Jim Ferguson, founder and CEO of Freedom Train International, joins me to talk about the UK election results and what they mean for the future of the UK political system. He also talks about the recent visit to Canada, where he met Christine Anderson.
00:21:25.740Unfortunately, and certainly in the UK, both the Conservative Party was Conservative in name only.
00:21:31.400They were no longer Conservative in terms of policy.
00:21:34.640Traditional, good, strong on defence, tough on crime, supporting law and order, you know, good education systems, getting our children properly taught.
00:21:43.460Those were the sort of the core beliefs and values of true Conservatives.
00:21:46.680Probably the same most of the world as well.
00:21:48.960But they've completely changed their focus.
00:21:51.160And then you've got the Labour Party, which is a completely different entity to what Sir Keir Hardy, another fellow Scot of mine, started back in Glasgow, back in the day.
00:22:02.460And, you know, if he came back to see what was happening now, he would be horrified.
00:22:07.000So in the Brexit Party, for example, there was about 40 to 45 percent of the people involved in Brexit who were actually from the traditional left, which surprised me.
00:22:18.240I have to say it was a bit of a wake-up call for me because I suddenly found myself sitting around the table.
00:22:23.440I thought it would be a lot of Conservatives or a lot of United Kingdom Independence Party people.
00:23:22.700I'm pretty much down the line with most things.
00:23:25.260I'm a little bit right of centre, I would say, in some aspects.
00:23:28.520But I get along with people that don't necessarily always agree with me or I would agree with them.
00:23:34.140I think the important part and part of this and what we're doing in Freedom Train is that we're bringing people together to find that common ground of living in peace, having politicians who are principled and who will put their own countrymen and women first.
00:23:51.220And I remember when just before I went over to see you in Ottawa, I'd actually been across in the States just about a week or so before that.
00:24:00.480And I was on stage and I was actually asked if I would lead the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag.
00:24:14.980But the point is, hand on heart, I led the Pledge of Allegiance and everybody recited it behind me that was in the audience.
00:24:21.320There was probably about 300 people there.
00:24:23.300And although I'm not an American, I still felt that deep sort of respect to them as the American people and to the flag itself because they are our allies, just like Canada is our ally.
00:24:35.780And I remember coming from a long line of military service, the Canadians who sacrificed their lives and who stood with us in the war, in World War I and World War II in particular.
00:24:49.440And, you know, you're right to say the Canadians are a very peaceful people.
00:25:36.440And that's why when I launched Freedom Train International, which is still in its infancy, we're only a few months old, although it was 15 months in the planning.
00:25:44.280It took that long to build that network with friends in Canada and America and Europe and Australia and New Zealand and, of course, the UK.
00:25:51.560But, you know, you saw that power building there and Canada was seen as the leaders of that freedom movement.
00:26:01.540So when we launched at the beginning of this year, we did it on the anniversary of the Canadian freedom movement and the truckers who stood up for them, their freedoms and for their communities.
00:26:13.700So I have a deep respect for you guys.
00:26:16.740And I think that this is where I'm now traveling to a lot of other countries, in particular across Europe right now.
00:26:23.760I'm probably going to be heading to France and Germany and possibly Norway and then Sweden.
00:26:28.280So I'm the reason I'm going physically to these nations is because I'm meeting the leaders of existing freedom movements and organizations.
00:26:37.280I'm explaining to them what we're doing.
00:26:39.620And to date, every single person I've spoken to who has got a freedom movement or a community together is now coming on board with us.
00:26:49.400They're going to be in leadership positions.
00:26:51.320They're going to be unburdened with all the administration.
00:26:54.580We're going to take care of all of that.
00:26:56.400And we're going to be building hubs and local community networks.
00:26:58.800So we're operating now at the strategic, tactical and operational levels across multiple nations now.
00:27:04.760And I'd love to get back to Canada because I've got so many friends there, people that I haven't had a chance.
00:27:10.960I've built up a great relationship with, but I haven't actually had a chance to meet yet.
00:27:14.920So there is work to be done in Europe.
00:27:18.200And then there is work to be done across the pond in the United States and Canada as well.
00:27:45.960And we will have all the information that people require to support you and the Freedom Free International in the description.
00:27:53.780I think it's an interesting concept because you're transnational, but you're anti-globalist.
00:27:59.380And I think that you're reaching out to like-minded people.
00:28:03.020But not only that, you're reaching out to like-minded democracies.
00:28:06.500Because one of the conundrums for me is how the English-speaking world, which used, as Winston Churchill described, the English-speaking peoples as the most democratic from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States.
00:28:24.040All of these countries have a very similar tradition, a very similar heritage.
00:28:31.180They were all originally colonized by Great Britain.
00:28:34.140But they inherited those British concepts of fair play, rule of law, democratic process, and freedom of speech, which, of course, is being eradicated at a huge rate, at an escalating rate in all of these countries.
00:28:51.800Right now, Canada is facing the worst censorship bill in the democratic world, called the Online Harms Act, Bill C-63.
00:28:59.900And if we don't stop this thing, and if it's passed into law and not repeal, Canada will be no better than some petty dictatorship.
