This video analyzes how Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has successfully normalized far-right discourse through a deliberate strategy of using working-class candidates with controversial backgrounds (like Robert Kenyon) to attract working-class voters while simultaneously normalizing extreme views. The speaker argues that this movement exploits social media algorithms, unregulated technology, and the psychological vulnerabilities of economically disadvantaged populations to spread divisive rhetoric, with the ultimate goal of implementing policies like the European Charter of Rights and potentially bringing back hanging. The analysis emphasizes that the real threat to democracy comes from billionaire-funded political movements that weaponize online platforms to manipulate public opinion and create permanent crisis narratives.
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It's superancy. [music] [singing] >> Bashwatch, [ __ ] [laughter] Hello. Hello. And welcome to the stream, which I've only just apparently made public.
In the words of Miriam Margalles, this is a [ __ ] nightmare. [laughter] Oh my god, what a start to a stream. I mean, even by my own like very low standards, that was something else. The only people, by the way, that are going to be able to see uh I've even turned my [ __ ] mic on. I haven't even turned my mic on. The only people that are going to see uh the three minutes of pure panic that just occurred are those that are members of my channel.
[sighs and gasps] Like that was so bad that I had to go and get a beer.
So bear with me.
I don't normally like mango, but uh [sighs] right, that'll do.
That'll do.
Hello, and thank you to everyone that's actually like uh persevered um throughout the absolute carnage uh that just occurred because wow, you know, wow, that was something else. I already saw the 3 minutes, so it's all good.
Brilliant.
Brilliant. You got to you got to see me struggle terribly.
Um, I mean, just wow. You know, I don't think that I've I mean, I'm I'm pretty bad with tech, but that that was just another level.
Anyway, uh apologies if I'm a little bit uh croaky this evening. I'm recovering from the Paris virus.
[clears throat] Uh was horrifically ill on my actual birthday. Uh thank you to all of you that sent me birthday wishes and are continuing to send [snorts] uh birthday wishes.
Um and yeah, like it's weird like drinking a beer tonight. I completely forgot that I had this during the uh during the epic England Croatia game last night. Did you see that shocking display last night?
[snorts] The problem with Kane is he thinks you can just walk in. Uh it was brilliant. It was It was liquid football.
It really was. I'm just going to have to sort my light out before I start properly because uh apparently I'm a complete [ __ ] [ __ ] um who can't do even the most basic things. Uh but yeah, thank you for all the birthday wishes that everyone sent.
Uh it was a lovely weekend.
A very lovely weekend. Did you have a frog in your throat in Paris?
Wow. Some of you were kind enough to send me um a super. If you did send me a super prior, um, I'm sorry. Um, but because as I said, it was it was it was [ __ ] carnage. So, Chalky, oh, buddy, old pal. Uh, thank you for sending me what I am assuming is a pity super chat. Um, gratefully received. Any pity you have to send my way, I will actually gladly accept. Uh, Yuri, what up? Uh Charlie says, "Happy birthday and good night."
Oh, thank you, Charlie. And um boni as they say in Paris.
Happy vaginal expulsion anniversary.
Wow.
Wowers.
Wowers. A swift hello from a fellow drunk. I actually don't drink very often. Um so, uh yeah. So, who have we got in the chat tonight? Okay, we've got Shatner's Bassoon.
Uh, [sighs and gasps] we've got Ollie Bacus, we've got Matthew Stro, James Being, The Infernal Audit, Diz, Pardon, The Faithful Mod, Joe Marcus, sorry if I'm just scanning through winter mute. Uh [clears throat] I will catch up as and when. So so so so it is umbilical liberation day. It is not actually umbilical liber liberation day. Um the liberation happened [snorts] uh a few days ago. My birthday is the 16th of June, but uh I have been in the fetal position recovering [clears throat] from a pretty grim virus.
Uh but yeah, so it's it's it's box office bi-election night tonight.
Anyone else staying up for the entirety of it? That's what I want to know.
Is anyone else staying up for the entirety of the the box office by election night?
I will be and the the platform unfortunately that I will probably be sharing views on this evening will probably be Elon Musk's race hate app.
Uh purely because that's sadly where most people are nowadays. Um, so yeah, I mean there's a lot of reports coming in that Labour are really gunning and brilliant. Thanks, Tiny. Just what I need. Extreme closeup. Um, they're really gunning for this bi-election, which they will be naturally. Um because it's [clears throat] it's it's not just it it's important on multiple levels really.
It's important on multiple levels.
And before I go into that, um I will actually probably be seizing my uh usage of the the hate app um come the end of the month. I've got a little bit to go into about that and some of the experiences that I have been having with that and how intense the the farming is now.
Um but for the rest of the month I will still be there [clears throat] and uh on a night like tonight it is a very useful app. I mean, you need to be there usually if you're in any way respon, you know, involved in politics. Unfortunately, it's still something that is used by most people that are involved in that as long as you don't get your facts from it. Um, but it's actually almost impossible to use at this point and there's it's riddled with foreign interference and and disinfo. Uh just going to pop through um before I start and just um say some thank yous to the lovely people that are dropping in uh little birthday wishes and such. Uh thank you James Being. Uh did you hear about the frog that broke down had to be towed home?
Happy birthday.
It's beautiful. Have you been has Steven Boyd Marman been like handing you his joke book? because that is peak peak merman but thank [clears throat] you James there's room for everyone to make puns and that is lovely I when you when I first read that I thought you were going to say faridge and um I' I'd bloody love it if you had a breakdown but you know sociopaths never do um hope forest lose thank you very much um happy birthday from Canada a the the good the good bit of America.
Well, and South America is pretty good, too. Anywhere that's not uh riddled with hell in the middle.
I'm a poet. Happy birthday from lovely Canada, an independent nation of its own.
Obviously, not associating it with uh those [ __ ] Uh Richie Freedy, thank you. also no comment just just just sending that across there. And uh Francis Winroe, happy birthday, Tan.
Thank you. Thank you. Very kind of you.
And oh, Joe just had one come in from uh Joe X 2004 UK. Uh it's a dismal set of circumstances that a lot of our hopes of starving off reform lie with one guy.
Yes.
Yes, it is.
Now it is, but equally if if if Burnham can't do it, nobody can. I mean that that's the situation that we have found ourselves in. Um he's by no means perfect when it comes to to being a politician, but he is at ease in the job. He looks he's he looks credible. He he is physically, you know, at ease in terms of of doing the job.
And I know that that's that sounds like it should be just like a bare minimum thing. Um the Stalbot isn't particularly believable as a human being.
I don't think that he is the monster that he is painted as being. I think he's a mixture of I think uh not being cut out for it broadly. I think his skill set is like foreign sex, you know, foreign not foreign sex, foreign secretary. I have to make that very clear. Uh yeah, Star's uh I think that Starmmer should become like a Euro porn star. No, I think he God, could you imagine? Could you imagine StarMA as a as a foreign um sorry um I I think I went in the wrong one. Um uh I I think I'm about I'm sorry. I think I'm about to Horrific horrific. Um I think he'd be better suited to being like a foreign secretary or something like that. Um if he's going to be involved in politics at all, but I think his old job was his was his, you know, skill.
>> [clears throat] >> Berdam's uh seasoned uh got got got more progressive in his old age. Wasn't so great back in the day under the uh the king of all that is evil. Um Blair's government. Um so yeah.
Uh Auntie Far, [ __ ] the fash. Yeah, mate. Hard agree. Um [ __ ] the fash up the booge says Yuri who's been a member for 13 months.
13 months. Wow.
Get longer for a minor crime. Yuri, keep up the good work, says Mr. Mr. Thank you, love. Well, I'm going to go back into live chat and see what you Schlles are talking about. Yeah. Um, Stara very much has the vibe that he would apologize for, you know.
Um, I I don't dislike Karma. I I just don't think he's very good at it.
I just don't think he's particularly good at it at what he does. Um, in terms of being like a a a public ortor, sadly.
Sadly, like being a politician is as much as anything kind of part sales, isn't it? Um, you you've got to have that uh what the French call a certain I don't know what uh Janisqua, you got to have that [gasps] you've got to have a bit of broader appeal. Although sadly, like every populist figure that we have ever had has been an absolute [ __ ] house of EP epic proportions.
