#145 - Montgomery Toms - The British Charlie Kirk
Episode
99 min
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3 min
Topics
Personal Finance, Relationships, Leadership
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Key Takeaways
- ✓State Education Capture: British universities mandate pronoun badges at entry, distribute rules prohibiting "ableist, classist, sizeist" language, and require photography students to write essays on critical race theory. One geography teacher had left sixth form the previous year before returning to teach 11-year-olds. Parents remain largely unaware of curriculum content including sex education that presents contraception methods without discussing abstinence, and schools administer vaccinations without parental consent forms, as happened with tetanus shots to 12-year-olds.
- ✓Economic Barriers to Family Formation: Previous generations could purchase four-bedroom detached homes on single aircraft engineer salaries at three times annual income while funding family holidays and private school for two children. The same properties now cost ten times salary for smaller homes, requiring dual incomes. This stems from debt-based monetary systems creating inflation that benefits asset holders while wage increases lag, forcing young people to either earn double average salaries or abandon traditional family structures.
- ✓Police Political Bias: Officers initially supported the assault victim until learning his banner read "Britain needs mass deportations," then stated "if you don't want things to kick off, don't create a situation." One officer confirmed "it is actually" a crime to be offensive. Police arrested the defender without questioning the original assault victim for three hours, never asking why he called them. The entire treatment shifted based on political speech content rather than actual criminal conduct.
- ✓University Financial Coercion: After students waited outside accommodation to confront him, vegans demanded no meat in shared fridges, and widespread harassment began, university administrators offered to refund first quarter tuition only if he left immediately. Waiting one day would forfeit all fees. This represents institutional strong-arming to remove politically non-conforming students rather than direct expulsion, avoiding formal records while achieving the same outcome through financial pressure.
- ✓Generational Victim Culture: State education teaches young people they are entitled to life without offense, that masculinity is toxic, and personal responsibility is unnecessary. When a student fell in the playground, saying "man up" resulted in reprimands. This creates voting patterns favoring socialism and state dependence rather than conservatism's personal responsibility. The lockdowns at age 14 revealed the state's willingness to restrict fundamental liberties like movement and speech while rejecting alternative narratives.
What It Covers
Montgomery Toms, a 20-year-old British activist, discusses his confrontation at London College of Communications where a student violently disrupted his "Britain needs mass deportations" debate table. He details police response, university indoctrination, pronoun mandates, and launching Freedom Watch GB to challenge state overreach, welfare dependency, and restrictions on free speech among young people.
Key Questions Answered
- •State Education Capture: British universities mandate pronoun badges at entry, distribute rules prohibiting "ableist, classist, sizeist" language, and require photography students to write essays on critical race theory. One geography teacher had left sixth form the previous year before returning to teach 11-year-olds. Parents remain largely unaware of curriculum content including sex education that presents contraception methods without discussing abstinence, and schools administer vaccinations without parental consent forms, as happened with tetanus shots to 12-year-olds.
- •Economic Barriers to Family Formation: Previous generations could purchase four-bedroom detached homes on single aircraft engineer salaries at three times annual income while funding family holidays and private school for two children. The same properties now cost ten times salary for smaller homes, requiring dual incomes. This stems from debt-based monetary systems creating inflation that benefits asset holders while wage increases lag, forcing young people to either earn double average salaries or abandon traditional family structures.
- •Police Political Bias: Officers initially supported the assault victim until learning his banner read "Britain needs mass deportations," then stated "if you don't want things to kick off, don't create a situation." One officer confirmed "it is actually" a crime to be offensive. Police arrested the defender without questioning the original assault victim for three hours, never asking why he called them. The entire treatment shifted based on political speech content rather than actual criminal conduct.
- •University Financial Coercion: After students waited outside accommodation to confront him, vegans demanded no meat in shared fridges, and widespread harassment began, university administrators offered to refund first quarter tuition only if he left immediately. Waiting one day would forfeit all fees. This represents institutional strong-arming to remove politically non-conforming students rather than direct expulsion, avoiding formal records while achieving the same outcome through financial pressure.
