Harry and Stelios dissect Labour's risky May 7th election strategy, predicting massive seat losses as Reform UK and the Greens capitalize on voter dissatisfaction with pensioner-led governance. They analyze the SNP's likely Scottish majority despite housing crises and corruption scandals, then pivot to Democrat Eric Swalwell's resignation amid unproven sexual misconduct allegations. While Kash Patel pushes a new narrative, hosts Lindy Lee and others highlight Democratic hypocrisy regarding Trump versus Swalwell, arguing the system selects narcissists over virtue. Ultimately, the episode suggests political survival often trumps moral integrity across party lines. [Automatically generated summary]
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Reform's Unintended Consequences00:14:19
Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1406.
I'm your host, Harry, joined today by Stelios.
Hello, everyone.
And Josh.
Hello there.
Do not worry, Stelios is not leaving.
That is not what was being hinted at.
But other than that, important announcement.
I wanted to let everybody know.
I was about to say it.
Oh, well, I cut you off there, Stelios.
So beat you to the punch.
You'll have to be a bit faster next time.
Other than that, important news.
We're also going to be talking about Labour's new advert.
Campaign to try and win over voters before the council elections on the 7th of May.
We're going to be talking about why Scotland will never have its freedom, presented, I believe, by a true Scotsman himself.
I'm no true Scotsman.
I'm half Scottish.
There you go.
And you're going to be talking to us about the scandal that destroyed a prominent Democrat.
Yep.
All right.
And with that, let's get straight into the news then.
So, as just mentioned, the council elections are coming up, 7th of May.
Everybody's excited.
Everybody is preparing their campaign measures.
It's starting to go into the overdrive.
The Green Party have sent out a new wave of representatives to a whole host of exotic gay bathhouses around the country.
The Conservatives.
Reform have announced an even browner section of candidates that they're announcing today, presumably.
And finally, Labour have decided to release an exciting new campaign video, uncensored, uncut, uncensored for your viewing pleasure.
Let's take a look at it, shall we?
Uh oh.
Funding of the NHS is a total failure.
The French do it much better with less funding.
There's a lesson there.
If you can afford it, you pay.
If you can't, you don't.
It works incredibly well.
I do not want it funded through general taxation.
It doesn't work.
It's not working.
I think we're going to have to move to an insurance based system of healthcare.
It's highly likely that the COVID vaccines have been a factor, a significant factor, in the cancer of members of the royal family.
Depression isn't real!
It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people that, you know, basically are anything other than white.
You know what?
Maybe I was wrong about that.
London has become a third world shithole.
Fact!
People from other religions should eat bacon for a month.
To prove their Christian sincerity and credentials.
I'm a racist and I'm proud of it.
No, this is not Labour coming out with an entire new manifesto.
This is them instead quoting supposed quotes from Reform UK politicians.
Now, it's an interesting scare ad.
What do you chaps think of it so far?
I think it's going to help the Labour Party because it's going to fool people into thinking that this is their new platform.
She does drop the act by the end of it and say, I don't believe anything that I just said.
But no, this is just some random London actress.
I could tell it was some sort of amateur actress.
The poor lady got roped into this, I imagine.
She's probably.
I don't know if she got roped into it.
She comes across very sincere at the end of it.
Okay.
Let's just take a look where she.
It's a little bit creepy as well.
Where she drops the act.
I don't believe any of what I've just said.
But you should know that there are people who do.
Every word you've just heard was spoken by Reform UK politicians, senior figures, advisors, candidates, councillors, MPs.
There's only one way to stop reform.
Vote Labour on Thursday the 7th of May.
So that was a good old fashioned scare advert.
There's only one way to stop reform who are definitely just as based and definitely just as right wing as we explained and showed in that video, right?
What this is going to unintentionally do is make people think reform is actually the party they want to vote for, right?
They're like, wow, actually, you know, I agree with some of these things.
Reform are sounding pretty good.
It's not going to work in the same way because unless you're a Labour Party activist, these things don't bother you that much.
Maybe you disagree with some of it.
You know, I don't actually think you know, royals getting cancer is necessary.
I mean, she says things like, and this kind of betrays a little bit of it, where she said, We should be joining America in fighting this war against Iran, which is not something that I would agree with, and is one of the major things from these quotes from reform MPs that I would massively disagree with.
And this is something that I've mentioned before about some of these populist parties being more interested in foreign policy interests than domestic interests, hence why a lot of the council members that they've announced.
Have been not English.
But a lot of it seems quite sensible to the point where a lot of people have actually memed this.
They've fallen in love.
They've seen this as actually the greatest pub date that you've ever been on your life.
With a neurotic right wing woman.
Well, you know, in quotation marks.
There are people like this where you go to the pub and they just immediately begin going through the spiel.
And there are points here.
They're memeing her.
London has become a third world asshole.
That's genuinely true.
Is that true?
POV.
At least in parts, yeah.
You're on the best date of your life.
Quote, I'm racist and I'm proud of it.
So, this hasn't gone exactly how Labour would intend, at least through Twitter, which obviously has a biased sample size.
And that is, I will also mention the too hot for television version of the advert, because they will release a censored and cucked version of this, where she won't go into quite as much detail on her.
Terrifying and extremist views.
But the version we saw there was uploaded to YouTube.
The advert was deemed too offensive for broadcast, with a toned down version expected to air this evening.
Also, the final message doesn't really make sense either because there are alternatives to the Labour Party, and that's the Greens and the Lib Dems.
And so that's where a lot of people are going already.
So the idea that the only way to keep reform out is Labour, actually, no, I think the Greens and the Lib Dems are doing quite well in many areas.
There is also the other question if they tone it down, What is the end message going to be?
Same thing.
Who is going to find it interesting?
No one is going to be alarmed by a tone down version of this.
I wasn't alarmed by the original version.
Yeah, but even the general public.
Some seem to have been aroused by it.
Apparently.
The internet never changes.
Comments featured in the ad include Some women should never have left the kitchen.
I'm racist and I'm proud of it.
London has become a third world asshole.
And MP Sarah Potchin's remarks about feeling mad when she sees adverts full of black people and full of Asian people.
There's also.
Other quotes here, claims by Asim Malholtra.
Malholtra.
Thank you.
Malholtra.
It's like Malholtra.
Thank you.
Malholtra.
Her claim that vaccines for COVID were a significant factor in the cancers of members of the royal family.
Yeah, that's probably not true.
And then she goes on again to say, like, oh, I don't believe in any of what I've just said.
Is this going to do anything other than just create a load of meme worthy clips for people to share?
No.
No.
It's just trying to create, again, the false dichotomy that.
Reform are the super based right wing party that you definitely want to vote for if you're a true patriot, and Labour are the party who stand against that as the entrenched establishment.
When, as we've covered many, many times, Reform are the party who have most of the people who brought the Boris wave over and are now fielding Boris wave candidates for your local council elections.
So it's just carrying on that false dichotomy, trying to drag approval rates up when, in fact, approval rates, I mean, you can go across an entire lifetime here of this, going back to February of 2011, approval rates for the government are Never positive.
Everybody always hates the government.
That's one, that's really the one thing that this country can almost always be united in.
The only time that there has ever been a positive approval rating for the government was right at the beginning of Boris when he enabled, when he did the COVID lockdowns.
I think in hindsight, people wouldn't have approved.
No, in hindsight, at the time when Starmer got in, there was uncertainty and then it immediately spiked back up to everybody hated him because he basically.
Well, he basically clamped down on riots and protests against a bunch of white children being stabbed to death by a foreigner.
But what this just seems to me is that it betrays the Labour Party as being very out of touch because it's not reading the temperature of the country.
Like, releasing this sort of thing is only really effective if people are relatively happy and don't want that much change, and then they're scaring people into, like, oh, look at reform.
They're scary, they're radical.
Whereas actually, people do want radical solutions, even if they're not.
Of the right, they're going towards the greens in the leftward direction.
And so, scaring people about people being radical when the country is in a bad state is not actually that effective in the first place.
And especially with the adverse economic conditions.
So, when people see a government completely being very bad when it handles the economy and they just see members of that government engage in campaigns of the sort, they generally tend to become very anti.
That government.
I mean, everybody in this country, by the looks of it, is always anti whichever government is in, no matter who's in power.
Although, of course, we do have to remember that this was 14 years of straight conservative Tory governance, which is also a bit.
It's also worth pointing out the public isn't just by default against governance, full stop, because they did give Starmer a chance there where it drops down.
And then as he comes in and people get a measure of him, it goes back up to being wholly negative again.
