Keir Starmer’s message spectacularly backfires as massive crowds take to the streets of London

Joining us now from London is writer and broadcaster Esther Krakow.Esther, it's great to see you again.Brits certainly sent a clear message over the weekend.So I was looking at The Vision.Massive crowds were marching at the Unite the Kingdom event, but Keir Starmer and the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, thought it would be a good idea to just condemn all the patriotic protesters.Here's Starmer's message.

Tomorrow's march in London is a reminder of what we're up against in the battle of our values.The organisers, including convicted thugs and racists, are peddling hatred and division, plain and simple.

And London's mayor wrote on Twitter, Londoners will always reject those who seek to divide our communities.They certainly don't get it, do they, Esther?Pretty tone -deaf messages.

If only Keir Starmer got this worked up about the prosperity and safety of our country as he does a march like this, I think we would be in much better shape.And as for Sadiq Khan calling anyone divisive, bear in mind this is a man who has now put, you know, levied a fee on people driving into London with certain types of cars in the name of racial justice, because apparently brown and black people breathe in dirty air, and he had to pay Imperial College money to produce data to support his scheme.And then his office, according to leaked emails, were unhappy that Imperial College couldn't actually find any evidence to support what he was doing.So if that's not divisive, I don't know what is.But this clearly was a very successful march.I think what most people, even whether they were involved, agreed, didn't agree, they were probably quite astonished with just how much energy Keir Starmer was putting behind condemning these.

I mean, he banned or the Home Office, so far had banned about nine people just a few days before the event.High profile individuals like Ada Luch, who's a Spanish commentator, a Polish politician, an MEP, actually, evenVladingerbroek, who is a Dutch legal advisor and activist.He banned all of these people for apparently opinions that he didn't like.And in the ETA refusing their entry, he basically just said that their presence wasn't conducive to the public good, which is quite interesting because the kinds of people that Keir Starmer thinks their presence is conducive to the public good would probably fill us with horror.including an Egyptian man who had some not very nice words to say about the UK.

But again, these are the kinds of things that garner and foster the reputation of two -tier kia, because just across the road from this rally, would you believe, was another pro -Palestinian march and a pro -Iranian regime march with people flying the flags of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, not the actual Iranian flag that is actually flown by people, by the diaspora that wants to see a free Iran, that wants to see an Iran that's not brutally murdered by a regime that has nothing better to do than to oppress women, than to behead teenagers for calling for actually a free country, a free prosperous country.These are the kinds of flags that they were flying about, but apparently it's Tommy Robinson and the 60 ,000 odd people that gathered in London that were the real threat.And just looking from aerial footage, just to contextualize what you're looking at, the number of people that you're seeing on the streets of London is still less than the number of people that have come across illegally across the English Channel in the last 18 months.So just to put that into perspective, that's not a problem, but the people gathered in London are.

It is such a good point.I mean, when you really can see the visuals, it's astonishing how many people have entered the UK.It's why so many Brits are so upset.We heard from plenty of them, including the mother of Rhiannon White, who was killed by an illegal migrant.And she delivered a pretty powerful speech, very emotional speech at the United Nations.rally describing what happened to her daughter.

Rhiannon was stabbed 23 times with a Phillips screwdriver.The main injury which caused her death was to her brain stem.Less than 90 seconds this monster took to attack her, leaving her fighting for her life on a train station platform.If she had survived she would have been blind with brain injuries and no quality of life.

It's just so chilling to hear that, isn't it?But then she also went on to call for illegals to be deported.Let's just listen to this.

Children or even men have to keep going through this.Sexual assaults, rapes and even murders.This needs to stop.This sham of a government needs to start looking after the British citizens of this country.We have enough with the people of our own country committing these crimes.We don't need any more of these illegal invaders.

Shut the borders, detain them and send them back to whichever country they are from.Stop giving them a home and a hotel or a HMO and benefit money.

Well, it doesn't get much more powerful and heartbreaking than that, but certainly a clear message to the government.

Absolutely.And I think, you know, her story is one that really you can't argue with and you can't help but feel rage and sympathy.And whenever I hear of stories like these, I can't help but feelbe astonished by the silence.When Sarah Everard was killed, who was a young woman that was murdered here in the UK a few years ago by a police officer, you had ministers and politicians across the country calling for curfews for men, because apparently men were such a threat to women that they had to be curfewed and basically sectioned off in their homes by 9 p .m.

But these same people, who should be shouting from the rooftops, don't see anything wrong with predominantly men coming across these shores from countries that don't have a track record of treating women with basic dignity or respect, and in some cases as outright chattel, you don't hear anything from them and they don't see a problem with it.You have a woman here who was stalked at night by someone who should have never been in the country, stabbed in a 90 second frenzy, someone with a child, and for some reason, you don't hear anything about that.You don't hear the fact that this person shouldn't have been in the country.All you hear if you do hear anything from the mainstream left in Britain is that they should be processed faster, which doesn't really tell you anything because the overwhelming majority of the people that are processed are granted either asylum or they're not even kicked out even if they're refused.You have the case of Abdulaziz, someone who was denied asylum twice, who wasn't even allowed to sit in a church pew.And somehow, in a third attempt, granted asylum because he'd magically converted to Christianity, who poured acid on a mother and her two children and then committed suicide in London.

