Greg Wycliffe - September 02, 2026


Charlie Downes at DomCon 2026 Exclusive Interview


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00:00:00.000 We're here at DomCon. I'm here with the one and only Charlie Downs of Restore Britain.
00:00:05.420 Charlie, when I first saw the launch video for Restore Britain, I was so inspired.
00:00:09.800 Simple direct language, millions must go by Rupert Lowe on the farm.
00:00:14.040 Why do you think Restore Britain has been so successful in such a short amount of time?
00:00:19.700 Well, I think that video and its success, it really kind of represents the whole party
00:00:24.480 and the ethos and the aesthetic of the whole party,
00:00:26.600 which is something that we haven't seen before in Western politics in the 21st century,
00:00:31.100 which is a style of politics that is patriotic and traditionalist and, you know, in our case, obviously pro-Britain, pro-Christianity,
00:00:40.120 and delivered in a way that is accessible to ordinary people, delivered in a way that when you watch it, it's, you know, the arguments make sense,
00:00:47.120 but it actually gets at something underneath the mind. It gets at something deeper than that.
00:00:50.720 It touches the Englishman's soul. I think that's what happened with that video.
00:00:54.040 and that's why it was so massive and the agenda that we are now fleshing out as a party uh does
00:00:59.320 the same thing because you know uh whenever people hear about us or whenever people hear about rupert
00:01:04.600 uh they tend to like us they tend to like rupert uh and then when they investigate our our mission
00:01:09.960 and our policies they read it and think finally the solution to britain's problems yeah a note
00:01:16.600 on the message in the tone you know sometimes us anglos can be a little too polite certainly i don't
00:01:23.080 want to ruffle any feathers and I feel like there's something about Restore
00:01:26.660 Britain and kind of this next generation of nationalists that are very
00:01:29.960 unapologetic and direct with their communications. Could you speak to that a
00:01:34.400 bit? Oh yeah, well I mean one of the biggest problems that the right has had
00:01:37.660 I mean certainly for as long as I've been politically active and aware is this
00:01:42.600 constant cringing need to explain to people who hate us and who want to see
00:01:51.040 as fail why on their terms we are acceptable i.e. trying to explain to leftists or you know
00:01:57.960 the establishment media or other establishment parties that oh no we're not racist or sexist
00:02:03.040 or homophobic or you know all the rest of these slurs that they use against us to delegitimize
00:02:07.220 us um trying like trying like playing the game on their terms and insisting that we aren't these
00:02:11.860 things the proper response is to say as i said in my speech today that those terms were invented
00:02:17.720 by people who want to undermine and delegitimize what are in fact perfectly moral, healthy and
00:02:25.060 normal sentiments, whether it's about nationhood or family or anything else. The idea, for example,
00:02:32.260 that marriage, the definition of marriage is one man and one woman united permanently before God.
00:02:37.660 That's a perfectly normal and healthy sentiment, but it is pathologized by the establishment,
00:02:41.800 as is conceiving of the nation as being composed of a people
00:02:46.160 with a shared ancestry and a shared inheritance.
00:02:48.600 That's pathologized as racist and ethno-nationalist,
00:02:51.420 whatever that even means.
00:02:52.560 And so the old right, they will say to those accusations,
00:02:55.960 oh, no, I'm not this, I'm not that.
00:02:57.620 We say, you cause what you want.
00:02:59.300 We don't care.
00:03:00.720 Simple, simple.
00:03:02.760 You came to Canada.
00:03:04.420 Initially, you were going to fly into Canada,
00:03:06.180 but your electronic travel authority or authorization got reopened.
00:03:13.980 Yeah, so it didn't get withdrawn and it didn't get denied.
00:03:16.660 It got reopened.
00:03:17.700 It was approved in July when I applied for it and got it approved on the same day.
