Dr David Starkey

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TRIGGERnometry · The British State Hates its Own People - Dr David Starkey · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

And dustbin collecting is much harder and much heavier and much more unpleasant work than sitting around, you know, serving slop to schoolchildren.

And therefore, they're paid more.

And the argument was put to the judges, well, actually, the two jobs are really equivalent.

That demands, that demands, and Lide, the dreadful firm of solicitors who have been responsible for pursuing so many of these absurd actions said, well, what that demonstrates is the market rate is not a defense.

Can we just say this again?

The market, if you as an employer pay the market rate for a job, that is not a defense against a judge saying that's wrong.

That is guaranteed to bankrupt any company, and it has already bankrupted Birmingham, and it is going to bankrupt next.

It is insane.

And in other words, what I think is really striking about this

This is why suddenly Jack Straw, having introduced all of this stuff, is saying, ooh, um, er, I think it's possibly gone a little bit far.

And what we've got ourselves into is a situation in which you can actually, that wonderful phrase, you know I'm quite fond of the Bible, although I don't believe in God, but that wonderful phrase, by their fruits ye shall know them.

You can judge things by their consequences.

We can see what the consequences of this sort of thing have been, and they're all bad.

Let's take another interesting example, English nature, which has been in the news an awful lot recently.

This thing costing whatever it is, two billion a year or more to run, what has it done?

It is responsible, in its most recent manifestation, for saying, wouldn't it be a terribly good thing to kill the ponies on Dartmouth?

Because we believe in going back to some notion of, isn't it odd?

We are not allowed to have an indigenous population, but we're allowed to have indigenous flora and fauna.

Isn't it really odd?

The notion that the natural inhabitants of this island is perfectly acceptable if you're talking about buttercups, but really isn't acceptable if you're talking about human beings.

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