Ezra Levant examines how Donald Trump’s February 2024 tariff threats—25% on Canadian oil and autos—forced Justin Trudeau into a $1.3B border security deal, exposing Canada’s reliance on U.S. markets and partisan gridlock amid his March resignation. Meanwhile, Sammy Woodhouse reports from a Downing Street protest for jailed UK activists like Tommy Robinson, dismissed as "victimless" by critics but backed by Elon Musk and global supporters, while mainstream media faces skepticism over immigration coverage. Both segments underscore vulnerabilities in democratic mandates when facing strongman pressure, urging resistance against perceived media and political betrayals. [Automatically generated summary]
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Okay, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
But just for a couple of days, are we out of the woods yet?
It's February 3rd, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious thug.
Well, it all started in November, a demand for strong borders against drugs and migrants or else.
Donald Trump, during his transition period, got straight to work demanding that Canada and Mexico fix a problem by the time Trump took office on Inauguration Day, January 20th.
He said that the or else would be massive tariffs, 25%.
Just to be clear, what a tariff is, it's a special import tax paid by the importer.
So Canada would sell oil to the United States, would sell automobiles.
Those are in fact our two largest exports, and they would be sold at a certain price.
But when they came into America, the buyer would have to spend 25% more on a tariff.
That would likely price both of those things and anything else out of the market.
Well, Justin Trudeau thought he would get right on it and flew down to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's unofficial White House in Florida, for an ill-fated meeting.
It sounded like Donald Trump made a joke about the 51st state, and it sounded like Trudeau winced.
And he revealed, apparently, according to people who were there, that tariffs would destroy the Canadian economy.
Well, Donald Trump took that as a targeting exercise.
You know how he is with nicknames.
He knows that weak spot.
And so for months, Donald Trump taunted Justin Trudeau about being the governor of the 51st state of Canada.
Oh, it clearly rattled Trudeau and the entire political media establishment.
Canadians are obsessed with Donald Trump, as are all people on planet Earth.
But until then, the obsession was sort of from the cheap seats high up in the audience.
We weren't actual players in the arena.
Suddenly, Donald Trump was engaging with us.
So Justin Trudeau declared a teen Canada approach.
That's certainly what he called it.
But it was anything but.
He put together a crew of people with no democratic mandate.
Trudeau himself lacked a democratic mandate, having just announced that he intends to resign on March 9th.
He dissolved parliament to avoid democratic accountability, and he put together a Canada-U.S. Trade Council, which was purely political and had very little to do with trade.
Here's just one example.
Danielle Smith, the Premier of Alberta, the main oil pumping province, started shuttle diplomacy back and forth to Washington, D.C. almost every week.
You might remember I bumped into her the day before the inauguration, and we had a quick interview.
Here's an excerpt from that.
Is there anyone else working the rooms on behalf of Canada, or is it just you and your team?
I haven't seen any Canadians who are here in an official role from the federal government.
I don't know if they will tomorrow.
I'll be going to the Canadian embassy as the change to the inauguration has been moved indoors.
We'll be watching the inauguration from the embassy, and I'll be able to have more conversations there.
But my view has always been: if you're going to be diplomatic, lead with diplomacy, lead with a relationship, lead with common interests, lead with talking about what the Americans benefit from the relationship with Canada.
So I've taken a bit of a departure, I think, from our federal counterparts, but I think it's the right one.
I think that this is going to be the way that we ensure that the relationship does not get damaged as the federal liberals are going through their inner party turmoil.
That's the thing I find so distressing is that they're not taking a Canada-first approach.
They're taking a Liberal Party-first approach.
They're turning the Americans and the Trump administration in particular into the bad guys so that they can campaign against them for their own personal political benefit.
And that is not good for the country.
So we're putting the country first.
We're putting the relationship first.
And we hope that we end up with a positive outcome.
She was going back and forth trying to make the case to Americans that it really didn't make sense to put an import tax or a tariff on oil because that oil went to American refineries to be turned into many products, including gasoline.
The end product would just be 25% or 10% more expensive, whatever it would be.
Why would that make sense when Canada is such a good supplier?
Danielle Smith went in as a diplomat.
She didn't go in to agitate or to exacerbate, but to explain and smooth over.
She was the only one that was doing so.
The others sought to turn this into a grand battle where they could demonstrate how virtuous they are.
I mentioned a moment ago the trade council that Justin Trudeau put together.
