November 6, 2025 • 45 mins
A long rant about things in the news.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, hello, Hello, and welcome along too,
runs along an head. We'll see how long we get
on there. Just some riffing on the news, what's in
the news, what I think should be in the news,
my opinion's on the news, and some sardonic innuendo and
cynical analysis.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
From yours truly.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We start off beginning of the week Prince Andrew thrown out, banished,
sent to the hillside. A terrible fate awaits him in Sandringham.
You're gonna Gratis house or something in sandra He's got
to move out of where he is at the moment,
which is thirty eight bedroom mansion or something which they
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call a cottage. Try and fit thirty thirty eight bedrooms
into a cottage unless you include the cupboards as bedrooms
in your average cottage. But anyway, he's got to move.
He'd been told, he's been instructed. Old Charlie boy has
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waved the magic finger of boy, you know, And off
he goes. And his wife's got to make her own
way in life and arrange her own accommodation, which will
be difficult for her because she's now how to do
that for about thirty three years. So she's going to
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have to. I don't know. Maybe she can come up
with some more adventures for Budgy the little helicopter. I mean,
what the hell was that about? That was a bad
idea from the Yorks. She appeared on Richard and Judy
and she had this great idea. She'd seen Thomas the
tank engine on television and she thought, oh, that'd be
a great idea. A little merchandise. I can do him there. Hmm,
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what modes are transporting? Horse and cart? No? A wheelbarrow? Now? Now,
how about have her one of his petty farthing things? Oh,
I know, a helicopter, because you know, everyone can catch
a train, but who the hell gets in a helicopter
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completely out of touch to start off with? It, comes
up with budget in the helicopter and it just flopped
like a man with low blood pressure on his wedding night.
For these people, these people, I do think though, that
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stripping of him of his I mean, what he is
alleged to have done is obscene, it really is.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And he needs to face.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The court because the mistake he made, you see, was
paying her off. If he if he'd have stood up
in court if the claims were that unsubstantiated as he
as he said they were. He should have stood up
in court and made his case, but he didn't. He
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decided to pay her off, and not even with his
own money. And of course, once you get into that,
you get into the sort of Michael Jackson sort of
thing where you're paying people off all the time anyway,
so they're thinking, now what they're going to do is
they're going to take his medals away. And to me,
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that's kind of like a little bit spiteful because despite
the fact that what he did was disgusting, and it
was disgusting. I mean, you know, anyone who's heard Michael
Wolf or or read Andrew Lowney's book or anything like that.
I haven't read Andrew Lowndes's book. I intend to delve
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into it when I've got a spare day or so.
But the full horror of what was accused and what
was said to have gone on on that island and
on the plane in fact, because they had bedrooms on
the plane. So when people say, oh, it's only on
the flight list, it doesn't prove it. I think they
had bedrooms on that play Epstein had it converted so
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it had bedrooms or about twelve bedrooms on that plane
and a small little reception area with a bar and whatever.
And that's why you only see them sort of like
crop shots of them sat in the because that's the
only space there was. The rest of it was jay.
It was just basically a flying sex orgy. And that's
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why Trump bought it, because if he bought it and
then refurbished it at taxpayer's expense, then he would have
destroyed the evidence. But people don't seem to realize that.
People are very slow on the uptake of what's going on.
The one time you'll see a rich person act very
very fast is when they know they're in the shit
and digging themselves out of it. That's the one time
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you'll see a rich person do something like that. But
taking his medals away was to me, it just seems churlish.
I mean, he's a horrible bloke, don't get me wrong.
I mean his reputation is just down the toilet. And
it was down the toilet before even that, because everyone
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knew what a rude, arrogant, entitled little prick he was
and is and probably will remain being. But it's the
same guy who showed bravery flying a helicopter and distracting
enemy fire from his colleagues who were on a ship
down below. And he got a medal for that. He
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got a bravery medal for that and deserved it. It's
one of the few medals that they've actually handed out
in the Royal family to members of the Royal family
that they actually deserve, and he had it taken away,
And I think that's kind of spiteful because I mean,
even though the guy is an alleged pervert and all
these other bits and pieces, that act is a complete
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is in a completely different world to what he was
accused of and what he lost everything over, and it's
sort of, you know, it's kind of like it devalues
the whole thing. I mean, having him as a member
of you know, in his Navy uniform or in all
these other forces uniforms devalues those organizations. But the fact
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that he actually want to got a medal. He was
recommended for a medal for bravery for doing that, And
there were witnesses and people who actually because normally you
see these things and these rich people have been out
to us somewhere and they get some sort of medal,
and they've had nothing to do with it. They've probably
been out there doing expelled Excel spreadsheets or monitoring how
many beans are in the canteen cupboard. But he actually
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went out there and did something, and and taking that
away is a bit of a fuck. Really is a
bit of a mind fuck. It's like it's like saying, oh,
that means nothing now, and a lot of people would
have died if he hadn't have done that. Having said that,
the guy's a complete winker and he deserves everything. Gets
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and of story. And then we had this guy escape
from prison. He didn't even want to escape from prison.
And we discovered that two hundred and fifty three people
a year are released incorrectly from prison. I mean, it's
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not like they're tunneling out. It's not like they have
some fiendish scheme and they're throwing a rope over the
wall or whatever. It's getting to the point where they've
just got a signing in book. You know, I'll be
back at ten o'clock. I just never had to get
some fags anything you want. But this guy gets gets
out there, he's put at the front door, so that's
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it on your way, and he's like, and what amazes
me is the Daily Mail haven't actually said, oh, you know,
because they normally give him a little bit of money
to see him through, you know what I mean, because
it's such a generous country. We give him forty quid.
Uh anyway, start your life with your forty quid. And
he came back to the prison five times, said no,
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this is wrong, you got it wrong that now, bagger off,
bag off, go on, go on, We'll call a police.
And he went to the police. But because of the
Tories obsession with nowhere having any access and no one
having any access to anything whatsoever, the police station I
believe was closed, it had been closed down, so he
couldn't go there. And then he picks up papers seeing
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that he's some sort of you know, and he thinks,
ah ah, everyone's gonna be able to get me. So
he goes to live in the park and it took
him a few days to find him, and then they
deported him, and David Lemme had the cheek to say,
well he sent him back where he belongs. Well, they
sent him to Ethiopia, but the guy was wasn't from Ethiopia,
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Oh shit, where he belongs. And they had to give
him five hundred quid to get on the plane. Now,
from that point of view, I think that's quite good
because they givehim five undre quick because otherwise, if he
turns up in a country he's got no money, he's
just gonna be a problem in that country. So at
least they'd give him a foothold. So mate five. We
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had all the right wingers going, oh he had five
hundred pan. Oh, just hit him on the head with
a cush and shoved him in the cargo compartment and
they've done with it. I did actually laugh though, when
they were talking about the you know, because they had
to put him on the plane and then they had
to take him off again for some reason or another
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for a dispute, and he was giving them money, and
the guy said, well, we got him on the plane
and there's a lot of other people there, so we
had to pull him off. And I just burst out
laughing because you know what, I was going to clip
that up. I was great, Oh, enter every life, a
little sarcasm must fall. But it goes to show and
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now there's two more people or three or something who
have been released who shouldn't have been released, and he's
starting to think, oh, it's the prison service. Actually were
the walls the walls like four inches high or something.
What's going on? And these people have sort of been
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let out of prison. David Lemmings like, oh, well, I
don't know anything about this.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That's a mystery to me.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And he threw an absolute lobbly a Prime minister's question.
Did you see him? Oh, he was something in a
desk and pointing. That finger was pointed.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was doing some serious pointing.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He and then he and he's stormed off in a
mist of his own indignation. And then they asked him
to come back because some new evidence arose that because
technically he did actually answer the question, because the question was,
can you confirm that no asylum seekers who are in
the prisons have been released by mistake? And this guy
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is not an asylum seeker. You know, he's a foreign national,
he comes from Armenia, but he's not an asylum seeker.
So technically Lammy was correct. But it doesn't know a
bad taste in your mouth that you send people. Send
people away to do their time in prison and presumably,
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you know, learn their lessons of the errors of their
lives in their ways, and then they come out forty
five minutes later and say, well, it was quite nice.
