All right, Alexander, let's do an update

on what is happening in the UK. We have

a whole lot of different things that are

going on with uh the the final remaining

days of the Starmer administration. How

long that is going to be? Is it going to

be another week? Another 3 months? I

don't know. But um

>> [clears throat]

>> But no doubt the plan is Starmer to

exit.

Uh Burnham to

to [clears throat] to come in.

Until then, it does look like Starmer

has been tasked with

putting the final touches of his prime

ministership, let's say. So, he's

instituting this social media ban for uh

for 16-year-olds and under.

Uh the the problem with this social

media ban, well, there are many problems

with with the with the ban for for the

16-year-olds, but but the big problem is

for society, all of society in the UK,

is that uh that everyone is going to

have to prove

that they're over 16, which means an

identification process, biometrics,

facial recognition,

identification being uploaded somewhere,

passport ID. I mean, no one really

knows.

How is this thing going to work for

everybody? We're not only talking about

16-year-olds, we're talking about

everyone in the UK. And Starmer hasn't

really um

laid out how all of this is going to

work, but I think it is a very worrying

um policy and initiative that that

they're putting forward. You have the

a couple of subjects you have to talk

about enriched uranium to Ukraine,

which I think is is not being talked

about much.

And and you you have the the

announcement from Starmer at the G7

that that he is going to go into the

various ministries and the budgets of

the various ministries,

tell them to to find

uh money in those ministries that they

can cut back on and allocate that money

to the

the defense ministry. So, go into

health or whatever ministries, a

cultural ministry, find money,

make your cuts, and we're going to take

that money and send it to the defense

ministry all because of Healey's

resignation, which is ex- exactly what

we said in a video update. The whole

Healey resignation was was all planned

out, it's scripted, and staged so that

Starmer can can get more money to the to

the MIC. And and Healey played his part

in all of it.

>> Absolutely, and not just Starmer, but

whoever his successor is going to be

because it is universally assumed here

in London that Starmer is going to be

out probably within the next few weeks.

If

we see Andy Burnham back in Parliament,

Andy Burnham will become Prime Minister

very soon. And by the way, and this is a

thing to say, the talk now in London is

that once Burnham becomes Prime

Minister,

and [snorts]

assuming there is a

a revival in Labour's poll rating, which

there sometimes is, you know, when you

use you was you get a new Prime

Minister,

the popularity of the Prime Minister

increases, there's a honeymoon period,

there's a new government. The the plan

appears to be to call an election

whilst you know, Labour is has this

upswing of support, go into the

election,

go with a much more hardline radical

program than the one Starmer was elected

on, which was a very soggy program

altogether, but this will be a more

hardline,

more edgy program with perhaps more

left-wing commitments, but also maybe

involving commitments to Ukraine and

against Russia so that they get locked

into the manifesto. And the idea is

Labour gets reelected, maybe not with a

huge majority, maybe the majority will

fall.

But you see off reform for a few more

years.

And

then you've got another five years, not

three, in when you can

push on with a rather more convincing

Prime Minister

than you had previously. You can push

forward to do all of these various

things. And all of the things that

Starmer has been talking about and what

Labour is doing, finding money from the

various ministries to give to the

defense ministry, talking up constantly

the threat from Russia.

Um the

the biometric data, I mean every time

you use social media now,

if you believe the reports, there has to

be face recognition software to

determine that you are not 16. You

remember I I I would just remind people,

viewers, that when Starmer was elected,

when Labour won, uh we actually we

actually did a program in which, you

know, we predicted that there would be

these controls on social media, that

they were going to come, that there was

going to be a tightening of controls

altogether. Which, by the way, is

completely contrary to the British

tradition, but all of this is going to

happen. And the again, there is

astonishingly little pushback against it

because,

you know, the media basically supports

all of these things. So, do all of these

things, um

ramp up further support for Ukraine.

Keep and war there going. The whole

point of that exporting supply Ukraine

with enriched uranium. Well, what is

that for?

The Russians Putin at the start of the

special military operation. One of the

things that they set out as a condition

was denuclearizing Ukraine.

So, you are instead of denuclearizing

Ukraine. If you're Britain, you are

seeking to

re- nuclearize Ukraine. It is a way of

keeping the war going of making it in

effect open-ended. Um, so because the

war serves purposes. It doesn't just

weaken Russia as the British believe,

but it makes it easier to maintain the

anti-Russian

atmosphere, the mood here, and um, which

enables you to do all of these things

that we've just been talking about

social media controls, um,

ramping up military spending, doing all

of those sorts of things. So, um,

we could see

that as Starmer goes,

there is a kind of radicalization

taking place here. Um, um,

long-term

confrontation with Russia, a tightening

of elite control, uh, um, across British

society. Um, a imposition

of more controls altogether.

And also, and

this is not an unimportant thing,

ensuring

that whoever replaces Starmer

continues along the same lines. And the

expectation

is, I think it's more an expectation

than than a hope because I think that

they are sure that they will be able to

pull this off. The expectation is that

after 5 years, it will all be done. So

that if we have a reformed government,

it will be possible to undo or if you

like reform us out of these things.

>> Is it a radicalization that this program

or is it is it more of a

of of a

a rush

to just get all of these things like you

know, you know Starmer, you're you're

leaving earlier than we expected. You're

worse than we even thought you would be.

Yeah, but you know, when we put you in

place, you were supposed to do A B C and

D. Brexit, digital ID, Ukraine, all

these things and and now you're going to

be gone in a couple of weeks. So you

better you better get moving, you know.

