James Callaghan succeeded Wilson without a parliamentary majority
“On his second day as Prime Minister, another Labour MP, a disgraced Labour MP, this is very hard to explain in one sentence, but basically a disgraced Labour MP called John Stonehouse, who had faked his own death on a beach in Miami and then turned up in Melbourne and was arrested as a fraudster. He returned to British politics, he quits the party and he says there should be an immediate general election. So now Callaghan has no majority at all after just a couple of days. He's got 314 seats.”
“In 2022, they had $108 billion go towards Medi-Cal. The enrollment at the time was 39.9 million. Now we're in 2026. The proposed budget for Medi-Cal is now $222 billion, and their enrollment is 40 million. So they've only had a tiny increase in enrollment, yet they've over doubled the budget for 100,000 people. That's an easy place to point to why they're in such a deficit and where all the fraud is.”
NGOs profit by maintaining the homeless industrial complex
“This homeless industrial complex they've created in California—they've figured out that if they receive more money, why would they stop the solution? Because then they stop receiving more money. Each NGO is actually incentivized to keep the homeless going because it makes them more money. They buy up hotels or apartment complexes, house low-income individuals on Section 8, and accumulate hundreds of millions of dollars in assets while the problem gets worse.”
NGOs profit by maintaining the homeless industrial complex
“This homeless industrial complex they've created in California—they've figured out that if they receive more money, why would they stop the solution? Because then they stop receiving more money. Each NGO is actually incentivized to keep the homeless going because it makes them more money. They buy up hotels or apartment complexes, house low-income individuals on Section 8, and accumulate hundreds of millions of dollars in assets while the problem gets worse.”
Medicare beneficiary numbers are more valuable than credit cards
“The most valuable thing to somebody over the age of 65 is their Medicare beneficiary number. That's even more valuable to a fraudster than a credit card. They get the medical beneficiary numbers of these people, and then they start enrolling them into hospice. A lot of people in California don't even know they're enrolled in hospice until they go to the doctor for an appointment or surgery and they get denied because the system says they are on end-of-life care.”
Fraudsters operate 89 hospice centers from a single building
“It turns out that they are just a bunch of plazas in this place called Van Nuys in California, in LA, that just have literally 10 to 89 hospices in one building. You drive by and don't think anything of them because you've never seen anything happen. Well, there's a little hospice in a room that's like eight by eight. You knock on the door and nobody's there. If someone is in it, it's literally like one desk, and outside you see Maybachs and G-Wagons.”
Americans work 25 days annually just to pay fraudsters
“Three to 7% of each tax dollar goes towards fraud here in the United States. That means that each American is working 25 days out of the year just to pay a fraudster. People say it's not that much money, but when a department allows $7 billion and just 1.7% of that is lost to fraud, that is still $100 million. That is how much daycare fraud there is in California, and that is a very low estimate.”
Fraudsters operate 89 hospice centers from a single building
“It turns out that they are just a bunch of plazas in this place called Van Nuys in California, in LA, that just have literally 10 to 89 hospices in one building. You drive by and don't think anything of them because you've never seen anything happen. Well, there's a little hospice in a room that's like eight by eight. You knock on the door and nobody's there. If someone is in it, it's literally like one desk, and outside you see Maybachs and G-Wagons.”
Russian and Armenian mafias control California hospice fraud networks
“The Russians actually got a hold of somebody who knew my mom and said, the Russian mafia wants me to tell you to make sure Nick doesn't come poking around our fraud. Like, that's not a joke. We were driving in LA, and she had my mom's phone number. She called and said to have Nick not come snooping around our businesses. The Armenians and the Russians are a lot smarter; they aren't doing press conferences. They work in a quieter, scarier way.”
The pound reached record lows during 1976 inflation
“On the 5th of March, that's a week before Wilson is planning to make his announcement, the Bank of England decides to cut interest rates to try and give the economy a little bit of a boost. And the markets don't like this at all. And people start rushing to sell sterling. And quite soon the rush turns into a stampede. So by the evening of the following day, the 6th, the pound has now fallen to $1.98. Remember it was $2.23 a few minutes ago. It's now $1.98, the lowest level in its history.”
California voter rolls include thousands of fraudulent registrations
“There's so many red flags inside these voter rolls. For instance, you have people who are said to be 126 years old voting. Then you go to the house, and the person's 80 years old, but they've 'voted' in 55 elections. And they don't require ID. You also have people who are registered to UPS boxes and PO boxes as their domicile address, which you cannot actually do. It's enraging because our vote is supposed to be what matters in a democracy.”