I'll go for a curry now, I mean, what is
going on? It's like they don't need to have a
get together because they all got out the same time.
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You'd think somebody would ask them their names, or check
or just have some sort of idea of who the
hell they're dealing with. You'd fucking think that, wouldn't you.
But no, just off you go, Off you go. I
don't want to go, No, off you go. And there
was a guy who was on the radio and he
was saying that he was actually in a cell and
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they wanted to get him out four months early by mistake.
And he's like, no, no, there's a mistake. Mistake, No,
there's no mistake. On mistake computers say no, no, no,
there's a mistake. I want to stay. Please let me stay.
Oh please, I'll be bad, I'll be really bad.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And they're like, no, no, you've got to go.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You got to go.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So they.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Carry him over there because he had a nice Celsie
had a cell at the end of the at the
end of the whatever that thing is called that they
call it in prison, he has a cell at the
end and it's a coveted cell. And when he when
he came back, of course he had to get another
cell and it wasn't quite as nice. And he told them,
he told him all the time. Now you got the
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wrong guy, No, you got the timing's wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You've read that wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And people putting down forty five minutes. So you know
when I went for you and it's just like you
just think in this DN age, you know what is
going on? What did the Tories leave us? They left
us and utter wreckage. But this government can't actually say, oh,
it's a previous administration as fault. How long did they
get to do that? How how long are you going
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to well, Rachel Reads has got a pop and come
text because the previous administration And remember George Osborne used
to it in every single interview that he used to do.
He used to say, oh, it's see deficit lest by
the previous administration. And he used to say that, and
every and somebody asked him about after he'd been doing
this for about eighteen months, he said, George, can I
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ask you?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
He said, yes, do you ever get.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Bored with saying the deficit left by the previous administration?
And he burst out laughing, because it's all such inaliable bullshit.
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We hire these people.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And we give them the keys to the castle, so
to speak, and they just fumble at the lock, or
they go to the wrong address, or that. They're just
absolutely the sheer lack of talent.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That we had.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now. Think about this. Right in the old days, you
had politicians that you sort of like. You might not
like them, you might hate them, but you could respect
what they said because they said things and even if
you disagreed with those policies, they had a gravitas about them.
They had a position, there was something that and look
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like a Thatcher. Can't stand Margaret Thatcher. She was terrible
Prime minister. Put the country through ringers. Poor people were
just castigated all the time, off a cabinet at their
hands in the till and.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Thatcher was terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
She's absolutely no sense of decency about the woman whatsoever,
because she was totally set on this capitalism. There is
no such thing as society, she said. She brought in
the care in the community, which was an enormous flop
and resulted in so many people getting beaten up or
attacked or whatever by Paul bastards who had such mental conditions.
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But because they stripped back and they said, well, there's
no such thing as mental conditions. You're just making it up.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
If we just leave you to your own devices, you'll
get sick of pretending and go back and get a job.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And that was their.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Whole thing, and then Thatcher right. All the things that
happened then are happening again now because we've got this
community care thing. They can't even think of different words
to use for it. But it's the same sort of thing.
And for years, years, since the eighties, people people on
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the right wing and some of the left wingers, some
of the you know, the center leftists. I said, wow,
you know, not everyone's that depressed or anxious or whatever.
But over the years, people have been able to talk
about it, and they've opened up about it, and they've
got a little bit, you know, a little bit more
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comfortable discussing that they are depressed or they are anxious,
or they do have certain neuroses or whatever, and it
is making life very hard for them. And these things
are diagnosable, but actually getting somebody to actually diagnose you,
that's the problem. Now, would an employer want an employee
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who is capable of doing the job, who is competent,
who isn't distracted, depressed or bringing the workforce down or
having a negative impact on the working environment. Or would
they rather have somebody who is all those things.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But has an aberration.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where there would well as somebody came in who wasn't
very well in other words, because this is what all
this getting people back to work thing is, and that's
what it will result in, forcing people back into work
who are not actually psychologically equipped.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
To do it. And that's a dangerous thing to do.
But when you're getting back to what I was saying
about Thatcher, Thatcher, no matter.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What you thought of her, awful person, in my extract,
one of the worst political leaders we've ever had, serious
political leaders, you know, not like Johnson or Trust or
those clowns. But you respected it. You respected to hear
what she had to say because you knew it was
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going to be complete bollocks and you knew it had
to be fought, but you respected her to stand up
there and talk that complete bollocks. Now we don't have that.
Now we have a series of people who just give
these mantrads, gripted speeches, and use the same phraseology through
things and poorly thought out metaphors. And of course the
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absolute apex of what.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
They say is lessons will be learned.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And the dearth of talent that we have in this
country politically now is unbelievable. I mean, there are some
good people, there's some really good people in politics, but
they're getting few and far between because the ambition in politics,
because it is considerably better pay than most other occupations.
Because i mean they say, ah, ninety four thousand, it's
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not a lot of money for what you've got to do,
but you've only got to turn up four days a week.
If that the average MP turns up to the Houses
of Parliament one hundred and twenty five days a year.
There's no reduction in pay. Now, they might be doing
constituency work, but how many of them were the checks
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and balances. There's no checks and balances on MPs. None,
There's no like minimum service guarantee. So you could become
an MP, say for a seaside town, and visit it
twice in two years, and and just spend your time
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swanning around TV studios or flying off to the States
or Germany or Russia or wherever the hell you're going,
and there's no there's no censure, there's no penalty for that,
and it just it goes back to a thing. Now
because the other thing I wanted to talk about was
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Rachel Reeves. Now she's going on about this tax. She's
walked into a minefield. Really because again now to a degree,
you can say that the Tories left fucking shit stop.
I mean, everything was like there was no good in
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anything the Toys left. Everything had been cut to the
bone and they were still looking to get some new
Let's snap that ins see and get the marrow out.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
How was the.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Tory's whole thing? And a lot of them became very rich,
particularly during the pandemic and after Brexit, and indeed some
of them became quite wealthy as a result of the
invasion of Ukraine through the selling weapons and their shares
went up, and some of them had directorships on arms companies.
But you know, anyway, so she's walked into this mind
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trap where she can't actually, without going back on the
Manifesto pledges put up National Insurance Income.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Tax V eight. So she's stuck.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Now she could try and tax her wealthy, but then
her donors are going to back off, so that's a
big problem for them. And of course the donors always say,
oh god, we'll leave. If you tax us, we'll leave.
They never do call their bluff. What's wrong with calling
their bluff? If you've got over ten million quid in
the bank, you can do with losing the odd five
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hundred thousand. You're not gonna You're not gonna really sweat.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It that much. I'll give you a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Amazon had a turnover in twenty twenty three, I think
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four. Their profit after tax
was twenty seven billion pounds in the UK. That was
just their UK profit. They paid eighteen million pound tax.
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Now you look at that, you work, you work out
what that percentage is, because it's a zero and a
point and I believe it's two more zeros, and then
you get some other figures after. I can't be bothered
to work it out myself, but that's.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Roughly what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And that's a big problem in this country with people
and corporations not playing their fair share of tax. It's
like when people go to work for big chains and
I'm not gonna name them, but they go for work
for big chains, and the wages are so paltry that
people have to come back to the state to have
them topped up, which means that they have to pay
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more tax on both these sums, which go back into
the stud and the whole thing's it's like a Ponzi scheme,
and it doesn't work because these companies are claiming all
the tax relief that they possibly can and all the
expenses and allowances that they possibly can to wreak in
as much money as they possibly can, while simultaneously having
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their employees live on poverty wages. Now, Rachel reeves, if
she puts up income tax, she'll be the first person
to do that in fifty years, first chancellor to do
that in fifty years. But the other thing is right,
people who are already struggling like fuck to survive. I mean,
what are we supposed to do? Start gnawing furniture. The
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food banks are running out of stuff now because people
have no money to actually donate to the food banks
or buy extra food and put in the food.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
If you go to the.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Uh you know shops where they have the little baskets
and things for food banks, there's foot all in't there?
