There's also Doom. So PR Boom, which is a very minimal version of Doom, was ported to the ESP32 and was really neat about how retro go is structured is like, there was a little bit of a hump to get it like running, but once we got it running, all the emulators worked like once you get one emulator working the rest of the emulator worked because the input and the graphics and the sound all go, like all that is shared in one file. No, it's 100%. Which is another thing that's kind of neat is it doesn't pause nicely, but you can see the speed. It can run, this is running at 106%, so it can emulate Nintendo, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Doom at 100%. And it's using one, you know, one core is using the input and maybe even graphics output and the other one is doing the emulation. So it does really, it's really nice when you have an ESP32, which the Pico is underneath, dual core 250, 240 megahertz, even though it's got PS RAM, which is a little bit slower. It still has a lot of RAM internally. It has like 500K internal SRAM and we're not using Wi-Fi here. So of course it's you get to use all of that and then you have a ton of flash and that's how you can have all these emulators loaded in. So yeah, that's it. So I got this working. So this is my first prototype. There's a little bit more that I want to do. First off, I wasn't sure that the screen would look good enough. I was a little worried. Just while you see there's a large outline here, I was thinking of going with a 1.69 inch screen, which is 240 by 280 in case it didn't look good. But this looks great.  I think it's the smallest like near pixel perfect or pixel perfect emulator. Again, you can make it smaller, but it's not going to be playable. Whereas it's actually, you know, you can actually play the games and read the text and, you know, I'm not going to say I'm not going to do them. And I'm definitely not going to do them all looking at a screen that's looking at a screen. But, you know, you can you can play it. And, you know, as people add more to RetroGo, which is kind of like the nicest emulator out there. Also, it could be interesting to see if the S3 gets ported over to around RetroGo. It doesn't have the DACs. But, you know, I2S probably would be just as fast. That could be kind of nice because then you don't even need the CP20104. You can make it a smaller DOOM player.


So our next guest doesn't really need to be introduced because I'm sure you all know exactly who he is. I'm talking of course about the renowned author, scholar and fearless freedom fighter as far as I can see him and that is Robert Spencer. Please welcome Robert. Good afternoon everyone, welcome to this very special part of our conference. We have a very special guest and I know you will know our special guest who has been with us before and who is an absolute expert on the topic that we're going to discuss now that we've had an incredible year as you know and we've talked a lot about the incredible year and things have happened this year that have put us in a different place completely distracted us if you like from major issues that are still there and still in the background and we still need to deal with them and it's still the issue that other political parties won't address and if they do they address it with appeasement and with lies and with sanitization and you know from what I'm saying you know the topic that I'm talking about I'm talking about Islam it hasn't gone away this topic we've been immersed in coronavirus the whole year this hasn't gone away and we had a few stark reminders this year that it hasn't gone away and those reminders were in France we know what happened there but let's discuss them in a bit more detail and get a view also something else that's happened this year which is the US presidential election welcome please I know you know who he is we're honored to have his support and have him with us again today Robert Spencer Robert thank you ever so much for joining us it's an absolute very happy to be here thank you very much thank you thank you so let's start with France we've had France has had another one of those years hasn't it and and we had a we had another attack on what they the attackers thought was Charlie Hebdo's headquarters um not a fatal attack on that occasion but then we of course had the horrific beheading beheading just even to say the word is shocking beheading of a teacher and then further beheadings after that our first thing I want to ask you about that Robert is if you could take us through the theology of it so why are cartoons so controversial I know we discussed this briefly before but I think we should go over it again why are the cartoons so controversial and why is beheading a method of execution punishment the second part first the Quran says in chapter 47 verse four when you meet the unbelievers strike the next and so this prescribes beheading as the preferred method of execution for an unbeliever now the unbelievers in question are not actually just any unbeliever at all it has to be someone who is a kufar harbi a infidel at war with Islam and you place yourself at war with Islam by violating various tenets of Islamic law for example Islamic law stipulates that there is the death penalty prescribed for an unbeliever who mentions something impermissible about Muhammad the Quran or Islam itself now that includes visual representation this is a bit paradoxical because particularly in the Shiite Muslim tradition there has been representation of Muhammad in the past however nowadays it is considered by most Sunni Muslims to be ipso facto blasphemous and consequently the death penalty for blasphemy as well as the death penalty for infidels who mentioned something impermissible about Muhammad are both applicable so consequently somebody who draws Muhammad has committed blasphemy has mentioned something impermissible about him that is subjected the prophet of Islam to mockery and ridicule and thus the death penalty is entirely justified from the standpoint of Islamic law what's your view Robert on Emmanuel Macron and his response because he came out strongly first of all and said we will defend our cartoons etc he is now backpedaling on that because especially because the Muslim world turned against him I mean what is your view on this extraordinary situation that we have people beheaded in France for essentially being French and yet the world turns against France I mean is this what are we what are we watching here what are we witnessing here what is what is going on how can how can it all be so upside down well the freedom of speech was first given protection in western societies as the foundation of the idea that the society would be free now what's lost nowadays has been exactly what it means to be a free society and this is no longer valued in France in Britain in the United States to a tremendous degree a degree that very few people realize because we just take for granted that a society is and forever will be free and ought to be free and yet at the same time people hold these contradictory positions that various groups ought to be protected from criticism various people ought to be stopped when they speak certain things that are considered offensive what it means to have a free society is essentially that you can speak what you believe without fear of violent reprisal that what is protected in the society is precisely the freedom of opinion and the freedom of expression that's what makes a society free but nowadays the idea that one has offended a group that is considered to be deserving of special protection and this is particularly Muslims in France and Britain in the United States and Canada and elsewhere then these people ought to be protected from being offended and now that cuts against the very idea of what a free society is and creates Muslims as a protected class that can therefore do whatever it wishes because it's walled off from criticism and that means it's given essentially a license to jihadis who are within the Muslim community to do whatever they wish so the backlash that Macron has experienced after saying that France will stand up for the freedom of speech comes from the by now deeply ingrained idea in the west that Muslims have been subjected to particular discrimination and harassment and that consequently they're deserving of special protection and that that includes a protection from criticism so the cartoons have to be outlawed he has been completely inconsistent in this in saying that France will stand up for the freedom of speech and then Rasmus Paladin from Denmark went to France to burn a Quran and he was arrested and deported because he had violated the idea that Muslims should be safeguarded from this kind of insult and ridicule of course if Rasmus Paladin had come to France and burned a Bible then nobody would be upset in the least and everyone would agree that this is an essential aspect of the freedom of expression that Christianity can be subjected to this kind of harsh criticism and even ridicule and mockery and that this is necessary and essential for the society continued to continue to be free but nowadays when it comes to Islam and Muslims this very idea has been lost and people are ready and willing and even eager to throw out the basic principles of what makes the society free in order to placate those who would be violent in the face of criticism I mean do you think Robert that it's a to me it's a mixture of two things one the demands of Islam and two the loss of our freedoms generally and to my mind we the western world is going to the left and by which I mean the extreme left the totalitarian left of shutting down of freedom speech in general to my mind Islam has taken advantage of that fact it is using the left-wing racist card at every opportunity um it's almost a perfect storm you've got a demanding religion and a weak society mixed and we've as you say we've lost our our will for freedom our understanding of freedom we've had many stating in Europe for a long long time so that people don't even understand their independence from the state is so important but would you agree with that do you think it's a it's a toxic mix of things and can we get out of that mix yes there's no doubt that's absolutely true and very important and it's also the underlying reason why islamic groups and leftist groups are such close allies when you expect that because of differing issues of morality and various other things that they would be at odds they work together very well because both of them have essentially a totalitarian worldview that the paradise can be achieved in this world the perfect society can and should be achieved in this world and that's achieved by means of brute force that those who dissent are to be forcibly silenced and brutalized if necessary or even killed in order to make them submit that is of course how the far left has always worked whenever it's gained power in Russia in China and everywhere else where communists have come to power we have seen that they behave in this way and that also is the way sharia works that sharia is based on the idea that the perfect society is modeled after is patterned after islamic law is based on islamic law and those who of course violate islamic law are to be beheaded or have their hands cut off or various other things that are these brutal punishments mandated by sharia so islam in its legal aspect and the far left come together precisely in that totalitarian imperative now can it be resisted only if there is a large scale understanding a large scale awakening to the very well established idea that total government control over the lives of individuals is actually life destroying and is the cause of an appalling amount of human misery over the last few centuries can this be recalled well i think there are signs of hope even