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008 Britain Unfiltered: Grooming Gangs, Political Cover-Ups, and the State of the Nation

• Jo Day / Natasha Shingles • Season 1 • Episode 8

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Welcome back to Life’s a SHITSHOW. It’s Jo here, still surviving another week and, miraculously, still sober (unlike Tasha, who’s already necked a glass of red beofre we went live). This week’s episode is an absolute rollercoaster—British town centres circling the drain, politicians gaslighting us at every turn, and news stories so grim you genuinely wonder how anyone’s supposed to keep their head above water in this country. It’s the kind of week that makes you want to scream into the void, pour a drink (or three), and ask: how the hell did we end up here?

Episode Summary

We kick off with your comments and a quick roast of British town centres, then dive straight into the chaos: grooming gang inquiries, digital ID hysteria, and the utter shambles of our political class. We fact-check viral NHS fraud claims, break down shocking conviction numbers, and call out the incompetence from Labour, Tories, the Met Police, and Sadiq Khan, no one gets a free pass. We also tackle laughable sentencing for sex offenders, the madness of social media “crimes,” and the racism that gets brushed aside until someone’s Twitter gets “hacked.” 

Key Takeaways

  • Don’t believe everything you read in the news. We fact-checked the NHS fraud story—turns out, the truth is a bit more complicated than the headlines suggest.
  • The grooming gang inquiry is a national disgrace. Survivors are quitting the panel because they’re being silenced, and the same institutions that failed them are now “investigating” themselves. It’s like asking the fox to look after the chickens.
  • Race and religion are being used as shields. If you call everything racist, you water down the meaning of the word and let real criminals slip through the cracks.
  • Sentencing for sexual offences is a joke. Four counts of sexual assault gets you 12 months, but a tweet can land you 31. Priorities, anyone?
  • No one in power is clean. Labour, Tories, Met Police, Sadiq Khan—they’re all implicated in one way or another. If you’re still trusting politicians, you’re braver than me.
  • British humour is alive and well. Shoutout to the Aldi worker who labelled Keir Starmer a “wanker” on the price tag. Doing the Lord’s work, mate.

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Life's a SHITSHOW EP08

Jo: [00:00:00] Hello everybody

Jo: happy Friday Happy Friday, another week sober. Cheers. 

Tasha: I've already had a glass of red wine tonight. I'm only allowed one, right? I'm really sorry guys. I saw a glass, 

Jo: a mug 

Tasha: that it's a Star Wars cup. I've never even watched the film. I just I've got a special guest tonight that is my daughter's dog, Benji.

Tasha: And anyone who has a Staffie will know what a pain in the ass. An attention seeker. Attention seeking breed. They are. Ben, can you lay down please? 'cause we've got an audience and everything. Come lay down. Come on. I like my daughters because my wifi is a bit dodge, so yeah, this should be fun. 

Jo: Yeah. So shall we crack on then?

Jo: 'cause we've got a ton to get through. There's been a lot happening in the news this week. There 

Tasha: has been a lot. Where do we start Joe? 

Jo: Let's start with the comments section, shall we? 

Tasha: I had a little scroll through. I've been very busy this week, so I've not had a lot of time to be having a good look [00:01:00] through.

Tasha: But I did have a quick scroll through our shorts and I saw a video that had 26,000 views and I thought, oh no, it's gonna be one where we were swearing, or it's gonna be one where we were talking about politics. I was like, oh, no. It was about 20 seconds of Joe having a moan about her train. Fair. Yeah. 

Tasha: So fucking random.

Tasha: And there was 27 comments on it. I'm just like, see, you cannot predict what people want to away. No, you cannot predict. 

Jo: Yeah. So I think we've talked about a lot more interesting things than like my 1499 flight that I was used to telling fibs about. So just because I'm an anal twat, right Before we came on tonight at 1925, I thought I'd just test the theory and I've grabbed a couple of screenshots through the Ryanair app [00:02:00] and you can clearly see a flight from Lanzarote

Jo: It's 1499, get in my basket. I put it in my basket there. 1499. This is your rose, not even pounds. So about 13 quid. And then I continued through the process, return flight back to Lanzarote, which is 14 point 99 on the 18th. I think it was the 18th, no, 17th of November. My cost, say 

Tasha: I challenge anyone to find a train from Stoke to London for 14 quid, 

Jo: 1499.

Jo: And the comments were why the hell would you want go London? It's not even like a nice place. I know it's a shit hole. It's a shit hole. But it happens to be where Tash lives. That's why I was looking. 

Tasha: Can I just say, actually, I'm in Hartford Shire. Which is just on the [00:03:00] outskirts. I am in a shithole part of Hartford Shire, but that's not the point.

Tasha: It's Hartford Shire and we took Copper down here. 

Jo: Yeah, I'm originally from Stoke, but I left eight years ago. Seven and a half years ago I left and I got out because I believe Stoke contract is a bit of a shit. There'll be people in parliament, in government saying, stop talking down the country.

Jo: Stop.

Jo: Are you allowed to talk 

Tasha: down the bit through It's 

Jo: gray, it's miserable. Yeah. All the high streets are closing down the places an actual shithole. And I'd rather live in new 

Tasha: True story. Do you know what Our Town Center has? And I'm not joking when I say this. It has Oh, fleet shops? It has more than one of, so I'm only gonna, I'm only gonna tell you what it has more than one of book is charity shops banks, which is ironic because none of us got any fucking money in this [00:04:00] town.

Tasha: The rent is extortion and like foreign food shops. Yeah, don't get me wrong, that's no problem with the foreign food shops beats Asda. But yeah, it's just all charity shops and bookies and chemists. Because of all the methadone. 

Jo: Same in, it's same in Stove contract. The main town center is called Hanley.

Jo: I visited there when I was back in the UK back in August and just didn't recognize, it's such a shame. It used to be a lovely town center with a big shopping center. 

Tasha: Yeah. See? Never recovered 

Jo: from COVID. And it's the same. I've only been 

Tasha: nice. I've only been to the nice posh parts of Stoke. 'cause all you like big houses is

Jo: I recreated when we went back it was Florence, first time in the uk and first time I was showing him where 

Tasha: And you took him to state on 

Jo: wait. Took him to the pound shop and I recreated that Catherine Tate scene with Nan, how'd you go in? And she says, how much is it? [00:05:00] Is pound? How much is everything's a pound?

Jo: He'd like.

Jo: Is this real? No. Say like with toothpaste. How much is this Flory? It's a pound. We actually bought this. How much is this? It's a pound. Everything's a pound, guys. I just say other brands are 

Tasha: available. 

Jo: Yeah. No, I think we add that from Boots. Actually, 

Tasha: that wasn't 

Jo: like Tash. What else? So we did that, right?

Jo: There was, is that the only comment we wanna cover? Just the, 

Tasha: well, to be fair, it was just a lot of people agreeing that, yeah, saying I don't use, I don't use the rail system. The government want us to use public transport, but we don't because it's so expensive. Somebody, a couple of people were saying the train companies have to maintain 20,000 miles or whatever it was of track.