Well, it includes Rachel Notley and her former campaign manager.
That's the former NDP Premier of Alberta who brought in the carbon tax and tried to kill off the industry itself, the person that Danielle Smith beat.
Could you imagine that the representative for Alberta is the socialist carbon-taxing Alberta-hating NDP premier who was a mortal enemy of Danielle Smith?
Clearly, the whole purpose was to have the war.
And that's what was so easy to discern so quickly.
Most Canadian politicians wanted the or else to happen.
Remember, Donald Trump said, I need the border sealed for illegal immigrants.
I need the borders sealed to illegal drugs.
Or else I'll do these things.
But it was very clear that while it might take a few billion dollars and a little bit of effort to seal that border, that all of these politicians actually wanted the brutal trade war that would possibly devastate the country.
They wanted that for their own selfish reasons.
Justin Trudeau himself to feel important and patriotic and to leave on a high note, perhaps defending the country against the evil Trump, playing for his international fans, if there are any.
David Eby, the hardcore left-wing pro-drug legalization premier of British Columbia, he actually, I think, probably is pro-fentanyl.
In fact, I know he is.
Their public health officer out there was proposing government-funded, government-distributed fentanyl.
It's just absolutely crazy.
And in the case of Ontario's Doug Ford, he was opportunistic for his own reason.
He's ahead in the polls, and he wanted to lock that in by having a snap election, painting himself as a hero of Ontarians.
But none of them actually went to Washington to try to solve the problem or try to soften the tariffs.
They all actually wanted them to be as brutal as possible.
Every one of the politicians I just listed would rather campaign against Donald Trump than against their actual opponent.
And every one of them would like to mask their own economic mismanagement by blaming any disasters that the tariffs will cause.
You know, for 10 years, Canada's establishment had Trump derangement syndrome.
And it all just came out in the last few weeks.
Look, tariffs aren't great.
I'm not sure if a 10% oil tariff would have devastated the oil industry because, believe it or not, Canadian oil is often sold at below world market prices to America.
And you might think, how is that even possible?
Well, the answer is because the Liberals and the NDP have blocked pipelines to blue water.
So Alberta can't actually export in any sizable amount to India or Korea or Japan or let alone China.
We might have been able to had we had the Northern Gateway pipeline and the Canada, the Energy East pipeline that would have gone all the way to St. John, New Brunswick, where Canada's largest refinery is.
Those were blocked.
So the only people we could sell it to were the Americans.
Recently, the Trans Mountain pipeline has opened, but it's not a big game changer.
We need much more pipelines.
So we're selling it at a discount much of the time.
So a 10% tariff might not be the end of the world, but it certainly would be a disaster for other things.
And remember the point of a tariff.
Of course, it's to raise money for the government.
But Donald Trump is crystal clear.
He wants to bring factories and industry home to America.
And think about that.
If you're the second largest exporter of Canada, which is the auto sector, by far the biggest and most valuable exports Canada have to the United States are oil and gas.
But in second place, far back, but still in second place, is the auto industry.
Donald Trump knows there are no votes for him in Ontario and Quebec.
There's no electoral college votes for having a car factory in Windsor, Ontario.
But if he were to bring those jobs back to Detroit and to places in Ohio, there absolutely would be jobs.
And really, that's one of the things a tariff does, is it makes exporters think, well, can I relocate within the country I'm selling to to avoid the tariff?
That said, the auto industry is pretty integrated on both sides of the border.
That is, to build one vehicle, often different things are done on the Windsor or the Detroit side.
Here's a clip of a senator from Michigan making that point to Trump's Commerce Secretary nominee saying, look, be careful with the auto industry because we actually do work in an integrated way with Canada.
Here's that clip.
I think I showed you this a week ago.
As a senator for Michigan, I'm particularly focused on manufacturing.
We know how to make things in Michigan.
And I don't think you can be a great country if you don't actually make things.
And that's what we do in my state.
And I want to work with the administration to make sure we're growing that sector as well as creating good paying jobs that result from manufacturing.
However, I am concerned that President Trump's plan to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico before the rest of the world.
In fact, it could be in a matter of days, is what we are hearing.
could hurt our manufacturers who do considerable trade back and forth, as we discussed in the office.
Michigan is the home of the top three border crossings in North America.
We're two of them.
And a lot of that are auto parts that go back and forth.
