TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* Let’s Race Riot Again Like We Did Last Summer

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

We talk about Elon’s terrible diner… but mostly another Summer of incipient race riots, and what are the current left responses? Finally, we end on an article about tech larvae getting into mysticism because they were spooked by AI. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/liveshows *TF LIVE ALERT* You can get tickets for our show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival here! Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

This is from someone to interview in Essex live, a guy called Steve who did not be, he was called local Steve, but they capitalized local and Steve. Local Steve. Oh yeah, no, I know that guy. Yeah. Yeah. Local Steve. Local Steve, who attended the protest last night said, quote, I've come here to have a protest against the people in these hotels. They come down to Essex and they think they can do things to our children. We're not having it. We're not having it at all. We're not far right people. We're not racist people. We're just concerned with our children being able to walk to school in the morning and then walk home.

I want to see that motherfuckers tattoos. Local Steve, why don't you pop your shirt off? Yeah. So basically this is, this is local Steve. These things that's pretty representative, which is we're not racist. We just think that all the people in this hotel who are a different race to us are a threat to our children and make them unable to walk to and from school. But crucially, all the things that are threats to their children that are sort of like white British coded, those are like traditional values, you know?

Yeah, of course. Like, no friction between the idea that sort of like migrants, refugees, asylum seekers are kind of like this huge danger to children, but also you should be able to hit your children again. Yeah. Yeah. It does feel like we're kind of losing some kind of like information war here where like what has essentially happened here is like there's been some alleged offense committed by an asylum seeker and he has been promptly arrested and charged by the police, which is exactly what should happen.

That classic one tier justice. Yeah. Yeah. It's like what like in terms of the facts of the case, it's like, what is the complaint? It's like, what, like the criminal justice system has functioned. Like there's none of this like, oh, they're getting away with it. Or like, it's like, so it's sort of how have we gotten to this place where like this is seen by so many people as a crisis? Well, I can tell you how and how is going on every single breakfast show. It's going on question time on news night is Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage constantly has been saying for years and years, not just him,

but people like him have been saying the fact of asylum seekers being here is isn't itself dangerous, right? If there isn't some magical breakdown of community cohesion that's happening because of the phones or because of like a sort of spontaneous loss of trust in institutions. Like there's a report that was commissioned by fucking Sajid Javid and John Cruttis, who basically, oh, well, the social fabric of Britain is in danger of falling apart because all of these things are happening and they desperately need to be addressed. Like these are the motherfuckers who started ripping us in the first place. Well, yeah, indeed. Yeah.

Well, the Sag. No, come on. Very Sag. Very Sag. Sag is like Atlas. He holds Britain on his back. Yeah. I think the point about this being like very much like in the works for a long time is very true. Like this sort of talks about like Civil war and Britain on the edge and everything

has kind of been happening ever since. Well, it's been happening before the South Port riots, but once they happened, it was very much like you had right-wing commentators on there just sort of being like, oh, this is just kind of the beginning. We're going to see more of this coming up, which is not an inaccurate point. But I feel like whenever I listen to fucking Matt Goodwin talk about this, I'm just like, you may as well just smile about it. Like, you know, it's very hard to sort of contain your glee for like this. And, you know, I want to be very clear here, not in the sense of like his, not to sort of like kind of say that, oh, he wants this for like purely political reasons, but anyone who sort of followed Matthew Goodwin's

like career over the past couple of decades will kind of realize- Unfortunately, we have. Yeah. Has he been dispatched urgently to the asylum seeker protest to eat a Quran? Yeah. Well, they've gone fucking up. I feel like that probably is the inevitable state. He's going to eat a Quran to try and own everyone and it will unite the country in just being like, what the fuck is that guy doing? Yeah. You're meant to be triggered, a cron to try and own everyone and it will unite the country and just being like, what the fuck is that guy doing? Yeah. You're meant to be triggered, but it's so baffling. Yeah, but there's like a million of these guys who always have these kind of dire warnings that you have to read basically

as kind of masturbatory. And this is it. So part of it is also just like, you've got enough people jacking off to the idea of a race war. But I feel like there's also this element of like, because you have an Omni Crisis and because the people who are really baiting for a race war are kind of the ones who have caused it. Think about why the hotels thing has sort of become such an issue in the first place. In part because no one built any infrastructure to recognize the influx of refugees coming in across Europe on a much bigger scale, largely in part due to geopolitical situations. This is once again a situation where lots of countries, including Britain, had opportunities to prepare. Some European

