IRAN OR I-RAN?

What must people think? What must people think?

Hello and welcome to another episode of What Most People Think. In a fast-moving political world, to say the bleeding least, I mean Jesus. I mean, look, it is just us today because I had a guest dropout. But I'm recording this Tuesday at 20 past three. And it's probably not the worst thing in the world because there is so much to catch up on. The bombing of Iran or is it Iran?

They've changed the way they pronounce it. That sometimes happens in news, doesn't it? Remember when Kiev went to Kiev? Although we always called it Iran, now you call people Iranians. Okay, bombing of the Iranian... nuclear facility then there was a ceasefire early on Tuesday a surprise ceasefire then it was not a ceasefire then Donald Trump was swearing live on the news about the fact that Israel and Iran appeared to have broken the ceasefire

So all that's been going off, but I want to focus today on the UK role in what's been happening, or lack of it, or lack of any definable position. I mean, it was almost like... perfect Keir Starbuck. We'll get right into it, but essentially his position was that it's wrong and it's right.

And there was more bad economic news as well in terms of the amount of people employed in the private sector. So we're just going to be keeping an eye on what's going on under Labour economically. And then there was this BBC News presenter. I don't know if you saw this. Coxell, I think that's her name. I'll double check. She...

She corrected a bit of language around pregnancy in a way that I think gender critical people might have appreciated. And in the Patreon only, Nigel, Nigel, he's got a policy, hasn't he? I don't know if you've seen about this, the Robin Hood tax. So we'll be speaking about that in the Patreon. only there's just so much to talk about this week i at the moment i am on vapors

I'm on Vapours. As I say, it's Monday today. I've had to pull out of a couple. No, it's not Monday. This is the problem. I've had to pull out of a couple of things on Wednesday because I've just, I've overdone it. I've overdone it. I gigged like I was doing work all last week, gig Saturday night, in late, up.

On Sunday, yes, I have got out the tiny violin. Up on Sunday, umpired two and coached two of my son's cricket team's games. Then Sunday night, I was up to Manchester for a TV thing, which I'll tell you about when it's due to come out. Did that all month. Monday, then came home last night, Monday night on the train. And because it was TV, I was lucky enough to be in first class. Lardy fucking die, right? But I've got to say...

Big shout to the Avanti first-class team who noticed a man that needed a drink and they kept the Peroni Capris coming. Now, I don't like too many gimmicky lagers, but... Big shout out to those boys and Peroni Capri. Just a little hint of lemon. It was, I mean, to the point where I'd had enough of them that when I got to London, I sort of forgot there was a Monday night. It was literally like, right, who's coming out?

But, yeah, I ain't going out anywhere, mate. I just need to lie down in a darkened room. New patrons. Now, the patrons, you get the podcast early, ad-free, and with bonus content. And also, we've got no new patrons for this episode, but I use it as an opportunity to say that the... books the british bloke decoded the um board member level which is if you up your pledge to 20 quid a month you join the exclusive board member level you get we get all sorts of advanced and enhanced

advanced in advance a little bit of phrasing there but uh what you get is you'll get the hardback copy of the book which i will sign i'll put any inscription on it you like um i'll send it to you and also when i'm on tour uh you get to come backstage to the green room to do a little meet and greet that means you don't have to hang around

afterwards in fact it's not after gig you come during the interval you just go and tell a member of staff at the venue we can do photos we can do whatever you well not we can't do whatever you like but you get my point and the domain talking point now david domain comes back to me he is our super patreon

back on previous week's episodes i was talking about kryptonite hecklers right the kind of people that make weird sounds that are very hard for comedians to get around and i'd done a gig where uh somebody was laughing in a really sarcastic way anything that sounded

like a punchline so anytime I did a punchline he's going hey and David says that he went to see Simon Evans at Loughborough and that this guy had a wahey type um laugher in the audience interjecting at random points when he was going through an into an intricate story I think in Simon's accent that would have sounded good. Yes, and David corrects me that GMP...

is actually a common shorthand for Greater Manchester Police Force rather than Greater Metropolitan Police. So apologies. A lot of people got in touch with that. As you did reminding me that Yedden... up north of Leeds. It's not pronounced Yedin. It's pronounced Yeedin. Come on. Yedin. Red. Bread. All the other ways when you spell it R-E-A-D.

