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Nov. 28, 2024 - David Icke
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Former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik Tears Apart The Current UK Government - Gareth Icke Tonight
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Hello and welcome to Gareth Ike tonight.
The leader of the communist state of Britain, Chairman Starmer, and his French counterpart, Lord Farquhar, have met to discuss sacrificing their country's soldiers upon the altar of Zelensky.
The Germans are using similar rhetoric as they also pledge their endless financial support for NATO's war on Russia.
And BlackRock's interests in Ukraine.
Because let's have it right, these puppet leaders across Europe aren't doing the bidding of their citizens, and they certainly aren't doing it for the benefit of the people of Ukraine.
If they were, they'd be getting round a table for peace talks, for diplomacy.
Instead, they're happy for the war to continue and for countless Ukrainians to die, as that lines the pockets of the military-industrial complex.
It provides cover for major transfers of wealth from the taxpayers of Europe to, well, you tell me, because the endless billions aren't actually accounted for.
And even weapons gifted to the mini-action man figurine have found their way into the hands of terrorist organisations in Africa and elsewhere.
I'm sure that won't come back to bite us.
But at least when these weapons do find their way onto our streets, the government will have an excuse to pass yet more anti-terror laws that will be used against...
Us, the population.
It's called winning.
The escalation of tensions allows wartime laws to be passed and freedoms to be deleted in the name of national security.
It allows censorship to be increased, if that's even possible, as careless talk, opinions, cost lives, and not to mention those that will be given the job of rebuilding Ukraine once the demons are done sacrificing it, i.e.
BlackRock, Monsanto, and others.
The breadbasket of Europe will re-emerge as a technocratic GMO-riddle dystopia.
We'll have paid for it with our taxes, and if the lunatic in suits have their way, with our lives.
Now, I don't know about you, but I didn't agree to any of this.
The British people weren't asked if we agreed for our money to be sent abroad, for our military hardware to be thrown at Russians, Russians that aren't attacking us, or for our soldiers to be sent to kill and be killed in a conflict that isn't ours to fight.
So where's the referendum on our involvement?
Now, obviously, I understand politics is a pantomime.
It doesn't matter who you vote for.
You're going to get a crook whichever side of the uni party you elect.
But I'm making the point about us, the people, not agreeing to this for the people at the back that still believe politics and indeed politicians will ever serve the will of the people.
They create the illusion of choice by shouting across the chamber like petulant children but when it comes to the meat and potatoes what's the difference between any of these people?
We're told that the Conservatives and Labour are polar opposites, and you can apply that to other nations too, but they really aren't.
That's just a sleight of hand that makes you believe there's a choice to be had.
Just in the last few years, both parties pushed lockdowns.
They pushed mRNA shots.
Both parties pledged their unwavering support for Ukraine, no matter what it costs us in Britain.
Both parties pushed the climate change scam.
Both parties supported the endless wars in Iraq, in Syria, Afghanistan, Libya.
Both parties stand with Israel while they ethnically cleanse the Palestinians into non-existence, and neither party stop the boats or has any intention of doing so, because, you know, that's not the idea.
So now we've cleared that up, what are we going to do about it?
Well...
There's a few psychopaths out there that are calling for all-out war.
There's a few idiots out there that are calling for all-out war.
And then there's a few that are either on the payroll or on a blackmail list of the aforementioned psychopaths that are pushing for all-out war.
But they are a tiny, tiny, tiny minority.
A pointless number, actually, when compared to the population.
And it's worth noting that none of this tiny minority will be heading off to the front line.
None of their kids will be sent to fight and die for the bank accounts of billionaires.
You won't see Chairman Starmer leading the cavalry over the top.
The lad's too busy getting outboxed by a punch bag.
And you won't see Foreign Secretary David Lammy, a man who appears to be given a cookie every time he says something stupid, squeezing himself into his camo gear.
No, they'll be tucked up safe and warm, far away from the bullets and the explosions, while the men that they sent to their deaths return in body bags, Weighed down with rocks to give their families the illusion that their loved ones aren't just a couple of limbs, maybe a few chunks of severed flesh, because that's the reality we're stumbling towards if we don't stand up and say no.
