The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #855

Narinder Kaur joins Carl to discuss whether we should be disgusted to be British, why people hate Harry and Meghan, and why we have to pay for immigrant benefits.

Find Narinder Kaur's Twitter account here.

Reading List

• Disgusted to Be British

  • Katherine Hamnett - Wikipedia  

  • Famous for making block letter activism shirts - CDN 

  • Pro-refugee shirt for a nonprofit - CDN 

  • Putting her CBE in the rubbish wearing a shirt which says “Disgusted to be British” - Selemereturner - X 

  • Why hasn’t she been told to go back to Pakistan? - Narinder Kaur - X 

  • Disproportionately foreign protesters at the Palestine protests - Sky News 

• Why Do People Hate Harry and Meghan?

  • Piers posted this monologue - Piers Uncensored - X 

  • Narinder’s take - Narinder Kaur - X 

  • Markle has queen bee syndrome - Reel Rundown - X 

• Why Do We Have to Pay for This?

  • Huge amount of economically inactive migrants - GB News - X 

  • Cost of regular migration - Migration Observatory - X 

  • Illegals costing £3bn a year - .gov 

  • 23.4bn spent on social housing. - New Statesman - X  

  • 50% of social housing in London is immigrants, 25% nationally - Migration Watch

  • Migrants twice as likely to be unemployed - The Migration Observatory - X 

  • Muslims in particular - Office for National Statistics 

  • Allegedly positive contributions - UCL

  • Hard to believe - Office for National Statistics 

  • Birmingham demographics - Office for National Statistics - X 

  • UK in recession - Reuters -