Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies hundreds of thousands against mass immigration

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I just got back from the United Kingdom where I was there for Tommy

00:00:03.480 Robinson's massive march. Unite the Kingdom was the name of the rally. It was about free speech

00:00:09.060 and mass immigration and things like that. I'll take you through it, showing you some of the

00:00:13.080 best speeches, including the surprise speaker, Elon Musk. That's ahead. But first, let me invite

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00:00:44.260 Tonight, the largest British political rally in a generation, maybe ever. And we were on the

00:00:50.260 front lines. It's September 15th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:54.200 He's ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:09.440 Hi, everybody. It's great to be back in Canada. I was in the UK for a few days 0.55

00:01:13.420 for a huge rally led by our friend Tommy Robinson. I've seen different estimates of how many people

00:01:19.720 there were. The lowest estimate I have seen anywhere, and this is by people who hate Tommy

00:01:25.600 Robinson and want to downplay his achievements, was 110,000. But I think it's got to have been at

00:01:32.300 least 250,000, maybe 500,000. You know, the largest rally ever was supposedly the rally against the Gulf

00:01:40.900 War when Tony Blair was PM. Then, allegedly, 750,000 people marched. I think it's quite possible that were the

00:01:48.780 numbers this time. We'll never know for sure, but let me put it this way. It was huge.

00:01:55.560 One of the reasons that's interesting, you see, there was absolutely no establishment support for

00:02:01.340 it at all. That massive anti-war rally obviously had a lot of fully funded supporters. The Socialist

00:02:09.260 Workers Party, the Labor Party, different ethnic groups. None of that was apparent here. This was all 0.74

00:02:15.300 grassroots. No elected politicians took the stage, not even Reform UK, even though I imagine the crowd

00:02:23.420 would overwhelmingly have supported them. Here's Trevor Phillips, the former head of the UK Human

00:02:29.560 Rights Commission and a very interesting journalist. He's one of my favorite guys over there. He attended

00:02:34.520 the rally. And by the way, I saw him at another Tommy Robinson rally about a year ago. I think he likes

00:02:39.680 going to them. And I think this is one of the fairest reports you'll hear. I mean, he has a few

00:02:44.660 jabs at Tommy, but that's okay. Here, take a listen. It's quite possible that the person most taken aback

00:02:50.960 by the huge turnout at yesterday's Unite the Kingdom demonstration was its organizer, the hard-right

00:02:57.160 activist known as Tommy Robinson. 150,000 people crammed into central London, most carrying national flags,

00:03:05.780 the Union Jack, the Cross of St George, even the Scottish Soltire, protesting about immigration,

00:03:11.220 about free speech, and about the decline of Christianity. There was some fearsome rhetoric,

00:03:17.600 including from Elon Musk, who called for the overthrow of the British government. At the margins,

00:03:23.160 there was some hooliganism. But I think that for those who opposed Robinson and his ilk, the most

00:03:29.000 alarming aspect of the event was just how normal the vast majority of the marches were. I spent an hour or

00:03:35.760 two amongst them, and my own impression was that they were mostly the sort of people you'd meet

00:03:39.140 in a country pub, or in a half-time queue for the loo, at football or at a concert. There was a sprinkling

00:03:45.200 of black and brown faces, and the event was brought to a close by a gospel group singing Jerusalem.

00:03:51.900 All that must worry the traditional mass parties, Labour and Conservatives, now polling at less than 40%

00:03:58.940 between them. They're draining support to parties like Reform and the Greens. And yet, a man recently

00:04:05.980 out of jail, condemned as an extremist thug by most mainstream media outlets, can rally a demo the size

00:04:13.580 of the entire population of Cambridge or Blackpool. A feat you couldn't imagine either Sir Keir Starmer

00:04:20.000 or Kemi Badenoch pulling off anytime soon. Perhaps the people are sending us all a message. Let's see if anyone

00:04:28.140 at Westminster's listening.

00:04:30.000 Now, I was there as a friend of Tommy, his former boss. He used to work for Rebel News. I was there as a speaker

00:04:36.040 invited to say a few words. And I was with a group of rebels in our free speech mission. You may have seen me

00:04:43.060 advertise that, hey, come to the rally with me and we'll tack on some events before and after. And boy, we sure did.

00:04:50.000 We got started on Thursday with amazing speakers, Dr. David Starkey, if you know the name. We went

00:04:57.760 to dinner with Tommy for a few hours on Thursday night, sort of right before the event. You could see

00:05:03.900 he was super energized and excited, still working on last minute things. His phone was buzzing the whole

00:05:09.740 time. That was pretty fun. Then we went to the rally, but we did other things on the Friday, including

00:05:15.200 going to the House of Lords. And we went to the National Gallery. We did a lot of fun stuff.

00:05:19.400 Then on Saturday, it was all about the rally itself. And we went with Tommy to, I guess we could call it

00:05:26.320 the after party. My point is, we really hung out with Tommy and for Rebel enthusiasts, I think it was

00:05:31.620 a lot of fun. Anyways, the rally itself, of course, is what counts. And I'd like to show you a little bit

00:05:37.400 of how that went. Let me start with my own brief speech. Now, I wrote it out because I suddenly became

00:05:44.040 nervous. I'm generally not nervous giving speeches, but I just realized how many hundreds

00:05:49.000 of thousands of people were watching, not just there in London, but tens of millions of people

00:05:55.020 online. And I don't think I got nervous that I'd say something dumb. Actually, my main worry was that 0.96

00:05:59.720 I would either go way too short or go too long. Tommy said it was very strict. We had to be five

00:06:05.380 minutes or less. So I actually wrote my speech out word for word. And I'm not thrilled with how it

00:06:10.080 looked, but I didn't want either of those disasters running long and being cut off or being too brief.

