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UK Column News - 4th August 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, today is Monday the 4th of August 2025, just
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after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Brian Garish, delighted to have with me in the
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studio. Ben Rubin.
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Welcome back, Ben. What's it like arriving in
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Plymouth after spending a couple of weeks in London?
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Joyous. Joyous fresh air.
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Yes. And we're also joined by Diane
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Rasmussen Mcaddy, who is on live link from the North of England.
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So welcome, Diane. Now we've got some pretty packed
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news today because a lot's been going on not only over the last
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few days but over the weekend. And of course, the immigration
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migrant issue is very, very high on the agenda with lots of film
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clip by the mainstream press or pointing a finger at anybody who
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dares to challenge the immigration numbers or the
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manner in which the immigration policies are being carried out.
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We are going to cover quite a bit of this because we the
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people NE were kind enough to let us have some film footage of
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the protests in Newcastle. So we're going to be looking at
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migration and in that section where we'll be showing some of
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the opinion for people who are essentially supportive of the
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migrants, some of the people who are clearly very worried with
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what's going on, and an interesting gentleman who was
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calling for dialogue, which seems to us to be pretty
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sensible. And now we're also going to have
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a look at the crackdown on nationalism.
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And Ben, you're beginning to focus in on the fact that
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anybody who dares challenge the government is being labelled as
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a dangerous nationalist. We've got a really packed
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section on ads and emails. And we're also going to be
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having a look at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Now, Diane is spending quite a bit of time out looking at arts
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and culture. And this is because arts and
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culture are being used as one of the key mediums through which
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the government is attacking people's minds, not only through
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the woke agenda, but of course with productions which are very
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often targeted at young minds, the minds of children.
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So today's news is going to be, as usual, quite heavy.
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But this reflects what's happening in UK.
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And if the ordinary man and woman in the street is to be
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able to fight what is happening, we all have to be able to
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understand what's happening and we have to be able to see what's
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happening. So, Diane, let's kick off with
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just the advert for that Newcastle protest and a little
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bit on how the press have reported.
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I think we might have, I think we've temporarily lost iron
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there. Not, not, not to worry.
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This is the Keys slide which we wanted to put up, which is the
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original advert for the Great British National Protest Hotel
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confirmed the new Bridge Hotel Newcastle.
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And this was 1:00 on Saturday the 2nd of August.
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And of course, true to form, the mainstream Press of course came
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out with headlines such as this. Let's just move forward there.
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23 pictures as protesters clash in Newcastle city centre over
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asylum hotels. And then of course on the right
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we've got flags and four arrested after anti migrant
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encounter protests clash outside the hotel.
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So the mainstream media loves the violence.
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I'm just checking Diane, if we got you back with us.
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Yes, thanks, Brian. I'm here now.
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It must be the windy weather out there today that's interfering
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with the broadcast. So I guess it's just worth
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noting, as you said, the mainstream media coverage about
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this and the the coverage of the different protests around the
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country have been quite interesting to see what they're
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saying about this. And, and what I want to just
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notice just a little bit about this before we go on to the
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footage that we are about to share with you today in the
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news. It's really interesting to look
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at that, that coverage from the The Chronicle, the Newcastle
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Chronicle, because there's two sets of organisers basically,
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and there's the counter protest organisers, which we'll probably
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see in the clips are are quite organised and premeditated.
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And the quote for example from them that was mentioned in this
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article, the organisers said quote yet again.
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Far right and fascist thugs are intent on bringing their message
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of hate to Newcastle. They aim to build on years of
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Islamophobia, anti migrant settlements or sentiment, sorry
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and scapegoating. In Epping and elsewhere recently
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we have already seen intimidation and violence aimed
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at refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.
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Newcastle, like the rest of the northeast, has a well learned
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reputation for unity in the face of those who seek to divide us.
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Whatever problems we face, racism and division are not the
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answer. So that is from the, again, the
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counter protest group, which we will see was actually well
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organised. So with that, I would like to
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say that thank you very much to the people that work with the
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Rumble channel called We the People Northeast.
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They have a very successful channel that they've run for
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several years on Rumble and we'll put a link to their
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channel and show notes. And we have UK column
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exclusives, direct exclusives directly from them that they
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sent to me over the weekend. So Brian, I don't know if you
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want to introduce the first clip and we can talk through these a
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bit as we go through. But lovely.
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Well, this is the first clip. This is just an overview of part
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of the protest, but you can see some very interesting things.
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Not least pay attention to people wearing masks.
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The. Media are instigating.
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And the doom, the similator, the doom that cause the.
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But it's usually because they should put.
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Minority, you thoughtless independent media.
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Excuse me, You're handing out signs, Yes?
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Would you like to answer? Put the questions independent
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media, sorry, independent media, sorry upon work purposes.
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Will this happen or will they continue to align themselves
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with Labour politicians, with the Labor Party, and continue to
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cover up and try to reform and enable?
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Their racism. So whatever local people felt,
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there was this well organised counter protest where people are
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allowed to be fully masked, banners are freely available,
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although the gentleman giving them out didn't really want to
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talk to the camera as to what he was doing.
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And then of course the young lady, I'm sure well intentioned
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but full of rhetoric about what was happening and it was all
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racism. And as we will hear in further
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video clips, a lot of it is deemed to be far right, far
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right input. So, Ben, just for me to see
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people in masks when clearly the police have said many, many
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times they're not going to tolerate people being masked up.
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This appears to me at least, to be part of what I'm going to
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call 22 tier policing. It's certainly 2 tier policing.
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I think a lot of those people are just cowards to be honest
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with you. If you've got an opinion, get
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out on the street and in front it up yourself, you know, and
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also you, a lot of these people have just busted in.
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So you have local communities out protesting and then these
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people turn up a lot of the time ushered in by the police and
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they're from out of the area, yes.
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So there's nothing organic about this at all.
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And the masking is just one way of disguising who they are and
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where they come from, ultimately.
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Indeed. OK.
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Well, Diane, don't know whether you've got anything to add to
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that very, very quickly. Yeah, One thing that I thought
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was particularly interesting was the the lady with the red hair
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talking about the racism is that basically that she's saying that
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the Labor Party itself is racist when it when it, which is
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interesting because they're the ones who are obviously in charge
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and and supporting all of this going on.
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I thought that was particularly interesting as well as the idea
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of the the people with the masks.
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Again, why is that allowed when that is clearly against the laws
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in this country to do so in a protest?
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Yeah, indeed. Well, let's look at clip 2 here
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and we've got 2 ladies who are basically in support of the
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migrants. Nation states aren't like
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businesses. That's not that's not how that
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works. That's not household, but that's
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a household budget argument, which is a fallacy because
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countries are not businesses, you know, are they not?
