Ezra Levant reports from London’s September 12th vigil for Charlie Kirk, where 600–700 mourned his assassination, a figure known for free speech advocacy and global conservative outreach. Turning Point UK’s Jack Ross contrasts Kirk’s legacy—a "good Christian man" who educated youth—with left-wing violence, citing social media celebrations by activists like those linked to Hassan Pike. Kirk’s death, at 24, sparks calls to uphold debate over suppression, with attendees vowing to continue his work despite threats, including a planned UK rally near Tommy Robinson’s event. His assassination exposes the radical divide in Western discourse, where words allegedly incited violence. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, the entire world grieves the loss of Charlie Kirk.
I'll give you a report from London, England.
It's September 12th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you sensorious thug!
Hi, everybody.
You may know that I am in the UK because tomorrow, Tommy Robinson is having what could be the largest rally in British history.
The largest one to date was during the Gulf War, when approximately 750,000 people marched against the war and Tony Blair, the prime minister at the time, his support of it.
It's a huge march.
There is a chance that tomorrow's freedom rally by Tommy Robinson reaches or even exceeds that number.
But even if it's only a tenth thereof, 75 or 100,000 people, it'll be an enormous rebuke, not only of the political establishment in the UK, but also their enablers in the regime media.
Earlier today, I received an email from The Observer, which used to be part of another left-wing conglomeration of newspapers.
And I sort of, I did write back, I did give them some basic information, but my real feeling was the media are no longer relevant, or at least no longer as relevant.
And what I mean by that is 10 years ago, what The Observer or The Guardian or the BBC would have said about Tommy Robinson and his rallies would have had an enormous impact.
But now, especially with Elon Musk liberalizing Twitter and making it a free speech zone, does it even matter what The Observer, which is owned by a bunch of oligarchs, have to say?
Does it even matter?
I mean, the very fact that there will be a huge rally tomorrow is proof that the incumbents in both politics and journalism no longer have a lock on the people.
And citizen journalism is a big part of that.
I think you know that Rebel News sort of pioneered citizen journalism in the video form.
Now we are anything but alone.
A recent protest I went to in the British city of Epping, there must have been 10 independent journalists on the street.
My point is there's simply no way that some left-wing hack from a legacy outlet like the Observer carries the day anymore.
You know, sometimes snobs at these legacy media outlets look down on citizen journalists, but so what?
I mean, it's the citizen journalists that are getting hundreds of thousands or millions of views.
Anyways, it's a bit of a detour because while I'm out here in preparation for the big rally tomorrow, and by the way, I'll be speaking, I'm delighted to say, and so will Abhi Yamini of our team.
The terrible and horrific and heartbreaking assassination of Charlie Kirk happened.
And what was interesting was seeing that here in the United Kingdom, he was a known and beloved person as well.
So much so that the left-wing prime minister of the United Kingdom, Kier Starmer, actually put out a statement about it.
I was rather surprised by that.
And today, there was a vigil, an outdoor vigil for Charlie Kirk in London, England.
I mean, Charlie Kirk was America first personified.
He did visit the United Kingdom and try to give his point of view on things like socialism and mass immigration and the Islamification of the public square.
But really, he was an American focused on America.
I'm not sure if Charlie Kirk even visited Canada, but he gave support to freedom-oriented people around the world, including to us at Rebel News, where he was kind enough to talk to us and promote some of our stories, especially during the trucker lockdown.
So six, 700 people gathered in London, England today to help remember Charlie Kirk.
Can you believe it?
I'm going to, in a moment, throw to Abi Yamini and Rakhshan Fernando, who did a live stream and various interviews from that vigil.
And I think it's just so interesting to see the reaction in the UK to Charlie Kirk's loss.
And I think it's a few things.
I think it's because everyone knows that Charlie Kirk believed in debating people, not shutting them down, not humiliating them, but reasoning together with them.
And he really had a democratic spirit to him.
And second of all, shocked that anyone in the democratic process would be murdered.
The fact that the killer has purportedly been arrested, or let me phrase it this way, the accused killer has been arrested and is a trans activist just adds a layer of proof that the left has embraced violence outrageously.
Let me give you one more British anecdote before I get to the live stream of the vigil.
The most prestigious debating society in the UK, and they love their debates.
They're famous for their parliament and their orators, is the Oxford Union at Oxford University, perhaps the most prestigious university in the world.
And the Oxford Union is where future prime ministers cut their teeth on debates.
Charlie Kirk went into the Oxford Union to debate ideas.
And he, I mean, sometimes people wear tuxedos there.
