EZRA LEVANT ｜ Opposition to mass immigration is top of mind for UK voters
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Ezra Levant is in the UK for the UK election, and he's here to talk about what he's seen from Nigel Farage's campaign and what he thinks about the Labour Party and its candidate, Keir Starmer.
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Ezra Levant here. You can hear the seagulls overhead. I am on the sea. I'm in Clackton
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on sea. It's a town in the United Kingdom. I'm here for the UK elections, in particular Nigel
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Farage's district. I'll have a whole show about what I've seen in Nigel Farage's foray into the
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Oh my god, I'm so tired. You can see the Canadian flag behind me, but I am not in Canada anymore. I was
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yesterday. We had so much going on in Canada yesterday. But then, last night, I got on a
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plane. I flew all night. I slept maybe two hours, and I landed here in Old Blighty. I am in London,
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the capital of the United Kingdom. Today, 4th of July. I know back in North America, 4th of July
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equals America's Independence Day. But here, in the UK, it is their election. And it is a
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riveting election that I think Canadians and Americans should find very interesting,
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especially Canadians. Let me tell you why. In the UK, there have been two parties that have been
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trading government back and forth for a century. The Tories, actually one of the longest standing
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political parties in any democracy. The Tories, also called the Conservatives. They've been in power
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for 14 years, although they've had some troubles, I got to tell you, swapping out prime ministers
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every few months. And they have this sort of AI-generated prime minister named Rishi Sunak,
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utterly devoid of charisma and personality. Just awful. But up against him is someone even worse,
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the labor leader, Keir Starmer. Just everything you'd expect in a left-wing party. Think a white
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version of Jagmeet Singh. The iconic image for me is Keir Starmer on his knee, taking a knee for George
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Floyd, which is an American thing. But anyhow, it's just a mess, demoralized. I saw a poll the other
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day that asked people who were going to vote for the Labor Party, why are you going to vote Labor?
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Only 5% say because they support what Labor is about. Everyone else is just anyone but the
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Conservatives. But then an amazing thing happens. Days into the election campaign,
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Nigel Farage jumped in the campaign. Now, maybe the name Nigel Farage rings a bell. It should. He was
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the leader of the UKIP party, the UK Independence Party that fought for years a lonely battle to get
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the United Kingdom out of the European Union. We don't really know what the European Union is in
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North America. It's like a mini United Nations for Europe. Trouble is, it actually has real power.
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For example, they have the euro currency. They have a European court. They have common budgets and
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they have a European parliament in Brussels, Belgium. But put your thinking cap on for a
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minute. Why would the United Kingdom, a proud independent country, used to be a grand empire,
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why would it be in a government like the European parliament where Germany and France and a bunch of
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other countries outvoted? It made no sense. One of the beautiful things about UKIP was that its symbol
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was the pound. They wanted to keep it. Anyways, you may know that not long before Donald Trump's
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populist wave washed over America, there was a referendum in the UK and no one official thought that
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it had any chance. Nigel Farage campaigned for Brexit, Britain exiting the European Union and against
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all odds, he won. Everyone was for remaining in the European Union. All the media, all the big
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corporations, all the official parties. Nigel led the Brits out of the European Union. It was amazing.
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Perhaps the most consequential political act since, oh, I don't know, Margaret Thatcher was PM.
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Nigel has spent the last couple of years enjoying life, giving speeches in America, around the world,
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having a TV show on GB News, which is sort of like Fox News here in the UK. But my point is,
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they declared the election, they called the election here in the UK. And there was just those awful
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choices. Yeah, there's some other small parties like the Liberal Democrats, but they had no chance.
