Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, Episode 1440 for Monday, the 15th of June

2026. I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Carl and Thirass.

Hello, look.

And today we're going to be talking all about why Maker Field will change everything.

We're then going to be talking about the establishment's constant barrage of attacks on Restore Britain.

It's almost like we're a threat to them or something. I don't know.

That's just 1%.

Terminally online.

And then we're going to be talking about Labour going for the under 16 social media ban.

So a lot of good things to be, important things to be discussing.

So shall we begin?

We will, I suppose, start with the fact that I've obviously, for those of you who've seen

the coverage, I've been up in Makerfield since Wednesday.

I got in back to somewhere about midnight last night.

So it's been a long time and it's

been, you know, it's been wonderful. It's been a real privilege to be there on the ground besides

the local people, besides canvassers and just all of the people who turned up. And I just like to

preface all of this by saying, you know, those that I spent some time with, that I shook your

hand, had the conversation with, you know, those that I spent some time with, that I shook your hand,

had the conversation with, you know, heard your story of where you'd traveled from, and it's all,

it was all very, very inspiring. And I've come away from it with a profound experience. And the

whole thing was very, very wonderful. So thank you for your part in all of that. So I suppose an assessment is in order for how I found it up there,

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