 Good morning all. Welcome to all things Hartlepool. Thank you very much for joining me this morning. Now, a couple of things I want to talk about today are both national issues, but having a noticeable and notable impact here in Hartlepool. But before I start on the first issue, I know perfectly well that this will be used again to accuse me of the usual smears and slurs, racist... I'll be completely mean spirited. However, I also know that there are people in this town and beyond who are deeply concerned about what I'm about to discuss. And it is controversial. For as long as there are people, large numbers of people deeply concerned about this, then it is the duty of political parties to speak to them and speak for them. And that is what for Britain will continue to do, regardless of the smears and the attacks and the insults. Someone's got to be brave enough to speak up for the many people who are concerned about these issues. Record numbers. You may have seen in the National Press that record numbers are now crossing the English Channel and coming to this country illegally. On Monday, we hit a daily record high. 430 people crossed in one day. This is a record high. And so far in 2021, numbers have exceeded those at this time in 2020 and in 2019. So in other words, yearly, the numbers keep going up and up and up. This is despite all the rhetoric from the Conservative government which says it is tackling this issue. They may be tackling it, but whatever they're doing is increasing the numbers. So I'm not sure they understand what tackling it means. Tackling it for most people means stopping it. The Tories don't seem to understand this fact. Keeps going up and up and up. And Pretty Patel once again is bringing in new legislation. The Nationality and Borders Bill is the latest attempt to dupe the British public into thinking that they are on the case with this issue. They have had, and I've said this a million times, they have had the ability to stop this all the while. And now we have a new one reported by the BBC this morning is a deal between the UK and France which will, according to the BBC, double the number of police patrolling France's beaches as part of a deal to stem the number of migrants crossing the English Channel. This is nonsense. Absolute nonsense. It's going to cost the UK taxpayer £54 million. And I guarantee you, I guarantee you, the numbers will keep going up. Locally, this is being seen. And here's where the really controversial thing I'm going to say comes in. There is a noticeable and notable change taking place in Harlepool. I have many, many times been contacted by a very reliable source who knows this town very well and who tells me frequently of bus loads of people arriving in Harlepool. We know that the migrants who are coming here illegally all over the country, not just in this town, are housed in, often in hotels, given money, given all the support that is needed. We also know that that level of support is not available to local people or to British people. A homelessness crisis is a very real, is a reality in this country and in this town. I have no doubt at all that the homeless of this country would love, love to be housed in three, four-star hotels. But we know that that's not going to happen. The demographic change taking place in Harlepool is very, very visible. And I'll give you an example. I was in the gym recently. And while I was there, I saw somebody on one of the machines working out in full black Islamic garb including over the head. I'd never seen anyone dressed like that in Harlepool so far, much less in a gym. The sight of it, it's put me in mind of, I've never been to Dubai or Saudi Arabia. But that's what it made me think of. To see someone in a gym in that context covered in full garb was quite, I think the word is alarming. This is a change that has taken place in front of our eyes and it's not unconnected to the record numbers crossing the English Channel on a daily basis. Now we're told aren't we that this is women and children fleeing Syria. The truth is that we have absolutely no idea where these people are coming from. And frankly, even if it is women and children, we still have a future growing cultural and religious clash taking place. We know precisely from experience, from towns and cities all across this country, the clash and we're now just extending and extending and extending, making that divide bigger, leading to greater and greater cultural and religious clashes in the future. The press is absolutely uniform on this. Isn't it incredible? There seems to be no dissent in the press at all on this issue. But let me show you, first of all we don't know, these people are from Syria, that's a ridiculous thing. And even the United Nations admits, the globalist United Nations, it celebrates this kind of migration. Even it admits that the vast majority of people coming to Europe, as so-called asylum seekers and refugees, are not asylum seekers or refugees. But people taking advantage of the open, what is essentially an open border. And they may well be pretending to be asylum seekers or refugees, but frankly they don't even have to pretend. Because we know that no action will be taken to prevent people coming here. Here is just one image, I've been scrolling through the newspapers this morning looking at who it is coming in to the country illegally every day. Here's an image that continues to come up. And of course, I love technology, it doesn't appear to want to show itself. What it is, is a very large, very strong looking man holding up fingers in victory. There are similar such pictures doing the rounds. At no point are you seeing people who look impoverished or traumatized or fleeing a war. I can remember back in the 90s when the former Yugoslavia, I can remember people arriving from those areas. Looking very, very, very different to what we have today. The point is these people are not refugees, they are not fleeing war, they are not impoverished, they are not starving. We have some very happy looking people and we know, we know perfectly well that these people are exploiting, taking advantage of an open border, a system that will allow them to come here irrespective of their circumstances. And that change that is now being seen noticeably here in Hartlepool. There's very little in the press, local press about this. Only one article I can find addressing this at all in the local press. And it comes from January 2020, last one I can find. And it says more than 150 refugees have been resettled in Hartlepool under schemes for those affected by the Syria conflict. It says the UK's, but with the UK's backlog of asylum applications climbing to nearly 50,000 cases. Campaigners