Starmer Implodes as Nigel Farage Destroys the Tories | The Culture War's Across the Pond
The Culture War Podcast with Tim Pool
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4.3 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Across the Pond is BACK! Tate and Connor return for 2026 to break down the latest high-profile defections to Reform UK, what it signals about the collapse of Britain's political center, and why Rupert Lowe current moves are completely reshaping the Right. They also dig into Keir Starmer's ongoing implosion, the leadership vacuum in Labour, and the growing sense that the UK establishment has lost control.
Across the Atlantic, they react to the chaos unfolding in Minneapolis, examining how media and political elites are scrambling to assign blame, including the bizarre rush to scapegoat "Karens", while avoiding serious discussion of immigration policy, enforcement, and public safety
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| 0:00.7 | What is going on, everybody? We are back. Across the Pond is back for the great year of |
| 0:06.1 | 2026. I don't know about you, Connor. I have a really good feeling about 2026. I think this is going |
| 0:10.4 | to be the year of the Patriot. You know, it seems like spirits are high. The edits have never been |
| 0:16.4 | better, in my opinion. Some of the posters are now firing on all cylinders. I've seen some |
| 0:20.6 | great posts coming into 2026, but it's been like, probably like a month. better, in my opinion. Some of the posters are now firing on all cylinders. I've seen some great |
| 0:20.9 | posts coming into 2026. But it's been like, probably like a month since we've been on camera |
| 0:26.7 | together. What's going on? Give me some updates. What's going on in the world of Connor? |
| 0:31.7 | Well, nothing too joyous to report personally. I am not as optimistic as you about 2026 being the year of the Patriot, but that's because we're currently abolishing jury trials over in the UK, potentially banning X unless President Trump steps in as the likes of Sarah Rogers has threatened to do. And I thought that 2026 was going to be mild but also wild until yesterday. |
| 0:58.0 | And the opposition party, the Conservative Party, finally decided it wanted to achieve zero seats and speed run towards electoral obsolescence because a bunch of contingency plans of money power just came crashing down all at once. |
| 1:12.4 | And the presumptive guy that would take over the Yoruba Girl Boss, who's currently leading |
| 1:19.2 | the Conservative Party, Kimmy Badenock, as the leader, decided to jump ship to Nigel Farage's |
| 1:23.1 | Reform UK and position himself as the JD Vance to Farage's Trump. |
| 1:30.3 | Everything just turned overnight. So I, my cynicism is not necessarily vindicated. It turns out 2026 is going to be more fun than I thought. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah, yeah. We were coming in and, you know, I think everyone was just expecting to reform to |
| 1:40.2 | continue trudging along. I don't think anyone anticipated, well, maybe some of Patriots |
| 1:45.3 | in the know anticipated, but Ruper Lowe is completely dropping a nuclear bomb on the entire |
| 1:49.2 | political right zeitgeist. This was yesterday. Can you break down maybe the too long didn't |
| 1:54.6 | read of what exactly went down yesterday, especially because Twitter is down. So I think a lot of |
| 1:59.3 | people have missed quite a bit of the action over the last 24 hours. That's why everyone's attention span has |
| 2:05.5 | lengthened and their mood has improved. I'm going to assume something in the air. So at the start |
| 2:10.1 | of the week, Reform UK took in Nidim Zahawi. It's a name that's not going to mean much to |
| 2:15.9 | those in America. but he came to the |
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