Tasha: Yeah. But other countries do this [00:06:00] too. In Europe, they have to maintain the same, they don't charge the way we charge here. Yeah. Let's not pretend that this is not about profits and shareholders. Come on. 

Jo: Yeah, 

Tasha: let's not have that. Alex, 

Jo: the point I was making really is I'm flying over to the UK on Sunday, which is like half to began today.

Jo: Yeah. Instant. 

Tasha: So I'm finally, yeah. He must have done, because I had all the grandkids at mine today. 

Jo: Yeah. Half to with my grandson because he broke his ankle a couple of weeks ago. And he's not allowed to do any sports or games. So going over keep him entertained and play board games and stuff with him.

Jo: And because of my passport situation, I explained in a previous episode, I'm not gonna go into that again. I might have to stay a little bit longer. Now. The cost of me to get to the UK this week was 467 pounds return. That's why I was astonished at the 1499 [00:07:00] price and it was because it was off term. And that's what's annoyed me more than anything.

Jo: I was, it was just a bit of a fluke that we were talking about bloody rail fair. But my main thing is how they are penalizing parents and families into term, in term time, people who wanna take kids on holiday in term time. And the bumping the prices are absolutely extortion prices during school holidays.

Jo: And I know it's, I know it's supply demand and the more bloody demand there is to push the price up. I get it. I do. But it should be cut and it should be a lot fairer system for parents. 

Tasha: Yeah. I used to take my kids out in school time and take one on a day and I make no apologies for it. I don't get.

Jo: Yeah, I did as well. Yeah, 

Tasha: a one week, two week family holiday is, I think for a kid at school now with all, the amount of work that they actually have [00:08:00] to do and bring home, I don't see any government policy that says it affects educations. Just nonsense. And it doesn't. Yeah. Yeah, no, take them out.

Tasha: Fuck it. Pay the fine. It'll still be cheaper. 

Jo: Yeah. Okay. Tash, are we gonna launch into the first serious topic if you Yeah. 

Tasha: So I wanna talk about something I saw Katie Hopkins did a batshit Bonkers Britain, and she was talking about, what she said on the video was that a migrant and had been caught working in the NHS in an A and E department using his friend's NHS ID card.

Tasha: Yeah. His friend was a woman and he was obviously a man and this he'd numerous shifts and it had all come to light that he'd been using her id. Now I watched that and I thought, nah, there's no [00:09:00] fucking way. That's true. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: So what people need to understand is there's too much neurodivergence in this podcast and we have to dig for the facts.

Tasha: We have to get the receipt. 

Jo: Anything on page tell you absolutely 

Tasha: nothing. So I did the A DHD thing and thought, I'm gonna fact check this. So I went on to chat G bt pt. And I asked it to fact check the story. Now it brought back all the information it brought back his name, age 33, worked at Countess of Chester Hospital under the identity of a female nurse named Joyce George.

Tasha: He used her name and credentials to carry out shifts in the a and e ward. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: He was described as a dependent on his wife's work visa, so he had UK permission to stay. But the case raises questions about employment checks. I want people to remember that 'cause I'm gonna make a point in a minute. He [00:10:00] admitted to a charge of fraud by false representation, was given a sentence of 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months plus 80 hours of unpaid work and fined a surcharge Now.

Tasha: This story, all the links that were coming up for the information, there's a lot of information there. And all the links that were coming up for this were the telegraph, the sun GP news, all the usual, 

Jo: all the usual suspect, all 

Tasha: yeah, all media links. So I asked Chad to give me public record 'cause I thought if this has gone through the courts and it's been found guilty of fraud or whatever then this would be public record or there would be a court listing or something.

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: Now important clarifications that it gave me was, despite the man working under false identity, the reports say that no complaints were made by patients about his care and no harm was publicly identified. That's from the [00:11:00] son. It's not entirely clear whether he was illegal or simply working under false identity credentials.

Tasha: The role may have been as a healthcare assistant rather than a registered nurse. That's not clear either. And the hospital trust and oversight bodies are reported to be under scrutiny for how this was able to occur. Now, the problem with this is when I tried to search for public record, I can't find any.

Tasha: So what I've done is I sent a freedom of information request to Chester Hospital. Now obviously it's going to take up to 10 days for them to reply to me, and I only did this yesterday. Yeah. The court outcome it's telling me was Chester Magistrate's Court. The plea was guilty to fraud by false representation, sentenced to 16 weeks, blah, blah, blah.

Tasha: Now again, the links for this is a blog, GB news and the Telegraph not the court. So I have sent a. [00:12:00] Freedom of information request to find out if that case is actually true. And the reason I've done that is because I want everyone to just consider for a minute the digital ID situation going on right now.

Tasha: Yeah. And like vaccine mandates, it's been repackaged as employment checks and identity, right? Yeah. The irony that's been sold to us as like protection of identity, when actually it's going to fucking open us right up. Yeah. For identity fraud from all sorts of angles. And I want people to just hold off on this media story for a second because until I get clarification that this actually is a true case, I don't believe it.

Tasha: And the reason I don't believe it is because it's very inconvenient. Very convenient for the government. For there to be a big media story about somebody who happens to be here on his wife's work visa, who doesn't have permission to work here, and was just able to walk into [00:13:00] the NHSA and E Department as on a British woman's ID and do numerous shifts over the course of three months.

Tasha: I'm not buying it. 

Jo: Yeah, 

Tasha: I'm not buying it. I have friends that work in the NHS. You don't just walk into an A and e. The a and e department know each other, all the staff. It's a very small group of staff. Somebody doesn't randomly walk in under Joyce George and no one says, hang on Joyce, you look a bit odd today.

Tasha: You've got a penis. 

Jo: They're taking us t honestly. 

Tasha: Yeah, there's something off with this story. So I'm going to, I'll let everyone, I'll update everyone when I get a response from Chester court, but I'm not buying this Chester as well. How fucking random have they even got a magistrate court?

Tasha: Yeah. We'll hold off on that one. So guys, just be very careful what media stories you bite on at the moment, because this would be great. Go see if we'd had digital id, [00:14:00] this would never have happened. 

Jo: Yeah, 

Tasha: so we'll see. We'll see. I'm on the fence at the moment, but we'll see. 

Jo: Oh, the Labor Party, their social media.

Jo: I told you this last week on, I'm maintaining it. Their social media is just absolutely fantastic. In fact, Tash earlier on today probably only even an hour ago, because I've started now just putting capital letters instead of writing, shut the fuck up, and I'm just put the letter in. The hope that people born in the seventies and eighties can translate what it is I'm actually saying in a sentence for its 12 capital letters instead shut the fuck up.

Jo: Stormy, you wonker. I'm not, I always 

Tasha: work them out. What is that? What is that? 

