521. Reform, R*pe Gangs and the Rot of the UK | Matthew Goodwin
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What is the elite class imposing on society?
What we've been living through is an elite class imposing policies on everybody else, the consequences of which they are not going to have to endure.
A trillion dollar cost net zero plan was passed through Westminster with 20 minutes of debate.
Mass uncontrolled immigration has fundamentally weakened Great Britain. Boris Johnson did the opposite of what he promised voters he would do.
You want to just describe what you see as the reality of the rape gang situation in the UK?
Everyone around the world has heard of George Floyd. Nobody's heard those names. These are girls who were murdered when they were 12, 13, 14 years of age. Not a single police officer, social worker, council official, member of parliament has had any serious consequences for turning a blind eye to this.
Thank you.
Hello, everybody. I was pleased to sit down today with Dr. Matthew Goodwin. Dr. Goodwin was a professor of political science in the UK, but he's turned his attention in recent years to developing a more public presence on the political front. He didn't really believe that it was appropriate for him to be engaging in political action as a professor, but he also got, let's say, sick and tired of working for the increasingly woke university. And So we started our conversation with a discussion of the pathologies of modern academia and tried to analyze exactly why the institutions had become so hidebound and ideologically rigid and punitive, and also investigated whether there was anything that might be done about that apart from, say, making new institutions. I can't say we came to a particularly optimistic conclusion.
And then we turned our attention to the unit party in the UK, the strange co-option, let's say, of both the Conservative and the Labour Party into this woke, utopian, green idealism that characterizes so much of modern politicking. And talked through as well the rise of the Reform Party in the UK as an antidote to the top-down elitism, let's say, the destructive top-down deindustrialization elitism that characterizes the attitudes of the political class in the UK. We also discussed the relationship between the policies and philosophies of this new emergent Reform Party We compared and contrasted them with the political attitude that's emerged in the United States under Trump, collaborating, let's say, with Elon Musk and the rest of the Trump Avengers.
as well the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is a group that I helped found in the UK that was designed to produce a philosophical alternative to the machinations, let's say, of the WEF, Davos, and UN crowd. So join us for that. Matt, maybe you could start by letting the viewers and listeners, especially those who aren't in the UK, know who you are.
Yeah, sure. Well, I'm a recovering academic. I was a professor of political science since 2015. I was a university academic for 20 years. And over the last year, I've basically moved more into the public debate into political campaigning, having left the universities. But in terms of my background, I've also worked, I've been seconded to government departments. I've advised various prime ministers and presidents here in Europe about political issues. But now, to be frank, I've become so concerned about the state of my country that I've entered the public debate in a much more political way.
Okay, well, let's start with your university background then. What university were you at last?
I was at the University of Kent, having previously gone through the universities of Bath, Nottingham and Manchester here in the UK.
Okay, and so what was it that apart from the dismal state of your country, let's say, which I think you share with my home country, Canada, what was it about academia and maybe even more specifically about your sojourn as a professor in political science that disenchanted you with academia?
I think essentially what I saw over the last 20 years was higher education in this country, much like in North America, completely lose its way. It increasingly lost touch with the original mission of higher education. The universities I was working at were no longer really interested in the pursuit of truth.
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