It's like one packet of crackers and some nasal hair
remover and that's it. And the nasal hair and I've
got to tell you the nasal hair remove the nasal hair.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Remover is not nice.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But the whole thing of the Tories was to rely
on charity. They said, oh, we cut back on these
services and then charities and whatever can pick up there.
And you think, where do you think the charities are
going to get the money from, Because they're not going
to get it from government. You just can't back on
those services. People are going to donate to charities unless
they feel that there's a cause there, and if the
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cause is portrayed in the media it's been a bunch
of scroungers. They're not going to do it. And that
we have warm banks, fucking warm banks where people have
to go and huddle. I've never been to one, but
I assume it's a bunch of heaters in a room
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of people just sit there with their hands out, but
they're having a saiance with an electrical item. I don't
know what. I don't know what she would what she
gonna do, She's gonna tip everyone upside down and says
they've got gold fillings. What is going on? You see,
nobody in this country would object to paying tax. Nobody
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in the right mind objects to paying tax or the
services that are provided, like the health service or care
or education, or the police or the fire service or
all the other myriad services that we expect the state
to provide and to provide a safety net four times
when we may run into difficulty periods of unemployment or
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sickness or something like that. But increasingly we see the
money we pay the money out. I know a friend
of mine works part time. She has to work part
time because she has other responsibilities, and she works part
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time every month and at the end of the month
she gets her wages and it's there, probably about six
hundred quid. But by the time she takes all the
tax is taken off there it's four hundred and forty
one quid and she's going to live on that for
a month. Now, that is a crazy low amount of
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money to live on, particularly when you assume that she's
paying a huge amount of tax and other companies are
paying nothing. Other people are just walking away with a
lot more money and paying a lot less.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
A new woman.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I've said this before, A new woman who earned one
hundred and twenty thousand pounds one year. She was self employed.
She did a lot of consultancy work and she went
to see her account she got receipts or everything. She
went to see her accountant and she plaid a hundred
pound in tax and do you know she begrudged paying it. Now,
to me, that is nuts, That is so selfish. But
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that's what these people are. And that's what the sort
of mindset of, uh of what's what's what's what's the
word for it? It's not ambition, it's.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It begins with an a anyway, assholery. I think we'll
use the.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But nobody objects to pay more tax or paying tax
if you're getting something bad for it. Increasingly people don't
you ring up about a problem that you might have
somebody's dumps and bags in your garden, or there's a
rowdy bunch of kids.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Outside throwing stuff at your window. You wring them up.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You expect something to happen, some sort of solution to
the issue. But are you lucky if you get an
answer phone? We can't take a call at the moment,
Fred with a bit, you know, we've rung on a Wednesday.
Unfortunately it's in our contract. We don't do anything on
a Wednesday. Sorry about that. I would suggest you fling
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a blanket over the flaming pile that they've made outside
your house. And you know that front door can easily
be replaced, and we're very sorry that you're currently tied
to that post, you know. And they say, they keep
them saying, oh, we've donated record amounts to keep the
NHS going, but a lot of that money is actually
going straight through the NHS and paying private providers to
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do procedures that the NHS won't touch, and then the
NHS have to pick up the pieces if those procedures
go wrong, because the private providers aren't interested in putting together,
in putting right their mistakes. So that's another burden on
the NHS. And I'll tell you something else, right while
we're all next subject. Right, they say, oh, be a
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burden to the NHS, you know, all this, or all
burden to the areshs. And I talk about perfectly legitimate
things being a burden to the NHS. But when football
fans stick a firework up there ares and light it
and it results in the obvious, that's never referred to
as a burden to the NHS. I'm pretty sure if
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you shove a firework up your ass lighted and it
goes off, you're going to be going to the You're
going to be going to the local A and E.
I would put I would put a large amount of
money on there. I don't know what, I don't know
where these people get off with this idea, but the
services just aren't there. The care sector has been largely privatized.
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There's so many hedge funds owning care homes, and we
all know how much of a fuck hedge funds give
about anything. The water companies are just pouring sewage into
the waters and the waterways, destroying wildlife, destroying habitat, wrecking towns,
and you know, and the people are getting ill.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Because of that.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But apparently it's people's fault that they're getting ill because
of that because they privatized water companies, and the water
company is actually said this week, one of the leading
people in the water companies actually said they're not going
to do anything about the pollution or the environment because
their bottom line is profit and they won't do anything
until they're actually forced to do something about it. This
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couman won't do anything about it. They're not interested. It's
the same as with the previous lot. They went along
and they saw the sewage being poured in the river
and they went, oh, well they are they and they've
got in their chauvel driven limo and went home.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I don't know what exactly she's supposed to do. We
have this eco epidemic of shoplifting, and a lot of
the major supermarkets were saying.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh, it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's people coming in and helping themselves and going out
the door.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh, it's costing us, it's costness deeries. Oh and all
this there's no issue. I've never heard of actual witnesses
of certain these things, and they never actually showed CCTV
of actually.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Any of this happening.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And don't forget we live in the country where people
are you know, where a woman was sent to prison
for five years for stealing a bag of crisps because
the social security net, which the government said is so generous,
had been canceled for three months because she fail to
attend an appointment, which he hadn't been told she had.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But apparently she was a liar.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So to teach her a lesson, they cut off all
her money, loses a flat, no money for food, goes in,
steals back at the crisps. Five years in prison, and
they said this, They said, the shoplifters are crippling us.
All they're giving us all this, giving us all this
hair grow and stealing all our stuff, and the shells,
all the shells. All, Oh, we're lucky to still have shells.
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And then they have the nerve to say they've made
a three point two billion pound profit and there's no
sort of recollection, is no generosity of spirit, and puts
two and two together. Oh, we could have made more
money if it wasn't of those pesky, hungry people.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Wanting to survive. I don't know, really know what Rachel
Reed's is supposed to do. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I mean, there's gonna have somebody is going to have
to suffer along the way somewhere, and we could all
pretty much guess who the fuck it's.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's going to be the poor bastard at the bottom
of the heap, the guy who's got no way of
fighting back against it. I have nothing against getting people
back into work who can work but for God's sake,
give them the fucking treatment they need. Put funds into it.
It's a long term investment. If you have a healthy workforce,
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you have a happier workforce, you have a better productivity rate,
greater GDP, better tax take. But no, they don't need
to appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Oh now it costs money out front. We don't want
to do that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You know, you've got ninety billion pounds a day we
spend just on the interest on the debts that we borrowed.
And that's you know, all through the tour. We're not
making any effort to get their money back out of
the people who scammed us in the PPE crisis. Although
that's just to drop in the ocean to the actual
thing it would help. What was it, It was something like
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four hundred billion in the end in total. The whole
thing cost us a lot of people on furlough. But
those companies sprang up. They sprang up two weeks before
the government said well we need companies who need PPA
know how to make PPA. We need to contact us now.
And all these companies, these legitimate companies, rang up and
they couldn't get through to anyone. The phone would just
(32:34):
ring and ring and ring. The government set up this
VIP line. All these companies that suddenly sprung up, dormant
companies that selling companies house books and years suddenly sprung up.
So yeah, we can do it. Oh yeah, Well there's
a couple of hundred million go and and nothing would
turn up, and when it did turn up, it was
unusable or it wasn't up to standard or whatever. And
now they're burning it. They're burning the evidence. And don't
(32:57):
give me this shit about Michelle Own, because that's just
to tip the iceberg. What you do is you find
a mug. You've got six guys who know what they're doing,
and you find a mug, and that mug carries the can,
and the six guys just go right and they're off
out the back door. Because that's just a distraction. I
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don't know what Rachel Reeves can really justifiably do. I
know what she should do. She should tax assets. She
should seize those properties, and there's thousands of them worth
millions that you know that are foreign investments, there just
(33:41):
investment vehicles. She should seize those house people, get those
people into some sort of employment, and then we can
sort of like move forward there is no housing crisis
in this country. We have a one point three million
vacant properties. We have a million people needing those properties,
which is the grade A figure. Okay, you renovate those properties,
(34:04):
get them habitable, and a lot of them are already habitable,
and you put those people.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
In that property.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, there are thousands of them. And if you're going
to build, build on old industrial estates because a lot
of those places aren't used anymore. You have all the
facilities there, you have the drainage infrastructure and whatever. Oh
now with this lovely forest here, that'd be a lovely
place for eight hundred hoses in a mini mart I.