00:03:22.400 And then, however, in recent days where there has been huge pressure
00:03:27.340 applied to the Dominion Society by leftist groups, advocacy groups,
00:03:34.280 uh the media and indeed the police um it was it was reopened and therefore not valid for travel
00:03:40.380 so i couldn't take my flight which you know the dominion society had spent you know not an
00:03:44.720 insignificant amount of money on uh couldn't get that flight and so had to go to the u.s
00:03:48.320 instead and cross the land border like some bloody criminal or something and i was then
00:03:53.720 at the land border detained for three hours uh they searched the car that i was in with
00:03:59.120 drug sniffer dogs uh i was interrogated in a room for about 20 minutes by a member of border patrol
00:04:05.640 i was asked questions like um how is restore britain funded what is restore britain's policy
00:04:11.660 on deportations uh have i ever been a part of a an armed militia like absolutely absurd questions
00:04:18.100 they asked me as well about the dominion society they said what do you think of the uh accusations
00:04:22.900 leveled at the dominion society and its leadership that they are neo-nazis this is an agent of the
00:04:27.760 state an agent of the canadian state asking me these incredibly ideologically loaded questions
00:04:32.980 uh and look i wanted to get through so i was happy to play the game i said in response to
00:04:37.140 that final question well uh if it's anything like the accusations of that nature in my country
00:04:41.500 then it's probably spurious and politically motivated because if you go against liberal
00:04:45.920 ideology they tend to call you that sort of thing and that seems satisfactory for that border patrol
00:04:50.360 guard to be fair so yeah you're definitely a good spokesperson that's a really good answer
00:04:55.120 when it comes to that situation that experience what's going through your head when this is
00:05:02.360 happening well look i mean i'm two feet into this line of work now there's there's no way that i
00:05:07.440 could do anything else given uh you know the attacks that i've received in the mainstream
00:05:11.860 media there was a concerted campaign of smears against me for a couple of weeks by uh you know
00:05:17.120 big sort of mainstream papers in the uk it failed uh but it was not pleasant um and so if i didn't
00:05:22.840 want to get a so-called normal job now it probably wouldn't be possible for me um so I am two feet
00:05:28.580 into this um and I do it because I believe it is right I do it because I believe that somebody has
00:05:33.640 to do it um what was your question sorry um like what was kind of going through your mind when
00:05:38.680 you're like in the middle of getting interrogated yeah and so I just you know I knew that like it
00:05:43.280 comes with the territory this kind of thing uh and admittedly this was the first time that I have
00:05:47.540 been I hesitate to use the word persecuted because it's a bit strong but something like that something
00:05:52.000 in that category by uh a state for my ideas for my beliefs you know the canadian the canadian
00:05:57.300 state made it their business to place uh obstacles in my way to coming to this country because they
00:06:03.500 don't believe they don't agree with what i believe and and that's just an astonishing thing to be
00:06:08.340 subject to uh and that really was my prevailing thought whilst i was you know sitting in this uh
00:06:13.580 in this interrogation office just thinking like in the year 2026 i'm sitting in canada canada a
00:06:19.800 country that for most of my life has been thought of as being this kind of polite and uh and generous
00:06:25.400 kind of anglo society i'm being interrogated like i'm some kind of terrorist by this you know this
00:06:31.180 uh pencil pusher from the you know from the border patrol and uh and so look i mean it was it was it
00:06:38.360 was stressful but again like if if you know if we're going to save our nations then we have to
00:06:43.300 be prepared to put up with a little bit of this kind of hardship i think yeah and on that note
00:06:46.820 Some people will see what happened to you, what happened to Martin Selner,
00:06:50.480 or they'll see that the Hamilton police are trying to call us dangerous people and all this.
00:06:54.840 Some people will see that and they'll despair.
00:06:56.920 And they'll say, oh, it's hopeless.
00:06:58.340 See, so we should become civic nationalists or something.
00:07:01.640 What would you say to these people?
00:07:03.240 How would you respond to somebody who is trying to despair and say that there's no hope?
00:07:07.080 Well, the great advantage that we have as nationalists, I'm a Christian.
00:07:11.460 Many people in both of our movements are Christians, is that we've got the truth on our side.
00:07:16.260 we don't have to uh you know over explain things we can speak plainly about what it is we believe
00:07:21.600 and be confident in the fact that it is true because we have we have the best interests of
00:07:26.060 our nations our families in our hearts we want to do what is right um and so you know at the end of
00:07:32.020 the day uh that's that is the greatest advantage we have we can just speak the truth and um the
00:07:37.500 establishment in both canada and britain and elsewhere they absolutely hate that they hate
00:07:41.480 that because they've had to construct this elaborate ideological superstructure that
00:07:45.360 encompasses the state the police the universities the media to uphold their ideology because it's
00:07:52.540 based on lies and those lies are becoming increasingly apparent to everybody and therefore
00:07:57.100 that system is collapsing and they know it and that's why they hate us do you have a message
00:08:01.720 for one of the liberal ministers who looks over the border or perhaps a message directly for our
00:08:09.040 prime minister mark carney i have plenty of messages that i could think of but i don't know
00:08:15.100 if any of them would be appropriate for this.
00:08:18.000 Look, you people are just not going to win.
