Reform Surge To SHAKE London Elections | Laila Cunningham

Added: 2026-05-01

[00:00:00]But let the good thing about this as well is that we can talk about the election because we're not governed by Ofcom. So I know you're probably going to say, "Oh, I can't talk about the election because you have to be careful." We don't have to be careful.

[00:00:10]That's great.

[00:00:10]>> So now you can say whatever you want about uh the upcoming election, which is just a week away. Um >> it's going to be to all intents and purposes, we're told, an absolute barnstorming a day for reform. Are you are you looking forward to it? What's it going to mean for London? The Greens are going to be big in London, I think, aren't they? So >> worryingly, >> the Greens worryingly are are going to be big in London. And and I'm going to say this that the Greens worry me a lot because they do pander to the Islamists.

[00:00:38]You know, you have, as I said, the Greens are a collection of grievances.

[00:00:41]Yeah.

[00:00:42]>> You know, they just they just want to keep they want to treat people as victims. They're always pitching, you know, their one policy, >> right, that encompasses all of the Greens is we're going to tax the billionaires. Yeah.

[00:00:52]>> You know, and what they don't realize is if you tax the wealth creators, there'll be no wealth, you know, they'll just leave. But also, but they're going to it will be the usual kind of lefty ridiculousness where they go, "All right, we're going to tax the billionaires." And then they'll go, "Oh, the billions have gone. Oh, now we're going to tax the millionaires. Oh, they've all gone. Oh, now we're going to tax the people who make 100,000. Oh, then we're going to tax all the people who make 50,000." So, it just keeps coming down.

[00:01:13]>> That's what if you shrink the tax pool at the top, shrink the top, the bottom pays. Yeah. Right. And that's what we're seeing now effectively when the non-dom when we had the biggest exodus of millionaires. Yeah. That and so >> well the worst place to be right now in London it seems to me is to be making about between 50 and £70,000 a year because you're getting nailed >> nailed >> on tax, right?

[00:01:32]>> So so the areas that we're going to do well it it it's it's fantastic support.

[00:01:37]And you know what's really interesting about reform supporters because obviously I've campaigned for uh the conservatives before is >> they're so passionate about the country.

[00:01:47]you know, they're not campaigning for reform. They're campaigning for the country, for the city. And whereas the Conservatives, you feel, campaign for their party. This is there's an excitement and there's there's a passion there.

[00:01:58]>> And uh and I've always said this, you know, our we've got over 1500 candidates in London and and >> they're not they're not kind of, you know, you can't hurt cheap because everyone in reform is is there for a reason. You know, they're passionate about the country.

[00:02:12]>> Um and they want to do good. And we get people honking in the street. reform.

[00:02:18]Um, I get stopped as a male candidate by all kinds of people like not your traditional reform supporters.

[00:02:25]>> Um, I must say there is sometimes I knock on someone's door and they'll be like, you know what, I would vote for you, >> right?

[00:02:33]>> But I feel you're you're anti-immigrant, >> so and and and I want to explain to people in London, we're not anti-immigrant at all. You know, it it is not that it is anti- illegal migration and it is anti- people who come here and want to destroy us and want to just take. If you come here to contribute and you love the country, >> uh then we're all for you.

[00:02:51]>> Yeah. I mean, you're anti this kind of immigrant. The Somalian British national >> that's a criminal. Yeah.

[00:02:56]>> You know, we don't want criminals in our in in our country. Um and and so that that that that that's been a bit of a some in some in some areas, you know, because >> what about the people who would say because you're an intelligent woman, you've educated, you've been around the world, >> and yet you will be branded by some people as a kind of you know, either a racist or a um you know, a kind of a right-wing thug or something like that.

[00:03:19]you know, there are still people who think of of reform as as this kind of, you know, um, you know, horrible entity that really doesn't want to do anything nice for anyone. Do you do you struggle with that? I mean, >> I only get that when I face a Labor person on TV, >> okay, >> or a green person. I don't get that on the streets, >> okay?

[00:03:37]>> You know, I haven't had that personally at all in London, actually. It's been a very all across London, even places where you wouldn't think it's been very positive. Um, I think people feel that reform is fighting for them. uh just just simple things you know for instance in Westminster Council uh Mike people the tries now have come out with this big policy that they're going to ban uh 20 m the blanket 20 mph they brought it in in 2019 in Westminster Council >> uh they didn't have to they brought it blanket 20 m hour across the the council and what we've seen is >> more people are getting done for 23 mph than they are for speeding on the motorway. Yeah. You know, good policy protects people. Bad policy punishes people. And this is not even it it it's literally it's not it's not it's punishing just drivers. It's not punishing dangerous drivers. It's literally punishing drivers. Um I know like on on Bazewater Road, if you know it, >> it's very difficult to go at 20 m per hour. I have to set it on my on my on my car.

[00:04:37]>> It's insane.

[00:04:37]>> It's insane.

[00:04:38]>> Westway as well. Well, I mean, I used to go, we used to have an office in a studio in Eling and I'd go out on Westway and my my sister actually who lives in America came back um and she had some friends to go and visit and she's like, "What's what's going on with Westway?" She said, "I used to be 70 mph. It's now 30." And you're kind of driving like and you feel as though you're in, in fact, I was in Connecticut.

