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MIKE MIDDLETON // ANT MIDDLETON
Recorded: Feb. 25, 2026 Duration: 1:16:49Space Recording
Full Transcription
Hello everyone
Hope you're all well
Technical issue without a start
Mike I've sent you a co-host invite
Just bringing Anne up to speak now
Mike, Anne how are you doing?
Yes mate I'm always good
Fantastic
I've sent you a co-host invite as well
Anne if you want to accept that
That should work no problem
Brilliant Okay Mike obviously you've got invite as well. And if you want to accept that, that should work. No problem.
Brilliant. Okay.
Mike, obviously you've got the right to bring up wherever you want and send invites out and stuff so you can control everything.
Yeah, no worries.
Cheers, buddy. Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on there.
It's just I'm on Samson and I was trying to co-host
and it's just saying that I'd already chosen two co-hosts,
which I hadn't, but, you know, it is what it is.
Also, are you happy with the title or do you want to change it to something else um no listen roll roll that's fine mate we've just
come to have a good chat about what's um what i've got going on and uh and things like that i'm just
going to get the other people up that i need to get up so i'll just leave you to take over buddy
for the time being yeah well we should just give people a kind of heads up obviously mike you
contacted me today and you were saying about you wanted to host a space with you and
your brother uh about kind of politics and what i'm spin up to in terms of some of his journeys
we won't give anything away and then we've got a little bit of something else you want to talk
about later on so that there is a schedule to this um so i guess to start off with uh you wanted me
to kind of introduce you guys and um talk about what's been going on.
So, well, I don't need to introduce you. You guys can obviously introduce yourself, I'm sure.
So, Mike, do you want to start off and just explain exactly who you are to people listening?
Yeah, of course. So my name is Mike Middleton. I'm Ant's older brother.
Super proud, the proudest brother in the world, as you can imagine.
And I, yeah, listen, I run a business in Portsmouth.
I live in Portsmouth in the UK.
I'm a big fan, obviously, of my brothers.
So, yeah, we've just been, I've been helping out when I can politically with him and in the background
and also paying attention to what's been going on social media and the things that might interest my brother
um and i just thought it would be a great opportunity tonight to uh to all get together
have a chat with and he hadn't done the space in a while um and just touch on um what his views are
on in the uk at the moment what's going on there's a lot of um as we all know there's a lot of hype
right now around um rupert lowe rightly so um and there's a lot of hype around just well there's a lot of, as we all know, there's a lot of hype right now around Rupert Lowe, rightly so.
And there's a lot of hype around just, well, there's a lot of attention right now, isn't there, towards UK politics.
So I thought it'd be a great chance to get Ant to have a chat, see what he's up to.
And also introduce, we'll touch on it at a later point but i wanted to uh introduce um a couple of
projects that work on the blockchain now i know everybody straight away goes all crypto uh scam
scam scam which listen i totally get that i'm not here to promote um a token or ask anyone to buy
into it but what has impressed me is the ability now um communities to basically to donate and to accumulate funds
towards a cause through the power of community.
So what these tokens are doing, they're trading, they're degen meme tokens, right?
They're just gambling.
People are just gambling with them.
But what they're able to do is introduce smart contracts, which cleans a little percentage
introduced smart contracts which cleans a little percentage off of each trade and um the developer
off of each trade.
and the team behind it can then funnel those uh funds uh towards whatever that community has
chosen and i was i'm highly impressed with what they've been doing a certain community's been
doing britain token for the restore britain project as as as they're not specifically just
because it's for restore britain but because the
power of the people um is it's impressive what they've able to do and the funds they've raised
but we'll touch on that later i'm going to dig out the the two developers i need to get up but
first of all baz um you you obviously are um politically i would say more educated than i am i know i see you in spaces all the time i
listen in and i'm a i'm a busy boy irl um with my business and everything so i'm probably not up to
date on as much as what you are but i thought you'd be brilliant co-host or obviously it turned
out to be host now um to sort of question and and have a little chat with him about what his views
are and what his intentions are
moving forward and things like that
Well I've been wanting to interview
for absolutely ages and I'm
contesting that because I'm such a fan
I mean and you know I've been kind of promoting
your campaign, first it was
maybe you were going to be in reform and it was independent
and obviously people want to catch up on
what's been going on so I just want to go back
to kind of the start of this and what was it that drove you that made you think you know what I need
to run for London Mayor what was that? Do you know what Baza when I first left the military
it was quite interesting in 2012 the politics came straight onto my radar because you know it's
it's a super important leadership role
and because i'd sort of worked my way up from the military from the age of 16 i left when i was 32
so you can do the maths how long i was in the military for working my way up as a grunt as we
call it all the way up to you know becoming a team leader special forces operator a primary
fires operator which is um you know they deal with
all the sort of the air assets and control all the air assets um when um when the shit hits the fan
shall we say uh so when it came to leadership leadership sort of was a natural role for myself
and when i look back on my whole career and i always say this to people um you know you you lead your own life when you jump into
a career that requires discipline structure um accountability you know integrity honesty
you know because if you don't get those things right it costs lives um you you learn to really
lead your own life um and then once you become a leader in your own right,
you can lead yourself, then it's just a natural progression on leading teams and then leading
squadrons, then maybe leading certain organisations. And when I left, it was a sense of authority
that really sort of pulled me into politics mate so it was right you know people that
abuse their authority people that don't get it right people that just you know are in the positions
of of leadership just for the accolade just for the notoriety you know just for the badge if you
wish where for me when I when I left when I left, it was like, right,
what do I really want to do? And this was even before I got into the whole media world, into TV, politics was always on my radar. I was going to actually go to do a university course on politics,
but then obviously life took away with me. The the whole SAS who dares wins came along and that
came along just like you know the flick of a switch um and then you know throughout my whole
media career it's really strange because well it won't be strange you'll understand it now because
the world has gone fucking mental and we're open and awake to absolutely everything from you know
from the woke mindset from fucking you know the two-tiering
system from you know the council culture um i experienced as i went through my media career
you know when i first started at sas um the first three four seasons you know you look back on it and
car i was like you know this is is the role model that everyone should look
up to. You know, this is what, you know, holding yourself to account, being a man is all about in a
sort of, sort of non, you know, bragging way, if you wish. And then the whole sort of council
culture, toxic masculinity sort of happened overnight, didn't it um so I went from being this sort of
you know this role model to to kids and you know this motivator and this inspirational sort of
figure um which was just through my work to being oh my god you can't this is you know talk talk
about toxic masculinity talk about someone that's you know shouting and screaming everyone it sort
of took took a turn. And politics was happening
right in front of my eyes from the very top. And I was witnessing it firsthand. So really,
you know, when this started happening, it really reignited and um my interest back into politics when i looked at the situation i thought
fucking hell this is i'm just in a political fucking shitstorm at the moment you know i think
things are happening around you know in the media and it's all due to politics you know and then the
whole council culture came into play and do you know what mate I was just like it was one of those where and again
I'll let you jump in but it's one of those where after a while I was just like the media stuff is
great I love you know pushing people I love making people realize what they're truly capable of that's
why I do what I do I'm fascinated with the human body the human mind you know how how the mechanics work within within us and you know i
love watching people in front of my very eyes you know flick a switch within them to become a better
version of who they are and that's when they leave the course and it doesn't matter if they pass the
course or if they get to day three or day four they've reached their goals or something's ticked
inside of them or clicked
inside of them and that's the reward that i get when i watch people you know better themselves
um it's just one of those mate no no it's just one of those that we got to a stage where i was
just like fucking hell i'm in a political storm here so i might as well you know rather than you
know be from the outside looking in i've got i've got to take a
step in but going back to your question the what made me really really want to jump into politics
and you know throw my hat in or into the political space whether you want to call the mayor of london
a political space which i you know it shouldn't be um it was it was the Southport where what happened in Southport
and I thought to myself you know I fought most of my career to abroad not on my shores abroad to
stop this this type of violence and this type of you know carnage from happening on in in england and in the uk and then when the south and it was a knock
on of things you know the lee rig 77 but the lee rig lee rig but you know it was just a knock on
but then i believe when it reaches your children then something's got to be done and when south
fought happened and it reached our children when they were fucking playing in a nursery or at some Taylor Swift sort of, you know, reenactment sort of safe space they were meant to be in.
