Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday the 4th of August 2025. I'm joined by Alan Miller from the Together initiative. Hello, Alan. How you doing? Very good. Thank you. Thanks for having me here. Great. And Rupert Lowe MP for Great Yarmouth and social media troublemaker, Rupert. I've heard so many bad things about you. Well, don't forget Leader of Restore Britain. Oh, good point.

Very important.

The founder and leader of Restore Britain. Oh, good point.

Very important.

The founder and leader of Restore Britain, which to be honest with you, we've been promoting it quite heavily, so everyone already. You've been a great friend to us, and it's going very well. So we're delighted to say thanks, Raleigh, Hope. Wonderful. Well, I'm really glad to hear it because I think something needs to be done. We need a movement of as many people as possible who agree that we need radical change.

And the bigger the movement, the more powerful we become.

And we can then hopefully make common sense prevail because it certainly doesn't prevail at the moment.

We'd all rudely agree.

And we're going to cover the events of the weekend today, which have been as disappointing

as one might imagine. Obviously, people go out and rightfully have been protesting, and the

government's response has been right. Okay, these are terrorists. So we'll cover that shortly.

Before we do, the latest issue of Islander magazine is out.

Go and buy it.

It's amazing.

I've written an article.

There are a bunch of articles in there, actually.

They're all really good.

I read it over the weekend.

It was incredible, actually.

And I'm going to do a video on it.

But anyway, let's begin.

So, over the weekend, there were...

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