EZRA LEVANT ｜ PM Carney gives fake praise to press freedom
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Summary
It was World Press Freedom Day in Canada on May 5th, and here's what Mark Carney had to say about it. Plus, we get an update from the U.K. on the recent local elections, and a look at the Reporters Without Borders annual ranking of the worst countries for freedom.
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Hello, my friends. It was World Press Freedom Day on the weekend. Can you feel it? Can you feel the freedom?
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I'll take you through Canada's ranking and what Mark Carney had to say about it.
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And then later on, we'll get an update from the United Kingdom where the Reform UK managed to win a bunch of local elections.
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How did they win but Australia and Canada's Conservatives lost? We'll talk to him about that.
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Tonight, there's nothing more fake than World Press Freedom Day in Canada.
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It's May 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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Over the weekend was World Press Freedom Day, which I checked is the kind of thing you would read about in the book 1984.
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As a celebration of censorship, they would call it World Press Freedom Day because it wasn't.
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It's the kind of thing that's only observed by regimes that do not actually have World Press Freedom Day every day.
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It's like that phrase, free speech zone, that you sometimes hear police or politicians talk about.
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There's a lot of lying about this sort of thing.
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How many politicians and journalists, for example, said that the trucker convoy was illegal?
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But it was never found to be illegal by any court of law.
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The closest was one judge who ordered the truckers not to honk their horns, but that in no way rendered their being there illegal.
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The Emergencies Act itself operates underneath the Charter of Rights.
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And even then, the CSIS Act, which explains a lot of terms in the Emergencies Act, it covers a lot of what happens in an emergency.
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They specifically exempt, quote, lawful advocacy, protest, or dissent, even under martial law.
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And as you know, a judge later found out that the invocation of the Emergencies Act was illegal and unconstitutional,
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even though Mark Carney wrote in the Globe and Mail that he wanted it to go harder.
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I need a long digression there, but my point is, freedom is actually our default state, or it's supposed to be.
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In the Soviet Union, a good rule of thumb was that if it wasn't specifically permitted, it was banned.
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But in Canada, and even more in the U.S., if something isn't specifically banned, it's permitted.
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That's especially true when it comes to free speech and the U.S. First Amendment, of which I am so jealous.
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I'm pretty sure I've told you this story before about the famous U.S. case, Cohen v. California.
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A 19-year-old kid named Paul Cohen wore a T-shirt into a court saying, F-U-C-K, the draft.
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And he was prosecuted, and it went all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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And they ruled in a split decision that it was protected speech.
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And that the profanity was, in fact, an important part of the message.
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If he had to say, excuse me, I politely disagree with the draft, that would not have been his honest message, would it?
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I think that was probably the high watermark for free speech in America.
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I think the Supreme Court case itself was in 1971.
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Canada does not have as much free speech, and we're losing more of it every day.
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Here is the Reporters Without Borders annual ranking.
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You can see that even according to this left-wing group, Canada has fallen from 14th place to 21st place in just one year.
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But I read their report, and it's simply inaccurate.
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They say that zero reporters have been arrested in Canada.
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My friend David Menzies alone has been arrested five times in the last year.
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And over the course of time, our people have been assaulted by police and others.
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So it's much worse than Reporters Without Borders says.
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About a year ago, I asked Mark Carney about David Menzies being arrested by Chrystia Freeland.
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I'm enjoying it, and I'm doing my best to be fair and friendly.
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If this was Canada, you could have him arrested.
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Your rival, Chrystia Freeland, had one of our reporters arrested.
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On the incident, as you guys know very well, Canada is a rule of law country.
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Operational decisions about law enforcement are taken by the police of jurisdiction.
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Quite appropriately, elected officials have no role in the taking of those decisions, and that's why I don't have any further comment.
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I know you've got to answer tough questions, and you guys, you know, you ask tough questions, and that's fair.
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Well, I want to thank you for saying that, because I have to say, Chrystia Freeland has not yet said anything in the vein that you have.
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She's been happy to let the cops do her work for her.
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And if she disagrees with the cops, she hasn't said so.
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But look, the questions you were asking earlier about energy, and I'm going to have to.
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But Mark Carney is prime minister now, and he's just the same.
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And worse, he threatens entire media platforms.
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Large American online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and hate in all its forms.
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And they're being used by criminals to harm our children.
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And today, we're announcing our plan to fight crime, to protect Canadians, and to build communities that are safe, secure, and strong.
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A plan to make Canada secure, to make Canada strong.
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Really, so racism, for example, won't be allowed online.