Yeah, it does fluctuate, but it always tends to fluctuate on just how much most of the country hates you at any one time, which, you know, given the state of England and Britain in general for a long time, makes a lot of sense.
It also, I would imagine, won't actually move the needle because despite all of the controversy, despite all of the complaints about them, they do still seem, when compared across all demographics in the country, to be set to have quite the sweep of the council elections coming up.
You can see here's the council projector based on polling data showing that.
Labour is probably going to have an absolute wipeout, losing 1,046 seats in this council election, whereas the Reform Party will gain a massive 1,336.
Sorry, they will get that in total and be up 1,268, which is quite a change of fortune.
It's basically just not the two parties that have been ruling, right?
Because the Lib Dems basically get by by being white noise and having no substance and just being a clown party for people who have no problems.
Yeah, what is Ed Davey's current council?
Campaign as he decided to do something.
I think he's gone down a water slide.
Perhaps he's done some parachuting.
I would imagine skydiving onto a bouncy castle dressed as Barney the Purple Dinosaur might have done it.
I mean, no party leader's had as much fun as Ed Davey.
You've got to give that to him.
That's probably what's keeping them so high here.
They're actually going to be gaining seats according to these projections, which would be mainly because, you know, like.
They like how he's dancing in those TikTok videos.
Yeah.
I would assume so.
When you're going to that many children's parties, you're going to win over some parents.
I think the Lib Dems are just the party of the out of touch middle class living in nice areas that are untouched by any of the problems of the world.
Yeah.
But the Green Party, it seems the two major gainers.
Coming from here is going to be reform.
And according to these projections as well, the Greens, which given how radical some of their policies are, is a pretty impressive jump from 184 seats to 601 seats, according to these projections.
And you can tell exactly where that's coming from.
Obviously, you can't group together the different factors in this, but if you go into the YouGov polling information and go by age 18 to 24, overwhelmingly the 18 to 24 year old demographic is going to be voting green, according to this polling data.
And of course, I think part of the reason that the youth is going for the Greens is that anyone who's under 50 is not being looked after by the government.
It's sort of dictatorship by the pensioners.
And so people think that the Greens have the solution because they're talking in terms of, well, these people have all the wealth and we're going to take it from the rich people and give it to you.
But actually, it's not going to end up like that.
As you can see from 65 plus, where the war seems to be between the Tories and reform over who can invent an octuple.
Lock pension.
Who can be first to get to that?
You know, it's basically as you get older, it's more and more likely that people are going to be voting for reform.
It's under 50s favour the Greens, which is kind of crazy, really, that that's been the case because normally they were the fringe weirdo party that, you know, were popular in student unions and not anywhere else.
If you drop between just Greens and reform on 25 to 49, you can see it's pretty much neck and neck.
But If you go by all, it's still overall going to be reformed.
But Green are making huge gains through this whole thing.
Yeah, they are making huge gains, but I don't know if they will sustain them.
They will sustain some of it, but it seems to me that lately, every time Polanski is interviewed, he is very aggressive and he looks like he's completely out of control.
He's out of his depth a little bit.
I don't think he actually has the knowledge.
Like he makes lots of mistakes.
Immigration and Asylum Issues00:15:44
And also, the Green Party's policies, if they come into contact with the real world, I think they're benefiting at the minute from people not really knowing what they believe.
And they're seen as an alternative to Labour.
So, disaffected Labour voters are going to the Greens, which, you know, you can see.
They're a protest for him.
Basically, yeah.
He's a clown, yeah.
But when people realise, oh, they want to ban landlords and reduce the top speed limit to 55 miles an hour and a whole host of other crazy things, people are going to be like, well, I don't want that to happen.
So, maybe I'm not going to vote for them.
And people just don't know that yet because.
Yeah, and also they could be saying that we are supporting Greens for now to send a message to Labour and then before the next general election switch to Labour.
And it could also be just a pro Palestine thing as well, because obviously that's.
Well, that's one of the things is that people are speculating as to why it is that people are going to be switching over from Labour and the Conservatives over to parties like Reform and the Green Party.
And this information in this tweet here is taking information for why people are switching from Labour to Reform or the Greens.
And you can find that most of the people who care about immigration under Labour.
Are moving to reform because they've got hard line, harder line anti immigration rhetoric.
Whereas, of course, the Green Party are completely the opposite of that.
And most people are not going over from Labour to the Greens because they want open borders, like the Greens are saying that they'll give.
But there's more interesting information as well.
It seems that the reason a lot of people are moving from Labour to the Green Party is because of the threat of Labour removing indefinite leave to remain or making it way more difficult under Shabana Mahmood.
Whereas, according to Max Tempers here, he's got information saying that he'd been speaking to a Labour friend and found out that there had been basically Boris waivers.
Going around on behalf of the Greens, handing out leaflets to all of the Labour Party voters in local areas who are going to be affected by changes to indefinite leave to remain.
It's fear mongering about that.
And that's why people are going over to the Greens, because they're completely open borders and these people don't want to be locked out of getting their benefits.
Well, the Labour Party is losing a lot of its minority vote.
They imported them as their sort of pet voters and this weird dehumanising relationship for everyone involved.
But of course, they expected them to remain loyal.
And all the Greens have done is just be more Labour Party than Labour, and they've all moved over because they promise free things and infinite immigration.
But don't you understand, disenfranchised Labour voter?
If you go over to reform, they're racist.
They're not.
They're not.
It's kind of a joke.
It feels like everybody knows that they're not a racist party.
I mean, come on.
If they were truly a racist party, they wouldn't have more minority candidates.
Than, you know, even very left wing parties 10, 15 years ago, right?
You look at the front bench of the Labour Party, it's all basically white people, white middle class people.
Mandev is Lammy.
It's an entmoot of middle aged women, yeah.
And meanwhile, while all of that's going on, Starmer is facing attacks over Mandelson still, and a potential inquiry being put forward by the Tories over whether he should have been allowed to appoint Mandelson in the first place and security clearance.
Defects in the assessment of Mandelson when he was being put as ambassador to Washington.
He did an interview with everybody's favorite, Kathy Newman.
Remember her?
I certainly do.
And the most important thing from it, really, basically, is that he says, I'm not going anywhere.
And why is he not going anywhere?
Well, because his wife says he shouldn't go anywhere.
What a charming, devoted, doting husband he is.
He's cracking the whip and saying to all of his MPs that no matter their No matter their views on the matter with Mandelson, they should not support this because it will be handing over council elections and potentially the government to reform.
And honestly, with a lot of this stuff, you know, when the Mandelson stuff dropped in January, even though it had actually been revealed around September last year with Trump's birth, well, with the Epstein birthday card, but it really started to pick up speed around November and then hit really hard in January.
I might have been like, okay, maybe this is actually going to be something that takes Starmer down.
I don't think so.
I think Starmer's going to be here till 2029.
I don't see any reason, unless it's such a wipeout with the council elections, and I don't think they would do this.
Is that possible?
Unless it's such a wipeout with the council elections that his entire cabinet turns against him.
There's a lot of.
But frankly, he's kind of, with Morgan McSweeney and the others associated with McSweeney and Mandelson, he's kind of removed from his immediate associates, people who would have the power.
And desire to try and backstab him in the first place.
But there is a lot of unruliness in the Labour Party at the minute, and there are people within his own party that are MPs calling for him to resign and things like that, right?
And so, this is something that you can only keep a lid on for so long.
And then you get some ambitious people in the party that think they can be the prime minister stirring people up.
And there could be some problems.
Although, I agree, Harry, that he's going to cling on to power as long as he possibly can.
I agree with both of you.
And I think he is going to cling to power for as long as he can for several reasons.
And the most prominent is that I don't think anyone wants to suffer the next loss.
And be responsible for the next electoral loss because I do think they're going to lose badly.
And most probably they will want to say, let's not appear to be responsible for the next loss.
They'd basically be a fool guy if they take over from Starmer, wouldn't they?
Essentially, yeah.
And so it's his essentially uselessness and ineffectiveness that protects him.
Well, it seems that a lot of the senior members like Gordon Brown and other figures like that have all just rallied around Starmer.
And said that this is a political stunt by the Conservatives.
We're all going to rally around you and we're not going to throw you into the road like that, throw you in front of the bus.
And so, you know, a lot of people have said, well, we're not going to do this right before an election.
And Starmer seems to be, for the Labour government right now and for what they want to do and want to achieve, seems to be a steady hand for a lot of them.
And the only thing that would be really working against him would be that kind of Machiavellian politicking, because there wouldn't be any major change in policy or anything like that.
So, I don't think Starmer's going to go anywhere.