He wore a smart suit.
And he was debated against by a radical Black Lives Matter Marxist Oxford Union student who apparently got in on a DEI admission because his marks are lower than anyone has ever heard of for someone getting into Oxford.
And his debate counterpart participated in sweatpants and slippers, like just the absolute disgrace of the thing.
I can't even believe that the mighty Oxford Union would do that with a straight face.
So here's a man who spent an hour going toe-to-toe with Charlie Kirk and had an opportunity to put any objections to him as a man, as a thinker, as an ideologue.
The whole point of the Oxford Union is words, not swords.
And after Charlie Kirk was murdered, this very person who spent more than an hour in Charlie's presence laughed and loved and tweeted how delighted he was by the murder.
How can that be?
You shouldn't do that about anyone being murdered, but about someone with whom you had a collegial hour and you're in the Oxford Union?
What an absolute disgrace.
I really can't believe it, but sort of proves everything about the decline of the United Kingdom.
Listen, I think it's still salvageable.
That's what tomorrow's big rally is for.
It's for the normal people to fight back.
But let me leave you with scenes from the vigil for Charlie Kirk that was not snickering and smirking that one of their opponents had been silenced.
That was a disgraceful moment for Oxford.
And I think that a million or a hundred thousand Oxford grads around the world groaned at what had been done to the university.
All right, without further ado, here's the vigil.
Do you want to tell us why you're here?
Well, I'm here because a young man lost his life for saying words.
And I think it's absolutely devastating.
And I think as a show of solidarity and just humanity, I think it's really important that we counter some of the despicable responses we saw to that, which I think have been quite devastating for the human race.
Yeah, so there's, firstly, what was your initial response when you saw that shocking footage?
I just, I was, it's just too upsetting, isn't it?
I mean, it's so graphic.
At first, I thought it was AI.
I thought that can't be real.
And then I guess you think about what it means to his family, and you see, you see a young man.
You see a young man and then you think about his wife and his kids and you think about your own children and your own family.
And then obviously I can reflect on what happened to me in New Zealand.
And we know, you know, that that is the risk that we, in the back of our heads, we think that we face.
And unfortunately, like, I also think what's happened is biblical to him.
It's such a moment, and I guess he might actually end up being the turning point.
A lot of people are saying that to us.
Just, my children feel like the world has shifted.
They didn't necessarily watch a huge amount of his content, but he was all over everywhere.
But they genuinely feel like the world has shifted, and I do too.
I feel like the vibration of this world has changed.
Do you think, because one of the concerns I have is that people are going to be too scared to come.
I can't help.
Like you said, I've been attacked.
You've been somebody that's been mobbed in New Zealand.
There are people that clearly want us all dead and it's not just words, they mean it.
And then when it happens, it's celebrated by their team.
And I know the day after, like when it happened, my phone was full of messages from people saying, be careful, be careful.
Does it make you think twice about what you're doing?
I think it might make me think twice about going out in the States.
Like when I went in the States before, I did have armed protection, but that's probably not enough.
And it just takes one person, doesn't it?
It's not like, I mean, New Zealand was very special.
There were thousands of them.
But it just took one person to take his life.
So yeah, it does, but it doesn't.
It makes you pause and then you think, well, if not me, then who?
And it has to be me, it has to be you.
We can't stop because the silence is so much more frightening than actually coming out and face of the noise.
And you were alluding before too, or you were talking about some of the reaction from the vile left showing their true colours.
What is your reaction to that now moving forward?
When they say that it was justified, ironically, because he's full of hate and because they say that his words had real life, real world consequences, not seeing the irony in the fact that they're celebrating a real world consequence of an act of hate.
I think all you can do is keep talking, right?
That's all you can do.
Like we can't battle hate with hate, then there's just more hate.
So you have to just keep talking and keep saying the things that you believe and keep making everyone realize that it's not hateful to have boundaries.
It's not hateful to want to speak your point of view.
I've just got in a taxi actually and the guy said, oh yeah, he did say some things and I went, do you understand what you've just said?
I said, you said he said.
I said, number one, I don't think he said the things that you probably think he said.
I said, but number two, I could hate everything that he said.
I could dislike everything that that man said.
And I still defend the right to have fame to say it, which is why I have always maintained that when the protesters come out to say they don't like the words I'm saying, I say that I welcome them.
As long as they don't prevent my right to speak, I welcome them a hundred times.
Thank you.
Thank you, Danny.
Good to see you.
We're going to see you tomorrow.
The turning point?
I'm the youth ambassador for Turning Point UK.
