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As I said at the top there, we've been speaking for a long time that civil unrest is not just starting, it's there and it's been there for quite a long time.

We saw what happened after the Southport attacks, that that civil unrest was absolutely massive.

They tried to clamp down on it and go so over the top with their reaction in terms of jailing people for Facebook posts and so on, that it was like they were trying to silence people because they know what's coming is much worse.

in the sense of people being ignored, people's genuine concerns being literally just cast away, and the changes to our society.

So we said this years ago, I remember when talking about Israel and Gaza.

In 2014, when Israel were bombing extensively in Gaza, I remember the mass protests, I remember attending a few in London, and I remember when they were attacking Jeremy Corbyn, the campaign against anti-Semitism, about 10 years ago were attacking us and so on.

And I remember me and David talking at the time about the fact that this wasn't about silencing what people were saying now and what people were pointing out now.

It was silencing in advance of what they wanted to do next.

And it's not worked because October 7th is obviously the what was next, the following of that.

And it's not worked because people have been more outspoken against Israel than ever before.

But there was a period there where if you dared ask a question You were at risk of losing your job.

You were at risk of losing your ability to study.

So whatever it is that you were doing, that was under threat if you dared question the actions of the State of Israel.

That's changed now.

More people than ever before are calling it out and asking questions.

Same kind of thing is happening with immigration, except I believe we're at that first stage now where the silencing of people, whether that be through condemnation, calling them racist, calling them bigots, calling them X, Y and Z, fascists, Nazis, whatever adjective, descriptive language you want to use to describe somebody who maybe is concerned about the changing landscape of the country, of the towns, of the villages, of young adult men coming across And in the case of this week, landing on beaches completely undetected.

Who are they and where are they now? No one knows.

If you're concerned about that, you're now being name called X, Y and Z and also being sent to jail in different cases.

That's why when we see these protests, people are masked up.

And I don't like that for various reasons.

One, it looks thuggish and it looks intimidating to people walking down the street.

It doesn't look like a movement you can approach and get on board with.

To the contrary of that, the COVID protests, for example, and the digital ID protests were walking through the streets of London and people were joining the protest.

They were asking questions about what it was.

And that's because it was an approachable movement.