I, folks, welcome back to another one of our political chats.

We have our first guest in the studio. I don't know if he'll be any good, you know. Yeah, I was wondering why you drafted me into this. And I said to Dan, I feel like this series has had a sort of top gear of politics vibe. And so he did a Richard Hammond to complete the set. I'm not sure why you're calling Carl James May. Because he can't drive. Oh, that's it. Yep, it's true.

Yeah.

He doesn't get to be, that's it, yep. It's true, yeah. Yeah.

He doesn't get to be the Jeremy Clarks in politics. He's obviously the Jeremy Clarks. Oh, are you kidding? Clearly. Clearly. I'm being ganged up, right, we're not having any ever again. Anyway, so today we're going to be talking about Mcfield, because everything, all eyes are on Makefield and everyone knows it.

And it's weird how opaque it is from the outside because actually, surprisingly little polling has been done.

And surprisingly, little information seems to actually be trickling out from the perspective

of those people in the Westminster bubble and us in the hinterlands.

So we're going to be talking about how Restore are, they're getting noticed, right?

It's got to the point now, just for anyone wonders.

We're all members of Restore and we support Restore and we want Restore to win,

just so our biases are crystal clear, hate Farage, hate Labor, hate Tories, hate Greens, hate Lib Dems. They're all terrible. We're for Restore. But we do love our country, and that's why we're backing Restore. Exactly. Well, and we're going to be talking about how they just can't ignore us at this point, right? They can talk, they cannot invite us on to talk to them about the issues, but they can't ignore that we're a force in British politics.

And that's been, what, three months?

You can see the fear that they have that's barely concealed because of just the contours,

because of how they've been, by their own admission, overreacting.

Having all of their surrogates on X in mobilising the media that we've covered on the podcast before for an all-out spectrum attack and almost doing contradictory and every line possible to try and just find a gap in the armour that will eventually just immobilize their opponents. And it just makes them look histriomic. Yes. And I mean, Dan Hodges called it perfectly, actually. And he's not

someone whose predictions I respect normally. Broken Clause. He was like, yeah, look, they're going to start attacking Restore and that's going to raise, restore salience. And suddenly, we're going to be everywhere. And then we're going to be talking about the canvases, the restore canvases in Mecfield, what they're finding. And then we're going to find, and then we're going to talk about reforms rearguard action against this.

So let's begin.

So we are mainstream now, right?

It's understood that we have an MP, we have a very large and very skilled media, social media apparatus,

and I don't just mean us, I don't just mean the restore team themselves. I mean our activists, as in the many hundreds of thousands of people who have been politically engaged. No, no, I'm arguing the case in the comment section. I'm posting on Facebook. I'm posting wherever. I mean, I saw there's a, there's a just an organic Rupert Lowe Facebook group, half a million people in him at this point, right? That I found that it suggested too, me. I was like, oh, join. We've got an Anon battalion. Yeah, no, absolutely. We've got the Anon Battalion. It, like, the, the, the, the air war for Restore Britain is going very, very well. Very well. So I think journalists would have been aware of that for a while because journalists are overwhelmingly on X.

Of course.

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