Jo: I dunno. That's mad, isn't it? Yeah. So I've started doing that or just using that emoji. This particular post about an hour ago, [00:15:00] said on everybody's mind at the moment, the topic at the top of everybody's mind at the moment.

Jo: Digital id, right? And the comment section is comedy gold. Just if you wanna lose an hour of your time right? And just have a bloody good laugh, go and have a look at the Labor Party, social media on Facebook. Look at the section. It's comedy gold because there's not one single, maybe there is one, but for every one person trying to defend the Labor Party, there's a thousand people calling them out on the bullshit.

Tasha: A few weeks ago, I, my toxic trait was literally trolling kier. I would just go onto Twitter and it didn't matter what he tweeted, I was just there for the comment section and it never disappointed. And Facebook, every time he came up on my newsfeed, I literally just went, I didn't even read what the [00:16:00] Post I just went on and was just like, why don't you fuck off?

Tasha: No one likes you. You're a fucking asshole. Like I lit, I couldn't help myself. Every time I saw his face, I just had to comment, fuck off. But the comment section under Kirsten's, any ki Post and Labor party post is always pure bang. 

Jo: Yeah, it's brilliant. On Ki Storm as early today, he said he was stopping something.

Jo: I can't remember what it was, stopping illegal working or something with the digital idea. And I just said you wouldn't know how stop a red traffic light. You wouldn't know how. Stop at a traffic light, like the topic on everybody's com, on everybody's mind is Stop the boats and illegal immigration and stop the bloody rape gangs that you're making an absolute hash of right now.

Jo: And the inquiry, which brings me nicely into. A huge topic that's been going on all week and it's, oh, yes, I've got notes. You been living under a rock if you've missed any of this news this week. [00:17:00] Yeah. 

Tasha: Oh God. We need to update everyone. Before we go into it too much, for those that don't know, you may have heard about rather room or whatever you may have heard about a couple of, in, like a couple of these things over the course of the last sort of few years, but you may not have been following the story.

Tasha: You may not know where it's at on the or the sort of scale. To put this into perspective, I want to give people the numbers for this. Yep. So this in, oh God, I'm trying to think what year it was now. It was 2000 and was it 2016? Yeah, 

Tasha: 2016 where all came out and operations were launched all over the country.

Tasha: Now, it wasn't specific to Rodham and West Yorkshire, it was it pushed out across the nation basically. And as a result of that, there [00:18:00] was a lot of investigations. There was a lot of charges. Some have been dropped, some have continued investigation. It's ongoing across the country, so this isn't by any means done and dusted.

Tasha: But some of the numbers, to give you an idea of the scale of this, because I don't want people thinking this is just rotham, people are not just bothered about one grooming gang in Rotham. It's far bigger than that. And if it doesn't make you feel sick, there's something wrong. We have, and I'm gonna read through these.

Tasha: So we had Rochdale, greater Manchester. We had from 2012, we had operations span convictions of nine men. We had further rochdale convictions over time. So by January, 2024, there was a total of 42 men had been convicted. These are only people that have been convicted through trials in court. These are not people that are charged, are being [00:19:00] investigated.

Tasha: 42 Men, October, 2025, operation Light and Trial Seven Men. We had Oxford Thames Valley. Operation Bull Finch in 20 13 7, convicted in May, 2013. We had additional convictions followed in later trials. Total convicted across the wider case. Rose to 22 men over 1998 to 2012. Crimes Newcastle Operation Sanctuary 2017 onwards 18.

Tasha: Convicted in 2017 Huddersfield, west Yorkshire, operation Tennessee 2018 onwards. 20 men convicted across three linked trials in 2018. Further convictions took the total perpetrators to 42 by April, 2023. Darby in 2010. Nine men convicted in 2010. Alsbury in Buckingham Shear, which isn't far from me, which is quite concerning.

Tasha: Six men [00:20:00] convicted in July, 2015. Telford operation Chalice convicted in 20 12, 20 13 sentences range from two and a half to 18 years. There was numerous men there, doesn't give me an actual number. Rather, and again, in 2017, this is a role in series of trials. And he covers crimes from 1997 to 2013.

Tasha: In September, 2024, seven men were jailed. March, 2025, two men convicted and overall scale reported by the NCA was 324 suspects, 1,150 victims and 39 plus convictions by early 2025. That's just so I asked AI to give me numbers across the whole of the uk.

Jo: The, it's, 

Tasha: it's 

Jo: What's the the final [00:21:00] total.

Jo: And I'm sure we haven't got the final total because until the inquiry's complete, I think there's gonna be a lot more. Here's the thing. Convicted. 

Tasha: Convicted, and there, this is only for group based CSE grooming gang cases. So CSE being child sexual exploitation 218 documented across the major well reported prosecutions, so that's Rochdale rather, and Oxford, that sort of thing.

Tasha: Under investigation still and awaiting trial, at least 1400 to 1700 perpetrators. It's just. National reporting shows hundreds of group-based cases recorded each year. 717 offenses in 2023 alone. This is massive, like nationwide scale grooming, rape gangs. Let's stop, let's call 

Jo: what, I hate the word 

Tasha: GI hate the word grooming gangs actually.

Tasha: That this is the [00:22:00] rape of young girls, underage girls. 

Jo: Yeah. This is 

Tasha: child rape. That's what it is. And it's massive. And I think, I want to say 

Jo: at this point, Tash, we don't know if it's only girls. It could be boys as well. 

Tasha: No, we dunno that it's only girls. It's just, I just I lose what words I want to use because I just.

Tasha: Find it so sickening that our authorities still I dunno if people have heard this week that, so what happened and all of this came out is that an inquiry was done and an inquiry panel effectively was set up. Jess Phillips heads that she's the chair of that panel. And on that panel is some of the survivors of different, they're not all from the same one.

Tasha: But do 

Jo: Tash, do you want me to [00:23:00] read through what I've got a whole list of notes on this 'cause what I've done before is I've I've written down the events of the week and it might just help with the timeline of. What the hell's gone on just this week with the, yeah. Before we do that, I want to just give a disclaimer for us, for the podcast that what you're hearing, what we're saying to you now, it is based on survivor testimony, public record and media reports.

Jo: Not sanitize press releases from politicians or their pals in the establishment. So this is what we've actually found online, what we've been able to fact check ourselves, what we've been able to watch on YouTube, public record documents we've ba been able to actually source and read for ourselves.

Jo: There are no cri criminal convictions here yet for the people that I'm gonna actually mention in the notes that I've made. But equally, I'm not gonna tip [00:24:00] tiptoe around what the big questions are either on what the implications are. It isn't. Fucking shit show. Let's just say it for what it is.

Jo: So the rape gang inquiry or whatever they are calling it the grooming gang inquiry. It is a rape gang inquiry. So the four survivors, Fiona Godard and Ali and Reynolds quit the panel along with two others this week. And they're saying it's because the inquiry is looking like it's heading for a coverup because it's been run by the same institutions that failed them in the first place.

