 Good morning all. Thank you very much for joining me this one. Very sunny, beautiful, beautiful morning today in Hartlepool. Thanks for joining me today. I want to cover a couple of campaign things that I'm going to be starting. And then I would very much encourage others, other activists, other for Britain activists around the country to do as well. So I'll tell you all about those in a couple of minutes. I'm going to focus on some positive things today. I've been talking about local businesses and ones that I particularly love here in Hartlepool. So I want to mention some charities. And I've picked out, there's a special in the Hartlepool Mail this morning about various charities that are doing great work across, not just in Hartlepool, but across the Northeast. And I've picked out a couple of my favourites, which I want to tell you about. Also, the carnival that is going on in Hartlepool at the moment. But first of all, just to tell you about something that I'm going to start. You may have heard of a stand in the park. Now this is, I'm going to put it's the website up on here. This is a stand in the park dot org. This is one of the things I'm going to start in Hartlepool. And this morning I have registered with this organisation for a stand in the park. And what they'll do is I'll give them a address. But I'm going to do more Jackson Park and they will then advertise it on their different regions. I'll do a little bit of advertising for myself. But just to tell you about how I came to know about it was through activists in our party in Leeds and in other parts of West Yorkshire, but led by Leeds. They have, they've been doing this now for a few weeks and their numbers are growing and growing and growing. And what it is, is essentially people getting together 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning in a local park. And this happens all over the world at the same time. Or given time differences, what I mean is at the same time, 10 o'clock on Sunday morning. And it's happening all over the world. And what people are standing for is freedom, their freedom. Let me just give you a little bit. It's now going in 15 countries. I'll read you a little bit from the About Us section of the website that says, I stand in the park, unite people in parks all over the world every Sunday morning from 10 to 11 local time. We stand in the park to celebrate freedoms. Now, it's absolutely true to say that and I think no matter what your view, that our freedoms have been, well, to put it mildly reduced in the last year and year and a half. And regardless of what your view is on coronavirus, on lockdowns, on vaccinations, it must be, I think what we can all agree on is that we should still have the freedom to make our own choices. We must have the freedom to debate these vital issues like lockdowns, like coronavirus, like whether it is treatable or whether we need these vaccines. And again, no matter what you view on the vaccine, surely most of us, it's not all of us who believe in freedom at least should agree that no one should be forced to take a vaccine. They don't want to take, particularly, particularly when the evidence shows two things. One, that people are and have been both harmed by this and even killed by it. And secondly, that even the politicians across the world, even politicians who are mandating this vaccination, admit and acknowledge that actually it doesn't stop spread of coronavirus. It doesn't stop you getting it and it doesn't stop you passing it on. You do have to wonder why it is being pushed so forcefully by politicians all over the world. We must have the freedom to debate this at least and as we know from the start of the coronavirus crisis, this has not been debatable, certainly not in mainstream press. People who have questioned the coronavirus have been essentially banned from the mainstream media. People who have raised concerns about vaccination have been dismissed. If not ignored by the mainstream media, then dismissed as cranks, as conspiracy theorists. A real honest debate, fact-based science-based debate has been prevented by the mainstream press. Now, there's something wrong there and I've always say and I always think that if someone is being silenced by the established powers in society, so mainstream politicians, mainstream press, if someone is being silenced by them, you really ought to ask why? Why are they being silenced? Why don't you debate this person and disprove them? Why not have an honest open debate rather than censorship debate discuss? If they are so wrong, prove them wrong in an open and honest debate. This is not what's happening and you have to ask why that is. I ask why that is and I'm always suspicious when someone instead of being debated is censored. We must have that freedom. So to carry on with the stand in the park, it started in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. It was started by a chap named Brady Gunn and he made a stand, it says here, he made a stand alone at Forest. In Brady's early Facebook videos he talked about making a stand for freedom, for our elderly, our children, our jobs and small businesses. All noble causes and all causes we should be getting behind. It is against lockdowns, further harmful laws and the great reset. And Brady Gunn said, I'm drawing a line in the sand and showing my face for what I believe is right. I'm standing with the intention to show enough is enough. Brady invited others to join him. It took almost three months but eventually they came and now people are standing in parks all across Australia. At the beginning of 2021 he recommended, he reconnected with his UK based friend Fifi Rose and she was profoundly inspired by his message. She then worked tirelessly, it says, to spread the stands to every corner of the British Isles. Now it is 600 parks participating every Sunday morning across Australia, New Zealand, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Malta, Germany, France and the USA. So 600 parks are now taking part in this, including some in the northeast. And as I said, this morning I have registered for Hartlepool and Ward Jackson Park. I will let you know the date as soon as they get back to me but we'll be in the next couple of weeks. Speaking of parks, this weekend, the weekend just gone, I want to mention as well, I was in High Park in London at Speaker's Corner. What an incredible experience that was. It is utter chaos at Speaker's Corner, utter chaos. I was there because a young, a woman who speaks there almost every Sunday, I'm told, I haven't been to Speaker's Corner for years, it's tense, it's chaotic. It's not to my mind, though I did meet some people and had some nice conversations, some civilized conversations with people. It's not necessarily the place for debate in my view. There's a lot of shouting. You definitely have to raise your voice in order to be heard there. But I went there to show some solidarity