Um MC 0810 says, "Say what you want about K, but he has wonderful hair." Yeah, he has got nice hair for a man of his age.
Definitely.
Definitely. Yeah. I mean, there's upsides and downsides, isn't there?
Uh he does Diz, as Diz says, he lacks the RZ. Um, I mean, it's it's probably quite easy for me as a cis white woman um that doesn't have like visible disabilities to say, "Oh, he's not that bad." But I know that the trans community are livid with him for for good reason.
Um, but at the same time, women, you know, were apparently supposed to be at the at the heart of what they're doing.
And he has like Jess Phillips resigned because he failed to take on the tech bros and and legislate um with any form of, you know, urgency.
But that's a whole another ball game, isn't it? Like I broadly agree agree with a lot of commentators when they're talking about the fact that if you're opposed to the under 16 social media ban that you're a non like I I broadly agree with that. I think that it it's needed, but I also think you need investment in thing other things for kids to do. And also, you've got to take into a fact it will be difficult to enforce and that kids are great at getting around stuff. [snorts] But if it works, that would be great.
But the problem is one of the biggest problems. Well, there's lot there's lots of problems involved in this, but one of the biggest problems that we have that I as as as a woman, speaking as a woman that has survived for six years in the hell that is unregulated tech just for trying to have any form of a voice on politics. I now strongly am in favor of a complete removal of any form of anonymity online.
Like if you're if you're gonna send a woman like gang rape threats and you're gonna threaten to kill people and such like you should have your government ID associated with the words, you know. So, so it's easier for you to be found rather than the police who rarely investigate it having to try and if they do bother to investigate it, having to wrangle the information out of uh tech companies, which are basically chaos creators for uh well, they're they're just chaos creators for fun, but a lot of them are are are taking part in electoral and democratic interference all all across the world.
So an end to online an anonymity would mean it'd be easier to catch the nonses and it would be easier to to deal with the the people that are breaking the law rather than ex putting a notice on saying in your country you can't view this and [snorts and clears throat] such like. Um, I made a real mistake tonight.
I've not Well, I've made a few mistakes bad mistakes. I've made a few.
Um, but I've forgotten to get a tissue, which I could really do with right now.
Uh, James Being says, "Starma sounds like he's announcing announcing the death of a much loved Blue Peter pet."
Uh, sorry to sorry to say that. Uh, Miffy Miffy's died.
um who was a beloved Labrador who [snorts] real dearly loved and now he is dead.
But yeah, I agree with you on that.
[laughter] He brought joy to everybody.
Um but no, like I don't I don't broadly have a problem with with Karma. I mean, I think a lot of the hysteria that's been whipped up has been um h has obviously been on the right. But then, as I've always said, like only Labor can only Labor can legislate against that, can't they? Um only Labor could um implement press regulation. only Labor can do these things. But what what I the biggest problem that I've had with the Labor government has been a lack of moral courage is how I would put it.
Like they came in talking about how, you know, we're going to do the right thing.
We're going to do the right thing here.
and they have consistently been meek on really important issues which has formed a lack of confidence.
But then we've also got multiple other problems going on which they could legislate against to curb which they're refusing to. So uh Wendy Simpson, hey Tan, can't join in tonight. Wish I could but completely knackered. It's all right Wendy. You get your beauty sleep love.
Don't you worry. Matthew Stakes. We We took the tough decision to execute the beloved Blue Peter Labrador with a shovel because it is the right thing to do. Uh [laughter] we don't need any more sticking blaster politics.
We need shovels. Not as bad as Robert Low who who literally shot dead his own dog.
Yeah, cuz he's completely normal, isn't he?
He's completely normal. I wouldn't say Starmmer's pro Brexit. I mean, he has been realigning and repairing our relationship with Europe because he's he's been really good on the on the on the European and and global stage to some extent. I mean, he's he's tried to deal with uh he's tried his best to deal with uh that [ __ ] insane pedo in the White House. Uh [laughter] I only put the dog down because it was in the British National Interest. Yeah.
Yeah. A lot of tired people in the chat tonight. I'm not surprised. I'm sorry.
Like, this should have been uh underway a lot sooner than it was. So definitely not starting only 20 minutes ago. Um but we've got my we've got myriad [ __ ] issues and I think that considering that it it it was uh you know labor coping really it was a black lab that that's that's the dog that Robert Low had put down.
Well, if the cap fits, you know, the cap fits. But, um, yeah, it's it's uh we've we've got the pro. This is where like, you know, do you remember when Johnson talked about like just throwing out everything like flooding flooding the zone, you know? It's like the Bannon playbook, too, and the MAGA playbook, just flooding the [ __ ] zone. Um, the problem is that since Musk took over Twitter, uh, and very much made it in his own Nazi image, we have had a a new a new level of hell. Nothing pretty much nothing is real on there anymore.
Nothing is real. I did a little experiment, which I'm going to make a video about.
I've got to do the thing tomorrow where I'm going to call the police and prove to you in real time from start to finish how little the police actually take seriously threats of violence against women.
But if if you were to report every single one that as a woman you receive on Twitter, you would do nothing else but file police reports.
Um, I think it was the old news presenter Kathy Newman for Channel 4 who talked about the the uptick from uh it's restor restore and reform bots that are going nuts. And yes, someone mentioned on the other chat about the Sarah Potion video, but I had to like um Oh, there's a moth in here. I had to like triple check that to make sure that that was not parody. For people that aren't aware, I didn't have the time to get the assets onto OBS because it took [ __ ] ages to update. But she released a video, right, in which she she is plain as day said, and this is going to form a part of my bi-election roundup video, right?
She said she she started off fair enough, right, talking about violence against women increasing from men during tournaments, which has been well documented for years, well documented.
And uh then she was like, England like because England won last night, fewer women got battered, so what you need to do is keep winning England.
What in the [ __ ] brass eye fever dream is is that? I had to turn off comments on Twitter because I was getting told that I should get rworded by um Muslims for for pointing out the domestic violence stats and how it's not an imported problem. It's a problem we've always had for years with men. Um, and the the fact of the matter is that regardless of whether or not England win, lose or draw, domestic violence exponentially increases towards women exponentially during World Cup tournaments. Secondly, it's her [ __ ] voters that are doing it. domestic violence uh reports have increased since the Southport riots, but I think it was two and five men um that were arrested. And these were not high numbers of men either. We're talking like I mean not the number that were reported, but considering the amount of men that were arrested for the rioting that the proportion was it was as high as 50% in Cumbria.
um for men that were involved in unrest being previously reported. Many more have been reported since. Her voters, reform voters, restore voters are amongst the men that are committing these crimes. Thirdly, uh they didn't just stand and he went on to win a actual literal woman beater in James Mcmmerdo who kicked in the head of his girlfriend outside a nightclub and was put away for it and then went on to be stood by reform and win.
And he only only stepped down because of financial problems.
Farage said that he deserved Christian forgiveness for kicking in the head of a woman. And now they're standing uh to bring us screeching back to the to the actual topic at hand. Uh they're now standing Robert Kenyon who is a dunce simpleton sexist with a weirdly shaped head who is being stood by re used by reform because reform aren't just reform aren't just using workingclass voters. They're using workingclass candidates.
These people that they're standing as either counselors or parliamentary um candidates, most of them they're like, "Oh, just I'm just a normal bloke." Yeah. Yeah, you are. Which means that you're not cut out for this.
Like if you were like a normal bloke that has been involved in local politics for the last decade and you've got experience in how things work, but just some [ __ ] random like um that that has lit that they they found in a in a flat roof pub in Manchester and then just like, "Hello, little boy. Would you like to uh stand for reform?" Don't worry about it. We'll take care of anything. Here's some here's a brown envelope. you know, just just go out there, just say whatever.
Um, the reason that they're doing that is there's there's a few factors to it with Rob Kenyon. One is because they are trying to normalize the kind of views that were dredged up on Rob Kenyon.
that kind of uh MAGA style criticism that was leveled at um or justification about Trump that that kind of like oh it was just locker room talk you know that is something they're trying to normalize. They're trying to normalize extreme sexism towards women women uh while equally pretending that it's all about protecting women.