though it looks as if president trump has not been re-elected then nonetheless there's a movement of 70 million americans who voted for him who uh agreed with him and his repeated proclamations that america will never be a socialist country uh that's going to come down to the test now in the coming few years and we're going to see how much those 70 million are committed to that idea and what they're willing to do and to sacrifice in order to protect america as a free society but the very fact that trump was able to be elected the first time the fact that brexit was able to be voted in in britain even though politicians since that have been doing their best to make it a null uh empty letter proposition nonetheless these are signs that there are large numbers of people who are not willing to submit to the totalitarian boot on the face and will resist and so how it will go is anyone's guess but it's not going to be an easy thing i do not believe for either country to be completely destroyed in this way thank you i i think it's a crucial point to make that the left is in bed with islam and for that and for the reasons you've just described let's talk about president trump he is still president trump for the time being what's his legacy in this regard i mean he came in like he said before the election he said i think islam hates us i remember this it was it was it just it made me my sing with joy just to hear someone so senior in politics say such a thing four years we've had him in the white house what's his legacy in this regard has he achieved anything in terms of pushing back islam what has he achieved will it carry on well there's no doubt that if you look at the rate of jihad terror attacks in the united states from 2009 to 17 and then compare that to the rate of jihad terror attacks in the united states from 2017 to now there's a big difference there's a remarkable drop off and i believe that that is a test a silent testimony to the fact that islamic jihadis have understood that trump means business in regard to stopping them and that they have to bide their time now i do believe that it's virtually certain that a biden presidency a kamala harris presidency will result in an extraordinary new rate of jihad terror attacks in the united states there will be a sharp spike in that jihad terror activity in the united states because the jihadis see the world in terms of strength and weakness and they see trump is strong and they see biden and harris is weak that's as simple as it is that's all there is to it now as as much as that is true at the same time there has not been a great deal of progress during the trump administration in regard to changing the perspective of the counter-terror and foreign policy establishments they were committed when he took office to the idea that islam was a religion of peace that had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism and that therefore the counter-terror establishment ought to be dedicated to stopping islamophobia which they see as the cause of any jihad terror attacks that do occur and to a fantasy right-wing extremism that exaggerates the threat of a tiny minority into a threat that is comparable to or even equivalent or greater equivalent to or greater than the jihad terror threat and that unfortunately has continued as we have seen the so-called deep state resist trumps policies with everything they possibly have been able to do and so the foreign policy establishment and the counter-terror establishment that trump inherited is still largely in place and now it will just be all the more emboldened to dismantle whatever vestiges there are of actual resistance to jihad terror activity and how how entangled let's talk about the democrats as a party for us how entangled with for what we're better expression i suppose with jihadism how i mean for example the labor party here is awash with muslims extreme i mean as extreme as it gets and unashamedly so is that the case with the democrats are they are they in bed with care for example in the way that the labor party would be in bed with islamic organizations here what are the democrats like in this regard generally i don't believe that's far as it's as far advanced in regard to the democrats as it is with labor but certainly it's the exact same thing uh kamala harris who's likely to be president by this time next year is uh taking advice regularly from the council on american islamic relations and biden of course promised to engage which is another muslim brotherhood group that he would appoint muslims at every level of his administration it's virtually certain that the muslims he will appoint will be muslim brotherhood operatives because all the major muslim groups in the united states care the islamic society of north america the muslim american society all the rest of them they're all linked to the muslim brotherhood and we have to remember of course that according to a captured internal document about the muslim brotherhood activity in the united states the brother's uh goal is eliminating and destroying western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers by their hands that is the hands of the westerners the non-muslims they will be made to sabotage their own house and i think the democratic party's eager collaboration with these muslim brotherhood operatives is a primary indication of how the west is going to be made to destroy itself absolutely and you know we would not they would not be doing this if we weren't facilitating this of course it wouldn't be a better way over there we've given them all the power that they have they would not be able to do it if it were not for the left in britain and the united states being so solicitous of islamic groups and so eager to appease and accommodate them then they would have no influence if the authorities in both countries stood up for the principle of one law for all and enforced to the idea that if you are in britain or in the united states you have to believe in the freedom of speech the freedom of conscience the equality of rights of all people before the law particularly the equality of rights of women the equality of rights of non-muslims you have to not be anti-semitic all these other things that are contradicted by sharia if our authorities stood up for all that then there wouldn't be any problem then people who would not or could not do that would be deported or would never have come in the first place and the muslims who were here would be sincere in their acceptance of western values but instead there's the big uh become generally accepted the idea that uh to oppose sharia even in its most inhumane forms even in the forms in the aspects of it that most clearly contradict western values is islamophobic and racist that's why we're in the fix we're in absolutely absolutely depressing it's depressing i mean after like you say we'd four years of trump and nothing but when little catastrophic happened during that time but it's going to take more than four years to push this back and to push back against as you put it the the deep state and as trump puts it so you mean you mentioned that camala harris will be president by this time next year that really uh that quickly well i'm the prophet but uh i i do think that there are signs there are interesting indications of what the democratic party's plans are they have been rather forthright as a matter of fact about some of the things they intended to do for example nancy polosi a few days before the election said that it will look as if trump has won on election night but we're confident that biden will prove the winner and be inaugurated on january 20th which was a little bit of a slip that they were planning to steal this election in just the way that they've done by bringing in this inundation of fake absentee ballots and mail-in ballots that tipped the scales to biden in many of the key states uh even though it looked as if trump was on his way to a comfortable victory on election night another time when i believe polosi tipped her hand was in october when she introduced legislation that would make it a great deal easier for the 25th amendment to the constitution to be implemented which allows for the vice president to become president if the president is incapacitated or unable to perform his or her duties in the judgment of the vice president and of congress now she said at the time that this was not about trump that they were doing this in view of the incapacitation of a future president now who might that be except the uh president-elect with his advancing dementia and so i think that the uh ground has been paved for biden to be ushered off the stage rather quickly and kamala harris who is obama's protege to take his place who's worse who's going to be worse biden or kamala harris it's all the same much of a muchness biden was supposed to be a moderate but he had to sell his soul to the socialist wing of the party in order to secure the nomination uh the party's choice in 2020 as in 2016 was bernie sanders and avowed socialist who insists that the socialism he plans to implement in the united states will be that of sweden not that of the soviet union but uh they're already disquieting indications that that is not the case there has been a large number a quite surprising number of influential democrats who have already called for truth and reconciliation commissions as they included robert b reich who is secretary of labor in the clinton cabinet and they uh make it clear that they want to make sure that people who supported the trump administration will not be able to find work will not be able to do anything in life unless they uh apparently attend these truth and reconciliation brainwashing sessions and renounce their former positions in a way that's acceptable to the new authorities so this is paving the way for a totalitarian state and they're quite a large number of democrats saying this and they're quite open about it this is i mean this is not america what you're describing is not america a truth and reconciliation committee i mean it's where we have committees here set up by city car and you may be aware of in london to review our street signs and our statues and get them all diversified but our countries are being absolutely transformed by these people absolutely transformed and what does a biden in your view robert what is a biden presidency or a harris presidency mean for europe what we had a there was a huge impact when trump won our side got really confident will the opposite happen with with biden yes uh this is a tremendous defeat for the so-called populist movement the attempt to reassert national sovereignty over internationalist socialist uh initiatives this there's there's no minimizing that i wish that it weren't so but i do think that it it can't be said that these uh movements are just going to go away and the more oppressive that the internationalists and socialists become the more resistance they're going to encounter and then of course they will uh i'll use that resistance to clamp down all the harder and it's uh it's it's not going to be pretty on either side of the atlantic ultimately yeah yeah i unfortunately i agree that it's not a very positive picture at the moment but as you say those 70 million voted for trump are still there we still have a i think growing number of people not willing to vote or along these grounds yet mind you i'm not sure they have the right people to vote for but i'm still optimistic and i remain optimistic that the truth cannot be hidden forever last question i would if i might what do you advise us so our members are sitting watching what do you advise in general how do we fight this what what what can any individual do i know you're asked this question all the time but i also know it's the question the members want me to ask you what do you advise