Wilson suffered from deep paranoia regarding security services
“He said the British security services were out to get me for years. They spread rumours that I was running a communist cell in Downing Street. And these BBC blokes can't believe this. I mean, this guy was prime minister just a few weeks ago. And then he's very calm, he's still puffing on his cigar. He says, they were saying that I was tied up with the communists. The link was Marcia. She was supposed to be a dedicated communist. And he goes on to say, he says, Norman Scott, this stable bloke, is a South African agent.”
Harold Wilson resigned due to exhaustion and decline
“And Bernard Donoghue followed him out and found him in the toilet with kind of with his head in his hands, absolutely crushed. And Wilson just said very weakly, I'm so exhausted. I'm so tired. And he just he basically allowed himself to be insulted in this way by his own Chancellor in front of everybody. He did nothing at all about it. And he is, as Donoghue writes a month later, privately, we know he's blown. He's no more interest, no more ideas, no appetite for power.”
Dennis Healy shifted toward monetarism to fight inflation
“Because Healy is actually a very clever man and he's intellectually self-confident, he's self-confident enough to listen to them and to say, OK, fair enough, I will change. And it's very rare that Chancellor does that, actually. It's one of the signal examples in modern British history of a Chancellor starting off as one thing and then turning into something else. So he then reinvents himself as something of a monetarist, as somebody who is basically going to use monetary targets to bring inflation down.”
Bowie’s fascist comments mirrored the decade’s dark zeitgeist
“In April 1976, he was telling a press conference that Britain could benefit from a fascist leader. Then in May 1976, so the following month, came the most notorious incident of all, when he turned up at Victoria Station in I think an open top Mercedes and greeted fans with what was alleged at the time to be a Nazi salute and which Bowie, Elon Musk style subsequently said had just been a wave. Then a few weeks later, he gives the interview that I've just cited.”
“In 2022, they had $108 billion go towards Medi-Cal. The enrollment at the time was 39.9 million. Now we're in 2026. The proposed budget for Medi-Cal is now $222 billion, and their enrollment is 40 million. So they've only had a tiny increase in enrollment, yet they've over doubled the budget for 100,000 people. That's an easy place to point to why they're in such a deficit and where all the fraud is.”
California voter rolls include thousands of fraudulent registrations
“There's so many red flags inside these voter rolls. For instance, you have people who are said to be 126 years old voting. Then you go to the house, and the person's 80 years old, but they've 'voted' in 55 elections. And they don't require ID. You also have people who are registered to UPS boxes and PO boxes as their domicile address, which you cannot actually do. It's enraging because our vote is supposed to be what matters in a democracy.”
The Lavender List scandal damaged Wilson’s reputation
“By his last act of patronage, Harold Wilson has succeeded in reducing himself and not only himself, he has demeaned the office of Prime Minister. And actually, Labour MPs were appalled by this. That he should pick inadequate, buccaneering, sharp seisters for his honours was disgusting. It was unsavoury, disreputable and it just told the whole Wilson story in a single episode. And Haynes and Donahue go around everywhere and they say to everybody, this is Marcia's list, she wrote it on a lavender note paper.”
Russian and Armenian mafias control California hospice fraud networks
“The Russians actually got a hold of somebody who knew my mom and said, the Russian mafia wants me to tell you to make sure Nick doesn't come poking around our fraud. Like, that's not a joke. We were driving in LA, and she had my mom's phone number. She called and said to have Nick not come snooping around our businesses. The Armenians and the Russians are a lot smarter; they aren't doing press conferences. They work in a quieter, scarier way.”
Americans work 25 days annually just to pay fraudsters
“Three to 7% of each tax dollar goes towards fraud here in the United States. That means that each American is working 25 days out of the year just to pay a fraudster. People say it's not that much money, but when a department allows $7 billion and just 1.7% of that is lost to fraud, that is still $100 million. That is how much daycare fraud there is in California, and that is a very low estimate.”
Medicare beneficiary numbers are more valuable than credit cards
“The most valuable thing to somebody over the age of 65 is their Medicare beneficiary number. That's even more valuable to a fraudster than a credit card. They get the medical beneficiary numbers of these people, and then they start enrolling them into hospice. A lot of people in California don't even know they're enrolled in hospice until they go to the doctor for an appointment or surgery and they get denied because the system says they are on end-of-life care.”