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But then Nigel said, you know what? I'm not going to be a journalist anymore. I'm not going to be a
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pundit. I am going to jump in and I'm going to lead a party that was sort of like UKIP called
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the Reform Party. And in fact, it was sort of beautiful. Nigel said he was inspired in part
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by the Reform Party in Canada. Isn't that funny that he said that? And he knows enough about Canadian
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history to know that when the Reform Party of Canada debuted in the late 80s and early 90s,
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it wiped out the decrepit, unprincipled Conservative Party in Canada. I mean, think back to 1993. Brian
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Mulroney had left. Kim Campbell had come in. She took that Tory party down to two seats, two seats.
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And incredibly, in the last few weeks, Nigel Farage has had so much energy. He's had more social media
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views than all other parties combined. He doesn't have the team. He doesn't have the volunteers. He
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doesn't have the money, but he has the momentum because he has ideas, because he's fresh, and because
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he talks about things that everyone in the UK thinks about, but is afraid to articulate out loud.
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The number one issue of which is mass immigration. One of the things that Nigel Farage has done over
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the last few years is he's gone out into the English Channel in boats and just watched and filmed
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as hundreds and hundreds of migrants get on boats, typically in France, and just sail across the English
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Channel, a kind of D-Day invasion in reverse. So Nigel has credibility for speaking out against mass
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immigration, whereas, for example, neither Keir Starmer nor the Tory Rishi Sunak do. So Nigel Farage has been
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talking about ending mass immigration, and so many Brits are supporting him for that. Nigel's very
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carefully addressing the Islamification of UK society. He's very careful not to appear racist or anything
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like that, but he talks about British values and being patriotic. And he also talks about other things
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involving mass immigration, like can you even afford a house? Here's Nigel Farage talking about mass
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immigration. Listen to this. We also have to say it's only right and proper that you only get benefits
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in this country once you've been here for five years, obeyed the law, and paid your taxes. Again,
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these are policies, these are policies that are discriminatory in favour of British taxpayers and
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British people. If you go to work in Australia, you won't get benefits or dental care. You'll have
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to pay into the system for years and obey the law. We're doing what a good, sensible country should
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do, recognising that the first duty of a British government is to its own people and not to anybody else.
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People see the unfairness of it. They say, how can it be that we're on social housing waiting lists
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for a year, perhaps two years, when these people that come illegally are put straight into
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four-star hotels or, if not that, private accommodation? How can it be that those that come
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have access to dental care when we can't get an NHS dentist? And I think the fact that the hotels
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alone are costing over £7 million a day makes people pretty upset. Those that have come into the
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country legally aren't very happy about it either because they've gone through costs, time and hoops
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to be in the country the right way. But it's the other element of this that I want to focus on
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today. Frankly, I think this is very dangerous. You only have to look at what's happened in Sweden,
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in cities like Malmö, to see that a large influx of young males coming from an entirely different
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culture and certainly coming from a culture in which women are not even regarded as second-class
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citizens, has had, frankly, disastrous social effects.
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We can't talk about housing, as I have already mentioned, without talking about the exploding
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population. We can't talk about rents. I mean, so many young people now, over half their income
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is paid just to live somewhere, and probably somewhere pretty modest.
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Rents have risen by 20 to 25% across the entire country since 2021. It is a direct cause and effect.
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There are fewer places to rent, therefore the price go up. You can't look at NHS waiting lists.
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You can't look at access to GP services without understanding that the population explosion has put
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intolerable pressures on. You can't look at our infrastructure. You can't look at the traffic.
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As a southerner, I thought the M25 was bad, but you've got a nightmare.
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The population explosion is diminishing the quality of life of everybody in this country.
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And this says nothing about the quality of the vast majority of people that come.
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We've all got friends that have come here from all over the world.
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We're a very welcoming country. We just can't take million upon million upon million.
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I've shown you this clip before. Here's Nigel talking about net zero from a carbon point of view.
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He thinks it's bollocks, as the Brits would say.
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You'd have thought with Brexit, now we're in control, it'll be less of a threat, but it's not.
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And that's because of the whole net zero agenda that's being pursued.