00:06:17.100 It sort of reminded me, frankly, of my speech to the truckers at the trucker convoy in 2022.

00:06:22.520 Anyways, here's my four and a half minute speech that I gave. I was actually the second speaker.

00:06:27.320 Take a look.

00:06:27.740 Hello! Hello and welcome to the hundreds of thousands of you stretching for miles in this great city.

00:06:36.500 And hello to the millions more watching online around the world.

00:06:43.180 That's part of the story, isn't it?

00:06:46.000 The establishment media, the regime media, the legacy media, the government media, they haven't

00:06:52.100 mentioned this rally. They want to pretend it doesn't even exist. Well, it exists. You exist.

00:06:58.320 Even if the media party pretends you don't. And if the only source of news we had was the

00:07:05.960 regime media, that would be a problem. But across the United Kingdom and in my country of Canada

00:07:12.080 and around the world, a new generation of citizen journalists is arising to tell the other side

00:07:19.480 of the story, whether it's the Canadian truckers or the Dutch farmers or now the mothers and

00:07:26.920 grandmothers protesting outside Britain's dangerous migrant hotels. Just as establishment politicians 0.99

00:07:35.680 have failed to loyally serve the people, establishment journalists have failed to honestly tell us about

00:07:44.300 our world. But here's the good news. Each of you can be a journalist. If you have a cell phone

00:07:51.820 with a video camera, you can be a journalist. If you have an X account, you can be a journalist.

00:07:58.220 To fill in the blanks left by the media party, our host today, Tommy Robinson, is in fact Britain's

00:08:06.600 leading journalist. And the response from the regime to simply call everyone a racist, it just doesn't

00:08:13.440 seem to work anymore, does it? And more people will watch this rally online than watch all of the

00:08:21.720 official TV news stations and newspapers in the UK combined. It's not easy being a dissident these days

00:08:30.740 though. Police will find a way to arrest you. Even just for a post on social media, 30 people a day

00:08:37.820 across the UK are arrested for mean tweets. Some of them, like the mother Lucy Connolly, are sent to

00:08:44.560 prison for their words. This in the country that gave us the Magna Carta and set the standard for free

00:08:52.200 speech. That's why there are so many people around the world watching, because we're worried about Great

00:08:57.780 Britain. We love you. You're the place that taught us about responsible government and freedom, and

00:09:04.740 you're losing both, and it's painful to watch. The British people are slow to anger. They're polite.

00:09:12.500 They believe in keeping calm and carrying on. They believe in a stiff upper lip. As Kipling said in his

00:09:18.200 poem, The Beginnings, hating is not in the blood of the English, but even the English have had enough.

00:09:26.260 Some people want to ban Tommy Robinson to silence him, to jail him, perhaps even worse. I don't think he can

00:09:33.800 get a fair trial anymore in the UK courts. He's become the official scapegoat, the official enemy of the

00:09:40.920 state. And yet he keeps going, warning his fellow countrymen. The best time to have heeded Tommy's warnings was

00:09:50.780 15 years ago. But the second best time is right now. And I think that's actually happening.

00:09:58.360 Mainstream politicians and journalists are now talking about stopping immigration, and even mass

00:10:04.100 deportations and re-migration. Politicians who used to support censorship, like the Online Safety Act, are now

00:10:12.480 talking about freedom. They now carefully and modestly support the things they used to condemn when Tommy

00:10:19.820 Robinson said them. And we noticed that. Tommy was just ahead of his time. That is my hope today, that the

00:10:29.160 ideas that were censored, the debates that were forbidden, the news that was covered up, the marginalization of

00:10:35.180 patriotic citizens, the bizarre preference for foreign people and foreign ideas over national ideas. My hope 0.99

00:10:43.760 is that era finally comes to an end. And when the British people look back, when you take back your

00:10:51.440 country, you will be able to say, you were there. You were there at a turning point. You were there when the

00:10:57.980 people decided, in their millions, to no longer be afraid to love their country. Good luck, and keep

00:11:08.160 fighting for freedom.

00:11:13.320 After me, our fellow rebel, our friend from down under, Abiy Amini. Now, he went in without notes, and he just

00:11:19.840 revved up the crowd. Here, take a look.

00:11:21.980 G'day, London!

00:11:25.720 Bloody hell, they wouldn't hear that from Melbourne.

00:11:27.980 G'day, London! 0.73

00:11:31.900 That's fair dinkum. That's a bit better.

00:11:34.680 So, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Abiy Amini from Rebel News. I am Tommy Robinson's taller,

00:11:42.980 more handsome brother.

00:11:46.420 But on a serious note, how good is this?

00:11:50.300 I've been to Tommy Robinson rallies for almost a decade now. Bloody hell, in the beginning, I got a lot of crap for him. 0.97

00:12:00.640 But, they were massive then. 0.94

00:12:03.400 But it is nothing in comparison to what we're seeing here today.

00:12:08.720 Hey, the world is waking up.

00:12:11.880 Thanks to Tommy Robinson and his leadership.

00:12:15.540 Now, I'm going to be quick because we're running behind schedule and I got told that I better hurry up.

00:12:27.340 I just want to say to everyone, thank you for coming out.

00:12:30.540 Because in the last, what is it now, 48 hours, the enemies of truth, the enemies of justice, the enemies of everything that's right,

00:12:45.140 tried to scare you guys into silence by shooting and murdering one of the strongest voices for that truth and justice. 0.89

00:12:57.020 But, none of you cowards. 0.53

00:13:00.680 In fact, it looks like the numbers doubled or tripled because of that.