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They're nation states. They're not businesses.
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You don't know what you're going to.
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You're not going to. You don't know.
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You don't know as a country what's going to happen tomorrow.
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But if I run a business or a household and I know how much
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money is coming in and I have much money, I've got on.
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Schemes. And I can slave and I can make
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decisions. And if I start, I can raise.
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My countries don't behave like that.
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That's not now, but. We're, we're with the kind of
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the, the people that are trying to protect the, the hotel and
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the people in it from being from damage and from being
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frightened. Because having that sort of
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protest outside the place that you're having to live is really
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scary for people and it scars them.
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And a lot of them have had a very hard time getting here in
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the 1st place and don't need it. So that's why we're why we're
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here. But I think that a lot of people
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on the other side have genuine concerns.
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They have genuine worries. They need to be heard and they
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don't feel heard. And so that that's a problem.
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That's a problem for us all. We need to do a little bit more
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listening to one another and hearing because actually we've
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probably got way more in common. I think that there are some
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active far right racists taking advantage of that unhappiness
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and that feeling not heard. And that's that's a problem for
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all of us as well, because the far right getting a a foothold
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benefits none of us. They are on none of our sides.
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Diane, I thought this was interesting because those two
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ladies, OK, they're in support of the migrants and they they're
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worried about are they safe with the demonstration going on?
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But at least they got to the point of saying that they
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recognise that other people are worried because they feel they
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don't have a voice. So I thought that was a very
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interesting statement. Yeah, I thought it was very
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interesting. And the other thing to to note
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is that when they were talking about the migrants particularly
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not feeling safe, I also wanted to say that as I'm not sure, we
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might have some other footage as well.
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I'm not sure if we'll show it here in the main news or at some
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other point. But people talking about how
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they don't feel safe because the migrants are present, because
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they don't know if these people have been background checked and
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vetted and who are they and so on.
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So I think there's this is something they're doing to
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increase the fear on both sides of the arguments, I think,
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Brian. Indeed, and a lot of people
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using what I'm going to describe as learnt will learnt language.
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It's language which they've heard on the BBC and therefore
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they put it in black and white. It's left wing or right wing
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racism. So very interesting to see the
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programming. Let's listen to this gentleman
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who is also for the migrants. What would you say to the
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accusation that most of these hotels are populated by fighting
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aged men without families? Well, I don't know whose fault
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that is. That must be the government
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who's chosen to do that. But why?
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Why would they even do it? I mean these people not.
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Bring their families. If they're if they're coming
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from from like a war zone or or financial problems or why would
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they not bring the families? Well, really, you'd have to ask
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them that. I don't.
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Know, but I would imagine it's quite dangerous to get out of
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some of these places. So they maybe they expect their
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families to join them if they have families, maybe their
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families are being killed, who knows?
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I don't know the answer to that. You'd have to ask some of them.
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A good thing for you to do would be to interview some of the
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asylum seekers and that would be great if Yeah, I do.
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It would be good. I get their stories.
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Bennett seems to me this is another very reasonable
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individual. This gentleman is very
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reasonable in what he's saying, but he's freely admitting that
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he doesn't really understand what's happening in in the whole
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migration agenda. Go and go and talk to the
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migrants. I would say talk to the migrants
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by all means, but let's be talking to Keir Starmer and the
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rest of the politicians over the years that have created this
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mess on the streets. Completely agree with you.
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Completely agree with you. OK.
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So we're now going to switch to dial dialogue from other members
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of the public who had concerns and I've had to use the clips
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that I've been provided. So there is a little bit more
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footage on one side than the other.
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Nevertheless, we are trying to give our audience both sides of
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comment around this particular protest.
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Let's listen to what this lady has to say.
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I'm just trying to get a get a view from their different sides.
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How do you feel about the situation at the moment?
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What's brought you here to view? Me kids and me grandkids, I'm
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like, scared for them. You're scared to walk on the
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street. You're scared to come into town,
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right? Yeah, it's not right.
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I mean, after all, today, if if you're running from a wall or
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you're scared, you take your family with you.
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And it just shows what they think of women and children.
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They've left them all behind. They've come here, they laugh
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at, well, they're working illegally.
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They get everything. And like we've all worked all
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their lives and you, you, I'm retired now, but I kind of get,
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not that I want to claim benefits, but I kind of get
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nothing if I want, if I needed it.
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But these people seem to get everything and everyone you
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speak to just once that we want to border control.
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We want the borders controlled. And that's simple as if they're
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legal, they shouldn't be getting anything that should be getting
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thrown out. The lie, the lie through the
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teeth. But these people believe them.
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This is all right. How would you respond to them if
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preferred? Called the racist, which they
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undoubtedly would. That word's just been thrown out
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there because it's an easy, it's an easy 1 to get people into
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trouble or whatever, but it's not to silence.
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And we're getting silenced all the time.
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You're scared to do anything, You're scared to say anything.
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And I don't think I never even thought of racism until all this
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started. And I think more people are, are
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saying, well, I've got friends from every colour, every
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religion, every thinking. We've been friends for years and
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you know what I mean? They're good friends.
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But these people aren't our friends.
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They don't believe what we believe.
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So some interesting points there.
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The key thing that came across to me is that she feels silent.
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She's being censored for having any concerns and for speaking
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out and this is a very dangerous place to be because of course
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the anxiety and the stress increases, but clearly she she's
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worried about what is happening. Ben, I don't know whether you've
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got any comment on that I. Thought she was fantastic, very
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reasonable, level headed, not no issues with what she said there
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at all. But of course, she and many
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thousands and thousands of other people like her don't have a
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voice. Diane, I'll bring you in after
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this next clip, but this is a lady that makes a very astute
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statement about Palestine. Hello.
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So we're we're interested in both sides of this argument.
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So just wondering what's brought you here today?
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I'm here for my children, my grandchildren and for women,
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right? This is about Palestine.
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They're shouting about Palestine.
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It's not about Palestine. This is for the people of this
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country, the women and the children.
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That's who it's for. So what's the problem that the
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women and the children are facing?
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Because they're letting the Lord of migrants in on boards which
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will know who they are. They haven't got passports.
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We don't know whether they've done anything wrong.
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They could be murderers, rapists, and that's what's
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happened in this country. But they, they tell us that
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they're culturally enriching us by the, the, the doctors and
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lawyers and whatnot and, and. There's no doctors and lawyers
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coming in on them boats. There's no way there's doctors
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and lawyers coming in the boats. There's no.