Then there's a fucking drastic failing that's happening.
And that was the moment where I thought, you know what, I can't sit back and pretend that this shit isn't happening.
and pretend and pretend that this shit isn't happening um i can't sit back with the knowledge
that i have the the skill set that i have the the you know the the contacts the the backing that i
have i can't sit back and watch this happen while i live a fucking good life you know flying around
the world playing fucking mr celebrity it just didn't sit right with my moral compass so that's
going back to your question i know it's a long-winded answer but that's that's that was it that was the the breaking point for me it's perfect and
you know what i do a lot of obviously chatting to people and trying to find out what people
feel disheartened about in society and one of the big things i always see is people when they talk
about young men today and they talk about how they're walking around with their heads down
they feel lost they don't feel like they have a place in society or even they're appreciated in society and i just think back to kind of like you
know things you've done and the challenges you've had and the fact that you know it's important to
test yourself and prove yourself and overcome and all those messages that you keep putting out there
and i just think that's perfect that is perfect for what a mayor should do to tell people you're
going to get off your feet we're going to get this stuff sorted and when you talk about these problems i do hear back from a lot of people that
say what do the military think about this do they have an opinion so i was just wondering if you
could maybe talk about a little bit of that and what you've heard from sort of military people
yourself well as you as you've witnessed and you know i don't need to sort of tell you this you're
all on this space because uh you know you've experienced
this i'm sure firsthand but everything has been fucking politicized everything um you know and
you look at the mayor of london position you know when that when that position came up ken livingston
was the first mayor of london in the year 2000 he ran independently he was politically aligned but
he ran independently um and you know
that mayor of london position is this isn't that this isn't the lord lord mayor this isn't that
the mayor of the city of london this is the you know the mayor of london a new position that was
formed back in the year 2000 it was designed to create a greater london to bring all the
together to unite the boroughs to you know to to have a greater london to create one greater London, to bring all the boroughs together, to unite the boroughs,
to, you know, to have a greater London, to create one big, you know, unified London,
if you wish.
And then you just saw slowly from the year 2000, you know, when Ken Livingston ran independently,
that you just slowly saw it getting politicised, that position, all the way to the point where you look at the current mayor of London, Khan, right now, everything he fucking touches, he politicized.
And I'm going to keep it quite generalizing, quite, but, you know, you only have to look at
the Metropolitan Police. You know, they are meant to be a neutral force there to protect and serve
the people. And I say that again, a neutral force there to protect and
serve, serve, right? The people, um, and to uphold British law and order to the highest of standards,
regardless of the job to uphold British law and order to the highest. So if you fuse those two
together, um, which, you know, two together um which you know you talk to which
i do talk to you know bobbies that have been on the you know in there for 25 to 30 years you know
they they held that fucking responsibility to to you know they were proud they would make sure that
no matter what you know if if the law was broken and it doesn't matter who you were what what
culture you come from what you know you were, what religious background.
If you broke, you stepped outside British law and order, you were going to get nicked.
And I go back to the whole politics thing.
It's the reason why I want to run and why I want to run independent is because i want to strip politics away from that
position if i want if i want to be a politician basil i'll go and jump on a constituency
um which is easier it's easy for me to jump on a constituency and to become an mp i can do that
and ultimately it will give me more power right it'll give me more power to implement change
in in the houses of commons i'm not after power. You know, I'm I truly believe that I was born to serve.
Right. I've served my queen and country and I say my queen because it was it was my queen back then and country.
And I feel that this is a call back to service or call back to duty to serve the people of London and London.
So it's no different really to to what I've done before.
And to strip politics away from that position.
It does have P&Ls attached to it.
It does have political agendas attached to it.
Of course it does. but that position has become so politicized that they they are towed and by a political
narrative by a political party by a political line I don't want to be that individual I want
to be there for the needs of the people I want to be accountable for Londoners and I want to be
accountable to London without being pulled left right and center
by a political narrative or a political party um so mate it's um it's it's one of those where
i think the time is right for it if i had said seven eight years ago that i was running for
mayor of london they would have gone piss off and stick to your fucking tv um stick to your tv work stick to your um stick to your special forces
stuff but um i think the time for a good you know british english you know sort of mayor um to
serve the capital city of england is well needed and it's well overdue and if we don't um if we don't implement
that soon then I believe it's going to be too late absolutely and right I'm going to get your
views on Sadiq Khan and the job he's doing so far in a second but first off Mike can you just give
us a kind of update just from obviously you've served in the forces yourself you've seen what
Anne's been doing and all the rest of it um what do you think of his step into politics so yeah no i'm uh thanks basil yeah
i um i served in the royal air force for seven years um and uh served in iraq for four months
during operation telic uh very proud to have done so um but yeah no i am I am just blown away by Ant's positive mental attitude that he, not only he has, obviously, and what he's achieved, but the way that reflects and other people use that as a sponge themselves.
The number of people I've accompanied Ant on a lot of his talks and things like that,
and the real motivation and inspiration people get from Ant's books and his experiences,
I see that and I think, bro, you need to take this further.
He's so good at inspiring people and bringing the best out of people and and the
manner in which he does it is is unique ie he's he is who he is he doesn't um he doesn't have to
toe a party political line he doesn't have to um bow to this and that he he does what he says
you know he what he thinks and uh and and i love, you know, some people say he's Marmite, but I see a lot more people being inspired.
And, you know, we read messages as his brother. I read messages.
I go through a lot of his comments and things like that too,
because he's busy, right? He's, he's planning his campaign.
There's a lot of work going on in the background.