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The Tories are now saying, well, we won't do it all tomorrow.
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And frankly, the whole thing is about charging us more money.
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The whole thing is about controlling our life and our behaviours.
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And in terms of the environment, it makes absolutely almost no difference whatsoever.
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I mean, Labour are talking about decarbonising the grid by 2030.
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And, of course, who pays those at the lowest end in society, pay the most percentage of their money on fuel, on heating the house, cooking, all of those sort of things.
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What we're saying is the whole net zero needs a complete rethink.
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China are building about 80 new coal-fired power stations every single year.
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And the other point about it is that, you know, of course I want us to be environmentally friendly as much as we can.
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The answer to that, above all, is nuclear energy.
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If you really want low-carbon generation of reliable energy, then I think, you know, to me, nuclear would be the right way forward.
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You know, one of my favourite things about Najib Farage is he's got a sense of humour.
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He's, I'm not going to call him eccentric, because, you know, if you spot an eccentric Brit, you'll know it.
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He, he loves going to the pub and having a, having a pint.
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He's a real guy, unlike the, the robotic Rishi Sunak or the bland, meaningless Keir Starmer.
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Anyway, so I'm here in the UK today, Election Day.
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As you can see, I'm in Trafalgar Square, one of my favorite places in the world.
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And then tonight I'm going to go to Nigel Farage's riding, his district.
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I've never been there before, but it looks interesting to me.
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It looks like the kind of place that gets forgotten by the fancy people.
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And I say that because actually the Labour candidate running against Nigel Farage in Clacton
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has said bizarre things like, I drink the tears of white people and I'm running for all black and brown people.
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He was asked, what are you going to do for black people?
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I was asked the other day, what was I going to do for the black community?
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I couldn't give a damn whether you're black or white, whether you're gay or straight.
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You'll be judged by are you a contributor to society or a taker out.
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And right at the moment, this is considered to be dangerous, radical thinking.
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But I think if we can start to explain why this matters, if we can start to explain that that's the only way we're going to have any chance of a unified society that works together, you know, with mutual benefit for each other.
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I think this is one of the next great political battles, and we're going to need some quite brave leaders.
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A candidate who actually means, I'm going to treat people the same regardless of race.
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Again, I say people have called him racist, including the Labour candidate running against him.
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I think it was in Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK.
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And he had a patriotic, British, progressive, Muslim member of Reform UK articulating what it means to be a newcomer to the UK who loves the UK.
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And because I think there's too much factionalism and sectarianism, look at this speaker, besides Nigel Farage, who was at that massive Birmingham rally just a few days ago.
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I'm a technology entrepreneur who sold my company last year, and I just became one of the biggest donors to Reform UK.
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Let me tell you why I did it, and why I'm here.
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Britain is home to the warmest, most welcoming people in the world.
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We would do well to ask, why do so many wish to come here and make Britain their home?
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These are the values of equality under the law, the presumption of innocence, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, love of family, and love of country.
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These values have been exported across the world, they gave birth to the United States, to Canada, to Australia, and many others.
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These values, these values in a historical context are nothing short of a miracle.
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They can be subscribed to by those of all faiths and races, and they are worth protecting.
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And there's so many Brits who are Sikh, or Muslim, or Hindu, or black, or whatever, who are saying, yes, I want to be a patriotic Brit.
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And I'm here not just because I'm excited for the UK, but I'm here to see how it works in the UK, and could it work in Canada?
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Could we have a political leader who speaks bluntly about these issues like mass immigration and radical Islamism?
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The UK is just as woke and politically correct as Canada in many ways.
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There's pride flags more than there's union jack flags.
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There's all sorts of affirmative action and things that we associate with the United States.
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They've imported it here to the UK, just like we've imported those ideas to Canada.
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Can someone speak bluntly and withstand the assault on him by the regime media?
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Let me give you an example of an insane thing they did.
