Ed: Russell Hicks had the idea, collected donations and set up the poster truck – we published the actual posters here. Below is his report of the Friday ‘tour’, with photos. Today on June 23rd, Russell and the truck will be out and about again:
It’s one thing having the idea, raising the money and designing the posters - but getting out there in London is a bit nerve racking!
The driver and I have been on edge all day. We started in Clapham and the headed to Westminster. That oddball who is outside the Houses of Parliament everyday with his EU flags, dishing out stickers and leaflets, is a nasty piece of work and quite aggressive…so I wound him up a bit more, laughed at him and said ‘you’re too late pal, the referendum was two years ago and you lost’. He was filming our ‘conversation’ on his phone, clearly a battle hardened campaigner, so I gave him both barrels to watch at home. I bet there’s a price on my head now. Then as he walked off in a huff, the driver said ‘I need the toilet, now’ and he turned the engine off and jumped out leaving us blocking the road, still outside the HofP! I ran round to the driver’s side, jumped in, started it and drove around the Green a few times until he reappeared. I thought he might have just quit.
Then onto a few loops of Buckingham Palace, St James’s, Piccadilly Circus and then some fun in a very busy Regent Street, mixed responses, some good, some bad, the Removers don’t like being called Bad Losers! But the best bit, we parked right outside BBC HQ in Regent Street at lunchtime with zillions of people milling about, most looking po faced and shocked that UKIP would have the audacity to park a thirty foot poster truck on their precious home territory! Everywhere we went people were photographing the posters.
Then onto Islington, Finsbury, the Barbican, St Paul’s and around the City, a lot of shocked faces, more people taking snaps, and a few ‘thumbs up’. Between 4 and 5 we were all over the City, London Bridge, down to the Elephant and Castle and back. And then headed back to HQ which is Clapham.
Was it worth it? I should say so!! And tomorrow [Ed: now today, Saturday 23rd] it will be ten times better with the march and rally. I have a security man from 11 a.m. onwards, not cheap, but if the pledges all come in, we’ll be OK. I’m nervous even with security, one brick is all it takes, Antifa will be out in force tomorrow, looking for trouble, they hate UKIP.
If you are at the rally, please take photos of the truck, with various people around. Also, people have been tweeting photos all day, the artwork works superbly on Anna Soubry’s Twitter account!
THIS is the sort of full frontal attack on our enemies that UKIP should have been doing for YEARS!!
Cheers all!
Russell
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Nanny Robinson and eddieisok talking about , how well it all went .
The pro-Brexit march started in Carlisle Place, then proceeded along Vauxhall Bridge Rd. Then a left turn along Millbank.
The stage was set up in Millbank, adjacent to Victoria Tower Gardens.
At one point I needed a comfort break, and went along Horseferry Rd. There were numerous coaches parked there. For the remainiacs. There they were in their blue berets. One extreme obese one in a tightly stretched blue tee shirt, with a message about Brexit stealing his future. Err.. what about all the porkie pies stealing your future?
Presumably the remainiac coaches were funded by Soros. They really do not get it do they? We do NOT like being told what to do by foreigners. Particularly wealthy ones like Soros or Obama or Geldof.
There was a group of football lads who spotted the remainiacs, and started chanting “Tommy Tommy Robinson”. The remainiacs looked a bit nonplussed and maybe a bit nervous too. Anyway they scuttled off in the opposite direction, to the safety of their coaches.
Another bonus of the day for me is that our group bumped into Luke Nash-Jones at a motorway service station on the way in. Our earlier misunderstandings have been cleared up. We are all on the same side. Tout est pardonné.
Didn’t self-harm by watching any msm news yesterday but happy to report no coverage of yesterday’s Eurobore whingefest on BBC and SKY news broadcasts.
Probably embarrassed that only as many turned up for the EU as turned up forTommy.