Jo: Yeah. So the phrase here, marking their own work, it's like you could say it's like asking Mr. Fox what happened through all the chickens. It's like asking him to go and investigate where all the chickens went. It just doesn't work. 

Tasha: No. 

Jo: So the women aren't quitting because they're [00:25:00] difficult. They're not quitting because they've being unreasonable.

Jo: They're quitting because they're not being listened to. They are being told via a list what of guided bullet points, what questions that they can ask or what answers that they can give. Yeah, they're being told they can't speak to other survivors, they can't speak to family members to help them to come forward as and give evidence in this inquiry.

Jo: So what we've actually got, or what's been put forward by Kia Stormer and Dame Louis Casey, who was the lady who was supporting Kia Stormer and bring inquiry about is it got down to two candidates basically. Who would be the chair? Jim Gamble was one of them. He's now resigned, but just to give you a little bit of context there, he's an ex-police officer.

Jo: The girls don't want it. They don't want [00:26:00] anybody. 

Tasha: No. Some of them are calling, some of them are calling for Jess Philips to be gone. 

Jo: Yeah. Because her behavior has been that whilst the doing some of these panels and the conversations that have happened so far, she's too busy on a mobile phone.

Jo: Smirking, grinning, just dismissing them. And she did exactly that and got very emotive and very aggressive. If you watch the footage from her in the House of Commons this Wednesday, she was I saw that really aggressive. Yeah, I saw that. And she basically calling them liars. And these girls have been told they've been lying throughout the whole of this.

Jo: So know, do you know 

Tasha: what this is for me? This is now the last woman. So when Labor came in, we had Angela Rainer, we had Jess Phillips, we had Rachel Reeves. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: We're all willing them on. And Jess Phillips is all three of them now. Yeah. Jess Phillips is the worst [00:27:00] for me because Jess Phillips, I remember before the general election, she was so vocal about how much for women she was and how she'd fought for victims of grooming gangs and how hard she was working and to hear this, and I believe these, I believe Fiona.

Tasha: Fiona, I think it was Fiona that released a statement first. Yeah. That I read and thought I believe her a hundred percent. I can see it. Same. Same. I can see it, it's Look we insisting, but we're not. 

Jo: Yeah. She's insisting that it isn't being watered down, that they're not. Not looking at what the religious background of people who were involved are, which, what girls are saying.

Tasha: This is the problem with all crime. The worst ones. It's this, this is what happens when you ignore or you don't want to, this is what fucks me off when it comes to people's [00:28:00] race and religion. This is what fucks me off. And I'm gonna say this, I don't give a shit what color someone is.

Tasha: I don't give a shit what religion someone is. Everyone should be treated the same. The government keep telling us everyone's equal. So start fucking acting like it. I don't care what color someone is. If you rape a child,

Tasha: right? You did what you did. It shouldn't fucking matter whether they're Muslim, whether they're Christian, whether they're black, white, brown, who gives a fuck? These men were organizing child prostitution effectively. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: So the fact that authorities didn't wanna step in because they didn't wanna look to be racist.

Tasha: And this has been my argument and I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I need to tell you a story. Years ago I put a Facebook post up I think Alan Sugar had shared a joke on Twitter, and he then took it down and apologized because everyone kicked off [00:29:00] that it was racist. And it was something about the Senegal football team.

Tasha: And it was something like, don't quote me 'cause I can't remember it word for word, but it was something about buying sunglasses on a beach in Marbella or something, right? 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: And I put a Facebook post up and said, I don't think Alan Sugar should have apologized because it was a joke. It's comedy.

Tasha: Yeah. It's like the Englishman Irishman, Scotsman walk into a bar. What's the fucking difference? It's a stereotype joke, right? 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: And I don't believe that comedy should be policed for offense, because everybody's different. What I find offensive you might not, and vice versa. So how can you possibly police comedy, right?

Tasha: So I put a post up on Facebook and I said, I don't think you should have apologized, because I don't think it's offensive, it's not racist. I was called a racist. I was like, [00:30:00] oh my God. They went in some an ex-friend of mine screenshot it, shared it on her Facebook, and everyone jumped in the comments calling me a racist.

Tasha: Now, what's problematic about that is the person that did that knows damn well that I'm not. The person that did that was mixed race. And the person that did that I had helped for many years had been effectively the person she could come to for anything whenever she needed. So it really fucked me off when that happened.

Tasha: But obviously everyone jumped in the comments. Tasha's a racist. Tasha's a racist. Great. And the reason I backed I, here's the thing, I backed that because my whole argument was if you call everything that's not racist, racist, you water down racism. Yep. And that's exactly what's happened. And that's why we're at where we're at, because now people are too scared to fucking say anything, [00:31:00] including pulling up people who are raping children.

Tasha: Because God forbid they get seen as racist. Yeah. So if you start pushing that jokes are racist and you start pushing that everything that you find offensive or could be offend offensive, if you start calling out everything that's offensive or potentially offensive as racist, everyone's too scared to say fucking anything to anyone who isn't white.

Tasha: And this is why we are where we're at with things like the Grooming gang. Now, incidentally, after that incident happened, I spoke to a couple of friends of mine

Tasha: who were, one was African Black, one was Caribbean Black women, and I asked them both separately, I showed them the joke and I said, do you, is that a racist joke? Both of them laughed and went, no, that's funny as fuck. So why are you one, why are you being [00:32:00] offended on behalf of other people?

Tasha: That's the first thing. But it's this is why we're where we're at with these grooming gang situations, Joe. This is why people don't want to push, because they get to say, oh, it's because I'm Muslim, it's because I'm brown. It's because I'm 

Jo: pulling the race card. 

Tasha: And then the human rights lawyer steps in 

Jo: Kia.

Tasha: Yeah. This just can't, this just cannot honestly, forget It shouldn't matter. It should not matter. It should only matter about the crime they're committing. Yeah. And if our authorities are only going to convict or investigate people who are not Muslim, who are not brown. 'cause let's be honest, if that had been a, if that had been a black a black male group.

Tasha: Police would've been all over it. 

Jo: Yeah. It's not 

Tasha: so it's not that. It's not, it's only white crime that's been [00:33:00] investigating. It's black men would've been too, they would've been all over that. They would've been investigating that. It's specifically Muslim men that they just don't wanna touch.

Tasha: That they don't wanna go anywhere near Yeah. I'm sorry. But that, that is how it is. And that's not me being a dick. And that's not me being racist. That is the fact, that is what's happening. And that is why we have numbers like that. 17 up to 1700 victims from Rotham alone, that's 1700 underage kids.

Jo: Yeah, kids. And there'll be thousands more that haven't come forward. And do you know what? 

Tasha: I'd rather, if I was a social worker or a police officer, I'd rather be accused of being fucking racist than covering up child abuse. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: So whoever those people were that [00:34:00] said nothing, did nothing, or didn't push it because they were too scared of being called a racist, shame on them.