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Nigel Farage is very good at talking about these issues, but maybe some other people in this party are not quite that way.
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And there was this stunning story in a TV network called Channel 4.
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By the way, you might remember Channel 4's Kathy Newman, who tried to interview Jordan Peterson.
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Here's just a flashback if you're wondering what's Channel 4.
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But you're saying, basically, it doesn't matter if women aren't getting to the top, because that's what's skewing that gender pay gap, isn't it?
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You're saying, well, that's just a fact of life.
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Women aren't necessarily going to get to the top.
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Yeah, but those reasons, why should women put up with those reasons?
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Why should women be content not to get to the top?
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I'm not saying that they should put up with it.
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I'm saying that the claim that the wage gap between men and women is only due to sex is wrong.
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You keep on talking about multivariate analysis.
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Now, if you're a woman, that seems pretty unfair.
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And on average, you're getting paid 9% less than a man.
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So Channel 4 had this huge exclusive that they saw all these racists in Nigel Farage's party,
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and they did this exclusive, blowing the lid off it,
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They had hired an actor who specializes in playing sort of grouchy, grubby buffoons and hooligans.
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This is what we found when we joined his troops inside Farage's Clacton campaign.
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If you've got a razor, feel free to grab a razor.
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Once you're ready and you're happy, just set off on your adventure.
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At this meeting, they're assigning teams to go out leafleting.
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We meet Andrew Parker, who describes himself as a property dealer.
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We're assigned to go out canvassing with Mr. Parker.
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You can put it in the seat, forward if you want.
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In the car, there's a pep talk about what to say on the doorstep.
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Especially if you have the door, it's a bunch of ****.
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The reform canvasser then gives his view on Muslims and what the party would do with mosques.
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If you don't know about Islam, it's the most disgusting cult out.
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We're **** kicking all Muslims out of the mosques than certainly the Wiverspoons.
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But wearing his blue and white reform rosette, he gives his views on how to stop the boats.
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We've got a deer living here in a place near Dover.
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Get the young recruits there, yeah, with guns on the **** beach, target practice, ****.
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We just need to ring fence Brad for Starn around.
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We've only got these bastards running our country.
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Channel 4, by all accounts, hired an actor to be racist because they couldn't actually find a racist.
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And that started popping up in other channels too.
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The BBC, their version of our CBC state broadcaster, had a town hall with Nigel.
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I'd like to know, what is it about you and your party that attracts racists and extremists, whether you say you want them or not?
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I've done more to drive the far right out of British politics than anybody else alive.
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I said to their voters, if this is a protest vote, but you don't support their racist agenda, don't vote for them, vote for me.
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I've never allowed in parties I've led anybody who was even a member of an extremist organisation to join our parties.
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What happened over the last weekend was truly astonishing.
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A tirade of invective abuse directed at the Prime Minister.
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It turns out the man that did this is an actor.
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He was contacted by The Telegraph this morning.
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We then found out, yes, actually, he is an actor.
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On his own site, he says, I'm a well-spoken actor with an alter ego.
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Let me tell you, from the minute he turned up in that office in Clacton and I saw him,
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He even says on his website, hire me, I do undercover filming.
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Or this outrageous question, but look at how Nigel turned it around.
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Nigel Farage, I just have a question about being a paid actor.
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You also run a, you are online on a website called Cameo
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where you'll record paid shorts of you doing roasts or pep talks for people.
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I was just wondering, your cheapest ones you do are £70.
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If I paid you £70 now, would you admit that this country would be nothing
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Well, I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what.
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Because you talk about immigration and it ran from after the war
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up until the millennium, a net 30,000 to 40,000 a year.
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In fact, we had the most successful immigration policies
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of any country in the whole of Europe, no question.
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Two and a half million people have come in the last two years.
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You wonder why your rents have gone up 25% in four years.
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You wonder why our infrastructure is struggling.