Just we had this bizarre idea that this is going
(34:34):
to solve all our problems, that we can build our
way out of that. But we can't because it's finite
and with the dwindling population, there's going to be even
more vacant properties. When this when my generation and you know,
drops off the twig. So I don't know what exactly
(34:55):
she's expecting to do. I know what she will do,
and I've said it. What you want to do actually
come down like a ton of bricks on the poor
bastards who haven't got any money. But apart from that,
that's not going to raise her that much because they
haven't got any money. And if people are going to
work and they're coming back with nothing, can you really
(35:17):
blame them for going.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Oh, fuck this.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
You don't want somebody in your workforce who unmotivated because
you know, ill, because they can't buy decent food, or
they can't heat their homes so they've got a cold
or whatever. This whole country is nuts, really, and it's
(35:40):
not down to immigration, and it's not down to overcrowded.
It's down to none of those things. It's down to
sloveliness of thought from government, and it's self interested sort
of maintenance. Because nobody would object to paying tax I
say it, nobody would reject paying tax, but the money
to end this paying quits helicopter rides going off to conferences.
(36:03):
You know, he's gone off to Star War's gone off
to a conference now in Brazil, right, And it's the
cop whatever it is, whatever number, where they stand at
the end pretending to be Marvel superheroes. You know, all,
look at us, We've made these big advances. And then
they got to go there, you know, two years later
(36:23):
and say, well.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
What happened there? Then I forgot about that. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
The future of the world is at stake and the
most incompreh incompetent people are dealing with it. But he's
gone over there. Now there's fifty zeros people gone over
to Brazil to this thing, all these flights going in
with all these advisors and donors and donor representatives and
people from various sections of industry've got to put their
(36:51):
two penneth in and they'll come back with nothing as usual.
And that sort of thing is all on our dime.
Start for any prime minister, not just Starmer, but any
prime minister, or any minister to go around. But let's
just go on prime minister, because I know of the
figures on prime ministers. When a prime minister go to
visit somewhere, so he goes up to like Lincolnshire to
(37:15):
say a load of people up there or whatever, it
costs about forty to fifty million quid for him to
do that for the morning. Can you imagine that forty
to fifty million quid gets two minutes on the telly.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
It's an insane amount of money, So imagine what it's
costing him to go over to all that banquet that
they have when Trump came over. I mean that had
got to be all the heads of state, all the cabinet,
all the opposition, loads of other people, celebrities, people from
the world of baking, anyone, chefs, staff, security, decorations, hospitality,
(38:01):
all this bollocks and they and they say, oh, we've
got no money. I'm sorry about you, Nan stuck going
to care home because the Hedge fund by finance bandages.
But you know, we've got no money. Meanwhile, a lot
of the people who used to run the government are
(38:21):
incredibly rich. Now, I mean, look at Quazy Kwarteng or
Nadinem Zahawi or Boris Johnson or Liz Trusts. You know,
you can't say RICHI soon that because he was rich already,
he was vastly wealthy. But then you have a vastly
wealthy person telling somebody who's trying to survive on sixty
(38:43):
eight cod a week that they're getting too much.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I don't know what people expect in this country, really,
I don't This iteration of labor is completely out of kilter.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
There's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Leaving labor anyway because they've had enough of it. For
some reason, they like to have opinions of their own.
They like to be able to discuss things amongst themselves
without having over my still and few astarma peering over
their shoulder and giving them a good kick in the ass.
But I don't know what alternative we have really, And
we've got the Labor Party or this iteration of the
Lay Party, god knows what it's about.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Not very good.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
We've got the Conservatives. Well, we know what we're going
to get with the Conservatives, so that can fuck right off.
Got the Liberal Democrats, Now, I don't know what's going
on with the Liberal Democrats. They're a sort of political
version of your dad dancing at a disco. Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Who else we've got?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Uh? Well we we We've got the ss Tribute Act
in Nigel Farayes and his band of merry Men. And
what's the other thing that?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Oh Greens?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, the Greens are good, have some good ideas, and
your party so again I've got no idea, what the
what what they're what's going on with the Green Party?
He appears to spend most of his time smoking a
pipe and talking to a tree. So that's that now,
(40:14):
we've got to circle back there because I'm just gonna
say something about LBC if you're still listening. And I
was listening to LBC last Thursday and they were talking
about Prince Andrew and it was Ian Dale's show. Now,
I was only listening to it because I was waiting
for the ten o'clock news. And he had a guy
in there, and the guy was talking about it and
(40:36):
he said and he said, well, I think Ian Dale saying, oh, well,
I think you know, it's a bit harsh on Prince Andrew.
You know now, it's a bit of a witch hunt.
And I was like, well, if you read Andrew Lowney's book.
He said, no, I've got better things to read than that,
And I thought right, And then the guy went on
(41:00):
and said a couple more things. He said, it's in
Virginia de Fay's autobiography. Have you read that now? I'm
not going to read it. I have no intention of
reading that. Now, he's saying and given opinion on something
that he hasn't even bothered in the research into. He's
just like read the newspaper stories and thought, oh, right,
now that's my position on that.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
And that's fine. If he read the book.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Lownie's book is incredibly well researched and Grifa's book, and
there was no reason for her to lie.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
About any of that. In fact, a lot of the
stuff that's in that book.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Was missed out of Lownie's book because it was the
first person account, because Loud he really concentrated on Andrew
and Fergie and all that rubbish, where she actually detailed
a lot of the disgusting things that went on. And
(41:58):
sadly she's gone now it's impossible to get her to
clarify everything, and all we have is her account and
her statements, etc.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Of what exactly happened.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
But for Ian Dale to say that he's not going
to read those books and he's determined to avoid reading
those books and yet have an opinion that he's totally
convinced is correct, is bizarre. That's so bizarre for a
journalist to do. I mean, even for in Dale, it's
(42:30):
bizarre for a right wing journalist. It's bizarre for somebody
not to be in possession of information, whether it's factual
or not, is really another thing. But if you're not
going to if you're not actually going to read the
information pertaining to what you're actually trying to talk about
and what you're actually taking a position on. Then you're
(42:52):
going to end up looking like a bit of a
tit because you haven't actually got the full you're not
actually looking down on the story and seeing all the
details of the story. You're only seeing the details that
have presented to you in the format that you wanted
them presented. And I think that that's that's a very
(43:15):
dangerous place to be. If people are sort of starting
to do that, they're starting to say, well, I'm not
going to read that, but I'm going to have a
firm opinion on it anyway. And I appreciate people do
that on social media, and the people do that on
a lot of mini.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Blogging sites or whatever.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
They make opinions and they say things that they have
no idea what they're talking about, and then they put
those idea ideas out in the world. And yes, a
lot of them do look like complete bell ends. At
the end of it.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
It's like they should.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Title it all these things that this is my opinion,
but I'm a bell end. That'd be great if we
had a bell end detector, if you had, like if
Twitter had a little lap or blue sky or any
of the others had a little app and you can
put it on and when you looked at somebody's tweet
(44:06):
and they were bell End, it was just like light
up bellin Belen Bellin.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Massive bell End.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Anyway, that is my lent for today. If you've stayed
with me for the whole thing, I really appreciate it. No,
I seriously I do. It's very unstructured this and I
don't tend to. I usually have like a notepad, like
(44:43):
a white board of subjects I want to talk about,
and I usually go from one subject and I do
it very methodically. But I thought let's try it in
a sort of stream of consciousness way, and I think
the bell End alarm is going off. Anyway, thank you
for listening, and take care of yourself. And if you
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like it, click like below. There's no dislike button. Well
there might be stars actually that you can prod, so
if you can prod any of those for me, or.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Leave a comment.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
I always enjoy reading, well reading in general. Really, there's
just to prove that somebody's out there that I'm not
the Charlton Heston character looking out on a desolate city
where humanity has become taken over by a strange virus.
