Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seats for Monday the 29th of September 2025. I'm joined by Ferris and Ben Habib of the Advance UK Party. And today, it's Monday, but it's also a very good day because labour is completely falling apart. Everything's going really, really bad for them. They're getting screwed on every front. And to be honest with you, I'm here for it. I don't know about you, Ben. You know, you might be a big, big labor

supporter, but I'm glad to see that. Do I look like a labor supporter? Not from this angle,

no. I'm glad to see them actually getting hammered on every front. And, but before we begin, you, Advance had their big announcement conference this week.

Yeah, so we launched, officially launched yesterday.

We had a soft launch in June when we revealed the existence of the party,

but we imposed a hurdle on ourselves with 30,000 members

before we would apply to the electoral commission

to become an actual registered political party.

And once we had that 30,000 figure in our sites, I thought we'll organize a launch, which

we had in Newcastle yesterday.

It was very successful.

We had some headwinds last week when the hotel

we'd booked suddenly discovered that they didn't like the cut of our jib and they cancelled us.

So we had some last minute headaches, but we got a fantastic venue in a restaurant that was

obviously prepared to align itself with those that are now deemed far right,

if they hold any view other than a far left one.

And anyway, we had a very successful launch yesterday.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Well, I'm glad to hear that, because Labor didn't.

Labor are currently going through their party conference.

And I mean, we won't watch it.

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