It is [ __ ] mad. And I think that in some part the Sarah Poachin video was deliberately put out knowing that it would caught controversy because they rely upon our outrage and our attention. It's an economy. It's it's something that they're able to dominate because then they constantly have control of the message.
all the time. They are constantly at ey line.
So I think they do this stuff deliberately. Uh but the thing is the reputations and the scrutiny of people are just collateral damage to the rich [ __ ] that are using them. Because say Robert Kenyon loses tonight, which I really, really [ __ ] hope he does because, you know, sanity will prevail. Say that happens, he's still going to have to live with the fallout of all of this attention and all the things that he's said and he will be googleable forever for this. Not just that, there was another candidate, the the guy that I told you about, the guy that was like Winnie the Pooh shirt cocking it, right? the guy that won um in Haydock, he won that counselor who had the OAF account, right? Who had the really poor kind of like porn setup and he had to pull out because, [laughter] no pun intended, uh he had to pull out uh because of how it affected his mental health.
of of what people were saying about him because he was so green about politics that he had no idea that that would even be a problem.
Whereas to anyone that has even the most basic concept of uh politics, they'd be like, "Are you [ __ ] mad? You you're you're basically you're basically noshing lads off online. your digital footprint, no matter how loose your alias is. [ __ ] hell. Again, no, no pun intended. Uh, no matter, [laughter] you know, [laughter and gasps] you're going to be found. They're going to rifle through your drawers. No pun intended. they're going to, you know, and and and don't get me wrong, like stooping that low, no pun intended, to to standing for reform. I'm not saying these people like have no idea what they're doing. They just don't know how politics works. They they don't understand the nature of it. Even like I I've had political, you know, knowledge, um enthusiasm all of my adult life.
Always voted.
even I didn't have any understanding um of just how brutal it would be just talking about politics and I didn't even run as a candidate.
Um and yeah, as Midwinter Mini says like he felt a bit sorry for the only fan dude.
His resignation letter was pretty good naturatured. Yeah, it was it was a guy that didn't didn't have any awareness of of what he was doing. He he was, you know, an LGBT fella like gay made gay content.
Absolutely nothing wrong with um making only fans content, but it's not conducive to a political career.
And no [ __ ] warned him. In fact, they were like, oh, reform were fine about it. And it's like, well, they would be, wouldn't they? Because the controversy that that's going to court will keep reform in the news cycle. Like every Nigerian melting down Nigerians to fill up potholes will keep reform in the news cycle and simultaneously normalize that [ __ ] What reform is doing is systematically desensitizing people to racism to misogyny. They're also trying to rile up emotions and get people purely focusing on uh emotional aspects and thinking because they know people have lost all faith in our institutions which they have every right to.
They're getting us to a point where they're going to be able to remove our protection from the state by the ECR and they're going to bring back [ __ ] hanging. Like reform would want to literally do that. And if they can rile up enough of an angry mob, they will achieve it. So yeah. Oh my old uh is that John Welsh?
I join as noshing off lads's head.
Perfect timing. I know Josh. I know. Uh John from way back from way back.
Um but yeah, it's they they're using these are multi-millionaire privately educated city boys with a very strong knowledge of marketing that know precisely what's going to happen. They know how to dominate the attention economy. They know how to set the narrative. And once you've set the narrative, you've won. People think political victories are all about to use a football analogy because it's the World Cup. It's all about when you score the winning goal, you know, like winning an election.
It It's not. And reform approving this.
What it's really about, what your the real victory is, is deciding where the pitch is. It is It is deciding the narrative. It is deciding what the the talking point is. And if you repeat something enough, no matter how much [ __ ] is contained in it, no matter how much disinfo or skewed, sometimes even completely made up stats like that 250,000 uh grooming gang stat, which is just not even remotely factually accurate. If you repeat it enough, it it beds in and people are then no longer discussing whether or not the thing that you're saying that's mental is true. They're discussing how bad the thing is because it's just accepted as being real. And that is the that's how reform are doing this. And they're using unregulated tech to do it. And you know, there's also the other right-wing grifters that are like, you know, like Russian Robinson.
Um, there's who have all got their fingers in different pies and there's fuckloads of uh foreign interference going on.
Um, it it is a mess. And that's the thing that I'm angry at Labor about for not getting a hold on, for not regulating, for not legislating to protect the the biggest threat to our democracy that is currently in existence, which is unregulated tech.
Tabloid problems are long gone. you know, they're they're they're competing with the with the sensationalism online and they're just getting more extreme as a consequence.
But yeah, it it's uh it's a hard time whereas Burnham um as the question time thing proved came across as just normal affable on top of things.
But the problem with Robert Kenyon's views is that's not going to hurt someone that is voting reform or intending to vote reform. In fact, it's something that's been so normalized by not just politics, but the manosphere men who are very sympathetic to right-wing politicians.
um as they would be.
It's all just this in loop of [ __ ] that if we had laws in place to protect the public from false information, I'm not talking like removing free speech. I'm talking about removing non-factual comments and videos from being able to be used and weaponized to manipulate and provoke emotions in people which results in real life unrest that damages our communities and our way of life. That's our threat. That that's the threat to our way of life. The only minority that's a real threat to all of us are the [ __ ] billionaires.
I've got a few sorts which I'm just going to take a quick break because my voice is a bit and I've been ranting.
Uh so I'm just going to catch up with you lads in the chat.
Um just making sure I've not missed anything. No. Okay. Darian Dar. Hello Darien. How are you my dear? uh donation to Tan's birthday hangover cure fund.
Didn't actually have a hangover on my birthday. Had had like the loveliest meal ever in um was it called uh I think it's called Sabra in Mamar Rudess.
Lovely dinner.
Um but I was so ill. I [clears throat] had a I had a cold so I couldn't even get smashed on my birthday. Uh but yeah, but thank you. I'll put that towards um a future hangover fund when I next get drunk, which wouldn't be like a couple of months time. Uh Miss Hearn, but thank you, Darian. Uh Muz Hearn, have you heard about the book Robert Kenyon wrote? I have. I have heard about this but then I don't know if I'm confusing him with the other reform person cuz there were I remember reading a while back that a reform candidate had written like some kind of weird smutty book.
Um honestly the thing that can that surprises me the most is that Robert Kenyon can write.
I mean, have you seen the way the lad speaks? It's painful.
He He can't even get a sentence out. So, how how the [ __ ] could he write smart?
Like, uh, I met her I met her in a supermarket, took her around the back, uh, stuck it up her uh, it were right. Good. you know, I I I'm just surprised. I mean, I he he posted a picture of himself um with Farage [snorts] in his work van. He also had Swella Bravman in his work van the other day. He's like, you know, all that talk of licking [ __ ] you know, and he's had two of them in his van in a week. Um, but he was like, I'm off to VA now. And I'm like, you I I can you even draw an X in a box, mate? Like what? He probably what he thinks constitutes voting is drawing like a crudely scrolled um doodle of a naked Carol Vman on a ballot box. You know, I think he he the only way that he could probably find himself on the paper would be if there was a picture of his own stupid round head. Um but yeah, I I don't really want to give him any um advertising, although I would be interested. I'm going to look it up after. Um, I'm going to make a note of Robert Kenyon's book because uh uh I think that's uh I need to find out if that's the the smutty one or just I don't know. Uh but thank you. Uh James Beching, how hard politics is. Any innuendo needs to be whipped out as soon as it is seen. Side James would be proud.
Sid James, I assume you mean.
Sometimes I laugh like Sid James. Like it's I'm not proud of it. Not proud of it whatsoever. Um but I am I have been known to to laugh like Sid James. Um but yeah, I I think I got I got too many in your endos in that little bit there where I was talking about old Winnie the Pooh shirt [ __ ] guy. Uh Joex 20004 UK.
Did you watch the Manchester Evening News debate? No.
Uh I think that happened when I was away. I actually for the first time in ages um for the first time in ages.
Uh took a long weekend off [sighs and gasps] and didn't really check the news too much. Tan's impressions are racist against northerners. Me, I'm just I'm I'm doing I'm doing a really bad man accent.