and some support to Hatun Tash, who is a Christian who speaks out rather strongly. I'm told critically of Islam, she was attacked with a knife there last weekend before the one just gone. And the mainstream media has effectively ignored this. The prevailing view to my mind must be mentioned. And it ties in with our absolute loss of freedoms that ties in with censorship that we're experiencing, that we've seen surrounding coronavirus and beyond. Censorship meets blaming the victim. There were several people at Hyde Park, Speaker's Corner and Hyde Park this weekend, who blamed Hatun herself for the fact that she was attacked. And we have this, it's a form of censorship. It's a very dangerous, nasty form of censorship that tells people that if you speak up about controversial issues, issues that ought not to be controversial, but have been made controversial by the censorship itself, and you are physically attacked, essentially that you're bothered on yourself. I have been experiencing this for quite some time. My first experience of it, as I wrote in a blog yesterday, my first experience of it was back in 2012, when I was speaking at a, I was due to speak about the Sharia councils in this country at Queen Mary University in East London. And somebody came into the room and said that he was going to track me and those who'd come to listen to me down. If we defend profit. Now the police were called, security in the university was called, and the view then and expressed openly to me was, what do you expect to happen when you make speeches like this? My response was, and still is, nearly 10 years later, I expect to be able to speak, to speak, to use words and not face threats of violence for it. That is a huge encroachment upon our liberties to blame the speaker for speaking if they are subjected to threats and physical attacks. 10 years ago, almost that was, nothing has changed. In fact, it's probably gone a little bit further down the censorship direction. I was threatened again this weekend. Somebody was making this gone sign at me. For speaking, for speaking. And across the board, this is, the mainstream press pushes this narrative, the mainstream politicians push this narrative, that freedom of speech has essentially become a problem. If you say things that correspond with what the government and state and the mainstream press want you to say, that's okay. But if you object, if you dissent from the mainstream, from the prevailing view, you will be considered a problem. Either to be censored as the mainstream press has done about coronavirus vaccinations and other matters. Smirred, slandered, called racist fascist, conspiracy theorist, risk losing your job, you will be seen as a too bigger problem for your company. If a company you work for might say, your views are not conducive to this company's philosophy. I don't know where all of a sudden all these companies have got these moral philosophies from, but they do. You see Dove, the soap and deodorant people this weekend, talking about Laurel Hubbard at the Olympics and saying how wonderful it was. And alienating a huge part of their core demographic, companies keep doing this. And censoring employees, or worse, firing employees for dissenting from this prevailing view is a dark, dangerous form of censorship. So freedom of speech on the whole is deemed to be a problem in modern society. And I saw this, we see this with the response to this knife attack on how to enter, and we see it across the board. We must, therefore, make some sort of several stands for our freedoms. And I think this is a peaceful demonstration for all of our freedoms, not just the ones related to coronavirus. And I would like to see this carry on beyond assuming whatever is coming in terms of coronavirus, we need to make this stand for freedoms generally. So in the next couple of weeks, I will let you know the date next week. Hopefully I'll have confirmation from this organisation. We will start a Hartlepool stand in the park. I'll be there each week. We'll make it dog friendly as well. Everything should be dog friendly, if you ask me. We'll make it dog friendly. And let's see how we get on. But we must make a stand for our freedoms across the board. 10 to 11 every Sunday, and it's happening in 600 parks across various different countries now. And congratulations to Brady Gone who started this. And like I say, he'd started in Australia and I've been seeing some really, really disturbing things coming out of Australia. It's something I wouldn't expect. It's a real surprise, a real shock for this to come from Australia because Australia has always been... It has this reputation, doesn't it? The Aussies have a reputation for being plain speaking. And, you know, it's a really... It's a big surprise to see Australia go so draconian. And it makes some other countries knocks them into the shade in terms of the draconian measures that Australia has been enacting. Now, I've seen some videos just in the last couple of days people have been sending me things from Australia. We've had images of a 12-year-old being pepper sprayed by police for not wearing a mask. I've seen a press conference involving police who are going door to door in Australia to make sure that people are inside their houses and that nobody is visiting anybody. This is incredible, incredible stuff. And I'm also hearing... I can't vote for this, but I'm hearing that police are forcefully vaccinating people in Australia. This is genuinely, genuinely shocking, genuinely shocking. So that this stand in the park would have started in Australia and come out of Australia is actually quite apt. But it's frightening. Genuinely frightening what is happening in Australia. So that's the first campaign I wanted to tell you about and I would encourage other activists, for Britain activists across the country to register with Stand in the Park and start your own group. Let me go take that off. Okay, second one I want... I'm going to be starting in Hartlepool and like again I would encourage our activists to do the same in your areas as they support small business campaign. So I'm going to start it here and what I'm going to do is quite simply pick a couple of areas. For those of you in Hartlepool you'll know the Marina and Church Street. Those are the two I'm going to start with. I'm going to compose a letter to every business in those two spots and I'm going to write to them. I'm going to tell them who we are, what proposals we make to protect support and help small businesses get back on their feet. I would also like to get small businesses together at an event to discuss these things further and how we can campaign together to get small businesses back on their feet. So I will publish that letter I'll be sending it to activists across the country asking you to send the same letter to small businesses in your own area and then follow it up with a visit to that business to support them