reflect its own membership.
[00:25:56]  Because the Greens got something like 220, 230,000 members, right?
[00:26:00]  And yet they had a vote about the nationalization of energy companies at their conference, at their spring conference.
[00:26:10]  And oh, sorry, they've got 215,000 members, but only about 700 of them voted.
[00:26:18]  Hmm.
[00:26:19]  400.
[00:26:20]  And the thing is, 478 members voted against the nationalization of energy.
[00:26:26]  So they're not going to nationalize energy.
[00:26:28]  All the oil companies in the trade did their work.
[00:26:31]  Get in now.
[00:26:32]  And only 192 people opposed it.
[00:26:34]  So they were in favor of nationalizing.
[00:26:36]  So it's like, okay, but I thought they had 200,000 members.
[00:26:40]  Why the hell aren't the members actually getting involved in the policy of the party?
[00:26:48]  Sort of the social media vibes based, like, you know, halo around the top of it.
[00:26:53]  But actually, if you look in the party, it's still going to be basically a kind of boomer crusties who made it up prior and who are actually getting involved.
[00:27:02]  I mean, to have only 478 members voting in one way and 192 in another is mad.
[00:27:09]  It's amazing that this sort of resolution is coming out of a party that said it just was going to ban outright the existence of landlords.
[00:27:16]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:27:18]  It's like the concept of it is going to be banned.
[00:27:21]  You can't do that anymore.
[00:27:23]  So, rent is gone.
[00:27:24]  And the next, yeah, that's true.
[00:27:26]  I forgot to include that.
[00:27:27]  But the whole, like, oh, yeah, we're going to essentially ban private energy companies, it was a flagship campaign promise from Zach Polanski.
[00:27:37]  And his own party's like, yeah, and we're going to do that.
[00:27:39]  It's like, okay.
[00:27:40]  But literally, less than a thousand people in the party who turned up to bother to vote.
[00:27:45]  I mean, those people have probably had more influence over policy than they'll ever have for the rest of their lives in that vote.
[00:27:52]  But it probably won't matter because Zach Polanski will probably just vibes based overrule it.
[00:27:56]  That's true.
[00:27:56]  So who cares?
[00:27:58]  So the point I'm making here is the Green Party is a very strange beast, right?
[00:28:03]  Not only does it want insane things, it actually doesn't seem to be connected from top to bottom with its own internal party democracy and seems to have fans on social media.
[00:28:13]  Like the 200,000 seem to just be.
[00:28:15]  Zach Polanski's fan club, right?
[00:28:17]  In the same way that literally reforms 200,000 appear to be Farage's fan club, right?
[00:28:23]  They have wild policies, like genuinely mental things.
[00:28:27]  And I forgot to even include the list is getting so long, I was like, that's probably everything mental.
[00:28:33]  I forgot about the banning landlords thing.
[00:28:35]  So you can't even rent somewhere anymore, you know?
[00:28:38]  And it's the wild open doors and all this.
[00:28:40]  You think, how are these people leading in the polls?
[00:28:44]  So they're genuinely, there was a Lord Ashcroft poll that came out.
[00:28:47]  I'll probably do a thing with Dan tomorrow on it.
[00:28:49]  Where they were genuinely at 21%.
[00:28:51]  And it's just, I think, people just want something different, right?
[00:28:55]  And of course, well, I mean, they are different.
[00:28:58]  They're insane, but they are genuinely different.
[00:29:01]  And so, anyway, I thought people should be more aware of what they actually are thinking of when they say, oh, yeah, I might vote for the Greens.
[00:29:08]  Because anyone who knows anything about the Greens will be like, oh, I'm dealing with someone who's either insane or not paying any attention at all.
[00:29:16]  And then the hope of dividing the far left vote in the next general election between your party and the Greens seems to have.
[00:29:23]  Disappeared given that your party just.
[00:29:25]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:29:26]  Dead on arrival.
[00:29:27]  Yeah, but to be honest with you, I'm fine with that, you know.
[00:29:30]  I want to see.
[00:29:32]  I want to see a world without borders, says Genghis Khan.
[00:29:36]  Green parties are a carbon copy of the attack on sovereignty that we see from similar parties all across the West, but only the West.
[00:29:42]  This is not a coincidence.
[00:29:43]  That's correct.
[00:29:45]  The vibes based international communist order sounds a lot gayer than the rules based international liberal order.
[00:29:50]  I mean, in the defense of the rules based international liberal order, At least they'd planned it out.
[00:29:56]  At least they'd thought about it.
[00:29:58]  You know, it's such a low bar.
[00:30:00]  I know, but like, Zach Polanski's coming off with, like, oh, yeah, I'm just going to create a NATO with Brazil and Mexico.
[00:30:05]  It's like, why?
[00:30:07]  His idea of being a party leader is like being a medieval king at the height of absolutism.

=== Attacking National Sovereignty (15:04) ===

[00:30:13]  It's just you click your fingers.
[00:30:15]  It doesn't matter that it contradicts.
[00:30:17]  Yeah.
[00:30:17]  And yeah, so anyway, let's leave that there, I guess.
[00:30:21]  Okay.
[00:30:25]  Oh, I've got the wrong segment up.
[00:30:27]  That's a bad start, isn't it?
[00:30:29]  There we go.
[00:30:30]  Oh, no, that was me.
[00:30:31]  You had it right, Samson.
[00:30:34]  So, I'm going to be talking today about how white people in America can't have murals if they're murdered in seemingly a racially motivated murder.
[00:30:45]  And, of course, I'm talking about the murder of the Ukrainian refugee, Irina Zarutska, and the effort to memorialize her tragic death.
[00:30:57]  To try and make something positive of something that was unequivocally a tragedy.
[00:31:02]  Hang on, no.
[00:31:03]  Tragedy makes it sound like, you know, it's an act of God or something, right?
[00:31:07]  This was a murder.
[00:31:08]  Well, it was a needless murder.
[00:31:09]  I think a needless murder is a tragedy.
[00:31:12]  Not only was it a murder, but of all the, because, you know, the state of the world we live in now, it's like there's a murder just every day.
[00:31:18]  Every week, there's just a brutal story.
[00:31:21]  And still, this one, I remember every detail of it.
[00:31:25]  I remember her name.
[00:31:26]  I remember the event.
[00:31:27]  I remember, like, all of it, because it was just so bad.
[00:31:29]  The image of the video.
[00:31:31]  It was, yeah.
[00:31:32]  Sorry, I'm not trying to, but like I was saying, a tragedy.
[00:31:34]  It's a bit worse than a bloody tragedy.
[00:31:36]  Well, the tragedy is when someone dies of cancer, you know.
[00:31:40]  This was.
[00:31:40]  Our words escape us describing it then.
[00:31:43]  But do you know what's not going to be a tragedy?
[00:31:45]  Lotus Suit is live.
[00:31:47]  Good segue.
[00:31:48]  Thank you.
[00:31:49]  It's on the 11th of April, this coming Saturday, and it will be a lot of fun.
[00:31:53]  Seven o'clock till 10 o'clock.
[00:31:55]  You get to meet us, have a laugh, meet each other.
[00:31:58]  If you don't go, you're a loser.
[00:32:00]  That's my selling pitch.
[00:32:02]  There you go.
[00:32:03]  But yes.
[00:32:04]  As Luca was alluding to, I'm sure you're all familiar with this.
[00:32:07]  This is after the facts because I'm not going to show you the video of it actually happening, of course, and I want to remind everyone of that.
[00:32:13]  But you see, all of the people just stood still and not really sure what's going on.
[00:32:19]  And I actually saw a video recently, a longer cut of this from the CCTV footage.
[00:32:26]  And people do actually get up and help her once they realize what has happened.
[00:32:31]  And that guy stands around and goes, I got that white girl, I got that white girl.
[00:32:34]  It's like, well done, she wasn't expecting an attack.
[00:32:35]  Yeah, we'll get to it.
[00:32:36]  She's half your weight, sorry.
[00:32:39]  But, yeah, I think one of these people actually does go over and help her, but they just presume it wasn't very much because when you actually watch the video, it's difficult to see that he stabbed her.
[00:32:51]  But either way, it's a horrible thing to have happen, especially while she's there crying and afraid and probably in pain.
[00:32:59]  No one there to comfort you is pretty bleak.
[00:33:03]  I thought this was interesting.
[00:33:05]  This is someone in the Australian Senate saying every single one of them should be in prison.
[00:33:11]  Not doing anything.
[00:33:12]  So, although I get the sort of impression he's on the right of Australian politics.
[00:33:17]  I suspect so, yeah.
[00:33:19]  But as you're alluding to, Carl, the guy who did it just admits it.
[00:33:26]  Look at that.
[00:33:26]  She called me the N word.