Firstly, tell us what's going to happen here today.
So the memorial starts at 6, speeches start at 7, and when it starts to get a bit nightly, we're going to do a candle service lighting candles.
And I think it's more of a Christian tradition because almost it's our supplications and prayer given to God.
And it was almost a key element of Charlie's Christianity to kind of have intrinsically within the conservative movement Christianity.
So yeah, keep it conservative and keep it Christian.
What was your initial reaction to the horrific footage?
It was extremely upsetting.
So you see him doing his regular tour of America, one second, him talking with his opposition, and then his opposition unfortunately have to shoot him and like that he's dead.
Of course the wound in the neck due to blood pressure, he would have instantly been unconscious and die there and then.
So it was unsettling.
I mean typically US assassinations are to politicians, elected members of the House for example, but they're never political activists.
So everyone had the same response of being deeply upset, worried about other events, especially on the 13th tomorrow.
But it's not going to stop anyone.
I think murder tactics like that are just for self-moderation purposes.
They want to frighten their opposition into not doing the platform that Charlie set out here in the States.
I know a lot of the guys like that.
How old are you, by the way?
17. 17.
So he's obviously had an effect on you and that's what I think most people recognise is that he's reaching, he's cutting through to the younger generation.
Is his murder going to change that?
Is he going to still now reach the younger people or are more younger people going to be attracted or less?
What do you think the effect of this is going to be?
Well his legacy is just going to be that of continuing other people to pick up the mic and kind of do street debating.
It's going to make the platform that he kind of set out with founding of Turning Point USA and it's going to be converted into everyone doing it.
I mean you're already hearing on social media we are all Charlie Cook.
Everyone has this degree of sacrifice when it comes to preaching the truth.
Again that's another Christian doctrine that the world should hate you if you should love Christ.
Charlie loved Christ, therefore the world hated him.
Everyone move back!
Move back!
Move back!
Let's come on board!
Last question.
What's your reaction to some of the vitriol we're seeing online from people that consider themselves his political opponents?
They're not his opponents.
His opponents would be there in the tent debating with him and not shooting him or praising his shooter.
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There's not the opposition.
Does it surprise you seeing a lot of young people celebrating it?
I mean when you have a generation of people watching jihadi videos being beheaded, is it very much a surprise that they're demoralized to violence?
I don't think so.
Thanks mate.
Why are you here?
What's pay respect really and do a little bit of filming ourselves because we had a media now.
Sorry about that.
What did Charlie mean to you?
Well I mean he despises us.
He's debating because he's always charitable.
He's like a more debatey version of Jordan Hughes.
So I've seen a lot of him debating even trans activists and he's always had compassion for them.
They say they should like seek help and they should seek help for their mental dysphoria and they're always compassionate and said they advise them.
They don't belittle them to them.
So I think that's a very good way to approach people on the other side.
I think the reason the left, like the radical left, assassinating him is because he represents the oldest branch.
Because the extreme left don't tend to, do you not realise, do you not recognise that they don't came to attack the actual far right?
Because the far right produced for them is a recruitment mechanism.
So they actually, but they probably hate the moderates more, which is why the moderators are ones get shot.
So that's why I think on it.
That's a good point.
Thanks.
Yeah, thanks.
I think that's a really good point.
I've asked that question a couple of times and I think he actually responded to that even without me asking it better than I could have thought.
Oh, is that the one on the activity white now?
I never know which camera to look at with Rookshan.
He's always playing games with us.
That's amazing.
Good angle, mate.
Good right now.
What's happening?
Yeah, good.
You want to tell us why?
We'll interview you for one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, fight, fight, fight, John, wait.
Saturday money, right?
What do you reckon about the crowd here today?
It's quite big.
It is quite big.
And it's nice to see that it's, you know, there's a lot of people here that want to pay their respects.
And I think that's what's really important is that it shows that Charlie's voice has spread very far.
It's got across the pond and further, reached the whole world, to be honest.
But the crowd's really good.
Big turn-up to invest this even.
Isn't it a shame that even tonight you've got to come to demonstration just over the road?
What was your initial reaction seeing that footage?
I just saw, I just touched down in London and it was shock and disbelief.
But as much as I was shocked and disbelief, but sometimes really not surprised.
You know, that's the nature of what you do when you put yourself out there and you want to speak for truth, but it just talks about only the courageous.
It takes courage to stand up in the face of opposition and to speak what's truthful and to be fearless in your conviction and that's what this man stood for.
But I love his stand.
I love his stand for Jesus Christ.
