James O'Brien DESTROYS Nigel Farage With 10 UNANSWERABLE Examples Of Violent Language HYPOCRISY!
unless you're engaging in two -tier policing of political language.And we know how much Nigel Farage hates two -tier policing, don't we?Um, I'm up to three examples of just how epic this hypocrisy is.
Alright, so in this video, James O 'Brien completely dismantles Nigel Farage's victim complex and he brings all of the receipts.After Farage called the police over Green Party politicians at Polanski retweeting a photo of a t -shirt, James decided to list 10 separate times reform UK politicians used genuinely violent, inciting language with zero accountability or calls to the police.Let's watch.
It's important to remember exactly what it was that Zak Polanski did.He posted a bunch of pictures taken at a Green Party event by a photographer without, according to him and his account, without looking at them properly and it turned out that one of them featured a man in a t -shirt with a picture of a guillotine and the words, we're making plans for Nigel and that is Well, that is actually the end of that story.That's what happened.When it was brought to his attention, he took it down.A spokesman said that he condemned it, but he didn't apologize.I said yesterday that he had apologized.
Being a brilliant radio presenter, I very quickly corrected myself.But I presumed that a condemnation goes hand in hand with an apology.This is one of the reasons why I find the question I'm going to ask you in five minutes so interesting.So he condemned it, but he didn't specifically apologize.
So James establishes the specific crime that Nigel Farage claims to be a victim of, but then he opens the vault on Farage's own party.Here are the first two receipts.
Because that's what one of Nigel Farage's colleagues did.That is exactly what, word for word, with a picture of the Labour MP for Bolsover, Natalie Fleet, that is what I think he's the deputy leader of Lancashire Council actually did.County Councillor Simon Evans did this on Facebook.You dozy cow, my apologies for the language here, but I'm just reading out what the Reform UK councillor did on social media, should be shot.Now, he subsequently took the post down, apologised for it, and said that he did not notice the offensive text.Reform said the party had investigated, but it was agreed it was a genuine mistake and no further action was necessary.
So, you dozy cow should be shot.Genuine mistake.No further action necessary.T -shirt, guillotine, Nigel.Genuine mistake.Call the police.
I'm just wondering whether that sounds a little bit two -tier to you.Um, let's refresh our memory about a story that we touched on yesterday.
I suggest we listen to them and not the overpaid pen pushers in Whitehall who are not doing a neutral job.And once Brexit's done, we'll take the knife to them.All right?Had enough of all of it.
We'll take the knife to them.Had enough of all of it.Now, I don't know whether you think he meant that.He was actually going to turn up in Whitehall with a knife and start stabbing people.But, I mean, he believes that a bloke wearing a t -shirt with a guillotine on it is actively encouraging people to...don't know what build a guillotine and then somehow drag him to it and chop his head off Genuinely, unless you're wasting police time, you must genuinely believe that a bloke with a picture of a guillotine on his t -shirt is threatening decapitation, whereas a bloke standing up in public and saying he's going to take a knife to some human beings is not threatening to take a knife to some human beings.
Of course, subsequently, you said he should have used the word axe.He should have changed the language to use the word axe.But again, We find ourselves wondering what the difference is here.Farage defended the remark as a metaphor for staffing cuts.He tweeted, I should have said, take the axe, which is a more traditional term for cuts.I mean, knives, guns, this fella's got the lot.
If I don't deliver this Brexit that I've spent 25 years of my life working for, then I will be forced to don car key, pick up a rifle and head for the front line.
Don Karki pick up a rifle and head for the front line.Now I don't know whether you hear that and think that he was realistically threatening to dress up.in a slightly different outfit from his usual clothes and get a gun from undisclosed sources and go out and start shooting people.Most obviously I think Theresa May because it was her job at the time to deliver the Brexit that he was talking about.Do you think that he meant that he was going to stab civil servants?Do you think that he meant that he was going to shoot Theresa May or do you think that he was using figures of speech?