If anything, I'm probably going to get a clip around the ear from Terry Christian for doing this. Um, but and someone mentioned earlier that like not everyone that drinks in flat roof pubs are, you know, uh, racist, sexists, and I was just I was discussing this just earlier today.
Uh, one of the points that I have consistently made is my fury, my [ __ ] cold rage at people like reform, people like Farage, all of the current reform MPs and associates are privately educated. Every single one of the [ __ ] and what they're doing with people like Robert Kenyon and the kind of social media history that's being dragged up by their workingclass candidates um or their inexperienced political candidates is they're trying to just send the message rich men rich privately educated multi-millionaires with m multiple houses are trying to instill this view that workingclass people are inherently sexist are inherently racist don't get me wrong amongst my I I know a broad variety of people from different backgrounds. I know a fair I know a lot of workingclass people. I know a lot of uh middleclass people. I know a fair few toss. So I've encountered a fair few toss in my time. Sexism and racism is by no means limited to one social class of people. And they're trying to tell us what we are as workingclass people. And that [ __ ] enrages me. It's like, how dare you? How dare you from your literal ivory tower tell us what we are?
You toough upper class old pony [ __ ] How dare you?
But yeah, so nothing I'm saying. Um, the flat roof comments are embedded in class horsey. No, they're not, mate. They're not like I I I I grew up in this in this class. I was born into the underclasses. I've elevated myself to the working class.
I have made comments in the past about this kind of stuff about um punch-ups at weddings being a staple of like workingclass life because they just [ __ ] are. you know, in the olden days, um, you know, which inspired a lot of the great kind of Brit pop music that we had, there was like kitchen sink dramas, there's gritty Mike Lee films that that show the reality of being broke. You know, it is and and that is what is driving a lot of this um this move towards the far right. And it is predominantly lowerass people that vote for reform because they specifically target people that have not had the best start.
That doesn't mean that I'm looking down upon my own class of people. It's just an honest reflection of of just workingclass life. If anything, it it's it's like these people. I know having lived it, having lived the [ __ ] boredom of it and the lack of autonomy of it, I know that this is giving them some kind of outlet. Like community is dead.
So, it's like it will be like, "Let's grab some tinies and see you down the the [ __ ] race hate rally because it's something to do." There is no way to describe the absolute hellish boredom of being poor. So if something comes along that makes you feel like you're a part of something, especially when you can't necessarily afford to do much else, you're more likely or you're more vulnerable to get swept up in it, even if you don't believe it because it's something to do.
You know, it is it is just something to do. A lot of it is racism, but a lot of it is also fear being instilled in people. A lot of it is manipulation.
And when you're being microtargeted by jacked algorithms day in day out, when everyone's addicted to some form of social media and virtually all of them are subjected to it, then you're more vulnerable. Especially if you didn't do as well at school, especially if you are the one that is really struggling because it turns into this kind of like tribal battle for resources and because we are in we have reverence instilled to in us in this country.
Reverence is instilled in us from birth to respect our uppers, you know, to respect the the upper classes, to respect our um superiors almost. you're more likely to punch down on on your neighbors or or be incited to punch down on your neighbors who might look like they because you see those people and you see them in your community. You don't see how the rich live. You don't see them because they're all off in their manners and their castles and their countryside retreats in the Cotsworlds, which is where they really live in one of their four houses. But you do see possibly the immigrant that's broken their back, you know, working all the hours that God sends to try and build a life for their themselves and their family, you're more likely to see that and you're more likely to feel jealousy about that. And if you've got people that are 247 365 telling you that they're the problem and you are automatically a capped offer as most British people are who don't see through the [ __ ] of of of the royal family and the you know sociopath factories of private schools that it's a complicated issue and this is the problem like reform, restore, turn these really complicated social issues that they [ __ ] caused into easily fixable sound bites. And it's politics on easy mode. And for a lot of these people, it's not even politics. It's it's feeling like they're a part of something and feeling like they have they are someone in a society that has left them behind for the last 14 years through various you know stages of austerity [cough] like austerity um I don't know like apocalyptic pandmic mics uh removing the welfare state, underfunding the NHS, underfunding education. It's created this perfect storm.
And the lads that I grew up with, the ones who made something for themselves.
They're not the ones that I'm seeing going to the Tommy Robinson marches. The ones that I'm seeing going to the Tommy Robinson marches are the ones who don't feel like anything and want to feel like someone. And sadly, they've always only ever done that through being able to neck, you know, 10 points and go and start some trouble because if they can't match the social status of those that they're envious of, then they will be feared or notorious.
It's there's there's more to it.
[snorts] How rich are you? says Unturned Stone 44. Not not [ __ ] rich, mate, at all.
[sighs] Not rich at all.
Firmly firmly workingass me.
Just just about getting just about getting by.
Um, so I'm just going to go here. I've got a couple of sortas. Oh, thank you lads and ladies and all in between. El Salv, thank you for the sa. The age of the manosphere is over. The super tansky fear age begins now. I prefer the tanosphere.
I'm going to call it the tanosphere.
Join me in the tanosphere.
Uh, thanks Elsal. Uh, Steven Boyd Marman. Vegans and vampires share concerns about steak.
Thank you, Steven Boyd Marman. You kept it simple for me tonight. Don't think I could have dealt with one of your more mind-boggling jokes. Thank you. Very good.
Very good. Pepe Pepe Lamokco 2820.
I'm gonna say this, Pepe, but next time mate, I'm going to say this. You know, I'm not happy about saying this, but next time just maybe maybe I don't know. Um, calm down the lurid sexual imagery next time. But here's Pepe Lamoko's comment. Of all the spunk bubbles that ever dripped out of a FUD. [gasps] Kenyon's had enough breaststroke to stay. That is that is gross, man. I I I appreciate your sentiment, but I don't ever want to have to say anything like that again.
So, it it's a no from me, dog. It's a no from me. Uh, Steven Boyd Merman. Uh, moving swiftly on from that because wow.
Uh, parents regret calling their daughter Alexa. God, can you [ __ ] imagine?
Can you imagine?
I suppose at least like they could have chosen something better, mind you. Like if you've got a um It must be And I don't think anyone's got a daughter called Siri.
I don't think anyone's got a daughter called Siri, but I do know someone who shortly before it all kicked off named their daughter Isis.
[laughter] Literally named their daughter Isis.
I mean, wow.
Wowers. I'm gonna have a sip of my beer, actually.
Oh, that's a bit tart.
It's a bit tart.
It's a bit tart.
Just like me.
Uh, you only need to say Sirill to set the bloody thing off. Oh, don't. It will start.
It will start.
Hi Tan. Great to see you. Have you discussed last week's Flag Shaggers day out to Brighton yet? I haven't even got on to properly [ __ ] discussing Makerfield.
Uh but I think that we're going to um No, not yet. But it was great to see the fash um completely outnumbered.
Completely outnumbered in Brighton. Um if you haven't seen it already after the stream, check it out. It was beautiful.
They were they were cornered um at one point outside a pub and had to be escorted off by the police. Uh but then they were also um in the end for their own safety kettled in a tunnel.
Um and the anti-fas uh contingent were shouting uh fascists in a tunnel or Nazis in a tunnel. It was uh very funny. Uh there was a Labour MP that's actually talked about in the last um I've just found this recently when I was having a quick check at what's going on um online in terms of Makerfield. A Labour MP talked about how they saw like reform canvases and voters sig hiling in Makerfield.
This is where we are now. This is where there was a reason why uh Elon Musk did that on the global stage. It it's systematic normalization.
It it's and and those auditors are all making an enormous amount of money, an enormous amount of money doing all of this.
[snorts] But young Bob, who got uh twatted the other day, it was only a matter of time. Um he's been doing a great job of uh identifying uh the fash wankers um and helping the police with their inquiries just by streaming it all.
Uh John, hello John. Uh have you read Gabrielle Zukman's book? Apparently has a fully worked out policy for a wealth tax in the UK already.
Um, no I haven't. Um, but I will write that in my little book.
I've got the Robert Kenyon book and now I've got Gabrielle.
I mean, one sec.
I mean, we need that.