Everything he stood for is what we stand for.
It's the very reason we came over to England with a 200-man strong team from England to stand here for freedom of speech but to stand for something greater which is what this man stood for as well.
Stood for his faith.
You guys are going to be at the Tommy Robertson rally tomorrow.
We'll be there tomorrow.
We'll be standing and sending all the British patriots joining arms with all the British patriots.
Just saying that we all stand in solidarity with you, we agree.
And it's our responsibility just to echo this right throughout the world.
So love this man, honour to pay tribute to Charlie Cooke and everything that he stood for and I love it in regards to his wife and his children and I know that the legacy, what's happened will simply amplify the message.
So you know, what people may think has been a bad thing, actually for the long run, it will amplify the message of truth right throughout the nation.
That's what we've come here to do as well.
Man stood for the price.
Beautiful.
From New Zealand, here to do a haka and open the place.
Why is it important for you guys to be here tonight for the Charlie Kirk visual?
You're obviously here for the Tommy Robinson rally, but he's tonight here.
Why?
I mean, Charlie stood for the same things we stand for, freedom of speech and for Christian rights, etc.
So he stood before what we're standing for.
So it was fitting for us to come down, do a haka and open a prayer and honour Charlie's memory and pray for his wife and kitties.
Can you tell us where you should start with that?
There's a pretty decent crowd here.
How does it feel to see this many people come out to pay their respects to Charlie?
It's incredibly touching.
I know Charlie would be really touched as well.
When we did the tour with him back in 2019, he drew massive crowds, but this is phenomenal.
There must be hundreds, if not growing to thousands of people here.
And it just shows what impact he had outside of America.
It wasn't just the American political sphere he was shaping, it was the whole West and the Anglosphere.
Tell me, what was your reaction when you first saw that footage as soon as it came out?
I couldn't believe it.
I thought people were joking at first.
My phone was blowing up and they said, oh, Charlie's been shot.
No, nonsense.
And then I saw the video and sorry, we had so much hope at Turning Point UK that he was going to pull through.
We were getting reports.
He's in hospital.
He's stable.
And then when Trump put his statement out, everything came crashing down.
We've been absolutely heartbroken by this.
Charlie trusted us, he gave us everything over here, and he helped majorly shape the British political narrative through the work we did.
I had so much respect for Charlie.
He mentored us massively at the start, guided us, and we wouldn't have anything without him.
They've clearly tried to silence him.
Do you think they're going to have any sort of success in that?
Do you think his murder is going to crush his message?
No, if anything, when Charlie was assassinated, it created a million Charlie Kirks across the Western world.
We're not going to be intimidated by this.
Today I'm wearing a bulletproof vest.
It shouldn't have to come down to that, but if need be, we'll turn up in full body armour and we'll continue our message.
We're not going to be intimidated by these thugs.
And if they come for one of us, they come for all of us.
They shot Charlie, but that bullet was for everyone.
Why do you think Charlie was clearly a moderate on the political landscape, especially on the right these days?
He was a moderate.
Why do you think he was particularly the one that was targeted and not, let's say, actual extremists on the right?
They hated Charlie because he wasn't extreme.
They hated Charlie because his message cut through to young people.
He was the one who revolutionised conservatism, Christianity, patriotism for young people across the West.
And that's why he was killed, because they feared his message.
They feared the fact it was cutting through.
They feared the fact it wasn't extreme and it made sense.
You have groups like Antifa say, oh, you can't let the fascists speak because their arguments are very convincing.
Reality is not convincing.
It's the truth.
Charlie spoke the truth and he was punished for that.
What's your reaction to some of the vitriol we're seeing online today from segments of even the young community online and TikTok and X and isn't it funny?
The Be Kind Brigade, the ones who call us hateful, are the ones who are truly evil.
It's no longer become a fight between right and left, it's become a fight between good and evil.
And I don't think people understand.
Normally you'd give them the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe they see a headline, maybe they're young and they don't understand.
But everyone saw that video.
Everyone saw how horrifically Charlie was murdered.
There's no excuse for this behaviour.
There's elements of society who want us dead and we need to be calling that out.
We need to be standing up for ourselves and saying enough is enough.
These people don't belong in our society.
What would you say to people that are scared now to speak out because of this?
Terrorism is designed to shut you up.
Terrorism's designed to stop you speaking.
You let the Charlie Kirks assassin win by stopping.
We all now have to speak louder than ever.
We all have to puff our chests up and say we aren't afraid.
We aren't scared of death.
We are here to push a message.