Jo: One of the clips, one of the interviews that I watched this week, and I've gotta be honest, it made me feel physically sick and angry and all the emotions I felt. So I think it was GB News interviewing Fiona Godard, and she was describing being taken back. To the care, A care home, and the police officer that actually took her back to the house where all the men were there, had raped her and said, your guys have some fun with her.

Jo: Those were her words on this news program. Have some fun with her.

Jo: Like I have no words. T I'd like literally I'm speechless. The very fact then after [00:35:00] watching that, I then watch Jess Phillips's reaction in the House of Commons, where she was basically calling them liars and acting like they were being a nuisance. And then, 

Tasha: yes, Jess Phillips would've known all the ins and outs of Fiona's story already as well.

Jo: Yes, she should. She.

Jo: They've called for the four women who have now resigned from the panel, the four survivors. They've now called for her resignation. That, that, they're not coming back until she's resigned. Good. And that we've got the independence on this inquiry. Meanwhile Kia Stormer in Prime Minister's questions this week when Kimmy Badenoch challenged him and she used.

Jo: One of her questions for the survivors, and she basically most of what can Kamy Baden Ox said was on behalf of the survivors of this rape gang and [00:36:00] inquiry. She was calling for Jess Phillips to resign as well, or to be fired basically. Yeah. And Stormer said that him and the labor government were basically standing behind her.

Jo: She was the best person for the job. Of course he 

Tasha: will. Of course he will. They're all fucking, I'm telling you, they're all covering up for one thing or another. They sick of me. They sick of me. Listen, I'm gonna fair because. I, you know how much I hate Sadid Kahan. I cannot stand that weasel of a man.

Tasha: My God has he got any other face but smirk face? How he can smirk when discussing child sexual exploitation is beyond me. He's a disgusting human being. But we all need to remember that Ken Livingston was London Mayor when this, when things were being I dunno if people know who John Wedger is, but he was a whistleblower from the Met.

Tasha: He spent, I think the last 10 years [00:37:00] pretty much outing all the times that he was told to stop looking into cases all the times that he think he said he reported things and people just ignored it. Yeah. Okay. Livingston was mayor during that time. Boris Johnson was mayor during that time. I said he can't is now me.

Tasha: Do not tell me that these massive scale grooming gangs are going on in every part of the country except London. Come on. 

Jo: Moving on. We'll come on to, onto this. So Sidney Kane has now been accused again of sitting on evidence and he's denied the existence of grooming gangs in London. Sure, yeah he denied it basically. And then when Susan Hall, I dunno if you can remember this, back in February, Susan Hall, incredible.

Tasha: Well [00:38:00] done. She speaks for the fucking nation, that woman. 

Jo: Yeah. I don't know if any of you have seen that clip of him, his response. Could you just be clear on, I'll answer the question chair when she's clear on what she means. Yeah. He was 

Tasha: trying to go with her into saying Muslim or Pakistan grooming or something like that.

Tasha: He was trying to go there into mentioning race so that he could then play the fucking racist card. He's just, he's vile. He's a vile man. I can't stand him. Not because he's Muslim, by the way, but because he's a cunt. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: Can't stand him. So 

Jo: during that questioning, that line of questioning, and I'm sure it's not only happened in February, it's happened since then as well.

Jo: So instead of answering the question, what he did was he dodged it. He deflected it, and he basically acted like the whole thing was beneath. Like he say, he was smirking. Sn smug little bastard. I wanted smack his face in. That's how I felt. If I [00:39:00] could reach in the TV and thumping one, do you know what, that's how I, how it got me feeling.

Jo: Susan Hall. 

Tasha: I take my hat off to her because you can see when she's talking to him, you can see what she wants to say and what she's able to say are very different things. I don't, honestly, and I don't just say this, this genuinely, I honestly don't think I could sit across a table from that man and not physically hurt him.

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: Like the look on that man's face when you ask him a question. 

Jo: Yep. 

Tasha: So I couldn't. 

Jo: So the other thing that's come out then this week is basically the Met Police have come out now, and this has been in the media. It is been covered again. But there has been the Met Police have now made a statement that it's gonna cost millions and that they were aware of cases in London from 2016 through [00:40:00] 2025.

Jo: So some of that time is on City Kahn's. Watch and whistleblowers have said that he was aware of these reports of these rape gangs in London, not just on the outskirts of London, but within London and the whole network of these in London. And he's just, again, he's been dismissive. He's been smug, he's been direct, respectful and denying, re repeatedly now denying any wrongdoing, any knowledge that he is seen.

Jo: Any reports. This is news to me kind of thing. He's just believing he does this, 

Tasha: he does this all the time. 

Jo: Yeah. So the survivors deserve an inquiry, and they deserve an inquiry that happens quickly, swiftly, and accurately. And I think it needs to be somebody independent. It has [00:41:00] to be somebody that isn't paid by a peer, somebody you know, somebody that isn't paid by, there's no backhanders going on from some bloody wealthy politician that may have, may have retired now, but still be involved with behind the scenes.

Jo: There's some big names involved in this ash, and I think, yeah, 

Tasha: I, there is for sure that's why they knew, 

Jo: he talked about when he was gonna come in power in the USA, he was gonna drain the swamp. I think that's what these women deserve. They deserve the swamp to be drained of all of these bloody pedophiles and bloody rapists.

Jo: And it won't just Muslim men. Pakistani Muslim men. 

Tasha: I, I there's a journalist called Charles Thompson. I want everyone to go look him up because he investigated a historic child abuse ring [00:42:00] Peter, fall ring. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: I think it was South end, back right. Seventies, eighties, nineties. I wanna say it was shoe bury, the bury taste.

Tasha: I think he's done a podcast on it. It is incredible. But it shows the scale of these kind of things. And again, in that one, police officers were visiting flats and abusing kids. Judges. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: Local mps. Politicians seen. 

Jo: I've seen, yeah. I've seen a video on YouTube and I've watched it and gone, I can't fucking believe what I'm seeing here, but they've been using the canal.

Jo: I don't know the truth behind this. I need to look into it a little bit more, but can you remember the children's program, Rosie and Jim with the Canal Board and they had the rattle? Yes. Yeah. You seen that video on YouTube? Have you seen that one? Yes. [00:43:00] Where they're on about using the bloody canal network for trafficking the kids.

Tasha: Yeah. I don't, I honestly, I think people are, so it's one of them think I, I think in the last five to 10 years, and definitely more so with every year that passes it is that thing, everything you thought you knew about your environment, everything you thought you knew about your culture, your country, your government.

Tasha: It is breaking down around us and we are starting to see. How truly fucking corrupt and dark and tangled and deceitful and just gross. Everything is, we trust no one. We believe nothing. It is, guys it baffles me as to why anyone would think that the idea of a pedophile ring is just farfetched.

Tasha: Because pedophilia is something that has been going on for centuries. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: [00:44:00] Centuries children have been exploited sexually more so the higher up you go, the more respected someone is, the less they're fucking looked at. Jimmy Sava is a prime example. Jeffrey Epstein is a prime example. You know these, they do not, this inquiry.