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You wonder why, you know, we have to build a new house every two minutes just to cope with
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It's now running at numbers that are literally unimaginable and are diminishing the quality
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And frankly, this should be the biggest issue of this election.
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I'm going to see if I can talk to some folks here in London.
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Then we're going to get on a train or a car and make our way to Clacton on sea.
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I'm glad that it's not raining as I thought it would be.
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I'm going to be back in Canada in a couple of days, but I want to be here tonight.
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I want to see if Nigel Farage can break through in Clacton.
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I want to see how many other Reform UK MPs punch through.
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Now, I know that doesn't sound like a lot because the British Parliament has around,
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It's quite a large parliament, so you might be thinking, what's the use of having only 10?
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One is the Reform UK should smash the Tory party into smithereens the same way the Reform
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Party of Canada smashed Kim Campbell's party down to two seats.
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But secondly, Nigel Farage is an outstanding parliamentarian.
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I want to show you one of my favorite speeches that he gave when he was in the European Parliament
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This is one when he was taking on some nameless, faceless Belgian bureaucrat named Rompy or something.
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Take a look at Nigel just in full, fully just flourishing in the European Parliament.
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You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.
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And the question that I want to ask, the question that I want to ask, that we're all going to ask,
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I would like to ask you, President, who voted for you and what mechanism?
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Oh, I know democracy is not popular with you lot.
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And what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you?
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Well, I sense, though, that you're competent and capable and dangerous.
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And I have no doubt that it's your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy
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You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation-states.
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Perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which, of course, is pretty much a non-country.
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I want to give you one more taste of Nigel Farage.
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This is, again, when he was in Brussels as a member of the European Parliament for the Brexit party.
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You know, when I came here 17 years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the European Union,
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Well, I have to say, you're not laughing now, are you?
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And the reason you're so upset, the reason you're so angry has been perfectly clear from all the angry exchanges this morning.
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Are you telling me that a man with that humor and charisma and facility of the English language is, I'm not going to call him Churchillian,
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because I think Churchill had maybe more of a gravity or a graveness to him, but are you telling me that a guy with the charisma and the sense of humor of Nigel Farage isn't just going to be the most effective MP in that house,
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even if he has a small party, getting Nigel Farage into the British Parliament will change the UK.
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And look across the English Channel, on July 7th, that's this Sunday, they're having the second round of their national elections, and Marine Le Pen is in the lead.
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She's a right-of-center anti-immigration candidate.
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Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom is now the governing coalition.
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Listen, look at Hungary and Viktor Orban, look at Argentina and Javier Mille, look at El Salvador and Nayib Bukele, around the world, people are, the pendulum is swinging back.
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And need I say that in North America, Donald Trump is far ahead of Joe Biden, and in our own country of Canada, Pierre Paulyev leads Justin Trudeau.
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I'm here in the United Kingdom because I love the UK, because I feel like it's the mother country for us in Canada, and we have so much to learn from them in terms of culture and history and freedom and democracy.
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But I'm also here because, as I've said before, the UK is a kind of time machine.
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What happens here happens in Canada, often five years later.
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I've said that in a negative sense before, mass immigration and wokeism.
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But maybe the pendulum swinging back here today will be what happens in Canada tomorrow.
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As you can see, I'm a pretty big Nigel Farage fan.
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I came here on frequent flyer points, so I'm keeping my costs really low, although my cameraman and I are headed to Clacton-on-Sea.
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The total cost of my trip, including cab fare, hotel, and other incidentals, probably going to be about $1,000.
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I'm going to do my show about it, and I'll have some tweets along the way.
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We're based in Canada, but we care about things around the world because we can learn lessons from places like the United Kingdom.
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I'm here in Clacton to see how this election goes with the entrance of Nigel Farage, the leader of the new Reform UK party.
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He's running here in Clacton an insurgent campaign to boot out the Tories and bring in a platform of stopping mass immigration.
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I'm going to talk to ordinary people and see what I can find out.