warn that many of those seeking sanctuary have been left to survive on a pittance while awaiting their fate. In Hartlepool 136 people have been resettled under the vulnerable personal resettlement scheme. Now, this was January 2020. This noticeable, noticeable demographic shift in this town is happening now in July 2021. Nothing in the local press about it. But look at the language used by the press. The headline, more than 150 Syria conflict refugees says who? Says who? There's no way of knowing where these people are coming from. And the press knows this. It has to know this. But yet we are told a matter of factly that this is the case, that they're fleeing conflict in Syria. It goes on to say, since both schemes began, these arrival and refugee asylum seekers began, nearly 20,000 people have been resettled across the UK. Together they account for nearly three quarters of people resettled in the UK since 2010, the earliest year for which data is available. This is a lie. We are being lied to. We are being lied to. We're being lied to in a couple of respects. First of all, that people are fleeing conflict in Syria. This is simply unknowable. And we have records going back to the 2010s of criminal offenses being committed, including rape, sexual assault, terror attacks committed by people from all over Africa and the Middle East. And yet somehow fleeing Syria, they will be reported to us as having fled Syria. And yet they will be from Ethiopia or Eritrea or Libya or the list is endless. And it's strange to me that someone from Eritrea should be fleeing the conflict in Syria. We're being lied to. Vast, these are enormous, enormous lies. And these lies are intended to talk at your heartstrings. Just like the National Press this morning is telling us that these are women and children. And yet the photographs are all of big, burly men. I don't understand this. We're being lied to about who is coming here. We're being lied to about what is being done to stop it. What's being done to stop it is nothing at all. And the government is talking, talking, talking. We'll stop this, we'll stop this, we'll stop this. And yet the numbers are reaching record highs. How can that be? Because it's a lie, it's a lie. The press, nothing, no concern, no voices of concern in the press. It's all matter-of-factly presented as asylum seekers and refugees. It's all matter-of-factly presented as that we must do this as a matter of, I don't know, decency. If we don't, who are we? How can we be so cruel as to not allow anyone from anywhere in the world to come here for what we know to be, deep down we all know it, economic reasons. And because our benefit system is so generous to people from other countries. Meanwhile, people from this country, little to no help is available to them. We're being lied to. This week, as well as record numbers crossing the English Channel, this week we had our apparent Freedom Day on Monday. And I went to Newcastle last night and saw a play, absolutely brilliant play, looking good, dead, absolutely excellent, can't recommend it enough, except that to my surprise and shock, we were required, the audience was required to wear a face mask throughout the entire play. I didn't, I took mine down. I wore it, I had no intention of, but people were being asked to put the masks on on the way into the Theatre Royal. As soon as I sat down, I took it off. And I could see that I was, I think, one of, if not the only person to do so, one of very few. I think I saw one other person sitting without a mask on. I was then put it on the shoulder to tell me to put my mask on. I didn't. And I continued, but it spoils it. I don't do very often. I was looking forward to it. And it is just that, it's just that little, it spoils things a little bit to, well, quite a bit actually, to have to sit through it. I've been to the cinema a couple of times, even before so-called Freedom Day and didn't have to wear a mask in the cinema. I was really surprised and disappointed to find that we are required, even post so-called Freedom Day, the absurdity. The place wasn't exactly packed either, but the absurdity of, and I was looking around and I just shaking my head in sheer disbelief that here we were paying customers. And I'm sure that like me, this is a very, very rare thing to do, a rare treat that is somewhat spoiled by this absurd. I can't do it. It's difficult even to put it into words to look around a theatre and see people watching a play with their faces covered in masks is surreal, absolutely surreal. But let's have a look at how the press, the local press, here in Hartlepool is covering this. It is all so completely one-sided and all so completely pro-masking, pro-social distancing, almost as if the press is going against the government on this. The press is encouraging us not to want our freedom back. The national press has been doing this quite notably, quite remarkably, actually. And the local press here in Hartlepool is no different. So let me show you, go through an article from the Hartlepool Mail on the 19th so-called Freedom Day. And the headline is A Bit Too Soon. What Hartlepool pub customers think about freedom days lifting of lockdown rules. It said most lockdown restrictions have now been lifted, but many people in Hartlepool say they will continue to wear face coverings to protect themselves and others. Again, this is a really loaded headline. And this headline is aimed at making you think that masks protect people, protect ourselves and others. Now the science on this has, shall we say, drifted back and forward since the coronavirus crisis began. There are many who believe in fact, many scientists, many doctors who believe in fact, that not only does masking not do anything to stop the spread of a virus, but it's actually harmful and detrimental to people to wear these things. And that to me, I'm not a doctor and I'm not a scientist, but that to me makes more sense. It really does. How can it possibly be entirely healthy to wear a mask around your face for hours on end? You're breathing into it, which makes it, I mean, this again is common sense. Surely there's something unhygienic about it to be breathing. It's never presented. The counter argument to masking is never ever presented. You've got to go look, you've got to go look for people, demonized, sidelined, marginalized scientists and doctors who argue contrary to this. But this headline will make you believe as a matter of fact that masking is a way of protecting yourself and others. It goes on to say, and it's the opening line, it's so loaded. The press report and this are so incredibly loaded. It goes on to say, so called Freedom Day on Monday means masks are no longer mandatory