Tasha: It's 10 years of us knowing about this more. So we still know, oh, okay, there's convictions happening. We still dunno who the fucking customers are. 

Jo: Yeah. You are 

Tasha: not telling me that the 10 men convicted in rather room. That 10 men raped 1200 kids on their own. Their own. Come on now. Exactly. These were kids that were being taken places or people were visiting places.

Tasha: And we know that there is documented evidence of lots of these setups around the country. London included if Sadid can, doesn't know it, but I do. [00:45:00] How the fuck does that work? So I'm not buying for a second that he doesn't know exactly who's going where to do what. But it's it, listen, they can't do nothing, can they?

Tasha: They can't do nothing. So they keep their fucking mouth shut, which makes them just as bad. So Sadid car might not be visiting these places. He might not be touching these kids, but he's just as much to blame if he knows this shit's going on and doing fuck all about it. Simple as that. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: I hate this topic because

Jo: Yeah. So we'll stop there, but there's a frigging lot gone on this week. A lot. And 

Tasha: Hang on, Joe, hang on. I just wanna, let me just I just wanna remind everyone of something. I just wanna quickly read you this London assembly via its conservative members proposed on the 25th of February, 2025, an amendment to the budget of the Greater London authority to allocate 4.49 million [00:46:00] for an independent inquiry.

Tasha: For the, allocate 4.49 million for an independent inquiry into the exploitation of children in London. The amendment was rejected 16 votes to nine by assembly members affiliated with labor, green lib, dem, and independent groups. So just remember that. So when c Khan is saying, we are trying to do everything we can, they actively rejected extra money for an inquiry into London grooming gangs.

Tasha: And he said no.

Jo: At the beginning of the Labor Parliament, if you remember, labor and Kia Stormer said no to a national inquiry and they voted against it three times in Prime Minister's questions. This week when Kimmy Badenoch was talking, they were all sitting on the bench opposite, going shame, and sne.

Jo: And she was [00:47:00] like, oh, really? Like pointing out to them. Now, conservatives aren't free of guilt either. This was going on their what? Yeah. They did nothing either. They're all just as guilty. They are all got in the, that need 

Tasha: rooting out. But the difference is K Starer has taken over with the promise that he was going to do all the stuff the Tories weren't doing.

Tasha: That's the difference. Exactly. Yeah. And we're sick. We're tired of politicians promising and not delivering. So Kirstan is put his finger out his fucking backside and do what he said he was gonna do. Do you know what? If you wanna start taking people's fucking benefits off them, call, if you're gonna spend the money on the stuff, we wanna see you spend the money on, 

Jo: So Tash, just one other thing I'd like cover before we wrap up and maybe, I dunno, we finish on bit of a lighter note, but there's another serious topic I wanna cover today. The chap that [00:48:00] was up for four he was convicted of four sex serious sexual assault offenses and carried a maximum sentence of 14 years and the judge only sentenced him to 12 months.

Tasha: Is this the guy from the Epping Hotel? Migrant Hotel? Yeah. Yeah. So the, I dunno if people remember, there was protests outside the Epping Migrant Hotel and they were all being called far right racists and that it was all a bollock story and fake news. It turns out that all those people did have a reason.

Tasha: That guy had sexually assaulted, he'd actually already tried to sexually assault I think two women and then sexually assaulted a teenager. And that is why those crowds were there. That is why those parents were angry. That is why there was so much [00:49:00] trouble. I think that hotel was since been shut down.

Tasha: Was it called the Bell Hotel? Something like that. 

Jo: Bell Hotel and Fing. Yeah. 

Tasha: So maybe when you are living in an area and you are actually seeing what's going on and people whose kids have been affected or someone who has personally been attacked by someone, maybe not judge everyone that they're all far right racist and maybe they just don't want more shit in their fucking town.

Tasha: Maybe they're already dealing with some shit and they don't want more shit being shipped in. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: Oh, I'm on a proper rant tonight and I need to chill out, man. 

Jo: So what are your thoughts on this judge? Lucy Connolly gets three years for a tweet. This guy gets 12 months for sexually assault flight, for being convicted of four counts of sexual assault, right?

Jo: Convicted. So 

Tasha: there was an argument for the fact that, and obviously it's always that person that fucking is up ki arm's ass and loves. The Labor Party always has to come into the comment section to go hang on a [00:50:00] minute. Actually, he gave him 12 months because it'll automatically have him deported.

Jo: Yeah, that's bullshit. 

Tasha: That could happen. That could happen. A 12 month sentence could pretty much activate a deportation, but let's be fucking real. If that's the case, he will know that. And then, what's her name? Can't remember her name. The MP who just happens to be a fucking human rights lawyer as well.

Tasha: And he's doing all the fucking private work with all the migrants at the moment. Charging 'em 1500 quid for a, I can't remember her name. Can't remember her name. 

Jo: Wow. But 

Tasha: anyway, she'll be all over this. So one little call to a human rights lawyer

Tasha: and then he doesn't get deported, but he still only does 12 months and then he is back on the streets. Great. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: And before anyone starts people will say yes, but there's, I [00:51:00] see this in comment sections all the time, and I dunno why it's always fucking women. I dunno what's going on with the women right now, but it's always the women saying it's not like we, we've got rapists here anyway.

Tasha: We've got plenty of British ones. Oh, okay then that's all right. Then let's fucking double the numbers. Love. What? 

Jo: Yeah, 

Tasha: that's not even an argument For fuck's sake. I get I get really touchy about this subject. It's a subject that I get really angry about when people just downplay it like it's fucking nothing.

Tasha: Anyway. Yeah. 

Jo: So would you like some facts off me little list about that topic that we've just covered there? Or that particular case might not, Joe, you wind 

Tasha: me up that little bit more under 

Jo: Yeah. Under the UK Borders Act of 2007, any non British citizen who was convicted of an offense and sentence to at least 12 months in prison, the subject to automatic deportation, [00:52:00] unless an exception such as human rights grounds, there we go.

Jo: The Lord does not. Yeah, the law does not state that a judge must limit a sentence to 12 months in order to allow deportation. In fact, a sentence of 12 months or more is the threshold that triggers the deportation process. The maximum sentence of sexual assault can be 14 years depending on the specific offense and the circumstance, but there is no legislation that prevents a judge from giving a longer sentence just because deportation is likely, judges are required to sentence based on the seriousness of the offense using the sentencing council guidelines.

Jo: So that's under the UK Borders Act, section 32, automatic deportation for non-UK citizens. 12 months or more. 

Tasha: It [00:53:00] won't happen. 

Jo: It won't because I've got what I'm gonna do. I'll put these. Reference points in the notes underneath the description for everybody to see if they wanna have a look for themselves.

Jo: So basically what will happen, because it's only given in 12 months plus the time served that he is already got. And you know what, how it works here, you always get out quicker. He won't even trigger the deportation. 12 months. He's made it borderline. No, he could have been in 14 years. 