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What do you think about the candidacy of Nigel Farage here in Clacton?
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I think he's got some good ideas, but I think he could be quite dangerous.
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I think there's a lot of people that maybe would take on a different stance with it all.
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So, yeah, I wouldn't vote for Nigel on that basis, really.
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The local candidate here is Nigel Farage. Reform UK is sort of an upstart party. What do you lads make of it?
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And what is it about Reform or is it Nigel Farage that you like?
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He knows his stuff. That's what he is. He knows what he's on about, knows what to do, and he's prepared, isn't he?
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Is there a particular issue that he talks about that you agree with?
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I think we just need to make Britain great again.
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Nigel's been pretty popular on TikTok and social media. I get a real kick out of it. I'm over in Canada.
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What do you think? Is he being silly or is he connecting?
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What are your thoughts on the election and do you feel comfortable sharing them in public?
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Because I notice some people are a little shy to go on the record because I think maybe they're worried about being cancelled or something.
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I think cancelled culture is a big issue for people. They're afraid to talk freely.
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So I think, so it seems like Labour have won the election. That's what the news would give you to believe, the mainstream media.
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I think what this is about is what kind of gains a reform can make and can they overtake the Tory party.
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It's about what can they do and who's going to stand up for the right wing in the UK.
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I take it you don't think the Conservative Party is really conservative at all then?
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No, they're no longer conservative. They're what people call Labour-lite.
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So they're kind of, they carried on from Blair, they carried on a lot of his policies. So, yeah.
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I think the phrase far right here in the UK has a particular meaning that's sort of scary, scarier than in North America.
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If someone said you're far right, they wouldn't sting in America, but here it's, oh, please, it's basically code for racist.
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And I wonder if Brits are afraid of saying, I want to control immigration, I want to control wokeness.
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I didn't know the cancelled culture was so powerful here.
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Do you think there's a lot of secret Nigel supporters who maybe won't publicly say they're for Nigel and the reform,
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but in the ballot mark an X when no one is looking?
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I think definitely. And I think a bit like with Trump in America.
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So in 2016, a lot of the polls said that Trump didn't have a chance.
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I think there are secret reform voters, but also you're going to see a lot of people come out and vote for reform that wouldn't normally vote.
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Do you think some people are shy about supporting Nigel Farage and might vote for him privately, but wouldn't say so publicly?
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Definitely, definitely. Because there's so much stigma attached to people's views.
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You know, you can vote one way and people might think that, you know, you're racist.
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Not necessarily racist, but, you know, like the way our communities have changed.
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You're just thinking, you know, is it right? Is this what we want?
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You know, so I don't think it's racist or radical at all.
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I mean, I mean, this election is really about immigration, both legal and illegal.
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You ring up at 8 o'clock and you have to ring 30 times to get through.
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And then way up past 8, the appointments are all gone.
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Well, it sounds like you two follow politics quite closely.
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I think most people don't even read the newspapers.
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I'm saying you've got your volume knob turned up to 10 on politics.
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But an average person in Clacton, I bet that's not strange.
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And so they're going to read the mainstream media.
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They're going to get the news from Channel 4 or BBC or, I mean, not a single newspaper
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that I saw, major newspaper in London, endorsed Nigel.
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So if you're a normal person, you're probably afraid because you think, well, the whole world
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Well, you don't, but it sounds like a lot of people do.
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And social media needs to be hit because youngsters read social media.
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And they're not, I think previously parties have overlooked it because they think youngsters
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Now, Nigel's party has targeted them in a way with facts that they can read, facts that
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You look, immigration, like Jono says, is a massive, massive problem here.
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But positive immigration isn't a massive problem.
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We've got people coming from abroad to work in the NHS.
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You know, every country needs positive immigration.
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Joyce Loggs can't go to Canada if he hasn't got a trade, if he's not qualified.