[00:33:27]  No, she didn't.
[00:33:29]  No, she didn't.
[00:33:30]  It was a schizophrenic hallucination or something like that.
[00:33:33]  Or he's just lying and he did it because he's.
[00:33:35]  Just hang him.
[00:33:35]  Just hang him.
[00:33:36]  I mean, yes, death penalty for people who do this sort of thing.
[00:33:39]  But yeah, he seems unapologetic.
[00:33:41]  And the guy who actually is just like, you've got blood on you, you're bleeding out or something.
[00:33:45]  And he's like, nah, I stabbed this girl.
[00:33:47]  Just as if it's something you just admit in passing.
[00:33:52]  So, yeah, the guy is an animal.
[00:33:56]  And it's also worth mentioning that were you to look at, say, a parallel, say, the death of George Floyd, the self inflicted death of George Floyd, 5,436 results in the New York Times.
[00:34:10]  You look for Irena Zarutska, nine results.
[00:34:14]  And to be honest with you, if my memory recalls, it took quite a lot of chimping out online to even get to nine.
[00:34:20]  You know, it took a lot.
[00:34:22]  There was total silence on it.
[00:34:24]  They were not interested in covering this.
[00:34:26]  In a fair and even handed society, I know this is a little bit of a passe observation, but the Irina situation would be one that is deserving of more sympathy than, you know, a convicted felon who was a fentanyl addict who robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint.
[00:34:43]  Well, too bad, you know.
[00:34:45]  This is a woman who left a country at war and found that it was actually more dangerous seeking asylum in America because of the state of their cities.
[00:34:57]  But also, I mean, I just don't believe that George Floyd was murdered.
[00:35:00]  No.
[00:35:00]  Nor do I.
[00:35:01]  And all the police were thrown under the bus.
[00:35:04]  Yeah, completely.
[00:35:04]  They're political prisoners.
[00:35:05]  Shervin's trial was just political.
[00:35:08]  We also covered this on Lotus Eaters.
[00:35:10]  We talked about how the jury was sympathetic to Black Lives Matter and some of them had been photographed with shirts and the like.
[00:35:17]  However, because of the efforts being made to make this a big deal about this massive waste of life taken at the hands of a career black criminal.
[00:35:32]  People like Elon Musk pledged to give lots of money to paint murals honoring her.
[00:35:39]  I think he did it specifically in North Carolina where it happened.
[00:35:43]  But they've gone up all over the country, and there have been lots of other people as well funding these murals.
[00:35:51]  Oh, wow.
[00:35:51]  Oh, shut up.
[00:35:52]  Sorry.
[00:35:53]  Shut up, God.
[00:35:54]  Are they weaponizing her memory?
[00:35:56]  Or who would they have learned that from?
[00:35:58]  Just shut your mouth.
[00:36:00]  Yeah, the frustrating hypocrisy of the left here is really shameless.
[00:36:04]  Like, When I was researching this, it really was driven home to me just how the American left is completely unforgivable for what it's done.
[00:36:14]  Like, there's no common ground here.
[00:36:16]  There's no bridges to be built.
[00:36:19]  They're just enemies of normal people.
[00:36:21]  Yeah.
[00:36:21]  They did, they played the exact same thing, didn't they, when white South African refugees were coming over as well?
[00:36:28]  Mm hmm.
[00:36:29]  Yeah.
[00:36:29]  And of course, yeah, MAGA is funding murals of a slain Ukrainian refugee.
[00:36:34]  Are they weaponizing her memory?
[00:36:36]  As if to say, you know, you can't memorialize someone who's been brutally murdered by a Korea black criminal.
[00:36:43]  But also, there's obviously a racial aspect to it.
[00:36:45]  He targeted her because she was white.
[00:36:48]  That's why they're against this.
[00:36:50]  Yeah.
[00:36:50]  Because what this reveals is a deep anti white animus that runs through some of the black community in America to the point where it's just random murders that will occur because of it.
[00:37:00]  This.
[00:37:01]  Well, this seems to speak of some sort of phenomenon where they sort of know that black people are much more violent and towards white people because whenever I've pointed out online, which is often, they never say I'm wrong, they just say I'm racist.
[00:37:15]  I've never once said those statistics are wrong or things like that.
[00:37:18]  Well, they can't criticize the statistics because they come from the government and they treat government statistics as if they're holy and divine, received on stone tablets by God Himself.
[00:37:30]  To be fair, that's how I do.
[00:37:31]  Treat the 2021 census map, yeah, in, yeah, and we know that's inaccurate because it's inaccurate now, yeah, it's got a lot worse, it's probably worse than that at the time.
[00:37:41]  So, um, that takes us to this.
[00:37:45]  So, one mural in Rhode Island, um, was basically cancelled by the mayor of Rhode Island, Brett Smiley, um, who branded it, um, divisive and called for its removal.
[00:37:58]  I'm reading directly from a quote here the murder of the individual depicted in this mural, not even naming her.
[00:38:05]  Was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like this across the country is divisive and does not represent Providence, which is where in Rhode Island this is.
[00:38:18]  And apparently, part of the reason is that it was started by CEO Ewan McCabe, but also received support from Elon Musk and Andrew Tate.
[00:38:29]  Therefore, they're treating it like it's sort of warlord blood money.
[00:38:36]  Whereas, actually, you know, if people you disagree with are funding murals to murdered women, that's probably a pretty good use of their money.
[00:38:44]  You should be cheering it on.
[00:38:46]  What he thinks he's doing here is protecting the black community.
[00:38:48]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:38:50]  They can't be reminded that they murder white people all the time.
[00:38:55]  They have to be mollycoddled, don't they?
[00:38:57]  But, you know, back to the intersectional totem pole, we've finally found just refugees beneath minorities.
[00:39:04]  Yeah.
[00:39:04]  Yeah, an actual refugee, a genuine one.
[00:39:07]  And a young woman is apparently less important than our precious black criminals.
[00:39:12]  And it gets worse because another Democrat came out and said this.
[00:39:20]  Ultimately, we want to make sure that every community member that calls Providence home feels safe.
[00:39:26]  And we can both agree that this mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor does it reflect the creativity that we want to see in our city.
[00:39:36]  I mean, I agree with him.
[00:39:38]  I actually agree with him.
[00:39:38]  Yeah, you don't value when this happens.
[00:39:42]  You don't care.
[00:39:43]  It doesn't matter to you at all.
[00:39:45]  And this is actually kind of part of the plan, isn't it?
[00:39:47]  Values, the dystopia that led to this being able to happen in the first place.
[00:39:52]  Yeah, Providence's values is black murderers, actually.
[00:39:55]  We side with them over innocent white women.
[00:39:58]  Yeah.
[00:39:59]  That's basically what they're saying, isn't it?
[00:40:01]  Yeah.
[00:40:02]  And openly.
[00:40:03]  And, you know, if you're to show this to someone outside of America, they would be shocked that they're just openly saying, yeah.
[00:40:09]  We are outside of America and we're shocked.
[00:40:11]  That's true, yeah.
[00:40:12]  Sorry, what?
[00:40:13]  That's a mental statement.
[00:40:16]  And let's also not forget the fact that all of this sort of thing was going on.
[00:40:23]  This is in Providence, Rhode Island, as well.
[00:40:26]  Great big Black Lives Matter written on the street.
[00:40:29]  They're memorializing that.
[00:40:31]  They've just basically picked a side in the race war, is what they've done.
[00:40:34]  They've said, we're choosing black people, white people don't matter.
[00:40:38]  And thankfully, the artist seems to have a bit of.
[00:40:45]  Backbone, and he's been campaigning to push back against this, as you can understand.
[00:40:52]  And he was complaining about it on Twitter, which got a lot of attention.
[00:40:58]  But what I found he said about it was quite interesting.
[00:41:02]  He says, As the artist, I'm sad to hear the mayor is calling for my art to be removed.
[00:41:06]  Before I finish speaking, he's referring to it as like a First Amendment right to make this.
[00:41:11]  The art is anti political agenda.
[00:41:14]  I wanted to humanize Irina.
[00:41:16]  The blue shapes symbolize individual points of view.
[00:41:18]  They're almost strangling her, and yet she shines through.
[00:41:21]  I hope that this is what people will take away and put aside all of the political vitriol.
[00:41:28]  Irina Zaritska was a human being with a mother and a father who are still with us and still grieving.
[00:41:33]  So it's quite a humanizing view, and it's an admirable view, certainly much better than those two Democrats we looked at.
[00:41:40]  And you can see what he was going for here.
[00:41:43]  Doesn't line with our values, I'm afraid.
[00:41:45]  Apparently not.
[00:41:47]  But.
[00:41:48]  Then he, once he publicized the fact that he was the artist, he started getting very resting messages through to his account, basically telling him to end his own life.
