 Okay, good evening everyone. I hope you're all doing well. It's been a while, it's been a difficult while and I know that it's been very tough on everyone. And I'll talk about why it's very tough. I've got a couple of guests with me as well this evening, towards the end of the hour. I do want to start by saying one thing and that is to congratulate everyone who stood and to tell you not to forget for a minute how brave you are, how principled you are, to go up against what can only be described as evil. And it is evil. It is deeply frustrating to be faced with a barrage of lies. It is deeply disheartening to watch those lies work, to face the kind of vitriol and sheer undiluted hatred that we face by people who know nothing about us, who don't bother to find out anything about us, is very very tough. And after tonight I am going to have a break from this and I would encourage other people to do the same. I do mean a break by the way, I do mean a break. I will be back in a couple of weeks time but I would urge people to take a little step back and like I said on my face on a Facebook post yesterday do something nice. Being surrounded by this is it takes its toll and we do no matter how strong you are and I know you're strong you still need a break from this. So okay before I get into, I'm going to talk to Gary and Frankie a little bit later. Both of them were candidates in these elections. I do want to say one more thing, all of the small parties are doing really badly. It isn't just us and in fact if we look at reform for example who have got media coverage, you have got a Twitter account and who were launched by Nigel Frage and who are on GB News and all the rest of it, I still got more votes in Hartlepool than reformed it. I came, I was only 100 and something votes behind the Tories. So let's not kid ourselves that we are particularly doing badly, we're not. Let me tell you what the main problem is here. The problem is primarily that people are not going out to vote and the reason for that is the lying and the cheating at the top of politics. I was speaking one woman on the doorstep essentially blamed me for Boris Johnson having a party during lockdown and the thing is you can't actually argue with it. You say to people, I know you're right, politics is full of liars and cheats and they'll say well yeah so I'm not voting but I'm not a liar or a cheat and they look at you so please. That's the biggest problem. The political elite are so dishonest and so destructive that if you are a good honest person who wants to do good for your country, for your town, for your community, they don't trust you. The majority of them. We had a torn out of what 20% here in Hartlepools. That's four in five who don't bother to vote. Such is the lack of trust and if you try to tell people that you are not like them, they just don't believe you. So of the people who do come out and vote, those are the ones who are subjected to the lies and the dirty tricks and the smears. So let me give you the first lie that Labour told here in Hartlepool. They only put out one leaflet in my ward and this is what it said. Now to be clear, the reform slash Brexit, reform party is the Brexit party renamed. So the implication is that we are the BMP renamed and that frightens people. There's never a no one comes to me and says no let's set the record straight. What is this thing with the BMP? You have members who used to be in the BMP in your party and say yes, I do. So does the Labour party, so does the Tory party, so does everyone except you, Kip, who is the only party ever to ban ex-BMP members from joining. If you were to ask me why do you allow ex-BMP members to join is because I take everyone as an individual and the people who I know in the party who are ex-BMP to me are decent people. They have as individuals given me no reason to not think of them as decent people. I like them. So unlike you, I don't smear and target and run scared from, I get it to know a person, listen to what they have to say and actually like it or not a lot of people were in the BMP for the same reasons that they joined for Britain because they can see the country being absolutely dismantled by mass immigration, for example one thing not just mass immigration and I understand that and I get that but this is a dirty trick from Labour to try to frighten people. It works. Things that lie, it's absolutely incredible. I had one woman on the doorstep call me Dodgy, she wasn't speaking to me but I overheard her and when I asked her Dodgy how, she didn't realise I was standing at the next doorstep, Nigel Farage. I was Dodgy because of Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage says I'm Dodgy, therefore I'm Dodgy. Do you know, let me just make something clear, I've never met Nigel Farage. I've literally never met him. I've been in the same room as him a few times, I've never spoken to him but the lies he told about me at the time were horrific and they are still carrying into the doorsteps of Hartlepool to this day. That's how bad it is but something else is starting to creep in and this is very Soviet Union-like stuff. It's not just the far right now, we're heading down the road now of calling people who question the mainstream narrative. Conspiracy theorists, this is the newest, the newest one and there's a hint towards, and this is where the Soviet Union part comes in, and towards mental illness. You have severe mental illnesses if you don't agree with the mainstream