Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotusaters for the 23rd of August, 2023. I am joined by Stelios.

Hello, of course I'm Josh and I'm very pleased to announce that Godfrey Bloom is here with us as well and just a little bit of background although I'm sure I'm probably going to miss some things

So I'm sorry in advance, but I think most people know you as an MEP or UKIP, but you are also an economist, I suppose, the military historian.

You worked in the financial world as well. Is there anything else? I've missed off. I always dislike introducing people. It feels very

productionistic, I suppose. Well, that's pretty close. I mean, the MEP stuff was a very small bit of my life.

I mean, I'm an old man now, 73.

I've done rather more than that, thank the Lord.

But yeah, that's pretty well, basically, yeah.

But my real background is a geopolitical military affairs and

and the city of London career though I had as an investment manager but that's the real

meat of it politics is of any sort really is a bit of a lark, isn't it?

Well, I mean, it's our living for us, but I would like it to be a lark if I could get to that point.

But today we're going to be talking about

the black ribbon day which is a I suppose a day of remembrance which is today

towards the the victims of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes with particular emphasis on Stalinism and

because this is probably going to go out on YouTube and

National Socialism because I can't say the other variant and

Stelios is going to be talking us through the Polish referendum on

immigration and then I'm going to be talking about Sadie Khan just outing himself

as being explicitly anti-white as far as I'm concerned

that there's no other way of reading it but let's I suppose get into the first segment

shall we so I wanted to this is actually something that Stelios drew my attention to, draw attention to Black Ribbon Day which is a day of remembrance within Europe for the victims of totalitarian and

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