[00:04:56]>> I'm more focused on the mileage, how fast I'm going.

[00:04:59]>> I was in Connecticut with her and she was like, and we went to see my mother before she died and we were driving back to her place and she's like, "Why are you driving so slowly?" I'm like, "What do you mean?" She's like, you were driving and she's like, it's a 60 mph road because you get conditioned to to sitting there like and you've got I mean I got Maserati, right? It's not meant to go at 20 mph. Sorry. It's supposed to go a bit faster.

[00:05:20]>> It should be on on tight residential roads and by schools, but on major roads like like Bazewater Road and I and I had the the joy of as a prosecutor of doing traffic court sometimes. And listen, I've prosecuted, you know, domestic abuse. And it's in traffic court that you see grown men break down in tears.

[00:05:34]Yeah. Because they've lost their license because they've gone at 23 miles per hour.

[00:05:37]>> It's ridiculous.

[00:05:38]>> Four times. They've lost their livelihood. You know, they can't take their kids to school. Their mom's ill, their wife.

[00:05:43]>> And and and you sit there and you go, why?

[00:05:46]>> Yeah.

[00:05:46]>> You know, these are not dangerous drivers. These are not dangerous drivers. They're just drivers.

[00:05:50]>> No. I mean, I know a couple of people who have given up driving in London because they just they got so many tickets. They were just like, I can't do it. from LTN's to 23 mph to ules to congestion. You know, >> the motorist is a cash cow. And and and one of reform's policies is, you know, we don't think the car is a bad thing.

[00:06:06]>> You know, I I've got loads of kids. I need a car. My mom's elderly. She needs a car.

[00:06:11]>> For God's sake, just let people drive their car. You know, but there has to be a sensible approach to it. My mom, who's 90, is not going to get on a bike right now, >> right?

[00:06:19]>> You know, she's I know. And and you know, >> she's mad. She's completely mad.

[00:06:23]>> And and Yeah. So I think that I think in in that sense people are recognizing that London's not really working for them. No, >> but across the country, I mean I mean I think we're going to do so well >> Midlands, you know, even the home counties like >> I just think I just think you know what I tell people? People tell me I tell people you've always voted you I knock on the doors sometimes and people tell me yeah you know I'm I'm a Tory or you know my dad was a Labor supporter and I go you happy with the state of the country and they say no you know and they list everything that's wrong with it and I go but if you always vote the same what changes >> right >> right and that's what try something new >> and this is the first time really nationally that you can do it because it hasn't really happened before now reform has suddenly become a national party Yeah.

[00:07:09]>> Over the last year or >> and I think we, you know, we we are the national party because as I said it's I don't think politics divides against right or left anymore. I think it's issue based.

[00:07:18]>> Yeah.

[00:07:19]>> You know, so so people recognize certain issues. They don't and I think it's wrong to say you're leftwing or you're rightwing. It is that's why we're, you know, labor supporters and >> tourist supporters are coming over to us because it's issue based, you know, and the issues are I think people fundamentally might might want just >> keep more of their money.

[00:07:35]>> Yeah. be able to own a home, safer streets, uh uh left alone, really, you know, get out of my way. I don't know if you saw, but um the Conservatives are making huge hay about banning um social media for under 16 year olds.

[00:07:49]>> How is that going to be implemented?

[00:07:51]>> You know, how are you going to prove someone's 16? Does that mean I have to give my my my passport now when I log on to social media?

[00:07:57]>> You know, I don't want big tech having my my documents >> and that's the only way to do it, you know, and that does pave the way for digital ID. Um, >> and what happens when you're 16? You're suddenly mature.

[00:08:09]>> Yeah. Right.

[00:08:10]>> You know what I mean? I mean, 15 year olds.

[00:08:11]>> And also, you know, you've got kids.

[00:08:13]I've got kids. I mean, my VPN, >> they don't understand VPN.

[00:08:15]>> When my children were under 15, they would they could do anything. I mean, they could literally run rings around whatever safeguard you want to put.

[00:08:22]>> Way more than than any people share passwords, >> you know. Uh, you've got what about VPN?

[00:08:29]They don't even address VPN. It's all virtue signaling. And for me, I think it's a sad day when we have to give our documents, our ID documents to access the internet because that is surveillance.

[00:08:39]>> Yeah. Totally. And you know, they're going to do something bad with it at the end.

[00:08:42]>> Yeah. I just Why should I? I've had anonymity the whole time. I don't want to be able to access Instagram or Twitter and give and give my documents.

[00:08:49]Why? Why should I?

[00:08:50]>> Exactly.

[00:08:50]>> You know, you want you want to post, show me your passport.

[00:08:52]>> Yeah.

[00:08:53]>> That's basically what's happening now.

[00:08:54]>> I know. Shocking. Ila, great to see you.

[00:08:57]>> Thank you. Thank you so much for coming in. We're out of time. Unfortunately, we can we can be we can do this all all