Rebel News Podcast - July 04, 2024


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Opposition to mass immigration is top of mind for UK voters


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Ezra Levant is in the UK for the UK election, and he's here to talk about what he's seen from Nigel Farage's campaign and what he thinks about the Labour Party and its candidate, Keir Starmer.

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00:00:00.000 Ezra Levant here. You can hear the seagulls overhead. I am on the sea. I'm in Clackton
00:00:04.080 on sea. It's a town in the United Kingdom. I'm here for the UK elections, in particular Nigel
00:00:10.060 Farage's district. I'll have a whole show about what I've seen in Nigel Farage's foray into the
00:00:17.020 election. I want you to see it though, not just to hear it. And to see it, you need the subscription
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00:00:28.320 Sheila Gunn reads once a week. And the satisfaction of knowing you keep Rebel News strong, because
00:00:33.900 as you know, we don't take a dime from Trudeau, and it shows. All right, here's today's podcast.
00:00:58.320 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:09.700 Oh my god, I'm so tired. You can see the Canadian flag behind me, but I am not in Canada anymore. I was
00:01:15.880 yesterday. We had so much going on in Canada yesterday. But then, last night, I got on a
00:01:22.180 plane. I flew all night. I slept maybe two hours, and I landed here in Old Blighty. I am in London,
00:01:28.960 the capital of the United Kingdom. Today, 4th of July. I know back in North America, 4th of July
00:01:34.620 equals America's Independence Day. But here, in the UK, it is their election. And it is a
00:01:41.640 riveting election that I think Canadians and Americans should find very interesting,
00:01:47.740 especially Canadians. Let me tell you why. In the UK, there have been two parties that have been
00:01:53.220 trading government back and forth for a century. The Tories, actually one of the longest standing
00:02:00.200 political parties in any democracy. The Tories, also called the Conservatives. They've been in power
00:02:05.360 for 14 years, although they've had some troubles, I got to tell you, swapping out prime ministers
00:02:11.860 every few months. And they have this sort of AI-generated prime minister named Rishi Sunak,
00:02:19.080 utterly devoid of charisma and personality. Just awful. But up against him is someone even worse,
00:02:26.100 the labor leader, Keir Starmer. Just everything you'd expect in a left-wing party. Think a white 0.98
00:02:32.640 version of Jagmeet Singh. The iconic image for me is Keir Starmer on his knee, taking a knee for George
00:02:41.340 Floyd, which is an American thing. But anyhow, it's just a mess, demoralized. I saw a poll the other
00:02:49.740 day that asked people who were going to vote for the Labor Party, why are you going to vote Labor?
00:02:55.200 Only 5% say because they support what Labor is about. Everyone else is just anyone but the
00:03:04.280 Conservatives. But then an amazing thing happens. Days into the election campaign,
00:03:09.960 Nigel Farage jumped in the campaign. Now, maybe the name Nigel Farage rings a bell. It should. He was
00:03:17.300 the leader of the UKIP party, the UK Independence Party that fought for years a lonely battle to get
00:03:26.100 the United Kingdom out of the European Union. We don't really know what the European Union is in
00:03:32.080 North America. It's like a mini United Nations for Europe. Trouble is, it actually has real power.
00:03:38.300 For example, they have the euro currency. They have a European court. They have common budgets and
00:03:46.240 they have a European parliament in Brussels, Belgium. But put your thinking cap on for a
00:03:51.440 minute. Why would the United Kingdom, a proud independent country, used to be a grand empire,
00:03:56.720 why would it be in a government like the European parliament where Germany and France and a bunch of
00:04:04.360 other countries outvoted? It made no sense. One of the beautiful things about UKIP was that its symbol
00:04:10.260 was the pound. They wanted to keep it. Anyways, you may know that not long before Donald Trump's
00:04:17.600 populist wave washed over America, there was a referendum in the UK and no one official thought that
00:04:25.600 it had any chance. Nigel Farage campaigned for Brexit, Britain exiting the European Union and against
00:04:35.000 all odds, he won. Everyone was for remaining in the European Union. All the media, all the big
00:04:43.300 corporations, all the official parties. Nigel led the Brits out of the European Union. It was amazing.
00:04:51.020 Perhaps the most consequential political act since, oh, I don't know, Margaret Thatcher was PM.
00:04:58.160 Nigel has spent the last couple of years enjoying life, giving speeches in America, around the world,
00:05:04.620 having a TV show on GB News, which is sort of like Fox News here in the UK. But my point is,
00:05:13.280 they declared the election, they called the election here in the UK. And there was just those awful
00:05:19.660 choices. Yeah, there's some other small parties like the Liberal Democrats, but they had no chance.
00:05:25.000 But then Nigel said, you know what? I'm not going to be a journalist anymore. I'm not going to be a
00:05:30.380 pundit. I am going to jump in and I'm going to lead a party that was sort of like UKIP called
00:05:36.560 the Reform Party. And in fact, it was sort of beautiful. Nigel said he was inspired in part
00:05:42.960 by the Reform Party in Canada. Isn't that funny that he said that? And he knows enough about Canadian
00:05:49.280 history to know that when the Reform Party of Canada debuted in the late 80s and early 90s,
00:05:55.700 it wiped out the decrepit, unprincipled Conservative Party in Canada. I mean, think back to 1993. Brian
00:06:04.920 Mulroney had left. Kim Campbell had come in. She took that Tory party down to two seats, two seats.
00:06:14.180 And incredibly, in the last few weeks, Nigel Farage has had so much energy. He's had more social media
00:06:22.060 views than all other parties combined. He doesn't have the team. He doesn't have the volunteers. He
00:06:28.340 doesn't have the money, but he has the momentum because he has ideas, because he's fresh, and because
00:06:34.420 he talks about things that everyone in the UK thinks about, but is afraid to articulate out loud.