Um the the problem is that we we've got a government that's like deferring to the toss and are afraid of the press which they wouldn't if they just [ __ ] implemented reform. Not that kind of reform but regulations.
It makes sense. like it it makes perfect sense, but they're just not doing the things that they should be doing. That would not just like mean that, you know, tensions would calm down, but it would mean that we'd have like a a better functioning economy, a fairer economy, but they're still [ __ ] the ghost of neoliberalism.
So, you know, it it's relatively unlikely that they're going to do it.
This is the problem.
This is the problem.
It's uh the the obvious solutions are staring us in the face. I mean, we're going to reach a point with um especially the the rise of AI where UBI is going to have to be a um well an inevitable consequence because you know there's just not enough there's not going to be enough jobs. There's not going to be especially like I mean that's just another thing. It's just we are not living in normal times by any by any extent of the imagination whatsoever.
But the problem is that this is this isn't just happening in Britain either.
Some really interesting stuff is going on geopolitically though. Um people are realizing even big powerful countries are realizing that it's easier to start wars than it is to win them. I mean, Trump has basically completely capitulated to Iran because there's a reason why people haven't Americans haven't [ __ ] with Iran before. Um, but obviously he's thick as [ __ ] Um, so he just waded in.
And you know, look at Russia Ukraine.
Russia thought that would be an easy win.
It wasn't an easy win. Ukraine have have faced enormous global support and they h are persevering and holding their own and it is important to our democracy that they do.
It is vital actually and that might give you know that might make um an you know Taiwan invasion less likely because they're like trying to like it's not that easy really is it? Um it's not that easy. Government government won't be able to afford UBI sadly. Well, they'll [ __ ] have to.
Like this this is the thing like they find money when they have to otherwise what's going to happen? I mean it's like latestage capitalism breakdown then we're going to have like the the climate crisis hitting.
It's it's a it's a [ __ ] insane time to be alive, man.
I'm glad that I got to to live, you know, through some of the glory days before this happened. I tell you that for nothing. Uh Steven Boyd Merman here with a little bit of lighthearted wording to try to chill out the mood a bit. See, Boyd Marman, I got a wig yesterday but lost my wallet. I still have to pay.
Beautiful. My dad couldn't listen to records on his own in the 50s. He was monophobic.
Beautiful stuff there. Steven Boy Marman.
I think we I think we all needed that.
We're living in that film Idiocracy.
Yeah. But dear listeners, if I could make a little Idiocracy was a documentary. Quite quite right. Diz, how right you are. I have been reading uh this hefty bastard uh the politics of fear uh by Rof Wodak. If you search um any of my uh recent posts on Fred's I think I might have put it on blue sky. I don't I don't really use Blue Sky as much or Twitter.
I've put a link to a PDF. I'll add it to the highlights on my Instagram and it's so important.
It's called the politics of fear, the shameless normalization of farright discourse.
And it goes into some really important points about understanding how this is happening glo globally. Uh, why hasn't Mus been dumb for election tampering?
Because he's the richest [ __ ] in the world and he can do whatever he wants.
He owns the politicians, mate. Every billionaire like Harborn, Bendel own reform.
They own reform.
They They're not They're not just going, "Oh, do you know what? like this is such a this is such a lovely gesture just out the kindness of my heart that I'm going to support this political party. They they they pay money to people who will do their bidding under the illusion of politics whether that's lower capital gains deregulation and in my latest Grenfell video which died on its ass. tried to make a further point about how the very people that are voting reform will be those that will die as a consequence of reform deregulating getting around safety standards. Um giving super rich investors, you know, fewer penalties um or you know, fewer fines or just finding them as opposed to taking action against them because you know payable by a fine is what is it? free for a pay punishable by a fine is legal for a fee or something. Um, they're not none of those dodgy [ __ ] are funding left-wing politicians, are they?
Why?
Because progressive politicians act in the national interest.
Right-wing politicians act in the vested interests of their billionaire donors.
But then the billionaires aren't just bored. They want an entirely like it sounds like conspiracy, but it's not. I mean, Teal's been pretty open about it.
They they think the days of democracy are over. They want a technocracy.
It's it it's they want an entire different outlook. I didn't see your Gramfell talk come up. Not very few people did. YouTube didn't show that to my subscribers.
But please, if you could um Oh, my Grimfold video was posted to our [ __ ] Nigel Farage. I need to follow that subreddit.
Good. Because voting reform will kill the very people that they've conned into voting for reform. And the day, the weeks, the months after when it when the wheels come off and it's too late and you're stuck with the [ __ ] for 5 years, that's when people will start to go, "Oh, I've made a bad mistake." And you you ask them why. why did you vote for them?
And it'll be like the day after the Brexit referendum when people were like because what you need to understand is that kind of contemporary far right movements, they don't begin with explicit extremism. Like the Nazis didn't begin with jack boots on the ground. They gradually shift the goalposts of what can be said publicly. They take statements that might have been seen as offensive or conspiratorial or racist years ago and repackage it as like legitimate concerns or you know just asking questions and then it becomes normalized and mainstream. It's about normalizing and taking mainstream stuff that is regressive to most people unless they're a rich white man.
And the fear that they stoke and the unrest that they they stoke isn't a byproduct of the movement that they're creating.
It's the organizing principle of it.
the threat or the worry becomes more important or the perceived threat becomes more important than than fact and statistical reality and a population that feels under siege is easier to manipulate.
What is regress? What is regressive? uh removing back attitudes reverting back to the 70s like bringing back hanging even though we've got institutional [ __ ] racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
So who do you think's going to get hung?
So far movements essentially rely on this kind of like permanent crisis.
uh society always has to be seen on the brink of uh society always has to be seen as being on the brink of collapse.
Um if and and the interesting thing is they they they they change it. They they move the goalposts so you can never win against them. So if immigration numbers fall, which they demonstrabably have under Labor, yeah, Labor are getting on top of this crisis.
Then they'll move to, oh well, the people that are here haven't integrated or the people that are actually here legally, their culture is incompatible with ours.
If crime falls, which it demonstrabably has under Sadi Khn in London, virtually all crime besides, you know, phone snatching has has decreased. Then the crisis becomes national identity. They're the wrong kind of identity. We're and and you know for the people that complain about identity politics all the [ __ ] time, they're the people that are outsourcing their identity to a to a [ __ ] flag in lie of any form of personality or identity of their own.
So the emergency the the the the perma emergency has to continue because the the their movement and their their legitimacy depends upon it. And then really complex structural problems like we've been discussing tonight are reframed as the fault of the highly visible groups.
So the actual cause to these problems are actually quite boring. They're institutional failures, their systemic failures, their government incompetence and negligence like under the Tories.
Um but if they're like politically convenient or if they're inconvenient or politically convenient to the identity of the far right, i.e. white natives committing most of the rapes, then they're just disregarded and ignored because the far right wraps itself in the language of democracy and freedoms and free speech and women's rights. And they don't always oppose liberal views outright at first, but instead those those liberal views like free speech or um such are weaponized against what are seen as the the enemies and the and the outsiders and the otherred groups.
The loudest voices complaining about, you know, protecting our women are the [ __ ] domestic abusers.
They're they're they're weaponizing weaponizing and politicians like Farage do that through kind of what is referred by RF Wodak as as calculated ambivalence.
So they make inflammatory statements then retreat into ambiguity blaming any criticism on wokeness or political correctness gone mad or oh I was just joking. But the statement still reaches the intended audience and they still absorb it and then the speaker is protected from accountability.
Now that's kind of like how far stoked is essentially sarcastic terrorism and incitement. He was more direct this time.
But this is all about the normalization process. extreme ideas just kind of like dripfed gradually through dog whistles, through jokes, memes, irony, tabloid [ __ ] And then by the time someone realizes the extremism underneath, the intended targets have been exposed so many times to the premise in a in a relatively unthreatening way through those kind of like hundreds of smaller claims that the final conclusion just seems obvious to them. and they don't quite know why. It is a multi-tiered head [ __ ] and mind [ __ ] So, it stops like it feeling radical and it makes it kind of like something they feel is instinctively Britain's biggest problem like immigration which is something that we have always financially economically benefited from as a country.