You say bread. Okay, all right, yeeden. But anyway, I'm doing an Edinburgh preview for there this Saturday. He also comes back to me on the idea that we're living through particularly turbulent times. And he says, well, in the words of that wise philosopher, Billy Joel,

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning. It goes on to say, well, while the conflicts in the world in this decade have risen in comparison to the 2010s, death across the world, though, through armed conflicts has dropped markedly since the early 90s. In 1994, there were 823,000 deaths due to armed.

conflict and in 2023 it was 160,000 I absolutely take your point David I absolutely take your point but I do feel like the graph you know you see that point on a sort of line graph where it starts to curve back up the other way I don't know I don't know hey who knows

Donald Trump might have brought in his own weird way peace to the world he won oh my god Donald wants that Nobel Peace Prize I I both don't want him to have the satisfaction, but I also do want to see what sort of fucking meltdown the left-wing social media sites would go into if he did get it.

They also had clap back as well. So my patrons, a few of them came back at me on my characterisation about the film How to Train Your Dragon. Now, first up, I should say that the How to Train Your Dragon that I saw was the live action version, not the animated one that's been around a few years.

And they sort of said that, you know, you're being a bit harsh in that film. It's a good film. And the girl boss in that character, because I was saying there's too many girl boss characters. Every film like this seems to have one where she's confident and brave, whereas the boy is a fucking snivelling little idiot. There's nowhere near.

finished article um it's been pointed out to me that the girl in that she kind of has some of the edges of her character um shaved off and i take your point to a point but once again the boy in this starts off flawed and stupid and needs a girl to kind of show him the way and become who he needs to be um

And it's just maybe it comes down to fatigue, right? Like superhero fatigue. If you see a trope often enough, you'll start to look for things that slot into that. Maybe how to train your dragon wasn't the worst example, but there's just been a lot of it. When you've got a nine-year-old son, you go, can we just not have an out and out here?

hero you know it's like in the mario film he like as i said on my last tour he wasn't even a good plumber he wasn't even a good plumber it took princess fucking peach didn't it princess peach they tried to make her the co-star of the film look princess peach Good character, but she's not Mario. It's called the Mario... Anyway, okay. Look, I just wonder at this point, given how many girl bosses we've had, would the most subversive role that you could write for a young female character...

is a group of girls that are all high-achieving and career-minded and one girl that just wants to have a kid and raise a family. Look, I'm just saying, in its own way, in a relative sense, that would be deeply subversive, you know? It could be called How to Train Your Household. Actually, scratch that. I didn't say that. Scratch it.

Okay, the thank you and the fuck you. So just talking about tickets, they are moving a fair lick. Not only did the date in Otley sell out, there was a date, there was an Edinburgh preview type date in Hassocks on the South Coast in July. That's now sold out. So if you... If you want to see me near the South Coast or down Sussex way, come to the Bryan Tour Show. The tickets are going for that. They're going quick for Milton Keynes, Swindon, Reading, Bristol.

I was going to say Brentford. No, not Bristol, Brentford. Birmingham. There's a lot of B's on this tour. There's also A's. Aberdeen. Come on, man.

What is going on in Aberdeen? Is it just that because of the oil industry, every sort of two years you all move out and I have to start again with the touring audience? But it'd be lovely to see people coming up to Aberdeen. I would say about this show, like I've been doing, you know... comedy i've been doing tours i think this is my sixth tour and right from the beginning when i spoke about my politics i quite often people would say to me

Because people just didn't like the idea that there were any comics right of centre. They sort of got cosy in the idea that any comedian that voted for anyone other than the Labour Party or the Lib Dems was basically Bernard Manning. And so when I come along, the people would say, they would try and shit on it by saying, well...

tell me a right-wing joke then what are right-wing jokes like what you just come out and say how much how much you love money how much you love capitalism i was just to say like jokes are never about what you love are they You're not dealing with things that you think are shit or people or things that don't make sense to you. But you've never seen left-wing comics over the years come out and make a joke about how much they love high taxation.