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What he really means is he doesn't like Elon Musk's Twitter, even though every other platform is just as bad or worse, including the Chinese Communist Party TikTok, which is avowedly pro-Hamas.
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Racist words are morally wrong, but they're not illegal for a whole bunch of obvious reasons.
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Since when does a prime minister simply get to ban words he doesn't like?
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Well, just like he gets to arrest journalists he doesn't like.
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There has never been more hate and racism on our city streets, as there has been since October 7th.
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In fact, they're arresting reporters who dare to cover it, arresting peaceful counter-protesters.
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They just want to use hate to demonize and denormalize their political opponents.
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Get a load of this official statement from Carney on World Press Freedom Day.
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So this was written, so they put a lot of thought in this.
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Politicians love crises because it lets them do things in an emergency, don't they?
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A strong, independent, and free press both defines and defends our values.
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My new government will protect reliable Canadian public forums so we can tell our own stories in our own languages.
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Central to this work is strengthening our public broadcaster, CBC Radio Canada, which has stitched this nation together.
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Reporting from Cornerbrook to Petra-Rivière, Whitehorse to Comox, bringing Canadians together at critical moments.
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Fewer than 1% of the Canadians watch CBC News, by the way.
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My new government will also protect and fund more local news, including those with indigenous perspectives.
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In a sea of foreign media and disinformation, we need Canadian voices more than ever.
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Unless they criticize him, in which case he wants to censor them.
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He says he wants an independent free press, but then he immediately said he's going to slather more money on the CBC.
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Canada's identity and institutions are under attack by foreign interference.
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And instead of defending them, Pierre Polyev is following President Trump's lead and taking aim at our institutions like CBC Radio Canada.
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Pierre Polyev pretends that you can keep one but not the other.
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His attack on CBC is an attack directly on Radio Canada.
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If elected, my government will take action to enshrine and protect and strengthen CBC Radio Canada for generations to come.
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We will modernize the mandate of our public broadcaster.
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We will give it the resources it needs to fulfill its renewed mission and ensure that its future is guided by all Canadians and not subject to the whims of a small group of people led by ideology.
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When it comes to this most important of Canadian institutions, all Canadians should have their say, not just a small group.
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We will not only increase CBC Radio Canada's funding by $150 million, but we will also make this funding statutory, meaning that Parliament as a whole will need to approve any future changes to its funding, not just the Cabinet.
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By strengthening our public broadcaster, we're protecting our identity and our culture and helping it to shine.
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And I think the scariest part there was the word reliable.
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He said only trustworthy journalists would get government money.
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Now, obviously, we want our news at Rebel News to be reliable and trustworthy.
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And I think every Canadian who reads the news, who watches the news, wants their news choices to be reliable and trustworthy.
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But what we mean by that is that we can rely on them.
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We don't want the government to vet them for us.
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We don't want the government to trust the news.
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We want the government to be a little bit afraid of the news all the time.
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When Trudeau and Carney say they want reliable media, what they mean is they want press secretaries.
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They want people who are repeaters of their message.
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When they say trustworthy, they mean they don't want reporters jaunting off to the Isle of Man to dig up Mark Carney's shell companies hiding from taxes.
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They mean that Carney can trust the journalist to say nice things about him and mean things about his opponents.
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Do you remember when Rebel News and some other citizen journalists asked some questions in the political debates?
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That we were asking questions that were off topic or that were on different subjects and they didn't like that one bit?
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Just watching it, having watched the debate, David, the debate was one type of conversation.
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I think the debate commission is going to need to be accountable for what's kind of happening here.
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They moved the time of the debate the day before.
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And they've opened up the scrums and the press access to a bunch of groups who sometimes are registered charities or have been defined by their owner as not actually a journalistic organization or have been ruled by the federal court to not be a journalistic organization.
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And in an election like this one with very, very substantive debate on very substantive issues, moderated very well and executed very well by all the leaders.
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So, look, the debate commission was set up to make this stuff run in a professional, coherent way, shifting the time for a hockey game, kicking out the greens about a problem that has been known about for a week and now this.
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I think I would like an explanation as a journalist.
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I think a lot of people at home would like an explanation as to why it happens this way.
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I mean, who knows what's going to happen with the English debate tomorrow?
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But we've seen this, that they are talking about.
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There was immigration questions in the debate, a consensus on, you know, living up the safe third country agreement.