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So. What what about the idea that
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they're only fighting aged men and there's no families there?
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That's. All there is, it's fighting aged
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men that's on them boats. I've very rare seen a child with
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a woman on that and then they're coming in and again a hotel,
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money, everything, whatever they want, again, whatever they want
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and it's wrong. It's not fair that we're paying
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for them all. So do you, do you feel then that
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that the descriptions of two tier politics and two T are
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policing it correct? Yes.
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Indigenous people are being treated unfairly.
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Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
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It's not fair on the people in this country who pay their
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taxes. Why should we have to pay for
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them? It's not fair, It isn't fair.
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But but the the poor or fresh people and and the the receiving
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from. Do you?
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I don't. If that's if that's like a
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family or anything's happened bad where they are, I don't
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mind. But it's all men coming in and
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I'm not racist. I'll help anybody.
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I will help anybody. But it's not fair that it's all
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men coming in. You won't leave your wife there.
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There's something wrong in that country.
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You bring your children and your wife with you.
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You mentioned not being racist that that that's probably the
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first thing they would throw at you.
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You know what it is? I was it the last one I went to,
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was it the monument right? And what called far right racist
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and Nazis and that's what they call them.
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We just stood there and just let them go on.
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We didn't do anything. We're we're peaceful.
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We're not going to cause any trouble.
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We're just worried about our country and the people in it.
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So Diane, another lady talking very sensibly and I thought she
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made some really good points. She was clearly seeing through
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what was being played out on the streets, not only there but in
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other locations. Yeah, no, I think so as well.
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It's very, very interesting to hear from her to talk about the
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fact that it is at least what we see, especially on mainstream
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coverage as well. The, the idea of just the men
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coming through on the boats. Although I would say that one
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thing that we all should be doing is looking at the actual
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statistics of the migration that is coming into this country and
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where they're coming from. And not just this, the coverage,
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the very emotive coverage that we see of the, the men on the
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boats throwing, you know, throwing their phones are all
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around and pretending they don't have a passport landing at
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Dover. That that is not the entire
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story that's going on. And again, I would just
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encourage people to look directly into the the human
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migration reports and the statistics that are available to
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see what. That is actually happening, but
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it's certainly reasonable for this lady to feel the way she
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feels based on what people are seeing for the most part.
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Indeed. Well, we've got another clip
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here, and this is 2 men, so let's see what they had to say.
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Yeah, yeah. It's a fuse.
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They've had a fuse, it's slowly burning, it's slowly burning and
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eventually it's just going to be an explosion.
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This is going to happen every week all over the country till
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people are sick and then it will just take off and it's all going
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to be far right people. You know, that's what they're
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saying, but it's not. It's just people they want to
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stick up. What do you think about the
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Essex Police taxing in the far left in Essex?
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They're supposed to be in portion and I'm pretty certain
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that when they're in uniforms they're supposed to be in
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portion but they're not. They're not.
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These are probably busted off them in to start with.
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They're probably sure them out to get here, fought and run
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because apparently they're not even from up here.
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We've got a whole lot of ready made signs.
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Yeah, we've got ready made signs.
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So angst amongst local people. But of course this measured
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response is never going to be seen on the BBC or in the wider
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UK press because the aim is to show the pictures of violence
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and clashes in order to smear the whole debate about migration
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and immigration and to keep it out of public dialogue.
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So these little clips, very, very important, showing what
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people really think on the ground.
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Now, I'm also very pleased that the camera guys actually took
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another clip of an Asian gentleman talking and I think he
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had some quite interesting things to say.
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Let's have a listen. Oh, I will say a few words.
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Firstly, those of you, those of you, if you're listening, I they
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do not label each and every one of you as racist for simply
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turning up and having a conversation.
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What I do believe though, most of you have in thought, views
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and opinion and there's awful lot of confusion.
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I for one am prepared to have a grown up conversation if this is
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what you would like to do. There are concerns, there are
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issues, there are problems and there are key aspects that
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conversation we need to have. You know what, let's have a
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proper conversation. I was there just by speaking to
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a lovely couple who does have key concerns about the policies
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of this country, how some of those policies are seriously
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affecting our lives, working class people's lives.
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And that is the real challenge. So I see, and in everyone
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attending here are individuals who really have serious concerns
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that needs to be addressed. And let's address it without
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aggression, without having some of those views and opinions
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that's been fed unto us. And let me say one thing.
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You know what? Just because there is a bad
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apple in one tree, it does not mean the entire tree is
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poisonous. And that's the view opinion.
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If we aren't able to hold, you know what, you and I, we can't
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make our society a better place. We can't make our city a better
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place. We can't improve our houses.
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And first and foremost, we need to improve our own minds and
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views and get rid of some of the in held views and opinions.
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I'm happy to help. I'm happy to listen.
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I'm prepared to understand, stand and look at ways of
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dealing with this. So we've had people on both
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sides of the argument actually admitting that dialogue and
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conversation for people to have their concerns said is
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important. Of course, what's being what's
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really happening is all of the people present there and in
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other locations in the UK are being played one against the
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other by our own government. This is the attack of the
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British government on its own people and until the
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government's policies are fully exposed for what they're really
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designed to do, which is to cause chaos and breakdown in the
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country, we are not going to solve the issue of migration.
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So there has to be dialogue between ordinary people if the
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focus is to be brought on the people creating the problem,
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which in my opinion at least is clearly the British government,
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whether it's a Conservative government or it's a Labour
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government. But we'll talk more about this
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in, excuse me, extra time and I'll just end with two slides
25:20
here, which is one, of course, remember the duplicity of the
25:24
British states. This was ABBC report of women
25:28
saying well never mind the abuse by the Rotherham gangs, the
25:32
police were also sexually assaulting us.
25:35
And so until the criminality in the police is cleared up we are
25:40
not going to solve many other crime related problems.
25:44
And are also going to remind people here that if the British
25:47
state is complicit in propaganda overseas, which it most
25:51
certainly is, using vast amounts of public money through the
25:55
Foreign Common, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development
25:58
Office, then it's no surprise that propaganda is being used
26:03
against people in the UK. Black and white, Christian,
26:07
Muslim. The attack is from a government
26:10
which wishes to destroy democracy in its present form.
26:16
Now, Ben, let's excuse me, let's bring you in here, because of
26:19
course anybody who dares speak out is labelled and
26:23
increasingly, if you dare challenge migration or any other
26:27
key government policy, you are a terrorist.
26:31
Literally yes. They are using all of the levers
26:36
of power against anyone who pushes back against the
26:41
globalist agenda. That's what we're looking at.