And I think a lot of this story, like when he's criticising political theatre, I think it's as often is the case political theatre on both ends to convince you that something is happening, a major change is coming, the foundations of British politics will never be the same once this is done.
And sadly, that applies to the council elections as well, because from the experience that we already have, if there is a major reform landslide into these councils, There's not going to be much change in the way that these local constituencies are governed anyway, because the experience that we have with a few of these reform led councils have shown that they don't actually pursue any different policies locally than Labour or Tory councils, or even some of the greener councils as well.
I forget the exact case, but there was one going around where they'd been found to be doing the same kind of handouts to foreigners and illegal immigrants that most of the other councils do.
So, as ever, with most news, it's a lot of bluster over not much happening.
Much ado about nothing at all, my friends, as is often the case.
Indeed.
Apologies to stamp it down like that, but at least if we keep up to date with what the Lib Dems are doing, we might all get a smile.
That's true.
They're a ray of sunshine in this gloomy world, aren't they?
Thank you, Ed Davies.
You're our only hope.
No, not at all.
Well, I'm not going to cheer anyone up either.
So, quite often we get asked by Scots to cover Scottish politics, and I thought I'd bring it upon myself to depress all of Scotland about their future.
And how there's going to be no freedom in Scotland because no matter what happens south of the border, it seems like the SNP, the Scottish National Party, an insane socialist party, national socialist party, although not that kind apparently, is going to be pretty likely to get a majority.
And as you can see here, this is some YouGov polling from very recently, from this month, showing the SNP here getting a majority of seats.
In the Scottish Parliament.
And even if Reform, Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, and the Conservatives sided against them, unless there are SNP members of their Parliament siding against them, they can basically do what they want.
And this is very concerning because they're absolutely insane.
And I wanted to draw people's attention to just how insane they are.
And also to people from outside of the British Isles, I think Scottish politics.
Gets overlooked a little bit for Westminster politics, which is something the SNP says that's sort of true, actually.
That's the only, you know, charitable interpretation I'll give them.
But as you can see, they're actually going to be going up slightly from 2021, which, given their poor performance in Scotland in governance, is a little bit disappointing, to be honest.
And even reform seemed to be doing reasonably well in the polling, being the main opposition party, but not by much.
And The way this plays out nationally is that because of the size of Scotland and the smaller population relative to the rest of the UK, they're only going to get about 3% of the vote in the entirety of the UK.
Of course, you've got other.
They've coloured Restore Purple.
I know.
It's the monarchist party now, apparently.
What an insult.
Although, to be fair, all the different shades of blue is.
It's a little bit confusing, isn't it?
I think it makes sense.
Nobody's going to vote for your party.
A royal colour is not a bad colour.
No, it's a nice colour, it's a fancy colour.
No, there's just lots of blue parties.
Although, I don't know why there's a teal colour for the greens there.
That's just needlessly confusing.
Just make them dark green or something.
But anyway, I suppose it's because of Plaid Cymru.
I just assume YouGov's playing silly buggers.
Enough about complaining about YouGov's colour schemes.
Yeah, the SNP, generally speaking, aren't going to change much nationally.
Not nationally.
You know, in the entirety of the UK, it's going to have an effect obviously in Scotland, but in terms of Westminster's Parliament, they're going to hold roughly the same sort of position that they would ordinarily.
All things, you know, carrying on as they are, but you know, things can change.
And one thing that I found very interesting here is the breakdown of people's opinions on various issues.
So, Labour voters in Scotland prioritise the economy, health, and even immigration there.
Which I thought was quite interesting.
And this is back in December.
So that's before they started burning down their own vape shops.
That's true, yes.
And then you look at the SNP, economy, health, and then Brexit.
Like, hang on a minute.
How long ago was that again?
That was 2016 we left.
We voted to leave, wasn't it?
So why?
It's sort of this relic of a bygone age where apparently Brexit is the source of all your woes and evils because of reasons.
But then you look at Conservative voters in Scotland, immigration.
59% economy, 51% health.
And so you can see that all parties except the SNP are concerned about immigration, even Labour, which doesn't even happen in England.
And of course, Scotland's had some pretty nasty immigration as well.
Maybe the SNP voters are actually immigration through the back door from Brexit.
Maybe they're like, we miss our polls.
Yeah, they just want European immigration back.
I'm sure that's it.
But you look at all Scots here, and the economy is still number one, which makes sense.
It's Scotland.
They've always had economic struggles.
Health, as well, you know, again, is where they, you know, filmed train spotting, right?
Put the needle down.
Yes.
That was a no.
And the fried Mars bar.
But no, health is genuinely a serious problem in Scotland.
My Scottish grandparents did not cook healthy food whatsoever.
Were they the types that scotched everything?
Yes, they were.
Kind of based.
It is, yeah.
But immigration and asylum, there is interesting, is the third issue, which generally speaking is not as common in Scotland as it is in, say, England.
And so I see this becoming more and more of a problem, and especially in the run up to 2029.
There are going to become more and more incidents of, like you said, the vape shop burning down and burning down part of Glasgow train station, wasn't it?
It was right next door, yeah.
Yeah.
And so people are going to have more and more examples.
And I might expect to see that immigration and asylum creep up a little bit and maybe eat into some support for the SNP, who are just similar to the Greens in England and Wales and the like, just avoid immigration altogether.
Although, that being said, even amongst the SNP, 26% say, It's a problem.
And so then you have this.
So, this lady is Mary McAllen, who's Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Housing.
And for someone who's involved in housing, she says something very interesting.
Migration is good for our economy, necessary for our economy, for our hospitality sector, health and social care, and our businesses.
That was really reflected in the opinion there.
But I think the other thing that was really reflected is that difficulties have been inflamed.
They have been exploited and they have been exploited by the party sitting next to it, which has, I think, created an atmosphere of fear.
So it's just not addressing any of the problems.
And of course, one of the things that's quite important in Scotland at the minute is even the SNP, the Scottish Government, in May of 2024 declared a national housing emergency.
And their housing minister is saying, yeah, let's just bring more people in.
Well, where are they going to live?
You're not building any more houses, really, and certainly not able to keep up with demand.
And apparently, according to the 2022 census, around a tenth of the population was born outside the United Kingdom, and Edinburgh and Glasgow are around a fifth minority ethnic.
And so it's already started to become.
20%?
A tenth of the population born outside the UK, yeah.
And yeah, 20% in the major cities.
Last time I went to Edinburgh would have been what, like just over 10 years ago, I think.
And I don't remember it being like that.
Although I imagine they were still there, but as ever in little ghettos.
So it might not have been as noticeable, but it starts to get really noticeable when it's a fifth of the population.
The UK Housing Crisis00:14:52
And for that woman, I would assume, yeah, I suppose migration can be great for business.
It's great for housing construction businesses, who lots of politicians like to accept donations from or invest with.
And it's great for businesses to get cheap labor.
So she is right there.
Yeah.
It's not great for Scottish people, of course.
No.
If you want to have affordable housing, the thing that you want to do is not grow the population and not build houses.
It's pretty common sense, actually.
And then you have even the BBC talking about how crazy this is and it introduces all sorts of conflicting opinions.
It's interesting, actually, that the BBC pulled this up.
So, too few migrants are coming to Scotland, says SNP.
And.
The only way you can really read this is to say, like, are they crazy?
So, when they the graph showed that they care about migration and asylum, was the concern not enough people come over here?
Maybe.
It's just too vague.
Is it that jokey?
It's like a Scottish version of the meme where it's like the Union Jack scarf covering up the mouth of the Irishman, or in this case, the Scotsman, has finally been liberated.
And what does he have to say?
Send more Africans.
Apparently so.
So even the Daily Record, which is a lefty rag, basically, is writing articles.
This is from February of this year.
They're the ones who put Beau on the cover, aren't they?
They are, yes.
SP government urgently needs to get a grip of the housing crisis.
And, you know, they're.
Pretty favorable to them as far as I'm aware.
And these are the same ones that tried to drag Count Dankula through the mud and called him the Nazi pug thug for making a joke that does kind of roll off the tongue.
It does for making a joke about making his cute dog do a horrible thing.
That was the point of the joke.
And then they basically dragged him through the mud.
They wrote about 10 articles about him when I was researching this.
So yeah, they're not a good newspaper, but even they're saying, listen, this is undeniable now.
And it's to the point here where a new homeless family every 15 minutes in Scotland, which is not a big country in terms of population, really.
It's not like England, where it's many, many, many millions.
It's a relatively small, populous country.
And the fact that there's a homeless family every 15 minutes is a massive failure on the SNP.
And that's exactly what this article is arguing.
