00:00:00.000Good morning, I'm Luca from the Lotus Eaters reporting to you from Abrams, the district of Abrams here in Makersfield.
00:00:07.440On my way up to Wigging yesterday, I was delayed by conspiracy by Big Rail, and now it seems that big weather is also trying to stop our activists on the ground.
00:00:17.600But I can tell you it's not working. We've just been over to the forward command centre for where our activists are going out in the ground,
00:00:26.160otherwise known of course as the local pub and they're now going about throughout the day you
00:00:31.800know knocking on the doors and canvassing around the local constituency. One of the things that's
00:00:37.980really encouraging as well is that even in weather such as this we had about 12 dozen 13 people
00:00:45.380there ready to go out campaigning and of those about half of them were in fact first-time canvassers
00:00:52.060as well who'd never done anything like this before and so the fact that they've come out
00:00:56.700in this weather on the Thursday morning is very very encouraging indeed and we look forward to
00:01:03.260keeping an eye on them throughout the day and reporting back to you on what we see on the door.
00:01:07.660Well we're back at the pub after a few hours campaigning out in the pouring rain I'm suitably
00:01:13.420sodden from it all and honestly some really encouraging stuff seeing on the door you know
00:01:19.660people have been received, our canvassers going out there and, you know, having genuinely long
00:01:25.260conversations. There seems to be a genuine amount of public interest on the door. Obviously, this is
00:01:30.480from constituencies and streets that haven't had Restore Britain canvassers knocking on them so far
00:01:35.920and very, very encouraging to see. One thing I will say is that I've been interested to see
00:01:42.220how many people actually locally as well are sticking firmly to Labour in all of this as well.
00:01:49.380I have personally thought that perhaps after the Boris 2019 election and the collapse of the Red Wall, that voters might be a little bit more pliable and a little more open minded about the options available to them.
00:02:03.960But there does seem to be still a firm hold for Labour here as well.
00:02:08.420But what is genuinely encouraging is to see that that is breaking and that actually some people are looking for genuine political answers to the great questions of our time.
00:02:20.200They're looking for answers to what party is going to address mass immigration, what party is going to protect women and girls, what party is going to cut away at the net zero nonsense.
00:02:31.360and also as well we've also had a talk of farming on the door as well and agriculture0.61
00:02:37.120which has been surprising but interesting and so Restore Britain seem to be received pretty well
00:02:44.720on the door so far and I look forward to coming back to you with some interviews with some of
00:02:49.620the canvassers who've been out there personally knocking themselves. Hello well I'm here joined
00:02:55.000by Jake who's been out here campaigning this morning in the pouring rain absolute patriot.
00:02:59.800Jake, how have you been finding canvassing so far?
00:17:01.040Well, welcome to Britain on that front, for sure.
00:17:03.340You've long left the sunny beaches of Australia behind you.
00:17:07.340But honestly, it's a pleasure to have you here and thank you for your work.
00:17:10.940Hello. I've now been out for the afternoon session of campaigning.
00:17:14.860I've met Rebecca Shepard and been watching her go about as she's obviously pitching herself to be the Restore Britain candidate for the people of Makerfield.0.54
00:17:24.980Honestly, very personable on the doorstep as well.
00:17:28.080She's been having some good conversations with a lot of voters that surprisingly here are not really looking to vote at all.
00:17:35.540are entirely disenchanted by the entire affair of modern British politics.
00:17:40.440Also, along the streets that we've been campaigning on as well,
00:17:43.220there's been a lot of signs in windows just saying,
00:22:34.920would actually resonate with Englishmen and women
00:22:38.040throughout London as well obviously you come from there you know those neighborhoods and you've spent
00:22:42.840a lot of your life around them so for a lot of those people who perhaps very demoralized because
00:22:47.980they live in London what would you say to those people? I would say there is hope London feels
00:22:53.160like it's lost it doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like England like Great Britain it doesn't
00:22:59.300feel like um a home i think for a lot of english londoners um anymore and uh i think
00:23:07.560i think this will give them hope this movement this this party is um something they can get
00:23:15.400behind and uh find their voice is there any a parting message you want to say to people who
00:23:22.160might be listening about why they should vote for restore britain and why these are this is the
00:23:26.960party for them to put their trust in and you know lend their support to yeah i mean if you're not
00:23:33.600familiar with our party with restore britain listen to rupert lowe you know join us become a
00:23:42.320member be part of the movement be part of the change um there's there's a there's a genuine
00:23:47.720alternative to what we're used to now there's there's i mean i i wouldn't say that if i didn't
00:23:53.400believe it. It's intuition that's happening within me. It's a feeling that I want to get behind and
00:24:00.520be a part of. And yeah, I'm very grateful to be here and to be a part of this foundation,
00:24:08.760this movement, this change. Wonderful. Well, Jimmy, thank you very much for your time, sir.
00:24:14.040Thank you. We're now up in Northmakerfield. And as you can see here from behind me,
00:24:19.480This is a very, very strong street for Reform UK.
00:24:24.140However, I will just say that we have heard murmurings, rumours about that actually there's going to be a bit of an event happening later on.
00:24:32.760Well, as you can see, a street that once had garden signs for Reform UK now has a full array of signs for Restore Britain.
00:24:43.160The gentlemen and the homeowners didn't wish to actually be on camera themselves,
00:24:46.800but it was really something to see as all of the Reform UK banners were put down and Restore Britain have gone up.
00:24:54.080They were waiting for something like Restore Britain to come along, but they were thinking of waiting for 2029.
00:25:00.360But they've decided to strike out ahead. They've been inspired by the message of Restore Britain.
00:25:05.920They've been inspired by the message of Rupert Lowe and what he's been doing in Parliament.
00:25:10.920And they've also been very respired by the message of Rebecca Shepard, the candidate for Restore Britain here in Makerfield as well, particularly with some of the residents of these houses having, of course, younger daughters as well and being very concerned for the safety of their daughters, obviously, with all of the horrors that we're seeing now, you know, sort of happening on a weekly basis around the United Kingdom.
00:25:35.840And so that's something that's really struck well and obviously changed their support to restore Britain.
00:25:45.440Well, we're now concluding Thursday's events on the ground here in Makerfield.
00:25:50.420I finally dried out after the absolute deluge this morning.
00:25:55.100And honestly, as well, despite the grey overcast skies, I feel like a weather reporter here,
00:26:00.380we're actually, yeah, everyone's spirits are feeling pretty sunny, to be honest.
00:26:03.640I mean, after obviously what we've seen from the display in the street and all of those banners going to restore Britain, even though there is a amount of apathy and even fatigue on the doorstep now with everything that's going on with the local by-election and people, residents just being tired of people knocking on doors.
00:26:21.620one thing i will say as well is that um there have been um some very enthusiastic um honks
00:26:27.800you know and cheers from people as they've been driving by as well they've seen us in that you
00:26:32.680know a lot of the the activists of course in their restore britain t-shirts and with their gear
00:26:37.560and they've been very very enthusiastic and it's been quite consistent as well truth be told
00:26:42.700sorry we're filming for the by election it's all very encouraging as you can see i hope we got that
00:26:50.160camera. So that woman there, she's also been in favour of Restore Britain as well, which is
00:26:55.180absolutely fantastic. So word is truly getting spread. And let's just say, I think that Nigel
00:27:02.160Farage had every reason to be rubbing his face in worrying shame this morning.