them what can they they do because they always ask me so i'm asking you what can they do recruit five more members for for britain don't be afraid to speak your mind i know the situation is very dire but if we're not willing to take any risks to preserve freedom then we'll certainly lose it and so one of the main things that uh people in the uk can do now is try to awaken their friends and neighbors to the magnitude of what's happening and to bring them into your movement uh the the uh authorities of course may make it very difficult for you for doing that but what are they going to do if you don't do that they're going to do exactly the same thing without any resistance and i think that uh there's no doubt as you just noted that there is a tremendous amount of support for the positions that we espouse among the general population they're just not aware of how bad things are they're not aware of what's going on and they're not aware that there is a group that is their voice and so this is what we need to work on is raising awareness in every possible way that we can in every forum that we can and speaking out without any fear without any hesitation understanding that the pressures are only going to increase but the pressures are going to increase because the establishment is so threatened and because the establishment realizes how tenuous their grip on power is so let's work to to tip it over the edge and destroy their hegemony forever well perfect perfect advice Robert absolutely favorite and you are right it's people are with us they just don't know they don't know uh we've got to tell them Robert thank you ever ever ever so much for joining us again today um i won't keep you for very much longer but any any final any final thoughts on this um i'd really appreciate any any thoughts at all on the future where we're going um anything positive anything to to leave us with well i think that that's the thing that we need to keep in mind that the people who voted for brexit even though this has all worked out and such become such a mess they voted for it and they're still there and there will be another occasion coming rather soon i expect in which they will be challenged once again to stand up for britain for british values for the values of western civilization and uh they're going to come out in force again so we need to keep going and never give up hope remember you've got churchill behind you and you know the situation looked quite dismal for him at uh various points during the war and yet he uh above all counsel perseverance and so that's what we need to keep in mind at this point thank you robert that's absolutely inspirational and perseverance to me is everything there's never been a victory over the odds without perseverance and without faith and without believing we can do it and we can and thank you very very much for for joining us today thank you very much for your inspirational words and i mean that and thank you for everything you do for this fight you're one of the people who inspired me to get involved in this um a long long time ago and i thank you for that um and i thank you for for for continuing for persevering for fighting for being one of the few that we can look to and say look look what happens when we fight on look at what we we have intelligent inspirational people on our side and you're very much one of those figures to me and i personally thank you um for inspiring me to get up and and fight back um so thank you very much robert spencer thank you for joining us hope you enjoy that everyone it's absolute absolute pleasure to have robert spencer with us um i shall let you get on with the rest of the conference um and remember those words never ever ever give up this battle is still in front of us but we still have the truth on our side people know we are true they know we're fighting for truth and of love for our own culture on our own people and we can only win if we persevere thank you robert thank you everyone for watching so i was asked by the party chairman would i talk to you about the media and sometimes i think that's about the only thing i get to talk to you about the media but of course the media is the message as was once famously observed and the message i get from the media is that it's so toxic and so poison that it almost staggers belief you know when we when we gathered last year and talked about uh amongst other things the the british media i guess my expectations of it were that it had sunk pretty low and couldn't get any lower i was wrong of course it could get lower what was i thinking the intervening 12 months has seen the british media once again effortlessly demonstrate how destructive it is how dangerous it is how um utterly useless it is as well uh there's been two things i suppose in the past 12 months that i wanted to talk to talk to you about the first of course is COVID-19 you can't get away from the topic it's dominated our lives and uh it's also caused so much damage to our society caused so much damage to individuals health by separating people from their loved ones from their family from their older folks um it's caused so much economic chaos and you would think that there would be some kickback from the legacy media when it comes to what the government in my opinion foolishly has been indulging in namely putting us under veritable house arrest but no the purpose of the british media is to encourage the government to go even further in terms of its draconian measures against us in closing us down in stopping us gathering in stopping our free assembly and in a way it shouldn't surprise me but it does you know you've seen you've witnessed the uh the many press briefings especially back in march april uh that when boris was giving them with uh dr doom and uh professor gloom uh on on on culvert and the uh the only questions we ever seemed to get from the likes of robert peston from laura kunsberg uh from the other dreadful uh range of media personalities was could you not lock us up quicker please could you not shut us down faster could you not please take away more of our liberties that's pretty much the line that they were using why was that why do you think the media have been so keen to see us locked down well i'll give you two reasons and let me know if you think this this rings true or not the first reason is have you seen the amount of money that the government's been spending on pr campaigns for its uh pr campaigns on in press and on tv and on radio it's run into tens of millions of pounds and those campaigns therefore generate great revenue for the very media that argue for a more lockdown do you see how this one works maybe so in actual fact lockdowns make the media more profitable so of course they want to see more lockdowns heaven forbid you get to get out and live your life uh outdoors away from the box in the corner away from the uh you know the the digital radio that's the first reason the second reason is this if you are locked down that means you're sitting at home most likely if you're sitting at home you will consume more media now it may be tv it may be radio it may even be online digital but however whichever way you cut it you consume more media so the media wins so from both perspectives covid has been a blessing for our rancid toxic media they um patently can't get enough of it and that's why even as we as we gather at this party conference it's all about when's the next lockdown coming and the media basically carp and criticize the government if the government for whatever reason dilly dally's and doesn't work out well we have to extend the lockdown for an extra couple of weeks we've got to stick you in tier three or is it tier four maybe tier five if you live in the people's republic of scotland uh and as for wales probably the least said the better and so the the the media has a vested interest in keeping the covid hysteria going it makes them money it gets them viewers and listeners and that's why they are so contemptible because what they're not doing is doing their job instead of asking probing questions of the politicians like a decent journalist should do they don't do any of that and so we never are we never get questions asked about what is the false positive rate prime minister we don't get those questions prime minister do you know that respiratory d illnesses do tend to come back in the autumn really simple stuff never asked and it never will be asked because that's why that's because they are fake news media now the person who's probably most famously turn coined that phrase fake news media is president donald trump and even in the past couple of weeks we've also seen the media once again um go to them go to some lengths to demonstrate its outrageous bias against the president in terms of what's happened in the us presidential election so you know within 12 hours of the polls closing we had the media here gushing that it's going to be president biden yeah orange man bad my trumpler thrown out of the white house pathetic partisan stuff clearly demonstrating in demig bias and you know whether one is a democrat or a republican the fact of the matter is that as of today donald trump remains president of the united states oh no i know facebook doesn't think that because they've removed they've removed that status from him but he is yet the legacy media have shown him no respect and that's before we get near the dreadful silicon valley tyranny of twitter and of facebook and indeed of youtube twitter and seems to spend its entire time now basically fact checking every comment that donald trump uh tweets and they're doing that to damage the president facebook as i said have removed his status as current us president it doesn't get worse than that and let me tell you if that's how they treat and a sitting president what chance have the rest of us is it any wonder i was removed from my twitter perch earlier this year of course not but i'm in good company with the likes of an marie we uh we prosper without necessarily the weight of twitter behind us another toxic uh media channel that i'd love to see taken down actually i think it does much more harm than good um these days so um you know that so whether it's traditional media in the form of tv and radio or whether it's new media in the form of the big silicon giants uh silicon valley giants it's all it's all faded it's all the swamp you'd want to know where the swamp is turn on your box turn on the tv flick to the bbc flick to sky go onto twitter go onto facebook you're in the swamp that's what needs to be understood but listen i want to give you some hope i don't want this to be just a a negative diatribe from me um i think there is hope i think when it comes to the likes of social media we now have platforms emerging like parlor where you can still find me by the way yes i still do exist um you can there's other platforms coming along like rumble which is an alternative for example to youtube and this there's a connection to parlor there there are other channels propping up popping up around the place and these are new these are the successors to big tech and i wish them every success and i will give them every help i can because i believe that you know when we look back in from the in the year 2030 and we look back to 2020 we'll remember that as the year when big tech overreached itself and started a downward spiral and we look back in it and we'll see that even at 2020 we saw that big media the bbc for example was dying and it'll be dead by 2030 so on though so i look forward to trampling on the grave of big media and uh and big tech now that might take a few years but hopefully i'll still not be in mind but on the basis that i'm not uh i think there is hope and you know the sun does rise afresh every morning that's what keeps political parties going because there's always hope and so as i