Tasha: I, so we've got, I saw a post, I think it was today.

Tasha: I didn't read too much of it. I just sort was scrolling and I saw something about labor mps deciding on convicts that are gonna be released from prison and it included sex offenders. And I just thought, do you know what I, I'm not even gonna read that. And I, [00:54:00] so I don't know what the details of that are.

Tasha: I'll have to look into it. But anything they can find, they will, and he'll be wandering the streets and he'll probably get his asylum granted. And 

Jo: I just meanwhile, 12,000 people being arrested for social media post posts. And, I've seen a lot 

Tasha: of comments about Lucy Connolly. I've seen a lot of people mad.

Tasha: I've just seen a lot, I've seen a lot of people have a, have an opinion on Lucy Connolly about, she was in sighting violent. She was, she fuck was she, fuck, she went on. She wasn't Twitter, she had a moan and she used the words. But it was something like, oh, down hotel I care. She said, for all I care they can burn down every hotel for all I care.

Tasha: That is not saying go out and burn down every hotel. And do you know what? I'm so over people [00:55:00] like this is so mad that she's being, she went to jail or got sentenced to 31 months in J as a mother. Didn't she have child with special needs as well? 

Jo: Yeah, 

Tasha: I'm sure she had a child She had to care for like more so than normal.

Tasha: Yeah. They sent her to jail for 31 months for a fucking tweet. Now. Incidentally, I don't know if any of you have seen, I can't remember his name. I wanna say Ricky something maybe. Sure. It begins with an R I'm gonna have to again, I'm gonna have to check. But I saw the update for that this week.

Tasha: Walked from court, the guy who was leading the guy who was leading guy who did this? Yes. And he did this, the guy who said that all the people that were on the Tommy Robinson march [00:56:00] shut up their throat cut. He said it out loud. Loud. The on video? On video, yeah. Walked from cult, but Lucy Connolly.

Tasha: And this guy who sexually assaulted an underage girl 12 months. 

Jo: Yep. 

Tasha: Now either one or two things is happening. Either we are supposed to just sit back and say, fuck all about this going on, which is absolute nonsense. Or it's all being done on purpose to wind us all up, to have us all fighting in the street.

Tasha: And I'm genuinely not sure which one it is. 

Jo: Yeah, 

Tasha: I genuinely don't know, but I do know I'm sick of this country right now. I fucking hate, I despise, I never thought, my God, if you'd have said to me five years ago, Tash, in five years time, you are gonna hate a labor government more than you've ever hated a tour in your life.[00:57:00] 

Tasha: I would never have believed you. I would literally have any other government back from the last hundred years over this shower of shit. 

Jo: Yeah. So I wanna just mention. This topo, because I see pop on talk TV for some reason. I don't really like him. Mike Graham, have you seen what's happened to him? He's a div, right?

Jo: So have you seen what's happened to him this week? He's acting kind of annual leave or leave up? Yeah. No, I think he's not out. His social media's been hacked. And somebody's wrote a despicable, racist post on his social media. 

Tasha: Oh no. But I think 

Jo: Mike Graham, I think he was probably a little bit worse for where I think he'd had one too many be that night, [00:58:00] and he's written it himself and realized what he'd written a few hours later when he sobered up and quickly deleted this post.

Jo: So there was an image of. The back of a statue of Winston Churchill. And then there was an image of a tube train or inside the carriage of a tube train. I think it was with, let's say multicultural, no white people inside. Tash. You get the idea of what is shared. The two pictures? Yeah.

Jo: With this, with the parent description of Tell me we're not fucked. I'm multi multicultural bollocks. Why are we surrounded by non-white people? Just fuck off. 

Tasha: Oh, now see, yeah. See, I'm on that non with that. No. Now that that, that is racist. That 

Jo: all fucking racing. 

Tasha: That 

Jo: is, yeah. It's racist. Ooh. Yeah.

Jo: He said his [00:59:00] was hacked. Bullshit. Genuine. He's gone on gardening leave because he is saying his social media was hacked. No, 

Tasha: not buying that. 

Jo: Yeah. Taking a break from his breakfast show. 

Tasha: Yeah. Taking a break because your social media packed with one post. Yeah. No. 

Jo: That are all frigging high and mighty when they come on The bloody talk shows his breakfast talk show.

Jo: He's got a, he's got an opinion on everything. Yeah. And when the teaming cameras aren't there and they've had a few drinks, the real people come out and he's fucked up and he's trying to make out that somebody's had his social media and happened to just, you know what, that one very racist phone store 

Tasha: do you know what I, I don't believe it.

Tasha: I had more respect for him. I'd have more respect for him. I went, do you know what? I got drunk and I said some shitty things and I massively apologized to anyone I've offended. I'll have more respect for him if he was just honest about it. [01:00:00] That is racist as fuck. See, this is why it's racist. This is why it's a difficult topic to talk about, and I know that when I talk about it, I'm very just, blah, I just blur it all out.

Tasha: But I, I hate that race is anything to do with anything, which is why I come across very I don't give fuck what you are. I don't give a fuck what color you are, but because I genuinely don't give a fuck what color you are, it's irrelevant to me. I don't care what religion you are, it's irrelevant to me.

Tasha: If you're a good person, you're a good person. And if you're a cu you're a cunt. And honestly, I hate that. It's if you're saying that because he's black, are you saying that because he's Muslim? No, I'm saying it because he's a fucking asshole. 

Jo: Yeah. It's like I'm, 

Tasha: but I get so angry that everything comes back to race all the time.

Tasha: Constantly. Yeah. Sometimes you need to not everyone's a fucking, if I'm calling out Muslim grooming [01:01:00] gangs, then I'm calling out the grooming gang. I'm not calling out the fact that I'm not calling out Muslims.

Tasha: It's so ridiculous. 

Jo: Not a collective group. No. I saw somebody saying Weird Muslim nun. No, we need to call it out for what? It's, listen, they're Muslims. 

Tasha: I know lots of different people, different. They're from different countries. They're from, they've got different color skin, they've got different religions.

Tasha: Whatever. I judge everyone as they are. If one of those people that I know did something fucking out of order, I'd tell 'em as a mate, you're out of order for that. You shouldn't have done that. They don't go, is it because I'm black? Is it because I'm Muslim? 

Jo: Yeah. No, 

Tasha: because they know you are calling them out because they've done some shitty things.

Tasha: Do you know what I mean? But when you speak about anything publicly and you say that person did that and he's a fucking prick for it. Oh, is it? So can is doing it as a politician. [01:02:00] He's sitting in a committee room and going, is it because I'm a Muslim? Stop it. So we're seeing it constantly being used as a protective shield.

Tasha: I'm not on board with that. Yeah. And I don't care. No, I don't care what religion you are. Here's the thing if, and you know I'm, I looked at like Peter, I'm sure there's Peter Fo rings full of white men. I have no doubt. Jimmy Selma was white and British. Yeah. Yeah. You know these people, there's plenty of them.