00:06:42.260 The number one issue of which is mass immigration. One of the things that Nigel Farage has done over
00:06:49.580 the last few years is he's gone out into the English Channel in boats and just watched and filmed
00:06:57.620 as hundreds and hundreds of migrants get on boats, typically in France, and just sail across the English
00:07:05.880 Channel, a kind of D-Day invasion in reverse. So Nigel has credibility for speaking out against mass 0.87
00:07:15.220 immigration, whereas, for example, neither Keir Starmer nor the Tory Rishi Sunak do. So Nigel Farage has been
00:07:23.120 talking about ending mass immigration, and so many Brits are supporting him for that. Nigel's very 0.99
00:07:31.240 carefully addressing the Islamification of UK society. He's very careful not to appear racist or anything
00:07:39.080 like that, but he talks about British values and being patriotic. And he also talks about other things
00:07:45.320 involving mass immigration, like can you even afford a house? Here's Nigel Farage talking about mass
00:07:52.740 immigration. Listen to this. We also have to say it's only right and proper that you only get benefits 0.99
00:07:59.980 in this country once you've been here for five years, obeyed the law, and paid your taxes. Again,
00:08:08.380 these are policies, these are policies that are discriminatory in favour of British taxpayers and
00:08:15.000 British people. If you go to work in Australia, you won't get benefits or dental care. You'll have 0.97
00:08:20.060 to pay into the system for years and obey the law. We're doing what a good, sensible country should
00:08:25.620 do, recognising that the first duty of a British government is to its own people and not to anybody else.
00:08:33.800 People see the unfairness of it. They say, how can it be that we're on social housing waiting lists
00:08:40.120 for a year, perhaps two years, when these people that come illegally are put straight into 1.00
00:08:45.400 four-star hotels or, if not that, private accommodation? How can it be that those that come 1.00
00:08:52.520 have access to dental care when we can't get an NHS dentist? And I think the fact that the hotels
00:08:59.800 alone are costing over £7 million a day makes people pretty upset. Those that have come into the
00:09:06.880 country legally aren't very happy about it either because they've gone through costs, time and hoops
00:09:13.100 to be in the country the right way. But it's the other element of this that I want to focus on
00:09:19.680 today. Frankly, I think this is very dangerous. You only have to look at what's happened in Sweden,
00:09:26.760 in cities like Malmö, to see that a large influx of young males coming from an entirely different
00:09:34.740 culture and certainly coming from a culture in which women are not even regarded as second-class 1.00
00:09:41.480 citizens, has had, frankly, disastrous social effects.
00:09:47.060 We can't talk about housing, as I have already mentioned, without talking about the exploding
00:09:51.320 population. We can't talk about rents. I mean, so many young people now, over half their income
00:09:59.060 is paid just to live somewhere, and probably somewhere pretty modest.
00:10:05.640 Rents have risen by 20 to 25% across the entire country since 2021. It is a direct cause and effect.
00:10:15.220 There are fewer places to rent, therefore the price go up. You can't look at NHS waiting lists.
00:10:22.280 You can't look at access to GP services without understanding that the population explosion has put
00:10:31.260 intolerable pressures on. You can't look at our infrastructure. You can't look at the traffic.
00:10:40.840 The M6.
00:10:44.600 As a southerner, I thought the M25 was bad, but you've got a nightmare.
00:10:49.480 I'm a nightmare down the road here.
00:10:52.340 The population explosion is diminishing the quality of life of everybody in this country.
00:10:57.640 It is making us poorer. It is unacceptable.
00:11:05.220 And this says nothing about the quality of the vast majority of people that come.
00:11:12.380 We've all got friends that have come here from all over the world.
00:11:15.100 We're a very welcoming country. We just can't take million upon million upon million.
00:11:20.760 It does not work.
00:11:22.580 I've shown you this clip before. Here's Nigel talking about net zero from a carbon point of view.
00:11:29.180 He thinks it's bollocks, as the Brits would say.
00:11:32.460 You'd have thought with Brexit, now we're in control, it'll be less of a threat, but it's not.
00:11:37.900 And that's because of the whole net zero agenda that's being pursued.
00:11:41.860 Boris went absolutely full pelt for it.
00:11:44.940 Labour is still on that track.
00:11:46.300 The Tories are now saying, well, we won't do it all tomorrow.
00:11:50.060 We'll wait till the day after.
00:11:51.620 And frankly, the whole thing is about charging us more money.
00:11:55.760 The whole thing is about controlling our life and our behaviours.
00:11:58.960 And in terms of the environment, it makes absolutely almost no difference whatsoever.
00:12:04.120 I mean, Labour are talking about decarbonising the grid by 2030.
00:12:07.120 Impossible.
00:12:08.220 And would cost a fortune.
00:12:09.240 And, of course, who pays those at the lowest end in society, pay the most percentage of their money on fuel, on heating the house, cooking, all of those sort of things.
00:12:20.280 The Tories are now saying 2035.
00:12:23.120 What we're saying is the whole net zero needs a complete rethink.
00:12:26.080 We produce less than 1% of the world's CO2.
00:12:30.860 China are building about 80 new coal-fired power stations every single year.
00:12:35.060 And the other point about it is that, you know, of course I want us to be environmentally friendly as much as we can.
00:12:44.540 The answer to that, above all, is nuclear energy.
00:12:47.080 If you really want low-carbon generation of reliable energy, then I think, you know, to me, nuclear would be the right way forward.
00:12:54.660 You know, one of my favourite things about Najib Farage is he's got a sense of humour.
00:12:58.460 He's, I'm not going to call him eccentric, because, you know, if you spot an eccentric Brit, you'll know it.
00:13:03.980 But he's, he's a character.
00:13:05.880 Let me put it that way.
00:13:06.720 He dresses like a classic Brit.
00:13:09.900 He, he loves going to the pub and having a, having a pint.
00:13:14.060 He's a real guy, unlike the, the robotic Rishi Sunak or the bland, meaningless Keir Starmer.
00:13:23.240 I mean, just look at this guy on, on TikTok.
00:13:27.140 Well, it's breakfast on polling day.
00:13:31.020 The Daily Mail do not like us at all.
00:13:32.780 But this is funny.
00:13:33.760 Vote Farage, get them. 0.99
00:13:35.140 Vote Farage.
00:13:36.100 That's all people see.
00:13:37.120 Thank you, Daily Mail.
00:13:38.140 I love it.
00:13:40.900 Never been seen before.
00:13:42.600 But it is only midday on polling day.
00:13:44.800 There's a long way to go.
00:13:46.020 So, yes, it'll never happen again.
00:13:48.080 It's a half.
00:13:49.140 I'm fine.
00:13:50.080 First day of the job.
00:14:13.560 I'm in the boxing ring now.
00:14:15.200 I'm not your security.
00:14:16.140 You're not messing with me right now.
00:14:18.700 I'm going to smoke you. 1.00
00:14:20.280 Well, no more milkshakes anymore.
00:14:24.220 I promise you.
