Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1,198 on this Tuesday the 1st of July. I'm joined by Stephen. Good afternoon. Charlie. Charlie's coming from his big, important mission. Indeed, yes. Tell us about the big important mission, which is going to be very good. Thank you to Jamie for sending us this Trump the Ball game. Oh, superb. Have you not had that before? I mean, I had a couple of boxes, you know. Did you go? Yeah, yeah, no. That's it, you know. It's $3.99 off eBay. I'm not going to thank, Jamie, for including in it, for me in particular, a copy of Gary Stevenson's book. Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah. You've gone from, you've gone from zero to hero to back to zero again, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gary Stevenson.. So how are you chaps? Very well. Very well. It's a little bit warm, isn't it? It is. Yeah. You know, I used to love summer, but ever since I've had to start wearing suits on a regular basis is hell. But you obviously didn't get the memo that you've got to come in green today. Apparently not. Yeah, I'm not very in sync. That's right. It's not as bad here as it used to be. Was it last year or the year before we moved into this studio? But the first summer we were here, we moved in on basically the hottest day of the year. And the air conditioning wasn't working. I mean, the building management kept insisting that the air conditioning was working. I don't know what it was working on. A new translation of Beowulf, maybe, or Fermat's last theorem, but it wasn't working on producing cold heat. And these things, when we first got them, we had them cranked up to full power, and they were basically, like, whatever it was, 15 little radiators. You came out with like a bit of a suntan after the first day of podcast.

Oh, the back and the head, didn't you?

Yeah, black and white podcast.

Yeah, like you've been standing the wrong way when Hiroshima dropped or something.

Yeah, so, but apart from that, I think we're, I think we're probably all set.

You're taking us with the first one, Charlie.

Okay, yes.

So, gentlemen, Britain is in decline, and the right-wing political landscape is in chaos.

The Conservative Party is in a tailspin, and Reform UK is stumbling from one error to the next.

The British people are crying out for leadership, and there's a yawning gap in the market

for a serious, authentic vehicle around which the country's conservative-minded majority

can rally, organise and exert influence. Many have tried to fill this gap, but many have

failed because of a variety of reasons including mediocre ideas, mediocre personnel. But now,

I am pleased to announce that alongside Rupert Lowe, I'm working with others on Restore Britain, which is the answer to this problem.

It is our vehicle for is our centre of gravity for all of the sound people and all the people

worth listening to on the British political landscape. And every person who is concerned about the future of this country and its present trajectory

in terms of politics, economics, culture and society in general.

We are not a party, we are in movement.

We're some combination of a pressure group, a think tank and a mass movement.

And we don't endorse any parties, we don't endorse any personalities. We exist purely to act as a mouthpiece for ordinary British people who are concerned

about the way this country has been governed for the better part of 30 years.

So our objectives are as follows. The first and foremost is, as I've said,

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