Hi, folks. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eitos for Wednesday the 20th of May, 26. I'm

John Mostelius and Elizabeth Haverin. Thank you for joining us. And today we're going to be

talking about how the British public are wrong about everything. And I'm tired of this being a kind of

attack on us, because I'm not surprised, given the way things are. They don't really know how

things are working. Why loneliness is rising in the UK and the scouring of the Shire, which is something that

desperately needs to happen.

Anyway, right, so let's begin.

So, you may remember this quite famous article from 2013 that's just titled British Public, Wrong About Nearly

Everything, Survey Shows. And obviously, with a title like that, I mean, that's pretty hilarious.

But actually, what it shows is how deceptive the world around us actually is. When you walk out of

your house in real life, you're like, oh my God, how has this happened?

And then when you look at the media, when you look at the statistics, when you look at the things

the government's concerned about, or the things you are and are not allowed to talk about,

you realize, well, no wonder they would think that the world is actually different to how it

actually is, because they're essentially being systematically deceived.

So from this, this was in 2013, a poll by Ipsos Mori, of a phone survey of 1,000 people.

And the numbers are just remarkable, actually.

People just really don't know how far away from them our own country and the government has gotten.

So, for example, the public think the benefit fraud is 24 out of every hundred pounds,

which is 10 times more than it actually is, about two every hundred pounds.

Now, that's obviously too high, according to the

government's own figures. But that's, why do they think that? Well, it's because it's put in

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