00:14:25.040 No one's going to come near it.
00:14:33.940 Anyway, so I'm here in the UK today, Election Day.
00:14:37.920 I'm in London.
00:14:38.920 As you can see, I'm in Trafalgar Square, one of my favorite places in the world.
00:14:42.960 And then tonight I'm going to go to Nigel Farage's riding, his district.
00:14:49.700 He's running in a place called Clacton-on-Sea.
00:14:53.480 I've never been there before, but it looks interesting to me.
00:14:57.440 It looks like the kind of place that gets forgotten by the fancy people.
00:15:02.700 It's just full of old white men. 1.00
00:15:05.600 And I say that because actually the Labour candidate running against Nigel Farage in Clacton
00:15:11.520 has said bizarre things like, I drink the tears of white people and I'm running for all black and brown people.
00:15:20.040 Here's Nigel Farage with his answer to that.
00:15:22.660 He was asked, what are you going to do for black people?
00:15:24.760 He said, nothing.
00:15:27.340 But he said it in a beautiful way.
00:15:29.160 Take a look.
00:15:29.940 I was asked the other day, what was I going to do for the black community?
00:15:32.760 Do you know what I said?
00:15:34.280 Nothing.
00:15:36.180 Absolutely nothing.
00:15:37.920 I couldn't give a damn whether you're black or white, whether you're gay or straight. 1.00
00:15:42.980 I really don't care.
00:15:46.080 You'll be judged by your character.
00:15:49.020 You'll be judged by your ability.
00:15:51.500 You'll be judged by are you a contributor to society or a taker out.
00:15:57.100 And right at the moment, this is considered to be dangerous, radical thinking.
00:16:04.640 But I think if we can start to explain why this matters, if we can start to explain that that's the only way we're going to have any chance of a unified society that works together, you know, with mutual benefit for each other.
00:16:18.800 I think this is one of the next great political battles, and we're going to need some quite brave leaders.
00:16:23.900 I find that so refreshing.
00:16:25.920 A candidate who actually means, I'm going to treat people the same regardless of race.
00:16:30.740 Again, I say people have called him racist, including the Labour candidate running against him.
00:16:36.120 But look at this.
00:16:37.540 Here's an excerpt of a speech.
00:16:39.560 Najafras had an enormous rally.
00:16:41.620 I think it was in Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK.
00:16:44.640 And he had a patriotic, British, progressive, Muslim member of Reform UK articulating what it means to be a newcomer to the UK who loves the UK.
00:16:57.500 And because I think there's too much factionalism and sectarianism, look at this speaker, besides Nigel Farage, who was at that massive Birmingham rally just a few days ago.
00:17:09.880 I'm Zia Youssef.
00:17:11.080 I'm a technology entrepreneur who sold my company last year, and I just became one of the biggest donors to Reform UK.
00:17:18.240 Let me tell you why I did it, and why I'm here.
00:17:29.940 I did it because I love Britain.
00:17:32.200 I love my country.
00:17:39.420 Britain is home to the warmest, most welcoming people in the world.
00:17:43.620 We would do well to ask, why do so many wish to come here and make Britain their home? 1.00
00:17:54.180 The answer is British values.
00:17:56.860 These are the values of equality under the law, the presumption of innocence, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, love of family, and love of country.
00:18:12.640 These values have been exported across the world, they gave birth to the United States, to Canada, to Australia, and many others.
00:18:27.620 These values, these values in a historical context are nothing short of a miracle.
00:18:38.220 They can be subscribed to by those of all faiths and races, and they are worth protecting.
00:18:43.900 Isn't that heartwarming?
00:18:45.820 That's exactly it.
00:18:47.380 And there's so many Brits who are Sikh, or Muslim, or Hindu, or black, or whatever, who are saying, yes, I want to be a patriotic Brit.
00:18:58.020 I don't believe in wokeness.
00:19:00.080 And Nigel Farage is not racist.
00:19:02.320 In fact, he's the opposite.
00:19:03.880 So Nigel Farage is saying, enough of that.
00:19:05.800 Stop that.
00:19:06.460 Stop the mass immigration. 1.00
00:19:07.920 Bring down the cost of housing.
00:19:09.640 Stop the anti-patriotism.
00:19:12.080 Renew patriotism.
00:19:13.240 It's very exciting.
00:19:14.780 And I'm here not just because I'm excited for the UK, but I'm here to see how it works in the UK, and could it work in Canada?
00:19:22.600 Could we have a political leader who speaks bluntly about these issues like mass immigration and radical Islamism?
00:19:32.340 Can it work?
00:19:33.780 The UK is just as woke and politically correct as Canada in many ways.
00:19:38.840 There's pride flags more than there's union jack flags.
00:19:42.460 There's wokeness.
00:19:44.600 There's all sorts of affirmative action and things that we associate with the United States.
00:19:49.900 They've imported it here to the UK, just like we've imported those ideas to Canada.
00:19:55.380 Can someone speak bluntly and withstand the assault on him by the regime media?
00:20:03.300 Let me give you an example of an insane thing they did.
00:20:06.060 Nigel Farage is very good at talking about these issues, but maybe some other people in this party are not quite that way.
00:20:11.920 And there was this stunning story in a TV network called Channel 4.
00:20:17.220 By the way, you might remember Channel 4's Kathy Newman, who tried to interview Jordan Peterson.
00:20:23.360 Here's just a flashback if you're wondering what's Channel 4.
00:20:26.260 It's this.
00:20:27.340 Well, then we break it down by age.
00:20:28.920 We break it down by occupation.
00:20:30.860 We break it down by interest.
00:20:32.180 We break it down by personality.
00:20:32.920 But you're saying, basically, it doesn't matter if women aren't getting to the top, because that's what's skewing that gender pay gap, isn't it? 0.54
00:20:39.780 You're saying, well, that's just a fact of life.
00:20:41.100 I'm not saying it doesn't matter.
00:20:42.120 Women aren't necessarily going to get to the top. 1.00
00:20:43.380 No, I'm not saying it doesn't matter either.
00:20:45.260 You're saying it's a fact of life.
00:20:45.680 I'm saying there are multiple reasons for it.
00:20:47.600 Yeah, but those reasons, why should women put up with those reasons? 1.00
00:20:50.360 Why should women be content not to get to the top? 1.00
00:20:54.140 I'm not saying that they should put up with it.
00:20:55.320 I'm saying that the claim that the wage gap between men and women is only due to sex is wrong.