I am legend or leg end, as my friend Sarah
(45:43):
used to call it.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Goodbye
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, hello, Hello, and welcome along too,
runs along an head. We'll see how long we get
on there. Just some riffing on the news, what's in
the news, what I think should be in the news,
my opinion's on the news, and some sardonic innuendo and
cynical analysis.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
From yours truly.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We start off beginning of the week Prince Andrew thrown out, banished,
sent to the hillside. A terrible fate awaits him in Sandringham.
You're gonna Gratis house or something in sandra He's got
to move out of where he is at the moment,
which is thirty eight bedroom mansion or something which they
(00:43):
call a cottage. Try and fit thirty thirty eight bedrooms
into a cottage unless you include the cupboards as bedrooms
in your average cottage. But anyway, he's got to move.
He'd been told, he's been instructed. Old Charlie boy has
(01:05):
waved the magic finger of boy, you know, And off
he goes. And his wife's got to make her own
way in life and arrange her own accommodation, which will
be difficult for her because she's now how to do
that for about thirty three years. So she's going to
(01:25):
have to. I don't know. Maybe she can come up
with some more adventures for Budgy the little helicopter. I mean,
what the hell was that about? That was a bad
idea from the Yorks. She appeared on Richard and Judy
and she had this great idea. She'd seen Thomas the
tank engine on television and she thought, oh, that'd be
a great idea. A little merchandise. I can do him there. Hmm,
(01:47):
what modes are transporting? Horse and cart? No? A wheelbarrow? Now? Now,
how about have her one of his petty farthing things? Oh,
I know, a helicopter, because you know, everyone can catch
a train, but who the hell gets in a helicopter
(02:09):
completely out of touch to start off with? It, comes
up with budget in the helicopter and it just flopped
like a man with low blood pressure on his wedding night.
For these people, these people, I do think though, that
(02:29):
stripping of him of his I mean, what he is
alleged to have done is obscene, it really is.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
And he needs to face.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The court because the mistake he made, you see, was
paying her off. If he if he'd have stood up
in court if the claims were that unsubstantiated as he
as he said they were. He should have stood up
in court and made his case, but he didn't. He
(02:58):
decided to pay her off, and not even with his
own money. And of course, once you get into that,
you get into the sort of Michael Jackson sort of
thing where you're paying people off all the time anyway,
so they're thinking, now what they're going to do is
they're going to take his medals away. And to me,
(03:23):
that's kind of like a little bit spiteful because despite
the fact that what he did was disgusting, and it
was disgusting. I mean, you know, anyone who's heard Michael
Wolf or or read Andrew Lowney's book or anything like that.
I haven't read Andrew Lowndes's book. I intend to delve
(03:43):
into it when I've got a spare day or so.
But the full horror of what was accused and what
was said to have gone on on that island and
on the plane in fact, because they had bedrooms on
the plane. So when people say, oh, it's only on
the flight list, it doesn't prove it. I think they
had bedrooms on that play Epstein had it converted so
(04:04):
it had bedrooms or about twelve bedrooms on that plane
and a small little reception area with a bar and whatever.
And that's why you only see them sort of like
crop shots of them sat in the because that's the
only space there was. The rest of it was jay.
It was just basically a flying sex orgy. And that's
(04:25):
why Trump bought it, because if he bought it and
then refurbished it at taxpayer's expense, then he would have
destroyed the evidence. But people don't seem to realize that.
People are very slow on the uptake of what's going on.
The one time you'll see a rich person act very
very fast is when they know they're in the shit
and digging themselves out of it. That's the one time
(04:46):
you'll see a rich person do something like that. But
taking his medals away was to me, it just seems churlish.
I mean, he's a horrible bloke, don't get me wrong.
I mean his reputation is just down the toilet. And
it was down the toilet before even that, because everyone
(05:08):
knew what a rude, arrogant, entitled little prick he was
and is and probably will remain being. But it's the
same guy who showed bravery flying a helicopter and distracting
enemy fire from his colleagues who were on a ship
down below. And he got a medal for that. He
(05:31):
got a bravery medal for that and deserved it. It's
one of the few medals that they've actually handed out
in the Royal family to members of the Royal family
that they actually deserve, and he had it taken away,
And I think that's kind of spiteful because I mean,
even though the guy is an alleged pervert and all
these other bits and pieces, that act is a complete
(05:54):
is in a completely different world to what he was
accused of and what he lost everything over, and it's
sort of, you know, it's kind of like it devalues
the whole thing. I mean, having him as a member
of you know, in his Navy uniform or in all
these other forces uniforms devalues those organizations. But the fact
(06:17):
that he actually want to got a medal. He was
recommended for a medal for bravery for doing that, And
there were witnesses and people who actually because normally you
see these things and these rich people have been out
to us somewhere and they get some sort of medal,
and they've had nothing to do with it. They've probably
been out there doing expelled Excel spreadsheets or monitoring how
many beans are in the canteen cupboard. But he actually
(06:40):
went out there and did something, and and taking that
away is a bit of a fuck. Really is a
bit of a mind fuck. It's like it's like saying, oh,
that means nothing now, and a lot of people would
have died if he hadn't have done that. Having said that,
the guy's a complete winker and he deserves everything. Gets
(07:03):
and of story. And then we had this guy escape
from prison. He didn't even want to escape from prison.
And we discovered that two hundred and fifty three people
a year are released incorrectly from prison. I mean, it's
(07:26):
not like they're tunneling out. It's not like they have
some fiendish scheme and they're throwing a rope over the
wall or whatever. It's getting to the point where they've
just got a signing in book. You know, I'll be
back at ten o'clock. I just never had to get
some fags anything you want. But this guy gets gets
out there, he's put at the front door, so that's
(07:48):
it on your way, and he's like, and what amazes
me is the Daily Mail haven't actually said, oh, you know,
because they normally give him a little bit of money
to see him through, you know what I mean, because
it's such a generous country. We give him forty quid.
Uh anyway, start your life with your forty quid. And
he came back to the prison five times, said no,
(08:10):
this is wrong, you got it wrong that now, bagger off,
bag off, go on, go on, We'll call a police.
And he went to the police. But because of the
Tories obsession with nowhere having any access and no one
having any access to anything whatsoever, the police station I
believe was closed, it had been closed down, so he
couldn't go there. And then he picks up papers seeing
(08:33):
that he's some sort of you know, and he thinks,
ah ah, everyone's gonna be able to get me. So
he goes to live in the park and it took
him a few days to find him, and then they
deported him, and David Lemme had the cheek to say,
well he sent him back where he belongs. Well, they
sent him to Ethiopia, but the guy was wasn't from Ethiopia,
(08:56):
Oh shit, where he belongs. And they had to give
him five hundred quid to get on the plane. Now,
from that point of view, I think that's quite good
because they givehim five undre quick because otherwise, if he
turns up in a country he's got no money, he's
just gonna be a problem in that country. So at
least they'd give him a foothold. So mate five. We
(09:18):
had all the right wingers going, oh he had five
hundred pan. Oh, just hit him on the head with
a cush and shoved him in the cargo compartment and
they've done with it. I did actually laugh though, when
they were talking about the you know, because they had
to put him on the plane and then they had
to take him off again for some reason or another
(09:41):
for a dispute, and he was giving them money, and
the guy said, well, we got him on the plane
and there's a lot of other people there, so we
had to pull him off. And I just burst out
laughing because you know what, I was going to clip
that up. I was great, Oh, enter every life, a
little sarcasm must fall. But it goes to show and
(10:03):
now there's two more people or three or something who
have been released who shouldn't have been released, and he's
starting to think, oh, it's the prison service. Actually were
the walls the walls like four inches high or something.
What's going on? And these people have sort of been
(10:25):
let out of prison. David Lemmings like, oh, well, I
don't know anything about this.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That's a mystery to me.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
And he threw an absolute lobbly a Prime minister's question.
Did you see him? Oh, he was something in a
desk and pointing. That finger was pointed.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was doing some serious pointing.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He and then he and he's stormed off in a
mist of his own indignation. And then they asked him
to come back because some new evidence arose that because
technically he did actually answer the question, because the question was,
can you confirm that no asylum seekers who are in
the prisons have been released by mistake? And this guy
(11:10):
is not an asylum seeker. You know, he's a foreign national,
he comes from Armenia, but he's not an asylum seeker.