We are here to stand up for what's right, protect our people and promote our country and our values.
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If Charlie's listening, what would you say to him right now?
Thank you for everything you did for us.
didn't deserve to go like that.
The only comfort I have is that I know Charlie's I know he's debating with the greats and he's giving them a run for their money.
I met Charlie years ago.
You met him?
Yeah, yeah.
Jack Hatfield and Let's Hayden.
Yeah, I met him in 2019.
He came to, I was living in Nottingham at the time and he came and spoke and I asked him a question.
He and Candace were there and her future husband George Farmer and somebody else I believe.
And he was just a very lovely guy.
He answered my question.
We spoke to him afterwards and shook my hand and got a photo.
And this is sort of before I think he really truly came into his own.
There was a lot of people sort of even on the right at the time who sort of mocked him in 2017, 2018 for being a little bit dorkish, a bit sort of campus conservative.
But after the election, which I think was stolen in 2020, past then, Charlie really became just this pure force of energy.
And I do think we have to give a lot of credit to him for getting Trump re-elected in 2024.
And he is someone who also changed his mind and has gone harder critical on looking at mass deportations, demographic change and stuff like that.
And has really been someone who has been at the cutting edge of the mainstream right in America.
And honestly, I still can't believe he's gone because he was such a ubiquitous figure for so long.
And I've worked in sort of American political journalism for most of my career.
And I said, he was just always someone who was there, especially not even on the fringes, but on the main stage.
And I just still, it still hasn't sunk in.
It kind of feels a bit nightmarish.
I'm still expecting him to turn up next week and debate some liberals and own them, as he used to do, and obviously just did until literally just a few days ago.
It shocks me.
One thing that really hit me, I was kind of fine all the evening after I heard the news.
I guess maybe I would have been in a state of shock.
And then I heard, I watched the clip, two clips that just made me crack.
And it was Ben Shapiro reading out Psalm 23 and then seeing the live clip of Megan Kelly and Glenn Beck learning the news that he had passed and both of them just pushed in in soft tears.
And that really struck me and made it feel that it was real.
It wasn't just, you know, CGI or somebody's made this up.
It's like, no, he's gone.
He's not coming back.
And he's only a few years older than I am, 31, as two young kids.
And when I heard that they were there and someone go around that maybe they ran towards him when it happened, it just sickens me.
And the reactions of the leftists who, you've seen a few of the like Dean Withers, for example, who Charlie's debated, Chenkwiger from the Young Turks, deemed a flood of tears when he heard the news.
Cheng Mega was calling it out.
I think really you've seen the split between those on the left who are maybe have the wrong policy ideas, are against us because they just haven't seen the right facts, but are fundamentally good and decent people at heart versus those who I think are ghouls, who are genuinely evil, who celebrated and whooped and cheered his brutal assassination.
There was a photo of that one guy who was right in front of him when it happened.
He saw that with his own eyes.
He saw the killing with his own eyes and he still stood up and cheered and pumped his fist.
We cannot live with these people.
They cannot exist in a society.
I don't know how you can live in a society where there are people who openly and brazenly celebrate the death of their political enemies, even when they've literally seen them being killed right in front of their face.
I don't know what humanity a person like that has.
We can live in a society where people disagree, but we cannot tolerate those who laugh in the face of death.
With that vitriol that we're seeing, what do you think Charlie's response would be to that today?
Well, I believe he is looking down at us now, and I think he would see the vitriol and would still react to the same way he's always did.
I think he would first laugh at them and then he would still, despite everything, I'm sure he would try to win them over with free debate, free speech and ideas.
Just now, I mean, I'm sure that's what he would want us to do.
I just struggle to think how do you change the minds of these people?
So clearly there are some people that you can have their minds change.
I think there are other people who their souls might be quite rotten.
And I'm concerned to live in a society where these people do still exist.
Can I ask what that question that you asked Charlie those years ago was?
It's funny, it was actually just after he had the debate, well no, not here, but when Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson had the debate on the free market, and I basically asked him, you know, how do you respond to a critique of the free market from the right with somebody like Tucker who was concerned more about sort of nation rather than sort of, I think he called the free market, what was the phrase he used?
But yeah, he didn't consider the free market to be a god, etc.
It was more critical of capital.
So I asked him, you know, how do you approach that?
How do you approach critics of capital from the right?
So now it just seems such a banal question, kind of the shape of everything that we have now.
Like 2019 is such a different era to what we have today, where you can have sort of policy debates on that, and now it's all about people celebrating the deaths of others.
This is just in the space of five years, five, six years.