It's a highly integrated industry, and our auto companies are very concerned about what those tariffs might mean to cost, particularly to the cost of vehicles.
Already, something we discussed, I'm concerned about the high cost of vehicles.
Many families can't afford them now.
And if tariffs are put in place that deal with that seamless trade that goes on with Canada, that in the short run could definitely have an impact on prices and make cars even more unaffordable.
I don't think that's something the American people want to see, but I'm afraid it would hurt consumers as well as also hurt those workers.
So my question for you, sir, is talk me through how those tariffs would be implemented, what you're thinking will happen there, and how it's going to have an impact on prices, particularly in the short term.
I know what you're going to go on the long term, but all this stuff takes time.
And especially when it comes to manufacturing, it's not an industry that can turn on a dime.
It's much more complicated, as I know you know.
So the big tariff view is going to be studied, and the president launched that in an executive order where he asked the Commerce Department and the USTR to study the tariff model long term.
The short-term issue is illegal migration and worse even still, fentanyl coming into this country and killing over 100,000 Americans.
There's no war we could have that would kill 100,000 Americans.
The president is focused on ending fentanyl coming into the country.
You know that the labs in Canada are run by Mexican cartels.
So this tariff model is simply to shut their borders with respect, respect America.
If we are your biggest trading partner, show us the respect, shut your border, and end fentanyl coming into this country.
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So it is not a tariff per se.
It is an action of domestic policy.
Shut your border and stop allowing fentanyl into our country, killing our people.
So this is a separate tariff to create action from Mexico and action from Canada.
And as far as I know, they are acting swiftly.
And if they execute it, there will be no tariff.
And if they don't, then there will be.
But it's an action-oriented model.
That's not the ordinary tariff.
The ordinary tariffs need to be studied and examined.
And that will start, as the EO said, in April.
So I'm not sure if it makes a lot of sense to sack the auto industry with a 25% tariff, but it makes zero sense to do that on the oil and gas side.
For the main reason is you can't move the oil sands to America.
The oil sands can't say, wow, these tariffs are punitive.
Let's get within the borders of the United States.
We're free from the tariffs.
You can't move the oil sands.
And by the way, the companies developing the oil sands are either American companies or Canadian companies with lots of American shareholders.
It just doesn't make sense.
But you had this revival of Team Canada and sudden patriotism, and they were denouncing anyone who disagreed with them as traitors.
They were literally calling Danielle Smith, the one woman trying to save things, calling her a traitor.
Where was this Team Canada approach, building pipelines, building tankers?
Or how about even free trade internally?
And I was thinking, if you've ever been to the States and bought eggs or milk or cheese, you'll notice how much cheaper it is.
It's about half price.
Who put those tariffs on us to make us pay double for dairy and poultry?
And by the way, if you've been anywhere other than Canada, you know that their dairy selection is so much better, whether it's yogurt or butter or whatever.
Who was that dastardly person who put the tariffs on us for that?
Was it Donald Trump?
No.
It was in our own government who have national supply management, that's what they call it, where they make it illegal to produce milk or poultry or other things like that without the government's permission, without a license from the government.
They call it supply management because of the law of supply and demand.
They restrict the supply so the price goes up.
That was done to us by our own government.
But while I'm on a rant about that, who put the tariffs on us for the big banks with their awful service and their very low interest rate savings accounts and all their fees?
Who said we can only do business with Canadian banks instead of American banks?
Why can't there be American banks competing for our business here?
And the worst of all are cell phones and the internet.
I think you probably know, again, if you've ever traveled, that Canada's cell phone rates are literally amongst the highest in the world, especially for data.
Who did that to us?
Was that Donald Trump?
No, everything I've just listed in the five minutes, last five minutes, was done to us by ourselves.
And Trump on February 1st brought in tariffs that would have hit the oil patch with 10% and everyone else with 25%.
You know what's happening in just a couple of months?
On April 1st, Justin Trudeau is ratcheting up the carbon tax by how much?
By 19%.
Who did that to us?
Who's devastating our economy?
Trudeau and our closed socialist system.
So yeah, Donald Trump is mean.
He's mean to people who are mean to him first.
I mentioned the nicknames and the 51st state cage rattling.
Well, don't think that Justin Trudeau hasn't done his share of taunting Trump.
In fact, far worse, calling him a sexual assaulter, saying he is fomenting violence and insurrection.
Here's Trudeau talking about January 6th.