I'm running my business,
but in the evenings and now I get to read messages and I'm like bro did you see what this guy's posted you know this guy seems legit
he's down in the dump he needs some help you know and and i'll highlight things and and it's just
great to see the the positive um the positive light that he brings on to people and in the way
he does things so yeah super proud you know you you won't find a prouder brother than me and um yeah just just really happy to be part of it and and to join the journey with him
it must be absolutely absolutely lovely to hear your brother speak about you like that right
yeah you know it goes it goes two ways with with everything and but it also goes you know
it i always say this is a massive two-way thing,
you know, and I'm not just talking about my brother. I'm talking about everyone that I
encounter, you know, whether, you know, it's like when I do my tours, when I talk to people and I do
my book signings, you know, the energy that I gain from them is what I reciprocate. Now, this isn't
just a case of me going to these, you know, going around
talking to people and draining my social, but it's a two way thing. And the common denominator
is challenge. Everyone has a fucking challenge in their life, right? And I've, I love a challenge.
You know, I, I, I overtly go out looking for a challenge. If there's no challenge in my life,
then I'm not living
and that challenge could be could be a negative challenge it could be a positive challenge but
you know when you when you when you've got challenges in front of you which every single
person has and and you can sit down and talk to them and find a way through over under or you know or or over or or by the side or smash through it um then i think
that's the common denominator that i love with absolutely everyone that i come across it's like
right what's what what you know i've got a problem no no you've got a challenge what what is your
challenge at the moment oh well it's this well let's fucking find a way through it let's find
you know and if we can't don't exhaust yourself don't drain yourself with it fucking leave it alone and and re-attack and take a
different route take a different avenue take a different approach but um you know keep committing
that's the thing about life it's a series of small commitments you know there's no destination in
life basil there's one destination in life right and we all know where that is life is a series of milestones you know i can find you you will get there guess what because
you're fucking waking up every morning and you're breathing so if that's not a fucking excuse to get
up and fucking get to that next milestone then i don't know what is but and i suppose that's what's
really pulled me into this sort of uh call to service let's call it or call to duty again is because
we are facing a huge challenge as a nation we're facing a huge challenge i sort of say as a team
because i you know team is is is a state is a is a is a country is a you know organization
we're facing a huge challenge as a team and um coming together
and getting this done is is the only solution and uh even though we're living through fucking
terrible times we're living through really really exciting times mate because you know i believe
that we're living through history at the moment and it's only bringing us closer together perfect
and right two more questions then we'll move on to your latest expedition.
First off, I would just like to talk about Sadiq Khan for a minute.
Obviously, he's the mayor of London.
What do you think of how, yeah, thumbs down,
what do you think of the job he's done?
Can I also ask you, if you ever got a chance to maybe, you know,
speak to him one-on-one in a room, what would you say to him?
And, you know, how do you think London's been going in the last sort of 10 years that he's been there don't answer that one about
speaking to him in person bro all right i've just had quite a few words
do you know what when he first got into uh into the london office you i didn't really think anything
of it i was like yeah you know didn't really think of you know his religious beliefs i didn't really think anything of it. I was like, yeah, you know, didn't really think of, you know, his religious beliefs. I didn't really think of, you know, his, his cultural background.
It was just like, okay, let's see, let's see what he does. Um, I wasn't, you know, I wasn't
really strange. I wasn't just, you know, sort of distracted by any of that, you know, obviously now
we are because we see the, the ulterior motive.. And also, when someone jumps into a new role, I try my best, well, I do, to not bring in his career before.
You know, he jumped into a new role, what he was doing before when he was protecting illegal immigrants,
when he was protecting terrorists or whatever he's doing in his sort of,
in his court of law. I think to myself, right, that was his career now. He's got a brand new
career. Let's judge him by how he does within this space now. But over the years, you can't
help but go, wow, you know, you can't help but drag what he used to do into it because
of the ulterior motives and the narrative and where
london is at and where he is at right now but the one thing that really shocked me that that sort of
raised a huge red flag within weeks of him taking office um when he took office back in 2012 2012 yeah 8 12 was it 12 or was it no yeah 2012 it was i think it was um yeah can live it soon
was from 2000 to 8 no no absolutely calm was 2016 2016 sorry yeah that's right i'm four years out
i'm a term out there um apologies um but when he took office and within weeks and I don't know if you, well, of course you do remember back in 2016, that sort of period, there was loads of terrorist attacks, you know, stabbings, you know, people driving up and, you know, crushing people with cars.
Yeah, yeah. It was huge. It was huge. It was all, you know, I don't like to say all yeah yeah parliament yeah it was huge it was huge it was all
you know i don't like to say all the rage but it was it was huge it was happening on a you know on a
on a on a weekly basis and then when he got asked the question you know what what is he going to do
what's his plan for for terrorist attacks or you know or terrorists and when he said that it's part and parcel
of big city living that's when all the alarm bells fucking started ringing um and you can
look it up it's in the papers it's like you know when he said oh that's it's part and parcel of
big city living and i thought i couldn't help, but look at his career before and go, shit, who's he protecting?
Who's he fucking, you know?
And it raised a huge red flag in myself having been, you know, at the top of the security chain when it comes to security, safety, security and protection, obviously being, you know, being in the special forces.
being, you know, being in the special forces. Because if that was me, you know, I just thought
I would have heard out of his mouth something like, you know, there's zero tolerance to any
terrorist activity that goes on within my city. If I even get one sniff or one iota of anything
that's going to happen or, you know i i will come down on them with the full
force of the law there is zero tolerance to to this kind of behavior and i will make sure that
i will do everything in my power to stamp it out that's what i was expecting and i i can remember
it as clear as day because when he said that i thought oh we're in for a fucking ride and I can remember
thinking that I remember thinking we are in for a ride um and then you know and then you you can
just see his few the career that he had before you can sort of see that taking over you can sort of
see his his his culture you know bringing his culture and his religion to
the forefront of absolutely everything um then you could sort of see the political side of things
you know you could see that he's you know he's being towed by a political line um and the
corruption you know the corruption and then you know and going back a couple of months ago, or maybe,
you know, a few, few months ago, again, you know, when he was asked by Susan Hall about the
grooming gangs and he had the audacity, the, and again, it made my skin crawl because we're
talking about our fucking children here. We're talking about our fucking children here we're talking about our
children okay and like I said before when it reaches your children fucking you better wake up
you know something needs to be done and when he was just like can you spell it out for me I don't
know what you mean almost condoning that type of behavior almost brushing it off as if to say, I don't know what you're
talking about. Therefore it's okay. Oh no, it's not happening here. So if that's not given a green
light to these grooming gangs and for that sort of activity to, to coexist within London,
then I don't know what is. And when you put children in the firing line like that and you play fucking
dumb with our children's lives and young girls and women's lives like that it where's where's the
where's the the patriotism for you for your country where's the patriotism for your country
men and women and children it's fucking non-existent.
So when I, you know, and I look at it and I think to myself,
do you know what, maybe we're the ones to blame.
