Hello and welcome to the podcast to the Lotus Eaters, Episode 1,248 for September 9th, 2025.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Beau and Firas.

Good to see you both.

And today we're going to be discussing the Reform's latest embarrassment, just the latest embarrassment to come out of reform.

We're then going to be talking about the fall of the French government again, and another one, and then we're going

to be talking about your patriotic duty to boycott bad businesses. So with that said, before

we get into the first segment, I'd just like to turn your attention to a magazine that you should all heard and presumably bought by now, which is Irelander magazine, but just in case you haven't, you're not going to be able to get issue for much longer, and if you do, you will be paying thousands upon thousands of pounds. You will have to take out a large loan

in order to afford Islander. So get it now for a very sensible price of 1499 plus shipping. And with that,

shall we discuss reform? So, it was Reform Party Conference last weekend.

Not the most eventful thing, to be honest with you.

We're very much at the point now, it seems, where we know what they're all about, right?

We know the flavour of party that we're getting from Reform, and the answer to that flavour is of course not a very impressive one.

But you have, it was certainly hyped up because Azia Yusuf says here, as Prime Minister,

Nigel will assemble galactic level talent in the first reform cabinet, many of whom won't be MPs.

The era of the likes of Miliband, Hancock and Reeves,

making the most important decisions in the land, will be over.

We need the best, including from outside politics.

So we're obviously looking at an American style system here.

I think more importantly than that, if you have this talent ready to serve you,

why not run them for Parliament anyway?

Well, that's a good question as well.

If you've got this pool of talent,

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