narrative. This is creeping in more and more, so here's what Hope Not Hates put out a few days before, they always do it a few days before so you don't have the chance to respond in Hartlepool and you can see where this is going. Conspiracy and paranoia. If you have a different view, if you ask awkward questions, if you don't just take the mainstream mantra, you're mentally ill, you are a conspiracy theorist and it's paranoia, paranoia. So here's what it says that we are trying to pass ourselves off as a mainstream political party. The truth is that we are filled with conspiracy cranks and set on spreading hate and fear through your community, all while putting out a leaflet filled with hate and fear. While pretending to be respectable for Britain is a wash with former British National Party members, we also have former Green members, and you're absolutely insane about all this. I've never been in the BMP but I have been in the Labour Party. Absolutely incredible. A wash with former BMP members and anti-Muslim fanatics. Again, fanatics. There's that implication that we are all nuts. We don't actually have an argument. We're not educated in any way about these issues. We're all just nutcases. Some of their leading members have even pushed out pro-Russia propaganda in the war in the Ukraine, but they know what they're doing there as well because the masses have been so hypnotized that anyone who even debates these issues, that's all we do, is debate them, discuss them. You are pushing out propaganda. My favourite part must be this, they spread lies for their own political gain. You see the Labour Party leaflet I just showed you? But what they don't want you to know is what they really are, a party with links to Nazis, criminals and thugs. So they have pictures along the bottom of one of Tommy Robinson, who they call a violent thug and criminal. One of Eddie Butler, who they call a former Nazi thug and BMP officer and me pushes racist conspiracy theories. Like what? Like what? In what way is Eddie Butler a Nazi thug? I've spoken to Eddie Butler many, many, many times. You would think, actually, that if we just take one foundational characteristic of Nazism would be anti-Semitism, right? We can agree on that, surely. That's not to say that anyone who is anti-Semitic is a Nazi, but it's a primary characteristic of it. Never heard anything anti-Semitic from Eddie Butler. In fact, I've heard him argue against anti-Semitism. So to call him a Nazi thug, that's just, says who? Says, where do you get off with this thug? How dare you? And then violent thug and criminal for Tommy Robinson. Like what? What, contempt of court? We're talking about people who actively cover up gang rape and they're concerned about Tommy Robinson and contempt of court. Are you kidding me? What kind of morals do these people actually have? We're done. We know this. Now they back then they tell us, on the 5th of May, you go to the polls to elect our next councillor. Who you vote for is up to you, but we urge you to reject for Britain, a party of hate and division. We know many people are struggling to pay their bills at the moment, but turning on people from other races and religions is not the answer. We are not turning on people of races and religions because of the bills. Which is ridiculous. It is not their fault, our energy prices are gone through. Nobody's sent. No, nobody's sent. It was other races or religions fault that energy prices are gone through the roof. The energy prices are gone through the roof for loads of reasons, mainly because we have inept governments. But what is what we are saying is that at a time when we are in such financial dire straits, our government, instead of choosing to help us, is helping people coming in from, we don't know where, and giving them a hell of a lot more than it's giving the British people. That's true. They go on to say, hope not hate is a campaign group that challenges extremism and bigotry wherever we find it. Not in the Labour Party, though. Not in the vicious misogyny, anti-Semitism, homophobia that we are importing on mass. They don't find anything there. And by the way, seeing reality is not an extreme view. Wanting sensible, controlled immigration, wanting sanity is not an extreme view. This, this is extremism. This is bigotry. A bigotry is someone who has made up their mind and will not listen. That's not us. That's them. There was someone, I said it's tough to take that the lives work and they do. There's someone, a chap here who had lost his seat on the council to Labour and to a Labour candidate who campaigned that he had supported a certain planning proposal. On record he hadn't. He voted against it. But they lied and said he was for it. And the person who lied won. It's so, so difficult. It really, really is. What can you do about it? Well, nothing. Because you have to sue for defamation. And to sue for defamation is actually quite, A, it's really expensive. And B, the standard that has to be met is really difficult. The requirement is that your reputation is lowered in the minds of your peers. And I'm so low on the ladder now that I can't actually be defamed because I can't meet the definition because my reputation can't be lowered because it's already so low. And this is what we're stuck with. This is where we are. But it is the primary problem is that the politicians in power are so dishonest that they have made people turn away altogether. The hardcore, the hardcore Labour, the hardcore