Because I wouldn't have said this,
and, you know, this is going to be quite controversial,
what I'm going to say, I wouldn't have said this years ago.
But I think the time is right now that a true Brit, you know, a native steps forward.
Someone that, you know, that's in their DNA, it's in their blood.
And when I say that, people say, yeah, Khan was born in London.
But he's a child of an immigrant.
And I don't mean that in a racist way, but he's just shown that it's not in his DNA.
It's not, you know, our country, our country, men and women, you know, it's not in his fucking blood.
It doesn't think, fuck, like I do.
I go, right, fucking hell, I need to do something about this.
I wouldn't be able to fucking sleep, mate.
I tell you, I would not be able to sleep.
So this is why I say at this present time in my at the moment and you know i've
served all over the world i fucking love different cultures you know i've fucking honestly that's why
i travel so much um but when we're our culture is being suppressed when we're losing our identity
at the and we have a huge law and order crisis at the cost of our children something needs to be done agreed um right one
more question before we go on um so regarding um the wider political scene right now obviously
everyone's been talking about restore britain and rupert law and i wouldn't be allowed out of the
space without asking you this um what do you think of restore britain what do you think of rupert law and uh have you maybe had a little word so um what i can say is that i'm talking with rupert
as we speak i'm in talks with rupert i'm in talks with ben habib um you know i'm in talks
with a couple of political parties um so the thing about it, Basil, all I'm going to say
is once I step into this political space, this is going to be my third and final career. You know,
I've had a career in the military, I've had a career in the media world, and I've still got
a career in the media world as it stands. I, I'm 45 years old, mate. Um, when I
step forward, um, which I will do, I will do, um, that's me for the next 25 to 30 years until I
retire. Um, you know, I will be what I think is really, really important and why age is on my side you know I've got
fucking skin like a rhino I've got big enough shoulders to take on um you know to take to take
the majority of of the weight that will be put on me from uh from taking up this new career
but uh I want to be I think we need a constant in British politics you know not someone that
just comes in and out not someone that just comes in and out,
not someone that just fucking does a term and fucking blinds his pocket.
And, you know, financially I'm happy, you know,
I'll be donating pretty much like Rupert Lowe donating.
If I do jump into an MP position,
I'll be donating my government wage to veteran charities and cadet forces across the country.
But the answer to that, mate, is as it stands, I'm still very interested and, you know, things are happening behind the scenes for me to run as an independent London mayor.
happening behind the scenes for me to run as an independent um london mayor that just sits with
my moral compass and you know hence why i sort of announced that at the uh freedom of speech rally
um that's still it's still very much in the pipeline um when will i campaign for you know
if and i say you know if if nudge nudge wink nudge, wink, wink, I do, um, do, uh, start to campaign it, what it would be probably about 16 to 18 months out.
Um, I believe that Layla Cunningham is, uh, you know, and reform, they've lit the fuse too early.
And that's a long time, two and a half years to, to, to campaign and to, you know, to to to get the message across but the thing that i have on my
side mate is i've sacrificed before you know i was willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for
queen and country and i truly was i remember when i signed the dotted line at the age of 16
and i swore an oath and allegiance to the queen it was to the queen and to the country right
and after that when i got out the room I remember putting my hand on
the bible doing what I needed to do I genuinely believed mate this is how you know I genuinely
believed I was you know the queen's personal bodyguard I genuinely believed that I was
fucking taking care of the UK by myself you know it was that sense of pride that sort of engulfed me
and I was willing to give the ultimate sacrifice to,
to make sure that,
that I adhered to,
to what I swore into.
And the sacrifice that it took is ultimately what I need to take again.
Right.
You know,
I'm going to have to shit can my media career,
you know,
just now people knowing that I'm sort of stepping in all the echo chambers out
there that I'm running from air in all the echo chambers out there that
i'm running from air of london people are running scared already their contracts are going people
are like you know but i'm in a i'm in a very healthy position so it doesn't really matter
um what happens but um my moral compass yet doesn't allow me to to sit back on my hands mate so um
when it does happen just just i just want
everyone to know when it does happen i'm i'm in it for the long run this isn't a dip in dip out
this is a right we're going to implement some fucking serious change and we're going to uphold
it and uh you know re-establish our identity re-establish our culture our way of life and um and uh yeah implement drastic change
which is needed across the country and hopefully i can start that with london absolutely fantastic
and obviously um many patriots who are in the space and around the country will be backing you
all the way on that so i wish you all the best of luck and just moving on a bit now um obviously
recently uh it's been revealed that you've been on an expedition and you've been filming a
documentary do you want to maybe tell everyone a bit about that i'm not going to give the spoilery
of what you've been doing but do you want to tell everyone yes mate um do you know what i'm starting
to take control of all of my content now um i wish i'd have done it a bit earlier, but, you know, everything happens for a reason.
I've got my own production company.
I've been sort of taking control of my formats of my content because I've over the years I've made organizations millions.
I've made literacy agencies millions.
And don't get me wrong, I've done well with myself as well. So this isn't a sob story or, you know, but it's just a case of, right,
I just need to take charge of everything that I do now.
You know, I've got a channel.
I've got, guess what?
I've got a YouTube channel.
I've got social media.
I've got, you know, I've got my own production company where I can start
filming my own content and then, you know, selling it to distributors.
So I'm in that sort of uh that
headspace at the moment i have been for the last 18 months where you know anything that i do i'm
just going to sell film i'm not going to allow it to get commissioned because the moment it gets
commissioned um you know they take away sort of all of the all of the control from yourself
and with everything that i do I just like to make sure that
it's done in in a raw realistic and authentic way and that's all I know when it comes to media
you know I don't know none of this scripted shit you know the moment the scripted stuff
sort of comes to me it doesn't sit right with me um so um I filmed myself climbing K2 back in 2023.
And yeah, I've literally just released it.
I released it in Australia.
I've done a co-production with Channel 7 and I've just released it on my YouTube page as we speak. Because obviously a lot of people, especially from the UK and from sort of, you know that european audience um couldn't get hold
of it because obviously it was it was it was for channel 7 in australia so i released it um a
couple of days ago and it's gone absolutely bonkers um and what i love about killer it's
called killer k2 so i climbed mountain overest in 2018 killer k2 in 2022 sorry it wasn't 23 but
and what I loved about killer k2 if you watch it on my youtube channel you will actually get a
greater understanding of the real ant middleton you know I've done a great job of hiding behind and you know I sort of used the whole media
stuff to hide behind a persona because I'm like if they want to portray me as that let them portray
me as this screaming shouty you know disciplinarian you know this let them do that because ultimately
I can hide behind that and then I can just be myself you know people will take me for who I am
when they meet me or when they come to my tours my book signings etc etc which I'm sure loads lots of
people have done but this is the first bit of content that um you you see my raw emotions
you know you see me at my you know fully stripped back bare you know fucking i'm crawling up that mountain you know um and so it was a hard one to
put out but i thought to myself if i'm going to go back into service into duty it all laps over
mate everything i do fucking all there's a purpose to it the people need to know who ant middleton is
um so the thing about the expedition,
normally it takes five weeks,
like any 8,000 sort of peak mountain.