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Can you really do that with an administration like the Trump administration right now where you send people back when the foundational principle of the safe third country agreement is people you deny access at your border
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are going to get due process and legal, proper legal treatment in the country you're sending them back to when people are just being snatched and sent to,
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they sent an American citizen to Central America and they're refusing to bring back.
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So there are substantive follow-ups on these things for these leaders.
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They only get 10 minutes and it's being monopolized by people who are asking on issues that are not central to the campaign and certainly were not central to this debate.
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Anything of substance that you heard there, policy-wise, or that you've heard tonight that you hadn't heard before?
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Not in any of these scrums because they are being taken over by other agendas, right?
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And not, I think, necessarily helping a broad swath of voters.
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Some people maybe do want to hear some of these questions and answers, but broadly I don't think they represent sort of what the ballot box question is about.
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Can you imagine that, other journalists, government journalists, saying that our questions were not approved by them.
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We shouldn't ask them because they were not the right topics.
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That's what Mark Carney means by World Press Freedom Day.
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The last seven days there have been national elections in Canada, in Australia, and in the United Kingdom.
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And in two out of those three countries, the conservative-leaning parties were given a drubbing.
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Yes, I know there's reasons to find a silver lining in Canada's result, but still, six months ago, the conservatives had a 20-point lead.
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And why did Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party manage to punch through, not just in the by-election that I attended in Runcorn and in the north of England, but also in hundreds of local council seats?
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The Reform party swept the table, dispatching both the incumbent Labour government and the Conservative Party, the traditional alternative to Labour.
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How did that happen in the UK, but not in Canada or Australia?
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How did Nigel Farage, who warmly embraced Donald Trump, in fact, you may recall Nigel Farage actually introduced Trump at rallies in the United States.
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How did he survive any backlash, whereas in Australia and Canada, the Conservative Party seemed to be set back by their affiliations or perceived affiliations with Trump?
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And joining us now to talk about the UK results is our friend David Atherton, a columnist, activist, and a deep thinker.
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Well, you're fine too, Kyandre. I'm very well. What about yourself?
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Well, I'm okay. I had the pleasure of being up in Runcorn and Fradsham and all the interesting places.
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They're classic UK names. It's a lovely part of the world.
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53% Labour in the last election, like an enormous vote for Labour.
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And now the Reform UK wins it just by six votes, mind you.
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I was focused on that by-election, but I think the bigger story was hundreds of town council seats across the country went for Reform UK.
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How did he do it? How did Nigel Farage do it? He didn't have the media on side.
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He didn't have the... I don't think he had the grassroots door-knocking brigades that Labour had.
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Right, okay. Well, we'll pick up the thread on that one.
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Let me just make a theoretical comment, first of all.
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Runcorn on the by-election. Runcorn is, depending on which, the way you work it out, is the 16th or 17th safest seat.
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Currently, at the moment, Labour have got 400, a side-off of the 411 seats in the Parliament.
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Theoretically, if that result was repeated nationwide, it would go down from 411 to 15.
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But to answer directly your question on why Reform did so well, the Reform Party had a perfect storm of dissent.
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Whenever the Conservative Party makes a comment on any Labour Party policy, the governmental policy,
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it's simply a case of you had 14 years in government to fix these problems.
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Whether it's immigration or whether it's the economy, the Conservative Party is not trusted.
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It's thought to be, you know, I'm trying to think of the right word without swearing.
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But it's full of themselves, shall we say, let's put it this way.
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And no one believes the Conservative Party that they can't deliver, because they completely failed when they were in power.
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And the Labour Party and Sir Keir Starmer is probably the most loathed, hated, disliked Prime Minister of all time.
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You know, he just sits there telling bare-faced lies after bare-faced lies.
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And whenever you see him on the TV, he never, ever answers the question.
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You know, he just, just off-packs, bangs on about what he's got, what he hopes he's going to do,
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And believe you me, there is bitter resentment at the Labour Party.
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For example, whether it's the grooming gangs, and whether it's the savage sentences that people got at the end of the South Pole riots.
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It wasn't a very, very good tweet, shall we say.
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But they deleted it three or four, three to four hours after they wrote it.
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And the lady, Lucy Connolly, was given 31 months in prison for a tweet that she deleted after four hours of the second thought.
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That was interesting to me, because you had these people who were sentenced to two or almost three years in prison for a caustic tweet.
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And whereas the local Labour MP in Runcorn, the reason there was a by-election,
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because he was caught on tape beating the daylights out of a constituent.
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He served just two days in prison before the judge commuted his sentence, really.
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Yeah, there's a guy called Ricky Jones, who at the time of the riots was seen apparently, allegedly, drawing his finger across his throat.