What we witnessed was an assault on democracy by violent rioters, incited by the current president and other politicians.
As shocking, deeply disturbing, and frankly, saddening as that event remains, we've also seen this week that democracy is resilient in America, our closest ally and neighbor.
Violence has no place in our societies, and extremists will not succeed in overruling the will of the people.
As Canadians, I think we've been all reflecting on our own country.
Something I spoke with the premiers about last night.
About the fact that democracy is not automatic.
It takes work every day.
about what a real accomplishment it is to maintain a political system in which the losing side gracefully concedes and in which rival political parties between elections work together for the common good.
We have this in Canada because Canadians make it possible.
Canadians expect their political leaders to protect our precious democracy by how we conduct ourselves.
Christia Freeland attended an event that compared Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, calling them both tyrants.
And here's Christia Freeland rollicking in the fact that Trump doesn't like her and she wants to emphasize that.
Is that someone who wants to get a deal or is that someone who wants to fight Trump to the detriment of the whole country?
I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
Donald Trump doesn't like me very much.
Canada, we don't like their representative very much.
I'm a tough negotiator.
During the first Trump administration, I fought hard to protect Canadian jobs, the Canadian economy, and our way of life.
And we won.
I've left Trudeau's cabinet because I know what we need to do to win that fight again.
Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies think they can push us around.
Trump thinks we're for sale.
But he can take what isn't his.
I'm not going to let him.
Well, anyways, today was the day they pulled the trigger.
Donald Trump pulled the trigger, 25% on everything except for energy, which was 10%.
And there was a lot, actually, it happened on February 1st, excuse me, happened two days ago.
Now, there was lots of Canada bashing online, including from conservatives that I think a lot of conservative Canadians typically like.
Vice President JD Vance, Matt Gaetz, the former congressman and short-lived nominee for Attorney General.
And they were sort of mocking Canada and said, you had it coming.
But I responded in a few tweets myself, some of which got quite a lot of views.
How is it helping America to put a tariff on Canadian oil?
I said that to Matt Gaetz.
I said, if you're not going to buy your oil from Canada, who are you going to buy it from that's better?
And by the way, if you're not buying our oil, who would you like us to sell it to?
The obvious answer being China would love to get their paws on it.
So from an America-first, America-centric, what's right for the little guy in America point of view, how does going after Canada help?
I mean, going after any industry in Canada just raises the price in America.
The answer might be, well, you'll move those factories home.
But like I say, by far the largest export to America is oil sands.
You cannot move them.
They will continue to pump oil.
And if America doesn't buy it, who would America rather have their hands on that enormous strategic asset?
And both JD Vance and Matt Gaetz and so many others showed their disdain for Trudeau.
Hey, me too.
I'm not sure if there's anyone in Canada who's not an elected opposition politician who's expressed more antagonism towards Justin Trudeau as we have at Rebel News.
I mean, we're suing them in so many ways.
They sue us.
We've published five books about Trudeau.
We campaign against him with billboard trucks.
It's a brutal fight.
Believe me, I don't let a lot of people say they're bigger opponents of Trudeau than I am.
But how does shooting at Canadian workers hurt Justin Trudeau?
He's a gazillionaire.
He's only got five more weeks on the job.
That's my point.
That JD Vance and Matt Gates and these tariffs were shooting at Trudeau, but they were hitting Canadian industries and more to the point, hitting American consumers, including who buys Canadian oil, American refineries.
Now, in the end, after two days, there was a reprieve, and I don't think that tariffs actually took effect because it was over the weekend.
Trump brought them in on February 1st, as he promised, and today, on February 3rd, he undoes them.
And I want to read to you his announcements that they were over.
He had two phone calls today, and let me read them his readout.
They're very similar.
On True Social, Trump said, I just spoke with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico.
It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico and the United States.
These soldiers will be specially designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants into our country.
We further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one-month period during which we will have negotiations headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Treasury Board Treasury Scott Besant, Secretary of Commerce Howard Luttnick, and high-level representatives of Mexico.
I look forward to participating in these negotiations with President Scheinbaum as we attempt to achieve a deal between our two countries.
So, what has Trump got?
He's got Mexico's attention, and if it's true, he'll have 10,000 Mexican soldiers dedicating to stop migrants before they get to the border.
Now, I don't know how many were tasked with that mission beforehand, but I don't think they were quite as attentive as they're going to be in the next 30 days.
