00:00I don't know what to say anymore, Samara Gill, I'm going to give up.
00:03Yes, I think we all are. I mean, I genuinely, I was outside this weekend.
00:08You really need to thank me.
00:09You brave person.
00:10Well, you need to thank me. I stayed with Alex Phillips, our good friend.
00:15That in itself you deserve credit for.
00:17I do deserve a medal.
00:19And you survived? How's your alcohol intake? No, we're joking.
00:21There was plenty of G&T, but I was being very good.
00:24Likes to drink, doesn't she?
00:25She does, but she's such a fun time and it was great up there.
00:28And we were also searching for her husband while we were at the RAF base.
00:32Sorry, sorry, sorry.
00:33So a drunken Alex Phillips went to RAF Fairford to look for a husband.
00:38Who didn't turn out to be any good because he had high heels and make-up on.
00:41Well, no, because the Americans were there.
00:44So it was, obviously the Americans have co-opted that air base and they are using it.
00:48She's now using outside broadcast to try and get a bloke.
00:52She wouldn't be the first.
00:53She really wouldn't be the first to do that.
00:56I mean, I don't blame her. Who can blame the lady?
00:58There were lots of very sort of handsome US RAF, well, they weren't RAF,
01:05but they were Air Force people coming out of the base as we were there.
01:09And it's over in Fairford, over in Gloucester, Alex's end.
01:13And essentially I attended a protest which was anti-the US helping us and basically saying that the Iraq war,
01:25you know, the overhang from that was scaring them.
01:27They didn't want the UK to be involved in any type of way.
01:32Let's have a look at what those protesters...
01:34So these people are against involvement, so they'd be pro-Stama.
01:38They're pro-Ayatollah. Anti-Stama still. Everyone was anti-Stama.
01:41Oh, but pro-Ayatollah, who signed a zero-hours contract to be Ayatollah for a month, we heard earlier,
01:46because that's as long as he's going to last.
01:47Run the footage.
01:49Hello. What's your reasoning to be here today?
01:52Because the US should not be trying to start another war for regime change in the Middle East
01:58when their record is so atrocious in this area.
02:03Great. And you?
02:04I'm here because I don't like bombing and I don't like indiscriminate killing.
02:09Yeah. Well, I'm from the Revolutionary Communist Party in Gloucester.
02:13We're basically here to show solidarity with anti-imperialist protests
02:17because, you know, we've seen 30 years of America basically dominating the world.
02:23And as, you know, things get worse for America, they're trying to get more aggressive.
02:27The Ayatollah, is he a good or bad person?
02:30He's a bad person as far as I'm concerned.
02:32Are you happy he's dead?
02:33I don't mind that he's been dead. He's a bad person.
02:36That's a terrible thing, but I'm saying that. I'm admitting it.
02:39What do you think about the death of the Ayatollah?
02:41Well, I mean, the Americans are trying to negotiate,
02:44and, you know, they're not going to be able to
02:46because they've killed everyone who's come to the negotiating table.
02:48So in that way, it's bad.
02:50The Iranian state is very repressive, sure,
02:54but, you know, the real danger to the world,
02:57the real danger to the people is America, is, you know, American bombs.
03:01You know, you can look at Libya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq,
03:05you know, right before.
03:07These are the real results of imperialism.
03:10Keir Starmer, what do we think?
03:12Keir Starmer is a waste of space, frankly.
03:14He couldn't run the DPP.
03:16How's he going to run the entire country?
03:19The Ayatollah may well have been a bad person,
03:21but killing him is no better.
03:23Two wrongs do not make a right,
03:25and the means cannot be used to justify the end.
03:28I think you do this to me deliberately to wind me up
03:31so I don't actually make it to the toilet.
03:33Can we start with the old bird in the orange hat, right?
03:35I hate bombing and indiscriminate killing.
03:39How do you feel about the Ayatollah?
03:41I'm glad he's dead.
03:42This is the people of Great Britain.
03:44What about that unwashed student?
03:46Did you hear him?
03:46Yes.
03:47America.
03:48The communist.
03:49America has caused...
03:50Do you ever want to say to these people,
03:52hold on a second,
03:53do you know that the Iranian regime
03:55has sponsored every terrorist group
03:57in the history of the world for the last 30 years?
03:59You know what I want to say to them?
04:01Oh, if you love the Ayatollah
04:03and you love the Iranian regime so much,
04:05go live there.
04:06Go and enjoy.
04:07I'm sure they'll embrace you
04:08with your communist manifesto
04:10and your kefir that you wear around your...
04:12I thought that was Jim Broadbent,
04:15honestly, from Only Fools and Horses.
04:18I thought it was him.
04:18What was interesting was there were a lot of
04:20Corbynite, sort of Corbynista types there
04:24that basically said, you know, Iraq,
04:26which, to be honest,
04:27a lot of those bombers did leave
04:29from that Fairford base to go and bomb Iraq
04:31back in 2004.