So, they control the narrative. if they can move the goalposts at will.
If you if you can convince everyone that immigration is Britain's biggest problem, then you've already done something enormous. You've already won something because you you own the message. And in politics, owning the message is everything.
And extremist movements don't need everyone to just become extremists. It just needs everyone to start speaking their language and look at where we are with that. So make a field is vital, absolutely vital because 20 years ago only fringe movements like the BNP or the National Front was saying the kind of [ __ ] that we're seeing routinely now. and it was condemned by the vast majority of the British public as being inherently unbritish because it is.
But we've got journalists who are chasing sensationalism and clicks.
And we've got a very vulnerable poor population that have been through [ __ ] hell due to have a go to Sloony born to rule [ __ ] ruining everything.
So now it it just journalists that would have treated that as fringe or extremists have succumbed to the sensationalization of unregulated tech. And it's creating this perfect storm of [ __ ] that never used to be seen as acceptable, being seen as acceptable.
And we've now got the equivalent of the National Front sitting in parliament rather than shouting from the sidelines at a football match.
We've got the actual BMP, EDL, National Front combined as multi-millionaires, not looked down upon. Football fans, handing out flyers, using tech that reaches all of us instantly to mind [ __ ] often in the interests of foreign actors.
And that's where we are.
So, I'm hoping Andy Burnham wins tonight because it is a it will be a victory for sense. I think we'll start getting some indications as to as to what's uh going on on the ground. I'm just going to have a little refresh now actually just to see if uh there's anything uh coming in.
Anything hot off the press?
But uh there's some little prick called Mark Heath who is claiming that reform may have well stopped Burnham and won the Makerfield bi-election by nearly 5%.
People talk [ __ ] on Twitter. Robert Kenyon has promised a big vote for reform tonight, expecting a close fight.
It's going to be tense.
Uh the the situation with uh the the kind of as we all know, I mean, I'm not going to, you know, you're all very well read in terms of politics, but just as a bit of background, um Josh Simon's had a 5k majority in 2024.
Uh this is off the top of my head by the way. Um at the 2024 election, but since then nowhere is a labor safe seat as various bi-elections and local elections have proven. Uh the area was absolutely [ __ ] stormed by reform in the locals.
I think the mentality that Burnham's going into this with is uh if I can beat reform in a reform dominated area under these conditions now, then I've got a good chance of uh taking them out in a GE.
It's a it's a brave fight from Burnham.
There's a lot of rivalry. I mean, when you look at the boards up in that town, it is like house to house. It's like reform, burn them, burn them, reform, burn them, reform, burn them.
It's It's interesting. I'm just seeing if I can get any any like breaking news on this.
There's not a lot coming out yet. I mean, it's I'm gonna we're gonna have to I'm going to switch over to the to the telly in a little while and uh follow this all the way through to the bitter end.
Um but it could it could go either way. And the fact that it's even close, considering considering the [ __ ] that they've stood, considering his appalling question time performance, just proves how this is entirely entirely about rhetoric and emotional, not logical reasoning in terms of voting.
That that's what this proves. The fact that it's even this close, even 10 years ago, someone like Robert Kenyon wouldn't even have a shot at this. He would be laughed out of the room. And now he's standing up against a a political heavyweight like Andy Burnham with a demonstrable track record of being a popular mayor with a positive rating for a politician which is basically is pretty much the only one that has a positive rating and it is still close.
That is proof that Barage has succeeded in dividing. He has succeeded in divisive, hateful, manipulative rhetoric.
It is it is evident that He has made ordinary really [ __ ] up [ __ ] that should never have been made ordinary. And I think Diz spoke earlier on about Tiptoe.
Tiptoe was horrific.
Deliberately horrific. Russell T. Davis made that deliberately horrific. You knew from the first opening 30 seconds what you were going to get. And it was still shocking, but it's not remotely unlikely.
He he did a really great uh series called Years and Years. I think most of you would have probably already watched it. It's prophetic.
He is, I would say, a national treasure when it comes to screenwriting. He's taught me an awful amount about the LGBT community, but beyond that, he's got his he's his finger on the pulse when it comes to political events.
He is great at creating a kind of suffocating fear and sense of dread, a powerful sense of dread. to quote Peep Show, it's a vital watch, but sadly the people that need to watch it probably won't.
But we are we are not far away from a lynching. You know, we've already had racially motivated rapes of seek women, which did not cause riots because they were committed by white far-right men.
Yeah. A vanishingly rare instance of a seek man using a kipan to harm another man was weaponized against the families.
Well, just like Lee Riby's death was also weaponized by Tommy Robinson in 2013 because it brings in more support.
It brought in at the time more support for the EDL and that brings in more money and notoriety for Tommy Robinson.
is a is a tiny little [ __ ] traitor.
They all are.
All those reform politicians are bought [ __ ] traitors.
We on multiple levels need Burnham to smash it tonight.
My my view is that it I don't know what what I can't call it. the betting odds have been like the entire um week. Um the polling, the cvation polling, the last one that I saw before I went away, it was a bigger lead for Burnham.
So yeah.
Yeah. I don't know what's going on with Unturned Stone to be honest with you.
Have you got like an actual question, mate? Just going to pop into the sa see what you lads have been saying and ladies and all in between. James Being my my [ __ ] that up from the start, didn't I? James Being, my wife wanted a dub blond, so I gave her one.
Beautiful.
Good. Good. Good for you, girl. Good for you. Um, have you read Snyder or Stanley's books on fascism?
Says Muz Hearn 3198. No, I haven't. I haven't. I mean, I've got a a bunch of really important books behind me that I've been leafing through. What I tend to do is with with books is I will find the uh the physical copy and I will listen to it because it helps with my ADHD brain to absorb audio books. I I listen I find it easier to listen to them and I will have the the books as a physical copy hard copy to to hand write my notes from. Um but no I've I've noted that down. Thank you. Uh, Pepe Malco, thank you for the super. Having reviewed Miss Tan Smith's Miss Tan's analysis, I offer apologies. Excuse my spelling and outbursts as I'm left-handed, have majoretses, and I'm spunk legic.
Oh, Pepe.
Oh, Pepe, you came and you brought me some bad things to say.
Uh, C M D C [ __ ] hell, my eyes are going. Uh, CM D CMDR DJ B got there in the [ __ ] end, didn't I? Simply just says birthday coffee. Thanks, Doc.
Appreciate that a lot. I will I'll treat myself to a cup of tea and a cake because I was so ill on my birthday that I didn't get to have what I always like to have on my birthday, which is just a glass of fizz and and a slice of cake. I was just so [ __ ] ill that I couldn't do it. Uh Ibin Jade, hello love. My mom gets her info from GB News. And when I tried to educate her on some recent lies, she said I'm becoming anti-white.
[ __ ] me.
Oh my lord.
Oh my lord.
Oh wow.
anti-white. Yeah. Every everyone knows that that white people were the most discriminated against demographic, aren't they? I mean, we have really suffered for centuries when you think about it.
We have, you know, all that slavery that was committed against us. Oh, no.
That was that was black people, you know, the starvation of millions of us. Oh no, that was the Bengales. Um, mind you, can't can't miss out the potato famine there. That was pretty bad. Um equally well you know Britain also invented the camps in the B war and it was Kitchener who who allowed the the people to to succumb to pestilence and starvation.
But there's always been a a white figure head at the center of that.
But no, we're really we're really suffering society. I mean, can't count the amount of times that I've had a racial slur shouted at me.
White Lives Matter was literally was literally said by that toadfaced [ __ ] house because he was normalizing it. The same the same frames, the same fears, the same targets.
It's a a process of of normalization of the maddest [ __ ] imaginable. It's the MAGA playbook. It's the Bannon playbook.
And it is being imported like the the the worst import that we're dealing with at the moment isn't [ __ ] immigrants. It's billionaire money and it's MAGA rhetoric.
That's what's [ __ ] our society at the moment.
Do we need to read books on fascism when there's a live documentary going on in the US? Says James Fair Brother.
Yeah, absolutely. Diz, was that was that particular commenter a problem?
Um, the one that we were asking if he was a troll or not? because I see a lot of uh deleted comments from Unturned Stone 44.