Do you?
And then at 3 p.m., Trump had his phone call with Justin Trudeau.
And I'm not sure if you could say Canada cave, but let me read to you what Trudeau agreed to do.
And you tell me if this is more Trudeau-y or more Trumpy.
Canada has agreed to ensure we have a secure northern border and to finally end the deadly scourge of drugs like fentanyl that had been pouring into our country, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans while destroying their families and communities all across our country.
Canada will implement their $1.3 billion plan, and as per Prime Minister Trudeau, we'll be quote: reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology, and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl.
Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.
In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a fentanyl czar.
We will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24-7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-U.S. joint strike force to combat organized crime, fentanyl, and money laundering.
I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl, and we will be backing it with $200 million.
As president, it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of all Americans, and I am doing just that.
I'm very pleased with this initial outcome, and the tariffs announced on Saturday will be paused for a 30-day period to see whether or not a final economic deal with Canada can be structured.
Fairness for all.
Now, in some ways, you could say that Trudeau held the line.
He had already announced $1.3 billion, which is not a lot of money for a border over the course of time.
Agreeing to, in the future, appoint a fentanyl czar.
Okay, so who's that going to be?
Just some token.
Is that going to be Melanie Jolie?
Like, what does it even mean?
What powers will they have?
I think designating cartels as terrorists, but it's unclear if America is doing that on its own or Canada too.
I think Trudeau can rightly say that Trump sort of blinked.
But on the other hand, I think Trump succeeded in getting Canada's full attention and making our country take border control seriously for the first time.
What it also did, and what I'm hopeful, is that it woke Canadians up to the peril of having only one customer for our oil and gas.
The word monopoly is when there's only one person buying, sorry, one person selling and everyone has to buy from them, so the price goes up.
But when there's only one person buying, it's called the monopsony.
It's the opposite, and your price goes down and you're beholden to them.
If we had pipelines and tankers that could sell our oil anywhere in the world, we would be in a much better negotiating position.
Now, Pierre Poly have released a video, and I think a lot of it's very right, that we have to start by breaking down trade barriers within Canada.
We have to build our industry to trade with many places around the world.
He put up an interesting video, and I think he's pretty solid.
He's careful.
He's not coming across as a Trump apologist.
He's certainly not doing that.
That would allow the media to label him more than they are even now.
But I think what we've all learned over the last couple of months is we cannot leave diplomacy to the liberals.
They're terrible negotiators.
And in the case of Donald Trump, they want to fail because they want to fight with him.
I think it's absolutely essential that Parliament resume as soon as possible.
You know, all these liberals saying everything's on the table.
Absolutely everything's on the table, which is generally code for they don't know what they're going to do.
But the one thing that certainly wasn't on the table for them was crack down on the border or have parliament resume.
And can you really do some of these things like new spending and new projects without parliament approving it?
I'm not so sure.
I think what we've learned over the last couple of months is that we don't have a serious country when it comes to foreign affairs and business affairs.
I think a lot of the things that Donald Trump has demanded from Canada, if you take Trump out of the picture, were the pretty normal, reasonable things.
America wants to do some banking in Canada.
No one has to get a bank account with Wells Fargo or Bank of America, but right now no one even has the choice.
Donald Trump, I think, wants to get American banks in our country.
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And frankly, why would we object?
No one has to bank with them if they don't want to.
But wouldn't it be nice to have some competition out there?
Same thing I would suggest with cell phone companies.
I don't think Trump has mentioned that, but wouldn't you like to have the ability to sign up to T-Mobile or Verizon or whatever they're called?
Again, you don't have to.
If you love Bell, if you love Telles and Rogers, and I don't think in my entire life I've met anyone who does, keep it.
So I think a lot of, and the military.
I mean, Donald Trump keeps talking about how much he's subsidizing Canada.
And when he talks about a trade surplus, that's not a subsidy.
That's buying our oil rather than buying it from, let's say, Saudi Arabia.
But where he's correct is that Canada has had our military defense subsidized by America.
That is very true.
Listen, it's good to be a nationalist and a patriot, and I consider myself a nationalist and a patriot.
That said, I don't think we actually needed to have a war with Trump.
I think we just had to do what was in our interest the whole time, seal the border to drugs and bad guys.
I think Trudeau and EB and even Doug Ford so relished the fight that they put Canada's interests aside and followed their own.