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So the youngsters now are saying, hold on, I went to school and I couldn't do this because
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And that is because of non-positive immigration, isn't it?
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Nigel Farage has always fought against the press and they've tried to stop Brexit with Project
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Do you think they're going to stop him this time?
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I think there's a great turnout, so that is a good sign.
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There's more of them than our British army now coming over.
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Al-Shabaab will come down from Somalia across to West Africa and then coming across.
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Every single checkpoint they use to use their IDs.
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So when they get to France, they chuck away their IDs.
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There are plenty of people here that support immigration.
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And I would say that most of the local Clacton people actually probably do.
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A lot of the anti-immigration policies here are from people that have moved away from London
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to create their own perfect little Brexit here.
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Now if someone's in France, I haven't been there in a while,
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but what I know about France is it's fairly free and fairly safe.
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But we are facing the same troubles that we are.
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And just if you're in France already, aren't they just shopping around?
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If they're already safe in France, if they came from Africa or somewhere and they're safe in France,
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However, Britain as a nation for hundreds of years have travelled the globe
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telling everyone in the world we are the best people.
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We have travelled the world telling people that they should respect us
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and trying to get them to assimilate to our culture.
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They speak English or at least the vast majority speak some English
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and that is our own doing from hundreds of years of colonialism.
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Can I ask you, what is it about Nigel Farage or Reform UK that made you vote for him?
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Immigration and a lot of his policies are for the people.
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Before Reform UK was around, who did you vote for last time?
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And then now he's got Sunak's coming and he wants war.
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He wants to make it into like a regime country.
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What do you make of his idea to have a kind of mandatory service for young people?
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It sounds a little bit like military conscription.
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That tells me it's got war written all over it.
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How many people who used to vote Labour are going for Nigel?
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How many would come from the Conservative Party
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A lot of my friends have gone from Labour to Conservative.
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But now as I say, they've gone from Labour to Conservative to Nigel now.
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I went to his meeting last night down there on the pier.
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Well, I really appreciate you guys starting to talk with me.
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And do you think they'll have luck elsewhere in the country?
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I believe Nigel Farage will just blast this away, this one.
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a lot of people are fed up with things in the UK
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and they're going to vote for reforming Nigel Farage
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And they don't have to say who they voted for in public.
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It's sort of the shy voter effect that Donald Trump had in 2016.
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the New York Times, just days before the election,
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said that Hillary Clinton had a 90%-plus chance of winning.
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Well, I think it was because people weren't being candid with the pollsters.
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Remember, Farage has campaigned in America for Trump.
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In fact, in some ways, he predated the Trump phenomenon.
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It could just be that people are here to enjoy themselves
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But it could also be that something's happening
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in a subterranean way that will be revealed tonight.
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Here in the UK, the election, the voting goes till 10.
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So they're still casting ballots across the UK.
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I'm standing in front of the Clacton Leisure Center,
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is because even with the five-hour time zone advantage
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I have from being here as opposed to in Canada,
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I don't think I'm going to give you the results
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before tonight, Canada time, before the show, Canada time.
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So we'll have the results very early in the morning.
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we will not know till the only poll that counts comes in.
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I do believe there is something like a shy voter effect.
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What I mean by that is people who in their hearts saying,
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but wouldn't say that publicly for fear of opprobrium
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that's something that helped propel Donald Trump
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People who didn't want to make a fuss about it,
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but when they were in the privacy of that voting booth,
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that all the candidates are at the counting center.
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They wear their little, I forget what it's called.
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It looks like a sort of a badge, a rosette it's called.
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Anyhow, I'm learning about the British electoral system
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which is the district in which Nigel Farage is running,
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For some reason in my mind, it would be a lot bigger,
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So any given riding is actually about the same size
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I predict that Nigel Farage wins Clacton handily.
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From what I could detect on the streets, at least,
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I only found one labor person in all my peregrinations.
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that first pass the post system makes it tough,