And it's actually quite surprising that you see a lot of the media against them, but people vote for them because they hate England so much.
That they're willing to overlook the fact that the SNP make their lives worse in every tangible way.
And many people are happy to point it out.
Like here, they're saying in Glasgow alone, 64% of the 9,337 homeless people in temporary accommodation came to the UK as asylum seekers.
So this is a policy choice, right?
And yeah, he's rightfully criticising the SNP for this because they're the ones in government, aren't they?
And then there's another article here the SNP's 10K deposit scheme may worsen the housing crisis.
Because what they're doing is they're offering 10k to young people to basically buy their votes so they can get on the housing ladder.
But this is not, it sounds appealing at first, but then of course you'll realize that demand is going to go up even more and it's going to push house prices up even more.
And the market's just going to absorb that extra 10k and ask for even more again, right?
Because there's already a shortage.
So all it's going to do is make things worse.
And the SP solution to this housing crisis.
Is to just get more bureaucrats, just throw bureaucrats into the fire.
And apparently.
Have we tried that yet?
Apparently not.
I mean, specifically, no.
Oh, right.
Say no more.
But yes, this would be, this was, when was it?
In January of this year, they announced their 132nd quango to address the housing emergency.
So 132 bureaucrats to find out that, hey, maybe increasing the population increases demand for housing, which is.
Pushing the shortage of housing.
This is like the monkeys at the beginning of 2001 figuring out stick hurt people, me hit you with stick.
It's like too many people, not enough houses.
And then they start beating the streets.
It's very simple things, I assume.
I would imagine so.
But it's led to a situation where more than a quarter of Scots trust no parties whatsoever to fix the housing crisis.
And two thirds said they agreed Scotland was facing a housing emergency.
Well, I kind of agree, you know, like.
It would require a complete upending of the incentives and the whole direction of the modern political establishment, which is bring in cheap labor for businesses, endless migration, replace your population.
You would need somebody incredibly radical to come in to reverse doing that.
Again, even with reform, it's just a case of like, are they going to fix the problem?
No.
It's just going to mean that the people moving in next door are going to have.
A passport on them when they move in.
Fantastic.
That's going to make all the difference, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
They're going to have a passport and a little Union Jack flag that they wave every so often, and you go, well, thank God.
Speaking of flags, there's also the fact that they're very pro trans.
So they'll be waving lots of trans flags before they're waving the Union flags.
And yeah, they're basically the party of gender ideologues.
This is a genuine line amongst the SNP.
That LGBT people are being scapegoated by other parties in a culture war to deflect from Brexit.
That's their argument is that no, you know, maybe the fact that there's irreparable harm being done to children and we're putting strange men in women's changing rooms, that's not the issue.
It's because Brexit is a mistake and therefore we need to distract from it by scapegoating people, which I don't think is ever an argument outside of pretty much.
Any part of the UK.
This is also right after that whole BBC article series investigating how, like, asylum seekers were literally, well, asylum seekers were literally being, like, prepped by falsely licensed or unlicensed asylum advisors to just pretend to be gay.
Literally just pretend to be gay.
And part of that whole scheme as well was we will take you to a gay club and take photos of you with gay clubs.
I will hire a man to pretend to be your boyfriend.
Fraud from.
Every direction, and they're just sort of like, We need more foreigners.
We love our transsexuals.
So, what are they going to do?
If they actually got their independence from us, they would open up whole new schemes of asylum to make it even easier for these people to get into the country.
I mean, they would probably still commit fraud, but they wouldn't need to because the SNP would be like, Giving them free money, basically.
Yeah, like, please come in.
That was Hamza Youssef's plan.
I don't think he got to implement it, but weren't they also going to be like, We'll give free houses and free money officially to every migrant who comes into this country.
And I said, go for it because they'll all move from England to Scotland instead.
Well, at the minute, we pay a disproportionate amount of money to Scotland.
So it's our taxes funding this.
This will be our reparations.
You can take all of our foreigners.
So I was very surprised by this story.
This is from only four days ago.
Ex SP advisor embezzled $5K from charity to spend on Uber rides and Amazon parcels.
And what was this charity?
It was HIV Scotland, yes.
And can you guess what this guy looked like?
Go on.
An AIDS patient?
I don't know about that.
He's awfully round for it.
There he is.
This is him.
That's like a horror movie.
SNP is officially the AIDS party.
Vote for SNP if you have AIDS.
Yeah, well, he's defunding the charities, so removing support for people with it.
Oh, I guess not, actually.
Yeah.
But yes, this is the kind of guy that works or whatever they are for the SNP.
It's slightly horrifying that this is the picture that they went with as well.
To be fair, wasn't there the cross dressing Tory from a few years back as well?
So, that every party is infested with it.
Public school and its consequences has been a disaster for the Tory party's reputation.
And another thing that you can certainly say is a problem for the entirety of the UK is that the SNP is working with Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin, so basically all the separatist parties, to basically make the United Kingdom just England.
Because, of course, Plaid Cymru want Wales to be separate.
Sinn Féin obviously don't want Northern Ireland to be part of the United Kingdom.
And so.
They're all scheming together to destroy basically England, although actually England gives, or mostly actually just London and the surrounding areas, subsidise a lot of the other areas of the UK.
And so they would just be leaving and getting much less money from the state.
And also, the thing is that with an independent Scotland, one of the problems that no one ever addresses is that the main sticking point is being able to keep the Great British Pound.
And obviously, Westminster is going to say, well, if we give you the pound, you'll have a currency that, you know, we control.
So, what's going on there?
And so, they would have to have their own currency, and they don't want that because it's a massive risk.
But if they do, then it will just push all the stock and prices of companies in Scotland right down because of the uncertainty.
And that means that a bunch of English people can buy it up at a cheap price.
And so, actually, what it would result in would be.
More English control over Scotland than had they remained part of the Union.
I would assume the goal would be to leave the Union, immediately rejoin the EU.
Would they be interested in getting on the Euro?
Maybe.
That might be what the plan would be.
It would be a little bit more sensible.
At least it's a currency that exists and isn't just created out of thin air.
But of course, the Euro then binds you to lots of countries that are not as fiscally responsible as some of the others.
Yeah.
I mean, we always have banter over this stuff, and we joke about Scots and Welsh and even the Irish as well.
But I mean, just like ripping up the United Kingdom, there are plenty of Scottish people and plenty of Welsh people who wouldn't want that.
I certainly don't want it.
No, I don't think any of us want it because there is a like that was the point of the union in the first place is recognizing that we all have a shared heritage and a shared destiny on these islands.
Half of my family are Scottish, half of them are English.
Throwing away that history, throwing away that shared connection.
For the sake of what is essentially political grandstanding and a kind of weird chauvinism, it would be pathetic and ruinous as well.
I very much agree.
And they've announced that they would bring forward a referendum, another one, a second one, on day one of a new government.
And it's got to the point where this was launched a few days ago now.
And in the first 12 days, it was accessed 35,000 times.
And it's basically just how to stop the SNP and how to vote tactically to do so.
And it tells you who's polling the best in your local area so you can vote against them.
So, it's basically just either you're for the SNP or against them, it seems, in Scottish politics.
And people are more than happy to vote tactically just to keep them out, especially people who are pro union.
And yeah, this came from here.
And it's still worth mentioning that even if they did have this second referendum, where they're at at the minute, it's still net unfavourability for leaving.
In fact, it's saying, should Scotland be an independent country, and the percentage of people who say no is 53%.
To 47%.
So it's not really moved very much since the actual independence referendum in the first place.
And in fact, you can see that it stays relatively static with no leading for most of the time there, except a slight drop at the start of the lockdowns.
And that's it, really.
And so I don't really understand the point of the SNP.
They're all about independence.
But were they to get the referendum, people would say no, according to this at least.
And if they did actually win the referendum, Their situation would probably be markedly worse for most Scots.
Like, yeah, you've cut your nose off to spite the English, but you've just got to live with the consequences there.
So, I don't really understand how any rational person wants to vote for them, no matter what your politics are, because the economy is going to get tangibly worse and, you know, it's unlikely to win in the first place.
So, would they, does it seem like they even have a plan for it?
No.
And in fact, many of the things that they do.
But if you were serious about it, you would already have a well thought out plan drawn up for contingencies.
No, I think that they're just sort of a gimmick party.
Like a lot of the things they promised at the last election, they didn't do, or sometimes even did the opposite.
And so they don't have a good track record of keeping their word on things anyway.
And I think that if you are Scottish, the obvious thing to do is do what you can to keep them out.
Yeah, I mean, it sounds like they just keep ginning up controversy around this particular subject.