00:13:06.000 And really, it turns out, the murder of Charlie Kirk is the turning point for this fight.

00:13:15.140 And we want to say thank you to Charlie Kirk and thank you to Tommy Robinson.

00:13:21.740 And Tommy, he's telling me to be quiet here.

00:13:25.500 Guys, what is that?

00:13:29.360 We're just going to...

00:13:30.440 All right, guys.

00:13:37.480 We're going to go that way.

00:13:39.540 That's working.

00:13:40.560 There we go.

00:13:41.600 All right, after me, guys.

00:13:42.820 Guys, I want the biggest response ever so we can clip this.

00:13:48.800 Looking at the camera, mate.

00:13:51.820 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

00:13:53.320 Oi, oi, oi! 0.65

00:13:54.760 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

00:13:56.040 Oi, oi, oi! 0.65

00:13:57.340 Aussie!

00:13:58.780 Aussie!

00:13:59.500 Oi! 0.98

00:14:00.100 Aussie!

00:14:01.420 Oi! 0.98

00:14:01.980 There were so many interesting speakers, but I have to say, most of them were not known to, I think, the average person attending.

00:14:10.760 It was European leaders, people from different countries, Germany, France.

00:14:17.240 I don't want to guess all the countries.

00:14:19.660 Here's a clip of Eva Vlardingerbroek, who you probably recognize if you follow social media.

00:14:25.680 She was originally from the Netherlands.

00:14:28.240 Take a look.

00:14:28.700 Britain's patriots, my friends.

00:14:42.640 Today, I call upon all of you to invoke the help of your country's patron saint, St. George.

00:14:51.340 Legend holds that St. George fought against a dragon that was demanding human sacrifice.

00:15:03.860 He fought a battle of good versus evil.

00:15:08.020 And today, hundreds of years later, we are still fighting that very same fight.

00:15:20.920 We are fighting a fight of truth versus lies, of freedom versus tyranny, and of light versus dark.

00:15:31.020 And just three days ago, one of our bravest warriors lost his life fighting it.

00:15:42.700 So today, we also fight for him.

00:15:47.460 We fight for Charlie Kirk.

00:15:49.560 We fight for our nations.

00:15:51.280 We fight for our children.

00:16:02.660 Charlie.

00:16:03.300 Charlie.

00:16:12.320 Ladies and gentlemen, St. George's shield became your very flag.

00:16:18.320 And now, your flag has to become a shield once again.

00:16:27.040 A shield that will protect us in the fight against the evil forces that, just like back then, against the dragon,

00:16:37.660 we are fighting this time because they are demanding the sacrificing of our children on the altar of mass migration. 0.97

00:16:48.320 So, my patriots, raise your flag, wave them high, wave them proudly,

00:16:58.100 because there is nothing that today's dragon fears more than that.

00:17:02.580 And that dragon resides at 10 Downing Street.

00:17:06.200 One speaker that was very interesting was Eric Zemmour.

00:17:14.040 He ran for president of France.

00:17:15.860 He didn't win, but he did very well, considering he's quite an intellectual.

00:17:19.560 He's not a political partisan.

00:17:21.500 He gave a speech in French, so I won't run it now.

00:17:24.800 But Alexa Lavoie, our Montreal-based reporter who speaks French, managed to track him down, sort of in the backstage area,

00:17:31.520 and interview him at some length.

00:17:33.880 And we'll publish that in the days ahead.

00:17:35.900 I'm really excited and I'm really proud, of course.

00:17:38.160 You know I'm proud of having a reporter in Quebec.

00:17:41.500 She does work in English, but she does it all in French.

00:17:43.900 And I think we may have been the only Anglosphere reporter in Alexa who spoke French to interview him.

00:17:53.220 So, he certainly was generous with his time.

00:17:55.580 And just as a note, he came with his own security, because you can imagine being a critic of Islamic immigration to France,

00:18:04.020 you are marked for death terribly.

00:18:06.780 And these were actually the toughest-looking bodyguards at the whole place.

00:18:10.960 Now, there was a surprise guest, and I sort of knew who it was, and maybe you can guess or maybe you know, Elon Musk.

00:18:21.900 He didn't join in person.

00:18:23.420 That would just be logistically too difficult and a security risk.

00:18:26.640 I think Elon Musk probably has security on par even with the President of the United States.

00:18:33.380 Maybe not quite as much, but it is an extreme security issue.

00:18:36.600 He joined, not in person, but by a video stream.

00:18:40.760 So, he joined live.

00:18:42.580 Here's just a taste of that now.

00:18:44.200 It was an 18-minute exchange.

00:18:46.080 It was sort of a Q&A with Tommy Robinson himself.

00:18:48.860 I'll just play a bit, but actually I'll end today's show with the full 18 minutes.

00:18:53.780 I encourage you to watch it.

00:18:55.140 Here's Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk.

00:18:57.000 And boy, the crowd just went nuts when they saw him.

00:18:59.880 You may notice this T-shirt that I'm wearing as great British author, George Orwell.

00:19:04.260 What would Orwell think?

00:19:05.380 I think that's generally a good way to look at these things.

00:19:08.940 He would want freedom of speech.

00:19:10.920 He would want the people to know what's real.

00:19:14.240 He'd want the people to fight against government oppression

00:19:16.980 and fight for the truth and fight for the future of Britain.

