Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday the 7th of April 2025.

I'm John O'Ma Stelios and Steve and today we're going to be talking about what's happening in France after Le Pen was convicted.

Yeah, the aftermath.

The aftermath of it.

Why the British state is just openly promoting Islam at this point and how Glasgow decided to become a sanctuary city and that worked out so brilliantly.

No announcements today so let's just crack on.

Right, so about a week ago, Marie Le Pen was convicted under the charge of embezzling funds from the EU.

Now, she will not be able to run for the French presidency for 2027. She says she is going to appeal this decision, but looks like she is not going to be able to run.

And I'm not optimistic that the French judicial system is going to overturn the ruling.

Something tells me that they won't. Right. So she was fined with about a hundred thousand euros

and she's going to spend a thing about two years under house arrest. House arrest? I think so.

Shocking.

Yes.

Absolutely shocking.

As if she's some sort of danger to the public or something.

These are the reports I've read.

Yeah, no, no, I'm not, I'm not questioning whether that's correct or not.

I'm just disgusted by it.

Last week, Stephen did an excellent segment on the ruling.

It was the very day, I think it happened.

So it was the right moment for that segment to be released.

So definitely watch it.

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