The United Kingdom is jailing political protesters, including two years in prison for a man who gestured at police. Ezra Levenant talks to Lawrence Fox about what's going on in the UK, and why he thinks it's crazy.
00:14:43.740There are rape gang members in the UK who have raped dozens of girls, hundreds of times, who get a quicker sentence than the great gesticulator.
00:15:00.880It's a, it's a, it's a, it's an attempt by the police and by the Crown Prosecutors and the regime to, to look like they're tough on crime.
00:15:10.300But the problem is the UK prison system is hugely overcrowded anyway.
00:15:14.380Anyway, the murderer, the machete murderer of a young man who was convicted is being released after only six months to make space for these gesticulators.
00:15:28.620So Parliament hasn't even been recalled.
00:15:30.660This is, I mean, anyone who, I thought during COVID things were bad, you know, in terms of government overreach.
00:15:37.840And I thought that the Conservatives didn't in any way try and conserve anything like individual liberty.
00:15:42.640But these summary trials and, and, you know, convictions and sentences are a sign of what is to come once we open the doors to policing political opinion and policing people's views.
00:15:56.960And Cleveland police sort of get so thrilled about all this stuff.
00:16:02.380While the, the families of the three girls massacred last week, which has sparked these current disturbances, they're going to have to wait till January for justice.
00:16:12.640For their daughters and the 11 maimed by this psychopath, they're going to have to wait till January.
00:16:18.620So you, you, the one thing that keeps a liberal democracy functioning is the idea that the law and justice is blind and, and that, you know, will be applied equally to all.
00:16:30.500It's foundational cornerstone wrong with freedom of speech to liberal democracy.
00:16:34.340And we've just seen it decimated, utterly, utterly decimated in about the shortest period of time, you know, ever.
00:16:41.220And you, you listen to Keir Starmer's speech.
00:17:09.760The, the number of times that the, from the prime minister on down to the head of public prosecutions, to the, to Rowley himself of the Met police and all other police that I've seen online, it's universal.
00:17:22.900They're not just going after actual rioters.
00:17:25.360They went after the great gesticulator.
00:17:27.320I mean, God forbid you're, you're a mime or you're using sign language.
00:18:39.400They're the most incompetent bunch of people in the world.
00:18:42.600The, the, the police have become the Stasi in the UK.
00:18:45.500They, they, I mean, I'm yet to find out what my local police force is like.
00:18:49.380No one's come to visit me yet, which is a relief.
00:18:51.180But, um, no, no, the, the, the police, I think that what Elon Musk has done, which is so dangerous, is that he's given a voice to all of those people that feel and have felt for many, many years that there is no fairness in the society that we live in.
00:19:06.420That, as you quite rightly say, minority groups, they will turn themselves in, into, tie themselves in knots trying to explain why from the river to the sea doesn't mean the complete obliteration of the Jews.
00:19:17.780They'll say, oh, no, it's just like a nice song or, you know, Houthis, Houthis, make us proud, turn another ship around.
00:19:24.840No, that's not about missiling, uh, civil, you know, merchant navies and attacking people and injuring sailors.
00:19:33.260They've turned themselves, uh, tied themselves in knots for this for years.
00:19:36.920And what Elon Musk has done, actually, you know, you can say whatever you want about him.
00:19:41.120He has incredible instincts and he knew straight away that something big was happening in the UK.
00:19:48.520We all in the UK knew that something big was going to happen because, you know, the Conservative government let us down so dreadfully that in the United Kingdom, we just give the other team a go.
00:19:59.800So they go, well, just give Labour a go.
00:20:01.220Um, but Labour, we're already bearing the fruits now of what bled in, in 97, certainly with Ofcom, which is what they want to use to shut us down, to shut Twitter down.
00:20:12.840Um, if they do, they will be making again another dreadful mistake because if you do not deal with the causation of the problem and you only deal with the symptoms of the problem, the symptoms being the current disturbances in the United Kingdom, they're going to get worse.
