Martin Daubney on Starmer 'no attempt to listen to the people - just get clamped down!'

Martin Daubney on Starmer 'no attempt to listen to the people - just get clamped down!'

Martin Daubney "our right to protest is a little bit slimmer"

GB News
Gabrielle Wilde

By Gabrielle Wilde


Published: 01/08/2024

- 21:51

Updated: 02/08/2024

- 09:03

The GB News presenter in an exclusive sit down revealed all about his arrest at a protest in London and his thoughts on Keir Starmer's latest speech

Martin Daubney claimed "we have a right to protest" in an exclusive sit down interview for GB News members.

Speaking to viewers after his show, Martin spoke about his shocking arrest whilst he attended the protests in Downing Street last night as a journalist.


He also discussed Keir Starmer's speech to the nation, which he streamed live on the show and had never had such a reaction from you, the viewers.

Martin said: "Just finished my show. Now you may have seen I was handcuffed last night at the cenotaph.

"I went along to the Enough is Enough march. I go to a lot of marches because they're on my way home from Westminster and they take place just around the corner.

"I always wonder in the Palestine marches, the pro-Israel marches and the pro Patriot march, they go to the mall.

"Last night I was there filming for my job. I'm a journalist, a TV journalist. I was filming the protest. The police, in my opinion, were very heavy handed. They were in riot gear, in the full hats, the shields, the batons.

Martin DaubneyMartin Daubney speaking exclusively to GB News members revealing the full story of his arrestGB News

"Very, very different type of policing to what I've witnessed at pro-Palestine protest. When I was imploring the police to take that projector down that was projecting onto Big Bend from the river to the sea, images that shamed our nation around the world.

"Cops didn't have an interest, Not a dickie bird. They couldn't give a monkey's about nicking those people. So last night, imagine my surprise when the next me for doing the same thing as I always do filming protests.

"Now they quickly remove the handcuffs because, mercifully, one of the coppers recognized me from GB News. Turns out he's a viewer. But without that, I'd have been in the back of a meat wagon.

"100 other people were last night as well. Is this two tier policing?

I went along there because I think it's important to listen to all communities from every side of the political spectrum today. An astonishing revelation.

"Sir Keir Starmer gave a live press conference from Downing Street. We played it here on the Martin Daubney show, he said, this was not a legitimate protest.

"He was talking about Southport, about what happened also in London. He disbanded them as a bunch of far right thugs, comparing them to football hooligans, saying a clampdown is coming, facial recognition before you even get on trains.

"If you think about going through all these protests and you don't live in the immediate town, what will that mean?

"It feels like a clampdown, no attempt to listen to the people, to read the room, to people like you who have legitimate and valid concerns about the safety in your town, in your city, about untrammeled immigration, about illegal immigration, about stopping the boats, who walks amongst us.

"We have a right to protest. We have a right to a voice. And today it felt like that protest, that right to protest is a little bit slimmer under the Labour government.

"People saying. Sir Keir Starmer had two decisions to make today two pathways to go.

"He faced a fork in the road to be open community dialogue. He says that oftentimes if it's a Muslim protest, there's Harehills.

"If they are not happy about something and arrested Manchester Airport, let's listen to them.

"Let's have their legitimate concerns on the table. Not not for you or a far right protester. No, you don't get a voice.

"You don't listen to. You get clamped down. I think it's a very worrying direction of travel we're about to face.

"I felt genuinely concerned when I heard that press conference today."

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