04:33They left from there,
04:34so they were very jaded by that position.
04:37But I think it takes, you know,
04:38half a brain to read an article
04:40and just see how different
04:41this geopolitical situation is.
04:44I just quickly want to
04:46at least give the other side...
04:47Oh, you can't at the moment
04:49because we've got some breaking news
04:50from the world's least interesting man.
04:53This is from Keir Starmer.
04:55Do you want to push the breaking news thing
04:57and make it bigger than it is?
04:58Don't destroy my package.
04:59Let's just...
04:59Let's just...
05:00Pardon?
05:00Let's just play the breaking news thing.
05:02Are we going to...
05:03No, we're not.
05:04Anyway, Keir Starmer...
05:05Oh, there we go, breaking news.
05:07OK.
05:07The longer the conflict with Iran goes on...
05:10This is from Keir Starmer.
05:12The more likely the impact on our economy.
05:15Whoa!
05:15He's warned to us meeting three people
05:17in a rehab meeting somewhere in a prefab.
05:20We don't know where.
05:21Bombshell revelations.
05:22Very good.
05:23Sorry.
05:23Very good.
05:25Very good.
05:26Is he about three weeks
05:27slash at least three days late to the news?
05:30Like, did he actually properly take the weekend off
05:33as Prime Minister and just not read a paper?
05:35I mean, he's not.
05:35Oh, don't work on a Friday.
05:36Right, back to your package.
05:37Look, I actually did speak to some patriots.
05:41There are a couple of them there.
05:42And they...
05:42You know, as the US military was coming out of the base,
05:46those Corbynistas were booing, spitting on them.
05:51This is not how we greet our US counterparts.
05:54So I did speak to some patriots.
05:56Let's roll the clip on what they had to say.
05:58So what brings you here today?
05:59There's a small counter-protest.
06:01Hello.
06:02So we don't really have any time to arrange anything.
06:05Like, we just come...
06:05We sit in the newspaper
06:07and we come down here to stand against this
06:09for the military base, really.
06:11You know, unfortunately, there is a lot going on.
06:14We don't like people being killed or anything.
06:16At the same time, those people should be free.
06:19And we just don't think they should be up here
06:21being in pain like they are.
06:23And we're just being patriots and showing support,
06:25which the soldiers have actually loved.
06:27They've come by and they've put their thumbs up.
06:29They, you know, I just don't want to feel unwelcomed by...
06:32So they're giving us a thumbs up as they come out.
06:36But unfortunately, a big lack of support
06:38from that side at the moment.
06:40They've been very aggressive, swearing at them.
06:42And how would you hear them when they were swearing at them?
06:45Yeah, they were.
06:45And then they bring the sign into the road.
06:47They tried just about to undo our flags over there.
06:50And the police tried to undo the flags.
06:52Yeah.
06:53There's an anti-Semitic element to this all, don't you think?
06:57I mean, I'm seeing a lot of keffirs and scarves
07:00and people saying Benjamin Netanyahu should be in jail.
07:04Oh, God.
07:05I'm just fed up with them.
07:06I think they just are an absolute nuisance, if you want to know this.
07:09What brings you here today?
07:11Literally to promote them, support them.
07:17You know, we all have opinions which, you know,
07:20we try to respect each other,
07:22even though some people find that hard.
07:25But we are literally here today to support the military.
07:29Yeah.
07:29And what they do.
07:30And they're looking after us.
07:32Thoughts on Keir Starmer?
07:33Oh, don't go there.
07:36He's definitely not no Winston Churchill.
07:39Yes, famous words of Trump now, yeah.
07:42Brilliant.
07:43Yeah, I mean, there were about two of them there.
07:45But it was actually really nice.
07:46I think they were clapping and they were supporting the US.
07:50I mean, this is really,
07:51this is one of the few European bases
07:53that is actually capable of hosting these heavy US bombers.
07:56And the UK is basically saying,
07:58oh, you can refuel here.
07:59Like, they're doing the bare minimum
08:01and they're still getting flat for us.
08:02It's interesting because, very quickly,
08:03over the weekend, a poll says
08:05the majority of Britons don't agree with initial involvement.
08:07But they are our main ally.
08:08And from this point in, bases and stuff like that.
08:11Just all those do-gooders.
08:12I always just want to go,
08:14you know, why don't you look at the regime in Iran?
08:16But listen, there'll be people like that.
08:19There used to be at Greenham Common moaning about,
08:21you know, nuclear bombs.
08:22They don't wash any of them.
08:23They're mostly vegans and they don't work.
08:24Well, let me just say,
08:25as soon as it briefly started raining,
08:28about five different cars pulled up
08:30and took all of them away from the base
08:32and they just ran off.
08:33So they're very, they're a feeble bunch.
08:35Samara Gill, we love you.
08:36Thank you very much indeed.
08:54Thank you very much.
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