It's probably why Brexit is always in their mind as well, because Brexit was a sore spot between England and Scotland.
So, they want to keep these subjects always in the air so they can bring them back to keep people voting on their side.
Just going to be going door to door, just like, remember the Highland clearances?
Just like, come on, we're a little bit past that.
Remember Braveheart?
Have you ever watched Braveheart?
And they just start like an iPad in your face with Mel Gibson on the screen.
And it just inspires patriotic feeling in these, presumably, foreigners.
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But you'll be tangibly worse off if that happens.
Could you imagine they come up to the door of Abdul and just like throw Braveheart in his face?
How does this make you feel?
Don't you love your country?
It isn't going to work because, yeah, the foreigners as well, they don't have as much hatred of the English as the SNP, funnily enough.
Probably not, actually.
We pay their benefits, so, you know.
I was going to say they're going to be like, London pays my benefits, though, bro.
I don't think they're going to be economically insightful enough to know that.
But yes, the situation in Scotland is pretty grim, but a lot can change, and I hope it does because the SNP are kind of a horrifying party to govern, and I don't wish that on anyone in Scotland.
All right, got two rumble rants from that.
Scotland being completely bankrupt all the time from Logan Pine.
That's just, it seems to be a general observation.
That's a statement.
And Fortian Barber asks Has Stelios announced his big news?
He's not leaving, right?
Do you want to say for anybody who missed it at the beginning?
Yeah, so basically, I'm not leaving.
You can check my X description to see new stuff, but I'm not leaving.
I'm here for a purpose.
And thank you to the friends who are supporting me along the way.
The others, I don't mind the hate or something.
You'll get out of it.
You'll grow out of it.
It's just a phase, says Stelios.
It's just a phase, yeah.
Yeah.
So, tell us.
The SDS.
The SDS?
Yeah.
The Stelios derangement syndrome.
Ah, all right.
Well, Stelios.
It's a phase.
Tell us about Eric Swalwell.
Ooh.
Are you sure you want me to tell you about it?
Well, that's what we're scheduled to do right now, so.
Yeah, but this is a very cringy segment.
I expect nothing less from you.
Right.
So Eric Swowell is a prominent Democrat, or I should say, was.
There's a sexual scandal involving him that has destroyed his career.
Now, let me be very clear this is an ongoing investigation.
The allegations involved in that scandal are not proven yet.
They're still alleged.
They're still alleged.
That's why they are allegations.
Yes, that's true.
And yeah, and to speed up a bit.
He resigned from Congress.
So let me give you some context about who Eric Swalwell is in case you don't know.
So this is the portrait of him back in 2016.
He was a member of the Democrat Party, a deputy district attorney in Alameda County from 2006 to 2012.
He served as a U.S. representative for California for seven terms from 2015.
So he's a long term Democrat in California and he's alleged to have sexual misconduct.
I am not a betting man, Stelios, but I think I might know what's the likely outcome.
But do carry on.
These are all allegations, Josh.
Right.
So, and he ran for the party's nomination in 2020 and he lost to Joe Biden.
But he's one of the, he's occupying the upper echelons of power in the Democratic Party because Yeah, he didn't get too much support there.
But to even be among the presidential candidates, presidential nominees within the Democrat Party, it suggests that you are very high profile within that party.
Right.
So there have been several controversies surrounding his name because he was one of the main people against Donald Trump in the trials.
So he was basically management of the impeachment of Donald Trump.
So he was sort of witch finder general for Trump, right?
Yes.
On his witch hunt.
Yes.
He was also a member of the House Intelligence Committee, which also suggests that he is high profile.
He isn't just the average Democrat.
Quite a senior committee, isn't it?
Yes.
And he was also involved in another scandal in the past.
The FBI said that there is no evidence that he was complicit in it.
You know, are you aware of the Fang Fang affair?
The Fang Fang bear.
Yes.
Does this have something to do with China?
Was he honeypotted by a Chinese spy?
I don't know.
How long did he assume that a Chinese man in a wig was a woman?
This has happened before.
We are talking about the Chinese person.
I knew it was China.
Called Christine Fang.
That's a very Chinese sounding name, but you know, this tends to happen.
She has to be a Mr. Christopher Fang.
Or Karen Fang.
Did she get her fangs into him?
Why don't we keep you on?
Right.
So, what happened was that she was in California State University and she helped fund him raise fans for his campaigns.
But the previous FBI consensus or verdict was that the FBI at some point notified him of her suspicious behavior.
And they say that when he learned.
About that thing.
When he heard the warnings, he immediately cooperated with them and cut all ties with her.
And Miss Fang Fang went back to China and has never set foot on the US again.
But now that Kash Patel is in the FBI, he is pushing against him yet again.
And this could be said, this is why lots of the Democrats say, on the one hand, that yeah, we will not allow sexual abusers to be part of our party, but also that this was a politically motivated attack.
Because it's Trump waging war, lawfare against people who went after him before.
So here we have Lindy Lee here.
She is a political strategist and she's basically talking about the Democrats.
She's saying that they have a very hypocritical relationship to allegations of sexual misconduct.
When it comes to Trump and Republicans, they instantly believe them.
When it comes to Democrats, they look the other way.
Well, I mean, that's the same with both parties.
I mean, Kash Patel waging this in the first place, it's like, how long did it take for you to even release just the documents that we have from the Epstein files?
So, I mean, I just see a lot of this as cynical.
And we are going to talk about the Republicans as well, because I wasn't going to say it's only the Democrats who are doing it.
We are going to talk about Tony Gonzalez in a bit.
Right.
So, and she says here that it's actually.
She's voicing the concern of many people.
It's just when there are allegations for sexual misconduct against you for years, how can you not know?
Or how can you pretend that all this is nothing?
At least confront these people.
Right?
You could say this about both parties.
And yes, that's the case.
And there's always the element of when you try to, of fake news about this.
Because when you try to, when you're competing for a, For the top positions, there will be people trying to smear you.
But there is a question as to whether people just get completely desensitized when it comes to allegations of sexual misconduct for members of their party and become completely hawks when it comes to allegations about the others, which seems to be the case.
It's juicy headlines.
Well, I think the halls of power in many countries are filled with dirty perverts.
I mean, we only need to see.
Yeah, the perv maxing.
Yes.
But also, I mean.
There's the other bit, though, because there are several layers of not speaking about it or not prosecuting that person or not confronting them.
Because you could say that it's one thing to look the other way and say, ah, this is just stupid smearing, that you keep your distances from that person.
And quite another to basically make him compete for the presidential position.
But there is a question of whether the Democrats within the Democrat Party there.
Where we're trying to look the other way really hard.
I mean, I'm sure the Democrats would accuse the Republicans of doing the exact same thing with Trump and all of the allegations against him over the years, including those that were included in some of the documents that have been released from last year, sorry, earlier this year.
But so, what are the exact allegations against this guy other than this fang quote unquote?
No, no, that was an old conspiracy.
Now let's get to the.
Can I just quickly interject?
I was just going to say that.
I am interested in when these sorts of things come out because quite often I know that people sit on the knowledge of people having these sorts of questionable relationships, however true, but people sit on this and use it as leverage in politics.
There have been provable cases of this happening.
And so I do wonder what internal machinations within the Democratic Party have led to the release of this because it's very rare that they willingly release information.
About one of their own, particularly a senior person, doing something that is seen as unequivocally bad.
Yeah, that's the case.
And because we frequently hear the rhetoric according to which leftists always stand by their own.
But it seems to me to be the case that he is too much of a liability.
And let me tell you exactly what happened here.
So the controversy erupted in early April 2026.
Several women came forward with serious allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, sexual.
You understand abuse.
We're on YouTube.
We don't want to, you know, anger the anger.
You understand.
It's, you know, the worst thing it can be.
It doesn't like the R word.
Not that one, the other one.
Yes.
And then you just switch from chimpanzee to something else with three letters.
And you add it to the R.
I know what you're trying to say, but I'm very good.
So it's allegations for sexual assault and abuse.
A former staffer.
And a second woman called Lana Drews accused Swallow of sexual assault.
Drews alleged that the incident occurred in 2018 in West Hollywood, leading to a criminal investigation by the LA County Sheriff's Department.
Other women alleged that Swallow sent unsolicited, explicit messages and nude photographs, no intimate pictures and stuff.
That's serious.
I don't understand how someone who's that much in the halls of power thinks that.
That's a good idea.
Yeah.
It's not.
Yeah, what are you thinking?
If this is true, of course.
If it's true, I just assume that they let that whole, like, oh, I'm in the halls of power, I gave a presidential debate, go to their head a little bit.