And remember, Zak Polensky wasn't wearing this t -shirt with the guillotine on it.He was simply posting a picture of it in a tranche of photographs that had been printed.by a photographer.So I suppose that... consistency demands that Nigel Farage should have phoned the police should have called the police on himself at least twice and indeed on councillor Simon Evans the deputy leader of Lancashire County Council.A spokesman for Mr Farage said his words were out of context and it would be unfair taking the words out of context would be unfair and insisted that the party was opposed to any type of violence.which again sounds a little bit two -tier, doesn't it?
If a t -shirt is incitement to murder and the police should be involved, but threatening to shoot people is being taken out of context and expressing opinions that are opposed to any...I mean, I don't quite see how one is worse than the other, unless you're engaging in two -tier policing of political language.And we know how much Nigel Farage hates two -tier policing, don't we?Um, I'm up to three examples of just how epic this hypocrisy is. but I've got 10.
It gets worse.Moving from direct threats against civil servants to the horrific real world consequences on UK streets, James turns to the Southport riots and the Reform Party conference.
What happened in this studio actually, you will remember when the little girls in Southport were murdered and it felt at the time as if every racist on the planet was taking to social media to tell lies about it and to try to whip up hatred and and indeed incite violence against refugees, or asylum seekers, or immigrants in general, or foreigners.Quite why you would want to be violent towards somebody who had absolutely nothing to do with the thing that has got them here.unless you've been successfully groomed or gaslit by race provocateurs remains beyond me but some people got stuck in and chose to I don't know to either believe or the utterly unsourced rantings of deeply unpleasant people and share them with their huge followings, or they pretended to believe the utterly unsourced rantings of deeply unpleasant people and share them with their huge followings.I don't know why you would do that, but I do know that I wasn't the first person to suggest that those riots that followed those hideous murders should have been called the Farage riots.because many, many, many people who took to the streets and enacted violence or threatened violence or witnessed or enjoyed violence seemed to be dancing to a tune that was set by the social media activity of, I say, the usual suspects.It was Tom Swarbrick who put it to Nigel Farage that he had been part of this problem.
One of the reasons the Southport riots were as bad as they were is we weren't told the truth.There were stories online from some very prominent folks with big followings, Andrew Tate, etc., suggesting the man had crossed the English Channel in a boat in October 2023, other suggestions that he was an active Muslim, and much of this led to the riots that we saw.But you amplified that, because you said some reports suggest...I asked a very simple question.Was this person known or not?Now, to the security services?
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And that's a perfectly legitimate question, which was raised by Yvette Cooper.But, Nigel Farage, you didn't just do that, did you?You said some reports suggest he was known to the security services.Those reports...from a fake news website amplified by Russian state TV and, as you mentioned, Andrew Tate.Which ones were you looking at?
to what I was asking for.So contributing to a context, that's a good word, they like to use that word a lot, contributing to a context which saw hideous violence unfolding on our streets and saw people living in fear of their lives and based entirely upon lies that he had helped to spread.It's not because they didn't tell us what was going on that these riots happened, it's because liars told us things that had not happened.And what the fudge is an active Muslim while we're at it?an active... what are you supposed to do with that phrase?Just sort of think negative thoughts about almost...
Anyway, Nigel Farris didn't apologize for that, but he's called the police about a t -shirt.And one of the people who responded to the online horror show that accompanied that hideous murder was a woman called Lucy Connolly, who subsequently pleaded guilty to incitement to racial hatred after calling for countless innocent people to be burned alive in their beds.Nigel Farage didn't call the police on her, somebody else did.Instead, he, or his party, invited her onto stage at the Reform UK Party conference to receive this.Welcome.