Tories, they'll still go out, but nobody else will. And that's why primarily why we're in this position. And once again, you are not alone in this. Covid, it seems to me that the pandemic and the lockdowns and all the rest of it actually pushed people further towards the big two parties. Even the Liberal Democrats who have MPs with them, they're doing really badly. They presented themselves as a saviour. We're going to protect you from this virus. Look at us. We're giving you money. We're saving your businesses. And of course, Labour agreed with all of that. So people began the infantilising of people to be protected, to be mothered by the two big parties has, I think, taken even stronger root than it already had. So it's difficult. But before I move on, I want to mention on the mental illness aspect of this. The Independent reported that far-right parties and conspiracy theorists had been roundly rejected in local elections. We are named first, by the way. The anti-Islam for Britain party headed by former UK leadership candidate Emery Waters had targeted 14 seats. It's national manifesto of opposes policies, including banning the broker, scrapping hate crime legislation and stopping, quote, anti-white discrimination. Again, there's a massive manifesto there. But the point I want to make with this is the headline. So conspiracy theorists, we've gone, this is now rearing its head this term, so it's to make us look like nutcases. And this is getting wider. This is something that's leaking out into wider society. If you don't agree, you're nuts. And that's very Soviet Union behaviour. The other point is that the Independent, before the election, don't talk about us at all. They'll never come to you and say, look, why don't you talk about the party? You say you're not far right. Tell us why. Tell us about some of your policies. They ignore us completely until afterwards. And then suddenly it's in the, on the national, in the national press, because they want to try to humiliate, to name call, and they do it always after the fact. And that's not the first time we've experienced this either. There is a document, and this is why I said this, the mental illness thing is, if you don't agree, you've got a mental illness. I'm going to put a link to this now into the comments here. Have a read of it. It'll blow your mind. I know it's one of those ridiculous links. We'll copy and paste it. The psychosis of whiteness. Now on this leaflet, they've written that I push racist conspiracy theories. Now I can only think that this is, and that the Independent puts anti-white discrimination in quote marks. And again, this is to make us look like notters. Like there is no anti-white hatred, because there really, really is. But if you think there is, then you have psychosis of whiteness. That document, the document I've just put a copy of into the comments, is one that is being taught to the British Army. Obligatory training for the British Army is this, and I'm going to read you a tiny bit of it. Whiteness as a psychosis. A central thesis of critical whiteness studies is that it presumed, we'll just listen to this, that it presumes that whiteness can be reasoned with, treated, or even abolished. However, if we see whiteness as a psychosis, that we understand that it is hallmarked by irrationality and a distinct inability to see reality in any other way than the distorted view it creates. To be accepted as a member of the white race at large, a white person is culturally required to internalize a dysfunctional view of reality. Are we seeing this yet? We tend to live under the illusions of our own self-manufactured image. We believe we are nice, kind, benevolent, and caring folk. And more importantly, that is how other racial groups see us. Read it. Read this. And when you're reading it, keep in mind that this is obligatory training for the British Army. It is similar to what is being taught in schools across the western world. White people need to be abolished. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's right there to read. And if you talk about, you know, I'm sure they have the speech I gave at Generation Identity about white people being outnumbered in the west and on the west, again, no conspiracy true. But if you object to it, then it becomes a conspiracy. If you like the idea, it's real. If you object to it, it's a conspiracy theory and you're nuts. And you are suffering from a the psychosis of whiteness. Whatever you do, read this document. Okay. I do have a couple of short videos that I want to show you today as well. Where am I? Okay. You may have, because I wanted to have a look at where we're going as a country. And the people have, for the most part, given up on fighting back at the ballot box. I think if you've got around 80% of people who don't bother to vote and they're telling you why they don't bother to vote, it's because they are, because the mainstream politicians have lied so much. Someone's just asking me for that link. I shall paste it again. They have lied so much that nobody trusts us. But let's have, you'll know in a sunny couple of minutes, but I do want to play it for you. You will know this person, no doubt. But listen very carefully about to what he is saying here. Hello again. Because asylum seekers are now crossing the English Channel and arriving in Britain at such an astounding rate, there are likely to be another 60 or 70,000 this year, the government is running out of hotels in which to put