UNITE THE KINGDOM 13TH Sept

A visual (gonzo) study of the events of the 13th Westminster bridge was jam up, leading a big group of people to think they could access the event from the other end of Whitehall, where they encountered the counter protest. I tried to film both by Lime bike.

Thanks to everyone for being nice to me all day. I must have looked like a fish out of water. I had some great conversations with all sorts of people and witnessed some even more amazing conversations between people who wanted to relate across the divide. I can't speak to people from behind lines of riot Police so this is better and I know people on all sides of this one.

Do chat to people who disagree with you. At least get some understanding of what they think and why on these subjects close to your heart. I think there is still more people who want to speak than want to fight and there might be serious misunderstandings on all sides.

Special thanks to MistaRax from Speakers Corner for nudging me back into this. Come to Speakers Corner! When Hyde Park is full of people disagreeing on a Sunday we will know something is up!

Though Google have almost killed my page and banned a lot of my work I thought I would dust off Malung TV News for this one as I have been interested in the Tommy Robinson phenomena since the EDL emerged. The same as Hamza and any controversial figure I have taken a journalistic interest in I love to know who these people are, who they say they are and who they are not compared to what we would read in the media. A pre EDL group called the UBA did come to Finsbury park to protest Hamza which I blogged about here. (in reverse order)

http://malung-tv-news.blogspot.com/search/label/UBA

I usually don't put my own views to camera but there is a discussion towards the end where you can see where I am on this subject. I am not hiding and I spoke about to a number of Tommys supporters on the day without any problems whatsoever. I had no need to call them N@zis, they had no need to call me a terror supporter. I am sad "the left" are moody with Wesley and the new crop of Youtubers filming these protests. I will talk to anyone. Be they jihadis or Tommys posse, people are too damn interesting. With the left outnumbered to this extent I can't see a reason not to clearly state your case. Look where excluding people canceling and purity tests have got you and maybe have a rethink.

I will say to that end that I did go down intending to ask other Youtubers if there was any possible avenue to unity between left and right here, as I have been watching people like Dave Smith and Libertarians in the US with something to say, Due Dissidence podcast and Jimmy Dore who will talk to MAGA, Joe Rogan, Ana Kasparian,Flagrant podcast who both interviewed Bernie and Trump and the fantastic left/right news show which has caught the public imagination in a big way that is Breaking Points with Sagaar and Krystal.

Because I went the wrong way I didn't see any Youtubers all day and spent most of it in confusion until the young guy totally of his own accord said about uniting left and right. Most of my friends on the left and the MAGA people I talk to regularly would have no idea what he meant, all say he is naive but he spoke with passion most of what I agreed with being as I am sort of a Russel brand when he still said "fuck the lot of them" before he said vote bananaman the night before the election. It really made my day and gave me some affirmation of doing this as an new gonzo project. I told him he had made me cry and I would pretend it was the tear gas.

It was good to be filming a protest again. These lot are facing the same government media and police tactics we did protesting capitalism in the 90s.