26:44
So earlier on this year, Prevent, one of the de
26:48
radicalisation organisations part of the British government,
26:53
redefined terrorism and introduced 3 new definitions for
26:58
extreme right wing terrorism. The first one highlighted here
27:03
Cultural nationalism, saying Western culture is under threat
27:06
for mass migration and lack of integration by certain ethnic
27:09
and cultural groups. That makes you a terrorist.
27:12
So does that make the the ladies who spoke very sensibly in those
27:16
clips to make them cultural nationalists?
27:19
I think that, I think it certainly does.
27:21
Yes, absolutely. The next category as well.
27:25
Why ethno nationalism? It says mass migration from the
27:29
non white world and demographic change poses an existential
27:32
threat to the to the white race and to western culture.
27:35
So if you hold that opinion, you are now essentially a terrorist.
27:39
I think a significant number of people hold that that opinion.
27:43
So is half the country, more than half the country now
27:46
terrorists? Apparently they are.
27:48
And then the final one on here. And actually, by the way, I
27:50
believe both of those two. So apparently I'm terrorist
27:54
according to the government's own definition.
27:56
So the first two of those I agree with.
27:58
I run into a bit of trouble with the third one, white
28:00
supremacism. So they're saying that the white
28:02
race is biologically, culturally and spiritually, spiritually
28:05
superior to all other races. But I don't believe that.
28:08
And you really very rarely actually hear that out in the
28:11
wild. But they've also conflated that
28:13
with a second point, a very separate point, which is the
28:16
idea that an alternative form of government should replace
28:19
Western parliamentary democracy. And actually, I do believe that
28:22
we need a new form of government.
28:24
The current one is is completely broken.
28:26
It's been well weaponized against.
28:27
Let's just look at what we're talking about right now.
28:30
But the idea that that makes me a white supremacist is, is
28:33
completely ludicrous. But obviously this is now being
28:36
wielded across the entire city system.
28:38
So we've talked about it being introduced into prevents, is now
28:42
appearing in police documentation.
28:44
So this is Protect UK, the National Counterterrorism
28:47
Security Office. They're using the exact same
28:50
categories in their definition of terrorism.
28:53
And of course, because this is the civil service, they've
28:55
introduced an acronym. So this is now hurt.
28:59
It's what we're calling it. Extreme right wing terrorism is
29:01
now hurt and the policy is is extremely poorly formulated.
29:09
In fact, the government itself has described it as extremely
29:12
confused. Well, actually I should say
29:14
Policy Exchange have described the counter extremism policies
29:18
as being extremely confused. This report came out a few days
29:22
ago, was sent over to us, and actually this was on the back of
29:26
some internal documentation being leaked to Policy Exchange
29:30
which says that the U KS approach to extremism should no
29:34
longer be based on ideologies of concern, but on a very wide
29:37
range of behaviours including violence against women and
29:40
girls, spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories in
29:44
interest in gore or extreme violence and misogyny or
29:47
involvement in an online subculture called the
29:49
manosphere. So apparently all of these
29:52
things make you an extremist. So they just say this is a grab
29:56
bag of random stuff that they decided to put together that is
30:00
now informing government policy. Ben, do you think that the
30:03
manosphere is flat? Well, I believe it's a spiritual
30:08
realm, actually, the manosphere. But they even admit in their own
30:12
documentation, if we can get that back up on screen quickly,
30:14
says it admits itself that many who display such behaviours are
30:18
not extremists. So we're putting together
30:20
policies around extremism, but they admit themselves that
30:23
people who display these behaviours aren't necessarily
30:25
extremists. The whole thing's completely
30:27
ludicrous. The government wants to identify
30:30
people as extremists to the level of terrorists, but it
30:34
can't quite find the language to encapsulate people who are
30:38
expressing ordinary, measured concerns.
30:41
So they're reinventing a language in order to label
30:44
people. Yeah, this, this is the attack
30:47
we're talking about. This is an attack by the policy
30:51
creators within the UK government.
30:53
It's extremely dangerous and everybody has to wake up to
30:58
what's happening here. As I say, it doesn't matter who
31:01
you are, whether you're established in the country or a
31:03
newcomer, this policy will destroy you and your family and
31:10
the community life because that's what it's designed to do.
31:13
Unless we call it out indeed. This is this is what Stalin did.
31:19
This is literally what the stars he'd be doing.
31:21
Secret police, you know, seek and you shall find.
31:24
Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
31:26
It's, it's that kind of mentality essentially, which
31:29
puts all power into the hands of the state, you know, and it's
31:34
being deployed right. So this is not just theoretical.
31:37
There's been a huge spike in in particular over 60s, maybe some
31:41
of them are UK column viewers referred to anti terrorism
31:44
schemes amid this supposed explosion in extreme right wing
31:48
views. But it's only exploded because
31:50
you've redefined everything as being extreme white.
31:53
But there's been 43 people referred to Prevent.
31:57
So actually, you know, even amongst all of this kind of
31:59
noise, it's, it's a relatively small number of people who are
32:02
getting referred into these schemes, but it's about
32:04
suppression. But can I just add in there?
32:07
Of course, many people will be referred to Prevent, and they
32:10
won't even know that they have been referred to Prevent.
32:15
This is one of the key dangers. This is a completely secretive
32:19
system until suddenly the state drags you off the the streets to
32:23
accuse you of something. Right, exactly.
32:26
All they dox you, as they did recently with Morgoth.
32:29
So this was hope, not hate, which is basically an extension
32:31
of the Home Office. We talk about them all the time.
32:33
They went off to Morgoth back in May saying that they've unmasked
32:37
Morgoth, the British influencer who inspired a terrorist, a
32:40
terrorist, which he he didn't do.
32:42
So he didn't inspire a terrorist.
32:43
They've got no evidence to support that.
32:45
But that's now out there on the Internet.
32:46
And if you search for more golf, then it comes up and says he
32:49
inspired a terrorist. You know, so it doesn't matter
32:51
if any of this is true or not. And actually best way to
32:54
understand more goth apart from going to look at his sub stack
32:56
and his YouTube channel, He's going to have a little listen to
32:59
the interview that we broadcast. I did with him came out last
33:02
Thursday. And you'll find that he's a
33:04
gentleman and a scholar and, you know, check it out and make up
33:08
your own mind. Ultimately, Sky been in on in on
33:12
the act as well the big media platform.
33:14
So they ran this piece a couple of weeks ago, the 20 minute
33:17
segment about the return to the land movement in Arkansas in the
33:22
US, the building a white only community in the Ozarks.
