Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Nigel Farage heads to Parliament following key election victory

00:00:00.000 tonight bad news from britain it's july 5th and this is the ezra levance show

00:00:20.120 shame on you you sensorious bug

00:00:30.000 oh hi everybody i'm at the clacton pier in the town of clacton on sea you can hear the 0.82

00:00:41.000 seagulls around me it's a lovely british town it's i don't know about 90 minute drive outside of

00:00:46.860 london there's an immaculately groomed park near the war memorial there's lovely uh hotels along

00:00:55.060 the boardwalk lots of fish and chips places lots of pubs to get a pint and behind me is a pier with

00:01:02.480 an amusement park right now it's too windy and blustery it looks like it's really not operating

00:01:08.320 uh there's you know life in this town but there's also sorrow we saw drug addicts we saw uh people

00:01:15.920 who were down on their luck you can see i think symbolically i'm looking at a bunch of flags the

00:01:23.640 union jack they're they're ripped in half they're still flying half of them that is but

00:01:28.460 no one has either noticed or cared enough to replace them it's still it's a town that that

00:01:35.260 has opinions and wants to fight back and last night it elected nigel farage as their member of

00:01:41.660 parliament nigel farage of course is famous for leading the brexit movement they got the united

00:01:47.440 kingdom to leave the european union he was the head of a party called ukip the uk independence party

00:01:52.860 and he became a member of the european parliament where he would antagonize the socialists and

00:01:58.880 globalists there after winning that battle he dabbled in politics a bit but he really became a

00:02:04.120 pundit and a speech maker he had another important public moment when he was debanked by a bank called

00:02:12.680 coots and by debanked i mean they suddenly said to him we don't want your business anymore and we're

00:02:17.700 not going to tell you why he did a kind of privacy request and he found out it was his politics that

00:02:24.440 had him fired he pushed back the bank had a disastrous pr uh implosion and he won a battle against

00:02:32.880 debanking those are two important victories for the public interest number one brexit and number two

00:02:38.860 fighting debanking but uh a month and four days ago i guess nigel farage jumped in for his third

00:02:46.660 political act namely leading the new reform party here in the uk a party whose name he himself says

00:02:54.820 pays homage to the canadian reform party and last night it had a similar result to the reform party in

00:03:02.000 the early 90s when it received millions of votes in the british election yesterday largely at the

00:03:08.500 expense of the tired and spent conservative party that is conservative in name only if you recall

00:03:15.400 when the reform party had its success in 1993 that was after nine years of conservatives under brian

00:03:23.360 mulroney and kim campbell and by the time that was over the party was more corrupt than conservative and

00:03:29.400 people were just sick of it well imagine if that had drawn on for another five years if it were 14

00:03:35.880 years of corrupt rudderless conservatives that's what it was here in the uk 14 years and in the last

00:03:44.600 year or so the party had changed leaders a number of times from boris johnson to liz trust to rishi

00:03:51.440 sunak i'm forgetting these names but they're all just footnotes in history rishi sunak being perhaps

00:03:58.560 the least charismatic least relatable politician i've ever seen at that level and that says a lot

00:04:04.480 because kirk starmer the leader of the labor party is fairly robotic too it was like they were having a

00:04:09.000 a a contest of who could be less relatable who would you less like to have a beer with

00:04:16.040 um so last night was an election and the results were interesting we came here as you know to study

00:04:24.300 reform uk and to study nigel farage and his chief electoral promise of cutting off mass immigration 0.99

00:04:32.020 as i mentioned to you yesterday this has been a key issue for nigel farage frankly one of the reasons

00:04:38.300 the uk voted for brexit nigel farage has gone out in the english channel in a small boat to personally

00:04:44.360 observe these dinghies coming over from france with uh migrants claiming refugee status you don't need to 1.00

00:04:51.700 be a refugee from france it is a perfectly safe country the only reason to go from france to the 1.00

00:04:58.320 uk is if you want more free benefits that's not the definition of a refugee nigel farage was against

00:05:06.300 mass immigration especially illegal fake bogus mass immigration that's one of the things that we 0.72

00:05:12.400 talked about yesterday when we went and did our streeters our interviews with people on the street

00:05:17.080 some people were shy about explaining why they were supporting nigel farage but those who did speak

00:05:21.520 out often mentioned the immigration issue um when we got to the vote counting center which is an

00:05:29.940 interesting story in itself the brits bring all of their votes to one central building and then they

00:05:35.360 hand count them first they hand verify them then they hand count them and in fact it took until