said i think that we can have with a degree of optimism face the future knowing that there will be new innovation new entrepreneurs new ways to communicate with each other and to spread the very interesting views of the for britain party and in that regard can i take this opportunity to thank you again very much for affording me this platform on your special day and i hope perhaps in 2021 we actually can get physically back together again and i look forward to that day in the meantime thank you all again one of the things about for britain is that whilst it is a proudly patriotic british party the values that it stands for carry residents right around the world and so i'd like to now introduce our next guest speaker all the way from germany please welcome michael schreiner hello dear members and supporters of for britain my name is michael i live in germany i am german and i was asked to give a short speech to your national conference which unfortunately has to take place online this year because of cobit 19 restrictions i was asked to do this because a few months ago i decided to become an international member of for britain and these days i received an email with the question if i want to tell you a little bit of the story of that so here we go um i am a huge fan of morrissey for more than 20 years and i didn't know for britain and unmarry waters before morrissey started supporting her and later supporting her party i must admit that at first i was irritated about this because when you do some research via google for example you find out that for britain would be a racist party would be a far right party according to wikipedia for example and i thought by myself this can't be this brilliant musician who has shown so much common sense over decades now supports far right racists and i'm really aware that nowadays some people are very quick with accusing others of being racist or far right just because of having an opinion a different opinion on several several issues and i'm really aware too that morrissey himself is being accused of being racist already in the early 1990s so i decided to do some research by myself and real research doesn't mean um go to google because this leads you very quick to pages like hope not hate i guess i don't have to talk about this organization here now real research means get in touch with the people you want to know something about so it started with watching some videos with going to unmarry's livestream where i asked her different questions she answered these questions very kindly so thank you for that i had very nice conversations with supporters and members in the live chat below the live streams and i really quick found out that this is interesting that this is quite sympathetic and that this is nothing that i would consider as racist or far right so in the next step i decided to read this book which you surely know and i must say it's very well written it includes very much um very many um facts and data it's a good work on the issue of what islam courses in western societies and also in this book i couldn't find anything what i would consider as far right or racist in the following days and weeks i got in touch with more and more members of for britain and my conclusion is that your policies aren't far right your policies are about defending democracy they are about defending liberties they are about defending the equality of men and women for example about defending homosexuals about defending uh jews against anti-semitism and as you know anti-semitism is a part of the islamic ideology it's about defending animals animals against the cruelty of anstan slaughter and so on and so on this isn't far right this is quite the opposite if you want well i had more and more conversations with for britain members and one person one day told me there will be the opportunity to become an international member i first thought well this is weird as a german citizen to become a member of a british party but then i gave it a thought and i thought that freedom loving europeans should stand together that you have a manifesto that i can really really support and that in my opinion england and united kingdom are very very important for whole europe even though you left the european union or even because you left the european union because you gave us an example to liberate a state a society from this ruling european union and my opinion is that if for britain will be successful in several elections then this will make an impact on whole europe and this is why i think that your success will be so important and this is why i decided to take the advance accept the invitation and become an international member of your party so that's it in summary i wish you a successful conference i hope we will meet someday in person when this covid-19 lockdown mask very madness is gone i really hope that it will be gone someday by the way it's another point where i strongly agree to your political opinions i wish you all the best regards from germany take care and until then the for britain party doesn't shy away from discussing the issues that so many other parties choose to ignore now we all know that female genital mutilation is a savage practice that has got no place in any civilized society and yet we have it here and so to give us an update on this crucial issue might i welcome to the to the conference floor julien flinn welcome julien hello i want to share with you some thoughts about female genital mutilation in britain and what we can do to eradicate it female genital mutilation fgm for short is an islamic practice and despite having neighbors with larger muslim populations the uk boasts the most victims in europe 2014 government report estimates that there are 170 000 girls and women living with fgm in the uk this amounts to one in 200 of our female population however we don't know what proportion of these represents a violation of british law a home cutting whereby a girl is cut on british soil and holiday cutting whereby the girl is taken abroad to be cut uh both illegal but mutilation that occurred prior to immigration to britain is not prosecutable in the uk and it is often impossible to determine which took place home cutting holiday cutting or pre-immigration cutting but the 170 000 figure is certainly an underestimate fgm's illegality inevitably leads to under reporting but more worryingly the very body's and frontline professionals responsible for reporting and recording fgm have been shamefully negligent in doing their job for example a 2013 survey of 500 hospitals and local educational authorities found that few over 50 kept records of mutilated and at risk girls and women we can get a perspective on the problem by comparing britain's response to female genital mutilation and its response to child sexual abuse the two crimes are very similar both are perpetrated against children usually by parents or relatives who are otherwise law rebiting both play on the victim's loyalty fear confusion and shame to make her complicit with the crime both crimes target the genitals and the families of the victims of both crimes are often close rank in order to prevent detection by unwelcome outsiders however a crucial difference is that fgm is much easier to detect than child sexual abuse because by its very nature it leaves permanent easily verifiable physical damage whereas sexual abuse generally doesn't but this is not reflected in the prosecution rates of the two crimes in the period 2016 to 2017 there were over 7 000 prosecutions for child sexual abuse resulting in 5 374 convictions during the same period the nhs attended to over 9 000 cases of fgm and as we have already noted not of all of these will represent a crime against uk law a proportion almost certainly having occurred prior to the victim's immigration to britain but 57 were recorded as home cutting and one would have expected these at the very least to have been prosecuted but no instead only one single one of these 9 000 plus cases was prosecuted a non muslim woman and this is the only successful prosecution for fgm ever to have occurred in the uk yet fgm should be much easier to detect than child sexual abuse and certainly know how to prosecute so whilst we rightly prosecute all cases of child sexual abuse it seems that fgm is rarely investigated or prosecuted the authority is opting for a softly softly community led approach unless of course the perpetrator happens to be a non muslim an example of this softly softly approach is that of the eight specialist support clinics that opened last year in birmingham bristol leads and london to treat a total of about 1300 women have a long-term effects of genital mutilation that such clinics have become necessary in itself an indication of the size of the underlying problem it is also significant that these clinics treat only long-term effects and women not children in fact these clinics do not admit under 18s their purported justification being that under 18s will be deterred from seeking their services by mandatory reporting regulations by which professionals must report all suspected cases of child abuse to the police but surely the biggest obstacle to under 18s access in these clinics is the fact that these clinics don't admit them the real reason for this policy is not mandatory reporting but rather that they believe is crimes should not be dealt with punitively and they don't want to find themselves obliged to report cases of mutilated little girls to the police but fgm is a crime against a child long before it becomes a crime against a woman she grows into these clinics will alleviate the symptoms of a tiny minority of victims years decades after the crime was actually committed but because the perpetrators need fear no punishment nor stigma they will do nothing to actually prevent the crime being committed in the first place they will mitigate the symptoms when and only when they inconveniently make themselves known giving the illusion that the problem has been dealt with the impunity with which fgm is treated is an example of muslim privilege muslims consistently demand often with violence exemptions from the laws and norms that apply to everyone else in society laws and norms concerning the treatment of children animal cruelty the concealment of identity and public gender equality freedom of speech polygamy sexual slavery and bonded labour as we recently saw in Leicester the uk authorities have gotten into the habit of granting these exemptions either legally as we have halal slaughter and sharia courts all by covering up and turning a blind eye to certain crimes when committed by muslims for example grooming gangs and of course fgm these cover-ups may have their origins in fears of accusations of racism but they're now principally motivated by fear of how non-muslim british citizens will react if informed of the true nature of islam and how it is damaging our society these cover-ups are rationalised as protecting vulnerable minorities that is muslims from islamophobia that is a justified and proportional outrage over the rest of the population however in turning a blind eye to these crimes and concealing them from the public the most truly vulnerable minorities of all are abandoned to the depredations of islam muslim children in the case of fgm and non-muslim children in the case of islamic grooming gangs frontline professionals such as nurses social workers doctors and teachers can also become complicit with the illegal practices of the communities they work with for example a nurse working with samali immigrants knows that if she reported every suspected case of fgm she would soon lose their trust, cooperation and and custom with the help of the cultural relativism endemic to such professions they allured into rationalising excusing and turning a blind eye to practices such as fgm so what policies