[00:42:01]  I have to use that euphemism because YouTube is ridiculous.
[00:42:07]  But he seemingly got lots of this.
[00:42:09]  He posted lots of screenshots of various things, which I'm not going to read for the sake of your sensitive ears.
[00:42:15]  He did start a petition to try and save it.
[00:42:19]  And.
[00:42:20]  I don't think it's really going to work because the mayor has said.
[00:42:23]  They won't be petitioned on this point.
[00:42:25]  No.
[00:42:26]  However, he did go back and decide to paint as much of it as possible before it was officially shut down, which I respect because you could get in trouble for that.
[00:42:41]  And then something even better a restaurant, I believe it's a Lebanese restaurant called Opa, said, Actually, we want this mural.
[00:42:53]  Can you paint it on the side of our restaurant?
[00:42:55]  Which is quite nice.
[00:42:57]  And then the owner of the restaurant said that I was deeply moved by the tragedy of it and I think it would be good to commemorate her.
[00:43:07]  And so this Lebanese migrant actually cares more about the well being of her than, you know, Actual Americans.
[00:43:15]  He's probably just a normal person.
[00:43:16]  I would imagine so, yeah.
[00:43:18]  He's probably just being like, oh, well, that's tragic.
[00:43:20]  Yeah, funny enough, normal people don't like women randomly being murdered.
[00:43:24]  Why is the mayor standing with the murderer?
[00:43:27]  I mean, it's about as naked as it could possibly be in America at the minute that the Democrats would sooner stand with murderers who murder innocent young girls than actually have any proper principles and stand up for.
[00:43:40]  Well, when Zarutska.
[00:43:41]  It's because of their races.
[00:43:42]  Yeah, it's literally because of the race.
[00:43:44]  And this goes right to the top, obviously.
[00:43:46]  We saw when Zarutska's parents.
[00:43:48]  We were there when, what was it, Trump was giving a speech, like a State of the Union address, whichever it might have been, and none of the Democrats stood for them.
[00:43:57]  It was just horrible to see.
[00:43:59]  You know, no matter the faults of British Parliament, you wouldn't get that here.
[00:44:03]  And I think that it speaks of just how far gone they are.
[00:44:07]  Ukrainian refugee, isn't that part of the Democrat, like, you know, you've sent millions to them?
[00:44:11]  Yeah.
[00:44:12]  Well, they don't care about them anymore.
[00:44:14]  That was several news cycles ago now.
[00:44:17]  But.
[00:44:19]  We've seen lots and lots of vandalism of these murals because, of course, they're seen as inherently political now because one side of the aisle doesn't care about dead white women, apparently.
[00:44:31]  To be honest, it was inherently political all the way through this.
[00:44:36]  Political that he's on the streets, it's political that she's, you know, target.
[00:44:41]  Or politics created the situation in the first place, didn't it?
[00:44:44]  But it's quite a low that they're vandalizing these sorts of things.
[00:44:51]  There's something really upsetting about all of it as well, because for the ordinary person or a talented artist, they're able to make these wonderful murals in memory of her, but that's all they can do.
[00:45:05]  The larger stuff, as you say, Carl, the political stuff of why was he there?
[00:45:08]  Why do we allow all this to happen?
[00:45:10]  That is not going to be addressed.
[00:45:12]  The larger things that actually prevent the next arena have not been amended, have not been fixed.

=== Politics Behind Royal Assent (17:20) ===

[00:45:18]  And so it's just mural walls, but there's nothing else that anyone can do.
[00:45:22]  Yeah.
[00:45:24]  I mean, if there was true justice, the guy would already be dead, wouldn't he?
[00:45:29]  Absolutely.
[00:45:30]  But there are other murals that have survived, thankfully.
[00:45:35]  This is not a point to, I'm not telling you exactly where they are, but there's one in Las Vegas that is still okay.
[00:45:41]  It hasn't been taken down by Democrats.
[00:45:43]  I'm not going to play the video because I'm a little bit short of time, but it's not been vandalized either.
[00:45:49]  Here's another one in Dallas here.
[00:45:52]  Not even sure it necessarily looks like her, but they're doing a good job.
[00:45:57]  And then here's another one.
[00:45:59]  In Brooklyn, although apparently left wingers are furious about this one.
[00:46:04]  In fact, this was the picture which we saw in The Guardian, wasn't it?
[00:46:08]  That they were complaining about.
[00:46:11]  So it seems like the era of Floyd, where there were murals everywhere, Black Lives Matter everywhere, obviously the left doesn't afford the right the same opportunities to commemorate people that they believe deserve commemorating.
[00:46:29]  A drug addicted armed criminal, but they won't let you venerate an innocent girl who was murdered on her way home from work, says a lot about who they really are.
[00:46:45]  Okay.
[00:46:46]  Sigil Stone says the mayor wouldn't have complained if it were a mural of Leo Frank.
[00:46:52]  I don't know who that is.
[00:46:53]  Don't worry.
[00:46:54]  Don't worry.
[00:46:54]  It's deep plural there.
[00:46:55]  Don't worry.
[00:46:55]  Okay.
[00:46:56]  I recognize the name, so I'm sure I probably do know who that is.
[00:46:59]  Yeah, don't worry.
[00:47:01]  I'll explain to you afterwards.
[00:47:02]  Okay.
[00:47:05]  One tall order turned in right at the end of the NASA segment Friday.
[00:47:09]  Realised I sent a super chat about something that was discussed in the segment.
[00:47:12]  Whoops.
[00:47:13]  That's my bad.
[00:47:14]  Don't worry about it.
[00:47:15]  It's okay.
[00:47:18]  Sigilstone 17.
[00:47:20]  Okay.
[00:47:21]  I know what you're trying to say, and I did notice that, but I can't say it.
[00:47:27]  And then I've got one from your segment here, Carl, actually.
[00:47:31]  So, with the Greens getting rid of national borders, does that mean Northern Ireland goes back to Ireland?
[00:47:35]  Yeah, that's a cannibalism.
[00:47:36]  No, it means Ireland comes back to wars.
[00:47:40]  Oh, dear.
[00:47:43]  Look, it's me.
[00:47:44]  Yes.
[00:47:46]  All right, then, ladies and gentlemen, we need to talk about His Majesty the King because he seems to be rather failing in his duties to the people of this land, to his oldest, noblest subjects.
[00:47:59]  Because before there were colonies and empire and commonwealths, there was simply us, the people of this island, right?
[00:48:07]  Before we went seafaring around the world.
[00:48:10]  And, you know, think about the generations and generations.
[00:48:14]  Of Englishmen, Welshmen, Scotsmen, all the rest who have died on the battlefield in the name of the king, just over the centuries.
[00:48:23]  And I've traced my family history and I've found several people over the years that have died for the crown.
[00:48:28]  Right, absolutely.
[00:48:30]  And so I would just like to start by saying that, in a way, it's kind of remarkable when you look at the history of the 20th century and you just look at how Europe just became a graveyard of monarchies, how many we actually lost in there from the Russian.
[00:48:46]  Monarchy to the Austrian, to the German, to the Italian, to the Greek, and on and on it goes.
[00:48:51]  And yet somehow ours just managed to survive.
[00:48:54]  I mean, it helps when you're on the winning side of both of the world wars, I grant you.
[00:48:59]  However, that does mean that our monarchy has managed to survive into the absolute contemporary moment and become an extension of the power of the progressive state and of the multicultural project.
[00:49:14]  And I think that a lot of this comes down to the fact that.
[00:49:19]  The monarchy, like so many other parts in our institutions, it's a hang up of imperial command, foreign dominance, and multiculturalism speaks to oh, look at all these people from the Commonwealth and bring them in and they get to have their empire was diverse.
[00:49:35]  Right.
[00:49:35]  And we just get to play that entire game.
[00:49:38]  But the other thing as well is that the Queen herself was always praised by the establishment for being quote unquote neutral.
[00:49:49]  But the fact of the matter is that actually silence isn't neutrality.
[00:49:55]  Silence is just complicity.
[00:49:57]  It's just allowing this thing to happen.
[00:50:00]  And I would suggest that the demographic threat that has been unleashed on us makes what the Queen allowed to happen one of the worst things that any moniker has actually ever allowed to happen.
[00:50:14]  Well, you could describe her as Elizabeth the Absent, right?
[00:50:18]  Right.
[00:50:18]  When you hear descriptions of kings, you know, the great and things like that.
[00:50:22]  And, you know, the Lionheart.
[00:50:26]  Absolutely.
[00:50:26]  These are the sort of monikers you want to be labeled as.
[00:50:28]  You don't want to be labeled as just not doing anything.
[00:50:31]  No, you don't want to be absent.