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And, you know, a year later, he still hasn't gone to trial.
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He's gone to the magistrate's court, but he still hasn't appeared in the Crown Court, you know, for, you know...
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I mean, a lot of people who are politically active or are very online follow that kind of thing.
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But when I was in Runcorn, I was only there for a day or so.
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I just went on the mainstream in Fraudsham, and I asked everyone who would talk to me,
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what's important to you, what's the issue, who's going to win.
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And whether it was reform or labor, everyone was talking about the illegal migrants.
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In fact, my most interesting conversation was with a labor voter who said she voted labor, sort of out of tradition.
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But then for the next five minutes, she was complaining about the problems of labor, including people getting in dinghies and sailing across from France.
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I just think immigration is such a huge issue in the UK because it's shorthand for crime, high property prices, cultural quarrels in the street,
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whether it's Hamas protesters or sectarian violence, but Hindu versus Sikhs.
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So I think immigration, and every party has been so afraid to talk about it.
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Frankly, Nigel Farage has been a little bit afraid to talk about it, too, but he's embraced it.
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The number one point, he said, freeze immigration and stop the boats.
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That's probably what 10 people, they used word for word what they said to me on the street in Fraudsham.
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You know, even the Green Party, the dripping wet Green Party, wants to see illegals deported and immigration stopped.
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You know, when you've got sort of the middle class, you know, and also labor people, labor voters are very similar as well.
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You know, most of the migrants after they've been processed to go to a hotel are given houses and property in labor areas.
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They have to be part of the crime, the antisocial behavior, you know, having their daughters photographed just outside school,
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and they're sexually harassed on the street as well.
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There's also been some empirical evidence that has come out based on police forces and local government data,
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which confirms that migrants are disproportionately involved in crime and particularly sexual crime,
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by a factor of 3.5 times more in one paper that was done by migration control.
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So, you know, and people don't have to go too far from social media.
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There's a photograph of a migrant, you know, those people got their sort of TikTok video out.
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They show him with his camera in his hand, take a photograph of kids, and he's shooed away by adults.
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You know, people know it is a national problem.
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And where it also comes back to, old-age pensions used to get a £300, $400 annual allowance towards their heating bills,
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Britain has the highest energy prices in the world, bar none.
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I know the comparison is with America, is we pay four times per head for our electricity and gas, four times.
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So if you've got a $100 a month bill in Canada or America, it will cost you $400 in Britain.
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And the fact that migrants live in these literally four-star, they're very well-equipped, very well-appointed hotels,
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and they get three meals a day, they get snacks, many work illegally as delivery-type drivers.
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And someone, 500, there's a report that came out today, undercover investigation of The Telegraph,
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these people earn £500 a week, you know, £2,000 a month, and they use that to pay off,
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some of the money to pay off the people who traffic them over here.
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You know, it's completely outrageous what's going on.
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And we've got a weak, pathetic government, agitated by a woke civil service,
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You know, I've been covering these phenomena for years in the UK,
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and I found that people were no longer as shy about saying,
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And maybe it's because I was in a different place.
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But I remember when I covered Nigel Farage's own win in Clacton on C last year,
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a lot of people were sort of shy, and they didn't want to say, and they were very elusive.
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You could tell what was on their mind, but they wouldn't say it.
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Maybe it's just a different kind of people I was talking to,
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but I think the whole calling people racist thing doesn't work quite as well.
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There was a train that brought about, I don't know, 15 protesters from Manchester,
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And they were chanting, you know, I forget what their group was called,
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Like, if they didn't make the case for immigration, they didn't make the case for anything.
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They just said, we are here to be the name callers, and we're going to call everyone we disagree with racist,
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and that's all we're doing, and we have a chance.
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That, I don't think that works anymore in the UK.
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Two things, there was a rally in Birmingham to stop child abuse.
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Antifa and the far left turned up, and they started shouting at the racists.
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You know, sorry, how is child abuse associated with racism?
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No, you know, the Overson window, what is allowable, and, you know, what you're allowed to say, you know,
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in public, you know, during the discourse, and what you say across the dinner table,
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The Overson window has massively moved to the right.
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And, you know, people have just run out of patience now,
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completely run out of patience with the government, both the Labour and the Conservatives.
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They've done nothing about fixing our problems.
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You know, they even banned the French guy, Renaud,
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The government has even banned him for coming into the country.
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You know, the guy's French, you're going to say it out loud.