by using their services essentially. So I'll be publishing that I'm going to work on that this weekend I've been travelling a lot in the last couple of weeks that travel is quite down a little bit now so I can start to work a little bit more on campaigns and helping branches and regions across the country campaign. So standing in the park through freedoms support small businesses and I'll be writing that initial letter this weekend and sending it out to branches and regions to send out to small businesses but you must follow this up. The personal touch is very, very important and I'll be following up that letter by visiting and supporting small businesses as best I can and getting a meeting together to discuss what we can do to pressure the local council for example to help small business get back on its feet. Okay I said I was going to go through some charity in the area this morning there's a good, on the Harley Pearl Mail this morning there's a good rundown of some charities in the region that they're asking people to support. I've picked out a few of my favourites and what I think are really, really important and I'll just do a quick description for them and why I've picked them out. So the Alice House Hospice is the first one this is serving the communities of Harley Pearl and East Durham and what they do is ensure people affected by life limiting illness or the death of a loved one have care, comfort and support they need so they help people at the end of their lives and the families of people at the end of their lives. I think this is particularly important and particularly pertinent at the moment given the state of NHS services at present the charities who look after people who are sick and their families are ever more important at this time because the NHS is still frankly shambolic at the moment it really is and from personal experience the NHS is not functioning as it ought to be and as it used to function the NHS used to actually work quite well I worked in it for many years and I've had treatments there in the past and always found it to work quite well what I'm seeing now is shambolic and I don't think it's just coronavirus it was starting to go wrong before coronavirus but with the emergence of Covid and on all the things that go with it the NHS is no longer to my mind fit for purpose and for that I hope maybe it will come back I pessimistic but maybe so but because of that I think that charities who look after very sick people and their families should get our support at this time the East Durham Veterans Trust is another one that I want to mention and this one is based in Siem and they appeal for veterans and the families of veterans to get in touch with them they were launched in 2019 and they have a drop-in service as well as peer support groups group activities and crucially mental health, counselling and coaching for veterans if you are a veteran you know a veteran if you are not a veteran then please do get in touch I think again this is really really important one that I think certainly touches my heart and one that I care very much about I've spoken many times about the abandonment of veterans who have put their life and limb on the line in the service of this country and are abandoned many abandoned maybe a strong word but that is how I feel abandoned by the very government and state apparatus that they put their lives on the line to support so very worthy charity that one Hartlepool Special Needs Support Group is another one this one is for children with special needs we run a range of regular clubs and activities throughout the year and it gives details of that it's also looking for volunteers that's a Hartlepool Special Needs Support Group further one, the final one that I would like to mention is the Hartlepool Wildlife Rescue which has a Facebook page it says they rescue and care for sick and injured wildlife which there is a lot, we're very lucky to live where we do it's this organization Hartlepool Wildlife Rescue and Care for Sick and injured wildlife in the Hartlepool area working alongside local groups they've got a Facebook page which shows the work that they do I'm going to add, here's the first one I'm going to show you I'm going to add the websites of these various charities that I've mentioned and I would encourage people to support them so that's the Wildlife Rescue this one is the Special Needs Support Group I'll leave those up there for a little while down the Eastern Veterans Trust is this one and finally Alice House Hospice in Hartlepool please do support these organizations OK, coming close to the end this evening I will be meeting members and activists in the North East which I'm really looking forward to I would tell you the name of the place that we're meeting I'll tell you actually I know that Antifa watch everything we do but it's most fantastic most fantastic pop meeting with members and activists there this evening from across the North East if you are free please do try to come along we are starting very much starting our party again and I feel like we're having a fresh start optimism is rising and I know that people have been of course people have been disheartened over everything that has been going on over the last year and a half but to me that makes us our party all the more important our freedoms, our heritage, history, culture everything even more important given what's been going on in the last couple of years so we are getting together all over the country to raise our spirits again it's really important to get together raise our spirits again remind ourselves why we do this what we need to do so tonight if you're in the North East please give us a shout give Sharon a shout where we are meeting I wish I could say it but we can't but it is a fantastic pop and if you come along you'll see why it's a fantastic pop okay so quick recap stand in the park Hartlepool I'm going to start that in the next couple of weeks a stand for our freedoms small business campaign a campaign to help small businesses which I'll be sending out to activists the country a draft letter to write to local small business in your area and follow it up with a visit and we'll get a campaign together to help people get back on their feet assuming we are coming out of lockdown at this time many people believe there'll be another lockdown let's be optimistic and well prepared to be shoved back into our homes again let's be optimistic and operate as if we are going back out there and give all the support we can to local small business okay that's it for me for this morning if you're in the North East I'll see you this evening starting time is half past seven give Sharon a shout enquiriesat4britain.uk if you want to come along you won't regret it it's going to be a great evening I'll see you at 10 o'clock back with a live stream Monday at 7.30 take care of yourselves if you're in the North East see you this evening bye for now