00:21:02.420 And it is wrong.
00:21:03.680 There's no doubt about that.
00:21:05.000 The multivariate analysis have been done.
00:21:07.420 So I can give you an example.
00:21:08.280 You keep on talking about multivariate analysis.
00:21:09.660 Let me give you an example.
00:21:10.800 I'm saying that 9% pay gap exists.
00:21:13.780 That's a gap between men and women. 1.00
00:21:15.720 I'm not saying why it exists, but it exists.
00:21:18.320 Now, if you're a woman, that seems pretty unfair. 0.83
00:21:21.860 You have to say why it exists.
00:21:23.940 But do you agree that it's unfair?
00:21:25.280 If you're a woman... 1.00
00:21:25.940 Not necessarily.
00:21:26.640 And on average, you're getting paid 9% less than a man.
00:21:28.860 That's not fair, is it?
00:21:30.740 It depends on why it's happening.
00:21:32.600 Yeah, so you know who we're dealing with here.
00:21:34.200 So Channel 4 had this huge exclusive that they saw all these racists in Nigel Farage's party,
00:21:41.680 and they did this exclusive, blowing the lid off it,
00:21:45.440 until it turned out that it was an actor.
00:21:50.980 They had hired an actor who specializes in playing sort of grouchy, grubby buffoons and hooligans.
00:22:00.160 We've been undercover to find out.
00:22:02.900 Hello.
00:22:03.200 How are you doing?
00:22:04.200 How are you doing?
00:22:05.200 How are you doing?
00:22:05.700 All right.
00:22:06.200 Good luck.
00:22:06.460 I'm fine.
00:22:07.880 This is what we found when we joined his troops inside Farage's Clacton campaign.
00:22:13.200 If you've got a razor, feel free to grab a razor.
00:22:15.620 Once you're ready and you're happy, just set off on your adventure.
00:22:18.580 At this meeting, they're assigning teams to go out leafleting.
00:22:21.640 We meet Andrew Parker, who describes himself as a property dealer.
00:22:26.280 Yeah, I've got a car.
00:22:27.180 It's the NW.
00:22:28.360 Brilliant.
00:22:29.040 Let's go.
00:22:29.740 We're assigned to go out canvassing with Mr. Parker.
00:22:32.860 You can put it in the seat, forward if you want.
00:22:34.960 In the car, there's a pep talk about what to say on the doorstep.
00:22:38.500 The immigration thing, use the word illegal. 0.61
00:22:42.340 Emphasize illegal.
00:22:43.860 Especially if you have the door, it's a bunch of ****.
00:22:45.860 The reform canvasser then gives his view on Muslims and what the party would do with mosques.
00:22:53.300 Sick, mate.
00:22:54.200 Sick mother ****. 0.86
00:22:55.920 It's a cult.
00:22:56.920 If you don't know about Islam, it's the most disgusting cult out. 1.00
00:23:02.040 We're **** kicking all Muslims out of the mosques than certainly the Wiverspoons. 1.00
00:23:07.980 But wearing his blue and white reform rosette, he gives his views on how to stop the boats.
00:23:13.280 We've got a deer living here in a place near Dover.
00:23:17.360 Army recruits.
00:23:18.220 Get the young recruits there, yeah, with guns on the **** beach, target practice, ****.
00:23:23.340 Just shoot them.
00:23:24.120 That's what the Greeks done.
00:23:25.220 They know about that.
00:23:25.960 The Greeks shot at the ice.
00:23:27.260 Look at the Australians. 1.00
00:23:29.160 No one had known of it.
00:23:30.060 We just need to ring fence Brad for Starn around.
00:23:32.680 Let's do that ****.
00:23:34.120 I was like having fun.
00:23:35.140 We've only got these bastards running our country. 0.61
00:23:37.520 You must be **** joking, mate.
00:23:39.340 Keep flying that flag.
00:23:40.820 I'll put it on.
00:23:41.400 Channel 4, by all accounts, hired an actor to be racist because they couldn't actually find a racist.
00:23:51.820 And that started popping up in other channels too.
00:23:55.080 The BBC, their version of our CBC state broadcaster, had a town hall with Nigel.
00:24:00.920 And they stuffed him with activists.
00:24:03.960 These were not random Brits.
00:24:06.500 These were people recruited for the panel.
00:24:09.040 Hello.
00:24:10.300 I'd like to know, what is it about you and your party that attracts racists and extremists, whether you say you want them or not?
00:24:18.200 Well, I've done more.
00:24:19.240 I've done more to drive the far right out of British politics than anybody else alive.
00:24:30.340 I took on the BNP just over a decade ago.
00:24:34.020 I said to their voters, if this is a protest vote, but you don't support their racist agenda, don't vote for them, vote for me.
00:24:41.020 And we destroyed them.
00:24:42.180 I've never allowed in parties I've led anybody who was even a member of an extremist organisation to join our parties.
00:24:48.560 What happened over the last weekend was truly astonishing.
00:24:54.100 A tirade of invective abuse directed at the Prime Minister.
00:24:58.020 I mean, the whole thing was unbelievable.
00:25:00.120 It didn't ring true.
00:25:00.980 So I checked it out.
00:25:03.360 It turns out the man that did this is an actor.
00:25:05.980 He was contacted by The Telegraph this morning.
00:25:08.280 He denied he was an actor.
00:25:09.860 We then found out, yes, actually, he is an actor.
00:25:13.700 He's worked in the past for Channel 4.
00:25:17.260 On his own site, he says, I'm a well-spoken actor with an alter ego.
00:25:22.740 I do rough talking.
00:25:23.800 Let me tell you, from the minute he turned up in that office in Clacton and I saw him,
00:25:27.640 he was acting from the very start.
00:25:31.080 He even says on his website, hire me, I do undercover filming.
00:25:36.200 Or this outrageous question, but look at how Nigel turned it around.
00:25:40.380 Nigel Farage, I just have a question about being a paid actor.
00:25:43.540 You also run a, you are online on a website called Cameo
00:25:48.700 where you'll record paid shorts of you doing roasts or pep talks for people.
00:25:55.040 I was just wondering, your cheapest ones you do are £70.
00:25:58.580 If I paid you £70 now, would you admit that this country would be nothing
00:26:02.620 without our rich history of immigration?
00:26:05.260 Well, I tell you what, I tell you what, I tell you what.
00:26:09.980 And this is what's gone wrong.