Photographs of the two vehicles – Russell’s superb Poster Truck and London’s ‘BOMB DISPOSAL’ jeep+ – and also of the event will be forthcoming, but only after I have caught up with sleep; I am now two days out.
No arrests, no violence of any sort, and the crowd was 3,000+ not the “hundreds” the MSM claimed. Shameful lack of coverage despite press releases being issued.
INDEPENDENCE DAY MARCH (multi-purpose – celebration AND protest) – June 23, 2018
I got back even later (a lot later) than my mate Russell, because I had a further London evening event arranged near Earls Court.
In an (unsuccessful) attempt to upstage Russell’s excellent poster truck, London UKIP presented at Carlisle Place in a 1960s Military Landrover, still in army paintwork and bearing official regalia, including on each side the words BOMB DISPOSAL. It has a very powerful loud-hailer system.
The vehicle produced a lot of surprised looks and then grins when I used the military vehicle’s loudhailer to encourage people to vote for UKIP.
I will seek permission before publishing the name of my collaborator from the UKIP Havering Branch in London.
Unfortunately, instead of allowing our two vehicles to crawl ahead of the march, the police decided we had to follow the march, furthermore trailing behind three police mobile units. Russell and I are both annoyed about this but there was no point arguing.
Well done Russell. Saw the poster today and took a photo for posterity.
APOLOGIES. I should have first thanked all of you who have supported the efforts of the poster truck project. It really can work but it’s only a part of a bigger, much better UKIP communications strategy. We MUST confront the lying BBC head on and fast.
FOLKS. Today in London we have ALL been well and truly shafted by the establishment and the BBC (that we pay for). The pro-Brexit march was MASSIVE, I’ve never seen anything like it, thousands and thousands of people. But of course the media didn’t cover it, the GREAT LYING CHEATING BRITISH MEDIA instead gave HUGE coverage, including aerial photography from a taxpayer funded Police helicopter, of the Remoanfest. NOTHING NADA ZILCH about the huge Pro-Brexit rally. This is such undiluted EVIL that we have to do something about it. Gerard Batten won’t, he hasn’t a clue about how to catch the public’s eye. He makes good speeches to a captive, adoring audience, that’s easy but a plan to project UKIP and Brexit beyond UKIP hard core? No idea whatsoever. We’re not even communicating with our own members. The Police clearly had orders NOT to let the poster truck be seen by today’s UKIP thousands and pushed us to the back of the march. SO INSTEAD we took the poster truck around the back streets of Westminster and into the heart of the Remainers rally, they hated it of course but we had a big tannoy and gave them them both barrels of ‘You bad losers! Two years on and you’re still moaning and wailing. Half of you don’t even know what the EU is really all about. If you voted in the referendum, you accepted the terms, so grow up and stop complaining’. It helped that I had a big security man at my side, no one was going to tangle with him, he was brilliant.
That was excellently done, Russell! Just the ticket: rub their noses in!
And if anyone is in any doubt that the establishment in the form of the police – as if Lewisham wasn’t sufficient – that clinches it.
I look forward to lots of photos!
Viv, I’ve been asked by the editor to contact you, so here I am …
Please email me at viv@ukipdaily.com
Russell, it worked out for the best that the police made it difficult to join the march. Going to the remainiacs with the truck was better use of resources. “they don’t like it up ’em!”
It was not just UKIP members in the march. There were also football lads, members of For Britain, Identitarians, English Democrats, dragons, MBGA, Veterans and Democrats, and probably a few other groups too.
In addition to flags there were numerous placards. Both pre-printed and home made. The general theme was freedom.
We were held for quite a while in Carlisle Place. I guess while the police were making the route safe, blocking off one carriageway of Vauxhall Bridge Rd.
I tried to estimate how many we were. I was near the front, close to the southern end of Carlisle Place. We were about 20 wide, and I could see flags in the distance way back near the northern end of the road. I guess somewhere around 5000.