It's a very hard thing to do. However, I would say that on this tour, I've probably written... my most right-wing joke. Now, again, if there are people who automatically think that would be something unpleasant, right? Or punching down. It's not, it's economically. I think I've written my most economically right-wing joke. So if you want to hear that, then do get on live.

God, that was a terrible sell. Oh, yeah, Jeff, economic right wing jokes about the economy. Give me the give me the web address again. But yeah, there'll be plenty of other stuff. But I do think this one legitimately counts potentially as what people were asking me for all those years ago.

Fuck you. The fuck you is to Blue Sky, right? So this is... the sort of website. When Elon took over X, this is the website a lot of people migrated to because it's just too toxic. It's just too toxic. It was too toxic on X. They just couldn't bear it anymore. I would say that... It is less toxic than X, but there's just a lot less fucking people there as well. But every once in a while I get people that say mental things about me on it.

and it sort of just reminds me that they're the kind of flip side but from the left um i did a line when it was very hot a few days ago saying dear people from genuinely hot countries we're fully aware that it isn't that hot in the grand scheme of things, but it is for us. So please allow our current melodrama, right? Okay, I think it's quite clear that I'm being ironic there. It's not a hateful post. I've even acknowledged that it's us.

being melodramatic i've just said people from genuinely hot countries didn't say whether what skin color they had anyway something some account quotes me on this, but also, I know this is playground tittle-tittle, but just let me get this off my chest, please. Somebody, I think, has blocked me or muted me because I can't then reply or share their post. Said, complaining about foreigners again, eh, Jeff?

Well, I don't think I complain about foreigners. I can't remember an example, but anyway, it says almost like you dislike anybody who's not British. I don't know how fucking obvious. It has to be that I'm being flippant. But the problem has always been that there are some people for whom voting habits or political allegiances, they just hear, if something's written down, they'll just hear...

They'll hear hate. I mean, I think I brought it up before, but I remember when I did House of Games, House of Games the first time, and I was on with Cariad Lloyd, and there was some weirdo, some left-wing fella, who was tweeting about it obsessively, and he said, just look, just look at poor Cariad Lloyd.

having to sit next to Jeff Knockall. I just tell she feels awkward being in the same room as him. And that was, Carrie had invited me on a podcast after that, so it was a particularly strange comment. But it's just a reminder, right, if you listen to this podcast and some people think, oh, you've gone a bit centrist, Jeff gone a bit. Just remember, there are still some people out there, particularly on Blue Sky, that still think I'm Tommy Robinson with A-levels.

Okay, by the way, please don't let that become a quote that people use against me. Anyway, we're going to talk about politics now. We're going to talk about what happened in Iran, the Iranians, and the UK's role or lack of it. Okay, so late last week, because I worked on Sunday night, I don't know about you, if I work on Sunday, I have no idea. This now feels like, I don't know what day of the week is. But anyway, recently, I don't know if you heard, but there was a bombing raid on the Iranians.

This section of my show isn't going to be about whether or not you believe it was illegal, whether or not you believe that the Iranians had them. I would say that, you know, having a... Installation under a mountain was pretty on the nose if you're doing bad guy stuff. I'm just always imagining like some... a mountain cut into that opens and then a rocket comes out of it but I think I've watched too many films it's not about that right

It's not about that. But on the other hand, I hate the Iranian regime. I think it's just so bizarre to me that in 2025 you have people in power that can enforce whether or not women's faces can fucking... be seen in public is just uh it's bizarre to me right and it is always kind of odd to me that if other regimes were oppressing people on the basis of their religion or other inalienable things we we might feel more motivated to

I don't know, intervene, but because it's women, it's like, oh, that's between them. Anyway, right? But anyway, but I also think that when people say, oh, were Iran really trying to get nuclear bombs? I think they'd be mental to not be, wouldn't they? Of course. Of course they were trying to get nuclear bombs. What's the population of around 90 million? They're a big country in a volatile reason. It would be legitimately insane to not want to have nuclear bombs.

But the question is, where does this exchange leave Britain, right? We've been told for quite a while that, you know, Starmer, he has Trump's ear because he went at it. I've got a letter from the king. I've got a letter. And he had Trump's ear because he offered him Q-Jump at Windsor Castle. So we should all be grateful for that, right? But it does seem like late last week, Starmer genuinely didn't think Trump would be getting involved.