I think we've got to kick out all those political predators who would have sold us out for their own reasons.
Well, those are my thoughts.
We'll see what's up ahead.
I'm going to have a surprise for you on this issue over the next few days.
I think you'll be a little bit surprised and delighted to hear it.
I don't want to prejudge, but I'll have some news for you on this file in the days ahead.
Let me give you a little hint.
Remember I wrote a book called Ethical Oil, The Case for Canada's Oil Sands?
Well, it's sort of related to that.
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Hey, for the rest of today's show, I want to reintroduce you to Sammy Woodhouse.
We just hired Sammy in the UK.
As you know, we are interested in things there.
I sometimes fly over there, but it's time-consuming and it's expensive to fly over to the UK from Canada.
And we've got very important things to cover here.
So we've hired Sammy and a videographer over there to cover the stories we're interested in, including freedom of speech, the case of Tommy Robinson, and the rape gangs.
As you may know, Sammy was one of the original victims and then the whistleblowers of the Rotherham rape gang.
And she led a movement to stand up for these girls.
They were all girls very young who were targeted by these grooming gangs.
Sammy's a very brave soul, and we're delighted to have her on our team.
She's an activist and a journalist, and I think she's great.
This is her first video for us, some streeters of what Brits think.
Take a look.
It's a cold Saturday here in London, but I'm here to report on the Stop the Isolation event for citizen journalist and activist Tommy Robinson.
Now, Tommy was sentenced to 18 months in prison and he's currently in solitary confinement for publishing his documentary Silence, which currently has around 157 million impressions on X.
Now, the mainstream media probably won't attend today, and if they do, they'll probably brand this crowd as racist or far right.
But I'm not the mainstream media and I'm here to listen to what the people have to say.
Now, you can go and support my journalism and see more reports from today at TommyRobinson.com.
I'm Sammy Woodhouse, reporting with Rebel News.
Kids are dying!
Media and governmental lying!
Kids are dying!
Media and governmental lying!
What brings you here today?
We're here today because of Tommy's imprisonment and the imprisonment of every political prisoner in the UK just to make a stand to make our voices heard and obviously to try and help those that are in prison for things like doing the memes and political stuff.
Do you trust the mainstream media to tell the truth about important subjects?
You know, about immigration, about the rape gangs.
Do I trust them?
No, I don't think I ever put trust and mainstream media in the same sentence usually.
No, I think mainstream media will probably go away and become archaic because now that we have X and people can speak and you can do reports on independent media, people will all around the world are waking up to realize that that's the truth and mainstream media is bought and paid for all around the world.
And so, yeah, I hope they all go away.
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I'm alright, my love.
Listen, you look absolutely fabulous.
You certainly dressed up for the day, Angka.
As did every so far.
Do you know something?
For me, it was important to come out here dressed as an English gentleman.
And I'm proud to be associated with Tommy Robinson dressed as an English gentleman.
And I can say I know him.
certainly is a gentleman.
I've just arrived at Downing Street and so are thousands of other patriots that I've taken to the streets today in support of citizen journalist and activist Tommy Robinson and the UK's political prisoners.
Now, as you can see behind you...
Can everybody hear me in the back?
As you can see behind you.
There's thousands here and the event is just starting to take place.
We're going to hear from the speakers and have to speak to ourselves.
Can I speak to you about your flag?
Hello, Sammy.
Hello.
Thank you very much.
Oh, thank you, Suta.
Thank you.
Great joy to meet you.
Thank you.
And what brings you eat today?
I'm always here for Tommy.
So you're a regular Ace protest then?
Very much, so yes.
So did you know Peter personally?
No, I didn't know Peter personally, but I saw him on quite a few interviews where he talked about his policies and what this government was.
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Disgusting.
And he was a brave man.
He was a good man.
And he didn't deserve to die how he did.
Not at all.
For people watching this that don't know who Peter Lynch is.
Peter Lynch was someone from my hometown of Rotherham that attended a protest.
He was very passionate about his country, about protecting children.
Unfortunately, he was sent to prison and even more unfortunately, he took his own life whilst in prison.
Questionable.
Whether he took his own life.
Questionable.
You know, how did he die?
And the last thing that anybody saw of Peter Lynch was when he stood in front of police officers and said to them, I pray for my grandchildren.
I pray for my country.
They pushed him on the floor.
He went down on the floor.
After that, he was arrested.
And now he's dead.
Peter Lynch is just one of us.