00:26:12.840 Because you talk about immigration and it ran from after the war
00:26:17.160 up until the millennium, a net 30,000 to 40,000 a year.
00:26:21.800 And yes, it worked.
00:26:23.000 In fact, we had the most successful immigration policies
00:26:26.400 of any country in the whole of Europe, no question.
00:26:29.880 Now, it is so totally out of control.
00:26:32.200 Just think about this.
00:26:33.500 Two and a half million people have come in the last two years.
00:26:37.080 You wonder why you can't get a house.
00:26:38.480 You wonder why your rents have gone up 25% in four years.
00:26:42.220 You wonder why our infrastructure is struggling.
00:26:45.340 You wonder why, you know, we have to build a new house every two minutes just to cope with
00:26:50.500 the numbers.
00:26:50.960 And that's the issue.
00:26:52.140 It's now running at numbers that are literally unimaginable and are diminishing the quality
00:26:57.760 of life of everybody in this country.
00:27:00.140 And frankly, this should be the biggest issue of this election.
00:27:04.220 Those were not random people.
00:27:05.780 The BBC did not disclose who they were.
00:27:08.680 Now, Nigel still hit it out of the park.
00:27:11.040 Today is election day.
00:27:12.680 I'm going to see if I can talk to some folks here in London.
00:27:15.660 Then we're going to get on a train or a car and make our way to Clacton on sea.
00:27:19.680 I'm glad that it's not raining as I thought it would be.
00:27:23.760 I'm going on about two hours sleep.
00:27:26.640 I'm going to be back in Canada in a couple of days, but I want to be here tonight.
00:27:31.500 I want to see if Nigel Farage can break through in Clacton.
00:27:35.580 I think he can.
00:27:36.540 I want to see how many other Reform UK MPs punch through.
00:27:41.240 I'm hoping it's maybe 10.
00:27:43.420 Now, I know that doesn't sound like a lot because the British Parliament has around,
00:27:46.280 I don't know, 600 or so MPs.
00:27:48.620 It's quite a large parliament, so you might be thinking, what's the use of having only 10?
00:27:53.120 I think there's two purposes.
00:27:54.560 One is the Reform UK should smash the Tory party into smithereens the same way the Reform
00:28:00.740 Party of Canada smashed Kim Campbell's party down to two seats.
00:28:05.100 It must be repudiated and turned into powder.
00:28:08.060 But secondly, Nigel Farage is an outstanding parliamentarian.
00:28:13.660 I want to show you one of my favorite speeches that he gave when he was in the European Parliament
00:28:18.500 and there's a couple of them.
00:28:19.960 This is one when he was taking on some nameless, faceless Belgian bureaucrat named Rompy or something.
00:28:26.440 He called him Rompy Pompy.
00:28:28.000 Take a look at Nigel just in full, fully just flourishing in the European Parliament.
00:28:34.760 You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.
00:28:40.440 And the question that I want to ask, the question that I want to ask, that we're all going to ask,
00:28:45.760 is who are you?
00:28:47.660 I'd never heard of you.
00:28:49.600 Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.
00:28:51.740 I would like to ask you, President, who voted for you and what mechanism?
00:28:59.260 Oh, I know democracy is not popular with you lot.
00:29:03.440 And what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you?
00:29:07.600 Is this European democracy?
00:29:09.940 Well, I sense, though, that you're competent and capable and dangerous.
00:29:15.920 And I have no doubt that it's your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy
00:29:21.400 and of the European nation-states.
00:29:23.940 You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation-states.
00:29:29.620 Perhaps that's because you come from Belgium, which, of course, is pretty much a non-country. 0.99
00:29:34.920 Isn't that great?
00:29:35.600 I want to give you one more taste of Nigel Farage.
00:29:38.000 Take a look at this.
00:29:38.920 This is, again, when he was in Brussels as a member of the European Parliament for the Brexit party.
00:29:44.180 Take a look.
00:29:44.680 Good morning.
00:29:47.300 Good morning.
00:29:52.420 Funny, isn't it?
00:29:55.460 Funny, isn't it?
00:29:59.680 Isn't it funny?
00:30:01.200 You know, when I came here 17 years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the European Union,
00:30:11.200 you all laughed at me.
00:30:12.540 Well, I have to say, you're not laughing now, are you?
00:30:16.880 And the reason you're so upset, the reason you're so angry has been perfectly clear from all the angry exchanges this morning.
00:30:26.160 Are you telling me that a man with that humor and charisma and facility of the English language is, I'm not going to call him Churchillian,
00:30:43.120 because I think Churchill had maybe more of a gravity or a graveness to him, but are you telling me that a guy with the charisma and the sense of humor of Nigel Farage isn't just going to be the most effective MP in that house,
00:30:58.140 even if he has a small party, getting Nigel Farage into the British Parliament will change the UK.
00:31:04.280 And look across the English Channel, on July 7th, that's this Sunday, they're having the second round of their national elections, and Marine Le Pen is in the lead.
00:31:14.320 She's a right-of-center anti-immigration candidate.
00:31:18.680 Look at Holland, the Netherlands.
00:31:20.780 Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom is now the governing coalition.
00:31:25.240 Listen, look at Hungary and Viktor Orban, look at Argentina and Javier Mille, look at El Salvador and Nayib Bukele, around the world, people are, the pendulum is swinging back.
00:31:38.200 And need I say that in North America, Donald Trump is far ahead of Joe Biden, and in our own country of Canada, Pierre Paulyev leads Justin Trudeau.
00:31:46.700 I'm here in the United Kingdom because I love the UK, because I feel like it's the mother country for us in Canada, and we have so much to learn from them in terms of culture and history and freedom and democracy.
00:31:59.360 But I'm also here because, as I've said before, the UK is a kind of time machine.
00:32:04.420 What happens here happens in Canada, often five years later.
00:32:08.080 I've said that in a negative sense before, mass immigration and wokeism. 1.00
00:32:12.380 But maybe the pendulum swinging back here today will be what happens in Canada tomorrow.
00:32:19.340 I sure hope so.
00:32:20.300 As you can see, I'm a pretty big Nigel Farage fan.
00:32:24.400 I'm also an Anglophile.
00:32:26.580 I'm confessing it.
00:32:27.920 I want to see what the Brits have to say.
00:32:30.040 I'll keep you posted.
00:32:31.780 I came here on frequent flyer points, so I'm keeping my costs really low, although my cameraman and I are headed to Clacton-on-Sea.