This is someone who should have never been in the country.But somehow we have a charity industrial complex and a legal framework or lattice, should I say, of legal frameworks and human rights lawyers that are doing everything in their power to degrade the safety and security of this country and our laws and the protection and the rights of British people.And our politicians are basically cosigning it.So these are the kinds of things that just fill people with anger.And no matter how much you want to disparage people as far right or whatever because these rallies are led by Tommy Robinson who yes has a significantuh criminal record, if you do not solve these problems, if you do not take people's concerns and issues around their safety seriously, you're going to keep seeing more of this.

And unfortunately, they have no answer to this.For Sadiq Khan to say something like, to say that these are people that are just filled with hate, what if something like that happened to his own daughter?What if an illegal immigrant poured acid on his own daughter or stabbed her in a 90 second frenzy at a train station?It's horrifying.

It is.It is absolutely horrifying.There's such a disconnect, isn't there, between the politicians and the ordinary people, I mean, hearing messages like that.It is very hard.On a slightly lighter note, an Australian, Holly Volant, she's a former Neighbours star, she spoke to News Corp reporter, Sophie Ellsworth, who was there covering the protest.And she, Holly Volant, had this message to Australians to not be embarrassed about being patriotic, about standing up for your country.

And she's, of course, backed Pauline Hanson, who's the One Nation leader here in Australia, and had this to say about being right wing.

Do you have any message for Australia given what is going on with Britain with this pushback against perhaps a left movement?Yeah, I would say don't be embarrassed and don't be too scared to stand up for your country.The place that you love that's given you everything.It's given you freedom.

It's given you the great life that you have.Respect it.Respect the culture.Respect the flag.Don't be embarrassed to fly the flag.Be patriotic.

Stand in that.And don't let anybody tell you that you're a racist for doing so.It's disgusting and treacherous and treasonous.I think it's hilarious that right -wing is supposed to be an insult.I'm absolutely right -wing.Call me far -right.

Alright.It's not an insult anymore.

It's hilarious that anyone would think it is.It's because they're how wet the nation's become.

I think Holly Bland's absolutely brilliant there.She's going a bit viral here in Australia again for messages like that.But speaking ofof common sense there, Esther.

Yeah, and I think, to be honest, I'm quite astonished that there's a celebrity willing to put their hat in the ring and say something as unpopular, at least in celebrity circles as we know them, as saying, I am right -wing and I'm happy to be right -wing.And I don't think there's anything that she said there that anyone really, any reasonable person can disagree with.At the end of the day, I think people like Keir Starmer like to dress up language around concern as, oh, a fight against our values, but really what people are fighting for is civilization.And at the end of the day, when people's backs are against the wall, those are the things that really matter to people.It's not just adherence to an ideology.based in countries or parts of the world that don't actually have a stake in the communities that they're damaging by trying to import those ideologies.

It's about civilization.It's about whether your daughter can walk home from school safely.It's about whether you're going to have strange men from God knows where stalking primary schools or living in multiple occupancy homes at the taxpayer's expense so that the government can pad its GDP figures by having these people work in the black economy or do menial labor because they're not willing to pay pay British people a living fair wage.So I think she's absolutely right.And whether you disagree or whether you agree with her or not, I think the real issue is getting our politicians to even say it out loud.I mean, I don't think I've ever heard any.

British politician, or certainly not Albanese, you say the word patriotic.Is that allowed?Is that still allowed?Are you allowed to say that you love your country, you're proud of your country because of the civilization and the fact that your culture is better than other cultures that are barbaric and throw homosexuals off buildings?Are you allowed to say that?It's quite astonishing really.

I know it's interesting when we have some patriotic marches here in Australia.They're often condemned by politicians here as well.The flag's a whole other issue.So is Australia Day, that's another controversial one.Finally, before I move on from the march in the UK,YouTube sensation, big star Nick Shirley, he spoke at the rally.

Let's listen.

Your media will call you far -right and your Prime Minister will call you guys dangerous.But the ideas of freedom of speech are not dangerous.Or the idea that you want to know who your neighbour is does not make you dangerous.It means that you have common sense.

Again, shocking Keir Starmer with some common sense, but I think Nick Shelley's brilliant.It's interesting because it's really brought a lot of attention of the world, really.All eyes of the world are on the UK right now.