Tasha: Ian Huntley was white and British. Fred West was white. No one's denying there's white guys doing it too. It's fucking irrelevant. I don't care. Yeah. Hang them all. I don't care. Oh, I don't discriminate. I don't care what color they are. If they rape kids, hang 'em up. 

Jo: There's not ones worth of oxygen that anybody, Nope.

Jo: That is doing anything [01:03:00] regarding bloody child, bloody sexual assault and pedo failure that deserves a lung of oxygen. The, just, the all need taken out. In fact, I think they should bring back the death penalty because there's no place in this world 

Tasha: When it comes to sexual crime.

Tasha: I I've got no tolerance. I think it's, especially when it comes to kids it's just, yeah. It's a I, it's not just, that's when my morals go out the window a little bit because I'm like, do you know what? Bring the death penalty back, like you say for that. Hang on. 

Jo: Yeah. But Tash, there's a common theme.

Jo: When we talked about transgender and being called transphobic, there was a common theme. Leave the fucking kids alone. It was a common theme with COVID vaccines. Leave the fucking kids alone. Yeah. Everybody's targeting the children. Leave the children alone. Yeah. So what's happening targeting children? So [01:04:00] because you've woken the mums up, you've woken them, grandmas up, the nuns up.

Jo: You've woken the women up. Leave the bloody kids alone. 

Tasha: Yeah. This is the thing. There's so many things going on right now that are aimed at the kids and are coming for the kids and here's the thing. The adults that are trying to protect the kids, the adults that are trying to protect the kids.

Tasha: Are now getting Jed for the words they're using the kids. That's what's happening because we're the parents and grandparents and whatever parents, adults are standing in the middle of the kids and the government. Yeah. And the more, 

Jo: yeah, 

Tasha: the more I see kids being affected by things, the louder I'm gonna get, the more angrier I'm gonna get.

Tasha: As I'm sure many around the country are getting you are seeing it a lot now on social media. A lot of people are now going, do you know what? Enough's enough? The kids are really fucking the kids are being fucked up here. And the more this [01:05:00] happens, I think they're clearing the prisons out of all the sex offenders to start throwing all the mouthy moms on Facebook in there.

Tasha: It's madness. Yeah. 

Jo: Yeah. It's 

Tasha: madness.

Jo: TI wanna on a little bit of. Like note, because I wanna bring, so you know how good Aldi's social media team are. 

Tasha: Oh, they're amazing. Yeah. They are amazing. Hats off to Aldi's social media team. They're absolute class. They're 

Jo: fantastic. They're hilariously for me. They don't. Now I just wanna take my hat off, tip my heart to whoever this is in Aldi.

Jo: This is not the social media team. This is a shop floor worker, right? The best job in the world.

Jo: Can you see what it says?

Jo: So for the purposes of the podcast, oh my god.

Jo: He just popped into Aldi and even they know, and one of the Aldi staff members has [01:06:00] printed a ticket and put it on the shelf for 79. That basically just says on the ticket, Kia Stormer is a

Tasha: right. Can I just say imagine, you've gone to work, you work in Aldi, right? Working class. Your bills are powering up. Your cost of living. You go work. You've got your little machine in your hand, or you're sitting on your computer and you're thinking, do you know what? Today is the day. I know today's the day.

Tasha: The day what? The day I do to do my bit for the country right now. I know KI is a 1 79 print. Do you know what? Whoever did that, because I'm hoping now that it starts a revolution across every supermarket that guys be on your bbis when you go in there. Now look at all the labels, because it's gonna be, there's gonna be so many, there's gonna be, Sadik Khan is a poisonous little dwarf.

Tasha: [01:07:00] There's gonna be like Jess Phillips, whatever. Let's just get, come on guys. Get creative. If you work in a safe market, I You get to print those tickets. Come on. I wanna, I

Jo: on the bottom of our receipts in the shop, instead of saying thanks for shopping with us, I might just, I might, the bottom of our hotel receipts, put a nice little message. You should put the bottom,

Tasha: You should put the bottom of your receipts. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: If you're on holiday may suggest that you stay here because the UK is shit. Yeah. Don't go back.

Jo: Honestly. Yeah. Let if we can to rally the troops to change till, please, guys, 

Tasha: do you know what? 

Jo: Come up with your creativity. 

Tasha: It's that's just brilliant. Whoever thought to do that is an Abso Yeah. Doing the Lord's work. Doing the Lord's work. Yes. They're, wouldn't it been a brilliant, much more [01:08:00] brilliant story If Ki Stone would actually used that Aldi that day and picked up that item,

Tasha: brilliant. 

Jo: Would've been brilliant. 

Tasha: Love it. 

Jo: Yeah. He's a, you know what it be a, just a thought once it be ace, if. Some QR codes were printed and stuck on trees around the country.

Tasha: Listen, I, my, I basically 

Jo: said something like lion cheating bastard. And people are that curious. They wanna scan the code to find out who the lion cheating bastard is, and then it's a picture of Kia Storm with Sadik Kane. 

Tasha: That'd be amazing. Oh, no. Or we could just go old school on this, Joe, and we could just rally all the Gen Xers to go to all the pump toilets, public toilets with a marker pen and right on the back of the door.

Tasha: No.

Jo: No. 'cause that's inciting some kind of vandalism there is to. So no, we withdraw that comment and that [01:09:00] statement immediately. Alright. Then 

Tasha: we'll take a Post-it note, write it on the Post-it note and then just stick it on the door. Alright. It'll peel off. No damage done. Obviously I'm not be creative. I'm not telling anyone to do it.

Jo: Yeah, exactly. 

Tasha: Don't do it guys. Like 

Jo: back in the day when we used to leave our business cards on the back of the doors everywhere for your business opportunity's 

Tasha: phone number and stick it in every phone box in London

Jo: on List 

Tasha: for Love. Your long time for cheap 20. 

Jo: Yeah. 

Tasha: I'm not inciting anyone. Does it mind?

Jo: Yeah. No, we're not. 

Tasha: Shall we leave it there? Joe's ass is twitching now. She's oh, legal ramifications. Let's stop it there

Jo: every time. We must have a disclaimer for this. And then you go and just blow it up at the end. 

Tasha: It, oh, 

Jo: I'm [01:10:00] amazed. We're still live streaming. 

Tasha: Do you know what we promised that we would just, we wouldn't, that we wouldn't airbrush this, that we would just talk like we would, whether we had a camera in our face or not.

Tasha: And no one can say that we don't do.

Tasha: Yeah. But yeah. I may have to keep my doors locked and not answer the door if the police knock tomorrow.

Jo: Yeah. I'm gonna leave it there, Tash. Okey doke. Yes. Thank you for joining us. I'll see you. See you next week. Thank you very much for joining us and for joining us throughout the week as well. If customers on the clips, see you again. Oh, the 

Tasha: shorts are gonna be awful.

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