should britain adopt to combat female genital mutilation a central agency devoted to this task should draw up a list of high-risk countries and communities a gp nurse or overqualified person should carry out a yearly check on girls from these countries and communities this very brief examination can be conducted as an adjunct to other health consultations and be used to inform the parents of the law and penalties these examinations will become pulsary up to an age determined by informed experts and agencies probably somewhere between six and puberty older girls from high-risk communities will continue to be monitored by other less intrusive means the daughters of newly arrived immigrants belonging to high-risk groups will be automatically examined and her parents informed of the illegality of fgm all mutilated girls will be offered medical and psychological support if a previously intact girl is found to be mutilated the parents will be investigated and prosecuted parents who fail to cooperate will disqualify themselves from certain state benefits and failure to cooperate may also be taken as an indication that their daughters are at risk and may trigger an investigation professionals who come into contact with children from high-risk communities will be trained to recognize signs of fgm there will be obliged to report all cases or suspicions of fgm including the intention to carry out fgm midwives and obstetricians especially must report all mutilated expectant mothers including mutilation that happened before immigration since the daughters of mutilated mothers are at the highest risk of eventually being mutilated themselves parents in a high-risk group traveling abroad will be warned that if on their return their daughter is found to be mutilated they will be prosecuted and prosecutions should receive as much publicity and coverage as possible in order to educate deter and shame potential perpetrators and their communities we know that these measures work in the mid 80s france implemented a zero tolerance approach similar to the one outlined above before they took this approach the daughters of mutilated mothers faced an 80 probability that they too would eventually be mutilated by 2014 there had been some 40 highly visible trials for fgm related crimes with over 100 convictions this sent out such a strong signal to at-risk communities that by 2014 linda vile curiel an attorney with a pivotal role in these trials could report we have a triple approach preventing through education shaming with publicity and punishing it seems to work we see girls who are cut before they come to france but we have not seen anyone cut in france for a while france has shown that zero tolerance works but deluded into thinking we can appease islam muddleheaded with cultural relativism and disarmed by cowardice the uk has adopted an approach to fgm that can be best described as maximum tolerance zero tolerance of fgm is long overdue in the uk i believe that for britain is a party to deliver it thank you of course the purpose of any political party is to win elected office and as you know there are council elections coming along next may and so with that in mind i would like to introduce to you mariam so hill hope i've pronounced your name right mariam who's uh for britain regional organizer and a counsellor and what she's going to do is she's going to talk to you about how you get ready for fighting a council election so please welcome mariam hello i'm mariam so how and i'm the full britain party secretary and the regional organizer for the east of england uh we're coming up to that time of year again where we're preparing for the elections in may so campaigning is underway uh people have been leafleting um when when lockdown has been allowing that and engaging online um in social media local community groups and sort of getting basically preparing um for the elections getting getting our name out there so i i stood last year as a candidate i've never done this before and i quite enjoyed the process really i found my local authority quite helpful they've got a department that deals with everything to do with the elections so you can phone them to get any sort of help that you need um i think there was one day where i actually phoned them about four four or five times asking them questions when i was filling out the form just to be to be sure and they were very helpful when we took our forms in uh there was someone that sort of meet us and actually went through the forms with us so i i i actually found the process quite quite straightforward so some of the things that come up uh some of the concerns that come up when uh people saying they thought about becoming a candidate is it's just this the whole process of of sort of the the application i think we have a tendency to sort of build it up in our head like it's a big deal you know that you've got this paperwork and you need to get signatures and then then there's the vote but remember it's actually just a few small little steps um it's not this one big thing in one go so so the first thing you get your paperwork that's that's quite simple um and the second thing is you fill it out it's it's quite simple um again there's there's people there to sort of help obviously we would help as well um of course so that's that's just very straightforward then you need to get your 10 signatures i managed to do that on just one small street usually people are quite happy happy to oblige and then you you hand your paperwork in it's it's really really quite simple then campaigning that's that's another side of it so depending on on how much time you have and whatnot that's that's completely up to you but campaigning is is you know door to door leafleting and again your local branch will help you you've got plenty of members out there that want want to help out and um engaging online that's another way to get your name out there and to get to get known so last last time around uh last year the party was only just just over a year old just just over a year and we put forward over 50 candidates and we two of them were successful so we have those two councillors on top of that we also had another eight parish councillors so in total that's that's 10 councillors in our first year which i think is is quite an achievement and something to be quite proud of now next time around we're going to be putting forward even more candidates and we've actually got um we've we've uh got more parish councillors now since lockdown began we have about four or five more parish councillors and we've also had about another six branches open up so we've been very busy um so next time around um you know the coming up election may come may elections that are coming up have a think about whether you would like to be a full britain candidate because we often um hear the phrase drain the swamp and we we you know we we see what's going on we see that we're not being listened to uh you know our MPs and our councillors are not representing um not representing us we've seen the the absolute fiasco with you know the sort of border force uh how lockdown's been handled how brexit's been handled and and yes yes we must drain the swamp but who who are we going to replace these people with well that's people like you so you know if you're thinking well you know you don't know much about it every councillor that's there at one point in their in their in their life or one point in time they were a new councillor and they didn't know either but it's just something that you you know you'd learn as you go along so if you win you know you'll start going to meetings you'll start getting emails you know it will be a gradual process and again we're always here to help not once have I needed support or help from the party and not got it so so we are here we've got you know like I said we've got councillors established councillors on hands it would be more than happy to to give you advice so don't don't get too caught up in thinking you know what if and you know we often major in minor things but if I if I was told oh there's a new councillor in your area but they're they're not very experienced but they really care about their community and they want to listen to the people and they want what's best for the people and you know they're willing to learn and they've got you know this this passion and enthusiasm that's that's what I want to hear it it doesn't matter to me whether someone's been a councillor for a year for 10 years or is brand new as long as they're going to do what they're elected to do if they if they've got that that drive and that willing willingness to learn and they're going to represent us fairly that's what I want so if if you're that kind of person you you think you know oh you know I might I've thought about becoming a candidate but I don't know and I'm not experienced as long as you have that that genuine desire to help your community and and do what's right that's where it starts everything else you can learn as you go along so have a think about standing if you want to you know talk about this more or you've got more questions get get in touch with the party we'll put you through to the right people we've got we've got a lot of experienced people sort of from the sort of the application side and and councillors as I've said but it's it's you know it starts with people like you it's people like you sitting at home watching this on your on your laptop or your phone um it's you that can make the changes it's you that knows what your area needs and what your community needs so thank you for listening to me today I really appreciate that and I really appreciate the support that you give the party we couldn't do it without you so have a think about becoming a candidate and enjoy the rest of the conference take care my favorite moment of every for britain conference is the moment that we're going to have right now and that is it's my pleasure to introduce one of the most courageous people I know not just here in the UK but anywhere she speaks her mind she tells it like it is she's fearless in the face of great adversity and it's an absolute pleasure to call her a friend please welcome your party leader Ann Marie Waters as she introduces the new party manifesto Ann Marie good afternoon everyone you're very welcome and I hope you're enjoying the virtual for britain conference of 2020 now as a starting point I have to thank a lot of people first of all our members and thank you very much to you all now you're going to hear this a lot as we approach the end of 2020 and I probably say it at every year's conference but what a year we have had it has been a defining year a world-changing year a year when we have all been tested we've been locked in our homes placed in the most unnatural and often bizarre situations but our members as usual responded with nothing but stoicism and determination and we got on with it we had to change what we do but we just got on with it and that's our party in a nutshell let's meet the challenges and do what needs to be done and you have done that this year thank you thank you also to our wonderful committee who work so hard you have such loyalty to our party and our cause that it is genuinely heartwarming I'm very very lucky to have this team around me and I know it I want to thank our donors our supporters and our friends and I hope and I know that we've done you proud in 2020 just as we did in 2019 and as we will continue to do we'll continue to grow we'll continue to prosper we'll do the same and better in 2021 no matter what the obstacles may be now it's been a transformational year for me personally I've moved to a new home to a new town put down some new routes and I couldn't be more delighted about it this year I moved to the wonderful town of Hartlepool where our fantastic Councillor Karen King does us