countries did, but Britain were just like, yeah, we'll just sort of see what happens. As a result, it's like, well, you don't really have anywhere to like house these people because you have a housing crisis and you have like a shelter crisis, you know? And so this is like what was supposed to be like a short term solution is like one that became kind of the prominent solution under the conservative government who just didn't want to build anything or didn't want to sort of like do anything that wasn't half-assed and causing human rights crises in the process. So you've got the long tail of that, and you've got the various bits of trying to create the idea of public infrastructure using a very loose string of private hotels

who for them are making business decisions, others are just like, well, okay, fine. We'll just do what we're asked to do. You look at these hotels and these are not beloved community institutions. There's a lot of these four star hotels and there's one which I think is housing refugees nearish where I live and it's classified as a four star hotel. But if you look at it, it's very much like, yeah, this is what happens if your wife kicks you out of the house and you only have cash in your pockets. This is the place you go to, right? It is very far removed from a night. It's not even like the three star hotel of a nice European vacation. These are like fucking shitholes, right? Far right guys turning up to protest at the hotel going like,

Hang on a minute, I've stayed there! There's something very specific about this as well, where it's like you will look at like, sort of Nigel Farage or whoever it is, being like, these sort of like dangerous migrants are being housed in like, complete luxury, by, you know, your taxes, and then you see like, footage of the hotel in question, you're like, this looks like the biggest shithole in the world. Yeah, like the one in Canary Wharf where they were really trying to hammer it up, just like, yeah, this is the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf.

It's one of the most expensive places. Oh, not a Britannia. And someone saw some videos of it being inside, and the amount of comments, I was just like, yeah, it's a bit trap, isn't it? It's a bit... What is ironic about this is these are the kind of hotels that Nigel Farage stays in, because I've watched the man's TikToks and he's always in his shite hotel. So in a way, actually, maybe he's got a point.

Yeah, like look, how much of our taxes are going into little packets of Nescafé? Oh man. And those little like, Figs of Milk sachets. That's such a particularly British thing about this too, is to prop up a small business that exists largely out of spite. And it's such a sort of, like, marriage made in heaven for the, like, small British hotel industry to be warehousing migrants like this, because it's like, this is how they wish they could treat everyone.

And this is also, like, another economic crisis in the sense of, like, well, one thing that's really gone down quite a lot and there is no sort of government support or intervention for, at least hasn't been since COVID. And I don't even know if like hotels kind of got this help during COVID, but loads of like local hotels, it's like, have not had any people in it for like a really, really long time. Right. And so like you find like, who's fucking staying in like the holiday in a they were staying in Epping? I don't imagine it to be a particularly populous environment. But the point being that you've got this narrative that's sort of been built of an influx or an invasion, right? And that's sort of supported by this government and the last government's really bad strategy on how to deal with people coming in seeking asylum.

No safe or legal routes. Yeah. Right. And so as a result, sending lots of people in one go to specific areas, confining them to hotel rooms where they can't do any work except for doing fucking delivery or whatever. And even Venice, it's very difficult for... They have to pay a lot of money just to be able to work in the shadow economy. And then confining them to these very, very tiny rooms of which like we have all stayed in one way or another in a, in like a professional capacity. And like, it doesn't take very long for anyone, anyone who's sort of done like a sort of working

away trip in England. If you have a job in England and you were sort of sent to like a small town to do work, you know how horrible your living situation is going to be as a result of that, right? Everyone sort of, lots of people have gone through that experience. Imagine doing that for like an indefinite period of time where you also know that- What is it, like four pounds a day or something? Right. And you know, and then also just having like people yell at you outside all the time, right?

It's not like a particular, it's not a particularly pleasant experience is all I'm saying. And taking it back around, right? This contention by Cruddus and the Sag, you know, they're- Sag and Crudd, of course. Yeah, Sag and Crudd. You're listening to Cruddus and the Sag. Well, indeed. And their report that says, okay, well, this is happening. The race riots are happening because there's no community cohesion. People don't trust people who don't look like them. I wonder how that happened. Do you think it was ripping the ass out of every public service in this country over the course of about 20 years?

Yeah, indeed. This all just sort of happened because of things like spontaneous loss of trust in institutions. No one seems to like the government anymore. No one seems to trust the BBC. I guess it happened magically, possibly because of Facebook. It's the same with Labour chasing reform voters of like, well, the public just generates its own opinions and we as responsible politicians have no choice but to just follow them, I guess?