00:19:26.400 And then you see how much violence there is on the left

00:19:29.020 with our friend Charlie Cook getting murdered in cold blood this week

00:19:35.160 and people on the left celebrating it openly.

00:19:38.580 the left is the party of murder 0.90

00:19:42.020 and celebrating murder.

00:19:48.920 I mean, let that sink in for a minute.

00:19:53.640 That's who we're dealing with here.

00:19:56.400 That is who we're dealing with.

00:19:59.620 And then you see how much violence there is on the left

00:20:02.180 with our friend Charlie Cook getting murdered in cold blood this week.

00:20:08.580 And people on the left celebrating it openly.

00:20:13.240 The left is the party of murder. 0.62

00:20:17.240 And celebrating murder.

00:20:22.080 I mean, let that sink in for a minute.

00:20:26.800 That's who we're dealing with here.

00:20:29.560 That is who we're dealing with.

00:20:31.360 It was a total triumph for Tommy Robinson.

00:20:33.820 First of all, logistically, it went better than any of them had before.

00:20:37.220 I know it sounds funny, but they had a lot of port-a-potties. 0.99

00:20:40.800 I mean, that's something you maybe don't think about

00:20:42.920 until you have a few hundred thousand of your closest friends show up.

00:20:46.520 There were massive TV monitors on the back of massive trucks

00:20:50.360 spread out down the street.

00:20:52.180 So you didn't just have to be near the front to see and hear things.

00:20:55.980 This is something new.

00:20:57.500 This was not there for Tommy Robinson's rallies in the past.

00:21:01.420 He would typically have just one stage.

00:21:03.720 So it really went well.

00:21:05.900 There was very high quality production.

00:21:08.540 And it's incredible that this all happened when just a few months ago,

00:21:13.360 Tommy Robinson was in prison.

00:21:15.320 Not just in prison.

00:21:16.340 He was in solitary confinement.

00:21:17.760 I do verily believe that they tried to kill him.

00:21:22.400 And frankly, I don't think the state is done.

00:21:25.220 And he was almost jailed again for that train station attack.

00:21:28.320 Remember when Tommy was at the St. Pancras train station

00:21:31.100 and some thug tried to chase Tommy down at the last minute?

00:21:34.540 Tommy punched him and down he went.

00:21:36.920 If it weren't for the closed circuit TV surveillance footage,

00:21:40.180 I think Tommy probably would have been jailed again.

00:21:42.700 The government really treats him as an enemy of the state.

00:21:45.280 But he was the star of the day.

00:21:48.600 You know, I have been following Tommy for a while,

00:21:51.680 for actually just more than 10 years.

00:21:55.140 I got to know him in the final year of Sun News before Rebel News started.

00:21:59.160 So I've been following his career.

00:22:01.120 And he has not changed what he has said.

00:22:04.240 He's the same guy I knew when I met him 10 years ago.

00:22:07.980 He has not changed.

00:22:09.240 What has changed is the rest of the United Kingdom.

00:22:11.480 So things that Tommy Robinson was saying a year ago, let's say,

00:22:16.340 that the entire establishment would attack,

00:22:19.260 now the entire establishment is saying them.

00:22:21.340 Nigel Farage, just as an example, the head of Reform UK,

00:22:24.680 a year ago he told our friend Steve Edgington

00:22:26.900 that he was against mass deportations.

00:22:28.860 Now he's got a specific plan.

00:22:30.980 Five flights a day, keep migrants on military bases, not in hotels. 0.99

00:22:35.100 I mean, it's incredible how quickly the world has come.

00:22:39.080 The Overton window has shifted.

00:22:42.060 But I think what's so interesting is that this was a mass protest by ordinary people.

00:22:47.960 There were no big backers, no political parties, definitely no regime media,

00:22:53.460 no big financiers.

00:22:54.960 It was truly a grassroots event, which I think is pretty incredible.

00:22:58.140 The difference between this rally and other rallies, I mentioned some of them,

00:23:03.240 is it's clear now that Tommy isn't going away.

00:23:05.940 If the regime thought that by throwing him in prison and defaming him

00:23:09.720 and throwing the kitchen sink at him, he would somehow stop.

00:23:13.520 He hasn't stopped, has he?

00:23:15.800 The crowds aren't deterred either.

00:23:18.100 In fact, they seem to be bigger than ever and more diverse.

00:23:21.440 As Trevor Phillips noted, lots of moms and dads, lots of couples,

00:23:25.700 even kids and grandmas and grandpas.

00:23:29.000 The crowds are no longer deterred either by the risk of something bad happening,

00:23:34.980 whether that's Antifa taking a run of things or the police themselves.

00:23:38.660 I think Britons have just decided that this is the moment they need to protest.

00:23:42.320 And we've seen this around the country with protests outside those migrant hotels.

00:23:46.820 I think the most interesting thing is that people just don't care

00:23:49.540 that the media call them all racist.

00:23:51.600 It just doesn't stick anymore.

00:23:53.320 And even if it did, they've decided that it's not more important to them

00:23:57.300 than winning their country back.

00:23:59.340 Trevor Phillips himself, that's a black journalist

00:24:02.280 who was the head of the British Human Rights Commission.

00:24:04.920 So it's interesting they can't really call him a racist, can he?

00:24:08.620 He pointed out whatever the number is, 200,000, 300,000, 400,000 people.

00:24:13.080 Could any politician in the UK get that right now?

00:24:16.540 The Prime Minister Keir Starmer or the leader of the opposition?

00:24:19.880 Kimi Badenoch?

00:24:20.880 No, other than maybe to jeer them and say they hate them.