them. The cost of those hotels is currently running at around £5 million a day, which is absolutely ruinous. And they intend to start scattering them around the country in places where they can be kept cheaply and will not be so obvious to the casual observer. Quiet out of the way places, like little villages. When the deal with Rwanda was signed last month for establishing a processing centre for illegal immigrants in that country, part of the agreement was that Britain would also open a similar centre here in this country. What could be a better location than a sleepy little village in North Yorkshire with just a village, shop, church and primary school and a mere 700 people living there because they like a peaceful life. Well, that's about to come to an end because the old RwF base there, which used to be a bomber base during the Second World War, is to be converted into a refugee camp housing 1500 single men. This, by the way, is at Linton on Boos in Yorkshire. There will be no facilities for these men and nothing at all for them to do. They will not be confined to the camp but free to go where they wish. The villagers aren't happy because if you crammed 1500 single young men into a small area and they have nothing to do, it's a racing certainty that some of them are going to get into mischief. In effect, the size of the village will treble overnight. In the description of this video, I'll give a link to a new site about this development. I do not say that the aim is to destroy Englishness, but that will without any doubt at all be the effect. What is now a quintessential village will overnight find that white people are a minority in their own neighbourhood. Literally overnight, they will be joining the multi-racial society. The home office is now focusing attention on predominantly white areas for the location more of these camps, which is likely to lead to friction. I'm sure they know. The idea is to stop all the refugees and illegal immigrants being concentrated in London, Southeast England. What this means for the future is that if 50,000 illegal asylum seekers are right before the end of the year, and that's a very conservative estimate based upon the number who have already landed this year, then this will average out about 1,800 a week for the rest of the year. Every week, a new refugee camp will need to be set up to help those thousands of people. There is no consultation with local communities about this. The people at Linton Areas will not even ask. The government aims just to present people with facts on the ground. We will be seeing a great deal more of this in the coming months. Yes, we will be seeing a great deal more of this in the coming months. 1,800 a week to be housed. This small village in Yorkshire, 700 people according to this gentleman is not just outnumbered, but outnumbered 2 to 1, by people who are very, very different in their approach to life than a small village English people are. He said, this man says, don't get into mischief. That's one way of putting it, but I suspect one of the main mischief that they will get into. Let's just put it this way. I'm concerned for the young women of this village as I am, young women all over this country. Something else that is happening and I was going to play you a video on this, but instead I want to get to some guests. Something else that's going on in Ireland and don't for a minute think this is going to stop with Ireland is the, you remember that Pretty Patel said we were going to have unlimited numbers coming from Ukraine and they won't be all coming from Ukraine by any means, unlimited numbers. Well, the Irish have said the same, they will take unlimited numbers despite accommodation issues. In other words, despite the fact they don't have enough room to house these people, they're taking in unlimited numbers anyway. Something they have said, they don't, what the Irish government said, they don't want to do this, but they may have to is to have a look at to examine whether or not you can be forced to give up maybe a second home or forced to give up your home. The Irish government is making it so that they will, very soon, they're dropping hints now, making it known that very soon you're facing the, they're facing the prospect of being forced to take people into their homes. That is, that is where we're going and this is going to get rapidly worse very, very quickly. Very, very quickly. And worst case scenario, what we could end up completely fractured, completely broken, completely divided, physically divided. I mean, I'm thinking Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. This is the kind of situation that we'll be facing if this, if this immigration continues and it will, and we will lose independence, property rights, all the rest of it. It seems to me that people want it to, they're not, they don't want to face the reality of it. They don't want to be attacked as as paranoid and conspiracy theorist by these thugs. They don't want to face the reality of it. And until that reality is destroying their lives, which it will, only then might they do something about it. And the thing is about little, little villages like this, Linteno News that Simon Webber's just talking about. When it all goes catastrophically wrong and when there is violent attacks on local people there and when their village is completely destroyed forever, who's going to report on it? Do you think the independent who calls us far right conspiracy, do you think