00:32:38.020 We've got to get a hotel room there overnight.
00:32:39.660 The total cost of my trip, including cab fare, hotel, and other incidentals, probably going to be about $1,000.
00:32:46.500 If you want to help me chip in, please go to rebelfieldreports.com.
00:32:50.780 I'll have updates on that page.
00:32:52.580 I'm going to do my show about it, and I'll have some tweets along the way.
00:32:56.360 What do you think the result's going to be?
00:32:58.560 We'll find out soon enough.
00:32:59.900 Stay with us.
00:33:00.560 More ahead.
00:33:00.940 I'm Ezra Levant from Rebel News.
00:33:14.100 We're based in Canada, but we care about things around the world because we can learn lessons from places like the United Kingdom.
00:33:20.600 I'm here in Clacton to see how this election goes with the entrance of Nigel Farage, the leader of the new Reform UK party.
00:33:30.540 He's running here in Clacton an insurgent campaign to boot out the Tories and bring in a platform of stopping mass immigration. 1.00
00:33:39.720 I'm going to talk to ordinary people and see what I can find out.
00:33:41.940 What do you think about the candidacy of Nigel Farage here in Clacton?
00:33:46.360 What do you make of that?
00:33:48.580 I think he's got some good ideas, but I think he could be quite dangerous.
00:33:54.020 I think there's a lot of people that maybe would take on a different stance with it all.
00:34:02.880 So, yeah, I wouldn't vote for Nigel on that basis, really.
00:34:08.420 The local candidate here is Nigel Farage. Reform UK is sort of an upstart party. What do you lads make of it?
00:34:16.240 It's great. Yeah, I agree with it.
00:34:18.880 All four of you agree?
00:34:19.800 Yeah, that's what Brett needs. Reform.
00:34:22.340 And what is it about Reform or is it Nigel Farage that you like?
00:34:27.560 He knows his stuff. That's what he is. He knows what he's on about, knows what to do, and he's prepared, isn't he?
00:34:32.340 Yeah, I like Nigel. He's good.
00:34:33.760 Is there a particular issue that he talks about that you agree with?
00:34:40.200 I agree with some of the stuff he says.
00:34:45.580 I think we just need to make Britain great again.
00:34:50.440 Nigel's been pretty popular on TikTok and social media. I get a real kick out of it. I'm over in Canada.
00:34:56.340 Do you guys follow him on TikTok?
00:34:58.580 Twitter, everything, yeah.
00:34:59.960 What do you think? Is he being silly or is he connecting?
00:35:02.760 Oh, he's connecting to everyone, yeah.
00:35:05.040 What are your thoughts on the election and do you feel comfortable sharing them in public?
00:35:08.380 Because I notice some people are a little shy to go on the record because I think maybe they're worried about being cancelled or something.
00:35:14.680 I think cancelled culture is a big issue for people. They're afraid to talk freely.
00:35:18.280 So I think, so it seems like Labour have won the election. That's what the news would give you to believe, the mainstream media.
00:35:25.900 I think what this is about is what kind of gains a reform can make and can they overtake the Tory party.
00:35:33.760 It's about what can they do and who's going to stand up for the right wing in the UK.
00:35:39.440 I take it you don't think the Conservative Party is really conservative at all then?
00:35:44.840 No, they're no longer conservative. They're what people call Labour-lite.
00:35:48.740 So they're kind of, they carried on from Blair, they carried on a lot of his policies. So, yeah.
00:35:54.740 I think the phrase far right here in the UK has a particular meaning that's sort of scary, scarier than in North America.
00:36:01.540 If someone said you're far right, they wouldn't sting in America, but here it's, oh, please, it's basically code for racist.
00:36:08.260 And I wonder if Brits are afraid of saying, I want to control immigration, I want to control wokeness. 0.61
00:36:16.800 I didn't know the cancelled culture was so powerful here. 0.95
00:36:20.140 Do you think there's a lot of secret Nigel supporters who maybe won't publicly say they're for Nigel and the reform,
00:36:27.120 but in the ballot mark an X when no one is looking?
00:36:30.320 I think definitely. And I think a bit like with Trump in America.
00:36:33.720 So in 2016, a lot of the polls said that Trump didn't have a chance.
00:36:37.440 I think there are secret reform voters, but also you're going to see a lot of people come out and vote for reform that wouldn't normally vote.
00:36:43.820 So they're not being picked up by the polls.
00:36:46.100 Do you think some people are shy about supporting Nigel Farage and might vote for him privately, but wouldn't say so publicly?
00:36:53.640 Definitely, definitely. Because there's so much stigma attached to people's views.
00:36:59.900 You know, you can vote one way and people might think that, you know, you're racist.
00:37:06.620 Not necessarily racist, but, you know, like the way our communities have changed.
00:37:13.520 You're just thinking, you know, is it right? Is this what we want?
00:37:17.360 You know, so I don't think it's racist or radical at all.
00:37:20.160 I mean, I mean, this election is really about immigration, both legal and illegal.
00:37:26.360 I mean, the country's getting full.
00:37:28.800 My wife works in a school as an invigilator.
00:37:31.500 They haven't got any more room in that school.
00:37:33.680 You can't get a doctor's appointment.
00:37:35.280 You ring up at 8 o'clock and you have to ring 30 times to get through.
00:37:38.700 And then way up past 8, the appointments are all gone.
00:37:41.840 Well, it sounds like you two follow politics quite closely.
00:37:45.860 But I think most normal people don't.
00:37:48.480 I think most people don't even read the newspapers.
00:37:50.220 Let me say we're not normal.
00:37:51.480 Well, that's what I'm saying.
00:37:53.520 I'm saying you've got your volume knob turned up to 10 on politics.
00:37:56.960 But an average person in Clacton, I bet that's not strange.
00:38:01.040 And so they're going to read the mainstream media.
00:38:03.440 They're going to get the news from Channel 4 or BBC or, I mean, not a single newspaper
00:38:08.800 that I saw, major newspaper in London, endorsed Nigel.
00:38:12.960 So if you're a normal person, you're probably afraid because you think, well, the whole world
00:38:18.200 is going to call me racist if I support Nigel.
00:38:20.900 Well, I don't care.
00:38:22.120 Well, you don't, but it sounds like a lot of people do.
00:38:24.620 I'm starting not to care.
00:38:25.400 No, youngsters are starting not to care.
00:38:27.520 Social media is really big.