I do hope we can tone down the heat and I just don't hope that it escalates.
What did he talk about?
I think it still is up on YouTube somewhere, but I believe he talked about that, you know, there are ways that the market can still operate that aren't necessarily, you know, it's basically more like, So it's basically pointing out to it being a more complicated issue than Tucker initially looked at it from.
So yeah, I think he gave a couple of examples, but again, it's still weird just thinking about him there with this big toothy grin, which a lot of people said it always took the ring out of him before, but now it just seems so endearing in hindsight.
What do you think his legacy is going to be?
His legacy is going to be, he's going to be the person that stood up for free speech and free debate and the marketplace of ideas when it became harder and harder to do so and people start to become more and more divided and less willing to talk to each other, both on the right and the left.
And he did that in the face of politics getting more evil and more vicious and more nasty.
He stood firm right until the very end.
Literally his last breath on this planet was trying to make sure that debate and free speech was the most important thing so that we didn't have political violence, that we did not have the things that took him away and I think frankly made him a martyr.
He stood against this against that violence and what took him away.
And I said we can only hope that we do return to a world where Charlie's vision of politics is how we operate and not via the bullet.
And Charlie was by all definitions a moderate.
He wasn't the extreme right.
Why do you think he was specifically the target here?
Well two reasons.
Firstly he was effective in that he Like you saw his clips everywhere, constantly.
And he was, you know, obviously I think he sort of took off the Stephen Crowder, Change My Mind campus debate intent things idea really well and ran with it.
And he really did change people's minds when he was there.
And he was effective in terms of orchestrating, getting young people out to vote.
Like the amount of young people that voted for Trump in 2024, I think was partially down to Charlie and his mobilization of the youth vote.
And then number two, because he was basically the biggest prominent person on sort of TikTok, Instagram, on the people of the guys that killed him, which is the Discord leftist chuds who make jokes about killing their enemies while saying oh woe at the same time.
That was on the bullet casing, the was it nudges you, oh woe, Gilsa Bald or whatever it was.
The people who are completely irony poisoned and they actually go out and start killing people.
To him, the fans of Hassan Pike, the fans of all the radical leftists, what did Hassan say?
He said something, I don't care about 9-11.
Obviously now, the anniversary of that being yesterday.
The people who watch that content, he is their biggest, he stood as their biggest political enemy because he stood up for, he stood against violence, he stood for free debate and he stood for being on the right, he stood for God, he stood for family and he stood for country and that's everything that these people, that those young people hated.
And you said you were working in the US.
I guess, how would you think it would be now?
Obviously the way Trump's come out with it and the world leaders have all on all sides have seemed to kind of rally behind Trump's leadership on this horrific incident.
Do you think it would be any different if Biden or Kamala, where do you think we would be in the aftermath of the killing of Charlie Kirk if it wasn't Trump in power?
Well, I'm sure Kamala or Biden would have said something.
I'm sure they would have said that they what they would have said is they would have condemned all political violence.
They say, oh, it's both the left and the right who are doing the political violence right now.
You've got to condemn all political extremism, you know, and they would have said a tribute to him.
But obviously now there is a resolution going on the House right now to have Charlie lie in state at the US Capitol.
That would never, that would definitely not even be close to a possibility if he'd be elected.
You know, you've seen the reactions of Democrats in Congress when they tried to hold a moment of silence, Charlie there shouting no.
You know, similar scenes in the European Parliament as well, where somebody gave the rest of their time to remote science and the left kept talking through it.
So we would have seen thoughts and prayers, we would have seen thoughts and prayers for about a few hours.
And then they would have tried to brush it under the rug and go back to focusing on, oh, you know, this person tried to stab a police officer and they got shot.
Oh, isn't that awful?
We must have 20 days of mourning for them.
That's what they were trying to pivot back to, rather than actually caring about, again, the assassination of someone who was just a good man.
Charlie Kirk was a good man.
It's funny, I've seen a lot of people who said, I was against Charlie from slightly to the right.
I sort of mocked him.
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I took the Mickey.
But now, and they all just, a lot of it then said, yeah, wow, actually I realised I was actually sort of a bad person.
And he was a good person.
Charlie Kirk was a good person.
If he was listening to me.
To me now, what would you say to him?
We love you, we miss you.
And I'm so sorry, and I wish you're still here.
And if we can spin out a little bit as well, that we really appreciate it.
If there was ever a time to stand and speak, that time has now going to hand it over to Kingy Charles, who's going to lead us in Hakka.
To Tata!
Incredibly touched
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by your presence.
