'For years we've been told that grassroots political movements are the future, community activism the way forward, empowerment of working people a necessity if we're going to get meaningful change. But now thanks to globalism, one of the consequences of which appears to be mass migration there are movements, new movements that appear to be getting incredible traction. In my country, the UK, there was a massive march that seems to be a kind of Britain first, England first march. Let's together talk about this movement, its figurehead Tommy Robinson and work out is this a movement that can change Britain, change British politics, and is it a movement that is motivated by love or hate. Cuz certainly the legacy media will tell you this, that these movements are hateful, that they are racist. Some of you might have seen Tommy Robinson on Jordan Peterson and heard his biographical take on why he has the feelings and experiences he's had coming out of Luton with its complexity and with its the challenges that have come with a community. Community that houses both white English, black English and Muslim people. It's an interesting story and you can check that out for yourself. Certainly the march over the weekend got a lot of support. There was a counter march, and the counter march was of course an anti-racist march, but I'm wondering this this: is it possible to be anti-racist, pro community, pro religious freedom, pro English values, pro the working class - people that built a country - and anti-establishment power that benefits from division and uses that division to turn people of different religious and cultural identities against one another? Let's have a look at this story together...'

He's careful not to endorse the rioters, but does everything he can to legitimise their alleged grievances and make it all about them. Not a word about the innocent people who have been victimised in the street, or those who narrowly avoided being burned to death in that hotel. His first video on the topic went to the sage sources of David Icke, Alex Jones, George Galloway and Nigel Farage:





The Icke quote he uses includes this: 'cultures from other lands need to respect the culture they enter and not as some do seek to usurp it and impose their own' (8:20) ie: straight out of racist great replacement narratives, generating fear of the migrant 'other' as a prelude for violence against them. Brand uses the phrase 'resurgent nationalist movement' to describe what has been happening (3:59), and along with the above quote shows that he's happy to present the riots/protests in a positive light even when this stretches credulity to breaking point.

The argument about finding common ground between groups and not allowing yourself to be divided by the establishment is worthy, but to open the video with Yaxley-Lennon in front of a group of distinctly 'military-aged males' (see what I did there?) talking about how efforts to 'divide' or 'separate us' had been unsuccessful deliberately confuses the issue. Yaxley-Lennon & co want division, they thrive on it, and are not at all interested in finding common cause with Muslims, black people or migrants to fight against the establishment. Who does Brand think he has in mind by 'us'?

He's playing with fire now...

jeers,
I