00:20:28.180And that's just logical. And that, you know, someone would say, oh, that's hate speech or incitement.
00:20:33.280It's not. It's just pointing out that the logical conclusion of not dealing with causation.
00:20:38.240And the causation is that our border has been open and we're not a big country like America.
00:20:42.660Then, you know, America's got major problems absorbing, uh, you know, the 10 to 12, 15 million migrants that they've witnessed in the last 10 years.
00:20:50.360We are absorbing a million a year, pretty much.
00:20:53.780But our public services are not improving. People's lives are not getting better.
00:20:57.200Uh, you know, the people are being, uh, the central hotel in, in many, many towns in Great Britain where people will go for tourists is now housing migrants who are paid for.
00:21:08.420It's free. They then leave their hotels.
00:21:10.660And because of cultural reasons, they go to local schools.
00:21:14.500They follow young girls home from local schools.
00:22:51.940And yet, they all had identical front pages.
00:22:56.040All of them, the same photograph of an anti-racist protest, almost word for word, the same headline.
00:23:06.040I've never seen bloodthirsty rivals public, like, did they get a memo or something?
00:23:13.180And I don't know, I just, the unanimity of the entire establishment, including the Daily Mail, which I enjoy reading because it's scrappy and populist and sometimes conservative.
00:23:22.040Like, I don't think there's a single outlet that, certainly not a newspaper, that is even giving airtime to the other side.
00:23:32.040And I don't know, I think people, I think that's why Twitter X is so important to this whole thing.
00:23:38.640If it were gone, no one would know what's going on.
00:23:52.660As someone quite rightly pointed out earlier today on the media, that the last time every single front page of every single bought and paid for, downline legacy media channel was the same was during the cold season of 2020.
00:24:06.280So, this is definitely paid for by the government.
00:24:10.780The hit piece done on myself and, you know, you look at Nigel Farage and he's desperately trying to run away from this situation because he's not, because he's mainly self-serving, it would be his biggest problem.
00:24:23.140But even he, the Times ran an entire piece labelling us as the people that are responsible for inciting violence in the United Kingdom.
00:24:31.740Not one of us has mentioned violence, ever.
00:24:35.100Every single one of us has condoned it.
00:24:37.640So, the narrative that the media are trying to spin, which is very worryingly uniform.
00:24:45.740I think this idea of the great British press, you know, going out for the schools, Millie Dowler being a really important example, actually.
00:24:54.400Whereas Vestia, now, that's what the British media is.
00:24:58.060And the British media are in collusion with the government.
00:25:02.660So, you have the military-industrial complex and then you have the government-media complex.
00:25:07.060And the media complex, the government-media complex in the United Kingdom, as it was across the West during COVID, is absolutely entrenched.
00:25:15.180And I don't even know who they're talking to anymore.
00:25:17.660Because I have not met a 16-year-old, my son is 16, so I've not met a single one of his friends who has ever, I mean, a lot of them have never heard of the BBC.
00:25:27.380But these new, you know, the phone companies are also sort of slightly colluding, these news notification apps.
00:25:34.420They're telling me, my youngest son said to me something, he said, you know, what's going on with all the far-right people?
00:25:40.180And he said, he's not really picked it up, but he's getting shoved this narrative all the time.
00:25:44.860And I'm like, the far-right people are the people saying protest peacefully.
00:25:47.920In the main, there are some far-right people, which we don't like.
00:25:50.800And then it's actually the authoritarian, censorious left, which take every tragedy, like the death of three young, innocent children, at the hands of a man we know nothing about at the moment.
00:26:04.080And they turn it around to use it as an opportunity for a greater power grab on our speech.
00:26:09.160And I think it's an absolute tragedy, actually.
00:26:16.560Because if we don't, this is the very, very beginning of what is going, what has been played up many times before across the globe with many, many dead people.