On this level and then they did and then the UK were in a position where they're still terrified of saying anything that goes against Donald Trump's wills or whims. And so you had this funny line, this bizarre line coming out of the UK government, which was, we do not condone this, but the outcome is good. Okay, that doesn't feel very good. This was wrong. This is not the way to go about it. But yes, I am doing a knee slide.

And I know a lot of people, like the Starmer lovers, they were like, no, you don't understand. You've got a very difficult line to tread here. But equally, is it also too much to ask that a government just has a fucking position on one of the most serious... like exchanges of military might that we've seen in many years that just we know what the government kind of thinks about this it's got to go okay you could just say look hey

It is what it is, right? We're not going to complain about that. We didn't want Iran to have nuclear weapons. And we wake up today and we find out that they won't at least for a while. So say no more with a wink, right? But they're sort of trying to tread this line. I guess in fairness to Stam, he's not the only world leader who's doing this, right? None of them want to piss off Trump because of the tariffs. We all know what a...

an eccentric and unpredictable character he can be, right? But it does remind you of style. He's spending a lot of time not standing for anything. And I was thinking of that thing that Rishi Sunak said about him in the general election campaign when he said that...

Stalin was shuffling close to power without anybody noticing he doesn't have a conviction or a position or words to that effect, right? The problem is if that happens often enough, I think other people will realise, other countries will realise is that this country don't really stand for anything on the world stage.

will be marginalized, sidelined, left out of things. And I saw in the news that David Lammy had said that David Lammy warns Iran of... of the fear of the risks of escalation I was like David Lammy why the idea of David Lammy warning any country of anything I just it doesn't feel like a doesn't feel like a

a grown-up sentence i mean quite legitimately a lot of countries could turn around and say well we're taking that from you are we you can't even protect your fucking planes from some students with some hair dye

So all of this is happening on top of the NATO conference beginning. I mean, I have no idea. What do they do? What do they do? I mean, this is the outcome that they wanted. This is the problem. There's so many countries that wanted Iran's... you know alleged race towards getting a nuclear bomb halted now they've done it but they cannot be seen to endorse the

the methods by which it was done. So NATO starts. Like I said, I'm recording this Tuesday afternoon. Who knows what would have happened? Trump's already sworn on air about Israel and Iran. Maybe, I don't know, maybe they'll have got Macron in a fucking headlock or just be...

you know get keir starman an actual lead you know like one of those sex bondage parties just leading him around the whole thing wearing a fucking lead with a orange ball in his mouth but into the mix um the uk government of now said that we're going to get defense spending up to five percent that's what trump's saying that's what nato is saying they want at first it was we'll get it from 23 to 2.5 then starmer come out and said 2.7

And that was funded, and then they said 3.5, and that wasn't funded, and now they've said 5%. Pat McFadden didn't even attempt to say how this would be funded, because we know what he's saying there. It would be 20.35, this will be 5%. How? Well, it's not going to be us in fucking power, is it? Jeez, come on. I mean, that's the point. You know, for a Labour government that came into power talking about kicking the can, we're not going to kick the can down the... All right.

We've just got to kick the can halfway down. Look, it's not technically a can. It's just meaningless, isn't it? We're not going to get to 5%. But I guess the kind of things that they're going to include in military spending. It will have to broaden a little bit. There are rumours that they're going to include Wi-Fi in that. And the argument is that a lot of the things that we face are kind of cyber.

cyber threats hacking infrastructure all that kind of stuff but it doesn't smack a little bit of when you're trying to throw in business expenses that don't really that don't really count you know you're going to your counter goes so yeah you just you had a 20 000 pounds worth of uh hospitality expenses yeah yeah i did yeah yeah and quite a lot of those were receipts from uh spearmint rhinos like yeah yeah you know you got you got you got to entertain your clients yeah most of those

were actually Tuesday at 11am and it was just you there. Okay, just a bit of economic news as well. Private sector employment has fallen, okay? So obviously I think... Public sector employment is always high. It's probably going up again. You know, some of that is recruitment driving the NHS. But I just want to say, just stick a pin in this, man. Just stick a pin in this. Because there's now a nice little bento box of worrying economic indicators. You've got...

