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May 4, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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#Bridgwater： The Left Are Not Being Oppressed
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Right, what's your name, sir?
Jake Roberts.
Jake, nice to meet you.
Welcome to Bridgewater.
We're a leave district, and six months after, BBC, it's either BBC or Sky, they came back down with a little stall themselves, some cups and some sticks, and it to try to show us that they would be, oh, look, we've changed, we've become more Remain, but we actually had a higher leave vote.
It was about 75% of people went with the leave sex.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I have three questions, if that's okay.
Yeah, of course.
We've seen the likes of Candace Owens taking back the black vote from Democrats.
And over here, we've seen many speakers online in UKIP take back the topic of free speech.
Is there any other issues that you'd like to take back from mainstream politics?
Well, when you say take back, I think the problem is that mainstream politics just isn't discussing these issues, and they are a real concern.
And I mean, for me, the politicization of our institutions is a really big problem.
Because at the moment, we're starting to see the sort of fault lines of conflict between different groups in society.
I mean, for example, the LGBT lobby and the Muslim lobby in Birmingham are particularly coming to loggerheads over the question of what's taught in the schools.
And there was even a Muslim activist saying, look, you can't go around telling people you can be a Muslim and gay.
Now, I don't believe that.
I think that they can indeed be gay Muslims, of course.
But I appreciate that from a particularly doctrinaire sort of theological position, that's probably against what's written in the book itself.
And naturally, with the LGBT activists being the ones who are setting the school program and actually teaching about gay marriage, it's an issue that's going to come up.
And it's not going to just resolve itself, and it will become worse and worse and worse.
And we have to table these sort of things and say, look, I know this is an uncomfortable conversation to have, but it has to be had because it's not going away.
And it's the same with the politicization of institutions.
The BBC are particularly my favourite people to go after in this regard because the BBC, being a state-funded broadcaster, has a responsibility to be impartial with their coverage.
But there's no way anyone can look at BBC question time and say, well, that's representing the Brexit Remain split evenly.
That's representing the sort of conservative labour split easily and conveniently and properly.
You can't really say that.
These organisations that are taxpayer-funded are generally quite staff with, honestly, radical leftists in many regards.
Not all of them, of course.
But there's a radical left agenda that's being pushed throughout them.
And we really have to start tackling this because it's not the sort of traditional British centrist politics that we're used to.
And that's what I think that UKIP would like to bring it back to.
Yes, I agree.
When people ask me if the BBC is biased, I just ask them have they ever made a post that's negative about Trump.
And that answers your question quite easily.
I mean, in fact, on that regard, like, you know, Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America, our closest and best ally, is coming over for a state visit this year.
And John Burko is going to prevent him from speaking in Parliament.
That's insane.
I mean, Jeremy Corbyn has been objecting to this.
Jeremy Corbyn invited Vladimir Putin.
And yet somehow Donald Trump is unacceptable.
And I think it just goes to the kind of pathology that is this sort of political class at the moment.
They've decided that Donald Trump and a democratically elected leader of the Republican Party, not like a radical party, is no longer fit to be spoken about in Britain and in our institutions or in our halls of governance.
And it's insane.
That's absolutely insane.
The second question is, we've seen our MEPs vote in favour of the EU over Britain for many years now.
They have a very clear preference for the EU.
Do you worry that even if we leave with a no deal, that it's not over and they will try to worm their way back into the EU?
I think we can guarantee that they're going to try and worm their way back into the EU.
I don't think there's any question of it.
But hopefully, if we can leave with good time and make a good show of it and actually show that Britain can survive outside of the European Union, and we're the sixth biggest economy in the world, we're a global trading nation, we're a global power.
If we can't do it, then literally no one can.
And I refuse to believe that the European Union is the be-all and end-all of Britain's future.
In fact, it looks to me like the end of Britain's future and the new province that we're going to end up being created in the European Empire.
And so, yeah, I mean, it's obvious that they're going to try and get us back into this because, frankly, Parliament themselves, they clearly don't see themselves as sovereign.
Because one of the great things about this country was the idea that Parliament itself was sovereign.
And yet, we've come to the position where the parliamentarians don't want this.
Parliament, two-thirds remain, and the rest of the constituencies of this country, no, no, sorry, three-quarters remain, and the rest of the constituencies of this country outside of London are two-thirds leave.
So, they do not represent us at this point.
And the last one is, you've talked for a long time about the idea that you can de-radicalize and find compromise in people's views by having the ability for free discussion.
I wanted to know if there's any views that you've had changed since joining UKIP.
Well, I've only been in UKIP eight months, nine months, so not any in particular with joining UKIP itself.
But, I mean, I've definitely been on my own intellectual journey over the last sort of five years where I've been running my YouTube channel.
I mean, I used to be quite far to the left myself, and then I really started digging down as to what do they actually believe?
You know, what are the real sort of axioms on which their worldview is based?
And one of the things I've noticed is they seem to have a real loathing of boundaries and order.
They seem to think that everyone should be able to be anything at any given time.
And as, I mean, you could even say that's, I mean, I don't even know if that's necessarily a noble goal, but it's certainly an unrealistic goal because our boundaries are imposed from without.
You know, we don't get the choice.
We are born the things we are.
We live in the country we live in.
We don't get to choose these boundaries.
And to the radical left, these are termed oppression.
And I don't agree with their definition of what, say, racism is, what oppression is, what sexism is, what any of these things are.
Because they seem to think, I mean, oppression is usually defined as cruel or unjust treatment over a prolonged period of time.
If you are being oppressed by being born into the sex and gender that you are, I'm sorry, I don't agree that that's cruel and unjust treatment.
I think that that's unfortunately the way that you were made.
There's nothing, very little you can do about that in real terms, in my opinion.
And the one thing that you can change, the diversity of opinion, is the one thing that they're not happy to allow.
Well, that's why UKIP is the only political party in the country that's supportive of free speech.
I mean, this is an ancient British liberty that we are just allowing this sort of, and it is left-wing activists to just erode in this country.
And yeah, if we don't allow diversity of opinion, which you can see the BBC, when they hold their panels, you can see how grudging they are to have to accept that they should be holding this principle as a part of their core mandate.
But they would do everything they can to not if they were given the power.
And so we have to keep pushing against this.
We really have to.
Okay, thank you.
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