So technically Lammy was correct. But it doesn't know a
bad taste in your mouth that you send people. Send
people away to do their time in prison and presumably,
(11:30):
you know, learn their lessons of the errors of their
lives in their ways, and then they come out forty
five minutes later and say, well, it was quite nice.
I'll go for a curry now, I mean, what is
going on? It's like they don't need to have a
get together because they all got out the same time.
(11:51):
You'd think somebody would ask them their names, or check
or just have some sort of idea of who the
hell they're dealing with. You'd fucking think that, wouldn't you.
But no, just off you go, Off you go. I
don't want to go, No, off you go. And there
was a guy who was on the radio and he
was saying that he was actually in a cell and
(12:13):
they wanted to get him out four months early by mistake.
And he's like, no, no, there's a mistake. Mistake, No,
there's no mistake. On mistake computers say no, no, no,
there's a mistake. I want to stay. Please let me stay.
Oh please, I'll be bad, I'll be really bad.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And they're like, no, no, you've got to go.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
You got to go.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So they.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Carry him over there because he had a nice Celsie
had a cell at the end of the at the
end of the whatever that thing is called that they
call it in prison, he has a cell at the
end and it's a coveted cell. And when he when
he came back, of course he had to get another
cell and it wasn't quite as nice. And he told them,
he told him all the time. Now you got the
(12:58):
wrong guy, No, you got the timing's wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You've read that wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And people putting down forty five minutes. So you know
when I went for you and it's just like you
just think in this DN age, you know what is
going on? What did the Tories leave us? They left
us and utter wreckage. But this government can't actually say, oh,
it's a previous administration as fault. How long did they
get to do that? How how long are you going
(13:22):
to well, Rachel Reads has got a pop and come
text because the previous administration And remember George Osborne used
to it in every single interview that he used to do.
He used to say, oh, it's see deficit lest by
the previous administration. And he used to say that, and
every and somebody asked him about after he'd been doing
this for about eighteen months, he said, George, can I
(13:42):
ask you?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
He said, yes, do you ever get.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Bored with saying the deficit left by the previous administration?
And he burst out laughing, because it's all such inaliable bullshit.
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
We hire these people.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And we give them the keys to the castle, so
to speak, and they just fumble at the lock, or
they go to the wrong address, or that. They're just
absolutely the sheer lack of talent.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That we had.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Now. Think about this. Right in the old days, you
had politicians that you sort of like. You might not
like them, you might hate them, but you could respect
what they said because they said things and even if
you disagreed with those policies, they had a gravitas about them.
They had a position, there was something that and look
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like a Thatcher. Can't stand Margaret Thatcher. She was terrible
Prime minister. Put the country through ringers. Poor people were
just castigated all the time, off a cabinet at their
hands in the till and.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Thatcher was terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
She's absolutely no sense of decency about the woman whatsoever,
because she was totally set on this capitalism. There is
no such thing as society, she said. She brought in
the care in the community, which was an enormous flop
and resulted in so many people getting beaten up or
attacked or whatever by Paul bastards who had such mental conditions.
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But because they stripped back and they said, well, there's
no such thing as mental conditions. You're just making it up.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
If we just leave you to your own devices, you'll
get sick of pretending and go back and get a job.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And that was their.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Whole thing, and then Thatcher right. All the things that
happened then are happening again now because we've got this
community care thing. They can't even think of different words
to use for it. But it's the same sort of thing.
And for years, years, since the eighties, people people on
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the right wing and some of the left wingers, some
of the you know, the center leftists. I said, wow,
you know, not everyone's that depressed or anxious or whatever.
But over the years, people have been able to talk
about it, and they've opened up about it, and they've
got a little bit, you know, a little bit more
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comfortable discussing that they are depressed or they are anxious,
or they do have certain neuroses or whatever, and it
is making life very hard for them. And these things
are diagnosable, but actually getting somebody to actually diagnose you,
that's the problem. Now, would an employer want an employee
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who is capable of doing the job, who is competent,
who isn't distracted, depressed or bringing the workforce down or
having a negative impact on the working environment. Or would
they rather have somebody who is all those things.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
But has an aberration.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Where there would well as somebody came in who wasn't
very well in other words, because this is what all
this getting people back to work thing is, and that's
what it will result in, forcing people back into work
who are not actually psychologically equipped.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
To do it. And that's a dangerous thing to do.
But when you're getting back to what I was saying
about Thatcher, Thatcher, no matter.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What you thought of her, awful person, in my extract,
one of the worst political leaders we've ever had, serious
political leaders, you know, not like Johnson or Trust or
those clowns. But you respected it. You respected to hear
what she had to say because you knew it was
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going to be complete bollocks and you knew it had
to be fought, but you respected her to stand up
there and talk that complete bollocks. Now we don't have that.
Now we have a series of people who just give
these mantrads, gripted speeches, and use the same phraseology through
things and poorly thought out metaphors. And of course the
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absolute apex of what.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
They say is lessons will be learned.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And the dearth of talent that we have in this
country politically now is unbelievable. I mean, there are some
good people, there's some really good people in politics, but
they're getting few and far between because the ambition in politics,
because it is considerably better pay than most other occupations.
Because i mean they say, ah, ninety four thousand, it's
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not a lot of money for what you've got to do,
but you've only got to turn up four days a week.
If that the average MP turns up to the Houses
of Parliament one hundred and twenty five days a year.
There's no reduction in pay. Now, they might be doing
constituency work, but how many of them were the checks
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and balances. There's no checks and balances on MPs. None,
There's no like minimum service guarantee. So you could become
an MP, say for a seaside town, and visit it
twice in two years, and and just spend your time
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swanning around TV studios or flying off to the States
or Germany or Russia or wherever the hell you're going,
and there's no there's no censure, there's no penalty for that,
and it just it goes back to a thing. Now
because the other thing I wanted to talk about was
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Rachel Reeves. Now she's going on about this tax. She's
walked into a minefield. Really because again now to a degree,
you can say that the Tories left fucking shit stop.
I mean, everything was like there was no good in
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anything the Toys left. Everything had been cut to the
bone and they were still looking to get some new
Let's snap that ins see and get the marrow out.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
How was the.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Tory's whole thing? And a lot of them became very rich,
particularly during the pandemic and after Brexit, and indeed some
of them became quite wealthy as a result of the
invasion of Ukraine through the selling weapons and their shares
went up, and some of them had directorships on arms companies.
But you know, anyway, so she's walked into this mind
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trap where she can't actually, without going back on the
Manifesto pledges put up National Insurance Income.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Tax V eight. So she's stuck.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Now she could try and tax her wealthy, but then
her donors are going to back off, so that's a
big problem for them. And of course the donors always say,
oh god, we'll leave. If you tax us, we'll leave.
They never do call their bluff. What's wrong with calling
their bluff? If you've got over ten million quid in
the bank, you can do with losing the odd five
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hundred thousand. You're not gonna You're not gonna really sweat.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
It that much. I'll give you a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Amazon had a turnover in twenty twenty three, I think
twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four. Their profit after tax
was twenty seven billion pounds in the UK. That was
just their UK profit. They paid eighteen million pound tax.
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Now you look at that, you work, you work out
what that percentage is, because it's a zero and a
point and I believe it's two more zeros, and then
you get some other figures after. I can't be bothered
to work it out myself, but that's.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Roughly what it is.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
And that's a big problem in this country with people
and corporations not playing their fair share of tax. It's
like when people go to work for big chains and
I'm not gonna name them, but they go for work
for big chains, and the wages are so paltry that
people have to come back to the state to have
them topped up, which means that they have to pay
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more tax on both these sums, which go back into
the stud and the whole thing's it's like a Ponzi scheme,
and it doesn't work because these companies are claiming all
the tax relief that they possibly can and all the
expenses and allowances that they possibly can to wreak in
as much money as they possibly can, while simultaneously having
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their employees live on poverty wages. Now, Rachel reeves, if
she puts up income tax, she'll be the first person
to do that in fifty years, first chancellor to do
that in fifty years. But the other thing is right,
people who are already struggling like fuck to survive. I mean,
what are we supposed to do? Start gnawing furniture. The
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food banks are running out of stuff now because people
have no money to actually donate to the food banks
or buy extra food and put in the food.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
If you go to the.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Uh you know shops where they have the little baskets
and things for food banks, there's foot all in't there?