I mean, that's kind of the sense that I

get is Starmer's trying to to to get

everything done before he exits.

>> I think you're absolutely correct

actually. I I I get to change it. Not an

a radicalization,

but an acceleration.

>> Acceleration, yeah.

>> [laughter]

>> I mean, you you you you you you've got

this this person who you know, you're is

absolutely loyal to you and is part of

you. So you you you you you have a few

weeks left. So you put the the foot down

on the accelerator

and move forward even faster. So that as

I said when the next the next person

comes in and takes over, then everything

is ready. And whoever that person is

going to be by the way, let's assume

it's Burnham. Let's be quite clear about

they're not going to push back.

They have no interest in doing that

because

there may be new you know, there may be

differences in personality, but they're

all ultimately part of the same team.

>> What is going to be on the agenda for

someone like Burnham? I mean, Starmer's

is to to finish up what he needs to

finish up for for the deep state.

>> Yeah.

>> So, he's going to push that through.

There's no pushback anywhere. I don't

even see pushback from Farage or Reform,

to be quite honest. Some pushback from

Farage, to be fair, with the digital ID.

This is This is true. Farage is

is appearing as if he's not happy with

with the whole digital ID, the the the

social media ban, sorry. He has voicing

his his his

disapproval of that. Okay? Um but

what is what is Andy Burnham going to be

tasked with?

>> You know, you you know, can I just talk

about, you know, the fact that this

actually been very little pushback

against digital IDs?

>> I think Farage has pushed back on it a

little, hasn't he?

>> Very little. I mean, there is there is

no

>> that he put out about it.

>> I mean, you would once upon a time,

there would have been massive opposition

to this.

This was very much part of the English

psyche. When Tony Blair uh proposed

um ID cards for people in Britain in the

late '90s, early 2000s. This is before,

you know, we have digital IDs and all of

that kind of thing. There was enormous

pushback against this. And when I say

it's the English tradition, you know,

way back in the 19th century, when there

were limits placed on drinking, you

know, the at times of drinking. Um you

know, there was a politician who stood

up in the House of Commons and said that

he would rather see England free than

England sober.

I think so. This is a country which has

historically had a very libertarian

attitude to ordinary life. And now, all

of that's been thrown out

at extraordinary speed. There are a few

people who talk about it. Farage, as I

said, reflects it to some extent. But

nothing like the extent to what you

would you would have assumed. And it's

very, very strange that we've accepted

all of this so so so easily and so

meekly.

I I I I I don't understand myself what

how this has

come about. The extent of the social

change that has happened that makes this

possible. But what is what is Burnham

going to do? Let's assume it's Burnham.

Whatever it whoever it is who's going to

take over is going to present themselves

as a somewhat more left-wing figure than

Starmer. So, some people are talking

about, you know,

a drift to the left. Well, um

ultimately, it's not going to be it's

not going to amount to make very much in

terms and

in relation to foreign and security

policy. It's not going to change

anything at all. We're going to see

higher taxes.

We're we're going to see higher taxes

anyway. Those taxes

that a more

so-called left-wing government is going

to impose on Britain will be more

weighted

upon certain

categories. So, people who

own their homes, for example, and if

their homes are a

you know, above a certain value, they're

more likely to have to pay more on the

value of those houses. I mean, that that

that kind of thing. So, um we we might

even see things being done with income

tax.

We were going to get heavier taxes with

Starmer anyway. So, this is I think a

thing

to bear in mind. We we might see more

tweaks in the welfare system.

But ultimately, it's not going to make a

huge amount of difference because as we

have discussed in program after program,

unless there is a fundamental change in

Britain's geopolitical

approach,

we're not going to see any fundamental

change which is going to improve

ordinary life for the British people.

All that's going to happen is that the

burdens upon us are going to grow. And

of course Burnham, who is now

as I we're making this program, still

fighting to get elected into Parliament,

he is now

downplaying his commitment to the EU.

But we know that everybody in the

political system wants to take us back

into the EU. Whoever, as I said, becomes

the next Prime Minister is going to

accelerate that as well.

Um and that also, I'm afraid, certainly

whilst Labour remains in office, which

you know, perhaps they will, but they

will certainly will for the next 3

years, but it might be five, they're

going to push further and faster with

all of this

to a degree that again is going to make

it very difficult for reform to unpick.

So, that's what they're going to do.

>> All right, just a final note, uh that

seems the Conservatives have

disappeared, huh?

>> Absolutely. I mean, they they they their

leader, Kemi Badenoch, is supposedly

getting more popular. I don't see much

sign of this myself. That the

Conservative Party has vanished. But,

you know, they have the elites have the

Labour Party,

which is in some ways a more comfortable

vehicle for them

than the Conservatives were because the

Conservatives always had an anti-EU

faction within them. And

strangely enough, there was always more

um dissent towards these policies than

there was within the Labour Party. So, I

think they're perfectly happy with what

they have, provided they can keep Labour

in power. What would be a disaster is an

election which Reform wins. But, I think

everything is going to be done to ensure

that that doesn't happen.

>> What about Restore real quick?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, I mean this is this is a more

hardline version of is significantly

more hardline

version of Reform.

And it is it is gaining support. It

might in time become a major political

force, but it hasn't yet.

At the present time, all it is doing is

is dividing the demographic that might

otherwise

support Reform.

So, it actually makes it more difficult

for Reform to win an election. To the

point that I wonder sometimes whether

Restore isn't getting some support from

the elite, from the deep state, if you

like, precisely in order to weaken

Reform in the run-up to the election

which is coming.

>> Yeah, okay, interesting. All right.

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