[00:50:32]  And you certainly don't want to be absent from the live event, ladies and gentlemen, which is taking place this Saturday.
[00:50:38]  So if you haven't got your tickets, do go onto the website and get them now.
[00:50:42]  There will be wonderful events.
[00:50:44]  We'll have some great discussions about Star Wars or Ads Hour, drinks, beer, fun, all around.
[00:50:50]  Buy yourselves a ticket.
[00:50:52]  So I actually wanted to go back to this segment that you were on.
[00:50:57]  The other week, Josh, just going back to the House of Lords, because one of the things that we came to with all of that was that, look, at the end of the day, in the name of liberalism and democracy, we can abolish the hereditary peerages of the House of Lords.
[00:51:11]  And even were we to seek to change that or reverse it or, you know, restore the hereditary peers to the House of Lords after, like, say, Restore comes to power, it doesn't really matter.
[00:51:22]  And the reason it doesn't really matter is because the elites, the Lords, Who had that privilege, they no longer even believe in their own right to themselves.
[00:51:32]  Right.
[00:51:33]  They've accepted the sort of Whig history view and they don't even believe in their own entitlement to it now.
[00:51:40]  I've not heard one being in the media making the argument why they were a good thing.
[00:51:44]  Right.
[00:51:45]  So, no, no, look, we carry the institutional memory of the centuries with us and we are long term stewards of the country, thinking of its best interest long into the future.
[00:51:55]  Absolutely.
[00:51:56]  We actually have a role.
[00:51:57]  Not one of them has made that argument.
[00:51:58]  So, I guess they don't do that.
[00:51:59]  Yes.
[00:52:00]  And by dint of their own blood, they actually don't have to be like every other student politician, you know, like in the country.
[00:52:09]  Your own heritage invites you to believe in something more enduring, more sacred, something healthier to the constitution of England.
[00:52:19]  And yet they won't do that.
[00:52:21]  Well, so I think a part of it is that success in this day and age and part of our culture is to be a sort of everywhere man, a man of nowhere, and not be rooted to time and place.
[00:52:32]  To be like an international businessman is the highest status thing.
[00:52:36]  Absolutely.
[00:52:37]  And I think that this cultural view has basically eroded this bond between the aristocrats and their land and the people.
[00:52:46]  And they don't see themselves as obligated to anyone anymore other than themselves.
[00:52:50]  Yes.
[00:52:50]  And as the fountain from which all of this stems from the king, you know, it is His Majesty's government, His Majesty's opposition, all of this.
[00:52:59]  His Majesty's courts.
[00:53:00]  Exactly.
[00:53:01]  It is vital to.
[00:53:03]  Everything that allows Britain to function.
[00:53:07]  And the problem is as well that whereas the Queen was able to get away with quote unquote neutrality because she was, she came to the throne when she was about 20.
[00:53:18]  And so she'd never had the chance to have a personal opinion, really, before.
[00:53:24]  Whereas Charles had about 60 years worth of personal opinions.
[00:53:27]  And so we already knew exactly what they were terrible opinions.
[00:53:31]  Yeah, and they were all terrible.
[00:53:33]  Oh, God.
[00:53:34]  If he wasn't talking about architects, He was generally incorrect.
[00:53:38]  He was quite good on preserving the countryside as well.
[00:53:42]  But was he, though, if he's just going to allow it to be flooded with foreigners?
[00:53:46]  I mean, yeah, that's a fair point.
[00:53:48]  Right?
[00:53:49]  He talks a good game on that.
[00:53:50]  It's like there's a speech that you can find of him talking about perennialism as well, which, again, itself, it sounds good, but he's clearly not living by any of these ideals.
[00:54:00]  And so this really, really rubbed people up.
[00:54:04]  This got a lot of backlash when it came out and he said that he wasn't going to be giving an Easter message this year.
[00:54:10]  He's not friendly foreigners, by the way.
[00:54:12]  He's the head of the Church of England.
[00:54:13]  Right.
[00:54:13]  He's literally the defender of the faith.
[00:54:15]  It wasn't changed to faiths.
[00:54:16]  He wanted to, but it wasn't changed.
[00:54:18]  So we are a Protestant Christian country by dint of the fact that our head of state is literally the head of the church.
[00:54:25]  And he's just like, yeah, I just don't feel like an Easter message.
[00:54:28]  And you can see Nate underneath converted to Islam.
[00:54:30]  Well, this is a rumor that's been going around since the 90s that King Charles, Prince Charles at the time, had converted to Islam.
[00:54:36]  And he loves Islam.
[00:54:37]  It's insufferable.
[00:54:38]  Oh, it's iftar or whatever it is.
[00:54:40]  I'm going to go out and make food packages for them and stuff.
[00:54:43]  It's like, but no Easter message for the Christians.
[00:54:45]  It's just mental.
[00:54:46]  No, it absolutely is.
[00:54:48]  It's exactly the point I was going to make.
[00:54:50]  And if you, but also it comes down to the fact as well that, so giving an Easter message isn't actually a part of royal protocol.
[00:54:58]  The Queen only did it once in the 70 years that she was around.
[00:55:02]  But the reason why all of a sudden it's like, okay, Book Charles, you're not living in 1952.
[00:55:08]  Yes.
[00:55:08]  Right?
[00:55:09]  We're living in a time where the encroachment of every single minoritarian plea group and like, oh, give me this, give me that, wants something from you.
[00:55:18]  And Charles's position as the head of the Church of England and defender of the faith means that by necessity, by divine oath, he has to actually say, This faith matters more to me, and I am required to do more to defend it than Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, all of the others that have come to society.
[00:55:40]  But that can't be allowed to happen because multiculturalism demands that all of these be trapped.
[00:55:46]  He doesn't.
[00:55:47]  Sort of with a casual.
[00:55:49]  Yeah, he doesn't believe it.
[00:55:50]  No.
[00:55:50]  That's the thing.
[00:55:51]  He believes he's a universal king.
[00:55:53]  Yes.
[00:55:53]  So, okay, you're not the king of us then?
[00:55:56]  Yeah.
[00:55:56]  And so, yeah, I won't play the video, but yeah, last year, he hosted a iftar in Windsor Palace.
[00:56:05]  That's actually not acceptable.
[00:56:07]  I don't like it.
[00:56:07]  What else to say about it?
[00:56:09]  Your Majesty, that's just not acceptable.
[00:56:11]  And also, as well, whilst if the King himself isn't going to speak about the Christian faith and the importance of Easter, despite the coronation oath requiring him to do so, then it just allows other people to force their voices in and use it to.
[00:56:29]  To the Khan is.
[00:56:30]  Right.
[00:56:32]  But no, thank you to our Christian communities.
[00:56:34]  You're just a small blob amongst all of these other blobs, and you're all the same.
[00:56:38]  And Sadiq Khan is the authority over them all.
[00:56:41]  It's like, no, no, no.
[00:56:42]  I hate this.
[00:56:43]  Yeah, I hate it too.
[00:56:45]  And this is not to mention, and this is only to speak about Easter.
[00:56:49]  This is not to mention the fact that currently the crime and policing bill, which is the one that Antonia, I forget her surname, it's very foreign, from Wales put through with Stella Creasy, all about the recent monstrous developments on abortion.
[00:57:07]  It's like, okay, but Charles, you're the head of the Church of England.
[00:57:10]  And defender of the faith and a Muslim.
[00:57:13]  And you're going to have to give royal assent to this.
[00:57:16]  As a Muslim, Charles, do you agree with abortion?
[00:57:19]  I'm pretty sure you are.
[00:57:21]  And that too.
[00:57:22]  So come on, bro.
[00:57:23]  Yeah.
[00:57:25]  But it just makes this entire point that what is the point of the monarchy today?
[00:57:31]  If your voice has nothing to it, if you are just literally kind of your own auto pen for the entirety of the establishment and everything, every sinister thing.
[00:57:42]  That it signs off on, then why have the institution?
[00:57:45]  I would rather have a monarchy that had some sense of moral voice.
[00:57:50]  Because then, at least if it's having a voice, there is a discourse between king and subjects, right?
[00:57:56]  There is actually a dialogue going on there.
[00:57:59]  Whereas if there is just absolute silence from the very top, then that just constantly leaves you feeling.
[00:58:06]  It's also, sorry, yeah, you're right.
[00:58:08]  It's also kind of insufferable because at the end of the day, the king was always like a permanent representative.
[00:58:13]  Like, you know, he was the person that the average person was supposed to petition.
[00:58:17]  You know, you don't necessarily, you know, you've got all these sort of elites in the middle, but the king was always at least something above them that you could petition.
[00:58:24]  I mean, this is a long standing sort of tradition and theme in English folklore, right?
[00:58:31]  This is like Robin Hood just needs to get the king to understand.