He was out.
We've got some children, grandchildren.
He was out just wanting to make the country better for his children.
We're all scared.
We're all scared.
I've got 10 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren.
And I dread to think what's coming for him.
I really do.
That man, I don't know what happened in jail.
We can't question it.
But as I know.
What did you eat today?
Well, this is my first rally.
Oh, so you're a rally virgin?
I am, yes.
But I've been paying attention.
Okay.
And I wave because, well, actually, I should have come to speak to you because I saw your little clip saying, if you see me, come and speak to me and say hello.
I did.
So, but I kind of done that, haven't I?
You have, yeah, thank you.
Do you trust the mainstream media?
No.
I for a two-year-old daughter and I just worry about her future.
I'm here for like the cream and not the cream of the rape bands.
It's like it's absolutely disgusting.
And what happens in South Park?
It's going to happen again.
And it's not saved being 162 deferreds to the prevent scheme and something in a school, a school massacre, it's going to happen again.
Do you think we have freedom of speech in the UK?
Yes and no.
Yes, I'm speaking.
It's freedom of speech.
But we are not being guaranteed freedom after speech.
So there's no freedom.
So Liam, you are one of Tommy's closest friends.
You've come here today.
You've also been hosting the event.
You've just about to leave.
How do you think it's gone?
It's gone very well.
Very calm, very peaceful, very respectful.
It's everything that the mainstream hate to admit.
And I'm sure that if you look at the headlines later on for the mainstream, it will paint a very different picture.
But rest assured, thousands of happy people.
Very harmonious.
Donald Trump has started releasing the political prisoners in America.
Do you think Key Starmer should do the same here?
Keya Starmer should do the same because he's the one who put them in prison in the first time, the majority of them.
So he should follow Donald Trump's leads.
But he's a weak leader, Keir Starmer.
So he will never do that until he gets told to by people like Trump.
So things like this will be important because it will show that the people have an appetite for releasing innocent people rather than what Keir Sarma wants in his authoritarian regime, wants to imprison anyone who wants to speak out against the government.
Sadly, I have no faith in the government of any colour, of any stripe at the moment, the way they keep putting him down.
It's really a disgrace.
But I admire Douglas Murray.
He deals in such a mature manner with a difficult question because we know how toxic they like to make Tommy.
If the people in government would only investigate, only do their homework, then they would know that Tommy is a man to be admired.
What about the mainstream media?
Do you trust the media?
No, no.
Why not?
Because it's all lies.
They all tell lies.
I used to say a Conservative council my membership.
I would never be Labour anyway.
And how I don't understand a party can get in on the votes that less than 10,000 votes being power on lies and nothing but lies.
So I listen, I'm on YouTube all the time.
Urban Scoot, Maya, you watch Rebel News, don't you?
All of them, all of them.
Gotta bug it.
Do you think we have freedom of speech in the UK?
Not at all.
Not at all.
Do you think our country has freedom of speech?
Well, no.
Not at all.
Do you trust Keir Starmer and the Labour government?
Not at all.
Not as far as I could throw them.
No.
No, they're horrible, evil people.
Thank you for what you do at Rebel News.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Well, we at Rebel News, we like to give the people a voice, so thank you.
No, no, I love it.
Especially what you did for the Amish people.
I was watching that with glee, sheer glee.
And like I said, exposing the charity actors for what they truly are because they're given a script, they run with it, they make millions.
But at the end of the day, it's your freedom and mine that is at stake.
Yeah, so thank you.
And how is Tommy?
Have you spoke to him?
I have spoken to him.
Sadly, they cancelled my visit on the 30th.
I mean, every time I go and visit him, I sign an NDA.
I don't repeat that I've even been to see him because I don't want to jeopardise future visits.
Having visits with him is essential to his mental health, especially with friends.
I'm not a politician.
I'm not a journalist.
I'm just a friend that knows Stephen Yaxley Lennon, the man that knows way more than the headlines like to portray.
And it's disgraceful that they're messing with his mind.
And I look forward to when I do see him again.
I think there's a new process put in place.
The whole process has been politicised.
It's ridiculous.
Contempt of court.
Most people will get a smack on the wrist and a fine.
Yet there's Tommy Robinson sat in solitary confinement for over three months now.
It's a form of torture.
No S-butts or maybe's.
Whether you agree with his politics or not, it's a victimless crime and he shouldn't be recategorised.