Now, no was the most important word in the English language in 2020, and it remains the same today.
I've walked around the Second World War graves in Normandy.
I've seen the ages both on the white stone graves of the Allied soldiers and on the black crosses of the Germans, the bits of kids.
Bits of kids sent to die in a war for the interests of those that never saw a bullet fired in their lives.
Lads that if not sent to the battlefield would have been, I don't know, sat in a pub.
They'd have been kicking a football around with their mates or holding their newborns.
The people, in the most part, just want to get on.
They want a roof over their heads.
They want food in their bellies, a few beers on the weekend, see their family all right.
They want to see their kids grow up happy and healthy.
That's the dream of most of us, no matter what our nationality or our background.
Now, if you remove those inexpensive suits within politics and within the media whose entire modus operandi is to make us fight amongst ourselves, then we, the people of the world, might have a chance at peace.
Now, when I say remove...
I don't mean by force, like in some military coup, for yet another puppet to be installed in their place.
I mean, we ignore them.
We flat out ignore them.
You want me to fight?
No, go away.
If you want me to hate my neighbour, or anyone else actually, that you tell me is the bogeyman, nah, nah, nah, go away.
You want me to act in a way that I know is wrong, is detrimental to myself, to my family, and to society in general?
No, go away.
The people can flip the power dynamic with a click of their fingers, just like they did with Thatcher and the poll tax.
That was a very small example of what happens when the people say, no, mate, not having it.
The centuries-long era of all-powerful with nefarious objectives controlling the masses will come to an end one day.
It simply has to.
So why not make that day today?
Lembe Opik is a former British politician and a former member of the Liberal Democrats who served as a member of parliament from 1997 until 2010.
He's an author and a broadcaster who's very outspoken about net zero policies and the further escalation of the war in Ukraine.
Lembet, welcome to the show.
As a man that spent so long in politics, including 13 years as an MP... Do you now despair at the state of UK politics?
Do you think it's got worse or is it just, it's always been that bad but now we can see it?
I initially, over the last year or so, thought maybe I just didn't notice.
It was always this bad, but it has got worse.
Gareth, there's no doubt that the quality of our politicians has deteriorated.
And the irony, of course, is Keir Starmer and his undereducated cabinet are bragging about it.
They're bragging about the fact they've got lower educational qualifications than pretty much any cabinet in our history.
But look at the result.
After over just...
About 100 days, they've made themselves comparably or even more unpopular than the government that they replaced.
And I think there's a problem of quality right through that cabinet.
Labour's obsession, I was trying to think of another word then, but it is an obsession, with net zero has got massive implications for the nation, obviously both financially and in terms of our energy security.
I think we have the highest energy bills in the world, which is insane.
Why do you think they're doing this other than the fact that they're stupid?
Well, that's the main reason.
The second reason, which is related to their stupidity, their scientific illiteracy on the subject, is because they're useful idiots for a cult.
And it is a cult.
The preposterous idea that the minuscule contribution that the human race in its entirety makes to carbon dioxide, which is in itself a trace gas and a helpful one as a fertilizer of plants.
The idea that this is driving climate is preposterous.
That's from the Dark Ages.
Any enlightened scientist knows that this theory, which is originally seriously proposed in 1896 by a chap called Svante Arrhenius, clever guy, but it was already debunked by 1900 by a guy called Newt Armstrong.
I won't go into the science here.
But these people haven't even heard of those folks.
And so what we're seeing here is people like Ed Miliband, for whom it seems to be a political dogma to push this forward because they want to virtue signal their way to legacy.
Really, they won't debate the science.
They say it's settled because it is settled, but it's settled against their position.
And so I think what we've got here is this cult attitude by a Labour government that wants to prove it's greener than everybody else.
And the dividend they're getting from that is lost jobs.
Did you think Ed Miliband, he's not the brightest man in the world, but do you think he actually believes the nonsense that he's spouting in terms of climate change and stuff?
