 Throughout this third lockdown, just like the second and the first, the British public have been very good at following the rules. It's why, since the start of this lockdown, daily cases have plummeted from 60,000 a day to 12,000. However, Britain still has the highest death toll in Europe, and so the government needs someone to blame. It's why we keep seeing increasingly hysterical public information adverts making out the public to be the real villain of this pandemic. On that front, this is the latest output from the Home Office. We can take a look at this now. We've unfortunately had to take the sound off. YouTube sort of has these automatic systems, which mean that if we played the blaring drum and bass, which is in the background to this Home Office video, it might get taken down. But for now, you can see it's quite bold. You shouldn't make your own pub. It's playing really, I think, on an advert we saw in the 90s and the 90s, which were respectively telling you not to download videos because you wouldn't steal a video from the shop. So you shouldn't download them. But here you can say, you shouldn't have baby showers. You shouldn't be meeting up and meeting up is against the law. And this is better if you have that really aggressive drum and bass in the background. We've spoken a few times on this show, actually, about the public health adverts we've seen from the government. I think this is probably my favorite one so far. What did you make of it? 90s nostalgia is about Belly Tox and Destiny's Child. It's not about these corny, although it did make me feel nostalgic despite my best efforts. But still, these campaigns by the government are just so relentlessly patronizing and annoying and just miss the point. Because, as we mentioned, when we talked about that poster campaign a few weeks ago, where it was pictures of people on ventilators with the slogan, being like, look him in the eyes and tell him that you can't work from home, for example. And I just reiterate what I said when we talked about that poster campaign, which is that these guilt tripping and harrowing punitive poster campaigns and campaigns in general, shouldn't be directed to people who have had unclear messaging, have had irresponsible lockdown policy, who are being forced to go into work and therefore get on the tube, etc. They should be directed to MPs and bosses who have created the conditions for us to still not have this virus under control or not find a way to have this virus without it killing so many people. These videos should be that you shouldn't tell people to take a deadly virus on the chin. You shouldn't open restaurants and cafes and shops when it will cause thousands and thousands of people to die over Christmas just to help companies make their Christmas bottom line. You shouldn't tell people that they need to self isolate when they have symptoms when you don't provide, especially self-employed people, the means to do that. And you also shouldn't tell people to not go into work unless it's absolutely necessary, but then give their bosses the jurisdiction to decide if it's necessary or not. And it's also this other way of responding to the crisis and responding to this pandemic, which is essentially a crisis of care in many ways and say that instead of revamping those infrastructures of care and understanding how to rebuild them in a way that enables people to take decisions and make and take action that is in the interest of the public health, you instead say we're just going to respond with like policing and punitive and hyper individualized and get people to blame one another. It not only deflects from your own failings as the institutions whose role and responsibility it is, it's to make sure that we have a coordinated response and one that is informed by the science. But it also helps to again retrench this conservative ideology that the way that we deal with crisis is to blame people next to us, to blame people who are more vulnerable than us and to just turn to systems of punishment and policing. I mean, it's quite simple, really, isn't it? Does having a baby shower or a house party in the middle of a pandemic help spread it? Yes. Is that the reason why we have the highest death toll in Europe? Absolutely not. People have been on the whole very, very, very strict in terms of following the rules. The reason we have an incredibly high death toll is all of the reasons Dahlia has just said there. We go into lockdowns very, very late. We haven't paid people to self isolate for the past year. These are really simple things that the government has refused to do. And they are the failings that we point out regularly on this show. If you do want to watch more Navarra media, please do subscribe to the channel. We go live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7pm and put out videos every day. Now, I've said the government is using parties to distract from their own failures. That's absolutely true. It also doesn't mean none are happening. Last Halloween police struggled to break up a rave of between 500 and 700 people in Yacht, which is outside Bristol. Now, one of those in attendance was 18-year-old George Parsons, who along with five others received a £200 fine from a Bristol magistrate last week, according to the prosecutor. And I quote, police attended at 2pm on November 1. By that time, there were between 30 and 50 people remaining. They were ordered to disperse. All the defendants refused to leave. Now, why am I telling you all of this seems like a fairly minor case. I mean, it is a fairly minor case, but it did spawn this fairly entertaining video. This is George Parsons leaving court last week. It's gone viral. Do you want me to just say about the offence? Yeah, raves are under lockdown. They're anti-capitalism. And, you know, the threat of spreading the virus? There is a guarantee of control. People are affected by the more aware of life, whether there's raves or not. So if someone became seriously ill as a result? I've had so many of my friends seriously ill. I'm through more than way of life, and so the raves are a way to respect them, like that. Raves aren't anti-lockdown. They're anti-capitalism. Then asked about the threat of spreading the virus. He says fear is the currency of control. Now, I want to be clear before we talk about this, because he seems like a nice kid. He actually reminds me of people I knew when I was 18. So I don't want to be joining this pile to say that the pandemic is his fault. The pandemic is clearly not his fault. But some of those, I mean, the point's a bullshit, really, and some of them are kind of interesting. I suppose that there is this sort of strain of rave culture, which, again, I do have a lot of warmth towards, but has brought into a funny politics around this pandemic, which, I mean, first of all, rave's really anti-capitalist. And two, I mean, fear is the cut. We're not just, all of the warnings that we get about spreading the virus aren't just to control us. It's because, literally, this is really dangerous. What did you make of that clip? I don't have time for this argument, because we all know, we all have those comrades that like this kind of shtick. I don't have time for that outside of a pandemic, let alone in a pandemic. Rave's aren't anti-capitalist. They're especially not anti-capitalist when they're happening in the middle of an airborne virus disease, pandemic. We don't throw people, especially people who are more vulnerable than us workers, their lives and livelihoods under the bus for rave. So let me just clarify that. But also, as you mentioned, he's a kid. He's doing what kids do. And the thing that you mentioned as well is that, yeah, there are some people who break the rules. There are some people who are still having parties. That's true in every country. There are always going to be people who are going to be like, who are just going to feel invincible. They tend to be younger men who just feel like they're invincible and their health is forever. But that exists in every country. That's clearly not the reason we have the death toll that we have. But I also do have PTSD from this video, just because I sometimes have to spend time with this nonsense in general. And I'm just like, no. And also, I mean, he's an 18-year-old kid. I know bloody 50-year-old adults with full jobs who make this exact same argument. And I'm just... So George Parsons, if you're watching, slap on the wrist for going to that rave. Also, raves are anti-lockdown. They're not particularly anti-capitalist. But we know who our enemy is. It's not you. It's Boris Johnson and all of those bosses who are forcing their workers to go into the office, even though we're in the middle of a pandemic and they could quite easily work from home.