00:24:25.140 I think the state's treatment of Tommy, the persecution, the defamation,

00:24:30.760 it sort of backfired.

00:24:32.880 I think it's helped Tommy.

00:24:34.960 Terrible price to pay for Tommy.

00:24:37.020 But when Tommy was in prison, that's what made his cause a cause celebre.

00:24:42.260 That's why Elon Musk, for example, took an interest.

00:24:45.220 And Elon Musk doesn't seem to be as close to the Trump administration now as he once was.

00:24:50.800 But his concern for freedom of speech in the UK is certainly maintained and shared by J.D. Vance and Donald Trump,

00:24:58.560 who is going to the UK this week.

00:25:01.020 I don't know if you know.

00:25:01.780 And that's interesting.

00:25:03.880 I think the U.S. is starting to pay attention to Tommy, whereas a year ago he was only of interest or even known to a small number of conservative journalists.

00:25:12.680 I was asked earlier today if things in Canada are as bad as things are in the UK and that if we would ever have a rally of one, two hundred thousand people.

00:25:25.180 Well, first of all, I don't know if we ever have.

00:25:27.500 I know there was a rally in the tens of thousands in October of 1995 when Quebec, the province, was having a vote on separation.

00:25:38.700 And there was a rally to save Canada, a unity rally.

00:25:44.040 I don't know if there's ever been a rally of six figures in Canada before.

00:25:48.400 And I don't think that things are quite as critical yet.

00:25:51.280 We do have migrant hotels, as David Menzies showed us, there's five thousand migrants staying in hotels in Niagara Falls, just wrecking the tourist economy there. 1.00

00:26:01.380 We do have rapes by migrants. 1.00

00:26:03.620 We do have sex trafficking.

00:26:05.800 We do have mass cultural change.

00:26:09.440 All the problems they have in the UK we have here, except we don't have an exposure of these, at least not in the language of being linked to immigration. 0.81

00:26:19.100 I think the vast number of temporary citizens who all want to stay here, the foreign students, the foreign workers, has sort of shocked Canadians in the last year.

00:26:30.020 But I don't know if they're at the point of taking to the streets yet, because I think ordinary Canadians detect that the Conservatives might be able to absorb that energy.

00:26:39.100 Now, they they didn't do so in the last election.

00:26:42.440 But I think Pierre Paulyev regrets that and is going to make that his issue.

00:26:45.980 So if there is a political party into which this energy can go, I don't think you'll see 200,000, 300,000 people on the streets.

00:26:54.140 But in the UK, like I say, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party were both complicit in this mass immigration and all the shenanigans. 1.00

00:27:02.160 That's why the energy is going to the upstart Reform UK.

00:27:05.800 I guess my point is here in Canada, I think people are still hoping the system will work, although I think we're running out of time.

00:27:11.900 I'd like to leave you with the full 18 minute exchange between Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson.

00:27:18.280 I was standing near this stage.

00:27:20.100 It was very exciting.

00:27:21.600 It shows, like I said before, that the propaganda about Tommy Robinson and against Tommy Robinson is just not working.

00:27:28.740 I was quoted in an article today by The Observer in the UK that rehashed Tommy Robinson being an employee of ours.

00:27:37.380 I think that's seven or eight years ago now.

00:27:39.800 And I said to the journalist who reached out to me, I said, really, you're just reheating a seven year old story.

00:27:45.920 You think that's going to do it?

00:27:48.100 It hasn't hasn't worked for seven years.

00:27:51.800 And by the way, that's not serving the British people who are curious about what's going on, whether they like it or not.

00:27:57.260 It's a second question.

00:27:58.240 But the first question is, what's going on?

00:28:00.780 And if the UK Observer and the Daily Mirror and the other newspapers over there, the regime media, just smear Tommy and call him names as they are, I mean, that'll please the regime. 0.94

00:28:13.280 That'll please the prime minister and some radical groups on the left.

00:28:16.340 But ordinary Brits are craving information.

00:28:19.020 I got to tell you, whereas maybe five years ago there was only a handful of citizen journalists, including Rebel News.

00:28:24.360 Now there's dozens.

00:28:27.480 And if the Daily Mirror or, well, frankly, every regime newspaper wants to smear the march and smear the march leaders, I almost don't think it matters anymore.

00:28:39.340 The propaganda is not working and people it's forcing people away from the mainstream media.

00:28:45.720 Elon Musk appearing shows that because Elon Musk, of course, is famous for many things, including he owns X, formerly called Twitter.

00:28:52.920 He owns the largest means of social communication in the world.

00:28:57.080 So who cares what the UK Observer has to say?

00:29:00.560 It shows that Tommy actually has friends in high places, friends with resources.

00:29:06.040 I think there's still a class system in the UK.

00:29:08.900 And Tommy is a working class guy with a working class accent.

00:29:12.340 And that that's an issue in UK politics.

00:29:14.560 Well, Americans don't know about that kind of stuff.

00:29:17.700 And Elon Musk, I mean, he's from Canada and South Africa originally.

00:29:20.900 But he's got an American mindset of meritocracy.

00:29:23.700 He doesn't care what your status is.

00:29:26.780 So Tommy does have friends in high places, no matter what the snooty reporters at the fancy papers say.

00:29:33.820 And I think Tommy's supporters felt encouraged by that, too.

00:29:38.440 Tommy's supporters are working class people who have been called names like football hooligans or whatever.

00:29:44.260 And now they know that, at least in the case of Elon Musk, they have friends in high places, too.

00:29:50.560 Anyways, it was a very exciting week.

00:29:52.940 It's almost a week.