Um, tea and cake sounds banging to beh to to beh tbh to be honest. Yeah, it does.
Have a hash cake.
Give me a cash cake then.
[laughter] [gasps] Um, Ian Webster. Oh, thanks love. Happy late birthday says Ian Webster 3540 Thor 35 Thorn 404. Thank you.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
Appreciated.
Unjinged was a Freudian slip based on her hair color. Don't know who you're talking about, but unjinged is a very funny thing.
Uh, Ben CG, I will answer this uh this question in chat. How's your ADHD treatment going if you're comfortable sharing from a fellow ADHDer and autistic? Oh, mate, you've got the ADHD.
Yeah, that's an intense combo. So, I've heard from my one of my dear friends has got well, two of my dear friends have got it. Uh, we've got it's like we've got [ __ ] sonar. We just find each other, don't we? Um, I only take the the meds on days when I really need to work. Uh, the rest of the time I broadly raw dog it if I'm honest with you. Um, but they do the job when I need them.
Uh, I have found that my symptoms have been get worse when I'm dealing with a lot of stress.
Um, focus and motivation's really hard and and I I'd say like the hardest element of having ADHD is that you've got loads of great ideas.
Like you you you're like a little idea factory, you know? you've got all of these like great ideas and thoughts and projects that you want to do. Um, but you just end up in this state of just [ __ ] paralysis where you're so overwhelmed that your brain just won't function, you know? And I found that really challenging in terms of YouTube over the last like 6 months. I think I'm starting to get out of it now. I'm starting to make regular content again, but I'm still having to claw my way through the mud to do it. But uh you have my empathy as someone else that's dealing with it.
Because what I really hate about the condition is how people manic pixie dream girl people with ADHD is like, "Oh, you're so fun and spontaneous and impulsive." And it's like, "Yeah, but I pay a price for that with my health and my mental well-being."
And it's not all, you know, sunshine and roses dealing with a condition like that. It's really [ __ ] hard, actually. You're not just it's not you're not just fun at parties even though well I don't know ADHD you probably have mixed feelings about parties but I [ __ ] love a party and I'm a lot of fun at a party but on the days when you've been sitting in a towel for an hour and a half unable to just get [ __ ] going. You know, it it's it's a difficult condition, very difficult condition to live with. And then you have the grief of and the anger of basically being told all of your younger life that you're just [ __ ] useless and you're not trying hard enough when you're basically trying 10 times harder just to reach the baseline that most neurotypical people are at to do the same thing. And it exhausts you. So, good days, bad days, Ben, I would say, but good luck to you, my friend, if you're uh trying the medication and dealing with the symptoms because it's it's certainly not all sunshine and roses.
It's difficult.
And you Yeah, my empathy [ __ ] says someone else. Yeah, you've got the the um rejection sensitivity, dysphoria, all these things that I had no idea um were even things like the fact that I take, you know, criticism particularly hard sometimes.
I've had to develop an unfathomably thick skin just to do this, considering that every day I get the worst comments you could ever imagine. Every day.
Um, but it's all right because most of those are bots or right-wing [ __ ] I don't even respect. So, um, but yeah, I can spot it in others, too.
[snorts] And there is the the rumination, there's the there's the the there's lot there's lots of there's lots of really difficult aspects to it. And a lot of the time people don't see like what happens when you stop being if you have got the type where you can communicate really well.
They don't see what it's like in the in the quiet moments when you're struggling or when you're over stimulated outside and it's giving you [ __ ] mad anxiety.
Um, and the the various downsides. And honestly, until I got my diagnosis, I didn't really know what this all was or had been for years. It's um it's been a really challenging thing to be diagnosed with. And I'm still understanding and trying to explain to people what it's like because um you do feel like you have to kind of like overexlain yourself all the time. It's because you've spent years having your confidence eroded. Um, and you've got this kind of like justice sensitivity in you.
But yeah, it's uh RSD is debilitating, D.
It really is.
Would I ever stand for election? [ __ ] no. [ __ ] no. No, I wouldn't.
No, I would not.
I'm not. You know, I've already I've already had a taste of what it's like putting my head in the shark's mouth, so to speak. And no thanks. I don't need it entirely bitten off. Lewis Goodall reporting 65% turnout for Makerfield.
Don't know if that's a good thing or bad for Andy. It could be very good. It could be very bad. We're not going to know. I mean, I think we're not going to it's going to be a lot of uh speculation for many hours.
Um, so yeah, it it's going to be we're just going to have hours and hours of like unchecked speculation.
Uh, okay. This is an interesting one from James Fairbro 1645. And I'm going to reserve my uh I'm going to control my emotional reaction to this because I think that this is possibly a good faith question, but I've had this leveled at me for six years. Uh this kind of question. Well, it's not a question. I've been told that I'm just someone who blocks or or times out people. So the question is, are you open to constructive criticism and differing opinions or are you a streamer who just blocks timeouts anyone who has a different opinion to you? Um, no. I I don't block or time out people who have a different opinion to me. Different opinions are fine.
Uh, different opinions I can cope with.
I'm better with a different opinion in a kind of like one- on-one situation. So, if I had like someone else on a stream that I was like disagreeing with, um, then I could probably do it better. The the problem is and I was never prepared for this when I started making political content.
So I went viral and and accumulated a huge audience on Tik Tok of like 250,000 quite quickly. Like 250,000 on uh Twitter. Like I would say YouTube's one of my smaller channels.
Um, you are one person putting one thing out and then you get tens of thousands of opinions coming back at you and opinion different opinions are fine but you every single one of those people a lot of the time expect you to answer them individually which is impossible.
Um, and then a lot of them also a fair proportion, especially if you're a woman, are going to be leveling a degree of threat at you, a degree of abuse at you, and it's not going to be good faith questions. So, I block liberally anyone that is abusive because women, nobody has any obligation to absorb a [ __ ] deluge of abuse. And a lot of the time it was. And it was very misogynistic and it was not limited to the right. The first five years of abuse that I got was predominantly from lefties who didn't think I was pure left enough. And we're talking like [ __ ] vicious stalking cyber bullying um misogyny like overt misogyny. And because most of them have tiny little accounts they don't see what someone with as many followers as me would get.
So, when it comes down to like just blocking or or timing out people, I leave that to the mods. The mods do that. I don't throughout any of my streams time out anyone or or block anyone. I've got lovely people like Deers and Chrissy and uh Viper sometimes who just who do that for me because they're legends on on these streams. But on social media broadly, I am not able to block physically the sheer volume of comments that you get on something like X which nowadays which it wasn't like this 5 years ago.
Nowadays we are talking like the other day it was like a thousand in a couple of hours. thousands of like I hope you get raped by a Muslim comments. I hope you get gang bang. Why don't you go to Gambia and get rworded and uh you you should be hung from a tree. That's the kind of stuff that people say to you now routinely online.
And that's why I'm a big advocate of ending anonymity and legislation to stop foreign interference cuz these bots are being paid for or they are openly supporting or are in favor of a reform or a restore government and that's the kind of stuff they're normalizing. But me personally, I only block like people who are obviously bad faith, abusive people. I will happily fresh out if I'm in the right frame of mind for it. I'd have to be in the right frame of mind to fresh out something, but I'm happy to. I like doing it. Um, I think it's really important that people that don't agree try to find a way to at least disagree agreeably, you know. Um, but that's not what it is anymore and it's not possible to do that when you're one person and you've got thousands of opinions being thrown at you from every direction. Um, just as a bit very brief addition to this. I manage on my own with crippling ADHD seven separate social media platforms and I'm getting that time seven every day for sometimes even posting a [ __ ] meme or a joke, let alone just offering a opinion on something. So that's that's what I'm up against.
But if you just want to not agree with me, that's cool, you know.
But yeah, women like there's there was someone who did a thing where they were a profile was a woman and they were profile was an anonymous what looked like a man account and um yeah it's uh it was night and day in terms of you know Tansky you a Corbinite then is that what your political stance is like pure socialism? No. Um, I supported Corbyn in two elections, canvas for him, voted for him to become leader.
He's no longer in politics.