proud as does Julian Leopard in Epping Forest and our co-opted councillors all around the country and I am sincerely grateful to you all now Hartlepool is a beautiful beach side town that like the rest of our country deserves better like in the rest of our country the hard working people the people who get out of bed and try and make an honest living are the ones for whom life is hardest excessive taxes and regulations have strangled local economies for years but this year small business took one hell of a blow and sadly it's not over yet so let's take a look back this year was of course dominated by one issue coronavirus or COVID-19 it is and was the science fiction film that I regularly talk about it's a bad film we have been locked in our homes we've had police threatening to search our supermarket trolleys we've had a spectacle of the home secretary telling us we can't talk to our neighbours about science fiction film and one that came that began at the start of the year this all began in January when we began to see images and stories coming out of China telling us that a new virus had arrived and was killing people this had apparently come from one of China's notorious wet markets which as soon were reopened and are operating again today soon those images arrived in Europe particularly Italy and the press ramped this up hyped it up governments felt obliged to take drastic measures and we initially supported those drastic measures but even at a time when this virus was spreading the planes were still landing and our politicians our political class was talking about racism to blame this on China would be racist it was absurd what happened next was a masterclass in how we are governed and this to me is key for 2020 the brightest light to shine this year was the light on how we are governed it has become clearer than ever before so let me explain in March we were placed into what has become known as lockdown this meant that all non-essential businesses were closed all leisure facilities were closed pubs bars restaurants theaters gyms all closed it cut off people from their social lives from the clubs and societies and churches it was a severe measure and it was a lot to ask the people now most of the country went along with it we gave the government our support most people stuck to the rules even though it was so difficult we did our best but as time went on stories started to emerge and things began to look rather different there appeared first of all to be no immediate end in sight what we were being told wasn't necessarily what we were seeing we were told that our NHS was overwhelmed and yet we saw doctors and nurses with very little to do they had little to do while cancer patients and others had their vital appointments tests and treatments cancelled so what was going on then we heard about the care homes tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily because COVID patients had been placed into care homes the very establishments that are home to the people most vulnerable to COVID-19 we began to learn of deaths registered as coronavirus deaths even when they went we began to hear from doctors and scientists who believe that the defeat of COVID was to be found not in lockdowns but in medicines currently available these doctors were silenced their jobs lost their careers lost why what was going on and understandably public support began to wane especially when we heard of the economic impact in my own region the northeast the city of Newcastle was set to lose 75 percent of its small businesses they couldn't survive for so long with no custom they were driven to the edge and are still being driven to the edge to near extinction the government provided financial support but this will only do so much businesses need business and still today all these months later they still don't have that business we're locked down again and despite all the damage caused the government repeats the same strategy lockdown lockdown lockdown while the centres are silenced one of the great lessons in how we are governed can be found here the government has pursued one solution only that solution has been locked down followed by vaccination that's the only route out of this mess at least according to our government but what if it isn't the only way out why aren't we looking for alternatives a for Britain government would long ago have done just that our motivation only is to give the British people their lives back we will not be led by the wishes and demands of big drug companies or the UN or the EU or Bill Gates but only to give the British people their lives back to get our economy back on its feet that is all that matters and it's all that should matter to a British government the first major lesson in how we are governed in 2020 is this our leaders have decided the direction they will take and they decided on the basis of what is best for globalism and corporatism not what is best for the British people when they've decided their direction all descent is crushed opposition to government policy has been silenced we must understand the significance of this it means we are no longer a democracy that dream is over for now not that there is much opposition to government policy certainly not inside the House of Commons the Labour party are happy to go along with government policy no questions asked the media parrots government policy no questions asked the entire system has therefore broken down in 2020 we are no longer an advanced democracy we are no longer governed by the will of the people that is lesson one lesson two is this our government and our so-called opposition and our corrupted media loathe our national identity they are all on board with the globalist dream of the breakdown of the nation-state they are all contented to see the end of Britain as we know it they are all contented to wipe the slate clean and demolish our history and heritage in tyrannical communist regimes it's not unheard of to wish to start again to bring one era to a close and open another one to do this such regimes erase history they ban books pull down statues rename streets all of this is taking place in the UK in 2020 and all of it on the watch of the so-called Conservative party this year Boris Johnson presided over a country that stood helplessly by while its heroes were degraded Johnson did nothing while the London statue of one of Britain's greatest heroes Winston Churchill was so scandalously covered up and he was encased in a metal box Boris Johnson did nothing while our statues were torn down he did nothing while the worst mayor of London for a generation decided that he and he alone would alter the historical map of our great capital city one of the great historical cities of the world is about to be transformed by Sadiq Khan no longer will it reflect Britain our capital city will no longer be a British city meanwhile Boris Johnson does nothing Boris Johnson also did nothing about the third great lesson of 2020 we live in a de facto police state the coronavirus act passed in March was the most draconian piece of legislation ever passed and the police had power they had never had we were told again told not to speak to our neighbours told not to buy luxuries told not to hug our families this was by the police absolutely content to intimidate ordinary brits from early shopping the police were equally content to stand by and watch while our memorials were vandalised no i'm wrong they didn't stand by and watch they got onto their knees in obedience and deference to the very people engaged in the vandalism the British people need to know while you were locked down others were taken to the streets protesting against your country and all of it with a police escort the British police are no longer police but the enforcement arm of a state that is using them to control debate and stamp on dissent that is how we are governed but it gets even worse Boris Johnson also did nothing when thousands thousands of illegal immigrants made their way to the uk via dover and other ports and were picked up by the border force taken to hotels and provided with taxpayers money this is happening today as i'm speaking to you now while British businesses crash unemployment skyrockets our country is in unprecedented debt our money is meanwhile being spent to bring thousands of strangers to our shores while veterans sleep on the streets strangers are offered bed and board Boris Johnson does nothing about this and nor does pretty Patel that's how we're governed so let's summarize where we are today what are the problems and how do we fix them now for britain's manifesto release today has all the answers they are simple solutions and they're simple partly because they work where are we today our businesses are closed our chancellor rishi sunak has no idea how he intends to recover our economy the only ideas so far seem to involve taxing the british people even more tax and spend is this the solution of a conservative government or socialist one you'll have to answer that question yourself british businesses are already overtaxed british people are already overtaxed the last thing they need as they try to recover from these lockdowns is more taxes but that is what they're going to get now for britain will do the opposite of this instead of making life harder for business we will reroute billions of pounds that would otherwise be wasted into funding tax cuts for small and medium businesses let them do business let them work let them grow let them create employment that's the way out of this crisis while our economy limps the immigration continues and our country remains a magnet for criminal people trafficking for britain will send back all illegal immigrants and call a halt to this madness there'll be no immigration for at least five years we need to take stock we need to find out who is in our country and how many and above all many many people must be deported even our own government has no idea how many illegal immigrants are in our country that is madness and that's how we're governed and for britain will bring this train to a halt no more gifts from the magic money tree to everyone and anyone our money will be spent on the british people first meanwhile our heritage is dismantled and let's be very very clear about this for britain will legislate to prevent the mayor of london or any council across this country from pulling down statues or renaming streets how dare they how dare they attempt to wipe out the history of britain we will not stand for this we will however stand for election next may and we will shout from the rooftops in defense of our statues our memorials our historical figures our heritage and our identity and for the record edward colston's statue will go back up the police they'll get a clean sweep at the top policing culture is simply too corrupted for anything less all the politically correct common purpose many communists of the policing hierarchy will be removed from their jobs we'll replace them with people who'll enforce just and democratic laws without fear or favor for britain will also end this censorship a vaccination for covet 19 which the health secretary has refused to say whether this will be mandatory or not is apparently on its way but don't assume that you are allowed to discuss this vaccination that the government expects you to allow to be injected into your veins discussion is forbidden at least by social media and if the labor party gets it way gets its way it will be forbidden by law labor want to criminalize discussion of the covet 19 vaccination imagine that don't assume either that you're allowed to discuss climate change only one view on this is allowed we must agree that the planet is in imminent danger of destruction and the only solution is to dismantle the global economy and rebuild it again this time of course with more