#105 - Carl Benjamin - How Parallel Institutions Are Replacing the Government
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Carl Benjamin joins me for a conversations about the UK's decline. From moral collapse and socialism-by-stealth to town centre decay and mass apathy, we dive into what went wrong and why fixing it might not be possible through conventional politics. Carl and I share personal plans for Swindon and Bedford, compare strategies and ask whether it's time to stop waiting for government and start building parallel institutions ourselves. CONTACT PETE › Website - http://petermccormack.com › Feedback - https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email - me@petermccormack.com › Instagram - /mccormack555 › X/Twitter - https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH CARL BENJAMIN › X/Twitter - https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad SPONSORS › IREN - https://www.iren.com/ › Ledger - https://www.ledger.com/ › Gemini - https://gemini.com/ › Casa - https://casa.io/ › Incogni - https://incogni.com/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:45 – Swindon's decline and the roots of decay 00:06:07 – Immigration, homelessness & local failures 00:12:50 – Why councils are powerless & going bankrupt 00:18:52 – A decade of government mistakes 00:22:22 – Do we need a British Milei? 00:26:28 – Liz Truss was right & they destroyed her 00:30:01 – Communism by stealth 00:35:02 – Child rape gangs, the online safety bill & moral rot 00:38:36 – Why socialism always ends in collapse 00:42:26 – The left's worldview vs personal responsibility 00:46:29 – Can a government lose moral legitimacy? 00:52:48 – Can Reform UK actually change anything? 00:56:29 – Why Farage is failing at leadership 01:04:04 – The welfare Ponzi & boomer betrayal 01:07:00 – Why Carl won't abandon Swindon 01:10:59 – Peter's plan to rebuild Bedford 01:17:08 – Swindon's lost heart 01:21:01 – Food halls, culture & urban regeneration 01:25:33 – A blueprint for reviving towns across the UK 01:28:32 – Immigration, foot traffic and economic displacement 01:34:38 – We became reclusive & now we must fight it 01:37:03 – Reclaiming patriotism 01:40:48 – Waking up after COVID 01:44:00 – Final thoughts - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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| 0:00.0 | But they took down a picture of one of Thatcher's economists and put up a picture of the founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain. |
| 0:04.6 | It's like, sorry, are we, if I became the prime minister and I took down the picture of Winston Churchill, I put a picture of, oh, I don't know, Adolf Hitler, would you call me a Nazi? I think it would be fair to call me a Nazi. So if you put up a picture of a communist, someone who founded the communist, it's it's fair to call that person a communist. I think it's fair, right? |
| 0:01.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:02.1 | It's totally fair. |
| 0:02.8 | At no point has Keir Slamer ever gone, you know what, communism's bad guys, I was wrong to be a student communist. He is a communist. They are spiritually communist. They believe in, essentially, the reduction of all classes into one homogenous classes under the state. And they expect the state eventually to educate itself out of existence. |
| 0:39.3 | Nonsense, obviously. But these people haven't changed. And whenever you see Kirstama talking, you realize he is not a smart man. |
| 0:48.3 | What he is, is a programmed man, because this is the problem with all ideology. |
| 0:52.3 | Ideology is programming for people who don't know what to do. |
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