Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Thursday, the 5th of March.

God, it's the 5th of March already.

2026. I'm joined by Lucy White and Ferris.

And today we're going to be talking about the right-wing Oscars because the state of hate from Hope Not Hate has just dropped.

Who's in it? Well, we'll find out who gets the prizes.

We're going to be talking about how Nigel Farage is literally constructing the UK's Uniparty for some reason. No one can quite

explain why, but he's hell bent on doing it. And then we're going to be talking about just

how bad halal slaughter, non-starred slaughter generally actually. And the case for why it really should be banned.

But right, so let's just crack on. So every year, there is an exciting moment when Hope Not Hate

drop their famous state of hate report. Now, I'm not actually sure who actually reads this.

They think that it's parliamentarians and sort of Westminster bubble

types. But honestly, why would they bother? It's just, here's everyone on the right wing,

and we think they're racist. Yeah, we know. I think the objective is to get these people banned

by saying that in the same way that the Southern Poverty Law Center or the ADL

will say that you are a radical extremist, therefore you should be on person, de-platform, da-da-da-da.

Oh, he's been featured and hope not hate. You should ban him. Exactly. That's the actual aim here.

But the problem that they have is it's literally the boy who cried wolf. Right. That's the actual aim here. But the problem that they have is it's literally the boy who cried a wolf. Right. It's you, you cast a wide enough net. You keep fooling people in saying, oh, this person, this person. And you've got to a point now where it's like, well, we would have to ban hundreds of different politicians and about three different political parties, hope not hate got their

way, which is obviously not going to happen. Which is exactly what they would want.

Precisely what they would want to ban everybody except the Greens, right?

No, no, they're a Labour organ. They're a Labour party organ. Well, Labour is...

Morally, they agree with the Greens. Shabana Mahmoud is a Nazi, I've been told.

Doubtless, they think that. But morally, they agree with the Greens. Shabara Mahmoud is a Nazi, I've been told. Doubtless, they think that. But morally, they agree with, you know, the Greens, but Labour are practically the realistic solution and probably their funders. So, anyway, here's the state of hate. And I thought we'd go through it. We've got the full PDF here, in fact. What a great cover.

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