and more taxes and fewer and fewer freedoms build back better is the mantra better for whom well for the globalists for the green corporations for the many communists whatever is built may be better for them but it will not be better for us for the people but don't expect to talk about it discussion on climate change is censored now this censorship will end with for britain once and for all we will make sure that nobody not government not parliament not the judiciary and not the media can take away our freedom of speech and speaking of the media as they can't be trusted to be honest on their own let's make them honest for britain will put a stop to fake news we will legally oblige the press to tell the truth and what a refreshing change that will make the press thought it had every right to call the us election over and done with even before the votes have been counted the press needs to be reminded of its role in our society to truthfully inform the people now for britain will be the party to remind them but the good news is that never before have we been so awake never before have we learned such lessons such crucial lessons about how we are governed when illegal immigrants pose a threat to us and they do we only need to look at the history of terror attacks in this country and across europe including this year to know that this poses a threat to us but when this threatens us our government does nothing to protect us when our economy teeters on the edge our government does nothing to protect us when our history and heritage is torn down and degraded in front of our eyes our government does nothing to protect us when our elderly are threatened by a virus we can't control our government does nothing to protect them quite the opposite when our schools teach our children to hate us our government does nothing to protect us when our speech is stifled and the police push us around with heavy handedness our government does nothing to protect us we know this now and we know it like we've never known it before the only question now is what we do about it the answers to this country's problems will not be found among the celebrity class with their single issues or selfish grievances we do not need glamorous flashes in the pan what we need is a mass movement of the british people the workers the grafters the builders the parents the people who bankroll this country and keep it going those are the people who will save it for britain is just those people we are not built on social media we are built on hard work the media isn't making us therefore the media can't destroy us our place is out there with the people involved in local campaigns sitting on local councils helping working getting things done that's our party and it is a party built upon a foundation that cannot be kicked from under our feet because it is ours and it came from hard work and dedication not instant overnight but fleeting fame we will build and build and build and when the time is right we will enter parliament and we will get our country back people often ask me if it is too late it is never too late britain is still with us she is still alive and if those of us who love her come to her rescue she can thrive once again but it is up to us to the people it's up to us to never lose sight of what we are fighting for and never give up believing in its value we are fighting for freedom we are fighting for justice we are fighting for democracy we are of course fighting for britain the journey is a long one but it is the greatest journey we could ever undertake we'll do it we'll do it together let's bring our positive pro-britain attitude forward into 2021 and we cannot possibly fail thank you all very much


host Christine Linders, physical therapist, board certified orthopedic clinical specialist. I'd like to kick off the end of the year and into the new year by helping us live our best life. And so over the past three years, many of us have experienced increased stress, increased anxiety with the pandemic and being more isolated. A lot of that chronic stress has led people into my office with more pain. So I wanted to help us all to decrease our pain, decrease our stress and anxiety and find more joy in our life. So number one, as promised from last show when I had Jordan Coleman on myofascialexpert, we're going to talk about how we can decrease pain. So I want to show everyone out there who maybe has pain somewhere in their body, some of the benefits that you can get and fast when you see me physical therapist, massage therapist, myofascialexpert, etc. So let's go to image one and let's see a before and after. This is my mom. She had really limited shoulder range emotion. And there's Jordan off on the side, you can see the before she kind of looks like a big Y with her arms, maybe even in a U. And then after she's almost straight up and down. And that was probably in about 15 minutes of some myofascial release work. And that's so important for us to be able to have the function of our bodies and when you can't raise your arms above your head to get dressed, you can't reach for things. It leads us to have pain in other areas of body we start to lift our back a little bit more while we're reaching. So some people might get neck pain or back pain because they're compensating in that way. And let's go to image number two. Well, you'll see another patient of mine who had terribly painful right shoulder and you can see her arms kind of long out like back to the right. And then after the session, she was much higher. And so she's a busy person. She doesn't have time for all this dysfunction in her arms. It's really impacting your life. And after one session, she got more range of motion. And I want everyone to treat their selves now in the new year to a physical therapy appointment to a myofascial appointment to a massage appointment treat yourself to something so you can live your best life and have much less pain but more have much better function in your body. So let's go to video number three where I'm going to take you through a small exercise that you can do every day to feel better. If you want to live your best life, you can do one thing right now to get out of pain in various places of your body and it can only take minutes a day or a minute a day if you've got neck pain, shoulder pain, upper back pain or pain down your arms, you can simply sit in your chair, interlace your hands at the base of your head.     This helps get rid of all that neck pain, upper back pain from looking down at your phone or on the computer. You can lift your elbow up to the sky and breathe, keeping your chest up. That way you're not hunching forward. Lift your other elbow up to the sky and breathe.  It's important not to do this because then you're pushing your shoulder forward. You want to get rid of your shoulder pain, get rid of your neck pain. Squeeze back, squeeze back like hands first. Squeeze back, squeeze back.  You can hug them a little bit over to your right side. Breathe deeply into your lower back. Big, huge inhales. Repeat to the other side. And also if you have any sort of back pain, you need to re-engage your deep core. So you want to lay on your back, keeping your spine and neutral, not pressing it flat into the table or the bed.  Don't compress here and bring your ribs down. Belly button in, belly button in. Like you're going to make your tummy look smaller. You're going to hold it in and breathe and you can lift one foot and lift the other foot. This is trying to keep your pelvis still. Lift one foot, re-tighten, pull your belly button in. Lift the other foot. You don't want to feel any rocking there. So those two things can solve your neck pain, your shoulder pain, your back pain and get you on your way to living your best life now. That is just a couple examples of very simple ways that you can do in minutes to have your best feeling body. Collasp your hands. I do this one every day. My patients love it. Press your head back. You long at your neck. Squeeze your shoulder blades. Take a deep breath. Breathing not only decreases pain but it increases our parasympathetic nervous system response which helps to calm us down. It helps to decrease stress. It oxygenates all the tissues that are like this like white knuckling and gets us to perfuse with blood and calm down. Now I always say and I believe this. You get out of your body what you put into it. So if you put into it this that takes one to two minutes with the breathing.  Engage your deep core. If you have back pain or if you watch all of my other videos on think tech and get one little video exercise that you can do you are going to be putting into your body something so you can take out of it the freedom of movement and being free from pain. So I want to challenge everybody watching the show today and everyone in the world to do something good for your body. If we could do five minutes of exercise every day and exercise could be what I did in that video stretching out exercise could be grabbing an exercise band while you're at your desk and doing 10 repetitions three times that day that would take you about 30 seconds. That is something that is going to enable you to reap the rewards of being pain free and getting rid of those nagging irritations that are stressing you out making you more tired making you more irritable or making you more depressed because you can't do what you need to do in your life or what you want to do in your life without pain holding you back. So the second part of this show is how do we decrease anxiety or decrease the stresses that are really getting to us that are preventing us from having our best life and that is multiple. You can do exercise. Exercise is great for relieving stress. If you don't like to go for a run if you don't like to play sports that's fine. You can do mindfulness meditation. You can get involved in a hobby so I'm going to show you a couple things that I love to do in video number four. Now I happen to live in Hawaii. It was an amazing beautiful place and I've lived many other places but the beach is my safe haven so even in Connecticut in New York I would find a place to either walk on the beach or run on the beach but if you can't there's other places you can do. Green space has been shown to decrease stress and anxiety and just taking a walk around your neighborhood has been shown to really decrease the stress that you feel. It calms us down. It quiets us down and it stops the mind from going so if you can just take a five-minute walk around your block at some point during the day or if you're feeling if you're at home and you're feeling like you're just really starting to get anxious and stressed stop what you're doing and just go outside. Go outside take a little bit of a walk take some deep breaths maybe like curl your toes in the grass and do something different to give your body to calm your body down and get rid of some of that stress response. Let's go to the next video video number five where it shows me I took up a new a new hobby and this is actually helping me to get rid of my pain in my back because it's really engaging my core but also look at that I watched the video when i'm stressed because it just it just looks so peaceful there's a dog on an inner tube right there the lady's pushing her dog on an inner tube and it's just having fun doing something to calm yourself down that's my new hobby I do it about once a week once every other week and there's lovely people there when I get there it's really great to connect with people again being a physical therapist I was keeping myself pretty isolated during the pandemic I didn't want to catch COVID I didn't want to give someone COVID I was just being super vigilant with what I did and with whom I did it with because I was more nervous and when you get nervous it leads to fear and so I just um I just am