Yeah, to be honest, I'm actually quite surprised that Nick Sholley was allowed to be in the country.I think Keir Starmer's investigation team must have dropped the ball on him because, you know, he's so racist.He uncovered fraud by the Somali community in Minnesota.Why didn't they get him?But, you know, he's absolutely right.And I think framing it as just on a human level, people knowing who their neighbors are, people saying, actually, funny that I don't want to live next to a raging homophobe.

You see in Germany, for example, the AFD has seen significant gains amongst gay men and people asking the question why?And it's easy to answer because gay men living in Germany that have had a history of having to fight for rights that are not willing to give them up.don't want to live next to people from parts of the world that would literally throw them off buildings.It's not hard to understand.Again, but this is something that our politicians wouldn't even engage with.And I think it's to their own detriment, because as we've seen in the last couple of weeks, it's having a real impact electorally.

You are seeing massive shifts.I mean, the two -party system here in the UK is effectively dead over the refusal of the Labour Party to even engage with large swathes of the country.And that's why they're in the situation that they're in now.going to see it more with the upcoming by -election where Makefield might very well reject Andy Burnham, this manwho was twice rejected as a Labour leader, who wants to come and storm the capital and basically get Keir Starmer out because Labour are finally realising just how unpopular he is, but Again, it's the whole party.The whole party is unpopular.

It's not just because they're being led by an uncharismatic plank of wood who insists on squatting and downing street.The party is unpopular.It's directionless.It is now enthralled to far left far leftists who have no loyalty to the country and only seem to be obsessed by causes thousands of miles away from Britain.That's the issue.

It's interesting.Looking at Starmer and looking at the polls, this Politico, Politico rather, poll found that Starmer has failed to deliver the change he promised and Nigel Farage's Reform UK is seen as the more credible, more credible than Labor on the Iran war and the economy and much more likely to win the next general election.And this Ipsos poll found that two in three, 66 percent, Britons think that Keir Starmer should not lead Labor into the next general election.You mentioned this crucial by -election that is approaching the Makerfield by -election as this could shape the leadership race.There is reporting from the Express that understands that Andy Burnham has retreated from his position on rejoining the European Union after a backlash that threatened to derail his by -election campaign and Reform says that it's going to be throwing everything it can at this.Esther, what can we expect?

I mean, basically, the future of the country is in the hands of the voters of Makefield, because Andy Burnham was actually stopped from running in the last by -election in Gorton and Denton by Keir Starmer, because Keir Starmer knew that having Andy Burnham, the supposed king in the North, back in Parliament would be a real significant leadership challenge against him.And the failure of Labour to make any gains whatsoever, I mean, the loss of 1 ,400 seats at the local elections, has givennew momentum to Andy Burnham to say, listen, this party is going to fall apart if this man is at the helm.The issue you have is it doesn't seem like Andy Burnham is really offering anything different.And so from the perspective of many people in the country, they're seeing, you know, a by -election that's costing the country four million pounds for someone with an agenda that doesn't seem that radically different from Keir Starmer.You just have a more charismatic, useless leader.

And for voters in McAfield specifically, they're thinking, our votes and our constituency is not a ping pong.You can't just have a Labour candidate step down so you can usher your way in.And the constituency that he's vying for did overwhelmingly vote for Brexit, is very white and working class.And they're going to be asking, why should we be the people that usher this man into 10 Downing Street who clearly doesn't have a much different plan from Keir Starmer but also is leading a party that has a real significant portion of its base that wants to join the EU.I mean, the Brexit referendum was the biggest mandate ever given by the British population in the history of the country.And yet you still have people vying for the leadership of this country, saying that we want to rejoin the EU.

West Streeting, the health secretary, wants to rejoin the EU.And to the extent that it's such a cult -like ideology, and it's almost like a religious fanaticism, they can't even articulate why we should rejoin the EU.Anyone who actually looks at the EU doesn't think it's in great shape.They can hardly make a decision.You have 27 countries bickering constantly.You have some countries running a deficit of 136 % of its GDP, while you have countries like Germany that are faltering economically that only have a 64 % percent GDP to debt ratio.

So again this all just sounds like chaos which is what ironically Keir Starmer and the Labour government accused the last Boris Johnson government of.And it doesn't really sound very appealing.And this is why reform are saying actually we're going tothrow everything at this because it's not just going to be about the voters of make a field there's going to be a message from the country to labor that you need to get your act together enough of this nonsense enough of this you know playing politics with people's lives enough of all saying we're going to get a handle on the gangs and then having over 68 ,000 people enter the country illegally in the last 18 months.It is a sham.It is ridiculous.

The economy is not growing.We've basically flatlined in every single respect.Public services are getting worse.Driving in certain parts of the country is like driving on the moon.The roads are full of potholes.You know, water is, utilities are expensive.

There's fecal matter floating in our water bodies.It is completely ridiculous.

Esther Kaku, writer and broadcaster, thank you so much for joining us.Great to speak with you.