Number of people on payroll has gone down, economic contraction in April, inflation still, you know, stubbornly high. And I think that when it comes around, they'll all blame it. On global stuff, that's what will happen is they will raise taxes, personal taxes on people. And that's the one thing they said they wouldn't do at the election. And they're going to have to frame this that they were made, you know, Rachel, you made me do this, Reeves.

she's going to blame it. But this is the interesting thing because they can't criticise Trump for how he went about bombing the Iranian nuclear facility. They definitely won't be able to mention that his tariffs have fucked things a bit. So they're just going to have to talk about the difficult, the economic, the things that happened on Bloke, Orange, Tall, Orange, US. It would almost be like a parlour game where you have to work out who she's blaming. They're in the US. You can't use that word.

Okay, you've got to blame it on Donald Trump without saying Donald or Trump or President of the US. And there'll be the point. Some of it will be to do with Trump unsettling the global economy, but some of it will be to do with them. You know, the jobs tax has been a fucking disaster, right? So all these things, if the UK...

Economy was a dashboard. Do you know what I mean? It wouldn't just be saying, oh, it's time for your 12,000 mile service. It would be like the tire pressure's fucks. You need to change the oil. The bit where your pedals are so worn through, you could literally get your feet through there like the Flintstones. Okay, we're going to talk now about, as I teased earlier, about this BBC...

presenter who was presenting news i think her name is martine coxall right and she was doing a story about pregnancy and then this happened i think the best thing to do is play you the clip but as i say in the game it might not be great for radio but let's just see

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research which says that nearly 600 heat-related deaths are expected in the UK. Malcolm Mistry, who is involved in the research, says that the aged... pregnant people women and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions i think you get a bit of it from that i'm sure that listen you probably have already seen this or heard about this in the news

But she self-corrects what was in the scripts from pregnant people. And then she says women. Right. But there's a little eye roll in there. Never. I'd say never as an eye roll.

caused it wasn't it wasn't even a full eye roll it was like a 60% eye roll you know the kind of one where I'd say a level of eye roll it was on is when you're at a barbecue with your wife you're two drinks further in than she is and you make a sort of a bawdy joke that was supposed to be funny and she shares a look with one of the other women it was that level of eye roll right now

She's kind of been celebrated in the sort of gender critical sphere and by parts of the online right because she sort of stood up against Wokery. She stood up against this...

change of language in and around pregnancy. I mean, my own personal view about whether or not you use pregnant people instead of women is that for most of the public... If you want to change language like this, or if you want to make an argument for changing language, a lot of it comes down to numbers and ratios. Now, that sounds boring, but I always use the firefighter's example. if you go like 100% of firefighters or firemen, we go firemen. If it's like 97%,

Probably still go far. Once you're getting on for 7% is women, you go, look, could we change it to firefighters? And would that be okay? It still sounds kind of heroic. And is that okay? You know, some of it comes down to numbers. And when pregnancy... is happening with and look this can't change biological sex but in terms of gender when pregnancy

is experienced by people who are 99 point and feel free to correct the stats on this but nine percent i'm thinking or 99.8 percent people who are born female and present of male what's the word cis cis male cis female it's so confusing

then I think it's quite a hard argument to have. And this podcast is called What Most People Think. I think that's what most people think, right? So feel free to get in touch with what most people think, UK at gmail.com. I feel fairly confident most of the listeners to this podcast. would be on side with that. What most people think. While she's being celebrated, there are parts of the left. I saw Pink News were having a pop.

And, you know, I was looking on Threads. By the way, if you think like Blue Sky, if Blue Sky's left wing, Threads is like fucking Twitter class of 2017. You know? They're still singing old Jeremy Corbyn on that one. And... I looked there and there was a lot of people that were annoyed at her and they were saying that she should be disciplined. And I thought, do you know what? They do slightly have a point, right? Because what you're supposed to do is if you are...