happy to be seeing people again I love being outdoors and it's something that I'm doing I challenge myself to help me have my best life and to be at my best so let's look at video number six for just another way to decrease stress and anxiety stare at something beautiful this to me is beautiful but looking at a picture of your family could be beautiful to you looking at a picture of a loved one my mom my dad my dad's past but looking at a picture of him fills me with joy it fills me with love it fills me with calm and so find something beautiful to look at that can give you that little smile and I play with my pet sometimes playing with a dog is super fun it decreases your stress you're kind of lost in that moment of what you're doing a hobby a craft paint a pumpkin I'm gonna go get it I painted a pumpkin for Halloween and I thought it was terrible at first I had a little cat sitting on the top but the creativeness and there's this but the creativeness of a hobby I just had some acrylic paints I've been getting together with the two same friends to the whole entire pandemic they're both physical therapists and we said let's do some crafts let's paint on a pumpkin let's paint on a glass find something new this was new for me and so when I was painting on this pumpkin I may have been frustrated because it doesn't look good but actually looks pretty good I think right now and the whole entire time I was doing it I was focused on painting I couldn't think about my pain I couldn't think about what I was doing the next day or if I had to get up early it was really lovely and so find yourself a hobby get get lost so let's go to video number seven work we're going to see a published author my brother Dave who published a book he's going to tell you all about it and the beautiful mindfulness that he got to enjoy in working on this project so I made the first copy of the ABCs of NYC 16 years ago as a gift for our friends daughter's first birthday and I wanted to publish it and since that time endlessly I've looked for and found letters in multiple cities around the U.S. in Germany in London and you know my family would happily tease me about it but I finally published the book this year but there's one of the benefits of the book that I found by the time I finished it surprised me and essentially there's three benefits two of which I expected and the one that I'm sharing with you today is that looking for letters hiding an architecture and nature around you and in your neighborhood it can be fun for kids that's one two it can be fun for parents and kids that's two and the surprising one which I only realized within the past couple years is it's a great mindfulness exercise for adults when you are out for a walk I mean frequently we're looking at our cell phones or thinking about meetings we have or remembering something that we need to do but if you are looking for letters while you're walking it kind of forces you to be present you have to pay attention and where it really starts to work is like you'll see an A you'll see a D somewhere but then all of a sudden you realize you've gotten almost a whole alphabet you need to find a Q and you start to have to use your imagination about where a Q might be and and it's in looking for some of the difficult ones that you kind of I kind of get lost in just paying attention to what's around me and it's easy to do on a walk it's fun to do with your kids um as I've said and and Christine could share you know my daughter my kids have found letters on their own that I would have never seen um and I just wanted to share that with you today I'm looking at the book because I actually I had it out here that's my laptop propped up on on it and I bought several of them because I think they're great as gifts and I'm so proud of my brother and actually it's been really fun I think over the years um he thanked my dad in the book for helping us find shapes in the clouds and letters on sidewalk cracks and really to just be observant to things while we were maybe just bored walking around the block as kids and so I love this book it's and I love looking for letters now actually I think I've kind of inherently been doing that all my life because my dad used to do that with my brother and I but I think it's important that was a way that in doing this gift for his friend's child he found a way to be mindful in New York City and it's amazing when you're I lived there when you're racing up and down the streets there's noise there's truck driving by hitting potholes there's clanging and it's very jarring for us for those of us that live in Hawaii it's beautiful and calm and serene and that is one of the huge draws that I love about the family style and awesomeness of the culture here in Hawaii but in New York City it's a faster pace it's a louder place and it's a little more stimulating for your nervous system that stress response so when you walk around and you're lost in finding letters you don't hear the noise anymore it doesn't penetrate you so here's a here's a few of the letters that you can see in case you want to walk around Hawaii or wherever you're living to look for some of these letters so let's go to image number eight where the first one is a v the second to w and w w and the last is an x and I just think it's so fun to find these letters and in the next image my brother just surprised me for my host of the award last week and this is kailua beach and looks like they took that tree down but there's a nice v with a beautiful view and I think it's a fun thing and image number 10 we'll go back to the w tree at Lanakai beach we were going there for sunrise the other day and I don't even know if I noticed that but I mentioned that to my friend oh yeah we have a great w and he said oh the w tree so it's just kind of a nice thing for everyone to go around it and lose yourself lose yourself in painting a pumpkin lose yourself in looking for letters lose yourself in a new hobby lose yourself in a good book um petra kitty I could see her over there um and then uh in image number 11 there's one more letter which is an f it's a real is my niece kenzie is a really funky f but uh she saw that and I don't think I would have noticed that as an f it's a pretty pretty cool example this is a photo of me living my best life and I really love this photo because I'm all taped up I have had numerous injuries since I was 13 years old I've got tape on my shoulder blade on the left I've got tape on my elbow and I am off like I'm uneven in the jump because of all my injuries that I've suffered from a teenage going up to now and so I just love seeing that because that's me living my best life I don't hike hard hikes this is not a very difficult hike it's a very short one too it takes about 20 minutes but the fact that I can still do that to live my less my best life is what I want to share with you guys it doesn't have to be perfect and I have accepted some limitations and adapted as well but that photo is just so cute because I've got tape everywhere so that I can go and enjoy what I do and I want to share that with all of you and know that you can do it you may need to see a physical therapist I was just in physical there myself you may need to see other health professionals but you can do it you can live your best life and decrease your pain and I know it so I just want to tell everybody here let's really take us through one little exercise so this is exercise can be something that people shy away from when they hear the word exercise and so exercise for me just means it's something that you're about to do something that you're practicing something that you're doing I'm going to exercise patience I'm going to exercise my body I'm going to practice mindfulness and I had the amazing Dr. Pauline Lucas on who was from Mayo Institute and she talked about taking a mindful shower and I know so many times I'm rushing around where I want to get in the shower and get out of there and I'm thinking about okay what am I going to do do I have to get my lunch do I have to and she said you know what think about your shower how awesome the water feels on your body if it's warm how smooth the soap feels on your skin and that reminded me of an activity or an exercise that I did when I was in Connecticut in a very busy orthopedic practice I was running from patient to patient to patient I had to wash my hands in between and one of my coworkers went to a mindfulness thing and told me that they said it was amazing they said would you go to wash your hands instead of being like oh my gosh I have to clean the table oh my gosh just put your hands together and just rub them together so I asked all of you you know I don't have soap on my hands you probably don't either but rub your hands together and see what it feels like mine don't feel smooth I feel friction I almost can feel the texture of my fingerprints actually when I do that but when you're doing that all you're thinking about is that feeling and if you have soap in your hands you're thinking wow look at the bubbles and oh wow this water feels so nice on my hands every time you take a moment we're not even talking a five minute challenge we're talking a moment out for yourself to calm your mind and calm your brain you improve your health and vitality you decrease the stress you decrease the cortisol you improve endorphins which help us to be healthier which help us to be more vital which help us to live our best life so that's one exercise another one that I showed you in the video was doing this kind of thing you can also grab your elbows if it doesn't hurt your shoulder I like to put my head in front but I don't want you to be like this looking down at your phone I came up with this exercise because everybody's looking down at their phone always I saw two people walking down the beach today with their heads down looking at their phone and so I wasn't one of them not today but if you grab your elbows and you push your head back that gets your head back over your shoulder so if you have been looking down at your phone and all of a sudden you're watching this going oh my gosh I was just hunching watching this video you can grab your elbows if you can't grab your elbows you can grab the middle part press your head back don't lift your chin up press your head back and breathe in deep breath make sure you exhale fully breathe in make sure you exhale fully if you can't get your arms up because you have shoulder pain and you're used to shoulder you can actually just grab your grab your shoulders and squeeze your shoulder blades back that that and then tuck your chin down and breathe and exhale there's many mindfulness applications that you can listen to and they all start off to decrease anxiety decrease stress take a nice deep breath in and then fully so I want to challenge everyone to have their best life and to live their best life to decrease the stress and anxiety in your life to decrease the pain in your body by doing something for your body remember you get out of your body what you put into it exercise wise stretching food breathing taking that moment taking that mindful shower washing your hands and find the joy in little moments find some letters smile at someone walking by talk to the neighbor's dog whatever it is that you love find some joy so that you can start to live your best life right now I want to thank everyone for watching over this year it's been amazing and thank you to think tecawaii and all our sponsors and donors for allowing us to be here today life is better when you listen to your physical therapist aloha everyone thank you so much for watching think tecawaii if you like what we do please like us and click the subscribe button on youtube and the follow button on vimeo you can also follow us on facebook instagram and linked in and donate to us at thinktecawaii.com Mahalo