Last night, I appeared on BBC Question Time, which is still one of the biggest debate shows here in Britain, watched by a few million people. It was my third time on the show. And, as usual, I set out with a plan: to speak up for the silent majority.
Too often, the ‘national conversation’ in this country is not national at all — it merely reflects the views, tastes, and opinions of a liberal minority in London, Oxbridge, Brighton, Bristol, and elsewhere.
Which is why, last night in Exeter, I was determined to represent the concerns of millions of hardworking, law-abiding, and patriotic British people who often feel they have been pushed out of the national debate and are treated like second-class citizens in their own country.
So here are the highlights …
First, against the backdrop of the Russell Brand and David Walliams scandals, which have dominated the news this week, I took the opportunity to ask the Labour government why they have so far done so little to address the most prominent and most widespread example of child grooming and sexual exploitation in Britain — namely, the grooming gang scandal.
We have consistently campaigned on this issue in this newsletter and so I did not hold back when given the chance to hold the Labour government to account:
As I pointed out, if the Labour government really cared about this issue then why this week have two of the country’s leading experts on grooming and sexual exploitation — Dame Louise Casey and Maggie Oliver — pointed to the failure of the Labour Party on this issue to implement their recommendations, hold a proper national inquiry, and release the data they have on grooming and child sexual exploitation by ethnicity, nationality, and immigration status:
As the debate moved onto other issues — including national defence — I then called out the absurdity of a political class in Westminster that only ever seems to want to give the British people’s money away to other people and nations while our own military, public services, and people go without.
Slavery reparations. Foreign aid. Welfare benefits for foreign nationals. Politicians are now spending tens of billions of pounds a year supporting people who are not British or live elsewhere in the world while at the very same time our own military, our own armed forces, are crying out for financial support they urgently need to defend the British people against a growing number of serious threats.
As I said last night, we need to get serious as a country because the Labour Party is turning Britain into a bad joke:
And then, towards the end of the show, we were asked what we think about how the British people are being ripped off by water companies (which they are).
Water bosses are ruining our environment, our coastal communities, and treating the British people with contempt while awarding themselves enormous bonuses and taking the country for a ride.
But this isn’t only about the water companies, as I said. What we are witnessing in Britain and elsewhere across the West is the insidious effect of ‘crony capitalism’.
Capitalism when done right is the best economic system we’ve managed to create. But in many areas of our national life it’s become deeply corrupt and has morphed into crony capitalism, which is now preying on our national community and people.
Time and time again, global multinational companies are undercutting British workers, exploiting our country, and preying on the British people by using mass immigration to lower their labour costs and then offshoring to avoid paying the appropriate amount of tax and financial contribution to the very British people who made these profits possible to begin with. It is not fair. And it is not right.
As I said last night, it’s time for this country to make a choice. We can either keep having our national assets stripped and our people exploited, or we can start pushing politicians and parties forward that are actually going to put our country first:
What I tried to do throughout the debate is speak up for the silent majority — relentlessly, unashamedly, unambiguously.
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Have a good weekend, Matt
Well done you Matt. It takes character to stand up to the leftards.
Thank goodness we have you to fight back!