And they're like, I'm too powerful to touch now.
Yeah, I'm leading their intelligence committee.
The one that he sent that woman, allegedly.
Yeah.
And yet, they didn't respond.
And also, why aren't you responding?
And also, there are allegations of congressional misconduct.
The House Ethics Committee launched.
An investigation into whether he engaged in sexual misconduct with an employee under his supervision.
So he does have the reputation of a sort of, you know, forceful player.
And many of his employees, former employees, I suppose, came out against him as well, which is normally a good red flag because I know when Johnny Depp was in court, I know this is a bit of a left turn, but lots of his ex wives and people who he dated and people in his life came out and said, no, actually, he was a complete gentleman.
So it doesn't have to be the case when the ex wife comes out with that.
And so it's not inevitable that people throw you under the bus.
And maybe he'd just been associated with lots of very decent people.
However, I think that when there's a lot of smoke, there might have to be a little bit of fire there.
Right.
So Swole denies the allegations, but he acknowledges he has made some bad decisions.
And he.
And has resigned as well.
And has resigned, yes.
Now, if I were innocent and I were in such a position, I wouldn't resign.
No, of course not.
I would know that at some point people will try to smear me.
So I'd say game on, just prove it.
One thing that does happen is that senior people within the party could say, jump before you're pushed to save us the reputational damage.
Otherwise, we'll make it worse for you.
That does happen, although I don't think it's necessarily the case here.
Well, yeah, but even if that is the case, he isn't just the average representative who says that, well, if we don't say good things about you, you aren't getting in Congress.
He's one of the very high profile Democrats.
So I would again, in his position, expect them to say this because I would want to go for president and they want to go for the presidency.
So, yeah, of course they would say this.
Of course they'd say, well, you're harming the party.
Whereas I'd say, no, I'm not, I'm innocent, I'm going for president, you resign.
The entire Democratic Party should resign.
Yes.
So they're saying, Swallow's resignation from Congress, Panktree, the deserter.
Surprisingly swift fall from grace for the talented and ambitious politician.
The seven term congressman served on the judiciary and intelligence committees and was a consistently vociferous critic of Donald Trump.
The extent of political fallout that will ensue from the scandal remains to be seen.
What is clear is that Swobod's withdrawal has already altered the California governor's race.
And they're saying that this has prompted renewed attention to sexual misconduct and repeated abuses of power by privileged and influential.
People and it has sort of revived the Me Too era discussions about the roles and responsibilities of people around Saw Wolf, specifically his friends and colleagues.
And you do have lots of women in the Democrat Party saying that this is completely unacceptable.
There's a culture of, you know, what sexual abuse of women and patriarchy.
Well, it's also externalizing it out of the Democratic Party by saying that this is just something that men do, it's sort of all their shtick to begin with.
It is interesting actually that it all seems to be located in California as well.
Yes.
I think we had another video there that was, yes, I just don't see the link there.
It was a video, a clip of Jesse Waters.
It was a four minute clip of Jesse Waters.
This one, Samson?
Yes.
Yes, it's okay.
People who want to watch some of the allegations, okay, it's okay.
Just leave it.
But we do have it on our website if you want to watch other people.
Samsung's work does that.
No, no, wait.
I don't want us to show it because it's graphic.
Oh, all right.
Okay.
Yeah, but if you want to, it's, I mean, it's on Fox, so there's a limit to how graphic it is.
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But if you want to hear more about the allegations, if you want to hear more about the allegations, click on the link on our website under the descriptions where we have the link and check out what is there.
Right.
And one of the issues here is that one of Swallowell's friends, Senator Ruben Gallego from Arizona, A Democrat, of course, acknowledged in a press conference on Tuesday that he had long heard rumors that Swallow was flirty with women, but had allowed his longtime friendship with a California Democrat to cloud his judgment and never said or did anything about it.
And he regretted not having confronted Swallow about the rumors.
So it's surprising that they say it out loud.
It's just like flirty, though, like is that the actual rumors that he was hearing?
Because being a little bit flirtatious with women is hugely different on a whole different level.
To the sort of allegations that we're getting here.
So, like, that sounds like some euphemizing right there.
Yeah, he's trying to minimize what happened because he's afraid of his own reputation and of how this reflects on his character, ethically speaking.
Right, then they say Gallego said, Yeah, he regretted.
And ASE said that Congress was at a resetting point after the back to back resignations.
And she says, I don't think our work is done.
I think that a lot of the underlying structures that silence victims of sexual harassment and abuse still exist.
And they are talking about bringing more and more and more.
Bias training and training about microaggression and training about sexual misconduct for them.
I don't think that's true.
We've heard it non stop for the past 10 years.
And obviously, there's some actual legitimate stuff that's great to get out in the open.
But I don't think, at least publicly, there's an appetite to silence people, perhaps behind the scenes.
But obviously, we can't see that.
Also, it's important to acknowledge the fact that structurally in the system that America and other Western liberal democracies have right now, you're basically guaranteeing that you're going to get a massive overrepresentation of the kinds of people who will behave this way trying to get into your system and try and get into power.
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Because it overwhelmingly selects for psychopaths and deviants and people with major narcissistic tendencies who presumably aren't going to take no for an answer.
It'll probably be considered like that quality in itself is a good thing for the kind of.
Political situations that you find yourself in, but then they apply it to other parts of their life too.
That's just who this system selects for.
It doesn't select for virtue.
It doesn't select for nobility.
It selects for ruthlessness and narcissism.
Right.
So they say here that the political fallout from the allegations has been swift.
All 21 Democratic members of Congress who endorsed his bid for governor have withdrawn their backing, and state party leaders put pressure on him to.
Exit the Crowder race.
But, and bear in mind that if he won the governorship of California down the line, he would be even more prestigious.
And was there ever a threat to Newsom, though, for governorship of California?
Although I suppose there is term limits on that, isn't there?
I think, aren't there two term limits?
So I don't think he would be for Newsom.
I think also Newsom has presidential ambitions.
I know he's not said so, but I think lots of people positioning around him that suggests that maybe he's going to move from the governorship of California to the Presidency, yes, or at least try.
So, what the Democrats are trying to do now is they're trying to say that we're both parties are responsible for this, and they are talking about Representative Tory Gonzalez, a Texas Republican who also is in the midst of a scandal.
He is also resigning from Congress.
And what happens here, he announced that he is going to resign, he admitted.
That he's having an affair with former staffer.
Just keep it in your pants, for goodness sake.
Keep it in your pants.
But the thing is, there's a question because, yeah, of course, there is a level of hypocrisy there.
If that's only it, because you would say, well, it's a Texas Republican, he's trying to be conservative, he's trying to appeal to family values, and he has a family affair.
If that were only the allegations, if these were the allegations alone, you'd say, well, yeah, he is a hypocrite, but this is definitely not as.
Severe as swallowals.
I'm really annoyed at what he said there.
Like, there's a reason for everything, and God has a plan for us all.
I don't think God planned for you to cheat on your presumably wife.
I mean, do you know God's plan, Josh?
Josh, God didn't plan for his wife to be annoying either.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine he's like praying to himself, like he's like, oh God, I'm facing temptation.
And in his mind, what he's hearing is hit that.
You know how people flagellate when they do, he's going to have this woman, he's having an affair, lashing him.
Maybe that's what he's into.
Yeah.
Yes.
But there are several more allegations against him.
Again, they are allegations.
Let me just say what they are.
Yeah, roughly speaking, they have to do with similar structures.
Yeah, harassment, explicit text, sexy pictures, making sexual inquiries.
Some women alleged that he went too far.
Yeah.
And also, he solicited news from other stuff.
Again, with pictures.
And I don't think it's just so demented.
Yeah.
I think it's normal for people who do this in either party.
Because this isn't a segment saying only Democrats do it.
Obviously, there are Republicans who did it.
People should marginalize them.
They should.
Completely.
But again, the whole system selects for this kind of person.
And even if you go in as an idealist with the best of intentions and you're not that kind of person to begin with, you're going to be surrounded by this.
Absolutely.
And also, let's not forget as well, there will be essentially agents and saboteurs surrounding you as well who are going to want to push you into this kind of behavior.
Because either they want to sabotage you from the beginning or they want material on you.
Absolutely.
And let's remember that the people who now speak against them aren't themselves saints.
And I'm talking about, you know, the top, those who occupy the top echelons of power in both parties.
They aren't saints.
Yeah.
So just because they come and say, well, Gonzalez allegedly had an affair, we're taking distance from him.
And Swole had an affair and we're taking distance from him.
Well, this guy isn't alleged to have had an affair.