33:24
And they tried to run it as a hit piece, but actually turned
33:27
out to sound a bit more like an advert.
33:29
Basically you've got the founder in the centre, forgive me, I
33:31
forget his name. The guy on the left hand side
33:33
was the Sky journalist who at the end of this 20 minute
33:37
segment basically says that he finds the whole thing morally
33:41
objectionable because it denies people the right to housing,
33:44
which tells us two things. And he believes that non whites
33:47
are incapable of housing themselves, right?
33:50
That's literally inherent in that.
33:52
In that perspective, what we call the soft bigotry of lowered
33:55
expectations. And then also embedded within
33:58
that is the idea that white people have some some kind of
34:01
moral obligation to take care of everyone else, which doesn't go
34:05
in the other direction. It's a very strange set of
34:08
beliefs that are being propagated here by the
34:11
mainstream. Similar things happen over the
34:14
past few weeks or few days even actually in the UK.
34:18
So the Woodlander initiative to similar organisation to return
34:22
to the land in the US. They're about taking back our
34:24
land, freedom, culture, buying plots of land around the UK,
34:28
helping people set up new communities, live off grid,
34:30
encouraging self reliance which obviously makes them a neo Nazi
34:34
group, according to the Daily Mail.
34:36
So that's a typical inflammatory Daily Mail headlines there to
34:42
create fear and hatred and division.
34:45
Yes, it's deliberate. Yes, but the Daily Mail is
34:47
supposed to be on the political right, right.
34:49
So you know what I mean. There's a very old role that the
34:52
Mail plays when you get when you get into how it's targeting the
34:56
these organisations. So they carried on to describe
35:00
the Woodlander Initiative as a fascist land buying screen
35:03
scheme. And interestingly, I know
35:07
someone who is part of the Woodlander Initiative who is of
35:10
mixed Persian and South Asian descent, who tried to comment on
35:14
this article saying that he visited this white only camp as
35:17
a brown person, found no paramilitary training or any
35:20
hatred towards me. In fact he had a good time, made
35:22
some friends and sometimes things are not what you were
35:25
told. And that comment wouldn't post
35:27
onto the Daily Mail site, so they prevented him for being
35:30
able to deliver that there. And I think that just tells you
35:33
everything that you need to know about this.
35:35
You want to find out more about the Woodlander Initiative, by
35:37
the way, go and check out his YouTube channel.
35:40
It's a fantastic channel. He's a lovely bloke.
35:42
I've interviewed him myself a couple of times, actually one of
35:45
the nicest people you've come across.
35:47
He was involved in the BNP and, and other nationalist political
35:51
movements. But my view on that is, again,
35:54
just to echo what, what, what my, my supposedly brown friend
36:00
said there is that sometimes things are not what you're told.
36:02
And actually some of their analysis, when you look at it,
36:04
it's quite compelling. And one thing I've come across
36:06
recently which I'd very highly recommend is this speech from
36:10
Jonathan Bowden, the Greenwich speech, which was delivered,
36:12
delivered in July 30th, 2009. And it's very difficult to argue
36:16
with any of his analysis or anything that he says, to be
36:19
honest with you. So that would be my take on
36:21
that. They also, the Daily Mail took
36:23
exception to Simon speaking at the Patriotic Alternative
36:26
conference last year. Go and listen to the speech
36:29
yourself. It's an excellent speech.
36:31
We'll provide a link to it. But what is Patriotic
36:33
Alternative? That's a British nationalist
36:36
community and activist group who basically advocate for
36:40
indigenous British people. They believe that the British
36:42
should remain a super majority in their own country to be able
36:47
to represent their own interests in the exact same way that other
36:49
ethnic groups do when they arrive in this country.
36:53
You know, again, which makes PA dangerous extremists who've been
36:58
heavily censored and de platformed.
37:00
They've been doing awful things like raising funds for families
37:04
of political prisoners who were put in prison last year for
37:07
social media posts after the killings in Southport have been
37:12
smeared by the BBC. And in fact Mark Colley, the
37:17
founder of PA, went to do an interview with the BBC which he
37:21
actually recorded. It was an hour and 15 minutes
37:23
long and then the BBC used 46 seconds of it, which I think
37:28
you'll be familiar with that kind of treatment from the BBC,
37:31
Brian. Indeed, but I only got 6 seconds
37:33
as a parliamentary. Yes, and to raise the stakes
37:38
even further, Mark Hollett, PA founder, was barred from
37:43
entering Sweden over the weekend.
37:46
And I was very grateful to be able to speak to him.
37:50
And we're going to hear a little bit now about his experience of
37:53
trying to get into Sweden to deliver a speech at the Free
37:55
Speech Free Sweden Movement. I was heading to Sweden to a
38:01
event run by a group called the Free Sweden Movement.
38:05
Now the Free Sweden Movement holds a a community based
38:09
weekend where people go to socialise.
38:12
There are physical events like a strongman competition, there's
38:15
cooking, there's burgers, there's socialising and there's
38:18
also a few small speeches. And I was heading there this
38:21
weekend to basically attend this event, to attend this social
38:25
gathering. And I was also asked to make a
38:27
short speech, about 30 minutes long and I was attending a meal
38:30
the night before. I've seen people there that I've
38:32
met on my travels around Europe because I've been to Europe many
38:35
times, visited many European countries.
38:37
And when I got to Sweden, I was I was pulled out of the queue to
38:42
go through, pass through customs and share my passport.
38:45
I was interrogated. I was accused of many things.
38:49
I was denied entry to Sweden and then promptly deported and
38:53
banned from entering the Schengen zone for 15 years. 15
39:01
year ban from Europe. And of course we're still
39:04
working with Europe, particularly in regard to
39:08
counter terrorist planning and policies.
39:11
We'll deal with that in future UK column use.
39:14
So Brexit without the exit without question.
39:17
And we shouldn't be surprised that we're still locked into
39:20
this very dangerous European super state.
39:23
Yeah, absolutely. Let's say a little bit more
39:25
about Mark's experience at the border, which I think we just
39:29
deliberately degrading and designed to cause as much stress
39:33
and and anxiety, anxiety is is possible.
39:40
I was held without food in an airport lounge for more than 24
39:48
hours without knowing what was happening to me, without being
39:51
given a a, a time or a date for my deportation.
39:55
I was denied my luggage. I was denied basic amenities
39:59
that were in my luggage, like a toothbrush, change of clothes.
40:03
I had to sleep on the chairs, the benches in the departure
40:08
lounge, Everything that I needed to buy in there.
40:11
I had to fund myself. I wasn't given vouchers for food
40:14
or for a meal. I I was denied a bed.