00:29:08.880But I wanted to go back, just for a minute, to a couple of clips here, including one of Richie Sunak, which I think is interesting.
00:29:18.840And, of course, the good news is reform has made some strides forward here.
00:29:24.300And that, I think that Nigel Perrari's riding the line.
00:29:53.420There's all sorts of things that people do across Europe, whether that's looking at driving licences, other access to finance, all sorts of other things.
00:32:21.300And as you know, Stephen Harper proved to be a very good prime minister in many ways of Canada,
00:32:26.560having first been elected as a Reform MP and then effectively doing a reverse takeover of the very tired and increasingly progressive Conservative Party.
00:32:36.600I am trying to do something very similar to what Reform did in Canada all those years, 30 years ago.
00:32:43.280And to be honest with you, it's one of the reasons I chose the name Reform UK, seeing inspiration from what happened when common sense got back into Canadian politics.
00:32:54.720Sadly, now long disappeared under Trudeau.
00:33:07.300This is not going to be just about what we can do in Parliament.
00:33:13.060We are going to build this is my ambition.
00:33:15.640We're going to build a mass movement for common sense.
00:33:19.200And we're going to build it not just because we object to what the progressives have done to us, but because we believe in family, community and country.
00:33:29.640Yeah, so my question there, after listening to this, I'm saying, you know, fantastic.
00:33:40.000But, of course, we're already hearing even from members of the old Canadian Alliance Party, which, of course, was the was the second incarnation of Reform before it merged into the Conservative Party of Canada today.
00:33:52.640We're already hearing, like, Stockwell Day came out with a post on X today.
00:33:59.060Of course, Stockwell Day was the one of the leaders of the very first the Canadian Alliance Party was he was the official opposition leader in Canada for quite a few years.
00:34:09.640He's saying it's time to unite the right in Britain.
00:34:13.760And, of course, we heard that time after time after time in Canada.
00:34:16.800And all that meant was the Reform Party being absorbed back into the Conservative Party didn't exactly happen that way, because I think it'd be the strength of the Stephen Harper's leadership.
00:34:29.620But do you think it's possible in the UK for the Reform Party to become the true small C Conservative Party and to absorb the membership of the Conservative Party that is truly conservative?
00:34:44.460Can it go the other way, in other words, instead of the establishment Conservative Party simply absorbing the Reform Party and saying, forget it, you're never going to make government, so just come back to the fold?
00:34:59.520Do you think it's possible for Nigel Ferrari, because of the strength of his convictions, because of the power of his oratory, and because of the fact he actually believes in what he says,
00:35:11.700do you think he can capture what is left of the Conservative Party and become the dominant right-of-centre party in the UK, the dominant populist Conservative Party?
00:35:28.840And, you know, there's a clip of me at the church in Dyerfield, I think it was the day after the election in 2019, when I was thanking all the supporters, giving a little bit of an update.
00:35:38.500And I left a clue, because I knew what the new party was going to be.
00:35:42.040I was actually deeply recruited into the Brexit Party.
00:35:44.580I was involved in some of the vetting and the screening of people that wanted to come into the party.
00:35:51.100I was a parliamentary candidate at that point, but I was leading teams in London and I was travelling all over the country.
00:35:56.100So I knew, and I left a clue, and I said, perhaps what this country really needs is reform.
00:36:11.620Nigel Farage, if anybody thinks he's going to be content to be elected to Parliament and leave it at that, listen, they cancelled his bank accounts.
00:38:05.480So the United Kingdom Independence Party, the ADF, the Heritage Party, all those other sort of centre-right parties now have a beacon of hope.
00:38:16.740And I think if they all work together and truly unite the right, then it will be a landslide victory for him.
00:38:25.760And he could very well be the next Prime Minister.
00:38:28.000Because what we're talking about, what you showed in those clips, is the direction of travel that Keir Starmer and his globalist movement are going to take us.
00:38:42.360They do not care about our young men and women.
00:38:45.080They will send them to be slaughtered to make a point with Vladimir Putin.
00:38:48.620And by the way, if anybody wants to really know why they hate Vladimir Putin so much, it was because he was a member of the World Economic Forum Young Leaders.
00:38:57.360And he learned all their dark secrets and they thought they had him on side.
00:39:02.880And then when they said, we want you to sacrifice Mother Russia on the altar of globalism, he said no.
00:39:09.720And he went back because he is a nationalist.
00:39:50.720And there are those that think that the World Economic Forum and the globalists are actually quite pro-China because of the way they have their credit scoring system.
00:40:00.420If you say anything about the state, you get docked a certain amount of points.
00:40:04.720Then doors won't open for you at the supermarket.
00:40:31.800I've said for quite some time, I think NATO is disintegrating.
00:40:35.260I used to write talking points for NATO.
00:40:38.520I was over in Bosnia when NATO decided to change or find a new mission because, of course, the Cold War was over and they had to find something to do to justify their continued existence.
00:40:48.460I think NATO should have folded at the end of the Soviet Union.
00:40:52.980And when the Warsaw Pact disbanded, I think NATO should have disbanded.