Do you think he's coming from a place of ignorance, but he actually believes he's right?
Or do you think he's just basically using climate change as an excuse to get certain things through the door?
I see the best in people, so I think of him as a well-meaning, ignorant fool.
That's the most positive spin I can put on it.
I think he really feels that there's a climate crisis because he's had it indoctrinated into him, and we know he's an ideologue.
Everything about his political history indicates that.
So, in the best scenario, he does believe this madness, but he won't debate it because he's frightened of being undermined.
It's like a religion where you don't actually want to hear any counterfactual points to your own belief because they turn out to be the actual facts.
The less charitable interpretation would be that he doesn't believe it.
He's just doing it to try and force the Marxist ideology.
But you know what?
Whichever of those is the motivation, he is deeply into the quicksand of political and scientific ignorance.
What he says doesn't stand up.
And I think that's one reason they're so quick to crush debate, as does the mainstream media, which is clearly in collusion with this insanity.
Do you know what?
It's not working with the general public, Lenby.
I will have certain conversations with people, both online, which I know isn't real life, and in real life.
And there's various subjects that you'll talk about that there might be a bit of pushback, a disagreement, Ukraine being one of them, which we'll come to, where people will go, no, no, no, we should be given a missile.
You tend to have that.
But when it comes to climate change, sincerely, I don't know anyone that buys it.
In terms of people that you meet either down the pub or in the gym or at football training or whatever, that's rubbish, mate.
It's nonsense.
I do meet people who believe it, but they tend to be the self-opinionated people with a sense of entitlement, the trendy middle class.
We say, of course, there's a climate crisis and I've bought an electric vehicle, but they still don't go to Costa Rica for their holidays.
They still fly in their droves to these ludicrous jamborees, for example, COP29, which is an environmental conference in Baku recently.
And they go there to tell us not to fly.
So once again, we see this horrendous hypocrisy.
And then add on top of that the fact that the world's biggest oil usage here was 2023, and our biggest human emissions of CO2 was 2023. And lo and behold, we're not in a climate crisis.
The other thing is they just simply lie.
We haven't got worse weather deaths than ever before.
We've got fewer.
And then also, of course, they jump on this ridiculous idea that any extreme weather event is because of climate crisis.
We saw that with the floods in the United Kingdom recently.
It's just weather.
We're actually getting into a cooler period.
So I think maybe I'm less cynical than you, but the outcome's the same.
We've got idiots making idiotic decisions which are costing real jobs and our freedom.
Yeah, and they contradict themselves as well, because you've just mentioned the flooding there.
When the flooding was happening, it was all about climate change.
They all took to social media, didn't they?
All about climate change.
This is what's going to get worse.
It's going to get worse if we don't do X, Y, and Z. And yesterday, I was driving back from the studio, and I was listening to some Labour MP, forget his name, they all blend into each other, on the radio saying how the Tories had basically let all the flood defences decay, and they hadn't invested in them, and that's what was causing the flooding.
And I was listening, I was thinking...
Well, it was climate change a week ago.
Now suddenly it's the Tories' flood defences.
Man.
When it comes to Ukraine, though, where do you see that heading?
Because to me, what the West is doing, particularly Starmer in the UK, supplying these long-range missiles to Zelensky, it's utter madness.
Can you see that powder keg erupting?
Because I think there is genuine fear amongst the population that actually something quite bad could happen here.
I would put the chances of a wholesale total war and the nuclear world has to be considered there at about 10%.
That's very high.
A 1 in 10 chance of destroying everything that we see about us for the sake of this ludicrous, self-serving and cynical ambition of NATO. To strangle Russia.
And I would say the most likely outcome still isn't that.
The most likely outcome is a negotiated peace, which gives Russia a fairly considerable amount of Ukrainian land.
And the reason I say all of this is because Although you wouldn't think this from the way it's reported in the West, NATO has broken just about every promise it made to the Russians and to Russian premiers when they said they wouldn't expand, they wouldn't try to get close to Russia's border.
They've done all of that.
Putin said, look, if you do this, I'm going to respond, I'm going to respond, I'm going to respond, and eventually he does.