they're going to go to Linteno News and say, my God, you wouldn't believe what's happening in this tiny village? Much like they didn't report on what happened in tiny German villages. There were German villages where people found themselves also outnumbered overnight and blessed them the local people who get together. I remember this one story of a small German village and the people got together, God blessed them to write letters to these asylum seekers. And the things written in the letters were, please don't defecate on the street. Please don't open packages and shops before you buy them. And it was also delighted. I'm pretty sure the letter even opened with welcome to Germany. What happened? This was reported by alternative online media, far rights, conspiracy theorists. No one in the mainstream press reports on this stuff. So when it happens in small villages all over England and beyond, then no one's going to say anything. No one's going to know. So just continue. These people will suffer in silence. It seems to me that the fear of facing that reality is causing people to either withdraw altogether or to go into an active attack as defense, the defending themselves from the reality by attacking the people who present them with that reality. It is shooting the messenger, but the media as always, as usual, is the toxic poison at the heart of it all. And the deeply immoral left-wing activists who have no concern for discussion, they say that, you know, let's put our differences aside and come together. Why you won't even talk to people if they have a different political opinion to you? Something happened. This, well, I think it's a ridiculous program, but a lot of people seem to like it. This goggle box thing. I just happened to see this the other day on the news. Someone on goggle box, which his friend was not familiar with it, is people watching TV. And we, I don't know, but people do watch people watching TV. And some woman had said that it wasn't Boris Johnson's fault, that we are raising rising energy bills or something like that. And the cause for it to be thrown off the program immediately. It's just another example. You're just not allowed to dissent. But these people have no interest in debate or discussion. It is hate and is vitriol and it is lies. And they see it as a means to an end. They don't care how immoral they have to be to destroy you. They'll do it anyway and then present themselves as the moderate, the kind, kind, that's a word they use quite a lot. Incredible. But to be very clear, we're not going anywhere. We've no idea what the political climate will look like in a year's time. Remember, in a year's time, we'll have had more little villages destroyed completely. We'll say, we'll be around. We're still here and we're going nowhere. All right, I want to take in, I want to bring in, I'll bring in Gary Frost. Gary Stodge in, I'm going to, over in the North West, I'm going to let him tell you about his campaign. Hi, Gary. Hi, I'm Ray. Can you hear me okay? I can. Yeah. How are you doing? How are you doing? I'm fine. How are you doing? I know you've not been well last couple of years. Yeah, I haven't. I've still got a bit of a headache. Thank God for Paracetamol. That's all I'm saying. But yeah, I'm certainly better than it was. So Gary, tell us, you can, I said on my, on a Facebook post that if candidates want to come on and have a chat with me, they would. And you, you messaged me and said you'd like to come on. Tell me about your campaign. Where did you stand? What was, tell me, tell me in your own words, Gary. Can I, before that, can I just say one thing about the Dismere leaflet that was put out by, hate not hope, I call them. Yeah. Actually, one of the people, I sort of saw the leaflet and one of the people on the front, who's actually part of this organization, Matthew Collins, is actually an ex national front member himself. So there's the hypocrisy and it's okay for for him to be reformed, but nobody else. Absolutely. Well, you know, the kind of people we're dealing with here, sadly. And yeah, so the Northwest, I mean, I'll go back, I'll go back to a year ago. 2021, we actually had nine candidates in the Northwest. And the best result at that time was like, I think it was 3%. Because basically everyone just did little bits in their own wards. No ward was concentrated on. So that I mean, I took over after that election as the I will for the Northwest. And I wanted us to concentrate on just one ward and really push one ward and get maximum effort into that. And so, so when it came to round to the elections, we had, we only had three candidates come forward, which was I was a bit disappointed about. But in the big scheme of things, it didn't really matter. Because in my mind, we were only going to concentrate on one of those wards anyway. And I think what put a lot of people off, I mean, it was a different year last year. And everyone only needed like two nominations to actually be a candidate. So it was very easy for us to get loads of candidates. Whereas this time, it went back to the full 10 nominations that you needed. And for people for kind of new, new to us, new in the past, it's a bit daunting to go knocking on doors and getting all these nominations if they didn't have family and friends in their ward. So I think that that kind of reduced our candidates down. And in the Northwest, also, it kind of reduced our candidates, because in certain areas where we could have had candidates, there