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Good Morning Britain Brands Tommy Robinson March “Racist” In Shocking SegmentAdded:
All right, everybody. Welcome back.
Now, over the last few days, we have seen the exact same playbook from the mainstream media, yet again.
Anyone who attended Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally has instantly been branded far-right, racist, extremist without any real attempt to understand why ordinary people were actually there in the first place.
And what you're about to watch from Good Morning Britain perfectly sums up the disconnect between legacy media and millions of ordinary Brits.
Instead of trying to understand public frustration around illegal migration, free speech, national identity, and trust in government, they instantly jump to fear, racism, and division.
Now, look.
People are allowed to disagree with Tommy Robinson.
That's democracy.
But what I find unbelievable is this constant attempt to portray huge numbers of working-class British people as dangerous extremists simply because they attended a rally or voiced concerns about the direction of the country.
And the irony is, even during this debate, the presenter herself admits that the man she spoke to was polite, friendly, and reasonable. Yet somehow, the entire crowd is still framed as a threat.
Anyway, I want you guys to watch this clip for yourselves because honestly, it tells you everything you need to know about how parts of the media now operate in Britain today. Ramveer, you were on your way into London, weren't you, on Saturday? Yes.
>> And you met somebody who was going on that march.
>> Yes, he was really interesting. I changed my plans, which actually made me sad, cuz I think, well, I should be allowed to go into London and feel safe on, you know, I live here, it's my place. But I didn't, I didn't take my son in, you know, that made me sad, you know, the fact that you think, oh, it's not safe for my little brown boy to be in London is a sad thing. But there you go. You mean you think you weren't safe because of the color of his skin? I just didn't Yeah, I didn't want I didn't want him to be exposed to anything at Euston Station and there was a lot of people there when we got there. Actually it was interesting at my local station. I was just what queuing up to get a coffee and the man in front of me was getting coffee from the guy who I think is Sri Lankan at the at the station. We all know him. He's been there for years and lovely really jolly chap white guy. Said he said I'm going into London. I'm going to join the Tommy Robinson March.
And he and he goes, you know, and we just started chatting the three of us, you know, which is I think what you need to do interestingly. You do need to talk to people when you feel that they're on the opposition opposite side to you. And he said he said, "Yeah, I said actually said I'm just going I'm curious. I'm curious to know how fascist these people really are and my brother's a bit more far right and I'm keeping an eye on him today." He said, "You know, I don't know how the protest going to go. The last one I went on was to remain during Brexit, which again is is is flipping the idea of who you think they are on its head a little bit. And he goes, you know, I'm I'm worried about illegal migration not all migration just you know, it's the illegal thing. I'm just I'm going to go along. And he sort of was very upbeat and jolly and we sort of we laughed about, you know, the remain thing. Did you go for a French wine and a German beer and an Italian meal? He said, "Yeah, we did, you know, we joked." And actually it was interesting cuz when he left myself and the the the chap at the thing we sort of took a deep we sort of gave each other a little grimace cuz I think he the the lovely man I'm going to say he was a lovely man even though he was going to a far right march. I mean my opinion you're going to support someone like Tommy Robinson that makes me deeply uncomfortable but the point is you have to feel the pinch and still have a conversation with someone. And we both sort of grimaced a little bit took a deep breath and that was fine.
And the I posted on Instagram because I cannot having I cannot believe I don't want to believe that 150,000 people are out and out racist. I just I That isn't my experience of this country. So, I just In my head, I just can't equate that monolith, that huge number of white faces with my experience in this country. It just doesn't seem right to me. And so, that's why I posted cuz I just don't I just thought, "Look, if there was a march that was are you worried about illegal migration?" It would be much smaller than that. If it was a march, "Are you worried about migration overall?" It would be a different number to a If you was are you an Islamophobe? Are you an out and out racist? Do you want England to be white only? There are so many nuances in those 150,000 people. And the worry for me is that somebody who has got a concern that I might have concerns about illegal migration, right? My mom might have a concern about that. But, that man feels that he's now only being heard and has to go and join the throng of And then you get corralled and I worry about othering people who join the ranks.
And the voice that they end up being spoken for and by is someone who is very extreme. So, it was just to me it was the nuance of it and it's very difficult cuz the point being that for someone anybody of my color skin today, you have to work against your instinctive fear.
There was a Sikh woman who was racially raped in the West Midlands. It's being investigated. And so, you know, it's a live case, but that is out there in the public domain. She's a Sikh woman. She has given a statement about it. She was Her evidence to the police is, "I was told you don't belong in this country." Right? That's a live investigation. That's where we'll leave it. I'm a Sikh woman.
The climate we live in makes me nervous, but you have to work against your fear.
>> Rumy, were you surprised at the way >> Also, I'd like to know what the Church of England thinks about Christianity being evoked, actually, cuz I'd like to hear what they think about their >> Were you Were you Were you surprised at the way this gentleman spoke to you at the weekend? I was I was um was I surprised? No, I wasn't. I was relieved.
I was relieved and it felt good to talk.
And it felt good to talk to him because I think it confirmed my desire to believe that people feel frustrated, but that doesn't mean they despise anybody who's brown. There you have it.
That right there is exactly why trust in mainstream media continues to collapse.
Because instead of reporting objectively on what actually happened at these events, too many broadcasters immediately try to paint ordinary people as morally suspect for even turning up.
Notice the language throughout that discussion. Unsafe, fear, far right, racist.
Yet at the same time they openly admit that many of the people attending were perfectly normal members of the public with concerns that millions across the country probably share.
And that's the key point here.
You do not have to agree with every single person at that rally to recognize that branding everybody as extremists is dishonest and dangerous.
Once you start labeling huge sections of the population as beyond the pale simply for raising concerns, you shut down debate entirely.
A lot of people in Britain feel ignored.
They feel talked down to. They feel like their concerns are only acknowledged when they fit an approved narrative. And clips like this only push the divide even further.
But let me know what you think down in the comments below.
Was this fair reporting from Good Morning Britain? Or was this yet another example of the media trying to smear ordinary Brits?
If you enjoyed the video, hit the like button, subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you all in the next one.
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