00:29:54.240 And I hung out with a lot of rebels.

00:29:55.960 Rebel news is well-loved in the UK.

00:29:58.680 On the protest beat, as you know, we've recently hired a new freelance reporter, Emma Dunwell.

00:30:03.280 We met up with her.

00:30:04.180 She's doing great.

00:30:04.980 So we care about the UK.

00:30:07.480 I mean, obviously, our home is here in Canada.

00:30:09.580 But the stories I've just talked about, the issues I've just talked about, they're as relevant here in Canada as they are anywhere.

00:30:16.240 Anyways, without further ado, let me leave you with Elon Musk's 18-minute interaction with Tommy Robinson.

00:30:22.420 Good night.

00:30:22.760 Hello.

00:30:32.240 Hello.

00:30:34.980 Hello, everyone.

00:30:42.260 Okay, congratulations.

00:30:44.360 Congratulations, Tommy, on putting together an amazing event and really rallying the people of Britain.

00:30:50.540 Elon, none of this could have happened without you giving the British public access to the truth and giving us free speech and fighting for our free speech.

00:31:00.620 So on behalf of Great Britain and the British public, we're incredibly grateful, Elon.

00:31:04.980 You're most welcome.

00:31:08.300 You're most welcome.

00:31:09.680 And you may notice this T-shirt that I'm wearing.

00:31:12.640 This great British author, George Orwell.

00:31:14.780 What would Orwell think?

00:31:15.900 I think that's generally a good way to look at these things.

00:31:19.480 He would want freedom of speech.

00:31:21.460 He would want the people to know what's real.

00:31:24.120 He would want the people to fight against government oppression and fight for the truth and fight for the future of Britain.

00:31:37.400 Elon, we are incredibly grateful for your time.

00:31:40.240 We know what a busy man you are.

00:31:42.640 Why is it important for you to be here today speaking at this Unite the Kingdom event?

00:31:47.820 Well, I'm of primarily British heritage, British ancestry.

00:31:55.580 I want Britain to be greater than it ever has been.

00:32:00.640 I want Britain to remain Britain. 0.89

00:32:03.100 I think there's something beautiful about being British.

00:32:09.920 And what I see happening is a destruction of Britain.

00:32:16.380 Britain, initially a slow erosion, but a rapidly increasing erosion of Britain with massive uncontrolled migration, a failure by the government to protect innocent people, including children who are getting gang raped.

00:32:32.720 It's unreal.

00:32:34.780 The government has failed in its duty to protect its citizens, which is a fundamental duty of government.

00:32:40.460 This has got to stop.

00:32:44.360 There needs to be massive government reform in Britain.

00:32:47.600 And the people need to be in charge, not some bureaucracy that doesn't care.

00:32:54.620 Elon, I believe that's what we've started today.

00:32:57.280 Powered by the people, sending a message worldwide.

00:33:00.440 Elon, you've spent an incredible lot of money on X.

00:33:03.440 Why is free speech so important to you?

00:33:05.860 Well, I believe you can't get to the truth of things without freedom of speech, without active debate.

00:33:14.260 And there's so many on the left that want to just crush debate and put people in prison just for talking, as you were, just for speaking their mind.

00:33:26.000 You know, the essence of democracy is it should be a government for the people, by the people.

00:33:34.960 And, in fact, this is a government against the people and not for the people.

00:33:43.200 This is why everyone is gathered here today, is something's got to be done.

00:33:49.620 This is unacceptable.

00:33:50.640 The government needs to be responsible to the people of Britain.

00:33:56.200 It needs to protect Britain.

00:33:57.620 It needs to protect the weak, those who cannot protect themselves, especially the children.

00:34:05.400 And when I read about some of the horrific stories and how the government did nothing and tried to hide it, they tried to hide these horrific crimes.

00:34:13.460 And then you see how much violence there is on the left, with our friend Charlie Cook getting murdered in cold blood this week, and people on the left celebrating it openly.

00:34:29.600 The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder.

00:34:35.180 I mean, let that sink in for a minute.

00:34:43.220 That's who we're dealing with here.

00:34:46.000 That is who we're dealing with.

00:34:48.240 Elon, to so many of the British public who are scared to exercise their free speech, they're worried about being imprisoned, they're worried about being attacked, even to share their speech on your platform of X.

00:35:00.480 What message would you give to them?

00:35:01.820 The message is really, my message is to the reasonable center, the common sense.

00:35:15.580 So my appeal is to British common sense, which is to look carefully around you and say, if this continues, what world will you be living in?

00:35:26.640 This is a message to the reasonable center, the people who ordinarily wouldn't get involved in politics, who just want to live their lives, they're quiet, they just go about their business.

00:35:41.740 My message is, my message is to them, if this continues, that violence is going to come to you.

00:35:50.440 You will have no choice.

00:35:53.300 This is, you're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you.

00:36:02.840 You either fight back, or you die.

00:36:07.860 You either fight back, or you die.

00:36:12.000 And that's the truth.

00:36:15.100 Today, Elon, I think the British public are telling the world that they're ready to fight back.

00:36:21.960 Good.

00:36:23.480 Yes.

00:36:24.000 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, we've inspired the nation.

00:36:34.220 Elon, you've spoken a lot about woke culture, the woke mind virus, and how it damages innovation and freedom of thought.

00:36:41.140 We know that DEI often sees people getting jobs when they definitely don't deserve them.

00:36:45.960 Do you think this culture is holding back progress in the West, and what do you think needs to happen to reserve it, to reverse it?

00:36:54.240 Yeah.