supposedly a neutral figure you shouldn't bring your own views to bear especially while you're on air you know Lineker a lot of the stuff he did was on his own social media but he was a much more high profile figure than her and let's be honest Gary did have he had quite a few lives given to him

him didn't he I mean this is a week where there's some exciting cricketing happening there was a lot of appeals that went to DRS with Gary Lineker and even then it looked like some of them were hitting the stumps right but I do think good luck at this point trying to get the BBC to sack her or discipline her because the cultural winds have changed a bit I mean if they were to if she was to be properly in trouble for this

you know, reform, the riot, the telegraph, a lot of the, anything riot centre will go for them. It just proves how institutionally woke they are, the vast majority of people. And the truth was, this would be the point, is the vast majority of people would be... on their side but i think that i think it's just you know it does come down to an odd thing that who who wrote that who wrote that news script pregnant people

It's so weird, isn't it? I think Wes Street in, who the Labour MP that gets the most... credit on this show. Oh, by the way, a lot of people stood up for Chris Philp at PMQ. So I said Angela Rayne did pretty well. Chris Philp was a bit unconvincing. I've had lots of clap back on that. A lot of antipathy towards Rayner. People saying they thought Chris Philp...

did a good job, and somebody's saying that he was a bloody good bloke that they went to school with. So, for balance, Chris Phil, apparently, he's got his fans out there. But yeah, where's Street in? He sort of... spoke about the needless erasure of sex-based identities and that is the point isn't it i think pregnancy is the biggest burden that women face

OK, it's not always a burden. A lot of women enjoy being pregnant and stuff. And the bond that you have with the kid is, let's be honest, you know, certainly for the early years of a child's life, there's a lot of responsibility there. But by God, you're closer to that child. on average, but it's fucking scary. I would imagine, I would imagine that I always didn't think that God made women endure pregnancy because he just looked at men and went, yeah, maybe not.

He looked at, you know, he was experimenting with the two genders and he saw like the 40-year-old version of his man sitting with his virtual reality headset on playing indoor cricket and the woman, you know. So maybe he just went, look, of the two of them, maybe women are more built to handle this. But I just think...

It's mental, the idea of a life growing inside you. I just imagine it's a very scary thing. And I imagine the fact that women have to do that. You kind of want the credit for... You want to own the language, right? It's weird that... You know, cultural institutions will get together to go, well, we don't want to exclude this very, very small group. But what if, right? What if in trying to not exclude a very small group...

be honest, within that group might not all think that you should change the language either. But then there's this much bigger group that you might feel, they might feel excluded. You might actually... have the net effect you might achieve the net effect of making people more culturally right-wing and more conservative there's like so much of this stuff you know right back to the high water mark of woke so much of this stuff achieved the opposite effect in the end

But yeah, I mean, I think that she's sort of carved out a niche for herself now as the truth-telling newscaster, presenter. I think she should correct more stuff as well. Like in the news, if it says... Kiev. She's like, ah, we called it Kiev. Fuck off. And it pronounced Iranians. I'm still saying Iranians, mate. Yeah. What's that? Snickers. We'll call it what it really is. A fucking marathon.

Most people think. Okay. For everybody else, it's going to be the end of the show. But for the patrons, we're going to talk about Nigel Farage's Robin Hood tax. Okay, Patreons, dear Patreons. Apologies, this one's going to be a bit of a shorter one this week. I just feel rough as fuck, man. I have had to stop doing this just to...

Just sweating. What is it? What's the phrase? Sweating like a pervert in a playground. I remember, I can say this because it's on the page with Lonely, one of my mates. we was in a pub once and um it was getting hot in there and he wanted to leave and there was very loud music and then just as they stopped the track for some reason

He shouted out, I'm sweating like a rapist in the playground here. We went, fucking hell, mate. Do you know what I mean? That's not even the phrase. You made the phrase so much worse. It was proper like saloon doors swinging. But yeah, anyway, I've taken paracetamol, but nothing's touching at the moment. But I do want to talk to you a bit about this, is that...

Nigel Farage. I mean, this Robin Hood tax thing. So the idea is that non-doms, because we've had a bit of an exodus, an international exodus of rich people, and he's kind of trying to square the circle of the part of his party that... wants to be low tax, incentivize. Is that really a word? Incentify? Incentivize.