- •Generational Victim Culture: State education teaches young people they are entitled to life without offense, that masculinity is toxic, and personal responsibility is unnecessary. When a student fell in the playground, saying "man up" resulted in reprimands. This creates voting patterns favoring socialism and state dependence rather than conservatism's personal responsibility. The lockdowns at age 14 revealed the state's willingness to restrict fundamental liberties like movement and speech while rejecting alternative narratives.
- •Inflation as Wealth Transfer: The fundamental way to tax the rich involves eliminating inflation, as the majority of wealth increases for asset holders comes through inflationary monetary expansion. Green Party and Marxist voters correctly identify widening wealth gaps as unfair but propose solutions requiring deficit spending that perpetuates the problem. Technology should be deflationary, making everything better, cheaper, faster, but debt-based systems create opposite effects where only asset owners benefit.
- •Campus Activism Strategy: The table-flipping incident generated millions of views, £4,000 in initial funding, security resources, and messages from students wanting to establish Freedom Watch GB chapters at other universities. Half a dozen students approached privately after crowds dispersed to express agreement and request further discussion. Screenshots show university students losing friendships for defending free speech, sparking internal debates. Violent reactions prove opponents cannot debate ideas, similar to historical patterns of silencing through force.
Notable Moment
When university students discovered the defender was not white, they expressed confusion about why he would protect someone they labeled fascist, stating his skin color should determine his political alignment. The activist challenged them to recognize they were judging people by race rather than ideas, but the students could not grasp the irony of their own position while calling others racist.
Episode Transcript
The banner reads, Britain needs mass deportations. Yeah. And then it says, prove me wrong. This guy comes up behind me, doesn't have the ability to articulate his point, doesn't have the ability to debate with me, is emotional and grabs my table, flips it in the process, you know, assaulting me, hitting me, flips the table, bashes my arm, whatever. The table flips, damages my camera equipment, I call the police and then they are on my side until they ask me the question, what was it you were doing? And I tell them what my banner said, and then they essentially basically say, you're you've caused this. You're the reason this has happened. I I said, is it a crime to be offensive? And she says, it is actually This show is brought to you by my lead sponsor, Airon, the AI cloud for the next big thing. Iren builds and operates next generation data centers and delivers cutting edge GPU infrastructure all powered by renewable energy. Now if you need access to scalable GPU clusters or are simply curious about who is powering the future of AI, check out iron.com to learn more, which is iren.com. Monty, how are you doing? I'm okay. It's been a it's been a bit of a crazy few days, but, yeah, I'm alright. We're we're gonna talk about that, but I do wanna start with, knowing a bit more about where you feel the state has failed your generation. Oh, wow. How long you got? So we got all day, man. Well, yeah. I mean, my history is I I came out against the lockdowns. So I was 14 when the lockdowns hit, and now I'm 20, which seems like a, you know, a bit of a bit crazy when you think about it. But I think that fundamentally for me, that's when I realized the state has transformed the relationship between the citizen and the and the individual, where the state feels it has the ability to only put one narrative forward, reject alternative narratives, and then come forward and say, we're gonna restrict your fundamental liberties like freedom of movement, freedom of speech, and we're gonna lock you in your homes. And if you come out, we're gonna arrest you. And that and and then when you start to expand and look at the actual science and all of these things, it's actually commonly respected now that lockdown wasn't a good idea and loads of things around it. It wasn't that's a whole other detailed conversation. But for me, it was there's there's the scientific aspect, but there's also the philosophical grounding in it and the complete lack of principles of freedom. So that's where I think the state fundamentally failed our generation because I'm not a big fan of state education myself. I I I will I will have my children homeschooled, and I just think I think, well, I don't believe in state education full stop, you …
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