00:36:55.880 Again, I'm appealing to sort of common sense and fairness.

00:36:59.660 I want to emphasize just common sense and fairness, which is that we should make our decisions based on merit,

00:37:08.060 on how, if somebody is talented and hardworking, then that should be the only means of advancement.

00:37:15.000 There should not be discrimination on the basis of sex or religion or any race or anything else.

00:37:23.540 And a lot of the woke stuff is it's actually super racist, it's super sexist, and often it's anti-religion, but only anti-Christian.

00:37:36.640 Like, why only anti-Christian? That's unfair.

00:37:39.520 Fair. So, this is why, again, my message is to the reasonable middle.

00:37:46.280 Do you not want a world where there is fairness and common sense,

00:37:51.140 and you advance as a function of how hard you work and your towns and your integrity?

00:37:58.960 That should be all that matters.

00:38:00.340 And the woke-bind virus, as I call it, is against all of that.

00:38:06.060 It's wrong.

00:38:07.100 Thank you.

00:38:08.080 You know, we hear so much about censorship being pushed by governments and global corporations and organisations.

00:38:19.560 A lot of people don't understand why we're allowing mass, uncontrolled immigration into all Western nations.

00:38:25.460 Do you believe that there are powerful forces outside of elected officials, someone controlling governments that are trying to control the flow of information, and how do we resist that pressure?

00:38:36.980 Yeah, I think when you look at the behaviour of organisations or people, you have to say, what is the incentive for these organisations?

00:38:48.820 And frankly, there's a massive incentive on the left to import voters.

00:38:54.100 So, if they can't convince their nation to vote for them, they're going to import people from other nations to vote for them.

00:39:04.140 This is a massive factor.

00:39:06.200 And frankly, it's a strategy that will succeed if it is not stopped.

00:39:11.740 And it is, thus far, it is succeeding.

00:39:14.840 And you see strong movements to allow people who are not from Britain to vote in Britain, to allow people who are not from France or elsewhere to vote in those countries, and thus depriving the citizens of their democratic power.

00:39:34.660 It's really a voter importation thing.

00:39:37.000 And if they're allowed to succeed, if this is allowed to continue, they will succeed in importing voters, swaying the elections, and taking your vote away from you.

00:39:51.680 That is 100% what is happening.

00:39:54.880 Do you know what's great?

00:39:55.920 The BBC and the mass media cannot control this, can they?

00:40:01.120 I love it.

00:40:02.460 I mean, the BBC is complicit in the destruction of Britain.

00:40:04.920 And we pay for it, Elon.

00:40:07.220 We pay for it.

00:40:08.180 Yes.

00:40:08.800 We're forced to pay for it.

00:40:10.500 Do you know they send us to jail if we don't pay for it?

00:40:13.060 You're forced to pay for your own destruction.

00:40:15.820 It's insane.

00:40:16.740 It's unfair.

00:40:17.620 It is wrong.

00:40:19.440 Elon, a lot of ordinary people that are here today, they feel ignored, they feel censored, or they're labeled just for speaking up about their legitimate fears and concerns in their communities.

00:40:31.020 Do you believe technology, like X, or even AI, can finally give power back to those people?

00:40:38.860 Or do you think it will make censorship worse, or even automate it?

00:40:43.180 I mean, that's a complicated question.

00:40:47.620 It really depends on what government is in charge.

00:40:50.480 The government can obviously use whatever powers are available to suppress the people.

00:40:55.460 And so I really think there's got to be a change of government in Britain.

00:41:01.420 And you can't, we don't have another four years or whatever the next election is.

00:41:06.380 It's too long.

00:41:07.880 Something's got to be done.

00:41:08.880 There's got to be a dissolution of Parliament and a new vote held.

00:41:11.460 And really, what matters is rallying the people of Britain, really getting the people of Britain to get the message out there, talk to your friends and family, and build a massive power base among the people.

00:41:27.740 And like I said, you've really got to appeal to the sort of average, just the normal people that just want to go about their business, that they're sort of in a village somewhere, they're working, they just want to mind their own business.

00:41:43.180 But you've got to point out to them that if we don't take action, they won't be able to mind their own business because other people are going to come and maraud them.

00:41:51.600 There's risk of, there's genuine risk of rape and murder and the destruction of the country and dissolution of the entire way of life.

00:42:02.760 And so, yes, in the normal course of business, if things were, if you weren't under a massive attack, then people should go about their business and just, you know, live their lives.

00:42:15.440 But unfortunately, if the fight comes to you, you don't have a choice.

00:42:22.600 You have to, you have to fight.

00:42:24.660 So you have to rally the whole, all of the people of Britain to fight for the future.

00:42:31.240 And if this doesn't happen, there won't be a future.

00:42:34.760 Are you ready to fight for your future, Britain?

00:42:39.380 Fight for your future.

00:42:40.900 Do it.

00:42:41.520 Go.

00:42:43.180 Will we be gagged any longer, Britain?

00:42:45.760 Go, go.

00:42:46.420 But you know what I mean, Tommy, you know, you know what I mean?

00:42:51.620 There's, you know, there's, I mean, I've talked to my friends in Britain and they're like, they're like, yes, you know, they live in a village here or there or a town or city here or there.

00:43:00.600 And they're like, well, it doesn't seem like it's really that much of a problem.

00:43:03.640 I'm like, well, if you want to know what, what, what, where, where, what's going to happen to your town or village, just visit London.

00:43:10.920 And you'll see that it's, it's, you know, filled with crime.

00:43:15.540 It doesn't often doesn't feel like Britain at all.