It's like one packet of crackers and some nasal hair
remover and that's it. And the nasal hair and I've
got to tell you the nasal hair remove the nasal hair.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Remover is not nice.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But the whole thing of the Tories was to rely
on charity. They said, oh, we cut back on these
services and then charities and whatever can pick up there.
And you think, where do you think the charities are
going to get the money from, Because they're not going
to get it from government. You just can't back on
those services. People are going to donate to charities unless
they feel that there's a cause there, and if the
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cause is portrayed in the media it's been a bunch
of scroungers. They're not going to do it. And that
we have warm banks, fucking warm banks where people have
to go and huddle. I've never been to one, but
I assume it's a bunch of heaters in a room
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of people just sit there with their hands out, but
they're having a saiance with an electrical item. I don't
know what. I don't know what she would what she
gonna do, She's gonna tip everyone upside down and says
they've got gold fillings. What is going on? You see,
nobody in this country would object to paying tax. Nobody
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in the right mind objects to paying tax or the
services that are provided, like the health service or care
or education, or the police or the fire service or
all the other myriad services that we expect the state
to provide and to provide a safety net four times
when we may run into difficulty periods of unemployment or
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sickness or something like that. But increasingly we see the
money we pay the money out. I know a friend
of mine works part time. She has to work part
time because she has other responsibilities, and she works part
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time every month and at the end of the month
she gets her wages and it's there, probably about six
hundred quid. But by the time she takes all the
tax is taken off there it's four hundred and forty
one quid and she's going to live on that for
a month. Now, that is a crazy low amount of
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money to live on, particularly when you assume that she's
paying a huge amount of tax and other companies are
paying nothing. Other people are just walking away with a
lot more money and paying a lot less.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
A new woman.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I've said this before, A new woman who earned one
hundred and twenty thousand pounds one year. She was self employed.
She did a lot of consultancy work and she went
to see her account she got receipts or everything. She
went to see her accountant and she plaid a hundred
pound in tax and do you know she begrudged paying it. Now,
to me, that is nuts, That is so selfish. But
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that's what these people are. And that's what the sort
of mindset of, uh of what's what's what's what's the
word for it? It's not ambition, it's.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It begins with an a anyway, assholery. I think we'll
use the.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But nobody objects to pay more tax or paying tax
if you're getting something bad for it. Increasingly people don't
you ring up about a problem that you might have
somebody's dumps and bags in your garden, or there's a
rowdy bunch of kids.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Outside throwing stuff at your window. You wring them up.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You expect something to happen, some sort of solution to
the issue. But are you lucky if you get an
answer phone? We can't take a call at the moment,
Fred with a bit, you know, we've rung on a Wednesday.
Unfortunately it's in our contract. We don't do anything on
a Wednesday. Sorry about that. I would suggest you fling
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a blanket over the flaming pile that they've made outside
your house. And you know that front door can easily
be replaced, and we're very sorry that you're currently tied
to that post, you know. And they say, they keep
them saying, oh, we've donated record amounts to keep the
NHS going, but a lot of that money is actually
going straight through the NHS and paying private providers to
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do procedures that the NHS won't touch, and then the
NHS have to pick up the pieces if those procedures
go wrong, because the private providers aren't interested in putting together,
in putting right their mistakes. So that's another burden on
the NHS. And I'll tell you something else, right while
we're all next subject. Right, they say, oh, be a
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burden to the NHS, you know, all this, or all
burden to the areshs. And I talk about perfectly legitimate
things being a burden to the NHS. But when football
fans stick a firework up there ares and light it
and it results in the obvious, that's never referred to
as a burden to the NHS. I'm pretty sure if
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you shove a firework up your ass lighted and it
goes off, you're going to be going to the You're
going to be going to the local A and E.
I would put I would put a large amount of
money on there. I don't know what, I don't know
where these people get off with this idea, but the
services just aren't there. The care sector has been largely privatized.
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There's so many hedge funds owning care homes, and we
all know how much of a fuck hedge funds give
about anything. The water companies are just pouring sewage into
the waters and the waterways, destroying wildlife, destroying habitat, wrecking towns,
and you know, and the people are getting ill.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Because of that.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
But apparently it's people's fault that they're getting ill because
of that because they privatized water companies, and the water
company is actually said this week, one of the leading
people in the water companies actually said they're not going
to do anything about the pollution or the environment because
their bottom line is profit and they won't do anything
until they're actually forced to do something about it. This
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couman won't do anything about it. They're not interested. It's
the same as with the previous lot. They went along
and they saw the sewage being poured in the river
and they went, oh, well they are they and they've
got in their chauvel driven limo and went home.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
So I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I don't know what exactly she's supposed to do. We
have this eco epidemic of shoplifting, and a lot of
the major supermarkets were saying.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh, it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's people coming in and helping themselves and going out
the door.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Again.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh, it's costing us, it's costness deeries. Oh and all
this there's no issue. I've never heard of actual witnesses
of certain these things, and they never actually showed CCTV
of actually.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Any of this happening.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And don't forget we live in the country where people
are you know, where a woman was sent to prison
for five years for stealing a bag of crisps because
the social security net, which the government said is so generous,
had been canceled for three months because she fail to
attend an appointment, which he hadn't been told she had.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But apparently she was a liar.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So to teach her a lesson, they cut off all
her money, loses a flat, no money for food, goes in,
steals back at the crisps. Five years in prison, and
they said this, They said, the shoplifters are crippling us.
All they're giving us all this, giving us all this
hair grow and stealing all our stuff, and the shells,
all the shells. All, Oh, we're lucky to still have shells.
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And then they have the nerve to say they've made
a three point two billion pound profit and there's no
sort of recollection, is no generosity of spirit, and puts
two and two together. Oh, we could have made more
money if it wasn't of those pesky, hungry people.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Wanting to survive. I don't know, really know what Rachel
Reed's is supposed to do. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I mean, there's gonna have somebody is going to have
to suffer along the way somewhere, and we could all
pretty much guess who the fuck it's.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's going to be the poor bastard at the bottom
of the heap, the guy who's got no way of
fighting back against it. I have nothing against getting people
back into work who can work but for God's sake,
give them the fucking treatment they need. Put funds into it.
It's a long term investment. If you have a healthy workforce,
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you have a happier workforce, you have a better productivity rate,
greater GDP, better tax take. But no, they don't need
to appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Oh now it costs money out front. We don't want
to do that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You know, you've got ninety billion pounds a day we
spend just on the interest on the debts that we borrowed.
And that's you know, all through the tour. We're not
making any effort to get their money back out of
the people who scammed us in the PPE crisis. Although
that's just to drop in the ocean to the actual
thing it would help. What was it, It was something like
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four hundred billion in the end in total. The whole
thing cost us a lot of people on furlough. But
those companies sprang up. They sprang up two weeks before
the government said well we need companies who need PPA
know how to make PPA. We need to contact us now.
And all these companies, these legitimate companies, rang up and
they couldn't get through to anyone. The phone would just
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ring and ring and ring. The government set up this
VIP line. All these companies that suddenly sprung up, dormant
companies that selling companies house books and years suddenly sprung up.
So yeah, we can do it. Oh yeah, Well there's
a couple of hundred million go and and nothing would
turn up, and when it did turn up, it was
unusable or it wasn't up to standard or whatever. And
now they're burning it. They're burning the evidence. And don't
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give me this shit about Michelle Own, because that's just
to tip the iceberg. What you do is you find
a mug. You've got six guys who know what they're doing,
and you find a mug, and that mug carries the can,
and the six guys just go right and they're off
out the back door. Because that's just a distraction. I
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don't know what Rachel Reeves can really justifiably do. I
know what she should do. She should tax assets. She
should seize those properties, and there's thousands of them worth
millions that you know that are foreign investments, there just
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investment vehicles. She should seize those house people, get those
people into some sort of employment, and then we can
sort of like move forward there is no housing crisis
in this country. We have a one point three million
vacant properties. We have a million people needing those properties,
which is the grade A figure. Okay, you renovate those properties,
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get them habitable, and a lot of them are already habitable,
and you put those people.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
In that property.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, there are thousands of them. And if you're going
to build, build on old industrial estates because a lot
of those places aren't used anymore. You have all the
facilities there, you have the drainage infrastructure and whatever. Oh
now with this lovely forest here, that'd be a lovely
place for eight hundred hoses in a mini mart I.