There's 14 mountains above 8,000 meters.
And normally it takes five weeks to climb.
I've done it in 19 days.
You know, I'm quite an aggressive climber
when I climb by myself,
not when I climb with clients or with other people but um yeah i've done it in 19 days and i fucking hated every single bit of it
you know you you'll see it when you go to my youtube channel watch it and you're you'll laugh
because you'll go fucking i said he hated i hated every single minute of it but i knew that i needed
to do it just you know because of that people are and when i say people are watching you know this is you know for my
family for my children for to let people know that you know times do get tough emotions do run high
um the mindsets do fucking waver that's completely normal in life that's gonna you know go on until
the day you die that you're never gonna figure that out um so you know when you've seen me over the last decade fucking jumping out of
helicopters you know fucking jumping off of cliffs and you know being a tough guy well ultimately you
know um there's there's always something that will potentially break you out there and that's okay
um as long as you fucking see it
through, you know, to the very last moment and you rinse everything you can out of it. And that's
what killer K2 was about. Um, so, you know, do check it out. Tell me, you know, let me know what
you think about it, but, um, there's more to come. So on my YouTube channels as well, this is sort of
kickstarted my YouTube channel channel taking control of my content etc
etc and monetizing um monetizing it um you know rather than giving it away to production companies
and to channels um on the 7th of march um there's going to be um behind the scenes with
ant middleton so i'm going to take you into sort of the day in the life of myself as well and this is all part of the process of of you know being being part of the people it's all part of the process of
of getting allowing people to understand who I am and what they're going to get
with Ant Middleton and I say when because I'm super positive when I become rare of London
um so it's all a process or you know when I become an MP um and um you know I'm
standing there in the houses of commons and I'm you know chatting shit you're gonna you know you're
gonna laugh and go oh this is the humorous side event or whatever it may be so on the 7th of March
um there'll be behind the scenes content every two weeks this year of you know my fitness regimes you know my fucking family life you know what I'm
doing with my children um you know what I'm doing from a campaign standpoint you know there'll be
subliminal messages in there so um yeah the content side this year is gonna all play into
to the bigger bigger picture which is I would say you know a campaign early next year all the way
through to may of 2028 when their merrill london merrill elections take place basil i just wanted
to add just quickly um because i think and sort of played it down a little bit this killer k2
in the respect that um obviously it's the most dangerous it's the second highest mountain in
the world but it's the most dangerous the the death rates for people attempting this climb to the summit is ridiculous you've only
got to do your own research but you know it was only up to and even at the time of his climb
that the the number of uh people in history that summited k2 um was pretty much equivalent to the
same number of uh people humans that have been into outer space it was that
you know it's that now now it's it's surpassed slightly the number of people that have been
into outer space but it's that rare an achievement that rare an accomplishment it's um you know i
is i think it's it's just amazing and can i ask you was there ever a moment where look i'm not
saying you were going to quit but maybe there was intrusive thoughts that you had to battle to say like you can just turn back intrusive thoughts
mate i like that very politically put um yeah no there was times that i was going to quit and
you know that's that's why i take on these challenges you know i want to i want to get
to that point where i'm where i feel like
fucking quitting because then i then i have to have a word with myself i have to i have to dig
deep i have to take another breath i have to take another step forward um because you know you're
pushing your own you know psychological emotional and physical boundaries when you do that and even if you're
pushing it by one percent or zero point five percent then um you know it's it's something that
i do but mate there's not i'm not saying there's a day go past i'm super you know i'm super positive
and i and i'm excited to wake up and i'm excited to take on the day. I never know what it's going to bring.
So, but yeah, there's times in life, you know, where you're going to go,
fucking hell, is this worth it?
You know, and it's one of those with, it's the same jumping into politics, mate.
I think to myself, everyone's like, are you fucking mad?
And, you know, are you know you just you know glutton for
punishment are you uh and I'm like no I said and again it just goes back to that now just
I believe that I was just born to serve you know how can I how can I serve you know how can I use
what I've learned you know in the last 45 years to to help people to help um you know to help a situation so mate yeah there's not there's many
times in life where i thought fucking hell is this worth it i should quit but i always and if
you look at killer k2 i'm so openly honest with it you know as i even say that you know i even
say in there i've done my first rotation which is know, which you go up to camp one, camp two, and, you know, and I'd such, and, you know, you come back down, you're acclimatized,
and yeah, I got back down, and I was like, fuck this, I'm going home, and then, you know, you get
a good night's sleep, you get a good night's sleep, and the thing about what what I always do you know when I when I get asleep the moment I
wake up and I've been doing this for years and years and years I always go and look for you know
something that makes me smile I call it a positive seed you know we sometimes you wake up on the
wrong side of the bed right but um you know if that does happen, then I'll go and look for something or think about something that I'm doing in the day
that puts a smile on my face that I'm excited to do. And I call it a positive seed, um, that I put
in my head because when we wake up and we're not in the best head space or negative head space,
the easy thing to do is just to ignore it but guess what when you do that
that fucking negativity just grows and grows and grows and it stops you from doing stuff it's
you know you start to fucking sit down dwell on it overthink overanalyze um so that's what i've
done on killer k i knew that once i'd got my head down i was like and i don't show it on the on
killer k2 but i got into my tent and you know when you
just have a little paddy whack you know you're just like you have a little paddy to yourself
you know and you're just like fucking what am I doing here you fucking idiot and you know I was
like fucking you know dastily and muttly from the fucking whatever that that cartoon used to be I
was having a wacky races yeah wacky races that's it I was having a right grumble Yeah, wacky races, that's it, I was having a right grumble
At myself
But the short answer to that mate
Is yeah, of course, but that's completely
Normal mate, completely normal
And you know
There's two things that get you out of it
And that's positive thinking
And then surrounding yourself with positive people
And just one more question before we move on to the next section.
I was just wondering, when people say to you,
you know, I want to help you on your expedition to K2R,
I want to help you get elected as Mayor of London or whatever it may be,
what do you look for in the right kind of people to say,
you know, that person could actually keep up with me and keep pace with me
but also be a great asset to my team.
Do you know what? I think it just goes down to passion and obsession, you know, and also the one thing that I always say to people, you know, what are you willing to sacrifice?