[00:58:34]  Exactly.
[00:58:35]  And okay, well, that's gone now.
[00:58:37]  So great.
[00:58:37]  We get the worst of managerialism and a falsehood that reigns over the country now.
[00:58:43]  It's like, oh, God, I hate it.
[00:58:45]  The problem is that if the government is like a football team, then the king is basically a mascot, whereas ideally he should be the manager.
[00:58:54]  Yeah.
[00:58:55]  And this dynamic basically makes the position redundant.
[00:58:59]  So, what Charles is unwittingly doing by doing nothing is just making himself seem insignificant in the constitution of Britain when actually he needs to be doing things to validate his own existence in this day and age.
[00:59:14]  But he'd probably be like, great, so I can turn this into a caliphate then.
[00:59:18]  Maybe not him specifically.
[00:59:19]  I mean, yeah, yeah.
[00:59:23]  William, good news.
[00:59:24]  Here's your inheritance the caliphate.
[00:59:26]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:59:28]  But also the fact that, as I was saying, because he has had 60 years' worth of opinions as well, it means that even that distance, it can't be like, well, I don't know the king's mind.
[00:59:40]  No, we all know exactly what Charles thinks about all of these issues.
[00:59:44]  And that's another problem as well.
[00:59:46]  It means that he is not only just sort of like silently signing through.
[00:59:52]  So many of these terrible things, it means that he believes in them as well.
[00:59:57]  And where does that leave us on the other side of it, given that for this entire time we've been saying, we didn't consent to mass immigration, we didn't consent to all of the things that you've done to the country.
[01:00:08]  And given that they're so in favor of just doing things without consent, you would think these people were ardent monarchists, right?
[01:00:18]  It's like, well, you didn't vote for it.
[01:00:20]  So, but it's kind of this halfway house where they always pander to like, Public support, Vox Populi, you know, getting the votes are sacred democracy.
[01:00:30]  And on the other hand, we just have this guy at the top who is a part of this family and just signs off on it all, you know, willy nilly.
[01:00:38]  Cough, cough, the Stuart line still exists, just throwing it out there.
[01:00:41]  Yeah, yeah, well, you know.
[01:00:43]  They were hardly any good.
[01:00:45]  Why would you want them?
[01:00:46]  Well, they might peel right now.
[01:00:48]  It was turbulent, but I did.
[01:00:51]  So there was this open letter to the king because it's got so bad.
[01:00:55]  You can tell this was from just last month by Bishop Kieran H. Dewar, who is a missionary bishop and is currently at the diocese in Providence.
[01:01:06]  And I thought we'd read through some of this because it is very well worded.
[01:01:09]  And just stop me if you feel like you have something you want to come in with.
[01:01:12]  Well, before we begin, apparently, way back in, like you said, 1971, He did support the kind of.
[01:01:23]  He opposed the wider liberalization of the culture that was at the time associated with anti abortion activism.
[01:01:30]  So, and when you tie that to the sort of perennialism that he has spoken about, it makes it sound like, yeah, he is a bit more socially conservative, actually.
[01:01:40]  But it's an unpopular thing to do, it's unfashionable.
[01:01:43]  And so he's just decided, well, I just convert to Islam and be a green candidate.
[01:01:48]  Sorry.
[01:01:49]  No, no, before I read, there's an interesting point there as well, because the last time that a monarch decided not to give royal assent to a bill that had been put before them was all the way back in 1708, during the reign of Queen Anne.
[01:02:02]  And that was on the advice of her ministers, and actually it ended up sinking the entire bill.
[01:02:08]  Now, there is a question I've seen people online saying, well, he could just do that now, because technically he could.
[01:02:14]  I mean, it's unthinkable in the modern constitutional settlement, but actually he could do it.
[01:02:20]  And the crime and policing bill, with that particular power that it has on abortion, would be a remarkable test to do it.
[01:02:26]  Because as we pulled up when we were doing that segment at the time, only 1% of the public was in favour of that.
[01:02:33]  And so, if the king were willing to shoot down something that 99% of the public were.

=== Can The King Veto Bills (14:41) ===

[01:02:38]  You couldn't have a better opportunity.
[01:02:40]  Exactly.
[01:02:41]  But he won't do it.
[01:02:42]  That's how, in the constitutional setup that we have, that would be our system working optimally, is that when.
[01:02:51]  Parliament does something against the interests of the British people, the king is a check on their power.
[01:02:56]  That would be literally meant to be our permanent representative of government.
[01:02:59]  Exactly.
[01:02:59]  Yes.
[01:03:01]  And you couldn't ask 99% against.
[01:03:04]  Exactly.
[01:03:04]  Come on.
[01:03:04]  It's an open goal.
[01:03:06]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:03:06]  It really is.
[01:03:08]  So he goes on to say, Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as Bishop of Christchurch, cannot remain silent whilst the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.
[01:03:23]  Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal.
[01:03:28]  If I refuse to speak to your majesty now, this would be such a moment.
[01:03:32]  For more than a thousand years, the crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith.
[01:03:39]  The laws of this land were shaped by it.
[01:03:41]  The liberties of our people were nurtured by it.
[01:03:44]  The conscience of our civilization was formed by it.
[01:03:47]  From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preachings of the reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the gospel to the ends of the earth, The Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain, it has defined her.
[01:04:02]  Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded.
[01:04:07]  Across the institutions of this nation, there is a growing hostility towards the faith that built them.
[01:04:12]  Christian belief is mocked in the public square.
[01:04:14]  Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance.
[01:04:17]  Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age.
[01:04:23]  Within the very church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the gospel.
[01:04:34]  And Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation.
[01:04:46]  And he goes on to talk about the fact that basically what's happening is the state is preparing itself to become a post Christian one.
[01:04:54]  Yes.
[01:04:54]  That's, of course, where all of this is leading to.
[01:04:57]  And it's in this context that he writes to His Majesty for the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis.
[01:05:05]  It cannot simply stand aside and let it happen.
[01:05:08]  It has.
[01:05:10]  The highest moral obligation, the king has the highest moral obligation more than any man in England to do something about this.
[01:05:19]  And yet, and it goes on to say, the sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning defender of the faith.
[01:05:29]  Those words are not decorative, they are a charge.
[01:05:32]  They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation.
[01:05:43]  Yet many among your subjects now ask with increasing anxiety who will defend that inheritance today.
[01:05:50]  They see a nation drifting from its foundations and they ask whether the crown will remain silent whilst the inheritance is dismantled.
[01:05:57]  Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality.
[01:06:03]  It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant reformed religion established by law.
[01:06:11]  Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign.
[01:06:14]  They remind the crown that its authority is not merely constitutional, but moral.
[01:06:19]  The monarchy is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.
[01:06:28]  And he goes, This is great.
[01:06:31]  The tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared, nor should it.
[01:06:35]  For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the church must speak, not with hostility, but with holy clarity.
[01:06:44]  And so I write this to you.
[01:06:46]  I write to say this, Your Majesty, the Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault.
[01:06:54]  And this is all very, very true.
[01:06:56]  I think he makes a point very well.
[01:06:58]  Please feel free to read the rest of it in your own time.
[01:07:02]  But what, really, my point and the reason I wanted to read that so extensively is what king could refuse this?
[01:07:12]  What does it say about a king to read that and continue on the current course?
[01:07:18]  He doesn't believe.
[01:07:19]  No.
[01:07:19]  He's a liberal.
[01:07:20]  He doesn't believe in the legitimacy of his own position.
[01:07:23]  Right.
[01:07:23]  That's the problem that they have.
[01:07:25]  So, I mean, you know, at the end of the day, when the Republicans finally dethrone you, Charles, you know, or your descendants.
[01:07:35]  And the thing is, as well, there are so many things to read into this particular.
[01:07:38]  If we go to this Ipsos poll, this is back in 2022.
[01:07:41]  It was the last time that.
[01:07:43]  Ipsos ran the poll when Her Late Majesty was still alive.
[01:07:46]  And we can see here that she had an 86% approval rating throughout the kingdom.
[01:07:51]  And you'll see there that Prince Charles back then had 65%.
[01:07:55]  So still generally popular, right?
[01:07:59]  Two thirds majority.
[01:08:00]  You know, and that's not considering all of the particular things in Charles's history that I, as Azuma, do not give a damn about, such as Diana and all the rest of it, right?
[01:08:11]  I mean, he did also get embroiled in a few political scandals, like there was the The scandal known as the Black Spider Memos, nicknamed from his bad handwriting, which me and him have in common.
[01:08:23]  Yeah, me too.
[01:08:24]  But he was caught writing to ministers, basically trying to advise them how they should do things, which suggests that he's got the.
[01:08:31]  Is that terrible?
[01:08:32]  No.
