WarRoom Battleground EP 1090: NICK TYRONE, Author Of Pro-Farage 'The Rise Of Reform'; And Raise The Colours' Ryan The Lion

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What is the opening premise of the WarRoom Battleground episode?

Stephen K. Bannon 0:02

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies. Cause we're going medieval on these people. You're just not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not gonna stop it. It's going to happen.

Jake Tapper 0:24

And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

Unknown 0:34

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. Warum, here's your host, Stephen K. Bass.

Ben Harnwell 0:55

Friday eighteenth of September and Domini two thousand and twenty six Hanwell here at the helm on Steve Bannon's War Room. Um I've been quite enthusiastically looking forward to kicking off this show. all week. Um my guest in the first half, Nick Tyrone, occasional writer for The Spectator, self confessed neoliberal centrist and Romainer in the Great Referendum ten years ago in the United Kingdom, has written quite simply amazing book on Reform UK, Nigel Farage's Latest Political Iteration, which many people and I'm one of them, I I was I said like what For my New Year's review back in the uh the changing of the years of twenty four twenty-five. I said on first of January, I went on record, I said that Nigel Farage was going to be the next Prime Minister.

Ben Harnwell 1:56

Wrong on that one, precisely. Technically, I think he will be Prime Minister. But Andy Burnham got in there first. Alright, Nick, welcome on to the war room. Um You have one of your chapters. We're not going to discuss the specific chapter itself. Um, but you have uh one of the reasons I was looking forward to talking to you is that you have a chapter dedicated to an or mate of mine, Gwen Tola. Um Now he and I have known one another. coming up to thirty years, um, you say in in in in in your chapter on it, great guy, fantastic guy. You say um in the book that 'cause you you interview quite quite a lot of people who have background on this o over many years. Um and you say that basically for the last twenty years Gawain has been agitating

Ben Harnwell 2:52

very firmly for Nigel Farage, which is true. Of course, h his dirty little secrets, which I will explode here on the war room, um, is that before being A very strong supporter for Nigel Faraj. He was a Tory. That's how I know him. We both we both worked for the same Tory um MEP. Before that, he was a member of Parliament, Nerd Diva. And sort of at various stages, various overlaps. Um I'll just I'll g I'll just give you this insight, Nick, into Gwain. I was at some point, um, as I might have mentioned on the show previously, chief of staff to Nurge in the European Parliament. I took over that role from Gwen. He was Chief Nurge's chief of staff before me. Um, I have to say, back in those days, I was um or just coming out of a period where I was a fanatical pro-European and Tory whether I have to say on the record.

Ben Harnwell 3:54

Gawain was right about everything and I was wrong. I saw the light eventually. Um but I just to give you this insight into working with Gawain, um He was basically agitating quite openly for Nigel Farage and um UKIP as his political iteration was in those days, even when he was sort of on on the tour on the Conservative corridor in the European Parliament. It was quite overt, quite open. Um and he was sort of pushing uh uh the at the limits beyond the limits of what was acceptable in the toy party even in those days. So he has absolutely consistency um on on these issues. Um okay so you have written elsewhere um That the rise of the Reform Party since twenty three. 24 general election is, in your words, one of the most unbelievable stories in the history of British politics.

Ben Harnwell 4:56

So I have you for the whole 27 minutes now as we start to break this down. Start off, if you wouldn't mind, Nick, and explain exactly why that is and why someone who is a self-confessed neoliberal centrist and Romainer um saying that in not in a pejorative sense in a quite