Just finished watching it. It's definitely worth a watch.
He covers some primary points:
- He gives a lot of background to Islamic extremism in Luton, how it rose and how he as a teenager/early 20s felt like nobody was listening when he brought it to the Police, Council and MP.
- He provides a lot of evidence of this extremism shot before 7/7 bombings, and the rallies that he and his friends attempted to organise. In it he details how the proto-EDL in Luton brought in people from across racial and religious division and were committed to ending racialisation in their town only, as it was somewhat of a base for many recruitment drives and Salafist preachers.
- He talks about the brick wall of silence from the authorities and how Pakistani Muslim gangs in a certain area of Luton were selling heroin and grooming children, and everybody seemed to know but nobody seemed to be doing anything about it. He compared this to the Rotherham case and detailed some of what he claims is biased Police work.
- He talks about the problem of the media in terms of labelling, and shows numerous EDL videos where they are burning Nazi flags and getting death threats from the far right Nazis yet still says that during the early 00s when he tried to highlight al-Mujahideen in his city, he was constantly linked to them in the name of anti-racist sentiment. He also admits that there's some crossover there in the later EDL years and how much it annoyed him that because they shared a common foe, they would be at the same places so it was impossible to break the stigma. He makes a big deal about how the Jewish members of the EDL came under constant scrutiny and abuse from those factions.
- He talks about local and central Government policies that are supposed to help integration are self defeating because they're causing segregation. He also details a meeting he had with Theresa May.
- Much of it is a microcosm of his life story. In no places does he pretend to be an angel and talks a lot about his time in prison, his crimes and other things. He comes across to me as the type of lad you'd meet at any pub in the land and I'd probably enjoy chatting to him. He has a lack of education in some areas but freely admits this and doesn't try to overreach himself, and he genuinely passionately believes that what he is doing is correct.
- The last bit before the Q&A he talks about the problems he created for himself in the past with representation. Specifically that he grew up in a town that what heavily conservative Islam and that it tainted his views on what Islam was. Essentially that he's learned much more about Islam now and sees it as an ideology in desperate need of reform but also that not every Muslim is some evil preacher. His goal is to continue working with the moderate Islamic community to eradicate the poisionous Salafist ideology from Britain.
The Q&A can be summed up by a bunch of fucking morons say "yeah, but, you know, you're really a fascist who hates brown people right?". Who are just depressing to listen to after he explained the whole thing.
It's a good interview and implore others to watch it. I was surprised. I'd never really listened to him previously and just read the newspapers about him, but for the past few months I've started to realise how much the media has distorted my view of reality and this seems to be another case of it. His arguments were nowhere near what they have been presented as.