Just we had this bizarre idea that this is going
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to solve all our problems, that we can build our
way out of that. But we can't because it's finite
and with the dwindling population, there's going to be even
more vacant properties. When this when my generation and you know,
drops off the twig. So I don't know what exactly
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she's expecting to do. I know what she will do,
and I've said it. What you want to do actually
come down like a ton of bricks on the poor
bastards who haven't got any money. But apart from that,
that's not going to raise her that much because they
haven't got any money. And if people are going to
work and they're coming back with nothing, can you really
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blame them for going.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Oh, fuck this.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
You don't want somebody in your workforce who unmotivated because
you know, ill, because they can't buy decent food, or
they can't heat their homes so they've got a cold
or whatever. This whole country is nuts, really, and it's
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not down to immigration, and it's not down to overcrowded.
It's down to none of those things. It's down to
sloveliness of thought from government, and it's self interested sort
of maintenance. Because nobody would object to paying tax I
say it, nobody would reject paying tax, but the money
to end this paying quits helicopter rides going off to conferences.
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You know, he's gone off to Star War's gone off
to a conference now in Brazil, right, And it's the
cop whatever it is, whatever number, where they stand at
the end pretending to be Marvel superheroes. You know, all,
look at us, We've made these big advances. And then
they got to go there, you know, two years later
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and say, well.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
What happened there? Then I forgot about that. Sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
The future of the world is at stake and the
most incompreh incompetent people are dealing with it. But he's
gone over there. Now there's fifty zeros people gone over
to Brazil to this thing, all these flights going in
with all these advisors and donors and donor representatives and
people from various sections of industry've got to put their
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two penneth in and they'll come back with nothing as usual.
And that sort of thing is all on our dime.
Start for any prime minister, not just Starmer, but any
prime minister, or any minister to go around. But let's
just go on prime minister, because I know of the
figures on prime ministers. When a prime minister go to
visit somewhere, so he goes up to like Lincolnshire to
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say a load of people up there or whatever, it
costs about forty to fifty million quid for him to
do that for the morning. Can you imagine that forty
to fifty million quid gets two minutes on the telly.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
It's an insane amount of money, So imagine what it's
costing him to go over to all that banquet that
they have when Trump came over. I mean that had
got to be all the heads of state, all the cabinet,
all the opposition, loads of other people, celebrities, people from
the world of baking, anyone, chefs, staff, security, decorations, hospitality,
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all this bollocks and they and they say, oh, we've
got no money. I'm sorry about you, Nan stuck going
to care home because the Hedge fund by finance bandages.
But you know, we've got no money. Meanwhile, a lot
of the people who used to run the government are
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incredibly rich. Now, I mean, look at Quazy Kwarteng or
Nadinem Zahawi or Boris Johnson or Liz Trusts. You know,
you can't say RICHI soon that because he was rich already,
he was vastly wealthy. But then you have a vastly
wealthy person telling somebody who's trying to survive on sixty
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eight cod a week that they're getting too much.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I don't know what people expect in this country, really,
I don't This iteration of labor is completely out of kilter.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
There's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Leaving labor anyway because they've had enough of it. For
some reason, they like to have opinions of their own.
They like to be able to discuss things amongst themselves
without having over my still and few astarma peering over
their shoulder and giving them a good kick in the ass.
But I don't know what alternative we have really, And
we've got the Labor Party or this iteration of the
Lay Party, god knows what it's about.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Not very good.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
We've got the Conservatives. Well, we know what we're going
to get with the Conservatives, so that can fuck right off.
Got the Liberal Democrats, Now, I don't know what's going
on with the Liberal Democrats. They're a sort of political
version of your dad dancing at a disco. Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Who else we've got?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Uh? Well we we We've got the ss Tribute Act
in Nigel Farayes and his band of merry Men. And
what's the other thing that?
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Oh Greens?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, the Greens are good, have some good ideas, and
your party so again I've got no idea, what the
what what they're what's going on with the Green Party?
He appears to spend most of his time smoking a
pipe and talking to a tree. So that's that now,
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we've got to circle back there because I'm just gonna
say something about LBC if you're still listening. And I
was listening to LBC last Thursday and they were talking
about Prince Andrew and it was Ian Dale's show. Now,
I was only listening to it because I was waiting
for the ten o'clock news. And he had a guy
in there, and the guy was talking about it and
(40:36):
he said and he said, well, I think Ian Dale saying, oh, well,
I think you know, it's a bit harsh on Prince Andrew.
You know now, it's a bit of a witch hunt.
And I was like, well, if you read Andrew Lowney's book.
He said, no, I've got better things to read than that,
And I thought right, And then the guy went on
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and said a couple more things. He said, it's in
Virginia de Fay's autobiography. Have you read that now? I'm
not going to read it. I have no intention of
reading that. Now, he's saying and given opinion on something
that he hasn't even bothered in the research into. He's
just like read the newspaper stories and thought, oh, right,
now that's my position on that.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
And that's fine. If he read the book.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Lownie's book is incredibly well researched and Grifa's book, and
there was no reason for her to lie.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
About any of that. In fact, a lot of the
stuff that's in that book.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Was missed out of Lownie's book because it was the
first person account, because Loud he really concentrated on Andrew
and Fergie and all that rubbish, where she actually detailed
a lot of the disgusting things that went on. And
(41:58):
sadly she's gone now it's impossible to get her to
clarify everything, and all we have is her account and
her statements, etc.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Of what exactly happened.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
But for Ian Dale to say that he's not going
to read those books and he's determined to avoid reading
those books and yet have an opinion that he's totally
convinced is correct, is bizarre. That's so bizarre for a
journalist to do. I mean, even for in Dale, it's
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bizarre for a right wing journalist. It's bizarre for somebody
not to be in possession of information, whether it's factual
or not, is really another thing. But if you're not
going to if you're not actually going to read the
information pertaining to what you're actually trying to talk about
and what you're actually taking a position on. Then you're
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going to end up looking like a bit of a
tit because you haven't actually got the full you're not
actually looking down on the story and seeing all the
details of the story. You're only seeing the details that
have presented to you in the format that you wanted
them presented. And I think that that's that's a very
(43:15):
dangerous place to be. If people are sort of starting
to do that, they're starting to say, well, I'm not
going to read that, but I'm going to have a
firm opinion on it anyway. And I appreciate people do
that on social media, and the people do that on
a lot of mini.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Blogging sites or whatever.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
They make opinions and they say things that they have
no idea what they're talking about, and then they put
those idea ideas out in the world. And yes, a
lot of them do look like complete bell ends. At
the end of it.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
It's like they should.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Title it all these things that this is my opinion,
but I'm a bell end. That'd be great if we
had a bell end detector, if you had, like if
Twitter had a little lap or blue sky or any
of the others had a little app and you can
put it on and when you looked at somebody's tweet
(44:06):
and they were bell End, it was just like light
up bellin Belen Bellin.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Massive bell End.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Anyway, that is my lent for today. If you've stayed
with me for the whole thing, I really appreciate it. No,
I seriously I do. It's very unstructured this and I
don't tend to. I usually have like a notepad, like
(44:43):
a white board of subjects I want to talk about,
and I usually go from one subject and I do
it very methodically. But I thought let's try it in
a sort of stream of consciousness way, and I think
the bell End alarm is going off. Anyway, thank you
for listening, and take care of yourself. And if you
(45:06):
like it, click like below. There's no dislike button. Well
there might be stars actually that you can prod, so
if you can prod any of those for me, or.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Leave a comment.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
I always enjoy reading, well reading in general. Really, there's
just to prove that somebody's out there that I'm not
the Charlton Heston character looking out on a desolate city
where humanity has become taken over by a strange virus.
I am legend or leg end, as my friend Sarah
(45:43):
used to call it.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Goodbye
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