You didn't expect this many people and it's a fantastic indication of how strong Charlie Kirk's legacy is.
So give yourselves a round of applause, everyone.
As our fantastic friends from New Zealand have shown, we will not roll over.
We will not be intimidated.
We will not be bullied out of standing up for our country, our values and our people.
I would also like to thank members of the United States law enforcement who have successfully apprehended Charlie's murderer.
Most justice won't bring Charlie back.
I hope it will ease his family's pain.
But I do hope and we ask that the law shows Tyler Robinson no mercy while we are angry and certainly should never forget this anger or what they have done.
We should look back on Charlie Thinley as the man who led the charge mainstreaming patriotism Christianity and conservatism across the world.
Despite what certain members of the press have reported, Charlie was not a hateful, far-right bigot.
He was a good Christian man and his desire to help people came from his passion to Christ.
He did not hate anyone.
He wanted to educate them and teach them to make better life decisions.
When Charlie debated OnlyFans individuals, he did not do so to mock them, to ridicule them.
He did it to try and save them.
He did it so they could have a future, so they could have a family, so they could have children.
He was a fantastic man and the world is a darker place without him.
My name is Jack Ross and I'm the CEO of Turning Point UK.
Charlie launched our organisation in 2019 and we've been pushing strong over the last six years thanks to his trust and his guidance.
Charlie gave us everything at Turning Point UK.
And many of the faces you actually see on television or in politics or commentating wouldn't exist in this country, by the way, not just in America, wouldn't exist except for Charlie Kirk.
He has a fantastic legacy and he did so much to shape politics across the world, not only in the United States, but in the West, in Australia, and all our friends in New Zealand.
Every country in the world mourns the loss of Charlie Kirk.
He stood up for free speech, he stood up for what's right, and we demand justice.
My only comfort right now is that Charlie's up there in heaven, and he's debating with the greats.
And you know what?
He's giving them a good run for their money.
Charlie's legacy will be one of hope.
Hope that the world will return to normality.
Hope that people will once again embrace Christian values and patriotism.
and hope that what happened to Charlie must never be allowed to happen again.
I will take this opportunity to ask people, particularly those on the left wing of politics, that they must be careful with their rhetoric.
Whilst sticks and stones do break bones, it is words which encourage people to pick up those sticks.
We all have a responsibility to do the right thing going forwards, and we must call out those seeking to divide us.
Charlie was not killed because he talked.
He was killed because people listened.
Thank you.
We have young Bob Ago Thomas Moffat, who's our youth ambassador for Turning Point UK.
Let's hear of you and God, everyone!
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day, our daily prayer, and forgive us for our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespassed against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Because they are kingdom, their power, ever and ever.
Amen.
Yeah, go there, man.
Light out.
Light it up, load it up.
Load it up, mate.
Yeah, keep it up.
Sorry, man.
Hey, young mate, you're going to get it.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
You just need a 2m gap.
All time.
2m.
So guys, it's being led by Turning Point UK here.
We've got young Bob, who spoke before, Hortica.
Portrait of Charlie Kirk as well.
Very passionate speech.
Let's go.
Come down here.
We're just gonna go talk to some people.
There you go.
You're in a view with Tommy.
What shall we do?
Talk to people.
We need to go to the side.
How far is it?
I don't know.
I think the statue's on this side of Winston Churchill.
Just let it march through.
Just down there, fair.
We'll just get there and then we'll talk to people on the outside.
We'll get there a little bit earlier, yeah.
Come.
We'll go to the statue.
This is where they're marching to.
I guess they're going to cross stuff.
They're gonna cross that road.
Is that somewhere?
I'm not entirely sure how we'll have.
Thank you for you.
Thank you, brother.
Thank you, brother.
So guys, we're just gonna get to the end point of this, which is the Winston Churchill statue.
Alright, this is where they've got to get.
That's the statue right there.
As one of Charlie.
As one of Turning Point UK's spokespeople said that's one of his favourite places in London.
That's what he said, right?
Yeah, I think favourite places in London and political figures.
You've got to watch the live stream back.
I can't.
I'll just get this shot from here.
Yeah, yeah, that's a good shot.
Just to get an idea of the crowd.
Return the other way.
Maybe we'll...
No, they're going.
They've got to go around.
Okay.
They're going to go there.
But let's follow on because you're going to see.
Just give people an idea of how large they are.
I've got a camera on here.
And they're going that way.
Yeah.
That's where we're going early on, is that we're going to go.
Yeah, yeah.
I've looked at the police at the end of the early part.
