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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #838

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

lotuseaters.com

Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Callum, Connor & Dan discuss Neo-Libs missing the point on immigration, why no one is dying for this, and why you can’t beat the Boomers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and today we're going to be

0:14.0

talking about the fact that you missed the point no one is dying for this and okay

0:17.9

boomer so that will be the thing I have no announcements to make so let's get into the news.

0:23.4

All right, so we're all very familiar with how the neoliberal view on immigration

0:27.4

treats people like fungible consumer units or economic integers and not the

0:31.1

bearers of civilization with various cultural prejudices that people have.

0:34.9

So I thought I'd just talk to you with how that particular regime is just going to roll on.

0:39.5

Well that'd be fun.

0:40.3

Yeah, immigration salience has kind of reached a fever pitch, but we're just going to keep pushing until they actually do something about it that be useful for once.

0:46.5

So here's the first thing that happened about a week or so ago.

0:50.0

The Treasury had told Rishi Sunak right ahead of him becoming Prime Minister

0:54.4

this in 2022 that they should boost immigration instead of cutting taxes.

0:59.2

Because that's worked wonderfully for bolstering economic growth, isn't it?

1:03.0

Well, I'm sure if you put that to, you know, a vote nationwide,

1:08.0

I'm sure everyone would choose the same thing.

1:10.0

Hmm, quite. Not like the Brexit referendum was about specifically lowering migration or anything.

1:15.2

This sort of logic doesn't shock me.

1:16.7

So when I went to Conservative Party Conference, there was a big think tank debate, and it was between

1:19.7

the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute for Economic Affairs, who will be mentioning

1:23.5

momentarily, policy exchange and centre for policy studies, and two of them were

1:27.8

four and two of them were against increasing immigration.

1:31.0

And the fellow from the Adam Smith Institute turned around and said

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