in shops and on public transport. Limits on gatherings have gone. The work from home guidance no longer applies and social distancing has been relaxed. Nightclubs, theaters and restaurants can also fully reopen while pubs are no longer restricted to, say, table service only. So these are the sort of the printing off the facts. But now it goes on to say, the war jackson pub in church square is serving customers at the bar again, but still encouraging social distancing to prevent overcrowding and screens still in place. A worker from the pub says, whether spoons are sticking to restrictions as much as we can. We're putting down two meter stickers to limit people at the bar and keep social distancing for staff behind it. We are already seeing people still wanting to wear masks and keeping their distance and being respectful to others. So once again, you have this quote from the staff of this pub which focuses on keeping restrictions in place and presents these as the right thing to do, positive thing to do. Then we have a couple of patrons, customers at the pub all of whom are in agreement with a particular narrative and it begins with one person saying, I think it's a bit too soon. I think Boris Johnson has been pressured into doing this. I'm a bit uncomfortable with it. That's why I still wear my mask. The next person says, I agree. Everyone is shouting and moaning about restrictions but when you have to close again, they'll be moaning again. Damn we go. Next person, I will still be wearing my mask. You don't do it for yourself but to protect other people. Next person again. If I'm in a place where I'm asked to wear a mask, I will. That's the last comment. So everyone in this report, everyone is expressing both matter of fact, the matter of fact notion that masking is a positive thing. Every patron of the pub is in agreement with that. There's not a hint towards discussing or addressing or in any way dissenting from that narrative. There is nobody in the article questioning the validity of masking or any suggestion that there may be a downside to this. That's across the board. That's the national press and the local press. Now there is an agenda here. The press is uniform on the migrants coming here illegally. They're all apparently fleeing conflict in Syria. Women and children fleeing conflict in Syria. Uniformly, that's what the press is reporting. And now uniformly the press is reporting that it's too soon to stop the lockdown and coronavirus restrictions on us. No dissents, no other voices, no opposing views. One view only and presented to you matter of factly. Millions of people know, millions of people know that there is at least more to it on both situations. The migrant situation and the so-called freedom day situation. Most people know that there is at least more to it than that. That more to it is not presented by the press. It is not discussed by politicians who are also presenting us with things that simply aren't true and that we know simply aren't true or at least are not the full story. Finally this morning I said I'd mention one business in Harlepool each week that I think is absolutely excellent and last time it was the dog rumors that I mentioned this week I want to mention particularly the Thai village on the marina. If you are a fan of Thai food, this is some of the best Thai food you're going to eat, I know that the lady who runs it is absolutely wonderful and I've mentioned her before because I'd spoken to her prior to the lockdown and we'd had a discussion about businesses on the marina and how they cope, how well they do and she told me, this is pre-coronavirus that the business rates there, the parking rates there mean that even prior to coronavirus businesses on the marina struggled to stay afloat. I often believe that people who start businesses who try really hard to make an honest living and who graft for an honest living deserve what support we can give them. So if you're in the market, if you're in Harlepool and you're in the market for a Thai this lady deserves your support. It's a beautiful restaurant, the food is stunning so if you are, please give her what support you can. She very much deserves it. And very finally I just want to express my concern, my sympathy for a terrible, terrible event that occurred just outside my door last week a young boy went missing in the sea right outside my door last week. It genuinely touches me it's not necessarily the right word but for a couple of days I really felt a weight on this it's absolutely tragic and I know that signs have gone up around this area encouraging people not to go into the sea here. It's, what can you say, really I can only imagine I can only imagine what his family are going through and they have my sincerest, sincerest thoughts and with them and it's difficult because it's such a beautiful beach but I would urge people to be very, very careful in there it is the North Sea, our tragedies do occur in these heavy seas, in these powerful seas. Okay, thank you very much for joining me everyone this morning I'm going to, one last time, no, not going to happen I cannot get this image to come up let me try it one more time but I do want to show this image because it's quite, it's a little bit grating to be honest with you technology, blow with it. Thanks very much everyone for joining me for those who are watching around the country this weekend we have a couple of things coming up this week today we are campaigning in charge in some sense of by-election there, if you can join us for election day campaigning please do, if you're in the area please do we have, it's an unusual by-election no Tory, no Labour candidates standing so good opportunity for us to make a mark this weekend West Sussex, we are in West Sussex I'll be speaking to members in West Sussex on Saturday and in Essex on Sunday we also are campaigning on Saturday in Basildon if you can help with that one please do this evening I'll be joined by our candidate in Basildon Chris Bateman if you can make it along to any of those please do and bring a friend, bring a friend we know there are things going on in this country that the mainstream media won't discuss and if it does it will present you only with one side we know there are millions on the other side and someone has to speak to them and for them and for Britain will be that someone and we'll continue to do it regardless of the names we are called and the smears presented about us we're leaving at the moment around highly people thank you very much to Karen for all her hard work in this I shall be back with my live stream on Monday evening and back here next Wednesday at the same time thanks very much for joining me and take care