Winston Marshall
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891 appearances
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5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 13 May
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And I'd say in this country, the working classes, the ordinary people, they might not be able to articulate it with words, but they know what it is to be English. They know what it is to be British. And it's not an ethno thing. It's they understand the culture. They wouldn't be able to... to articulate it. They know it, they instill it, they have it instinctively.
Yeah, well, and I think that insofar... It's the high IQ, sort of middle class, upper class people who are trying to tear it down with words.
So what do they want? If you earn more than 30 grand a year, I think you're in the top 1% of the world.
Illustrating the perversion of this open society ideology that I've been trying to explore with you. That says it better than any example you could give.
Well, I mean, you mean that in the sense that that's not what left-wingers think of right-wingers.
Yeah, it's important to note that the Conservatives, particularly in this country, but I think across the West, have been part of that net zero programme. I once went on LBC, which is a radio show, and there was an MP from each party, including the Tories, and it was off topic. They suddenly went into net zero and everyone agreed. Yeah. I was like, what's going on here? I'd say for ARC...
The classic left was represented. You had Morris Glassman, a Lord Labour peer. You had Eric Weinstein, who he'd call himself a progressive. So it's not all the left, which is, I think, something that those who didn't go to ARC might assume it's some right-wing And I actually think that was one of the beautiful things is there are people who identify the same problems.
We might have different solutions to them. And I thought that that was a sort of wonderful thing that you got right. And maybe there's more room for those people there. But also in terms of this right-left-wing thing, and the way it's coded in low definition. I think one way of understanding Ark was a bit like Hayek's definition. Have you read his essay, Why I'm Not a Conservative? No, no.
And it's kind of, he has a paradigm where you have the sort of conservative definition progressive line. And then you have the liberals who are kind of like a thermometer who will align because they're more principle rather than temperament. They'll align with whichever side is less authoritarian or closer to their own principles.
So at the moment, the liberals, and you've said this quite a few times, the classical liberal types are aligning with the conservatives because it's the progressives and the left who have gone completely authoritarian. And I would lump in the open society ideologues in that bucket. And that seems to me what the new paradigm is, the new dichotomy.
That's the problem with the American system. That's right. The symbolic collapses into the president. Which is then why everyone loses their shit with Trump.
Our king has that problem, by the way.
Well, we had a general election last year. Sir Keir Starmer won with 20% of the electorate. He's not a popular prime minister, and he's only gone down in popularity. He won because the right was split, as you say, between reform UK and Nigel Farage, just sort of seen as a populist. And I think he would say to some, I think he's even said it on my show, to some extent he's a populist.
and Kemi Badenoch, who's got this impossible job where half the party have not learned the right lessons from the election. They think they lost because they went too far right, and then they gave seats away to the Dems, and then the other part of the... It seems obvious to me they lost because they lost their votes to Reform, who was on the right of them. So she's got this very difficult...
tasked to take a whole organization, which is itself split. It's not entirely clear to me that she has the authority even within it, because it's CCHQ. And she's got four and a half years to take them to an election where every time she says anything in parliament, Sukhir Starmer can say, you had 14 years, why don't you do anything? And likewise, she gets outflanked on her right.
So it's kind of a very difficult situation. Reform UK... I guess their problems are that they're storming up the polls, which is encouraging for them. Their problem is, can they get together enough people to get 300 or 400 candidates for the next election?
Qualified, exactly, which is extremely difficult. I mean, actually, technically, the Conservatives have the same problem, because I would say there's very little talent in their ranks in Parliament at the moment. So it's not entirely clear to me what will happen. And so anyone who has any predictions, it was so much, it's four years away, the next election. So it's having four weeks.
So calling what might happen is impossible. Some people say they might have to be some sort of deal. Maybe that's the case. Will, can she make it to the election? She's, I mean...
Is she smart enough though? So for example, Kamala Harris, some people have ridiculed her as being dumb. And if you listen to what she said through the lecture, you'd be like, maybe she's an idiot. But it might be that she wasn't actually that dumb. It was that she wasn't bright enough in that
She had so many different factions in trying to keep this whole operation going that she was censoring herself from losing the wrong people, whether it was the woke side of her party or the more conservative side of her party. She couldn't quite have the dialogue to pull it all together. If Babel plays this game that you're describing, And she risks losing people.
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