40:19
I was denied any form of legal representation.
40:22
I was never offered a solicitor or a lawyer.
40:26
Essentially I was treated as if I was a terrorist and I was
40:29
certainly treated worse than illegal migrants.
40:33
Criminal illegal migrants come to places like Britain, Sweden,
40:37
Germany, France. They are treated far better than
40:39
I was. Treated like a terrorist because
40:44
by the new definition, apparently he is a terrorist.
40:47
Indeed. And a little bit later, I'm
40:49
going to be mentioning a certain gentleman that was also denied
40:52
food for a period. And maybe we can see some
40:55
similarities, but in a few, a few minutes.
40:57
Yeah. And then just a final clip from
40:59
that interview with Mark Collett, which will provide a
41:02
link to the full thing in the show notes.
41:04
Go and check that out where he talks about where he thinks this
41:07
is coming from. It was almost like they were
41:10
waiting for me with a judgement from very high up within the EU
41:15
and the level I mean when they said they were denying me entry.
41:19
I was disappointed however, when they said 15 year ban, I was
41:24
blown away. I was flabbergasted and I've
41:26
I've never heard of anything like that before.
41:29
And considering the people they let into Europe, considering the
41:33
open door policy that Germany has had and once one country has
41:37
an open door policy because of the Schengen zone, those people
41:40
can travel anywhere. That's one of the major security
41:43
issues that Europe faces. But for me, they view making a
41:48
speech as more threatening than allowing millions of migrants
41:54
from Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East to
41:57
pour across our borders without cheques.
41:59
That, according to the EU, is a human right.
42:02
Making a speech is a threat to public safety, the fabric of
42:06
society, and the fundamental values on which Sweden and
42:10
Europe were apparently built. That that's the reasoning.
42:16
Total lunacy. Indeed.
42:18
Well, we should remember Sir Peter Sutherland's speeches as
42:22
my ambassador for migration for the UN, saying that more mass
42:26
migration wasn't necessary to breakdown the homogeneity of the
42:30
nation state. So this is deliberate policy.
42:33
Everybody gets hurt. The countries from which the
42:37
migration is occurring, though those countries suffer, people
42:42
suffer in the migration route and then the countries to which
42:47
the migrants arrive also suffers.
42:50
So this is deliberate policy to breakdown the nation state.
42:55
And top advisors to Keir Starmer, or members of their
43:00
family anyway, get to make millions of pounds on the back
43:02
of this whole thing. So this is Morgan McSweeney,
43:04
Starmer's chief of staff, whose father has been handed £6
43:09
million over the past two years by the Irish government to house
43:12
asylum seekers. Indeed, indeed, so serious
43:16
things happening and I can tell from the reaction from our
43:20
audience today that this is a very important topic for them,
43:24
for the UK column at least, we have to understand the attack in
43:29
the first instances by the people who create the policy,
43:33
not only in our own government but the World Economic Forum,
43:36
the UN. We have to understand why the
43:39
policy is being created and if we end up with violence and
43:43
fighting amongst ourselves, we lose because the Super state is
43:47
geared up to deal with violence. But more on this in UK column
43:53
extra in a few moments. Now let's get on some lighter,
43:59
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That seems pretty pertinent to today's news.
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And tomorrow at 1:00, I have, well, it's not an interview,
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45:42
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It's very relaxed. But we start to have a look at
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45:57
So look out for that at 1:00 tomorrow.
45:59
Now, Ben, this, this one is yours.
46:02
Fascinating title. Escape key.
46:05
Yes. So this is one of the best
46:07
writers on Substack, an extraordinarily intelligent and
46:12
articulate thinker and writer. And this is the first ever
46:16
interview that he's done. I was really privileged to speak
46:19
to him a couple of weeks ago. Now, that's going out on
46:22
Thursday, and we're talking about the the history of the
46:26
central banking system and how global governance has used
46:30
central banking as its template for taking control over every
46:35
single area of the global system.
46:37
It's a fascinating talk. Make sure to tune in for that.
46:41
Excellent. Now Diane, perhaps you'll take
46:43
us through these because of course we've we've got other
46:46
excellent articles which have gone up on the UK column
46:50
website. Yes, Brian, thanks.
46:53
We've had some really, really great content, written content
46:55
coming out recently on the UK column website.
46:58
So I just want to mention two here just because we're short on
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by Neil Harrison. It's called The Bison and the
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Bias. Rethinking methane, Climate
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science and scientific integrity.
47:11
So actually asking us to question the science that
47:14
looking at what is actually happening in science and if they
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are truly following scientific principles when they're trying
47:20
to support so called climate action.
47:24
We can say it that way. This other one that I wanted to
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Beeley. She's been providing a weekly
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So there's a lot of detail in these, so please take a look at
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47:46
OK. Now, Diane, you've also had some
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Now, of course, this festival has been under attack from the
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He wrote a nasty little hit piece on it.
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there was a lady who had come with her husband all the way
50:20
from the Azores, which I thought was really fantastic and it was
50:24
lovely to get some very positive feedback for the UK column.
50:29
We also had an email in from Canada and this one was thanking
50:34
you, Ben, for your reporting on the woke agenda and what they
50:38
described as the filth which you observed up in London.
50:42
So we are very pleased to see that not only are people
50:46
watching from Canada, they're also taking the trouble to thank
50:50
us for reporting and to give us some spiritual protection there.
50:54
So thank you very much. Also got this email about
50:57
immigration saying that somebody watched the news a few days ago
51:02
where I was speaking about the government's plan to break up
51:05
our culture through the current immigration policy.
51:08
Gentleman asking For more information.
51:11
We will be putting more information out on forthcoming
51:14
news. This one was very interesting
51:18
because Anthony clearly picking up on the idea now that we are
51:22
being attacked by our own government, and if we're going
51:25
to sort the country out, the first thing we've got to deal
51:28
with is the lies, duplicity, and corruption in central
51:33
government. Until we sort that out, we can't
51:36
deal with other major problems. So people are picking up on this
51:41
idea that it is the government attacking us.
51:44
And this one I will deal in more detail in in another news
51:48
edition. But a gentleman who's been
51:51
working over for over 30 years to take the lid off the cover up
51:56
of child abuse in UK was was arrested a couple of days ago.
52:02
All of his computers and data about the cover up of the abuse
52:06
of children, that was all taken by South Yorkshire Police.
52:11
And he goes on to say that basically he was denied his
52:16
medication. He was kept in a cold shell cell
52:21
where he had to request a blanket which was given to him
52:24
three hours later only after the interview.
