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Jen Brister, “What a mad time to invite a comedian to talk about something as serious as the far right”
“Right now, we live in truly dangerous times”
“We are on the brink of a dangerous precipice”
“All of us here addicted to our phones, and we are being manipulated and silos into polarised camps and told we have nothing in common with each other”
“And now we are in real danger of losing our country and our democracy, to fascists, billionaires and unregulated tech”
*audience boos*
“We’re being told to believe that the people who are a threat to this country, and to the British people on the far right Christian fundamentals, who want to dictate what women can and cannot do with our own body”
“Diminish the rights of gays, and trans people, ban books, and promote misogyny and white supremacy”
“It’s not the billionaires who want to see our NHS sold off to the highest bidder so that they can make a windfall so they can sell us health insurance”
“Or the tech oligarchs, like that bellend Peter Theil, and his psychotically evil company Palantir, who wants to AI to erode our civil liberties’
“It’s not even those self serving so called politicians who see the monetary gain to be made should our democracy collapse”
“No, no, it’s not them”
“We are told repeatedly that the problems we face is not corruption form consecutive governments that have been bought and paid for by global corporations”
“No. It’s that person over there”
“You see that person, who isn’t white, it’s their fault”
“Who isn’t straight, who isn’t CIS gendered”
“That person who has been forced to flee their country due to wars created and funded by our government and then dehumanised, abandoned, and scapegoated, to soak up hate, fear and win votes”
“These oligarchs spend billions on propaganda, bot farms, to scare us”
“They’ve tried to limit our reach through censorship and shadow banning us”
“They have stolen our flag and used it to intimate and ostracise anyone who doesn’t look like them - not a hair follicle between them”
“I tell you what London, here’s the good news. They have failed”
“All that money, and they failed”
“They failed to convince us that a person’s value can be identified by ethnicity, religion, sexuality or however they chose to identify”
“They have failed to convince us that the genocide in Gaza either isn’t happening or is justified”
“They have failed to convince us that fear and dehumanisation is British”
“They have failed”
“There is no one coming to save us”
“Our saviours are you”
“Our saviours are me, us, and together, we myst stand against racism, oligarchy, dehumanisation and hate”
“We are a movement driven by love”
“And so we stand in our power”
“Do not underestimate how powerful you are”
“Never forget, we are the resistance”
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