00:38:28.920 And social media needs to be hit because youngsters read social media.
00:38:32.980 And they're not, I think previously parties have overlooked it because they think youngsters
00:38:37.960 aren't as stupid, they're not interested.
00:38:39.960 Now, Nigel's party has targeted them in a way with facts that they can read, facts that
00:38:45.980 they can actually see.
00:38:47.100 You look, immigration, like Jono says, is a massive, massive problem here.
00:38:50.900 But positive immigration isn't a massive problem.
00:38:53.840 We've got people coming from abroad to work in the NHS.
00:38:56.440 That's positive immigration.
00:38:57.500 You know, every country needs positive immigration.
00:39:00.420 You go to Canada.
00:39:01.160 I can't go to Canada because I'm too old.
00:39:03.480 Joyce Loggs can't go to Canada if he hasn't got a trade, if he's not qualified.
00:39:06.700 So that's positive immigration, isn't it?
00:39:09.000 So the youngsters now are saying, hold on, I went to school and I couldn't do this because
00:39:14.000 this is happening and this is happening.
00:39:15.740 There's not enough school places.
00:39:16.820 I can't go to doctor.
00:39:17.780 I can't go to hospital.
00:39:18.600 There's not enough places.
00:39:19.500 And that is because of non-positive immigration, isn't it?
00:39:22.460 Nigel Farage has always fought against the press and they've tried to stop Brexit with Project
00:39:28.260 Fear.
00:39:29.320 They didn't stop him before.
00:39:31.760 Do you think they're going to stop him this time?
00:39:34.460 Hopefully not.
00:39:35.880 I'm hopeful.
00:39:36.460 I think there's a great turnout, so that is a good sign.
00:39:41.500 It's not good.
00:39:42.700 You know, we've got more of them coming over.
00:39:45.080 There's more of them than our British army now coming over.
00:39:49.200 ISIS fighters coming through Africa.
00:39:51.940 Al-Shabaab will come down from Somalia across to West Africa and then coming across.
00:39:58.160 It's pretty...
00:39:58.720 Are they coming from France?
00:39:59.640 Or where are the boats coming from?
00:40:00.940 From France?
00:40:01.260 Over to Italy and their way down.
00:40:04.120 But they're bigger than our British army now.
00:40:06.820 You've only got to look at London.
00:40:08.040 They're bigger than our British army.
00:40:09.620 All fighting fit men.
00:40:11.380 Where's their wives? 1.00
00:40:12.240 I said they're fleeing war.
00:40:13.220 Where's their wives? 1.00
00:40:14.400 Where's their wives and children?
00:40:16.080 They're not all fleeing war.
00:40:17.540 Very little percentage of fleeing war.
00:40:19.500 They're all coming from West Africa. 0.99
00:40:21.660 North Africa.
00:40:22.680 That's the problem with it all.
00:40:23.760 Too many.
00:40:24.740 And they're throwing away all their IDs.
00:40:26.220 They use their IDs to get through West Africa. 0.89
00:40:28.600 Tell me.
00:40:29.200 Every single checkpoint they use to use their IDs.
00:40:31.620 And then they start getting across there.
00:40:33.180 So when they get to France, they chuck away their IDs.
00:40:36.600 Not everyone in this town is racist.
00:40:39.000 And not everyone wants to vote for fascism.
00:40:43.600 That's it.
00:40:45.100 There are plenty of people here that support immigration.
00:40:49.020 And I would say that most of the local Clacton people actually probably do.
00:40:53.160 A lot of the anti-immigration policies here are from people that have moved away from London
00:40:58.560 to create their own perfect little Brexit here.
00:41:01.680 So that's my opinion.
00:41:04.580 Now if someone's in France, I haven't been there in a while,
00:41:08.500 but what I know about France is it's fairly free and fairly safe.
00:41:13.380 If someone's in France... 0.75
00:41:14.160 Last week's elections would say otherwise.
00:41:18.080 But we are facing the same troubles that we are.
00:41:20.800 But surely people in France are not in danger.
00:41:25.660 And just if you're in France already, aren't they just shopping around?
00:41:29.720 If they're already safe in France, if they came from Africa or somewhere and they're safe in France, 0.98
00:41:33.940 aren't they just shopping around?
00:41:34.820 I appreciate this opinion.
00:41:36.580 However, Britain as a nation for hundreds of years have travelled the globe
00:41:42.100 telling everyone in the world we are the best people.
00:41:45.100 We have travelled the world telling people that they should respect us
00:41:49.620 and trying to get them to assimilate to our culture.
00:41:52.800 Why now would they not choose to come here?
00:41:55.540 They speak English or at least the vast majority speak some English
00:41:59.320 where they may not speak any French.
00:42:01.500 There is a reason people choose to come here
00:42:03.820 and that is our own doing from hundreds of years of colonialism.
00:42:07.940 Can I ask you, what is it about Nigel Farage or Reform UK that made you vote for him?
00:42:13.260 Immigration.
00:42:15.120 Immigration and a lot of his policies are for the people.
00:42:20.360 Before Reform UK was around, who did you vote for last time?
00:42:23.900 Or did you vote last time?
00:42:25.100 First time I voted.
00:42:26.500 Really? And how about you?
00:42:27.680 I used to vote Labour up to Tony Blair
00:42:30.020 and I thought, do you know, I've had enough.
00:42:32.140 He was a warmonger.
00:42:33.580 Absolute warmonger.
00:42:34.720 Couldn't stand it.
00:42:35.340 I can't stand war.
00:42:36.520 And then now he's got Sunak's coming and he wants war.
00:42:39.700 He wants to make it into like a regime country.
00:42:42.320 I think it's too Muslimified. 1.00
00:42:43.740 What do you make of his idea to have a kind of mandatory service for young people?
00:42:48.080 It sounds a little bit like military conscription.
00:42:50.860 Were you surprised by that?
00:42:52.580 That tells me we're getting ready for war. 0.90
00:42:54.780 That tells me he wants war.
00:42:56.460 That tells me it's got war written all over it.
00:42:59.000 And to me, I'm not into war.
00:43:01.940 How many people who used to vote Labour are going for Nigel?
00:43:06.140 How many would come from the Conservative Party
00:43:07.940 and how many would be more working class?
00:43:10.660 A lot of my friends have gone from Labour to Conservative.
00:43:13.500 Are you working class?
00:43:14.680 Yeah, yeah.