[01:08:33]  No, it's not.
[01:08:34]  But it's a big deal at the time.
[01:08:36]  But it suggests that he has an impulse to get involved, at the very least, or at least he did at one point.
[01:08:43]  But then, when we compare that to a more recent poll and we see how he's declined since, we can see that he's now on 48% after being king for only a few years.
[01:08:53]  And we can see as well that even William's popularity, though still high, has gone down by 20 points from what it was previously, too.
[01:09:01]  And it comes down to that.
[01:09:03]  Charles is sinking the monarchy.
[01:09:04]  Right.
[01:09:05]  I mean, to be honest with you, I really want to question the 5% of people who have a favorable view of Abraham.
[01:09:13]  I mean, I really want to hear their case.
[01:09:16]  I wonder what the overlap with the 5% of Greens who reform who want Greens in charges.
[01:09:22]  Yeah.
[01:09:22]  Maybe they think Andrew's a bit of a player.
[01:09:25]  I don't know.
[01:09:26]  I hesitate to guess.
[01:09:28]  But the larger point, of course, is that as well, this speaks to so many, there are so many reasons that could have caused this.
[01:09:35]  I mean, for the start, the neutrality that the Queen was so heralded for and that it was just magnificent how neutral she was.
[01:09:43]  Yeah, when you've got.
[01:09:45]  Basically, you know, 50 years of your reign in a homogenous society.
[01:09:49]  Yeah, I imagine, you know, just not being post war as well.
[01:09:53]  So we're not really getting into anything massive.
[01:09:55]  Right.
[01:09:55]  You know, so it's quite easy.
[01:09:56]  But I mean, like, the thing about Charles as well, like, he, there are ways that he could bring this back.
[01:10:02]  I mean, like, his treatment of Andrew was actually really good.
[01:10:06]  He was immediately on it.
[01:10:07]  It's like, no, out of the palace, removing your title, you're out of the palace.
[01:10:10]  Which the queen would never do.
[01:10:11]  She would never have done it.
[01:10:12]  Yeah.
[01:10:12]  And so he actually was decisive on that.
[01:10:15]  And it's like, this was the right thing to do.
[01:10:17]  Okay, great.
[01:10:18]  You know, but look at it, the whole thing is just down.
[01:10:20]  Well, he's like the Keir Starmer of monarchy, isn't he?
[01:10:23]  Yeah.
[01:10:24]  But I just wanted to add with Elizabeth the fact that she oversaw the decline of our empire from one of the most powerful in the world, at least on paper at the time, in 1945 ish.
[01:10:37]  Yeah.
[01:10:38]  But, you know, we lost so many different countries over the course of her reign.
[01:10:43]  And some of it was already set in motion before she got into office because, of course, World War I and II.
[01:10:48]  But at the same time, Overseeing gradual decline and then doing nothing about it is not something to celebrate, I don't think.
[01:10:56]  Yeah.
[01:10:57]  Well, it's one thing to be the monarch over a period of decolonization.
[01:11:02]  It's another thing to be the monarch of decolonization and the colonization of Britain simultaneously.
[01:11:10]  And that's really the result, I think, in part of what we're seeing here as well, because although Charles has done it, it's very strange in a way, because you see this in the kind of same way that you do with reform whenever they have elections, right?
[01:11:22]  They're always.
[01:11:22]  Giving lip service to those on the left, even though they always have stronger progressive voices to champion them.
[01:11:29]  And this is what Charles has done constantly pandered to the left when his natural constituency, the natural monarchists, are obviously on the right of British politics.
[01:11:39]  And the other thing is, as well, we've spent decades now importing millions and millions of people who are not tied to the land, so they don't see the monarchy reflected in their own history.
[01:11:49]  They've no reason to feel any particular loyalty towards it.
[01:11:54]  Well, I think.
[01:11:55]  One of the most pervasive things that has affected a lot of hierarchy in Britain is this notion of Tony Blair moving Labour to the centre ground and winning a landslide election because of it.
[01:12:06]  And so everyone in the mainstream seems to think that, well, if I pander to people who are normally my opponents, that is how I maximise my own self interest, when actually that's not the case.
[01:12:19]  Absolutely.
[01:12:20]  So, I mean, continue.
[01:12:23]  I agree with you.
[01:12:24]  There are ways he could pull it back, but.
[01:12:26]  Just looking at that, you think to yourself, well, it's got to be on William, right?
[01:12:30]  Like, William is the most popular guy still in it.
[01:12:33]  And also, as well, Kate is also very popular as well.
[01:12:36]  And so, between them, they have the potential to change course.
[01:12:40]  But I don't think they will.
[01:12:42]  But we'll talk about this because it was doing the rounds where it was revealed that Prince William confirms that he has a quiet faith and is to give a new commitment to the church.
[01:12:51]  Well, it's more than Charles can do.
[01:12:53]  Apparently so.
[01:12:55]  Okay, great.
[01:12:56]  At least the future head of the Church of England.
[01:12:59]  I am a Christian.
[01:13:00]  Oh, thank God.
[01:13:02]  The bare minimum, Your Majesty.
[01:13:03]  Yeah, thank you.
[01:13:05]  But apparently, there was always a bit of a question mark over William's faith.
[01:13:10]  Really?
[01:13:10]  And yeah, it goes on to say, where have we heard that before?
[01:13:13]  Yeah, he's a product of modernity.
[01:13:15]  Yeah, everyone else, I suppose.
[01:13:16]  But a source close to Le Prince said this week is an opportunity to be very clear in people's minds when he walks into Canterbury Cathedral or of where he stands.
[01:13:26]  For him, it is a drawing of the line in the sand of where he's at.
[01:13:30]  And it's really important that the question over his commitment to the church is cleared up.
[01:13:35]  His feeling is, I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.
[01:13:38]  I want to support it, and this is an important aspect of my role and the next role, and I will take it very seriously in my own way.
[01:13:47]  But it just speaks to, like, oh, well, this is on the job application, so I just kind of have to do this thing.
[01:13:53]  There's no gusto, there's no vitality behind it, there's no true conviction.
[01:13:58]  And an aide to William told the Sunday Times the Prince of Wales' commitment to the Church of England is sometimes quieter than people expect.
[01:14:07]  And for that reason, it is not always fully understood.
[01:14:10]  Those who know him will recognize that his connection to the church and to the sense of duty that comes with it runs deep and is grounded in something personal and sincere.
[01:14:20]  Faith, service, and responsibility are themes that have long shaped the role he will one day inherit.
[01:14:27]  And these are the things he approaches in his own thoughtful way.
[01:14:30]  At least he's not praising Islam.
[01:14:33]  Well, I mean, at least he has in the past.
[01:14:36]  So, I mean, some of the engagement accounts have been going around and pulling up old clips of William where he talks about Islam being a religion of peace.
[01:14:45]  But to be honest, this has provided us with a solution, which is that I think in a shock turn events, we should just make John Cleese the defender of the Christian faith in England, to be honest with you.
[01:14:56]  Well, he has been on a personal crusade about this recently, hasn't he?
[01:15:00]  But how have we got here?
[01:15:01]  How have we got to the guy who helped make Monty Python?
[01:15:05]  I trust more to steward Christianity in Britain than I do those who swear sacred oaths to defend it.
[01:15:12]  And I would just end as well on the rolling part about Easter, which is that I think that Nick really nails it here when he says that the king won't give an Easter message, the PM can't even say Christians, the conservatives offer something vague about renewal, also Kemi's campaign slogan, and Restorm come out with some guff about Judeo-Christian culture.
[01:15:32]  Once again, only Rupert and Restore actually get it.
[01:15:36]  And I suppose that I will just conclude with the thoughts that if His Majesty and succeeding monarchs and Elizabeth, who we've just had, are truly willing to just accept whichever prime minister wins the next general election,
[01:15:51]  then hopefully, if we, God willing, get a restore government the next time round and it's Rupert Lowe meeting the king, then, well, maybe we'll see the royal family start to take their obligations and oaths a little more seriously.
[01:16:07]  I'd like to see Charlie give Charles a kick up the arse.
[01:16:10]  Yeah.
[01:16:11]  Yeah.
[01:16:12]  Charles, meet Charlie.
[01:16:16]  Yeah, I can't read that one, Corundum, but thank you for the $5.
[01:16:23]  And Okador says sorry, it's bouncing about a bit.
[01:16:29]  Okador says Did the Boris wave start before or after the Queen died?
[01:16:33]  During, just before, actually.
[01:16:35]  Just before.
[01:16:36]  But the thing is, it wasn't evident that the Boris wave was happening because everyone was locked down.
[01:16:39]  Yeah.
[01:16:40]  So it was one of those things that was kind of snuck under.
[01:16:43]  Yeah.