52:27
And he also got no food all day. So here is the brutal mortality
52:32
of the UK state if you're somebody not only concerned, but
52:36
you're brave enough to do the research into the politicians
52:41
who are covering up the abuse of children.
52:44
Meanwhile, we've got Labour who is apparently going to clean
52:49
itself up by reframing the Ethics and Integrity Commission
52:56
to start the process of rebuilding standards in public
53:00
life. Well of course this is smoke and
53:02
mirrors and nothing sensible is going to happen out of this.
53:06
We will excuse me. We also had an email from with
53:10
regard to Ian Hislop where the commentator Jeff was saying that
53:15
he was amused to see Ian Hislop clearly unable to understand
53:22
what was happening in the country around him.
53:25
Hislop was reacting. He could see something wrong,
53:29
but he could not understand what it was.
53:31
And of course, this is because he hasn't done any proper
53:35
investigation into what has been taking place in the country over
53:39
all the years that he's been reporting.
53:42
Now, Diane, to finish, we bring you back in with us and you're
53:47
going to be talking about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
53:50
I'm going to say once here, excuse me once again, that this
53:54
is such an important subject because this is where the
53:58
government is able to unleash the woke agenda on the public
54:02
and particularly on young people.
54:06
Yes, thanks, Brian. I'm actually reminded a bit of
54:09
the report that Ben gave us, I believe it was last week on the
54:12
event that happened in Trafalgar Square in London, because we're
54:15
seeing these things coming out through arts and culture.
54:18
And this is a perfect way to look at the things that are
54:21
coming out into the public through this.
54:23
So I want to start first of all with just saying I was at I was
54:27
in Edinburgh at this festival from Friday to Sunday.
54:30
I just came home yesterday evening and I took several
54:32
photos. And so I just want to talk, talk
54:35
you through some things that I saw just walking out in the
54:37
streets, as well as talking about some of the events that I
54:41
attended. So as, as anyone who's ever
54:43
seen, if you've ever been in Edinburgh in August, you know
54:45
that a photo such as this one show that there are posters all
54:49
sort of all over the city where they appear on different places
54:53
on, you know, I think in this case on lampposts.
54:56
We can also see as well that they're on the sides of the, the
54:59
fences that are surrounding sort of all the neighbourhoods around
55:03
the city. There's a couple of examples
55:05
here of, of all these different events.
55:08
One is called lesbian space crime.
55:09
That's right there. There's also I, I did go to that
55:13
one, but the title certainly struck my attention.
55:15
We can see over on the, on the, the right side of the photo,
55:18
very small, the, the LEZ low emission zone that has got into
55:22
effect in Edinburgh. So we're starting to see the
55:24
climate agenda as well as the the LGBT agenda sort of going
55:28
through everything. Here's a close up of one of the
55:30
posters that I saw called A Star is sorry, a Stan is Born, Not a
55:35
star necessarily. A love letter to all the Divas
55:38
and the gays who seen them, I guess with the rainbow.
55:43
And we can't really tell who this is or you know, what's
55:45
going on. This was one of the Flyers that
55:48
I was handed. So what happens when you're
55:50
sitting around just having a drink or something to eat?
55:52
A lot of times people will come back to you and hand their
55:55
little Flyers to you, to you about their shows that they're
55:57
advertising. This one to me was one that was
56:00
handed to me and it looked particularly evil, satanic, if
56:03
you ask me. I don't really know what it was
56:05
about, but we can see the photo with the the, the person sort of
56:08
half human, half not human, the cigarettes with and it says a
56:14
safe space for losers. Put them up and all of the red
56:18
and yellow imagery, sort of the fire imagery just made me feel
56:21
personally extremely uncomfortable going out from
56:24
there. This was just part of my walking
56:26
when I was going to an event. This was a primary school in
56:29
Edinburgh and the fence is painting rainbow colours.
56:33
So we're getting seeing once again, just the the imagery of
56:36
the rainbow kind of surrounding everything that seems to be
56:38
going in front of children nowadays, including the gate
56:41
that goes into their own primary school after that, which we
56:45
have. This was something that was
56:47
sitting in the the Pleasants area with the courtyard where we
56:50
were sitting having a drink. I don't really know the story
56:52
behind this, but I thought it was interesting help us hashtag
56:55
get to 0 new HIV transmissions in Scotland by 2030.
57:01
So what was behind that? I'm not sure, but I just keep
57:03
seeing this 2030 over and over again and and pretty much
57:06
everything. This was the first event that I
57:09
attended on this was on Friday afternoon.
57:11
This is nothing in particular that was terribly alarmist about
57:15
it one way or the other, but just to give you an example of a
57:17
lot of things that you'll see at the French festival, this was
57:20
called out of my head. Alan Watts is alive and well
57:23
dead, presented by a one man show by a man called Jeremy
57:27
Stockwell. This was about Alan Watts, who
57:30
was a British and American philosopher of counterculture.
57:33
You can read about him. He's kind of an interesting
57:35
individual. Whether or not I agree with his
57:37
philosophies I'm not entirely sure, but Jeremy Stockwell was
57:40
kind of going back and forth between being himself and being
57:43
Alan Watts in the show. What was interesting about it
57:46
though is the trigger warnings. Right?
57:48
So we have the trigger warning saying it contained theme
57:51
references to mortality and ageing, with brief reference to
57:54
hospital and alcohol. So trigger warnings everywhere.
57:58
The next show that I saw was Michael Elsner, who is from
58:00
Switzerland. He was described in the
58:03
programme as a former late night host, political scientist and
58:07
queer artist. There was a big focus on the
58:09
queer in this particular presentation, delivering offbeat
58:13
perspective, spot on impressions.
58:16
Can his secret Swiss recipe save the world?
58:18
So his question was about how to live in paradise.
58:21
One of the things that I didn't find particularly insightful at
58:24
all, and he was a comedian, but I don't think I laughed a single
58:28
time in the entire event, was saying that his idea of
58:31
paradise, or one of his ideas of paradise, which he ended with
58:35
was the feeling of using the loo when you really need to do so.
58:38
So whether or not that's paradise, I don't know.
58:41
But what was what was Speaking of the loo, when I used the loo
58:44
in the event venue, which was the gilded balloon at the
58:47
University of Edinburgh, we can put this up on the screen.
58:50
We see things in the University of Edinburgh, which again is one
58:53
of the highest ranked universities in the world,
58:56
apparently. But it would seem as though the
58:58
adults that go to the University of Edinburgh don't know to take
59:00
care of themselves, the bathroom.
59:02
So we see a very cartoonish person of somebody sitting on
59:06
the loo saying we all have bad days.