00:43:17.920 And it's only, it's only a matter of time before that is what, what happens to your town or village.

00:43:24.780 It starts in London, but it will spread to every town or village in the country.

00:43:30.380 And, and no one will have any peace.

00:43:33.420 We're running out of time, people.

00:43:35.100 We're running out of time.

00:43:36.020 Elon, you've built rockets, you've built cars, you've built satellites, you've built AI.

00:43:40.480 Things most of us couldn't dream of.

00:43:42.380 It's fair to say you're a visionary.

00:43:43.640 When you look at leaders in Europe and the UK today, do you think they share the same talent for future vision?

00:43:51.040 Or do you feel like they'll be left behind and out of touch?

00:43:56.560 Well, I think we've got to have a freer, a freer country, a freer, you know, Europe in general has to be freer.

00:44:05.240 It's, it's stifled by bureaucracy.

00:44:07.000 I think it's, I think it's good that Britain left the EU because there's just too much bureaucracy in the EU.

00:44:15.200 But frankly, instead of, instead of really going down a path of personal freedom and deregulation and getting rid of these stifling regulations,

00:44:25.020 unfortunately, the British government has, has pretty much stayed on par with, with the EU,

00:44:30.020 if not in some ways, made the stifling regulation worse.

00:44:34.500 So, this is, if you have excess government regulation and oppression, you, you, you stifle the freedom of people to try new and great ideas.

00:44:46.660 And, and Britain used to be a country that, that did amazing things, some of the boldest things on the entire planet.

00:44:54.660 And that is possible in the future.

00:44:56.880 But it, but it can't be done if you've got this massive oppressive bureaucracy and a government that doesn't care about its people.

00:45:03.840 And that has to change.

00:45:05.460 There has to be profound change.

00:45:08.960 And, and, and there's not much time left.

00:45:13.020 Elon, you've said before that civilisation is fragile.

00:45:16.660 We agree.

00:45:17.940 It's precious.

00:45:18.960 When you look at the West right now, every country in the West, with its wars, its divisions, its censorship, and its declining trust in institutions,

00:45:27.720 none of us trust them at all.

00:45:29.560 None of the public trusts them.

00:45:30.500 For good reason.

00:45:31.400 Are you optimistic or pessimistic about where we are heading?

00:45:35.400 I think if, if, if, if the people of Britain take charge and actually ensure that there's a government that represents their interests and not a government that represents foreign interests, then I think Britain has a great future. 0.89

00:45:54.060 And I think we can be optimistic.

00:45:56.840 I think there's amazing things that are possible.

00:45:59.360 If the, if the technology that's coming is used in the right way, we can have an incredibly exciting future.

00:46:07.080 One which is, you know, sort of Star Trek made real.

00:46:10.900 It's, it's sort of like the exciting utopian sci-fi where we have spaceships and we've got robots and we've got, you know, incredible technologies that are, that are really exciting.

00:46:22.960 Um, but we need to preserve civilization long enough for that to happen.

00:46:27.220 And, um, and we need to go onward and upward.

00:46:30.640 Um, and we need to fight for such a future.

00:46:33.200 Such a future is not inevitable.

00:46:35.020 We have to fight for such a future.

00:46:37.940 I think that, I think that many British people have lost hope.

00:46:42.320 But after today's scene, have you got hope again, Britain?

00:46:46.060 Britain is awake.

00:46:47.940 Thanks to you, Elon.

00:46:49.200 Thanks to your input.

00:46:50.820 Can we just ask?

00:46:51.280 Well, thanks to you, Tommy.

00:46:52.100 Thank you, Baba.

00:46:53.140 Can we ask, what, what do you see as the future of the UK, Europe in your vision?

00:46:57.520 What's, where are we heading?

00:46:58.600 What's the future lie for us?

00:47:01.000 Well, I think, I think, I think there needs to be a future where there is, where the people take charge, where there's, there's deregulation, a massive reduction in bureaucracy, um, and generally a new hope, uh, where people look forward, wake up in the morning, look forward to the future.

00:47:19.080 They're excited about what's going to happen next.

00:47:20.940 Um, and, um, but we, we must have, uh, revolutionary government change for that to occur.

00:47:26.760 And this, this is not ordinary course of business sort of stuff.

00:47:30.140 Um, this really requires everyone to, to sort of marshal the people, um, so to take charge, reform the government, um, and make sure that you actually have a government that is for the people by the people.

00:47:43.020 And that's essential.

00:47:45.340 And that's not, and that's not, and so we're really at a fork in the road here.

00:47:49.220 We're at a fork in the road, uh, to, to, to darkness or greatness.

00:47:53.200 And that, and that will be decided only in a matter of years.

00:47:58.660 And we must take the path to greatness.

00:48:01.480 And that's the path that is exciting and inspiring and will make life worth living.

00:48:07.120 Elon, you've done more than anyone to shine a torch on the crimes committed against the generation of our daughters on behalf of everyone and on behalf of all of us in Great Britain.

00:48:22.080 Thank you.

00:48:22.480 You know what?

00:48:22.840 We wouldn't even be in the fight.

00:48:24.500 Not only are we in the fight right now, but we're on the advance.

00:48:28.080 Thanks to free speech being fought for, for us by Elon Musk.

00:48:32.400 We're very grateful, sir.

00:48:34.780 You're most welcome.

00:48:36.040 Thank you.

00:48:41.120 Well, that's our show for the day until tomorrow.

00:48:43.640 On behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters, to you at home.

00:48:46.640 Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:48:52.480 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - September 15, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies hundreds of thousands against mass immigration

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