[01:16:43]  And then we emerged from our homes.
[01:16:44]  It's like it's even more foreign.
[01:16:46]  Yeah.
[01:16:47]  Yeah.
[01:16:48]  Cranky Texan for $5.
[01:16:50]  Thank you.
[01:16:50]  Says the concepts of anti Semitism and Islamophobia are legal and rhetorical weapons.
[01:16:56]  There's no analogous concept that is allowed to exist for Christians.
[01:17:00]  Again, this is not a coincidence.
[01:17:02]  True.
[01:17:02]  And the Sigil Stone for $2 says don't forget Cadbury is deathly scared of putting Easter on anything.
[01:17:08]  Well, that sounds cruel.
[01:17:08]  I mean, it you would think that would be, you know, the Americans would be even more evangelical about it.
[01:17:17]  I know, but I'm just saying that the quality of their chocolate's gone down.

=== Snuck Under Lockdown Rules (03:29) ===

[01:17:20]  It has.
[01:17:20]  Haven't they changed to, like, palm oil or something?
[01:17:22]  Yes.
[01:17:23]  It's gross.
[01:17:24]  Oh, no.
[01:17:24]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:17:26]  Dreadful.
[01:17:26]  I'll have no part in it.
[01:17:28]  Yeah.
[01:17:29]  Disappointment.
[01:17:30]  Okay.
[01:17:30]  Video comments, Samson.
[01:17:31]  Thank you.
[01:17:32]  Just like an opening scene in The Iron Lady.
[01:17:35]  People don't think anymore, they feel.
[01:17:38]  The British public are presented with a sewerage sluice of feelings by the mainstream media.
[01:17:42]  Despite what the story being put across is, whether news or drama, the emotional angle is amped up to get you to ignore the underlying truths.
[01:17:50]  But, as Red Letter Media so skillfully observed, Some so subtle you might not have even noticed, but your brain did.
[01:18:00]  It was going so well until he brought up Red Letter Media.
[01:18:03]  I'm sorry for your loss.
[01:18:06]  Next one.
[01:18:07]  Thank you.
[01:18:15]  Just looking at that, thinking, doesn't this just need more Somalians?
[01:18:18]  It's just perfect, isn't it?
[01:18:19]  I was just thinking that that's a flood risk.
[01:18:22]  I don't think it is.
[01:18:25]  If that canal floods, that house is going underwater.
[01:18:29]  Probably been there for a long time.
[01:18:40]  I'll tell you what, that looks like a wonderful day out.
[01:18:43]  Also, very brave of you to cycle on a narrow path next to water whilst recording at the same time.
[01:18:50]  I don't cycle.
[01:18:51]  I don't trust myself after 30 years on earth of competently riding a bike.
[01:18:55]  Never cycled.
[01:18:56]  I have cycled.
[01:18:57]  I can cycle.
[01:18:58]  You can ride a bike.
[01:18:59]  I just choose not to.
[01:19:00]  Okay.
[01:19:01]  That's what they all say.
[01:19:04]  Okay, next.
[01:19:05]  Morale will improve once we, with cats.
[01:19:11]  You hear me?
[01:19:12]  We will have a proof of our life cats.
[01:19:17]  We will continue to have improved morale with more banana cats.
[01:19:24]  I'm amazed your cat is ignoring that banana costume because my experience of cats is that to put a cat into that costume or whilst they're in it, it would become the most feral animal imaginable.
[01:19:36]  I can only assume the cat is very used to the banana costume by this point.
[01:19:40]  Very patient cat.
[01:19:41]  Yes.
[01:19:43]  You know, Lothetis, I don't think I do enough palaces and stately homes in my exploration of England.
[01:19:51]  Right here is Charlecot Park, owned by the Lucy family for 900 years.
[01:19:56]  Queen Elizabeth I stayed here for two days in one of her progresses.
[01:20:01]  Legend has it that William Shakespeare was caught illegally poaching on these lands.
[01:20:10]  Hello, sheepy.
[01:20:13]  I agree.
[01:20:14]  You need to do more of those.
[01:20:15]  Yeah, definitely.
[01:20:16]  That looks wonderful.
[01:20:17]  I recognize it from BBC TV shows.
[01:20:21]  You know how you go to a stately home and you'll be like, I've seen this on television before.
[01:20:27]  Yes.
[01:20:27]  You ever get that?
[01:20:28]  I've had it a few times recently.
[01:20:29]  Have you ever been to Chatsworth up in Yorkshire?
[01:20:32]  That's where the Devonshire family used to own it.
[01:20:35]  Oh, it's just remarkable.
[01:20:36]  Every detail of it is just astonishing.
[01:20:39]  Ann Moss, Swindon Grievance Factory worker, says.
[01:20:43]  American President Jimmy Carter implemented a 55 mile an hour speed limit to save energy.
[01:20:47]  He was one term president.

=== Why Gold Makes No Sense (03:19) ===

[01:20:49]  His party was soundly defeated in the polls.
[01:20:51]  And since then, the speed limit on freeways in America has gone up by state to a minimum of 65 up to 80 miles an hour, depending on the state.
[01:21:00]  Yeah, I remember when I was younger, just learning, like, you know, I must have been like 16, 17 or something, learning that it was 55 miles an hour on like the long American highways going across the continent.
[01:21:11]  I'm like, Jesus, that must have been awful.
[01:21:13]  Yeah, it's mad to me that you have this massive, long, straight line.
[01:21:17]  Yeah.
[01:21:17]  And you're just like, yeah, you've got to go 55 miles an hour.
[01:21:21]  Whereas Britain's roads were all basically built about 500 years ago and haven't been updated since.
[01:21:26]  And we can go faster than that.
[01:21:28]  It doesn't make any sense.
[01:21:29]  Omar says I'm seeing parallels between vibe based politics and AI coding.
[01:21:33]  There's enough for walking shell to lure investors or voters, but everything under the hood is incoherent garbage.
[01:21:38]  And it's honestly a miracle that it functions at all.
[01:21:41]  Describing all of our society, to be honest.
[01:21:43]  Yeah, but I think that's a fair point.
[01:21:47]  But this is the thing.
[01:21:51]  There's a part of me that kind of wants to see a Green Party government at this point, just because, okay, go on, let's see what happens.
[01:21:57]  It's going to be atrocious.
[01:21:59]  But we're going to be a failed state.
[01:22:01]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:22:02]  In 30 years.
[01:22:03]  But I'm kind of in favor of rubbing in people's faces, right?
[01:22:05]  It's like, no, no, this is what you vote for.
[01:22:08]  Okay, you get what you deserve.
[01:22:10]  And when everyone's like, okay, but this is abominable, it's like, well, there we go.
[01:22:13]  I voted for the furthest right party I could find because I'm not a free start.
[01:22:21]  Angel Brain says, I think one of the biggest problems of these idiots in charge is they really have no concept of the difference between wages and wealth.
[01:22:27]  Both are earned, but the latter has forward thinking, and the former is dynamic and can't plan because it's totally at the mercy of state decisions and the amount of taxes that they levy on you.
[01:22:36]  So, this is why they want any concept of wealth creation being removed because the state must control the forward direction and must control your conceptions.
[01:22:44]  They have to remove the concept of wealth because it contains the concept of work in the past leading to future results.
[01:22:49]  And they can't allow this.
[01:22:51]  They control the changing day and they decide what each day brings.
[01:22:54]  Yeah, there's definitely something to this.
[01:22:57]  But I think that they also, like, the conception they have of billionaires is like elves or something in Lord of the Rings.
[01:23:05]  You know, they live on a remote island somewhere and they're completely disconnected from reality.
[01:23:11]  And it's like, yeah, but a lot of the billionaires didn't start as billionaires.
[01:23:15]  Look, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates.
[01:23:18]  Like, none of them, they're not hereditary aristocracy.
[01:23:21]  They're people who built something that just loads of people really like.
[01:23:24]  You know, and like, and another thing as well, they've got this concept that's basically all Scrooge McDuck swimming around in a vat of gold.
[01:23:31]  It's like, no, that's literally tens of thousands of jobs you're attacking by doing this.
[01:23:36]  You know, but anyway.
[01:23:37]  Well, the entire economy is structured so that people spend money.
[01:23:40]  So it wouldn't make any sense if you're rich to sit on a big pile of gold.
[01:23:43]  Well, actually, if it were actual gold, it would make sense.
[01:23:46]  Sure, yeah.
[01:23:47]  But fiat currency, it wouldn't make any sense for them to have large quantities of that in their bank account because it would just be their net worth declining every second.
[01:23:56]  As it gets devalued.
[01:23:58]  So it's all invested.
[01:23:59]  Economic Zone 17 says, Carl, a wealth tax is 1% a year, and every year it will go up, and the threshold for paying it will come down.