00:05:42.060 almost 4 a.m last night oh my god i was so tired in our videographer ed it was i mean i had hopped on a

00:05:50.240 night flight i mean i i don't know i think i was going 36 hours or something but it was quite something

00:05:55.660 to see in all paper count no computers no touch screens so the confidence people have in the vote was

00:06:03.760 very very high anyways when we arrived at the counting center like six hours early um and the election

00:06:11.680 ended formally at 10 p.m the exit poll data was put on all the tvs and by exit poll you know what i mean by that

00:06:21.760 it's people who are asked voluntarily when they're leaving a polling place how did you vote

00:06:27.780 and they answer that and it's a way of sort of guessing or predicting several hours early

00:06:34.060 what the result will be and the exit poll information that was published at around 10 p.m

00:06:41.360 was that the labor party had a huge win the conservative party had been cut in half and that

00:06:48.500 the upstart reform party led by nagel farage had a toehold they had two percent of the seats 13 seats

00:06:55.400 out of a parliament of 650 and that's exciting because getting nagel farage into parliament getting 0.99

00:07:01.940 his upstart party a toehold that's what we came here to study and uh it was a victory of sorts

00:07:09.140 what quickly became apparent though was the nature of the first past the post electoral system

00:07:15.440 that they have here just like we have in canada and it turns out when the dust has settled and here

00:07:20.620 we are the morning after that the labor party in the uk did not actually increase their vote i think

00:07:26.040 they went up by about one percent but they received really a landslide majority two-thirds

00:07:32.940 of all the seats in parliament belong to the labor party but they only got one-third of the vote

00:07:39.560 just one-third of the vote in fact the party leader himself keir starmer who's an mp for london

00:07:45.020 his own personal vote almost fell in half i think he got around 36 000 votes last time down to 18 000

00:07:52.440 so it wasn't an enthusiastic win for the labor party at all it was people just absolutely disgusted

00:07:59.180 with the conservatives moving to uh reform and reform got approximately 17 percent of the vote forgive

00:08:09.840 me if my stats aren't exact and in the end they didn't get 13 seats they only got four so they got

00:08:17.080 four seats out of 650 that's not even one percent four you could put them in a little mini austin mini

00:08:27.140 or whatever those tiny cute british cars are called four uh and yet they they uh came in third in terms

00:08:34.840 of vote count um if they were a proportional representation system um first of all the labor

00:08:41.620 party would not have a majority the conservatives would be a strong opposition and reform party would be

00:08:46.260 in third in the end reform party was pretty much last there's a tiny welsh party called plaid simri that

00:08:52.520 i think got a few votes less but so that was uh sort of a um i don't know like air going out of the

00:09:03.120 balloon when the reform party thought it had 13 seats but wound up with four now nigel farage is a

00:09:09.300 charismatic speaker and he'll make the most of that and perhaps it's a good thing because i don't think

00:09:14.440 he even knew who all of his candidates were and there may have been some wobbly ones elected

00:09:18.420 but in the in the light of day the morning after the exuberance of reform party breaking through it's

00:09:25.880 still a factor for sure but the massive dominant majority of the labor party is what terrifies me

00:09:32.360 and i mentioned a moment ago that um if there had been proportional representation it wouldn't look

00:09:37.660 that way but what what does the word if do that's a hypothetical imaginary scenario as as the old

00:09:44.460 saying goes if grandma had wheels she'd be a wagon yeah if that's a if is doing a lot of heavy lifting 1.00

00:09:51.360 there the rules are the rules and under those rules labor has a dominant majority and they are radical

00:09:59.820 transformative left-wing activists and i am actually terrified by what they're going to do on

00:10:06.440 everything from censorship that keir starmer deeply believes in to um you know obviously environmental

00:10:13.980 extremism uh ultra low emission zones they're they're fully into 15 minute cities but here's a

00:10:21.500 clip of um keir starmer the new incoming british prime minister saying if he had to choose he prefers

00:10:27.420 davos and the world economic forum to westminster's parliamentary system i mean the guy just says it

00:10:35.160 let's just ask you quickly you have to choose now between davos or westminster davos why because

00:10:42.740 westminster is too constrained um and you know it's closed and we're not having meaning once you get

00:10:50.820 out of westminster whether it's davos or anywhere else you actually engage with people um that you can

00:10:56.000 see working with in the future westminster just as a tribal shouting play oh he's gonna be uh like

00:11:05.520 justin trudeau a blander justin trudeau here's a picture of keir starmer taking a knee uh in response

