If you were driving around London in the 90s there was a very good chance that if you would turn your radio dial just a few millimetres too much you would open a portal to an underground illegal world of pirate radio. JimmytheGiant podcast: Britain’s Evil War Against Pirate Radio
‘The pirates are a menace, and I don’t believe at all that the public wouldn’t support action to enforce the law.’ ibid. Tony Benn
There was a loophole: international waters. ibid.
A lot of the fear of radio simply comes down to infuence. ibid.
The mid-1980s and you’ll find something strange going on: the rooftops were bustling with a new kind of criminal activity. ibid.
This small faction of society has been seen as one of the most controversial subculture in all of Europe – the football hooligan. JimmytheGiant podcast: Britain’s Most Hated Subculture
The first recorded incidence of football hooliganism was 1885. ibid.
From the decaying ashes of the Chav in the early to mid 2010s a brand-new subculture was emerging, one that was much more violent, much more organised, and much more controversial … leading to laws being passed banning the music they held sacred: UK Drill. Today we will explore the roadmap subculture. JimmytheGiant podcast: The Subculture England Banned
Grime was a genre of music in the UK that evolved from electronic genre of garage. ibid.
2014: The second coming of Grime. ibid.
This is where things start to get dark. ibid.
In 2014 to 2017 UK Drill was really blowing up. ibid.
Five rappers from the group 10/11 were banned from making music. ibid.
Why does it sometimes feel wrong to what people do good things? … Would you still be doing these nice acts if the cameras weren’t rolling? JimmytheGiant podcast: The Dark Side of Charity Youtubers
Mr Beast: His video giving a random homeless person $10,000. ibid.
This growing idea that the government is too big and too restrictive. And there’s no clearer example of this than Elon Musk’s Doge Department, leading to a revolution of sorts with dudes with bad haircuts holding chainsaws coming to free the handcuffs of government bureaucracy from the people. However, is this concept really new? JimmytheGiant podcast: How the Elite Engineered Britain’s Collapse (And Blamed You), Youtube 2025
Oh yeah, loads of cuts to social welfare spending … This ideology is known as neoliberalism. ibid.
Government debt continued to rise because they needed to borrow in order to allow for major tax cuts for the rich. ibid.
Neoliberalism – this ideology which was ignited by Nixon, exploded under Thatcher and Reagan, and then accelerated under Blair and Bush – had led to this zombified mantra of deregulation, selling off of state assets to private individuals, and massively cutting welfare spending. ibid.
The UK and the United States bailed out the banks to the tune of £500 billion, with a guarantee of £1 trillion. That is taxpayer money, our money, paying to keep banks alive. Also known as Socialism for the Rich. ibid.
We launched our very own DOGE department, or as well call it, Austerity. Austerity was being euphemistically sold to as as, Fixing the Roof While the Sun is Shining. ibid.
The entire Theory of Austerity was built on incorrect maths. ibid.
Even our refugee system is privatized. ibid.
This wasn’t like sustainable real economic growth, this was wealth extraction from the ordinary people and the state into the hands of the ultra-wealthy. And so our whole economy, everything, our public services, everything, got shitter and shitter but more expensive. ibid.
This is the Big Scam. ibid.
Elon Musk’s journey into politics – and all of this has been sold as Elon Musk being the defender of free speech, the saviour of Western civilisation, and the killer of the woke-mind virus. JimmytheGiant: Elon Musk’s Evil Plan for Britain
‘The Reform Party needs a new leader. Farage doesn’t have what it takes.’ ibid. Musk tweet 5th January 2025
We’re going to go deep – Elon Musk’s dark plan for Britain. ibid.
Beyond all of this shape-shifting there is a side of Nigel that he doesn’t really sing about a lot. And that is about who he is. ibid.
What is Elon’s move into politics for? Like, what is he planning to do? What is his end game? ibid.
Look at Elon Musk’s history of union bashing. ibid.
‘We believe in family, country and strong borders.’ ibid. Farage
Foreign influence and wealthy donors with questionable motives have wormed their way into influence in British politics. ibid.
These private donors dwarf the trade unions. ibid.
Just an oligarch who owns a social media platform. ibid.
From the 90s onwards there was this endless barrage of TV shows, films, newspaper articles, obsessed with that was being dubbed ‘the benefit scrounger’. JimmytheGiant podcast: Britain’s War on ‘Benefit Scroungers’
Poor people didn’t just randomly appear when Jeremy Kyle decided to slag them off on prime-time TV. ibid.
The Poor Law 1834: it actually made a legal distinction between the deserving and the undeserving poor. ibid.
They glossed over the fact that in 2008 the largest financial crash since the Great Depression happened. ibid.
We just kind of created a new normal of an underfunded welfare state. ibid.
Many economists these days believe Austerity is a completely flawed concept. ibid.
Is there any truth to the ‘benefit scrounger’ stereotype? ibid.
Less opportunities and less prospects in life. ibid.
The evidence that welfare states have been a success in the western world is just undeniable. ibid.
‘A very large number are not getting benefits to which they are entitled to.’ ibid. Tom White, local director of social services
In the UK right now our prison system is literally bursting at the seams … Britain’s prison industrial complex. JimmytheGiant podcast: Why Britain’s Prisons Are On the Verge of Collapse
British attitudes towards crime are fundametally based in the ideology of Victorian Christianity. ibid.
Women and the children were being put in the same prisons as violent men. ibid.
What is the actual purpose of prison? ibid.
‘And when this place does go off, the roof will go.’ ibid. Strangeways prisoner
Private prisons are 42% more dangerous than public prisons … Private prisons create a conflict of interests. ibid.
But we were pretty soft on the causes of crime. ibid.
Norway has one of the lowest rates of incarceration in the entire world. ibid.