[01:24:05]  It really is a destructive policy that's failed in multiple countries.
[01:24:07]  Yeah, look, I'm not an economist.

=== Dissolving The Monarchy (05:51) ===

[01:24:09]  I'm not saying that, you know, that's not the case.
[01:24:10]  But when in the vibe based regime, when you hear it, you're like, yeah, maybe, you know, because I'm not an economist, you know, so that's why I'll be putting Zach Polensky in the next election.
[01:24:21]  But it would just be 1% continually destroying, you know, the highest earning 1%.
[01:24:28]  It's like a salami slicing machine.
[01:24:30]  Yeah, and it will slowly work its way down to the middle class, basically.
[01:24:35]  Yeah, it's terrible.
[01:24:36]  Terrible.
[01:24:37]  Arizona Desert Rat says the guy's mother, talking about the arena segment, also called the police several times and said he was dangerous and shouldn't be out in the streets.
[01:24:45]  Yes, but again, he's black.
[01:24:49]  So what are you going to do?
[01:24:52]  It's a human right to murder random people.
[01:24:54]  Yeah, but the thing is, that's kind of what the Democrats think.
[01:24:58]  It is.
[01:24:59]  It's a human right to murder white people.
[01:25:00]  And the thing about arena, the really terrible thing about it is, it's literally just the skin color.
[01:25:07]  This comes down to, you know, it's not like you can say, oh, she's part of like the wasp aristocratic families who owned slaves, you know, 300 years ago or something.
[01:25:15]  You can't connect her to any of that.
[01:25:16]  She's Ukrainian.
[01:25:17]  They've never had an empire, they've never done anything.
[01:25:20]  Exactly.
[01:25:20]  There's no justification for it either way.
[01:25:22]  No, of course.
[01:25:24]  I'm not saying it can be justified, but there's no logic in it other than she has the wrong color skin and this guy was looking for someone with the wrong color skin to murder, right?
[01:25:32]  That's all it comes down to.
[01:25:34]  You know, he can't possibly have known something about her.
[01:25:36]  He can't possibly have connected her to historic injustice or anything like this.
[01:25:41]  There's no rationale other than just, I hate white people and I want to murder them.
[01:25:45]  Well, the number of videos I've seen of black people just randomly attacking white people for no reason whatsoever, it's a wonder that people aren't terrified of them already.
[01:25:54]  Yeah.
[01:25:54]  Well, it's obviously the media molly coddling.
[01:25:56]  Yeah.
[01:25:57]  Michael says the tragedy of Verena is that she came to the US to escape a war and then she gets killed by some random scumbag thousands of miles from a war zone.
[01:26:04]  Well, I mean, he was fighting a war, you know, like, you know, in his mind.
[01:26:09]  There's a war on white people going on, and he's a foot soldier.
[01:26:12]  Yeah.
[01:26:13]  Well, you only need to see how massively the murder rate skyrocketed post 2020 in Black Lives Matter.
[01:26:20]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:26:22]  Henry says the murals are showing why Banksy is a regime approved shill.
[01:26:25]  This is what happens when you go against the approved narratives.
[01:26:28]  Yeah, because it casts the black community in a negative light.
[01:26:31]  And, you know.
[01:26:34]  Zesty says it is accordingly our wish and command that the English church shall be free and that men in our Kingdom shall have and keep all of these liberties, rights, and concessions well and peaceably in their fullness and entirety for them and their heirs, and us and our heirs in all things and all places forever.
[01:26:51]  Magna Carta 1215.
[01:26:52]  Yeah, well, there's a reason why they're desperately trying to undermine every clause of the Magna Carta.
[01:26:57]  I think only three still obtain at this point.
[01:27:01]  Michael says England needs a new Cromwell.
[01:27:03]  Well, there is a reason he's been reappraised recently.
[01:27:08]  Yeah, there really is.
[01:27:11]  Isn't Rupert Lowe, wasn't his dog called Cromwell?
[01:27:14]  And Cromwell's, I think, is one of his heroes as well.
[01:27:18]  Yeah, in the interview in The Last Islander, he's like, yeah, Cromwell's one of my heroes.
[01:27:21]  Yeah.
[01:27:22]  Not a fan of Christmas, then, I take it.
[01:27:24]  Well, to be honest with you, it's more about putting people in the place.
[01:27:27]  I know, I'm joking.
[01:27:30]  Just cleaning up the corruption.
[01:27:31]  There is something interesting, though, in the historical figure of Cromwell, though.
[01:27:36]  The idea of just like, for this one blip in English history, there was just a Commonwealth there.
[01:27:42]  And actually, you know, though it was divisive.
[01:27:45]  It wasn't an absolute car crash.
[01:27:47]  And it goes to show you as well that actually.
[01:27:50]  England is not solely defined by just having a monarch, right?
[01:27:56]  You know, like Richard Harris says in the film, the king is not England.
[01:27:59]  England is all of its people, right?
[01:28:02]  And whatever works best for them.
[01:28:04]  Yeah.
[01:28:05]  Michael says say what you want about Elizabeth, but she did serve her country in wartime and they've accepted the decline of empire, but Charles is actively selling out his country.
[01:28:13]  Yeah, I always feel a bit bad for the critiques of Elizabeth on this because essentially she would have been one young woman strolling east of the tide.
[01:28:22]  Of modernity that was washing over the West, right?
[01:28:25]  Like, you know, it would have been a huge undertaking to have opposed everything that was going on.
[01:28:34]  And I can understand why she didn't.
[01:28:35]  And it would have required her to basically just rewrite royal protocol for how to manage British politics.
[01:28:42]  It would have been mad.
[01:28:42]  It would have been absolutely mad.
[01:28:44]  And, you know, you've got like, you know, the Americans busy decolonizing our empire and stuff like that.
[01:28:48]  It's like, right, you're going to go against that, are you?
[01:28:50]  Like, this is a, you know, I think it's too much to ask, to be fair.
[01:28:56]  And so I can understand why she didn't.
[01:28:59]  That's a random name, says.
[01:29:01]  I'm not sure what Luca means by being on the winning side of both world wars.
[01:29:03]  Well, I mean, at least putatively, right?
[01:29:05]  Yeah.
[01:29:06]  In name only.
[01:29:07]  Yeah.
[01:29:07]  I just mean in the sense, oh, Mr. Kaiser, you lost that war.
[01:29:12]  You're illegitimate now.
[01:29:13]  Go into exile.
[01:29:14]  Like, no, we won both times, so our institutions stayed intact.
[01:29:17]  Yeah, but he says, as far as I'm concerned, all European nations everywhere lost both these wars.
[01:29:22]  We self destructed, which allowed our enemies to rise in power.
[01:29:24]  I mean, that's not wrong.
[01:29:25]  No, it's true.
[01:29:26]  That's true.
[01:29:27]  If I had a time machine, I would go back and just.
[01:29:30]  Say to was it Gavrilo Princip, just don't do it, all right?
[01:29:34]  You don't know what you're doing.
[01:29:36]  Well, I mean, it was probably inevitable.
[01:29:39]  Yeah, if it wasn't him, it would have been something.
[01:29:41]  He's not the only random, but that was the anarchist, right?
[01:29:44]  Who murdered the black, yeah, the Serbian nationalists.
[01:29:48]  Oh, it was a nationalist, was it, right?
[01:29:50]  Okay, I can't remember because it's kind of breakaway from the Austro Hungarian Empire, I think.
[01:29:54]  Archduke Franz Ferdinand, yeah, because but there were so many like random factions who produced like random murderers.

=== Legitimacy After Lost Wars (01:00) ===

[01:30:01]  It's like, okay, whatever.
[01:30:03]  Michael says, the Duchy of Cornwall changes, charges fortunes to live in moldy houses.
[01:30:08]  And Charlie knew that he doesn't embody the principles of just regal rule.
[01:30:12]  And he was allowed to become this way by his parents and advisors.
[01:30:15]  It's almost like they want demoralization with dissolution of the monarchy.
[01:30:19]  I think it's more just they just don't believe.
[01:30:21]  You know, I genuinely think they just don't believe it.
[01:30:23]  The spark is just gone from them.
[01:30:25]  And they're saddled with this giant historic institution that they're like, okay, well, we've got to live within this, but we just.
[01:30:34]  Can't find it in ourselves to bring forth any authentic emotion about it.
[01:30:39]  And so it's just going through the motions.
[01:30:41]  And that can probably happen for hundreds of years as well, by the way.
[01:30:44]  You know, it's entirely likely they'll just go through the motions for hundreds of years until it's finally put out of this misery.
[01:30:49]  So, anyway.
[01:30:51]  Well, there we go.
[01:30:51]  That's all we've got time for.
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