Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus

Seaters for Friday the 7th of February 2025. It's Friday, so the best day of the week.

I'm joined by Stelios and Rafe Manku. Sorry, how do I pronounce your name?

Rafe Hidal Manku.

Rafe Hidal Manku. I'm really sorry. I'm terrible with names. I can barely speak English.

This is a microaggression number one.

Yes, it is.

Anyway, today we're going to be talking about how reform are looking inevitable and the

difference between governments that will do something and won't do something and just want

to manage the decline and how finally Britain might actually start taking nuclear power seriously.

A drum I've been banging for quite some time, but honestly I'm just so frustrated by the radical activism that surrounds energy production

that it's just one of those things that finally we're going to get the Gordian knot cut.

Anyway, right, let's begin. So,

seven months ago, I made a video saying, look, Nigel Farage may well end up as prime

minister of this country. Whether you like him or loathe him, it looks like there is a lot of

energy behind him, and he is playing a wise game, actually, in what he's doing,

again, whether you agree with them or not.

And this seems to be paying off.

And the more time passes, the more it looks like the prediction in this video,

I try not to make predictions, but you can't help it sometimes,

the prediction in this video is going to come to pass because only a few weeks ago, the end of January,

Labour were barely in the lead in various polls in the UK, and then reform started coming ahead. And again, this is January the 30th coming ahead in polls

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