Our Planet Normal guest this week has become a living symbol of two -tier Britain.The sheer injustice she has suffered has shocked millions of people across Britain and indeed across the whole world.She's a wonderful mum, wife, beloved childminder, little kids from every corner of the earth she's taken wonderful care of.So I am of course referring to Britain's favourite political prisoner ladies and gentlemen please give the warmest of welcomes
to Lucy Connolly! already been jailed for incitements of racial hatred.Richard Tice responded at the time by saying, it's wonderful to see her back with us and to hear her direct telling her story.I think that she has a huge opportunity to help reform and help the cause of free speech.Presumably, If Lucy Connolly had posted a picture of somebody else wearing a t -shirt, upon which her tweet calling for people to actually be killed in their beds appeared, then they might have had a problem with it, or indeed phoned the police, or reported it to the authorities.So the question I'm going to ask you at the end of this is whether or not Zak Polanski is right, and the context Nigel Farage's and his party's contributions to public discourse means he shouldn't apologize.Coupled with the fact that there were a thousand hits for the original post on Instagram, sorry not Twitter, and after Farage and his friends started sharing the same image, the image that is incitement to murder, that figure went up to 3 .2 million.
I still think he should just apologize but I'm also reminded that when Michelle Obama said, when they go low, we go high, it somewhat backfired.Anyway, here's Nigel Farage bigging up the IRA.
Now, it's a bit early in the day, so all I've got actually is coffee, but I hope you enjoy a few pints with the lads tonight.
Up the rah.Up the rah.You got paid £87 for that.Celebration of terrorism, murderous terrorism, support of the IRA, the Irish nationalist race.He told Mail Online that he...Didn't realise the meaning of the message, noting that he has had a face -to -face death threat from the IRA.
You'd have thought, wouldn't you, that you'd double -check on things before accepting £87 to celebrate them.This one is about Richard Tice, not about Nigel Farage himself, but of course Tice and Zia Yousaf have been joining in the calls for the Green Party leader who shared a picture of a man in a t -shirt featuring a guillotine and the words, we're making plans for Nigel to face the full force of the law.Do you remember the Reform UK councillor that said, well, I don't need to tell you what he said because this clip, this clip will remind you.
One of your new Sunderland councillors, so a man who was elected to represent Reform, suggested melting Nigerians to fill potholes.
Is that person who's expressed those views somebody you are happy to see represent this weekend we are celebrating our incredible successes like any party you have internal party processes to look at where people uh have said or done the wrong thing do you condemn those remarks laura i condemn anything that is wrong and inappropriate so no and the uh councillor uh concerned glenn gibbons with subsequently reinstated in the party.
This is the man who called for Nigerians to be melted down and used to fill in the potholes.Now listen, it's perfectly possible that you think a picture of a guillotine on a t -shirt accompanied by the words we're making plans for Nigel means that you really are encouraging people to put Nigel Farage on a guillotine and you would also have to believe that Glenn Gibbons reallywant to melt down Nigerians and use them to fill in potholes.So you'd call the police on both of them, right?
Wrong.So I think we're up to seven now.So to finish the dismantling, James exposes the final three receipts proving that violent rhetoric isn't a glitch in Reform UK.It's actually their entire platform.
David Aronovich, a journalist and radio presenter, writes a rather splendid sub stack which this week turned its attention to the horrors or the dangers of using the word traitor.casually.It's given me pause for thought, actually, I have to say.And I hope it gives others pause for thought.Here's Zia Yusuf, who is a big donor to Nigel Farage's political party and has a job with them, although he's not an MP.Richard Hermer, Labour's Attorney General, has lied to the BBC, claiming Reform wants migrants to drown in the Channel.
Hermer used lawfare to hound British troops who had done nothing wrong, in one case pushing him to attempt suicide.He is a traitor to his country.He attacked someone called Robert Jenrick.I can't remember what happened to him.Why are you continuing to lie, Robert?You said your party needs to own up to its mistakes.
You are doing the opposite.You're a traitor to your country.There's another one here as well.Starmer's Attorney General Richard Hermer hounded British troops and ruined their lives as a blood sport.Hermer is a traitor to his country.Another one, recent events demonstrate why I view the Tory and Labour politicians who created the burning injustice of modern Britain as traitors to their country.
And then he wrote, a reckoning is coming.I don't know.If a t -shirt can be incitement to murder or incitement to violence, a reckoning is coming.Could that, do you reckon, could that be construed as any form of incitement?And I'm slightly confused about who he means when he talks about the Tory politicians who created the burning injustice of modern Britain.Do you think he means Robert Jenrick or Suella Braverman or 30p Lee Anderson or Danny Kruger or I can't remember any others off the top of my head but you'd be amazed if you found out what party they're all in now.