00:11:12.140 to the george floyd riots in the united states george floyd is an american personality he was killed in a

00:11:18.960 police incident um i'm not going to get into the details of george floyd other than to say it's an

00:11:23.000 american thing but here's keir starmer taking a knee so he's about racial grievances he's about

00:11:30.560 economic grievances um and he has this massive result even though he has the weakest mandate of

00:11:39.320 prime ministers in decades but what actually scared me the most when i got up this morning after having

00:11:46.260 went to bed at 4 a.m well actually i'll get to that in a moment because i want to just show you

00:11:50.640 one video from last night before i forget as you know i had to file my ezra levant show on time to

00:11:57.700 go up but we were we were in the election office i'm not even kidding almost till 4 a.m so the the

00:12:05.200 actual results we didn't get on yesterday's show um it was sort of exciting because nagel farage showed

00:12:10.220 up and the entire national press gallery was there because uh nagel farage is an interesting character

00:12:16.280 and would the reform party break through and what would the results be so there was there were probably

00:12:21.580 almost a hundred reporters um at what would be a sleepy seaside constituency and when uh farage showed

00:12:30.160 up uh it was after three i'm sure um i tried to get a couple questions in and i succeeded in fact

00:12:37.220 i got two questions to the guy and i felt pretty good about that because the regime media here is just

00:12:43.600 as bad as canada they're they're atrocious but here's a couple questions i put to nigel farage

00:12:48.360 last night and i'm glad i did take a look is the result a rebuke of the of the media

00:12:53.420 is the result of rebuke of the british media oh well it's a rebuke actually of the entirety of the

00:13:03.240 political system it's not just the media it's the electoral system we've got it's so many of these

00:13:08.400 things and you know britain is broken britain needs reform that's our slogan and i believe in it

00:13:12.960 now more than i've ever believed in it thanks

00:13:15.160 i've no idea

00:13:19.760 i very much doubt it

00:13:23.920 did you gain more votes from labor than you thought you might

00:13:28.520 i think in the north of england yes absolutely absolutely and and and really you know labor

00:13:34.400 have won this election without any enthusiasm at all uh and we'll now be going after the labor vote

00:13:39.440 you watch what's a good vote share for reform tonight what what do you want vote share wise

00:13:44.320 as many as possible what do you think about lee anderson i've no idea you're the clever people not me

00:13:49.360 lee anderson do you know what lee anderson has won because he had the courage to jump to reform

00:13:56.320 there are many conservative mps who tonight will lose their seats because they lack that courage and

00:14:01.200 the really big message is this geographically now in most of the country a vote for the conservatives

00:14:06.360 actually splits our vote and is a vote for labor the argument they've used against us can never be

00:14:11.640 used again would you like to be leader of the conservative party now mr france conservative

00:14:15.560 party what a ghastly bunch they are i wouldn't want to join them how awful what a terrible idea

00:14:21.080 yeah the media was just absolutely abominable towards him their the whole campaign i mean not

00:14:25.880 just condemning him which is their right not just ignoring his successes which is their right but

00:14:30.840 actually setting him up hiring an actor to play a racist on his campaign that's something that a tv

00:14:38.360 channel called channel four did a hand picking people in a grassroots town hall who were actually

00:14:43.960 activists so the the media was atrocious and i think he liked my question about a rebuke to the media

00:14:50.040 and um and there were some places where reform picked up votes from labor so that's how i went to bed

00:14:55.880 last night feeling pretty excited about nigel farage thinking that he in fact would win 13 seats but i

00:15:02.840 woke up to him winning four and i woke up to the astonishing news that across the uk in areas where

00:15:11.160 there is a large muslim population five candidates won simply on a pro-gaza platform so they weren't 0.93

00:15:20.920 with any party there was just not a muslim party in the uk that that i know of them there might

00:15:26.280 technically be but i i didn't see any evidence of it jeremy corbyn the far left socialist former leader

00:15:33.800 of the labor party he won as an independent gaza being a uh key part of his platform and four others

00:15:41.400 here's a constituency in birmingham the second city of the uk where a labor candidate won uh but a

00:15:50.280 islamist uh challenge uh narrowly lost if i if i understand uh the breakdown there and watch how

00:15:59.080 the labor candidate who is a woman is shouted out shouted at and heckled by pro-gaza extremists

00:16:07.480 in the crowd take a look at this this is a labor woman in a labor district take a look 0.68