59:07
But remember, this is a shared bathroom.
59:09
So please clean up after yourself.
59:11
Be kind. There's that message again to
59:14
everyone who uses this space. And also in the same loo was
59:17
another photo that I took telling people to always just
59:20
remember to keep the toilet clean, flush properly, don't
59:24
throw certain products into the toilet that don't belong there.
59:27
Don't stand on the toilet when you're using it.
59:29
Please sit down. And finally, remember to wash
59:31
your hands. So again, university messaging
59:35
infantile, basically infantilization of the people
59:38
who are there, in my opinion. So to sort of refresh from that
59:41
a bit on Saturday morning, this was an event that was actually
59:44
not part of the Fringe Festival, but the Edinburgh International
59:47
Festival, which happens around the same time.
59:49
There are several other festivals, including the Book
59:51
Festival that happened in August and Edinburgh in addition to the
59:54
Fringe. This one was Colin Curry, who's
59:57
a marimba professionist player along with the King Seniors,
1:00:00
which generally was very nice. It is worth noting, however,
1:00:03
that the theme was about death overall in their their
1:00:06
programme. It was recorded for the BBC
1:00:08
Radio 3 broadcast. But two particular things that I
1:00:12
really enjoyed was the performance of an English
1:00:14
magical from 16 O 8 by Thomas Wilkes called Death Hath
1:00:18
Deprived Me. So again the theme of death.
1:00:21
There was a world premiere by Sir James McMillan, who's a
1:00:24
Scottish composer. The Sir titles were really kind
1:00:27
of fun though because they were written in sort of Scots or at
1:00:29
least glass region language and they they said they tried to
1:00:32
sing in that particular dialect. After that I went to what was
1:00:37
the most political thing I attended, at least overtly
1:00:40
political, was Ian Dale, who was the presenter of the evening
1:00:43
show on LBC radio and he was interviewing Rachel Reeves.
1:00:48
We have a photo of the two of them together that I took.
1:00:50
I'm not sure if we can get that on screen really quickly where
1:00:53
we talked about she was saying, well, she was the first female
1:00:57
Chancellor of the Exchequer in the country.
1:01:00
So again, this is Rachel from accounts, as some people call
1:01:02
her online. She talked about Margaret
1:01:05
Thatcher proving that she could do the job as Prime Minister and
1:01:07
she watched her growing up. There was quite a bit of
1:01:09
discussion around women that have taken these roles.
1:01:12
Again, I am personally more interested as a woman as whoever
1:01:15
can do the job the best, whether or not they are male or female.
1:01:18
But this was a particular focus of the conversation.
1:01:21
She talked a little bit about how she got into politics.
1:01:24
She joined the the party in 1996 when she was in sixth form and
1:01:29
talked about getting involved in campaigns and so on.
1:01:32
She didn't really talk a whole lot about the issue of the
1:01:35
national debt or any of the budgetary issues to an extent,
1:01:39
although there was quite a bit of focus on things around net
1:01:42
zero. Her concern about net 0 not
1:01:44
being so popular in the polls, the rise of reform, saying that
1:01:48
reform and the conspiracy theories around net zero, that
1:01:51
reform apparently brings our concerns of hers.
1:01:54
And they know that that they are more of a competitor for them
1:01:57
coming up into the next election, but potentially more
1:02:00
than the Tories. Issues around Corbin's new party
1:02:05
is this reform on the left? And then she talked a lot about
1:02:08
her day when she cried during the Prime Minister's Questions a
1:02:11
few weeks ago and how difficult it was to see the coverage that
1:02:14
she she was in tears during that particular day.
1:02:17
And she just said I just had a difficult day.
1:02:19
I couldn't help it. So we were asked in some cases
1:02:23
to provide written questions to her that were supposed to be
1:02:26
answered at the end that she didn't really answer a lot of
1:02:29
the questions that she was given directly, except for the very
1:02:32
last one, which Ian Dale read from the audience.
1:02:34
And he said, well, we have a lot of questions here about the
1:02:36
national debt, but here's the one that I really want to ask
1:02:39
you is who has the best hair in the Labor Party?
1:02:43
To which she went on to a long story about how her hair colour
1:02:45
got changed when she was just trying to make it shinier and
1:02:48
how stressful that was and what she was dealing with with her
1:02:51
hairdresser and her hairstyle. So again, if she wants to dispel
1:02:55
the idea that women cannot be politicians, I don't think that
1:02:58
she did herself a lot of favour by ending her time talking about
1:03:02
her hairdresser Brian. She could have stopped the the
1:03:07
question dead because it was ridiculous and concentrated on
1:03:11
the important thing. But significantly, I'm going to
1:03:14
say like a child, she didn't. She went with the fun side.
1:03:18
So more of it just cover the rock opera briefly.
1:03:27
Yeah. And then we'll go to your final,
1:03:30
final image. Yes, sorry, I just wanted to get
1:03:34
your thoughts on on on the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1:03:37
This was the favourite thing of personally speaking and
1:03:40
potentially one of the most meaningful things that I
1:03:41
attended at the festival. This is called Dystopia, the
1:03:45
rock opera. So we had people in masks, but
1:03:47
the masks were not COVID type masks.
1:03:49
They were masks of, of Putin, of, of the North Korean leader,
1:03:54
of Trump and other people. So this was a particularly
1:03:58
fantastic event. I I will have more about this an
1:04:01
extra time. Brilliant.
1:04:03
OK, well we must end there. So a new course available
1:04:09
apparently. Yes so this was something I saw
1:04:13
on social media here Starmer has a course on advert on offer and
1:04:19
it says want a new challenge retrain as a lefty?
1:04:22
2 day courses, no previous experience needed.
1:04:25
Full tuition in twisting the truth.
1:04:27
Toxic wokeness, unaccountability, sense of
1:04:30
entitlement, cancel culture fit sitting, zero personality,
1:04:34
virtue signalling, and finally how to be offended by everything
1:04:38
and anything. I think I need to sign up for
1:04:40
that because I am not good at any of that, Brian.
1:04:43
OK, well we'll end there. Big thank you to our audience.
1:04:47
Thank you to Ben and you Diane for being with me today.
1:04:51
Learning and understanding the attack against us is the most
1:04:55
important thing. Stay calm, carry on, call out
1:04:59
the people really driving the chaos and madness that is the
1:05:03
task of the wider UK. UK population and UK column will
1:05:07
do everything it can. We will do everything we can to
1:05:12
get that knowledge out there. That's it for today.
1:05:15
Thank you for joining us wherever you are in the world.
1:05:19
Bye bye.