was no elections this year. So that reduced it down. So so we ended up with three candidates. And I want to say a big massive thank you to all all our candidates, all three and everyone that was involved in all the activists involved, because it was a massive effort. And different people made it on different days to do the campaigning, pushing leaflets out. It was sort of regular twice a week, I couldn't make it sometimes. Other people couldn't make it on other days. But it was we made mistakes, which we'll learn from, but we really pushed out and we didn't do we didn't do any knocking on doors. It was mainly just getting as many leaflets out as we could. We had three, three different leaflets in our target ward, which was Town Centre Ward in St Helens, which Town Salts was standing. So we really, really pushed it. So as I say, it wasn't quite a textbook campaign, but with the resources that we have, we put every bit of effort into it. And sometimes I got a bit sloppy when other people wanted to do something on their own. Like, I mean, no, no, we must concentrate on this. Every effort has to go into St Town Centre Ward in St Helens. So, I mean, the result came from my ward, the result came in on my account was Thursday night, on the Thursday night. And to be expected, limited leafleting on my ward, I only got less than 2% of the count. So that came in. The other two that we had, they were due to be counted on the Friday morning. So we had, Christine's came in first on the Friday morning. Again, we got very limited, hardly anything campaigning at all. Hers came in at 1%. Now, I knew that we'd put a massive effort into St Helens. And that was the one I was waiting for when it came in late Friday when, I mean, I was absolutely gutted about your result and everything. So I was feeling down. And I had no illusions. I wasn't expecting to win anything. You know what I mean? I have no illusions about winning. For me, it was about increasing the vote from last time. Now, in Terence Oaks' ward last time, he stood last year and he got 3% 50 votes. We increased that to 176 votes, which went up to 9.5%. So that, to me, was a success for us in the Northwest. And that's all that matters to me. And so I was over the moon at that. And that's basically how we achieved it. And that's how we'll move on. I think we have to get out of our heads this notion every year that somehow we have to win. We have to win otherwise that's it. That's the end we're finished. We have to get that out of our heads and we have to just concentrate. We have to concentrate on the same wards. We can't keep shifting around different wards. We've got to keep working these wards and it's like building blocks. And as you put in on your Facebook posts, you put about, you know, it's about building trust because we're only a young party. We're still young. Four years old this party. We have to build trust over time and it will take time. Some people would say we've got no time, but we have to. We have to stay in the game. We've got to build trust and always be there. The same board, keep working the board. And all through the year, get leaflets out all through the years saying we're here waiting. And I think our time will come definitely. Thanks very much, Carrie. Thank you for everything that you do. Thanks to the other candidates as well. And you're right. You do have to look at increases and you do have to celebrate those. But we're, we're, you know, we're, I think it's very hard. And it's not even that we're, you lose, it's that you lose based on lies. That's what's so difficult to take. But we have to keep reminding ourselves, I think of one, a couple of things. One, despite all we take the hammer and we take uniquely on our side of politics, we take a hammer and we take it from all angles. We still do better in vote share than other parties who like reform. It's the only one that springs to mind. We're still with all of that, all the advantage they have and all the disadvantage we have, we still do better at the ballot box regularly. That has to be kept in mind. But we also have to keep in mind that this is a journey. We are, and I'm not just saying this, it's not a line. We are so, so brave to take all the hammer and keep going. And that's the, that's the sort of energy that we need to dig deep into after, after what we've just been through. But that's and also it's also worth it. We all need to take a little break. Gary, thanks very much. Thank you. I'm going to bring in Frankie now. What time are we on? Quarter to nine. Thanks very much, Gary. Thank you. I mean that for everything. Okay, let me bring in Frankie. I don't think we're doing questions tonight, are we? I don't see any coming up. Didn't actually mention this beforehand, which I probably should have done. Okay, Frankie, hello. Hey, I'm Marie. How are you? I'm all right. How are you? I'm well. Thanks, yeah. I've been having a good bit of a break, spending me the time with my family since we have the local elections. So yeah. Good. So tell us about your experience, Frankie. And I know you, you think you thrive on it, don't you? Every, every chance you get to stand for election, you're in there. What's so, what do you love so much about it, Frankie? I have to, I have to understand that. It's about standing for election, you like so much. Well, I remember when we were at the conference, the last national conference we had, and it was very cold up north, and I was wearing my woolly extra chief's