He should now be set free, period.
Do you think Kia Starmer is a man to lead our country to Richard?
No!
I think that wraps that up.
What do you think to Kia Starming, the Labour Party?
Can they steer this country in the right direction?
No, no.
Everybody's lost though.
We've just got up around the street.
Do you think we're going to get the mainstream media here today?
We'll get some mainstream media here waiting to see a bit of action, but we won't get them here to legitimately report what's going on.
It's only you guys that we have to rely on because all they're going to be doing if they are here to catch something that someone's done and then trying to put the whole of the rally under disrepute, which is ridiculous.
But you guys are here, so we can counter that with actual journalism.
How do you feel about him being in social confinement?
Just terrible.
How dare they?
For telling the truth, basically, for exposing what's going on.
He's been standing for you girls for ever since he was young, really.
And I admire him greatly.
I admire you all.
Do you trust the mainstream media?
Never.
I don't watch the mainstream media.
I don't watch the telly.
You watch Rebel News?
I watch Rebel News.
I do watch Rebel News.
Yeah, fantastic.
Absolutely.
What does the UK need to improve?
I think we need a kind of a Trump-like figure, some kind of a revolution.
It's not clear to me where that is going to come from or how that's going to happen.
So who is the person to lead the country then?
Ben Happy Heavy!
Nick Tony!
Nick Cody!
Nick Cody.
I just don't think UKIP would get in, that's all.
I'm upset with what Richard and Nigel Farage have said about our friend.
Do you think we have freedom of speech in the UK?
No.
What do you think to the mainstream media?
I think they're disgraceful.
And that's why we are all here and watching 2CTV and Urban Scoop and Rebel News.
Thank heavens for them.
Thank heavens for Elon Musk who has standing with Tommy.
What do you think his mental health is going to be like after he comes out of this?
Do you think he's going to be okay?
Tommy will be okay because he has to be okay.
He's a leader of man and he's the head of his family, but he will need to work on himself when he comes out.
Anybody that is subjected to sitting in a lonely room for 23 hours a day every day in solitary confinement with only your mind to keep you company, that takes its toll on your mental health.
So he will need, sadly, he will need a bit of therapy and a bit of counseling and he'll need to rebuild himself brick by brick, but he will do it because he's got the love and support of close friends and family members.
And he's also got thousands of people, you know, not just around the UK, but around the world that are supporting him.
Elon Musk has been, you know, very favourable about him.
He's paying his legal costs as well, which is a good thing.
It's phenomenal that Elon Musk has given him the platform so he can, there's a counterbalance now.
So when there's lies printed about Tommy, Elon Musk has said, well, actually, let's hear the right to reply.
And once people have then read Tommy's rights to reply, the whole dynamic changes.
The whole perspective of Tommy Robinson changes because they can see that there's lie after lie printed and every single one can be proven that it's a lie.
So we really do owe Elon Musk a hell of a lot, A, for platforming Tommy again, because that's just changed the game completely.
The general public know that they have been lied to and misled.
It's a complete and utter insult.
And also the fact that he's getting behind him financially and publicly, even to the point he's denouncing people like Nigel Farage.
What do you think to MP Nigel Farage?
He's the leader of the Rebar Party.
I've long time suspected that they might have something on him.
And so, and now I really strongly suspect that because he's obviously politically switched on and yet twisting the knife into Tommy over and over and over is political suicide.
I feel like he must be being forced to do that because he could just say, hey, look, you know, he's controversial.
He's not our property.
He's not in reform anyway.
You know what I mean?
And then we would still vote for him.
But now I would never vote for reform ever again.
I think they're just like Tory 2.0.
More of the same.
No change.
What do you make of Rupert Lowe?
He's been very vocal in the last couple of weeks.
Rupert Lowe, if he could be the leader of reform, you keep, in my opinion, three elections away.
Three elections away.
I think Nickton Coney is the future PM, but I think he will take three elections.
With Nickton Coney, what I'll say, because the last one, it's not what he says.
You agree with it?
Sometimes his delivery does look a little bit, you'd almost imagine a little mudstack in time because of the way he's sort of like, yeah, he's fist pumping with you.
I get that.
I get that.
100% I'm with you.
He does do that.
But who else?
Who else is pumping their fist and stamping their feet for this country?
Well, what do you think of Sammy Woodhouse?
She's still a little bit green, but I think she's coming along great.
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