George Galloway

And anyone outside that prevailing orthodoxy is called a freak, called a phobe, called an ist, and banished and silenced.

If it wasn't for social media, nobody would have heard me for years.

10 years, I would not have been on the mass media.

By the way, in that 10 years, I've been elected and re-elected to parliament, but they still would not have heard me.

Social media has made me, given me an audience, sometimes of double figures, millions per week.

One week, 13.5 million in one week.

Again, nothing like your numbers, but in British terms, massive numbers, far more than any BBC program or Sky News.

But I have to do it all.

My wife and I, a mom and pop family,

podcast, broadcast, and look where it got me.

When my numbers grew so alarmingly that the state realized that actually not only was I continuing to speak, I was reaching more and more people.

They send the police to Gatwick Airport to not arrest but detain me and seize all my material.

That's a measure, I think, of how dangerous

the independent man or woman is.

Look, the two greatest broadcasters in the world today are you and Candace Owens.

What's the main thing you have in common?

That the audience believes you to be independent people, honest people, who may be right, may be wrong, but

whom you can count on to be telling you what they genuinely believe to be the truth.

That's worth its weight in gold.

But it's also a sword pointed at the hearts of the liars, the deceivers, the people who count on the ignorance of the mass of the public.