He definitely did because it says he admitted to it here.
Yeah.
Unless he just wants to come off like a player.
And he's just like admitting to it, even though he didn't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it was me.
I'm a top shagger.
What can I say?
Go out in a blaze of glory.
It's like ISIS admitting to terror attacks they couldn't have possibly had a hand in just to get the credit.
Yeah.
That's a bit of an uncharitable thing.
They call me Speedy, Speedy Gonzalez.
I'm in and out in five seconds.
What?
Or now maybe his relationship is spicier now that people know.
Or Speedy Gonzalez.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
Okay.
Yes.
Cranky Texan.
I think Stelios is shutting that one down.
Cranky Texan says this is an example of the information that is used to control someone being used to take them down.
He was not the candidate the party wanted in California.
It looks like they're installing Porter.
Yeah, that's always the thing.
Like, that's answering your question there, Josh, where you're asking, like, why is the information coming out now?
I'm wondering if there's any.
We have the dirt files.
Any positions that he's taken, is it just that he's way too much of a liability?
Like, he's not a wholesome psychopath like Newsome with his incredibly wholesome looking family or anything.
This guy's just a freak psychopath.
Mouse vs. Cat Dynamics00:05:15
We can't have that.
Anything else?
No, I don't.
Nothing's popping out of me except for all of those.
That's a bit of a.
That'd probably be what it was.
Yeah, a bit of a problem.
This guy's just way too much of a liability already.
Mm hmm.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
2017, he co sponsored the Israel Anti Boycott Act.
Oh, no.
So he was onside for that sort of stuff as well.
So.
Never mind.
Yeah, it's probably just he was a massive liability.
He also criticized Trump's trade war with China.
Yeah, he just seems like a typical bargain bin Democrat to me, to be honest.
Anyway, let's get on with the video comments.
Do we have any?
Samson, you there?
He's there.
Oh, thank you.
Don't know what I'd have done if he wasn't.
Oh, we've got quite a few.
Let's go through these.
Lovely.
Are we getting number one screen?
Woke up this morning and my back was incredibly painful.
I know I'm in my 30s now.
It's all caught up with me.
Sure, that's what everyone wants to know.
You are old now.
I feel it.
I feel it in my bones.
For our next Lotus Clitter, we have Cole, the son of Ash.
He is our little dark mouse.
Some might say that he is the mouse that we deserve and not the mouse that we need.
Our dark mouse, as it were.
But I still think he's adorable and friendly.
I love him.
Does he have a car and a, you know, a back copter?
Does he have a motor back copter?
Does he have a motor back copter?
Oh, he's got.
With lethal capabilities that he won't use, but will still have lethal capabilities for some reason?
Only secretly.
God, I watched a video recently that reminded me how bad the Dark Knight Rises is.
Like, Bane is set up as this huge villain the whole way through.
He's so intimidating.
He breaks Batman's back.
How does he go out like a bitch?
He's just shot halfway off screen by Catwoman on.
On Batman's motorbike.
Oh, God.
And then it turns out that Talia was the bad guy the whole time, and her death scene is just sort of like, I'm going to nuke the city.
Also, it's difficult to find someone with that voice intimidating.
I'm not going to do it fresh.
It is more comical than anything, but it's such a bad movie.
So, you've been at the motor show all week?
Yes, in Birmingham, which is a fabulous city in every way.
You said it was.
You said to me in makeup, he said it was the foulest.
Place you'd ever been, and you'd never met so many people with so many different germs in all your life.
No, it's viruses flying around that place with knives and forks.
I tell you, Birmingham is like a rugby player's bath after they've let the water in.
Empty in the middle with a ring of scum round the outside.
Based Clarkson.
Quite a good analogy as well.
You could describe Swindon, actually, no, Swindon, all the scums in the centre rather than the outside.
I love the way that they, the moment he said that, oh, I liked Birmingham, everybody knew that it was a bit.
Nobody likes Birmingham.
Hello.
I've asked before about Lotus Eater's logo merch because there isn't any on the store anymore.
I quite like a t shirt or hoodie and definitely a mug.
I've got to say, Carl, please, please, can we have a large goth girlfriend mug?
Just to match my Highlander ones.
Oh, and by the way, Luca, nice mug.
It's really good.
I do actually like Luca's mug.
It's a good mug.
It's like a trad version of the Sports Direct mug, isn't it?
Like outside of Britain, people don't know what we're on about, but the Sports Direct mugs are known for being big vats of tea, basically.
True.
I see kittens on screen.
Oh, this is so wholesome and lovely.
Yeah, it doesn't appear that there is any audio to that.
So for all of you listening in, it was just some kittens being washed by their mum, and it was adorable.
This is lovely.
Yeah, I love pets.
Me too.
And we've got more.
Well, with all the cat videos you guys have been getting, I think it's time for a little payback.
Here she is, Sakura, the star of our show.
She's getting ready to go.
Casual stretch.
Because she needs her walk.
Her evening constitutional.
A little over a half a mile.
But without it, her night is just not the same.
That is a very calm and chill dog, actually.
Yes, I love her.
This cat, as well, I can tell.
I'm going to love him.
Here, in his more quiet moments, Peter Purr, the famous banana cat, contemplates the more thoughtful ideas of life as the Lib Dem leader, such as how much tax should we take?
Labour's Political Aesthetics00:06:41
10% or 5%?
I do actually think, one, he would fit the aesthetic of the Lib Dems, and two, I would probably vote for him over all of the parties, including Restore.
Sorry, Rupert.
Would percent be spelled P U R R R?
I think so.
Yeah, that's why we keep you around.
All right, let's read through some of the website comments that we have here.
Also, sorry, from Ed Miliband harnessing Enoch Powell's spinning grave.
Also cut from the Labour advert.
I really don't like Nigel Farage and I don't approve of what he's doing, but no matter how much you dislike the guy, you can't deny someone with that level of swagger, that level of crash, that level of panache, that level of je ne sais quoi, that level of savoir-faire, that level of X-factor.
Like, What if Nigel, Josh, what if Nigel said to you, like, you're such a physical nasty beast, right?
You're the dude that I'm basically going to put you in charge of a platoon of Boris waivers, right?
You'd be like, whoa, I'm Nigel's top guy.
All right, Nigel.
Nigel leaves me, needs me to lead the Boris wave.
All right, I'll do it for you, Nigel.
You gave it something.
Well done.
That's all right.
That's Sam Hyde.
I realized halfway through.
Through what I was reading.
So I thought I might as well just like lean into it.
Sorry to all of the Americans for my terrible Sam Hyde impression that I did there.
But all of them didn't sound the same to me.
So it's revenge for all of their terrible impressions of us when they refer to us as having a British accent.
So it could be Glasgow or a Cockney, which are entirely different, by the way.
Yes, this is true.
Kevin Fox, so not so much this is what Labour can do for you, more we hate reform and are bricking it that they're about to slap us senseless in the local elections.
Pretty much.
Hopefully, in a literal sense.
But it still plays into that whole idea of just sort of like, don't vote for them, they're Nazis.
And reform is like the least, like there's about as far away from being Nazis as you could possibly ever be.
So it still creates that like false illusion in lots of people's minds that this is what, or at least in Labour voters' minds, that this is what the parties are and what they're fighting.
The guy who is actually in one of the Star Wars cantinas was a candidate.
Yeah.
He looked pretty cool, though.
He was like a Mr. Miyagi sort of character.
He looked wise.
Yeah, but he's Indonesian.
He's Indonesian?
Yeah, yeah.
He's not a proper samurai.
He's not a samurai, no.
He's just Indonesian.
And nobody actually knows what goes on in Indonesia.
They're annexing Papua New Guinea.
So a real unhighlighted struggle.
I bring it up all the time.
The hunter gatherers of Western Papua are suffering under their rule.
Oh, I didn't realize that you were an advocate.
I'm a strong advocate for the Papuan people.
Where does the dark from your dark Britain come from, Josh?
I'm actually a cannibal.
Or it might tell you.
That explains a lot.
Henry Ashman, have Labour not learned from Amelia?
Though instead of a purple haired emo girl, they're branching out to the random pub going normies with a lookalike of Dobby from Peep Show.
I got that as well.
That's certainly a choice.
Yeah, actually, it wasn't just a bit of a lookalike.
She had that kind of vibe to her as well.
George Happ.
Seems Labour are really good at creating based waifus.
First Amelia and now this.
If only women like this existed, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.
They do exist.
They're working class.
There's plenty of them.
Anglo poster.
What in the GCS.
GCSE drama is this.
Yeah, it wasn't the best performance I've ever seen, but it really sent the message.