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So, yeah, you know, a huge swathes of the population
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that are still reticent about saying they vote reform
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because they've been painted as racist and as a racist party.
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But, again, you don't have to go too far from social media in this country,
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and they're telling it how it is, and they're calling it out what it is.
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I think also, as well, there are two reasonably good media stations in this country,
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Talk TV and also GB News, who, again, are shameless in bringing you the facts
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on what is happening in migrant towns and what the migrants are up to.
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So, yeah, you know, I'm very, very pleased about that.
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I think a lot of people in this country, you know,
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particularly social media, have led their way on this, Ezra.
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I mean, when you think of six votes, that's –
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I mean, yes, the hundreds of council seats were very important.
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And I see that the chairman of the Reform UK, Zia Yusuf, says there's going to be a rule.
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Any town councils run by reform will no longer have flags
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other than the British flag or the English flag.
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And I just thought that is such a simple but symbolic move.
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And I bet you so many Brits, even Labour Brits, would say,
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And one of my favorite American commentators is Scott Jennings on CNN.
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And he says the Democrats have been on the wrong end of the 80-20 issues too much.
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He says that they've gone all in on transgenderism.
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They've gone all in on these Mexican cartel gangs.
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I think that flags thing sounds like a nothing issue.
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And when people see that happening, they will say that's exactly what I voted for.
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I wish that in Canada and Australia, the conservative parties had Nigel Farage.
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I mean, Farage is very cagey and he's very cautious in his own way.
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But when he chooses to embrace something, he does it gleefully, not sheepishly.
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And that may be a reason why he won and the so-called conservative candidates in Australia
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called Liberal, in Canada, it's a conservative, didn't win.
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I mean, maybe if Pierre Polyev said, freeze immigration, deport the illegals, it would have
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But he would be fighting on an issue that he would win, as opposed to talking about Trump
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I'm just trying to reconcile Nigel Farage's huge win with the losses.
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I guess it's a case of how successful, you know, are the, you know, progressives, you
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know, I'm shocked that Pierre Polyev wasn't elected.
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You know, you're flaming Justin Trudeau for all that time.
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What was the most obnoxious little, you know, scumbag?
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You know, he made my skinful whenever I saw him on video or TV or whatever.
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I think it's Dutton, I think, in Australia, you know, I think you're right.
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But Dutton in Australia and Polyev in Canada should have been bold in their policies.
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In fact, I want to ask you, is the reason that the Liberals got in again, was it partly
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down to Donald Trump and his comments about Canada being the 51st state?
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I mean, a lot of people that hurt their pride, it would, it was like an indecent proposal.
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It would be like asking an already married person to, proposing marriage to them.
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If someone was thinking of getting divorced, they might consider it.
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And I think that that was what you call a luxury issue.
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Like, and a lot of boomers and seniors, they just, it offended them.
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And so they voted based on that, not based on real issues like cost of housing, inflation,
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There's some real issues that real people have to deal with.
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But if you're a wealthy boomer with your home paid off, you can afford to vote based
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I do believe Trump was central to moving a million votes over.
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We'll have to, we'll have to keep in a close eye.
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And I, and I don't think that's a contradiction.
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And watching those two countries figure their way through these issues is very illuminating
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I'm Dave Atherton, two zero, D-A-V-E-A-T-H-E-R-T-O-N, numbers two zero, Dave Atherton, 20.
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So I've dug up an old tweet about it from three years ago.
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I had 20,000 followers and I'm now nearing 300,000.
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Well, I think it's because you call it like you see it and you've got that great British
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You can follow him at DavidAtherton20 on Twitter.
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Your letters to me on Ireland and the firefighter we talked to over there.
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I mean, he's a working firefighter, like he's employed.
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But there are so few houses available in Ireland, and the prices are so pumped up because of these migrants, he's literally homeless while working.
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Mary Kelly says, this is exactly what happened in America until Trump and Elon took over.
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You know, boy, the whole world dodged a bullet with Trump and Elon Musk.
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I'm not pleased with every single thing they're doing.
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I think they hurt Canada with their talk of the 51st state.
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But could you imagine Joe Biden or Kamala Harris were in charge?
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World Life said, homelessness is an alarming problem in Western countries.
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Our government continues to marginalize landowners' rights, licenses, permits, and property taxes.
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Our three illegal messages used by our government to control your property.
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I, maybe you mean that in a moral sense, but our property rights are limited by some regulation and some taxation.
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And we want the scope of government intervention in our lives to be small, but we're not living in complete anarchy.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, the UNO, good night.