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Get started freeSo we're up to nine examples of things that perhaps somebody else might have called the police over or demanded a apology.I'll turn your attention next to a character called Wayne Titley, who won the Eccleshawland Nossal Division for Reform UK in Staffordshire.He stepped down just two weeks after being elected, after it was found that he had shared various posts, including things like, Why they don't position the Navy so as the big boats leave the shoreline they intercept them and thunder them back using a volley of gunfire aimed at sinking them.It's worth reminding ourselves that Zia Yusuf was calling Richard Homer a traitor for suggesting that reform wanted migrants to drown in the Channel.And here is an elected Staffordshire County Councillor from Reform calling for migrants to drown in the Channel.So who are you going to complain about there?
Are you going to complain about the bloke who was calling for migrants to drown in the Channel by using a volley of gunfire aimed at sinking them?Or are you going to complain about the senior member of Reform UK arguing that They don't call for migrants to drown in the channel.Tricky question that.I'm, of course, as ever, just asking questions.The response of Reform UK to this councillor's decision to resign after his shameful social media posts emerged, he cited personal reasons.This is the bloke who called for people to drown, didn't get a hero's welcome on stage at the conference,
I think you have to call for people to be killed in their beds for that to happen, to be burned alive.That gets you the hero's welcome.This fellow resigned for, quote, personal reasons, prompting the party to respond, it's disappointing that the level of abuse Wayne and his family have been receiving has meant that he is no longer able to carry on as a councillor.I'm not aware of anybody calling for him to be shot at by Royal Navy officers.boats but anyway the level of abuse he received was so awful according to reform because he could have been an excellent champion for the people of Eichelshorl and Nossel um and finally things about which Reform UK chose not to complain, contact the police or apologize, is a candidate called Adele Taggart, who was found to have posted on social media pictures of a picture of, and this is her own post, it's not a post of somebody else wearing a picture, wearing a t -shirt featuring this picture, this is a picture she posted herself, English Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, the former Government Chief Scientific Advisor, a post of them saying, these two want stringing up blood on their hands.These two want stringing up blood on their hands.
So there, and it was a fairly cursory scan of my memory banks for stories that might add to Zak Polanski's permission.There are ten examples and I've just remembered a couple of you have reminded me that if you attended or remember when there were a lot of protests on the streets regarding Brexit, Brexiters were photographed on more than one occasion with actual homemade guillotines.I remember one in particular featuring the European Union flagas a sort of basis, base for a guillotine.Now, do you believe that those people were genuinely intending to hang prominent Remainers?Or do you think it was theatre?
physical equivalent to a to a figure of speech I don't know but they are currently queuing up to claim that when Zach Polanski posted a photograph of a man in a t -shirt featuring a guillotine and the words we're making plans for Nigel he was inciting murder even though he has persuasively argued that he hadn't even clocked the picture itself because it came in a large tranche of photographs there are ten examples of comparable or worse behavior undertaken not by people wearing t -shirts in tweets that were shared by members of reform but by the actual members of reform up to and including Nigel take a knife pick up a rifle Farage and I don't know now actually, to go back to the beginning and remind ourselves of Zach Polanski's rationale for not apologizing, I don't know now whether he should or not.I was pretty adamant yesterday that he should have done on the grounds that nobody should be engaging in this sort of behavior, but if the person demanding the apology does this kind of thing for fun, do you strengthen their...I honestly don't know.
So there you have it.It's the absolute definition of two -tier free speech and two -tier policing, and it's coming from the exact people who complain about it the most.Farage demands the full force of the law for a retweeted photo of a t -shirt which the Metropolitan Police have now thrown out, but then gives a free pass to his own candidates calling for MPs to be shot, public servants to be strung up, and migrants to be gunned down or burnt down in their hotels.And what it really does is expose the entire Reform UK project for what it is.They aren't interested in protecting free speech or civil discourse,they just want a monopoly on who is allowed to be targeted.
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