How much are you willing to sacrifice? And that's what I loved about being in the special forces
it's like you didn't need to answer that question because I knew that everyone in my team was
willing to give the ultimate sacrifice to get the job done and I'm not saying that I'm looking for
people to to do that to do that but it's just like, in order to do a job, like, you know,
or jump into politics, let's just generalise it, the fucking sacrifice that you're going to take,
not only you, but your family, your loved ones, your friends, you know, your whole circle,
and that's what I say to people, and that's the question i ask him what how much are you
willing to sacrifice um and you know it's it is it opens up um you know it opens up the emotional
locker right it's like well fucking hell if you're completely honest with yourself you know
i'm not i'm not willing to sacrifice this this and this well listen this job's maybe a bit too
big for you maybe and i'm not not it's not that it's not for you but maybe you're not ready for it so that's what I'll always ask
people what are you willing to sacrifice you know um and you know do you realize do you realize the
magnitude of the sacrifices that you're going to take and the reason why people like myself step
up to things like this is because actually I don't want people to to i just happen to have done this mom conditioned to it
so there's no better person out there whether i get it right or wrong or whether you know
it fucking doesn't work out there's no person better than than me to do it so and the reason
why i'm doing it is because i don't want
other people to do it if that makes sense you know when people say to me as well you know and
you know give us a call when we're we're we're form an army and i'm like no i don't want people
to suffer i mean i don't want i don't want you to do that just just fucking hold the line let's
fucking see what we can do from a you know from a you know from a
political sort of standpoint from a from a democracy sort of uh angle um because that's
that's the way that you know we're we're going to implement change that's the way we're going to get
in and it's people like me actually breaching british politics that will then then i'll take
everyone on the ride with me all right so it's uh it's again it
just takes a couple of people but then an army behind that person to to implement change and
this is what someone said to me it was um a politician i said and you know everything's
words just now you know but you haven't got power until you're in power and i hate that word power
but you know you haven't got the you know that influence until you're in a position of influence
so your goal is to to breach british politics and once you do that then you know then you're you're
away perfect right okay so just let everybody know this um space it's only because of technical
difficulties i've ended up being the host. It's actually Mike Middleton,
who's organised all this
and very kindly asked me to sort of get involved
for this week's episode.
But going forward,
they're going to be regular spaces.
Mike's going to be hosting them
or organising them for other people to host them,
et cetera.
I don't know if I'll be involved,
but I'm just saying,
Mike's doing all the organising for this.
And if you want to hear more about Anne,
what he's been up to,
his career,
and also that campaign to become London Mayor,
obviously give Mike a follow because you'll see all the spaces,
you'll see all the updates.
So Mike Middleton, who's the co-host up here, Ant's brother,
give him a follow.
He's on 4,500 followers right now.
We need to get those numbers way, way up.
So if you give him a follow, you'll get all of the information
and you'll catch up with all the spaces.
This is the first one. So obviously we haven't had people up to speak we've had so many topics we need to cover straight away but going forward there will be opportunities for
you to come up and speak with mike and aunt in later spaces that are coming on months and weeks
away whatever their schedule is they'll get around to it now the next bit is about this crypto thing
i know nothing about crypto so i'm gonna
let you crack on this is where i'm gonna step in baz thanks man you're i think you're gonna like
this i do because we just ant was just talking about um the power of uh you know armies of people
community um and this is what this is all about so So from a political standpoint, obviously Ant specified then in the space that,
you know, his main intention is to remain independent. And however, there are communities
out there that have been doing some crazy stuff. And Basil, I know that you personally,
much like myself and Ant, have utmost respect for Rupert Lowe. So I'm going to introduce Walshy, who's up here on the speaker panel.
Now, just to give you guys, I know you're all thinking, OK, what's this crypto malarkey all about?
We're not after nobody's after investment or anything.
But to hear his story and the amount, the way they've done it and the funds they've raised for the Restore Britain political party just through Walshy.
Are you are you still with us, my brother?
I am indeed, my friend.
Right.
So before we speak to Roper, who's down there as well,
Walshie, just tell us about what you guys have built
and how you've done it and why you've done it.
Okay.
So firstly, just thank you to Basil for hosting
and thank you both to Mike and Ant for firstly your service
and secondly for giving your service and secondly
for giving us this platform. I understand the natural hesitancy around crypto. It has
a dubious reputation at best but that's purely because it's a market in its infancy. What
crypto is, is probably one of the most accurate barometers of social and cultural change
or social and cultural trends that exists in the world to be frank if there is a social or cultural
movement a viral animal a newsworthy source you can bet your bottom dollar it's going to be tokenized
now obviously one of the most prevalent movements in the UK,
and probably on a global scale with sort of Elon Musk's endorsement,
is the Restore Britain movement.
Now, obviously, I saw the Restore Britain token launch.
I invested and I became sort of a community member and an investor.
One of the most prevalent parts of crypto is what's called the Politify side of it,
whereby a token is formed generally as a sort of a support structure or a community
structure around a political movement a good example of that is is the MAGA token
which formed around the make it make America great again movement in American
that ran up to a sort of a 700 million dollar market cap the difference
between sort of MAGA and and the Britain token is doing is that in
this instance, all funds that would historically go to the developer. So to contextualize,
when every purchase and every sell of a token for the Britain token is made,
it levies a 1% tax.
Now, normally that's effectively the developer of the project's income.
It's what's used to market the token, to onboard influencers,
to pay for the infrastructure around it.
In this case, the developer of the project has foregone that token tax and is donating that token tax directly to restore britain covering the costs of maintaining the token um funding its
growth funding its marketing um with a view to donating with a view to donating 100% of the funds to Restore Britain.
Now, the token itself is still in its infancy.
I mentioned that MAGA was at 700 million market cap.
This sits at around a 1.5 million market cap.
It's very, very much like the Restore Britain movement in its infancy,
but we've still managed within, let's say, a week to donate.
I believe the running total is about $32,000, $33,000.
So the...
That's unbelievable, Walshy.
That's unbelievable.
In a week, so just for UK terms, $32,000, what are we talking, £25,000?
£28,000 or thereabouts in a week.
That's amazing.
Sorry, Guy.
And to be fair, we're very, very much still at the sort of the base camp,
to coin a phrase that's kind of prevalent in the conversation
of where I believe we can go.
You know, the Restore Britain movement is only just getting started.
We are only just getting started.
As this snowballs, I genuinely believe this can probably become
one of the most prominent funders for Restore Britain
and for the Restore
Britain campaign. And I believe it because it's I believe it's unique in its sense that this is the
first token that donates its its fees to a political cause rather than just being a sort of
a banner to rally around. I believe it can start a snowball effect whereby.
I believe it can start a snowball effect whereby, you know, political movements, charitable aspects can all be funded moving forward with sort of the same structure.
I believe we're breaking ground here.
And I do understand the hesitancy.
But the one thing that should be noted is that the blockchain doesn't lie.
The one thing about blockchain is it's completely transparent.
Everyone can see where the money is going.
There's no...
This is the way political parties should be funded for me.
There's...
