Transcript
A (0:00)
Foreign.
B (0:08)
Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. Hope you're doing well. We are two days from Christmas and we are recording. Probably it might be the final PMQs before. Before the end of the year. We might do another one. We will see. I've got your boy Connor, the radical here. How you doing, boy?
A (0:26)
You're out, Piers.
B (0:33)
You're out of water. That's my son. I love him. We've had a week. We've had a very interesting week. A lot of debates in the McCormack household. Everything from. Well, we made a show with Carl Benjamin where I got smoked. I got smoked in the comments. We've also been debating that, been debating race. We've been debating revolutions, constitutions, the state of the country. We even had a debate over AI and how it should be used in school. It's been a busy week, but we've been thinking long and hard this week, right?
A (1:14)
Talk a lot, don't we, about everything.
B (1:18)
I rant a lot.
A (1:20)
But we do.
B (1:23)
We don't just make this show and then go home and watch football. We sit in the car and debate every show we make. We debate the topics hard. We spent a lot of time thinking about this Carl Benjamin show and what the implications are. I've actually written an article which I may publish today, where I call the race war scam, which is definitely going to trigger some people. But we talk about this a lot. We think about this deeply. We think about the things that happen in our country and the impact it has on everyone. And so this show today is going to follow a little bit from the last one where I talked about no longer consent because I have been going down various rabbit holes. I've been reading a lot, thinking a lot about the role of government and the role of the electorate. The. The role of the electorate, the relationship between the two, how it works. I've been reading a lot about US History, how they declared their independence, how they wrote the Constitution, how they wrote their Bill of Rights, the debates between the federalists, the anti federalists. Because I think a lot about the state of the country right now. My overriding thought, which I keep coming back to you and if you follow me on Twitter, you'll keep seeing me say this or reply to people, is that this country doesn't work anymore. I think it's fundamentally broken and I don't think we can vote our way out of it. And so I'm going to take you on a journey. I'm taking you on my journey. What I'm doing. And look, I'm not a professor. I'm not constitutional lawyer, I'm not a constitutional historian. I am just a guy with a son who lives in this country who is trying to build a future for myself and the retirement, really, and a future for my kids, but cares deeply about other people in this country. The people who work for me, my friends, my family, people who live in my town. People live in towns up and down the country and what they're facing. And I feel like right now we have a country which is kind of depressed in that everywhere I go and I speak to people. I went to the football the other day and I always see people I know at the football. I ask them how they are, how things are going. And the same messages come back, is that everything is really expensive and work is really hard. And I've kind of come to this point whereby I start throwing questions back at each other and I'm like, are your living standards improving under this government? And they always say no. And I say, do you believe under this government in their full term, your living standards will improve? The answer's always no. And then I ask, do you think the next party, whoever wins the next election, whether Labour somehow, somehow were idiots enough to revote them back in, or whether it's reform or the Green Party, do you. Do you think under the next government your living standards will improve? And again, it's no.