00:16:12.920 it's made with such reticence anyway this this election has been

00:16:24.760 can you turn the note

00:16:26.920 this election has been the worst election i have ever stood in today a brilliant community activist

00:16:48.120 who puts on events for every single part of our community came out to campaign with me and people

00:16:57.560 filmed her on the streets and then slashed her tires

00:17:05.800 a young woman a young woman on her own delivering leaflets was filmed and screened at

00:17:15.800 by a much older man in the street today

00:17:24.440 i was to be joined by the family of joe cox who wanted to come out and campaign with me

00:17:32.600 and there is absolutely no way i could have allowed for them to see what was aggressive

00:17:41.400 and violence in our democracy she's terrified i think and in like i say a total of five districts the

00:17:52.440 muslim candidate pro-gaza candidate won so those are districts and in the past were labor districts so

00:18:01.240 labor now having lost five seats to the islamist faction will surely be tilting hard to the gaza

00:18:11.000 left because all of their mps who had a narrow win will be saying if we don't do so we're going to lose

00:18:17.880 next time here's a chart i i saw by one analyst showing how in this multi-party world in the first

00:18:27.080 past the post system the margin of victory for most mps is much smaller this time than it was last time

00:18:34.760 so if there's four five ten fifteen percent of a community that's muslim and that is voting best

00:18:42.440 based on ethnic lines that's going to command the attention of all party leaders much more than if we

00:18:48.520 were in a world with large majorities and of course there are some districts with twenty thirty

00:18:53.800 percent muslim population those places in the uk are going full on gaza expat politics 0.72

00:19:04.600 there's an interesting wrinkle here in that keir starmer's wife is jewish and i see news that she

00:19:12.200 intends to keep the jewish sabbath at 10 downing street i don't know what that means i can't imagine

00:19:17.240 she's uh religiously observant in a significant way but it'll be fascinating to see what keir starmer

00:19:24.360 himself does um does he tack his party to the hard anti-israel left does he change the way the party

00:19:32.200 votes does he put uh sanctions on israel it would not surprise me if he does those things despite his

00:19:39.560 own wife's jewishness so i wake up today excited that nagel farage is in parliament but i also wake

00:19:47.320 up terrified for the future of this country i should say that uh it's not just a labor problem

00:19:54.040 the last 14 years of mass immigration has happened under a tory watch so people who say well if you

00:20:01.160 voted for the reform party you're a splittist and you allowed uh the labor to win i i don't think you

00:20:08.440 can say that i think the conservatives stood for nothing they really were uh uh you could find no

00:20:16.120 difference between them in significant policies between them and and the labor i'm worried that

00:20:26.600 unintegratable unassimilable immigration will continue i'm worried that it will in fact increase

00:20:34.200 i'm worried that sectarian voting will increase that there will be true no-go zones in the uk where 0.58

00:20:42.120 entire political apparatuses start to resemble places in pakistan for example or syria where city

00:20:51.640 counselors mayors mps police social services the entire institutional nature of towns and cities will

00:21:01.640 cease to be british in anything other than postal code um i'm in clacton which is a fairly white

00:21:08.680 city and we heard people tell us that they left london uh not just because the cost of living is absurd

00:21:15.400 which is a function of immigration but because that's that's not they didn't feel at home there anymore

00:21:22.120 i think there's a lot of white flight from london but that's going to happen not just in london but

00:21:27.480 manchester birmingham and any other places the united kingdom is changing when tommy robinson was

00:21:33.880 on tour with us in canada he talked about demographic change and frankly some of the language he used was

00:21:40.360 was harsh he talked about uh demographic replacement and and that's a delicate matter to talk about but

00:21:49.240 whether it's the the car whether it's the purpose or just the effect it is happening i mean in the uk mass

00:22:00.120 immigration and the high birth rate means the demographic of the demographics of this country

00:22:06.120 are changing and whether that's an accident or an unintended consequence or an intended one it is the

00:22:13.080 consequence and i think that there will come a tipping point when certain places no longer are

00:22:19.560 british in any essential meaning of that term you might recall a few years ago i went to the swedish city

00:22:27.000 of malmo which is just across the sea from copenhagen malmo's about well when i was there was about 40 45

00:22:35.960 muslim and i'm sure it's much more now and i was in a neighborhood called rosengard for the entire day i

00:22:45.160 was there i saw just one ethnic swede and it dawned on me what makes sweden swedish is it its geographical

00:22:54.040 location is it the buildings is or or is it the people and i saw just one swede left and and how long

00:23:01.000 before they renamed rosengard or malmo itself why would you keep those swedish names if it's now