00:08:19.660 That's basically what it comes down to,
00:08:20.840 and I think you know that.
00:08:22.160 So you can keep trying to shut down organizations
00:08:24.500 like the Dominion Society.
00:08:25.980 In my country, the media could continue to come after
00:08:28.180 and smear, restore his name.
00:08:30.880 But ultimately, the truth is on our side.
00:08:32.800 The public believe in what we're doing,
00:08:34.100 and we're going to win.
00:08:35.500 Recently, in this controversy that came for you,
00:08:38.600 it was something to do with,
00:08:40.380 hey, I think this politician
00:08:43.700 is bought out by a foreign nation.
00:08:45.440 It was just a photo.
00:08:46.260 It was a photo of Nigel Farage
00:08:47.360 at the launch of the Reformed Friends of Israel.
00:08:49.260 And the tweet I was replying to
00:08:51.260 was Farage saying that he can't be bought or bullied.
00:08:54.460 And so I was simply seeking to illustrate the point
00:08:56.400 that actually you have a lobby group for a foreign nation
00:08:59.340 built into the structure of your party.
00:09:01.520 Why?
00:09:02.460 If you can't be bought,
00:09:03.660 then why have you got that there?
00:09:05.040 That's the question I was asking.
00:09:06.640 And that was then recast as anti-Semitism
00:09:08.500 and I was called a fascist and all this sort of thing
00:09:10.500 for simply posing that question.
00:09:12.220 and look I mean again it's kind of it failed because you know I've not had my life destroyed
00:09:17.600 but these people were trying to destroy my life they were trying to ruin my reputation
00:09:20.740 for asking what I think is a perfectly reasonable question and not even I didn't even ask the
00:09:25.840 question I just posted a photo and they then spun it as this as this horrendous kind of hateful
00:09:30.540 attack like I don't hate anybody I'm a Christian I love everybody right I want the best for
00:09:34.900 everybody I want the best for my enemies but that does not preclude me from asking questions about
00:09:40.120 the interests that back our politicians and our leaders. Certainly the one that's, you know, by
00:09:45.280 many accounts, going to be the next prime minister. It's perfectly legitimate for me to ask
00:09:49.080 what interests he is serving in his position as a political leader, because the only interests he
00:09:55.040 should be serving are those of the nation and those of his constituents, which begs the question,
00:09:59.560 why has he got this foreign lobby advocacy group built into his party? That's a great question.
00:10:04.160 And I think similarly with that situation, by asking this question, you're kind of exposing a certain agenda.
00:10:11.500 And here at Dominion Society, when we have the Hamilton police saying that we're exposing a certain agenda,
00:10:17.640 do you have any kind of final thoughts on kind of exposing what the strategy is here
00:10:22.560 in terms of like making our opponents look like tyrants or look kind of like these unreasonable people?
00:10:28.520 This is the thing. I think we just have to keep doing what we're doing and these attacks will continue.
00:10:32.040 and in every case all it does is draw more people to our causes uh and make our opponents look
00:10:38.060 ridiculous like the hamilton police look ridiculous they've completely discredited themselves in the
00:10:42.540 eyes of everybody who's been paying attention to this scandal and the same is true of the telegraph
00:10:45.940 the telegraph published over a dozen articles about me in a handful of days and it's like you
00:10:50.320 people are obsessed i'm just like a 25 year old guy like they're just i just like my country and
00:10:55.040 i want it to be better uh and they're absolutely going mental losing their minds throwing all of
00:10:59.500 these slurs and insults at me baselessly in many cases um and and completely delegitimizing
00:11:05.420 themselves in the eyes certainly of their subscribers and readers because if you looked
00:11:08.340 at the comments of these on these articles all of it was saying what the hell has happened to
00:11:12.120 the telegraph this was a paper of record this was the leading right-wing publication in the uk
00:11:16.300 and it's now been reduced to this kind of frothing at the mouth borderline leftist uh rag well done
00:11:23.080 well done um anything else that you want to tease about the future of restore britain we're just
00:11:28.920 going to keep doing what we're doing and we've got a lot of excellent policies on the way policies
00:11:32.800 that will restore our nation and i look forward to collaborating further with our brothers and
00:11:38.740 sisters in the anglosphere and in european civilization as a whole to restore all of our
00:11:44.360 nations as do i sir thank you there is nothing extreme about defending our inheritance loving
00:11:50.500 our people worshiping god raising a family or wanting our children to inherit a civilization
00:11:56.060 recognizably continuous with that of their ancestors.