00:40:58.540I don't know what it's doing out there anymore except fomenting conflict with Russia, except gambling, the high stakes poker with the fate of the world.
00:41:08.100And I think if NATO wants a war with Russia, it's going to have to have some better arguments than it currently does.
00:41:16.480And I think you can see NATO splintering and literally falling apart before your eyes right now as Hungary goes one way, as France is saying.
00:41:24.820But, you know, you've said a couple of times during this interview that you are seriously concerned that Starmer is going to take Britain into war with Russia.
00:41:47.480Well, what would happen, because the way the NATO, and you'll know this as well, David, the Article 5 would be triggered if there is any kind of attack on any NATO member.
00:41:59.880And I think they've almost been trying to goad Russia into doing that.
00:42:04.400But what Russia is saying is Ukraine is not a NATO member.
00:42:07.060If you put boots on the ground in Ukraine, we've seen what's happened to the Abrams tanks.
00:42:13.100We've seen what's happened to the Challenger tanks from Britain.
00:44:30.800But we need, I think, people to realize how dangerous these times are that we're living in.
00:44:36.760And if people aren't aware of that, and as you say, 3%, if we can get 3% of the population to rise up and say, no, we are not going to march to our deaths in a nuclear catastrophe on the battlefields of Ukraine.
00:44:52.840And we are not going to allow NATO to convince us that the future lies in perpetual war.
00:45:00.820I think we have, I think, civilization and I think common sense conservatives have a chance.
00:45:11.340But we need organizations like yours as Freedom Train International to continue to fight for those rights and to fight for that truth.
00:45:21.200And the thing I admire, I think, most about what you're doing is you emphasize freedom of speech.
00:45:26.960Because what I tell my audience every day is that if we don't have freedom of speech in the U.K., in Canada, in the United States, in Australia, in New Zealand, we don't have freedom.
00:45:40.060We are no better than some tin pot dictatorship.
00:45:43.860And thank you, Jim, for fighting for free speech.
00:45:46.740Because without it, there is no freedom.
00:45:51.200Yeah, well, I mean, it's absolutely true.
00:45:52.920And, of course, I very much agree and thank you for saying the thing you said.
00:45:57.300And one of the other things that we need to be watching very closely is the next big event, which is coming up in America with the U.S. elections.
00:46:05.940I'm going to be doing work for a number of weeks and several months in Europe and across the nations there.
00:46:12.900But I'm going to be heading to the United States and probably Canada as well.
00:46:17.840So if I'm coming over, I'm definitely going to come and see you, David.
00:46:20.460I would love to see you again and maybe we can organize something there.
00:46:24.740But, yeah, I'm going to be doing some work over there.
00:46:51.900I think they know if he continues in post to face off against Trump, for example, he's just going to lose it and Trump will get in.
00:46:59.840And, of course, the globalists really fear another term of Trump being in as president because I actually think he was quite mild the last time he was in.
00:47:09.800I mean, he was under constant attack, he used to shrug it off, but they've relentlessly gone after him, his business interests, his family.
00:47:18.000And I think you might see a very different side of Trump.
00:47:21.740I know if I was Trump and I got back in, I would be going after every single globalist on this planet.
00:47:40.540But I think they are really fearful of a second presidency, another term, which means that when you see headlines like H5N1 avian influenza coming out of Texas, poultry, then into cattle, and then people coming down with it, then they say it's in the milk supplies and then they say it's in the eggs.
00:48:03.000I'm just a bit concerned that we're maybe heading towards something that's planned, something that's going to interfere with the elections in America again.
00:48:12.200And before you know it, there'll be huge boxes of ballots coming in, postal ballots coming in, and Biden's going to win.
00:48:19.120I really think people have had enough of the dishonesty and the corruption in politics.
00:48:23.880And if that were to happen, having spoken to so many people in the United States, we could be looking at a very serious situation.
00:48:31.880Because I don't think people are going to take it.
00:48:56.940He has issues, but he is so strong on so many of the right issues that I don't see any alternative.
00:49:04.680And the Democrats can only offer more of the same.
00:49:10.300And so I'm optimistic about the elections in November.
00:49:14.180And I certainly think Donald Trump is going to be victorious.
00:49:17.960But as you said, I am concerned, again, about another phony pandemic, about lockdowns, about ballot harvesting, about the same shenanigans that went on four years ago, happening again, about Joe Biden running a campaign from his basement again, saying as little as possible, and ending up with the same result.
00:49:43.600But I don't think it's going to happen this time.
00:49:45.680I just think the history and momentum is on Donald Trump's side.
00:49:51.680And I think that Joe Biden can never recover from that debate, which was catastrophic, which is totally devastating.
00:49:58.680But anyway, I thank you so much, Jim, for joining me today.
00:50:03.300And please, please look me up when you're in Canada.
00:50:06.460And let's not wait another eight months to talk.
00:50:10.800Let's do another show together within the next two or three months.
00:50:15.680And I really appreciate everything you've shared with us today.
00:50:20.940And because we really admire the work you're doing.
00:50:25.240I really appreciate being on with you, David.