ALL SIR Keir Starmer’s efforts to stop people from attending Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally and march in central London on Saturday failed. Utterly. Neither his ‘shaming’ and threats, nor an unprecedented police presence – 4,000, I am told – closing off central London from any tube or road access, worked.
Nor did the tactics succeed in provoking the thousands of marchers – those who managed to get to Whitehall from Euston and Kings Cross, and the many more thousands who never even got sight of Trafalgar Square, stuck at the far end of the Strand, who after three hours gave up. It all said so much for the law-abiding, decent ever-patient Brits who attended.
The BBC’s reporting of 50,000 attendees will turn out to be another massive underestimate. The main body of the march was nowhere near Whitehall by 3.15, nearly two hours after the programme on the platform had begun. Not even in the Strand, backed beyond Kingsway and Holborn.
This picture, taken just before 3pm, is only of an ‘advance guard’ of the march passing the old War Office in Whitehall.
The police had created long ‘no-go zones’ down Whitehall, giving an effect of emptiness while the march remained backed up along the Strand. Meaning the giant screens were placed far, far apart with a resultant echo.
Banning foreign speakers, allowing a Palestinian activists’ march on the same day, deploying facial recognition and finally telling Robinson on Friday afternoon that the rally had to end by 4.30 all seemed to be deliberate provocations. Coming on top of Starmer’s insult earlier in the week to his fellow citizens that they were peddling hatred and division, threatening extra court capacity if their march turned violent. No, this wasn’t a warning to the pro-Palestinian marchers in light of stabbings in Golders Green, the arson on synagogues and Jewish ambulances, and the deadly attack in Manchester. No, Starmer hadn’t finally woken up to their anti-Semitic, violent, pro-terrorist, genocidal rhetoric. Of course he hadn’t. This march had his sanction.
What an insult to British people’s genuine concerns about the impact and threat of uncontrolled mass immigration, about asylum seeking, and the Islamification of British society. Concerns that Starmer and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood blindly refuse to address and remain determined to censor discussion of and threaten with prison punishment as rapists go free.
Starmer the deliberate ‘divider’.
Well, whatever Starmer hoped to provoke, the Brits on the march must have disappointed him. The atmosphere was festive with music, chanting, lots of ‘Free Iran’ flags and good humour all round. Just very British booing every time an EU leader was mentioned!
From the moment I set off on my journey to get there, what dominated was the sheer scale of the police presence. Speeding police vans from all over the country passed me in my taxi into central London.
You’d be forgiven for believing there had been a major prison break-out. Vans and officers lined the streets, blocked major routes, and surveillance was obvious throughout the area.
Checking my ‘Next Door’ village safety posts, I saw a rapist was at large in South London and posts about two separate missing children. How ironic and typical, I thought, policing not where it’s needed and present where it isn’t.
Alex Levoie from Rebel News is right, the attempt to frame the crowd as extremists didn’t match what any of us there saw: ‘Families, pensioners, tradesmen, veterans, and young people filled the streets – people who say they feel ignored or dismissed by their government and media elites. Despite the political pressure surrounding the event, the atmosphere itself was energetic, joyful, and overwhelmingly peaceful.’
Needless to say, this combined political operation against the march put huge pressure on the organisation of such a big event. By the time I arrived at the speakers’ area behind the platform the tension was obvious. First losing so many speakers and then being ordered, as I understand it, by London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan on Friday afternoon that the rally had to be over by 4.30, was the backdrop. A decision rescinded but only much later on Saturday afternoon.
It was only after I arrived that it become clear that I hadn’t been asked to fill in for one of the banned overseas speakers but for Ben Habib who’d said he wouldn’t be able to make it. In the event he did – right at the last minute – and I wasn’t needed; one of the ones who Tommy described as being bumped. You can read the speech I didn’t give below.
Of the speeches that were delivered the most notable ones came from Tommy himself who spoke on Iran and its silenced and oppressed people, Sammy Woodhouse who spoke on Britain’s beyond shocking and still not dealt with rape gang scandal, and finally from Siobhan Whyte, whose daughter Rhiannon was murdered by an illegal Sudanese immigrant.
Her speech (indeed of all of them) Starmer should be made to watch. Rhiannon was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver by the illegal. She died in hospital three days later. She was working at the migrant hotel where the man was staying when he attacked her after her shift. He was later caught on CCTV dancing and laughing.
Siobhan’s suffering was palpable. As Rupert Lowe has said, these illegal men should be rounded up and deported. They haven’t been, and the government has no such intention.
Whatever the elites may think about Tommy Robinson, no individual has stood up for the tried and terribly tested, ignored and sneered-at British working class more than he. Over many years. His energy and determination puts the rest of us to shame, as I said to his mother, whom I met for the first time backstage. I saw where his strength comes from – this tiny and wonderful woman whose love and loyalty he has consistently had behind him. My ‘why family matters so much’ conversation with her was the highlight of my day. Two mothers on the same wavelength, on the importance of family for society’s wellbeing, the key unit and unity that gives us the strength to stand up to the increasingly oppressive, repressive and intrusive State.
Finally here is the speech I would have given, the point of which was really to focus on the way forward, not just for Britain but all of the West:
Saturday February 1st, 2025 – Tommy Robinson was still in prison.
That was last time I stood on this platform to defend freedom, at the Stop The Isolation Rally that day.
When we gathered to call for his release
To end that travesty of justice – Tommy’s cruel, solitary confinement at the hands of a British Government.
Not a Russian, Chinese or North Korean one.
A British one. Shame on it.
I am back today to speak to the same cause – freedom.
To show we are not intimidated by Keir’s bans,
We are not silenced by his smears,
To close ranks against his attacks on the British people.
Also to unite in defence of the West.
To speak out on the truths that terrify Starmer and the rest of Europe’s out-of-touch political establishment.
The climate change scam,
Uncontrolled mass immigration and its impact,
The Islamification of our societies,
The speed of demographic change,
The failure of the elite’s ‘I’m all right Jack’ multi-culturalism.
We should never have sucked it up.
We are not an intolerant society,
We are not a racist society,
But we are an emasculated society.
We have lost pride and failed to defend all that was good in our culture.
But it is not too late. We can still save our country.
By exercising our political rights.
By speaking out, not self-censoring.
By voting.
(Tommy is right, never again should there be an election where 20million registered voters didn’t bother.)
By rearming morally – claiming the moral high ground.
By rejecting ignorant and disturbing ‘ancestry’ or ethnicity arguments.
We are a Christian-based multi-racial society that tolerates private beliefs.
The position from which we can confidently call for:
A halt to immigration, a ban on Sharia and tight controls on mosque building.
Finally it means activism – joining one of the New Right parties.
Do it.
And change the political landscape in time for the next election.
This may be our last chance to defend freedom and save our country.