To put it into layman terms, Walshie, so what you're saying is for those that don't really
understand how the blockchain works, every single penny or or cent every single one is traceable so
you can follow every transaction imagine a political party or also or an mp his expenses
for example where every single pound was traceable and you can see exactly what they've done with
everything um it's yeah it's impressive yeah sure i see you've got your
hand up and uh apologies if i was uh no mate no no it may it's you're you know you weren't dragging
on it you're exactly right and i think you know what's really really important you know when you
look at you know the web three space blockchain you know crypto smart contracts um it's the genie's out the lamp you know america are so far
advanced with this the uk for some reason have pressed pause on it and they're well we know why
they're petrified of it because it's a transparency thing right the moment you mention fucking
transparency and and accountability with uh with the current government of the day of course they're
gonna fucking shit themselves because they're corrupt as hell and and they want to control everything right all the way down to
every fucking penny that we spend but um what's really interesting about you know and this will
become more apparent next year when i start campaigning if i start campaigning um there
it's just it's all well and good making london safe and it's just, it's all well and good making London safe and secure again. You know,
it's all well and good taking, you know, two, three steps back,
which I'm going to have to do. You know,
I'm talking about zero tolerance policies.
I'm talking about accountability policies, deterrent policies,
all of those that should be in place anyway. You know,
so I'm going to have to take three or four steps back when it comes to the
safety and security of London. But how do we evolve London and you know we evolve London through through you know through technology you know
we evolve London through through big data you know you look at the world liberty finance model
that's happening you know that that's that's a franchise that could potentially you know spark
globally and it's again it's just a great way of being super
transparent. You can imagine if we'd done the voting on the blockchain, you know, if we could
come up with a way of voting using tech where, you know, KYC, KYB, everything is accountable.
And then we know who's voting. So, so mate i just wanted to back you on that
because it is something that i'm that we are working on hence why i've got michael um here
you know he says he says he's you know super proud of me and but you know when it comes to
the the web free space and the crypto space blockchain space um you know he's my go-to man i go to because um it's coming mate it is coming
um and it's just a matter of of who gets there first and um you know who takes the initiative
but we seem to be so far behind when it comes to absolutely everything when it comes to the
economy when it comes to safety and security when it comes to safety and security, when it comes to technology. And this is one of the reasons why I really want to, you know, become mayor of London as well,
is because we should be leading in all of those verticals. You know, this is something that we
should be really, really pushing. And we should be the tech hub of the world. We should be the
financial hub of the world. We should be, you know, one of the, if not the safest city in the
world. There's no reason why we can't be that and i think you know with the blockchain and web3
initiative i think if we can get on board with that um sooner rather than later then that will
just propel us um to where you know close to where we need to be i think i i think what i just wanted
to add on to here if i could just interject i, I think what's impressed me the most, I think, with what Walsh has achieved with this Britain token.
And like he said, £28,000 so far donated in a week, in a week.
Now, this isn't £28,000 from a major rich donor.
prude and tiny from the from one penny being spent to one thousand pound being spent by somebody
who's what we call in the in the meme coin world we call a dj and gambler right the people they're
going to gamble anyway they're speculating on meme coins this is going to happen irrespective
but 99 of the time it's happening um without any sort of without any good cause behind it. So the way these guys have smart contract initiated
the trading fees to allow for these donations to accrue,
it's a community.
It's the power of their community,
trading, memeing, doing whatever they do.
And for every single transaction,
a small fee has been taken that nobody's missing,
but they all know that it's all accumulating.
And in a week for a community to trade that much that they donated 28 grand to a political party, it blows my mind.
Yeah, go on. Sorry, Walsh.
Imagine what we can do when we get bigger.
The sky is the actual limit.
We're still a micro-cap token at the moment.
This has a long way to go.
And as the price of the token rises, so do the donations exponentially.
And you touched on a very good point there in sense of community building.
We have a Britain token community that's approaching, I believe,
4,000 members in a week. We are, I believe, one of the largest standalone private groups
devoted to Restore Britain online at present. The crypto community that was formed around
this token. I don't believe there is another token is another token and what's amazing as well walsh is a lot of political parties and i won't name any but we
all know they all rely on on on on donors they all rely on one individual to donate a huge amount
um and it happens in all the political parties whereas you're you're making a huge donation
but there's no one behind it as in there's no not one individual there's a community there's all the political parties, whereas you're making a huge donation,
but there's no one behind it.
As in, there's not one individual.
There's a community.
There's a huge community.
So everybody feels like they're part of something.
It's a sum of a load of tiny parts.
Yeah.
You might have someone buying $10. You might have someone buying $10,000 worth.
They all pay the same 1% tax and that 1% tax is then diverted directly to Restore Britain.
And I just want to emphasize, Walsh, everybody doing this knows it's a meme coin, knows that
they're not expected to get any, you know, they might get a better return, but they're
just gambling, right?
This is not financial advice in any way, obviously.
NFA, as we say in the biz.
But I truly believe that in 10 years' time, people will look back and say, why wasn't
this adopted earlier?
Because it will be the norm.
Funding will be conducted on the blockchain.
Voting will be conducted, as Amp wisely said, on the blockchain.
Public finances will be on the blockchain because they are transparent.
You won't have any of these COVID inquiries into spending because I believe that governmental spending should be distributed across the blockchain because there's no hiding it.
distributed across the blockchain because there's no hiding it. It makes for accountability.
It makes for accountability.
Totally. People call crypto a scam, yet it's the most open source of financial transfer in the
Totally.
world. There's no hiding from the blockchain. But Basil, before I introduce Robert, who's doing
something similar, let me give you, I know you probably, this blockchain technology chat is
probably blowing, you know, it's going over your head a little bit. But I'll give you i know you probably you this blockchain technology chat is probably blowing
you know it's going over your head a little bit but i'll give you a typical example right driving
licenses or passports or medical documents right you know when you book an appointment at your gp
you go to your gp gp gp refers you on to a specialist because you've got something wrong
with your knee for example you go to you go to the specialist he's got to bring up the docs or ask for the docs from your gp they've got to come
with you if all of this information was recorded on the blockchain it would be immediately available
it would be non-transferable and non um sort of it'd be non um editable once it's on the blockchain
it's on the blockchain so for example on the blockchain. So for example, driving licenses,
imagine the number of people that have got fake IDs, fake IDs. Let's use that one. You'll
understand. Right. Imagine if everybody's passport was on the blockchain and immigration had access
to that blockchain to check everybody's passport. Now there is, without your official passport being
on the blockchain, there is no way of getting in the country with a fake one.
Because as soon as it's scanned, it won't be on the blockchain.
It doesn't matter what nation it's from or anything like that.
It wouldn't work.
You couldn't have a fake passport.
The technology behind it is behind the whole blockchain movement is pretty fucking awesome. But it is unfortunately in its infancy to the degree that people are trying to take advantage and it's got a bad rap overall.
But I don't know if that sort of helps explain anything to you, Baz, or whether you've fallen asleep already.
Look, mate, I'm just going to be honest.
I don't understand that it's not my thing.
But if there's people out there who like it, then obviously they can get the information from you guys.
No, no, no, for sure.