And of course, on this first point, there is a lot of moral compromise on the West.
Secondly, even if you didn't agree with that, it's an unwinable war for the West.
Ukraine is run by Zelensky, for whom I have little or no respect, a former comedian.
Quite funny, but it's not funny now he's running the military.
And he's fighting an army, the Russian army, which is both battle-hardened and has a supply chain of 50 kilometers.
For Zelensky, the supply chains thousands of kilometres, and it depends on the goodwill of a general public that doesn't realise that the hundreds of billions of dollars which are being spent there aren't even holding the front back.
Where do we end up?
I hope it's that negotiated settlement, as long as we get to when Donald Trump's in charge.
It does seem that the Democrats would rather have total war than a negotiated peace by Trump.
I do hope there's a negotiated peace.
I'm sure BlackRock would agree to it as long as they get most of Ukraine.
It's mad because we talk about it because these people are playing chess, but at the same time, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are literally being blown to pieces.
It's...
The madness of politics sometimes.
Just finally, I can't not mention the petition against the government that's currently being shared.
It's up in the millions.
As a former MP yourself, would MPs even notice something like that?
Would they even bother?
Would they care about it?
Yes, they notice.
No, they don't care.
Yes, they notice because these figures are phenomenal.
Across six months, a similar petition, when the Tories were in power, garnered 280,000 signatures.
That's across six months.
This one is in the millions in less than a week.
And so they'll talk about it, but they won't do it publicly.
They'll dismiss it publicly as just a statement of opinion.
They would say that, wouldn't they?
It's all bots, somebody told me the other day.
Well, like for like, after one week, this government is 10 times more unpopular than its predecessor, which is quite saying something.
I think it would cause real trouble if it gets to more than the number of votes that the Labour Party got.
That's around 9.2 million.
I don't know whether it'll get there.
But it's an indication of how angry people are because they feel betrayed.
The truth, Gareth, is that we're doomed to having this government, either under Starmore or if he really screws up under somebody else, imagine Angela Rayner as Prime Minister, for about five years.
It's incalculable how much damage they can do in that time.
But the petition won't stop it.
One last thought though, it's a revolutionary one.
It could be that the public gets so sick of the fact that our servants forget that they are our servants, that we withdraw our consent.
I don't know what that looks like, but it could be the wholesale removal of, for example, roadblocks which are there for stupid environmental reasons.
One thing's for sure though, They have fractured their relationship, their febrile relationship, even with the one-third of people who voted for them, and two-thirds didn't.
So they started at the disadvantage, and they managed to carry that disadvantage home.
We're paying for that in jobs, in ridiculous investment in an unwinable war in Ukraine, and in our freedom of speech, I'm sorry to say as well.
100%.
And, you know, this distaste towards the government is at such a high level now, and they've not even started freezing pensioners yet.
Do you know what I mean?
As soon as those figures start coming in of, like, this is how many people have died, which will happen because it's freezing, you know, public opinion is, I can't see it turning around in their favour any time soon at all.
They're putting twice as much money in Zelensky's failures war effort as they're stealing from the pensioners.
They're talking about assisted dying all the time.
Well, they didn't wait.
The removal of the heating allowance is the worst kind of assisted dying you get as people have to choose between eating and heating.
And this is the government that said it was there for the people.
They promised us change.
We got change.
I wouldn't have imagined it.
But they're doing even worse than Rishi Sunak, the former Tory prime minister.
Who would have thought that people like me would look back at Sunak and feel nostalgic?
No, very true.
Very true.
Lembert, thank you so much for joining us.
It's great to talk to you.
I know you're going to come up in a couple of months' time and we're going to sit down and have a proper in-depth conversation because I'd love to ask you so many questions that we don't have time for today.
So I can't wait for that.
But thank you for giving us your time and have a great Christmas as well, mate.
Thank you.
And that's as long as we're allowed to travel outside our 15-minute cities.
We'll smuggle you out, Lembert.
It'll be fine, mate.
My pleasure.
See you soon.
Take care.
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