They're marked for it.
On this way.
We'll go there.
I'll see if he's looking up there.
Isn't it nice to see them respectfully marked?
I mean you get an idea of how many people there are thousands here by this point to pay their respects to Charlie Kirk in London.
Shall we cross now?
Because the police have stopped the car and here they are this is this is Winston Churchill's statue.
Let's go up here so we get a watch up.
Do you want to get a wide shot?
Yeah.
Come up up the front here.
Do you want me to jump up and give you a hand?
Are you good?
Do you want a hand?
No.
What the fuck did you do there, bro?
I'll be...
Where do you want me here?
So guys we're getting all the people coming down here.
They've crossed the road and there's two groups.
There's another group up there.
It's pretty far away.
hard to see but all the way down there.
What are you gonna do man?
Shooter?
I don't know where they're going.
I can't get much from here anyway.
So let's jump down.
I want to talk to people.
Yeah.
Can I ask you why you're here?
For Charlie.
Why?
Why is it important to be here for Charlie?
It's devastating what's happened to him.
I want something to stop crying something happen.
He was a pillar of hope, weren't he?
A beacon of light for the younger generation, for our generation.
He spoke the truth and look what's happened to him.
It's absolutely devastating.
How does it feel that so many people came out tonight here in London?
Amazing, amazing.
We're down for the march tomorrow.
Never thought that we'd ever be going to a vigil for this, but we had to come down.
So, yeah, it's really good.
Come on through.
What is that?
It's muddy road.
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Yeah.
Hold on.
Where are they?
Across there.
I'm not sure where exactly they're going, because that was the, I haven't got it.
From Korea.
I'm coming.
Sorry.
I'll be behind you.
Where do you want me?
Love you more, love you more Right guys, we're going to have a 2 minute silence for Charlie Two minutes silence.
Two minutes silence for Charlie Kirk here in London.
Christ is king.
Right, guys, we've got our best speaker or megaphones on this.
Christ is king.
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so much for coming here tonight.
Turning point UK is going nowhere.
And we need to keep marching with it.
So get involved with our activisms.
Message us on social media.
Go on the website.
Join as a member.
Help us carry Charlie's legacy forward.
We can't do it on our own.
We need all of you.
Just one more thing, patriots.
Be under no illusion.
Meek and mild turn the other cheek is over.
Each and every one of you should be radicalised by what has happened.
It is time to get organised and mobilise.
That is what our enemies do.
Charlie may well be in heaven now, but it's time to accept personal responsibility for what has happened.
God bless you all.
Radical!
And we will continue doing stands in the legacy of Charlie Cook.
He stood on a platform of civil discourse and we cannot stop to continue that civil discourse when our opposition will not meet us on the tent but rather shoot at us.
I have done stands at Candom Town and whenever you do a stand you potentially consent to your political opposition being the thing by which you die by.
And I guarantee you I have seen the United Kingdom, the radical left, have been persecuting the Conservatives who have one clear message.
We want to conserve our culture and our heritage.
We will not import a culture that killed Charlie Cook.
We will continue in civil discourse.
We will continue his work.
We will pick up the megaphones, the microphones, the stands.
They won't be able to move our minds by an inch because I guarantee you ladies and gentlemen, I will continue to speak up at university campuses.
I will continue to speak up on the streets and I guarantee you that you will win!
God bless you all!
Christ is king, and save the United Kingdom!
And there you have it, guys.
Does it do anything to rectify some of that vitriol we've seen online of people celebrating his murder?
Yeah definitely.
I mean it's been obviously really hard to see everything that's been going on.
I mean I knew I knew that you know obviously we are going to have people who didn't like him and who spoke out against him and are happy about his death but you know I think it's it's nice to see that you know there are people who really loved him and you know are appreciative of all the work that he did.
It just reminds me of why we do what we're doing.
Christ is king of Charlie.
Christ is king!
For his family left behind.
Father God, Protect Charlie's family.
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The family who have been left behind.
Their father taken away.
The daughter who will never again run to her father's leg.
President Trump quoted.
Protect them now and keep them safe.
Amen.
Well, that's our show for today.
Tomorrow we're going to have a massive coverage of Tommy's big rally.
Avi and I will each be giving speeches, but we've got a whole team on the ground.
Avi and Rukshan Fernando will do the live stream.
I'll be there as a journalist.
Alexa Lavois will be.
Our freelancer, Emma Dunwell, will be there.
It's going to be a big rebel effort because I think this could be the most important rally in a generation of the United Kingdom.
Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at OM.