Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 1st of April 2025 and I don't have any April falls jokes for you.

I did consider it saying like, oh the podcast is cancelled but it just seemed a bit mean so I don't want to do that.

Stelios is staring at me in disappointment I think out there. He's given me a thumbs up actually, never mind.

So I'm joined by Bo and we're going to be talking about the awful state of Britain. There's some new stuff that's

made it even worse. If you can believe it, I know, it's difficult to believe. You're going to be

talking about how Douglas Carswell is moving the Overton window, which is interesting. He was a former MP, wasn't he?

Yeah, yeah.

He was in the Conservative Party, and then he defected to UKIP, didn't he?

Yeah, yeah.

If I remember rightly, off the top of my head.

Yeah, yeah.

It's interesting, you know, he's a plugged-in man.

And then I'm going to be talking about one of the greatest crimes against the understanding of human history, which has gone on rather quietly, in secret, some might say, in Australia.

And it's something that I feel very passionate about.

And I imagine by the end of it you're all going to feel very passionate about it as well, if I've done my job correctly.

I don't think we have any announcements, so I may as well get on with it.

So, Britain obviously is not doing very well.

I saw a poll recently that suggested that Britain was the second most miserable country in the world.

In the whole world?

Apparently so.

You know, you've got to take these things at face value.

But I think it's safe to say that most people in Britain know that we're not going in a good direction.

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