00:43:16.260 But now as I say, they've gone from Labour to Conservative to Nigel now.
00:43:19.600 Everybody's for Nigel, as far as I can see.
00:43:21.180 I went to his meeting last night down there on the pier.
00:43:24.260 Everybody's for Nigel.
00:43:26.600 How do you think he's going to do nationwide?
00:43:29.060 I sense he's strong here in Clacton.
00:43:31.900 But what about in other places?
00:43:33.780 I think he's a good man.
00:43:36.720 He's a winner.
00:43:37.640 He's a good leader.
00:43:38.760 Well, I really appreciate you guys starting to talk with me.
00:43:40.640 Thank you.
00:43:41.880 Give me your prediction.
00:43:42.940 I know we'll know in a few hours.
00:43:44.900 How's reform going to do in this district?
00:43:47.360 And do you think they'll have luck elsewhere in the country?
00:43:49.620 I believe Nigel Farage will just blast this away, this one.
00:43:54.920 He'll be MP4, Clacton-on-Sea tomorrow.
00:43:58.740 I think there is a possibility that quietly,
00:44:01.420 a lot of people are fed up with things in the UK
00:44:03.840 and they're going to vote for reforming Nigel Farage
00:44:06.540 because when they mark that X,
00:44:08.420 it's in the privacy of a polling booth.
00:44:11.180 And they don't have to say who they voted for in public.
00:44:14.480 It's sort of the shy voter effect that Donald Trump had in 2016.
00:44:18.840 You might recall when Trump won in 2016,
00:44:22.120 the New York Times, just days before the election,
00:44:25.100 said that Hillary Clinton had a 90%-plus chance of winning.
00:44:30.200 Well, I think it was because people weren't being candid with the pollsters.
00:44:33.200 I wonder if that phenomenon will be here.
00:44:35.380 Remember, Farage has campaigned in America for Trump.
00:44:39.140 He understands that Trump phenomenon.
00:44:41.220 In fact, in some ways, he predated the Trump phenomenon.
00:44:44.240 Remember, Brexit came first.
00:44:46.600 Trump came next.
00:44:48.660 It could just be that people are here to enjoy themselves
00:44:51.340 and they don't want to talk politics.
00:44:52.960 But it could also be that something's happening
00:44:55.040 in a subterranean way that will be revealed tonight.
00:44:59.100 We'll find out.
00:44:59.620 Well, it's nearly 10 p.m. on Election Day.
00:45:10.220 Here in the UK, the election, the voting goes till 10.
00:45:13.120 So they're still casting ballots across the UK.
00:45:16.580 I'm standing in front of the Clacton Leisure Center,
00:45:19.480 as they would pronounce it here in the UK.
00:45:21.560 And incredibly, we're told that the results
00:45:24.800 might not be known till the wee hours.
00:45:27.160 In fact, some folks we met on the way in
00:45:28.940 thought they could be here till 5 a.m.
00:45:32.320 I don't really get it.
00:45:34.000 I don't know how it could go that late,
00:45:36.020 but that's what we're told.
00:45:37.340 And the reason I tell you that
00:45:38.840 is because even with the five-hour time zone advantage
00:45:42.540 I have from being here as opposed to in Canada,
00:45:45.160 I don't think I'm going to give you the results
00:45:47.900 before tonight, Canada time, before the show, Canada time.
00:45:52.840 So we'll have the results very early in the morning.
00:45:55.920 I'm here tomorrow as well.
00:45:58.140 Look, you've seen everything I've seen.
00:46:00.500 A ton of folks who were willing to talk to me,
00:46:02.700 in Clacton at least,
00:46:04.140 suggest they're voting for Nigel Farage.
00:46:06.720 And the polls suggest he's going to win too.
00:46:09.740 Now, whether or not that happens,
00:46:11.880 we will not know till the only poll that counts comes in.
00:46:15.360 I do believe there is something like a shy voter effect.
00:46:20.160 What I mean by that is people who in their hearts saying,
00:46:22.740 I'm going to vote for Nigel Farage,
00:46:24.380 but wouldn't say that publicly for fear of opprobrium
00:46:27.740 from their friends, family, and neighbors.
00:46:29.900 We saw that.
00:46:31.220 And by the way,
00:46:31.880 that's something that helped propel Donald Trump
00:46:33.920 to a victory in 2016.
00:46:36.140 People who didn't want to make a fuss about it,
00:46:38.660 didn't want to be embarrassed about it,
00:46:39.980 but when they were in the privacy of that voting booth,
00:46:42.120 marked an X next to Donald Trump's name.
00:46:44.600 You can see there's a bit of a line up here.
00:46:47.360 They have a tradition in the UK
00:46:50.160 that all the candidates are at the counting center.
00:46:53.260 They wear their little, I forget what it's called.
00:46:56.440 It looks like a sort of a badge, a rosette it's called.
00:47:01.980 So Nigel Farage, if he's not here right now,
00:47:04.480 he may come here later,
00:47:05.640 but it might not be for a few hours.
00:47:07.540 Anyhow, I'm learning about the British electoral system
00:47:10.020 as I go.
00:47:11.100 By the way, I checked and Clacton,
00:47:14.500 which is the district in which Nigel Farage is running,
00:47:17.360 only has about 100,000 people in it.
00:47:19.320 For some reason in my mind, it would be a lot bigger,
00:47:21.680 but the UK, even though it has
00:47:23.560 about 50% more people than Canada does,
00:47:27.600 it has 650 different districts.
00:47:30.540 So any given riding is actually about the same size
00:47:34.380 or even smaller than in Canada.
00:47:36.700 So we'll see how it goes,
00:47:37.800 but let me put my bet in, my prediction.
00:47:40.480 I predict that Nigel Farage wins Clacton handily.
00:47:46.580 From what I could detect on the streets, at least,
00:47:49.020 I really think that's going to happen.
00:47:50.880 I only found one labor person in all my peregrinations.
00:47:55.400 As for the rest of the country,
00:47:57.240 that first pass the post system makes it tough,
00:48:00.200 but I'm going to go out on a limb
00:48:01.680 and guess that 12 people will be elected
00:48:05.460 in the whole country for a Reform UK.
00:48:08.020 That might sound like nothing out of 650,
00:48:10.940 but it's a toehold for a new party.
00:48:13.460 And if anyone can turn that into gold,
00:48:15.620 it'll be Nigel Farage.
00:48:17.220 That's our show for tonight.
00:48:18.800 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here
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