Wealth creators and risk takers and disruptors. And the idea is that he's going to have a thing called a Britannia card, which I think is a bit of a shit name for it, if I'm honest. I don't mind patriotic stuff. Britannia card. That just sounds like a thing for old people to get some 10% off fucking like, you know, carpet slippers or whatever. But the idea is that you pay a one-off £250,000. I mean, this really is Nigel Farage's Del Boy best. And then you don't pay any tax.

So I guess this is trying to stem the exodus here. And then the money is going to be redistributed. So Nigel Farage is going to be like... He should call himself Nigel Farage. Farage. If you ever have to do long A sounds, it does make things sound posher, doesn't it? It's like bath or bath, you know, class or class. Nigel Farage. So he's then going to give away that money, 600 quid, to everybody under a certain income amount.

I don't know. As I say it out loud, could that create resentment? I mean, the thing we've learned from the winter fuel thing is that these things all have thresholds and anybody just above that would be pissed off. Would it be incentive for one year to have a pay cut to get an extra $600? I don't know. I don't know. But it's an eye-catching.

policy, isn't it? A Robin Hood tax. I think he should have gone the full hog with it. I think he should have got dressed up in a little fucking tunic. Had him and his mates around him like a little fryer tuck. Richard Tice. dressed up as Little John Lee Anderson there. I mean, Lee Anderson would have loved the Robin Hood tax. He's from the East Midlands, isn't he? Where's he from? He's from Nottingham. Yeah, surely he'd have loved that. Yeah, he would have loved it.

By the way, just a little line that I once said at a gig. I did a double up in Nottingham and Derby once. That's like opening one gig, closing the other. And as I was driving from Nottingham to Derby, I noticed that... The road is called Brian Clough Way. I said, well, it's very typical of the area, isn't it, that your two cities are connected by a violent alcoholic. That one didn't go down well. And if you do come from Nottingham, Derby, and you are a patron, a joke's a joke. It's just a joke.

But I suppose the thing I'm wondering about Farage's Robin Hood tax is if you've gone through all the ball, right, so if you've seen the way that the wind was blowing, and as I've said to you before, Two of my wealthiest friends left the country, you know, as they saw what was happening. And it wasn't just Labour, right, coming in. You know, let's not forget that the nom-dom thing was done by...

But it was under Jeremy Hunt and Rishi, right? Because they were trying to shoot Labour's fox. I don't know why. They go, oh, if we just do this, Jeremy, we'll get the working class people back. I think that horse had bolted. A lot of metaphors there. Shot the fox, horses bolted. My brain is literally just sort of on vapors here, but bear with me. I've got a point here. Would it be enough if you've uprooted your life?

gone, okay, we think that the tax system is more punitive. We want to keep more of our money. We're going to go and live in fucking Singapore. And then you go, hang on, love. Hang on, love. Just stick on GB News for a minute. It's Nigel Farage. No, he's called Farage now. Why is he dressed as... Why is he dressed like that? And why is Sarah Podchin dressed as Maid Marian? Let's hear him out. Let's hear what he's got to say. He's saying, dear...

that says a Robin Hood tax. It's a one-off lifetime deal. Can't say any fairer than that. And I don't know. Will this be a policy for reform? come the next election I sincerely freaking doubt it but it is it is quite close to doing it does come quite close to doing something which is going to be hard for reform which is like they're backers um

you know, their sort of backers in the press, increasingly the Telegraph, their donors, and a very populist, you know, working class voter base. It does come quite close to squaring... That circle. I suppose what I was surprised about is why is he doing it this far out? This feels like the kind of rabbit that you put out of the hat near election because, you know, it'd still be very hard for a reform to win an election. But Nigel, can't say any further than that. Go once.

Going twice to the lady at the front with the lovely cleavage. Okay, that is this week's episode. Apologies, it is on the short side, as literally my brain is frying here. But yeah, feeling a bit on the rough side here. And I know that people don't want to hear that repeatedly, but we had a late dropout for a guest. I've had to cobble this.

one together um quite quickly uh if you are a patreon later this week will be the patreon only episode of show where we have loads of questions if you're a vip patron you you want your question answered then upgrade to vip and get those in but um listen i don't know you know israel iran going at it toe-to-toe trump telling people to fuck off nato happening you never know the next time that we speak i could be doing it from a fucking bunker like charles de gaulle what most people