00:23:08.280 essentially islamic in character and we see the tearing down of history the tearing down of statues 0.87

00:23:15.320 the tearing down of you know figures in the past historically i think they're raising to the ground

00:23:23.480 they're tearing down all traces of british history and culture and national identity and into that 0.99

00:23:30.840 void you know many things come environmentalism comes uh other you know communism wokeism but i

00:23:39.800 think the most powerful and confident ideology that's that's coming into that void is islamism

00:23:46.360 that is political islam and i find it absolutely terrifying that there are five members of parliament 0.96

00:23:53.000 more than in the reform party who are elected on a gaza platform nothing to do with the british

00:23:59.960 interest everything to do with a sectarian interest it's a gloomy gray day here i've never seen the

00:24:07.240 the sea that color it's sort of a dirty green color those british flags ripped in half fluttering in the

00:24:14.280 wind the the shrieking of the seagulls that's that's how it feels here not just observing the outdoors

00:24:22.360 that's how i think the politics in this country feels i love the united kingdom and i i want to

00:24:28.280 see it and i want my kids to see it but i think it's changing and i i don't know what it'll look

00:24:32.600 like in 25 years and i'm a canadian though and i don't know what canada is going to look like in 25

00:24:39.080 years you know there's a saying if you continue on the path you're on you're going to wind up where

00:24:44.280 you're going to and um we are going to the same destination that the uk is justin trudeau has quadrupled

00:24:53.320 immigration he has no values testing we see that on the streets with the anti-semitic anti-canada hate

00:25:01.080 marches that go unchecked unchecked by politicians and police that are starting to do the same political

00:25:07.560 math as here i should say that keir starmer's vote fell in half and much of that went to a pro-gaza

00:25:14.840 candidate to his left in his own constituency i'm scared about the uk but i'm not a brit i'm scared about

00:25:21.880 canada and i am canadian and i think that's something we have to think about i'm going to

00:25:26.360 head back to canada now thanks for joining me on this adventure in the uk and um hopefully we can

00:25:33.160 learn some lessons from the brits

00:25:38.680 well mr returning officer all here at tendering and i have to say fellow candidates it's been a

00:25:44.680 well-run well-thought and remarkably clean election battle i think we'll all agree on that and thank

00:25:50.520 you for your services i promise that i will do my absolute best as a member of car winning

00:26:00.200 but it's not quite the same league or same responsibility with constituents i will do my

00:26:05.480 absolute best to put clackton on the map i'll do my best to bring more tourists i'll do my best to try

00:26:11.800 and bring some private investment it's over 30 years ago that i fought my first parliamentary

00:26:19.480 by-election and i fought lots of them over the years and i've had big successes in european elections and

00:26:25.160 perhaps less so under first past the pace which is a very demanding uh very very demanding problem

00:26:31.400 for smaller parties i will say this it's four weeks and three days since i decided to come out

00:26:37.000 of retirement and throw my hat in the ring i think what reformer uk has achieved in those just few

00:26:43.880 short weeks is truly extraordinary given that we had no money no branch structure virtually nothing

00:26:51.640 across the country we are going to come second in hundreds of constituencies how many seats we're going

00:26:58.360 to win i don't know but to have done this in such a short space of time says something very fundamental

00:27:05.800 is happening it's not just disappointment with the conservative party there is a massive gap

00:27:10.920 on the center right of british politics and my job is to fill it and that's exactly what i'm

00:27:16.520 going to do but it's not just what we do in parliament as a national party that matters

00:27:21.880 it's what we do out around the country getting five thousand people in that room in birmingham

00:27:26.760 last week the energy the optimism the enthusiasm the belief that westminster is just completely

00:27:32.840 out of touch with ordinary people says to me that my plan is to build a mass national movement over

00:27:40.600 the course of the next few years and hopefully be big be big enough to challenge the general election

00:27:47.080 properly in 2029 what is interesting is there's no enthusiasm for labor there's no enthusiasm for

00:27:54.520 starmer whatsoever in fact about half of the vote is simply an anti-conservative vote this labor

00:28:01.640 government will be in trouble very very quickly and we will now be targeting labor votes we're coming

00:28:10.600 for labor being no doubt about that i want to thank the team that have helped me do this over

00:28:15.800 the last few weeks my fellow candidates for behaving as impeccably as they have believe me folks this is

00:28:22.280 just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you thank you very much

00:28:34.040 you

Rebel News Podcast - July 05, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Nigel Farage heads to Parliament following key election victory

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