rugby hat. And I remember Jenea saying, oh, you have this, you're not just a British nationalist, you have this local patriotism. And it's about really caring and campaigning on the issues in your area and applying the for Britain policies to your local issues and values and everything. So I have the local radio station message me asking if we had a manifesto. And I said, well, we've got policy for where we're standing. And I basically had to write a whole little manifesto for Exeter on my phone and send it to them. And it's just to do with things like if you pay enough attention to the local media and that you find out about all sorts of dodgy shady things going on in local government. So someone who was had a big important job at East Devon district council when they were investigated by the police for corruption is now has a big important job and ex city council and the labor administration may have actually broken the law, the transparency laws by giving so many important jobs to one man. And having all these meetings behind closed doors without even declaring the minutes of who's there. And but just talking to so many local people I stood in xwick ward. And we so I grew up around there. And I've just been knocking on door canvassing you bump into so many people who I've known before, or who remember me from the last election. And it's so nice. I had a young lad who's were not like younger than me. But he was a Jeremy Corbyn fan when I spoke to him last year, but he put up a boat Frankie poster in the window this time round. That was great. And then just having knocking on the door does make a difference. Sometimes you get, there was an old lady, this was literally doing some last minute canvassing on the day of the election. And she, she did wasn't very talkative at first, you seemed a bit shy. But then as I was crossing the road to do some more houses, and she was driving past me, she said, you know what, you're the only person who's knocked on my door. So I'm going to go down and vote for you. And that's so nice. And I was saying to, I was saying to a friend of mine on the day of the election, you know, I had yesterday, I had one old lady call me a fascist, which is ridiculous. And I had two other old ladies in the same street say, Oh, we remember you from last year, Frankie will probably vote for you. Good luck. And that makes it worth it. All the abuse you get, you can laugh it off sometimes. You can have, or you can attempt to have a, have a good reason to debate with some of these people. And it's working. We're growing in exit, we're small, but growing in Exeter with three candidates this year up from two last year. And my vote, I got more than double this year what I got in the loc, in the Exeter City Council elections last year. My vote share in X WIC went from 5.5% in last year's county council elections to 8.4% this year. I beat the livedems again and came close behind one of the green candidates. So yeah, we're really getting somewhere. Brilliant. And how do you know what listening to your enthusiasm is, it's really lovely, Frankie. It really is. So how was your campaign this year? Do you, do you feel like you're getting better at it? Are you, what kind of reception do you get from Labour, for example, did they do anything, any smear attacks on you? Well, the leaflet was all local issues. So I was saying, reject the Tory tax betrayal, how the Conservative obviously Boris Johnson has risen national insurance. He said he wouldn't, but he's, he's risen that those taxes have gone up under the so-called conservatives. I know he's got a point saying that coronavirus pandemic, the lockdown changed a lot of things, but a broken promise is a broken promise. And I was just criticising Labour for cutting low public services like public toilets, whilst at the same time, because there are literally none in Xwick Ward anymore now. And at the same time, our council tax goes up. So, and they just splash out the money and all these ridiculous vanity projects. They thought they could find the money to relocate the statue of Reaver's Buller. Oh, but they can't pay for, for, for somewhere for people to relieve themselves, you know. And I was also just criticising the Lib Dems and the Greens on the council for pushing for a climate change officer. And what we really need is more street cleaners, which would practical things for the, which would do a lot more good for the community and the planet. And also, I was on the other leaflet that went out of criticising Labour for allowing so many student facts to be built. They stopped charging the developers for a while. And that lost us a million pounds that could have been spent in our communities in the city. And I was also just criticising the MP, Ben Bradshaw, for supporting vaccine mandates for NHS staff. I've gone from being the token white person, anti-China protests to being the token vaccinated person, anti-mandate, anti-COVID protests. Because at the time like this, we've got so many people on NHS waiting lists, we've already got so many vacancies in the NHS. We cannot afford to be sacking nurses and other healthcare staff over a vaccine, which can still pass on COVID anyway. They can, surely they can just carry on testing whether they're vaccinated or not. A great grasp of the issues, Frankie. Again, I have to say it again, your enthusiasm is infectious. Well done on telling an increase in your vote share. I know you'll be back pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing next year. And any chance you have in between. So thanks very much, Frankie. Thanks for coming on to talk to us. Take care. Thank you. All right, guys. What else do I want to tell you about before we finish? I took one or two things in the news that I just want to briefly mention. One of them is, I mean, frankly, I was just talking about corruption in local politics and corruption in local politics is probably even more corrupt than national politics. But before I came on, I was having a little glimpse through the news. Labour, after all they said, and after all they've shared quite rightly, shouting and screaming about the Tories having lockdown parties and all the rest of it, wouldn't you think that they would have made sure that they weren't doing the same thing before they started throwing every bit of mud they could find at the Tories? Wouldn't you think they'd have made sure they weren't doing the same thing? Turns out they were. And apparently, Ike Stammer has said he will quit if he is given a fine by Durham Police for breaking lockdown rules. I actually had to have a little laugh to myself when I saw that. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. And I genuinely am bewildered as to why we, as a country, as people keep putting up with it, absolutely shocking. Let me just have a quick rummage through some comments. Sweden recently admitted multiculturalism has failed. Yes, sort of. The Prime Minister there has said that they didn't integrate emigrants. So essentially, it's Sweden's fault. They didn't integrate. We've heard this before. You remember Angela Merkel said this as well? That multiculturalism has failed. I think if David Cameron even said it, didn't he? It seems like a lifetime ago. But again, I think what they're doing is the usual stuff. It's, we'll throw out a sound bite here and there to make it sound as if we're going, we recognize the problems and we're going to. People expect, I think, that if they say we recognize the problem that they intend to do something about it, but they don't and they won't. Since 2020, since 2010, 7 million emigrants have registered with the GP is another comment on that. Absolutely unbelievable. We are told not to believe what we see with our very own eyes, the destruction of our communities and country. Yeah, we are told not to believe what we see with our own eyes. And we are also, as I've been saying, throughout this hour and from at the start, the mental mental illness thing is becoming more and more widespread. As a side note, due to over demand on our NHS, my 82 year old mother went into the hospital with a suspected broken 11 hours. I mean, this is, it's unbelievable. You hear, I hear stories like this all the time. The NHS is gone as far as I'm, it's gone. It literally has no, it does not function at all. I think I mentioned to you a while ago that I spent, and it was, you know, people spent an hour on the phone, it wasn't really an hour, but it was. And we're talking about 55, 56 minutes waiting with this noise, which I'm sure is meant to drive us mad to get through to the local GP so that I could book for a doctor to ring me more than a month later. That's the NHS. Okay. I'm going to finish up and I'm going to say a few things again, because I mean them so, so sincerely. One, thank you. Genuine thank you. I get it. I know how tough this is. And you should all, and not just the candidates, but all of you, just for your ability and honesty, you should all be very proud of yourself. And I mean that as well. I want to remind you one last time, that this is not us. It is across the board and that among parties of our status, size, age, if you like, we are doing as well, if not better, in many areas as others, including parties who have, who don't take the buttering we take, and you do have media and social media coverage. Remember that as well. It's a tough, it's a tough old world politics, because it is swimming in lies and corruption. And for honest people, I used this word, forgive me for using this word, but it is the right word, sensitive people. This is very, very tough. And I know that you're sensitive people, because if you weren't, you wouldn't be able to see the truth. You wouldn't be affected by it. You wouldn't be moved by it, angered even by it. You are, because you are sensitive people, you get things that go on around you, you understand them and you feel them. And when you're honest and sensitive at the same time, it's very tough to maneuver within a system that relies upon lies and deceit and dirty tricks. And for your courage in standing there, despite this, I genuinely mean it, you should all be immensely, immensely proud of yourselves. Take a break. We'll be back in a couple of weeks. New things. I'm going to do some new things in terms of my own walking, how we do things. We're going to make a few small changes. But we are just, you can either let this stuff destroy you or you can let it toffin you up. I think I know what we're going to do. We will be back. But despite our strength, we all need a break from this toxic poison that is politics. Do not let them grind you down, as they say. Thank you, everyone. I sincerely mean it. Have a break. I shall see you very, very soon. Refreshed and ready to take on whatever the future has in store for us. But together, as a party, we will remain and we will stay strong to go forward into whatever life has in store. Thank you, everyone. Take care. I'll see you soon.