I appreciated the conviction.
Still better acting than Starmer acting annoyed when he's made a mistake.
I wonder if there was like a tiny little part of her on the inside that was like going, Yes, I agree with all of this, especially when she just like screamed out, Depression isn't real.
I'm pretty sure many acting students have had to say that to themselves when they wake up and unable to find work.
True.
True.
That's a bit of a cold thing to say.
You know, if you are trying to act, you know, good luck.
You'll need it.
Anyway, I'll read some of my comments.
Michael says I remember as a youth watching Monty Python as they would absolutely lampoon the Scots, and here we see why.
How absolutely stupid do you have to be to vote for a party who gave them the PM that complained about Scotland being white?
Yes.
Yes.
Hamza Youssef, my goodness.
And of course, Scotland, everyone's very white.
You know, they're the whitest of white.
What's Hunza Yusuf doing nowadays?
He's kind of a bit of a lost memory at this point.
I just replay that footage of him falling off of that scooter in my mind over and over again, and that's good enough for me.
It helps put you in a better mood.
Janvi says, Good afternoon, Stelios, Harry, and Josh.
Hope everyone had a good weekend.
Hi, Janvi.
Yes.
Hello.
Is the SNP a socialist party?
Yes, they are.
Of course, the ex SNP member was embezzling from charities.
Not a surprise.
Also, who's the lesser of the two evils for you all?
The Labour Party or the Greens?
The Labour Party, probably.
I mean, if you.
These are men.
Yeah, they're just horrible.
Yeah, well, I mean, if you're going to go with who is less likely to collapse the country, Labour.
But at the same time, that does mean that they're continuing a political establishment and system that I hate.
Whereas the Greens, in collapsing the country, would kind of force a big change.
But there's no guarantee that that big change would be good or bad.
There's also no guarantee it would happen.
But it would also be funny.
Yes, it would be funny if all our lives got tangibly worse.
I think when it comes to Green, it's much funnier looking at them as the opposition where they're doing all their silly stunts.
I think if they govern the country, it's not going to be funny.
Well, I mean, they send into the absurdity of modernity.
They did say they were going to actively persecute the right more generally, didn't they?
Which I'm happy to meet them in a parallel direction and persecute them in return, but still.
Also, drop the speed limit from 70 to 55 miles per hour on motorways.
I don't think anyone wants that.
That's enough to basically tank their entire campaign.
If everyone just points at that and says they want you to drive slowly on the motorway, everyone will hate them.
Local Governance Flexibility00:03:01
Kevin Fox says Did you see the letter doing the rounds on X, supposedly from the DWP in Glasgow to a migrant living at a travel lodge confirming he had been granted housing benefits to the tune of 928 quid a week?
I assume that he gets the entire floor.
Yeah, that's ridiculous.
That's insane.
Housing, what?
That's a month's rent quite comfortably.
I mean, I also saw something else about a local council outbidding a local resident on a house.
I saw that.
Oh, yeah.
Which was completely disgusting, where somebody had gone through the surveillance, they'd paid the solicitors, they'd got, they were literally like about the day, a day or two before moving into the house.
And then the council just outbids them by 20 grand because in the long term, it's less expensive for them than housing people in hotels.
So not only does that mean that somebody is left without a house, it means that they're given a house, and that's presumably in a normal neighborhood.
As well.
It's awful.
You know, I have my objections to putting people on welfare in amongst new builds in the first place because you're mixing people around.
And I don't think people really want to do that, even amongst their own.
You want to be comfortable in your own community.
Yeah, exactly.
You want to be amongst like minded people.
And if the government uses legislation or their financial weight to disrupt things, I don't think that's ever a good thing.
You want communities to form organically, right?
And this is one of the worries with the council elections, is that everybody's going to put up saying, like, Obviously, I'm sure in one way or another, reform led councils will be better in some ways.
But just the fact of the matter is that people respond to incentives.
And the party, each of the parties under this government and under many of the other governments that we've had, are all subject to the same incentives.
So you might go in thinking, we're going to run this council in a way that's going to save the local community.
But in the incentives, when you're running with not very much funds, You have all of these things put on you by the government, you might still just go, oh, we'll just have to buy up this house with this money instead of spending it on hotels.
Well, the central government in Britain puts local councils basically on the rails to enact their own sort of agenda.
There's not that much flexibility in how you can govern locally, which I think is a big problem because I actually think the way you have a good, competitive, dynamic country is you give localities the ability to try things out and figure out what works, right?
It's one of the strengths of the United States that different states have.
Different laws, and eventually, you know, they figure out, okay, well, this seems to work, and so maybe we can try that.
Zesty King says, It's weird that all the Celtic nations of Britain have exclusively left wing nationalist parties.
I've seen this personally on my travels to each of them.
Yeah, it's weird.
Also, Cornish nationalists as well are very left wing, which is, we've had a run in with a few of those, haven't we?
Celtic Nations Left Wing00:04:52
Yeah, on Twitter, I miss him.
I know.
He was great.
He was great fun.
I had some of the most stupid arguments ever formulated by man thrown at me.
By a Cornish nationalist, and he's just vanished, and I miss him.
I know.
Also, he was calling me a Saxon, and I don't have any Saxon DNA really.
A little bit.
Just a little bit.
3%.
There you go.
Enough.
More than you'd like, though, isn't it?
I know it keeps you up at night.
It does.
It makes me efficient, you see.
It's terrible.
Go on, Stelios.
Take us away.
Michael Dribelbis has several comments here.
Funny how they were using this sex scandal to push Swallows Well out of the California governor's race.
But got huge media pushback when they weren't going to force him out of Congress.
The difference is the Republicans want proof, and that they accused the other day in court.
Democrats want to immediately force the Republican out.
Then they want to accuse the Republicans of hypocrisy for using Democrat standards against Democrats.
And again, by Michael, he says decades ago they forced out a Republican congressman over him asking out female members of his staff, Robert Packwood.
But farts well, gets handy and dixie with a female staffer.
And they need the media attention to force him out.
You're having fun with these, aren't you?
You're just like bashing out.
Michael always has, he still got it.
Oh, yeah.
George Happ says, What's happening to Swallowell is an obvious political hit job with the usual false Me Too allegations.
I have little sympathy for him since he was supporting those tactics when they were used against Kavanaugh and Trump.
Yes.
No sympathy for thine enemy.
I mean, maybe there's some truth to the allegations, but we don't know.
We're not part of the halls of power.
But also, I think.
We covered it on the podcast when I said towards the end that remember that the people who make these accusations against others, they're not saints.
Was it?
Which of the grand American political establishments was it that was the site of two men filming themselves having gay sex in the other year?
Remember when that did come out on Twitter?
What?
Oh, no, no.
Does this have to do with white dudes for Harris?
It might have done.
You never know.
No, I think it was like, wasn't it like Congress, the Congressional Hall or something like that?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Like two gay dudes filmed themselves having sex in there a few years ago.
On top of a nuclear bomb or something.
There's also that guy in New York as well who filmed himself having sex with some OnlyFans person to show how sex positive he was.
Oh, God.
Yeah, you're right.
I completely forgot about that.
And then in Spain, wasn't there also some leftist politicians or something involved in a scat scandal?
Yes, and there was in Germany.
Stelios remembers.
It took him a moment.
Are you talking about Germany?
No, the German one is the guy.
Yeah.
The Greek.
Yeah, the Greek.
That was the German guy in the toilet.
Yes.
It was a Spanish leftist who did it.
Yeah, that was the.
Well, how was when you fight the German man in your toilet?
That was the Sideman.
German in the toilet.
I mean, that's a partnership sent from hell, apparently.
I'll read one more comment.
Daniel Butcher says In the two and a half years I've been up near Edinburgh, there have been thousands of homes built all the way along the A1, destroying the lovely views you see when driving along that road.
I have to take.
To drive in the back roads just so I don't have to see how the Scots are destroying their beautiful landscape with the disgusting modern boxes that are used to store people.
I agree.
No, we shouldn't be building lots of houses.
We should be getting rid of lots of people.
And on that positive note.
And remember that all of that is a lot of it's being done basically just to keep the profits of a lot of these construction companies in the green because a lot of these people are vested interests.
Go on, Stelly.
I just see some Western saying in the chat.
Did the Spanish one have a porn hub profile as well?
I think maybe it did.
But what is funny was that I remember a video by Sam where he was saying, Stelios, what were you thinking with that segment?
Something equivalent.
It's just this segment scarred him, not just him.
Your segments scar all of us.
And that's something that we can all be united under.
And on that happy note, thank you very much for joining us today.
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