Wasn't even a Corbinite when I supported Corbyn. He was just a bit more aligned to what I believed in. I would I think like an narco syndicism is is closer to what I would probably go for. Um, but that's not realistic. I'm pragmatic when it comes to politics because of the the [ __ ] system that we exist in. But I want, you know, ye UBI. I want abolition of our institutions and them to be rebuilt and replaced with something different. And I'm talking like police financial systems. I want essentially the downfall of capitalism, but I don't subscribe to being a a communist or um such. I just think that I just I think it's the justice like sensitivity in me and the pattern recognition aspect that just sees things not [ __ ] working and feel like enraged that they are still being like the ghost of them are still being [ __ ] That just doesn't make any sense to me. It's like we're living in this like indirect weird like lie.
And yeah, Corbyn, I wouldn't say that a privately educated lad who who grew up in a manner would be necessarily a you know, I don't make political figures my personal heroes like ever.
I don't put all my faith in the latest male populist um that that pops up. I there's not one single party currently that exists that represents my political opinions.
[cough and clears throat] We aren't evolved enough to make an arco syndicism work. We probably never will be. I know it's pie in the sky, but I I understand that that's pie in the sky.
Help.
Help. I'm being repressed. I feel for you, Matthew.
Yeah, it must be hard. Sometimes it's hard to be a man getting everything you want just [ __ ] given to you.
But if you love him.
Um, but yeah. So, have any of you Wankers got any questions? Because I'm going to I'm not I I can't make I feel like a little bit like I'm uh uh Alan Partridge right now. I was like, "Oh, can you make the porn come on my telly?" I can't make the telly come on and and do like that kind of live stream yet. Oh, great. I've just waved at my uh camera.
So, now it's it's it's being a [ __ ] It's it's shifted. But um no, nobody know that. Not many people know that Corbyn grew up in a mana and went to a prep school. This is the point. Not just that, he got workingclass people to essentially pay for his education via uh and then he dropped out. So man of the people, you [ __ ] up. I did not, says Unturned Stone. Are you a Are you having a moment, mate? Are you Are you getting a bit hysterical?
Do you need to have a Are you triggered?
Unturned Stone. Do you need to turn the stone the other way?
James Being, did you do a Princess Diana impression by the tunnel?
[cough and laughter] [clears throat] Hello. I'm at the tunnel.
There's been an accident in my tunnel.
No, I didn't.
Narco syndicism worked in Spain. Were perfectly capable of doing it. Yeah, but they [ __ ] won't, will they?
I have ADHD. Do you hate the hot weather as much as I do? Doesn't help. It doesn't help. It doesn't help.
Doesn't help.
Not sick. I have a cold. Unturned stone.
I have a cold.
It would be funny if BIM face one. I was uh WhatsAppapping him the other day. Um and I uh I started to kind of I sent him a WhatsApp and I said, "You know what? I don't I don't know. Like you you've put you put quissasants quite far down the list, man. Like you put you put a few of the things like quite far down the list. I think it was uh S. It was S who made this joke. I can't take credit for it. Uh but she was talking about um him putting teletex quite far down the list now. And yeah, me and me and me and Bim face chat man.
We're we're buddies and uh it's like you put Seafax quite down quite far down the list. Are you working for like Big Seafax?
Are you taking money from Big Seafax?
[snorts] Uh it is still on the manifesto but it's quite far down. And then in the end I was like also so Quasants a big quasonant.
Are they quason? Are they paying you?
Are they paying you? [snorts] But uh yeah, uh Goodall again reporting Andy Burnham has the required numbers for a leadership challenge.
Where's uh is Goodall um doing it on LBC?
He's global, isn't he? So I imagine he will be doing it on LBC tonight.
Um, yeah. Binface predicted to win with 999% of the vote, says Doc Davis. That adds up.
Adds up a lot. Corbyn [ __ ] the referendum. That's what made me fall against him.
Uh, thank you to everyone that's uh offered me a birthday wish as well. I really appreciate it. Yeah, Lewis is live on LBC. Yeah, I thought he'd be doing the uh the global coverage. He normally does. [snorts] Happy Hatching Day, Tan Reform can do one. It was a couple of days ago, but thank you for the belated.
They should bring back happy eaters.
Well, I think Reform tried to with their candidate for Haydock, didn't they? But he pulled out suddenly, because of his loose alias.
[snorts] Good's pulling on the night shift.
You know, I'm not I wouldn't say that I'm like I'm not a fan of anyone really, but Lewis Good has got quite a sexy voice.
Uh, we are a nation that prospered massively from exploitation and we still benefit massively from integration into wide open markets.
Accurate.
His dad should have pulled out.
Well said, John Welsh. Well said.
His mom should have had a wank. I want Wimpy back. We've still got a Wimpy in our town. Anyway, I've really not covered uh an awful amount of the Makerfield election. But I think that what I've tried to cover tonight are is like which I I always like I'm trying to do this more nowadays than pure reaction is trying to kind of like zoom zoom in on the kind of the causes. You know what is causing all of this? What's at the root of it? And that that is what a lot of kind of like fuels me at the moment. I'm really interested in just trying to understand how they're doing it, how how they're doing it, why they're doing it, what their game plan is, and then trying to find a way to kind of relay that to to people.
Um, sorry. It's like my camera is getting very hot and it's slightly slightly off.
There we go. But, um, I don't I don't watch a lot of Goodall to be honest with you. Um, I don't watch a lot of the news agents. I dip in and out.
I dip in and out. Flick the bean girl, says Unturn Stone. All right. Tell you what I'll do is I'll flick you the [ __ ] out of my live stream. That's what I'll do.
You massive fanny.
Bye.
You're hidden. So, you can just shout into the void now, can't you?
Anyway, I'm going to um Oh, hang on a minute. Hence why I've previously been refreshed by Corbyn and Farage.
Two very different political views, but equally bringing change.
There's nothing there's nothing change-based about Nigel Farage.
He is the [ __ ] elite. He is a Tory.
He is a conservative.
No, it's all right, Chrissy. I just I sometimes it's quite nice to get rid of them myself. I was leading to it anyway.
Um there's nothing anti-establishment.
There's nothing change-based. If you want to see what a Nigel Farage government would be like, just look at the 14 years of the Tories cuz they were emulating him for the vast majority of it. his Brexit. They were trying to stop the boats. That was them trying to out Farage Farage. You can't out Farage Farage.
All you can do is hope for another I don't know light aircraft incident, you know. Anyway, it's been emotional.
Um, I will be doing some uh commentary probably commiserations in my group chats and my twitter. I'm not going to lie to you. um which I will be getting rid of soon that for the rest of the evening, but I'm not um I'm not able to to do pull an all nighter on the stream tonight.
It's not it's not possible. Um did I miss everything? Yeah, but you can watch it on on playback. It's going to it's going to be up um immediately after the stream finishes. Anyway, um but yeah, thank you to to Diz and to Chrissy for for moderating this evening.
Um thank you for those of you that actively put up with my absolutely appalling beginning.
and uh thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes.
It's been um really touching and nice and it has it has touched me deep inside.
Didn't mean for that to sound really pervy, but it sadly did.
Um, I'm going to pull an allnighter, just not on a stream because that would be mental, wouldn't it? I won't get to sleep until the sun's risen, but I did have a had a good old nap earlier, uh, which I don't normally do cuz I think they're for for toddlers.
Uh but no, thank you all so much for tuning in and I will be back um in my regular Thursday slot moving forward. Um so yeah, results probably I reckon if it's like a 65% turnout, we're looking at like 4 or 5 a.m.
because it was a solid turnout for Gorton and Denton.
And they're not like bloody Sunderland, the Point Dexters who do it like super fast. Um, but thank you all for your questions. Thank you all for tuning in.
Um, and what's the next video about? Says Midwinter Minis right at the end.
It's going to be about the Makerfield bi-election.
So, in the next couple of days, I'll probably film tomorrow whilst knackered. I will give you my analysis um of of what has happened.
But please, all of you, let's just hope, let's just hope that the people of Makerfield are not a bunch of [ __ ] bellons.
Let's just hope. Anyway, until next time, thank you for tuning in.
Don't go shagging flags to try to please me. I'm out of this [ __ ] [music] >> Wash la.
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