Roper, what's, i'm just going to quickly
touch on with roper like for everybody down there by the way and his gun that's not rupert
it's roper um that's a uh it's a common um thing within meme coins to distort people's names
and and things like that can you talk about obviously he's doing a similar thing but can
you talk about where your funds are going and how that's working yes yes uh thanks mike for for organizing this and giving us a platform uh
basil and ant as well um really um awe-inspiring stuff watch your k2 documentary earlier it's
amazing so um yeah just to um we are doing something well kind of similar i guess to the
britain coin um but sort of approaching it from a different way so um we use all of our creator
fees 100 of our creator fees to donate to the maggie oliver foundation uh for those of you who don't know who the Maggie Oliver Foundation are, they are a charity that are actively supporting victims of grooming gangs in the UK.
So they support women and girls who were affected and abused by vile grooming gangs.
So it's a really, really important cause that we're donating all of our
creator fees to to date in the I think we've been live for around five days we've donated around
£1,000 to the Maggie Oliver Foundation and we're hoping to go a lot bigger and a lot better than that. We're still a very small community. We're building
the right way from really a $2,500 market cap coin that was just stuck on the bonding
curve for three days. We're building organically without hype or boosts or anything like that.
We're just building a really nice community of people who are creating memes,
bag working, as we call it in crypto. And yeah, just trying to build the right way,
slowly and surely. Like what she said, like you've, like you've also said,
there is no expectation of financial gain in in crypto. It's highly, highly speculative, highly volatile. So it's not necessarily something that you should get involved in if you're not experienced with it.
already trading mean coins know that at least one percent of your um of of whatever you're
trading with is going to um be used with um for for creative ease and that's all going towards
the maggie oliver foundation that we're really proud to support so um yeah that's pretty much it
i'm part of both communities and i think that both you guys are doing an amazing job.
What people need to understand, and this is the blunt truth of the matter, is that meme coin traders are gamblers, right?
They like to gamble on speculative stuff.
Now, if you go down to your bookies and you place a £10 bet on your football, you go to your Labbrooks or your Betfred, you're going to place your bet.
People are going to go into the bookies that always is always is gonna be gambling but what they're doing is
they're the bookie that when you go in and spend 10 pound on a bet they're gonna take a pound of
that and give it to charity so you've got your nine pound bet that you're probably gonna lose
right you're a gambler this is the harsh reality but they're gleaning the one percent for a good
cause because that that that gambling is going to happen anyway,
with or without any kind of influence.
These communities are going to do this anyway,
just as John or Tom, Dick and Harry is going to go down to bookies and places bet.
All they're doing is they're basically bringing a charity element,
a donation element a donation
element to that gambling and um you know if some good can come out of what most people would
consider bad gambling then then so be it but to be able to raise 28 000 pounds to donate to
a political party just goes to show the the level of um the sorry, of a community. And I take my hat off to them.
That's the gist of it from my angle.
Thank you very much.
As I said, we're just getting started.
The numbers are small compared to where they're going to go, I believe.
I'm certain of.
No, that's great.
Well done, Walshy.
What you've done there is amazing.
A lot within the Roper Loot community,
also community members of the Britain coin.
And, you know, we fully support what you're doing.
So, yeah, keep up the good work.
Thanks, my friend.
And what's your view on, obviously, the charity side of meme coin trading
and things like that?
And obviously, you're not involved.
You don't really get involved in anything like that.
But raising money is a way to raise funds, right, for a good cause?
Yeah, absolutely.
It's a way of bringing not only a community together.
But, yeah, it's a great way to raise funds.
It's almost like, it's almost like, you remember the old school communities where you used to go around and, you know, put a penny in the pot and, you know, it's almost like that, but it's gone super digital now and super, you know, super tech.
almost like that, but it's gone super digital now and super, you know, super tech. Um, but I almost
see it as, you know, I sort of try and relate things to, to what I've experienced in life.
And I love that when it, I love a sense of community. I just love that sense of community.
And again, you can trust people in your community. You can't, you know, the community, community needs
to fucking develop and you know, you need to be a constant within that community to establish trust um but it's uh yeah it's it's a great way to raise funds and it's something that
i will be you know i have looked into and i will be looking into and i will be doing
um moving forward that's for sure because um there's yeah and there's a there's a lot of
money as well there's a lot of people that i just want to help, you know, with myself, um, you know, moving forward with my campaign, you know, I'm finding a lot of people
that are just going and, you know, let me, let me donate towards your campaign. I, you know,
I want to, you know, I want to help change London. I want to help you to change London.
Now you're the one carrying the shield. You're the one carrying the sword. You know, what, what,
what can I do? So people want to do it. We're at a stage in life where, um, again, I talked about, you know, you know,
stepping up and stepping forward. Um, people are doing it now. Um, you know, they're seeing,
seeing the state of the country that they're asking how they can help. And this is just
another form of help, mate. It's just another form of communities coming together and helping
out to implement change. Love it.
But guys,
listen,
I've got to shoot.
I've got to go.
So I'm going to love you and leave you.
Basil,
thanks so much for hosting this.
Mike,
thanks ever so much for putting this on.
Walshy,
Rupert,
everyone in this chat.
I've, I've scrolled up and down.
We've got Rydosaurus as well
give Rydosaurus a follow yeah his song is amazing he's done a tune
yeah it's amazing isn't it bro yeah yeah so give him a follow and guys I will um
chat with you all very soon i'll be jumping on spaces
way more often so guys let me know um yeah let me know when and um like i said give my brother a
follow and here keep you updated if i can't but i'll be here i'll be a constant and um yeah reach
out when you want take care guys bye-bye thanks very much and i think on that note we'll wrap the
space up so i just want to say
a big thank you
to everyone who tuned in.
Obviously, this was
a slightly different space
to what you used to do with me
because obviously
we had a little bit
of technical difficulties.
I was going to be just a co-host,
but tonight, obviously,
I've hosted.
I'm sure they'll get that
sorted out in the future.
Give Mike Middleton a follow
if you want to catch up
with everything that's going on
with Ant and his journeys
and his campaign
and all the rest of it
and the good stuff that Mike's been up to as well. Obviously, give him a follow and you can keep up with everything that's going on with Ant and his journeys and his campaign and all the rest of it and the good stuff that Mike's
been up to as well obviously give him a follow
and you can keep up with all that stuff in the future
the spaces will be more open
people will be allowed to come up and speak but obviously there was
so many things they wanted to cover tonight
that we've had to get through so we have to stick to a strict
schedule just to let everyone know
right now I'm going to be opening up another
space straight after this where you can come
up and speak yourself we'll get updated on the latest news and politics and all that good stuff so if another space straight after this where you can come up and speak yourself.
We'll get updated on the latest news and politics and all that good stuff.
So if you want to jump in there, you can just follow me and you can obviously catch me in there now.
But for now, thank you very much to everyone who listened.
Thank you very much for the guys who came up and speak, the crypto guys.
Thank you very much to Mike Middleton for putting this on and organizing it.
Thank you very much, Mike. And obviously, thank you very much to the guy who's just left the space, Ant Middleton. Thanks very much, guys. See you in just two ticks.
