Raheem Kassam
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The irony is just last week, I got three strikes in a row on my Facebook page telling me that I'm about to lose it because, you know, some fact checker may have been lead stories, may have been another one that they use, disagreed with my framing of a story in some way, shape or form. So I look forward to the end of that regime, but the Brussels apparatus, the Davos apparatus certainly won't.
As it pertains specifically to the United Kingdom, look, if I were in the UK today, I suspect I would already be behind bars for some of the things that I share on social media. It's not a joke. I am not putting my tongue in my cheek when I say that. I'm not exaggerating. I truly believe that to be the case. Whenever I talk to people back home, they tend to agree with me.
As it pertains specifically to the United Kingdom, look, if I were in the UK today, I suspect I would already be behind bars for some of the things that I share on social media. It's not a joke. I am not putting my tongue in my cheek when I say that. I'm not exaggerating. I truly believe that to be the case. Whenever I talk to people back home, they tend to agree with me.
They say, Raheem, you are one of the most spicy people online. There's absolutely no way the authorities would let you get away with that stuff here. And this applies doubly, triply, quadruply to somebody like Tommy Robinson. Now, like you say, Tommy can and has been one of his own worst enemies. He would tell you that. He's been a friend of mine for a long time.
They say, Raheem, you are one of the most spicy people online. There's absolutely no way the authorities would let you get away with that stuff here. And this applies doubly, triply, quadruply to somebody like Tommy Robinson. Now, like you say, Tommy can and has been one of his own worst enemies. He would tell you that. He's been a friend of mine for a long time.
But what is at the heart of the things that he posts and the things that he shares is his love for his country. And his willing intent to try and shine a light on these, you know, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Muslim grooming and rape gangs, scandals which have been going on for two decades now plus. in the United Kingdom.
But what is at the heart of the things that he posts and the things that he shares is his love for his country. And his willing intent to try and shine a light on these, you know, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Muslim grooming and rape gangs, scandals which have been going on for two decades now plus. in the United Kingdom.
But because a comma might be in the wrong place or an I isn't dotted or a T isn't crossed in some of his posts, the authorities use that as a cudgel by which to beat him with. He, as far as they are concerned, is one of those grubby, working class, deplorable garbage types who shouldn't actually be able to have their say. So while
But because a comma might be in the wrong place or an I isn't dotted or a T isn't crossed in some of his posts, the authorities use that as a cudgel by which to beat him with. He, as far as they are concerned, is one of those grubby, working class, deplorable garbage types who shouldn't actually be able to have their say. So while
There can be arguments about the things that he's done and the way he's gone about them. You have to bear in mind at its core what this is about. To answer your broader question, yeah, look, we have a newly elected Labour left wing of the Democrats government in the United Kingdom.
There can be arguments about the things that he's done and the way he's gone about them. You have to bear in mind at its core what this is about. To answer your broader question, yeah, look, we have a newly elected Labour left wing of the Democrats government in the United Kingdom.
They will resist what Mark Zuckerberg is doing, what Donald Trump is bringing back to Washington, D.C., and, of course, are already resisting what Elon Musk is doing to the point where yesterday they said they may even sever the United Kingdom's national security agreements with the United States if Donald Trump agrees with Elon Musk on this stuff. That is not small beer.
They will resist what Mark Zuckerberg is doing, what Donald Trump is bringing back to Washington, D.C., and, of course, are already resisting what Elon Musk is doing to the point where yesterday they said they may even sever the United Kingdom's national security agreements with the United States if Donald Trump agrees with Elon Musk on this stuff. That is not small beer.
That is a fundamental reorientation of the geopolitical order. If Labour want to reorient and tie themselves more up with Brussels and perhaps even more up with Beijing, yes, there may be, as you say, some transatlantic issues. I don't know, warfare might be a strong word, but some irreversible friction.
That is a fundamental reorientation of the geopolitical order. If Labour want to reorient and tie themselves more up with Brussels and perhaps even more up with Beijing, yes, there may be, as you say, some transatlantic issues. I don't know, warfare might be a strong word, but some irreversible friction.
That's why we started reporting on it back when I used to run Breitbart's London Bureau back in 2013 and 2014. You know, I am somebody who most people will realize doesn't actually care about the blowback and the reprisals, bring it on as far as I'm concerned. And when you're right, it's tens of thousands of people who have been targeted online.
That's why we started reporting on it back when I used to run Breitbart's London Bureau back in 2013 and 2014. You know, I am somebody who most people will realize doesn't actually care about the blowback and the reprisals, bring it on as far as I'm concerned. And when you're right, it's tens of thousands of people who have been targeted online.
with this stuff, then to stay quiet, to not speak would be the great betrayal.
with this stuff, then to stay quiet, to not speak would be the great betrayal.
Yeah, you're asking a question that really goes back decades in political history in the UK now. And a lot of people, I'll disagree with you on one thing. The lid was blown off on this issue years and years ago In the United Kingdom that, you know, Rupert Murdoch's The Times newspaper had splashed it on the front pages. It's been in the Daily Mail, the Express.