There was a lot of chanting “Tommy Tommy Robinson”, and “Whose streets? Our streets”. Other chants too in support of Brexit.
Someone was selling signed copies of “Mohammed’s Koran” by Tommy Robinson and Peter McLoughlin, and of course I had to purchase one. My current unsigned copy will be lent out / given away, and I will keep this copy.
The speeches were excellent. Gerard has really got the knack of speaking to the crowd now.
There was absolutely no trouble that I could see.
“Tens of thousands of people march in London on the second anniversary of the vote to leave the EU”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44586638
Sadly the main content of the article focuses on the pro-EU Peoples Vote march. But there’s a little bit about the “counter-protest” towards the end of that article:
“But Shazia Hobbs, who attended the pro-Brexit UK Unity and Freedom march, said: “That march is silly. We voted to leave so we should leave.
“What do they want, best of three? We voted for Brexit.”
Demonstrators also chanted “we want our country back” and: “What do we want? Brexit. When do we want it? Now.”
[Image caption *Hundreds of people* attended a counter-protest in London]
Conservative MP Peter Bone – who supports Brexit – said if there were a second vote, the leave campaign would win again.
“The vast, vast majority of people, whether they are Leavers or Remainers, just want us to get on and come out this dreadful European Union super-state,” he said.
“There were 17.4 million people that voted for leave and if there are a few thousand in London complaining about it – that doesn’t seem to really make much difference.”
I deliberately left in the Image Caption that got copied and pasted and highlighted the reference to Hundreds of people to further point out the level of fake news that comes out of the BBC as there looked to be more than that in the video that Viv linked to below.
That’s our dear Al Beeb – just as predicted, they never fail: huge to-do about the anti-Brexit rally and a couple of sentences about our , the Brexit Rally.
I expect more videos and we’ll put them up.
Seeing so many UKIP flags flying about our rally truly gladdened my heart.
Stuart,
The aerial photo of the remainiac protest shows around 10,000 I estimate. If you count a block of 100, then count ten blocks to make a block of 1000, and then count up blocks of 1000s.
No way is it showing 100,000.
Anyway it is a comparable number to that of the last Free Tommy protest.
Yes the pro-Brexit march was somewhat smaller. Although way more than just a few hundred. Complete misrepresentation by the press.
The press is not being honest. They have their own agendas and paymasters.
For those of us who couldn’t be there, here’s one video which had me well chuffed:
Watch and you’ll notice why …!
(No, not the dog!!)
So many people! Got to be at least as many as the pro-EU demo and so well behaved! But I wonder if the MSM will give it as much publicity as the other demo.
See tomorrow mornings news round up on UKIPDaily.
Nah – it wasn’t the many people as such which made me feel so good … try again!
As for reports in the MSM: I can say with confidence that there will only be reports of the anti-Brexit rallies, with the Brexit rallies perhaps accorded a small notice somewhere in the inside pages.
Well, if it’s not the number of people or the dog, was it the placard saying ‘Scr*w EU’?
And if it’s not reported I for one will make a complaint.
Nope. ‘Twas the number and certain kind of flags fluttering above the crowd …
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Hi, I just got your email, and would love to donate to another poster truck, but for the love of me, cannot find out how to contact you, maybe if you could drop me a line at my email address, I could sort this out.
Yours
R Goodall
Dear Rodney (Goodall),
You say “cannot find out how to contact you”.
Give me a bell and I will put you in touch with Russell Hicks.
Toby, (Surrey and South East), 01932-873557
Hi, I just got your email, and would love to donate to another poster truck, but for the love of me, cannot find out how to contact you, maybe if you could drop me a line at my email address, I could sort this out.
Yours
R Goodall
Hi Rodney, can’t give you the e-mail address of Russell the organiser but I’ll tell him you want to contact him.
ABSOLUTELY SOD ALL COVERAGE BY THE MSM, this is the most blatant two fingers up to 17.4 million people I have ever seen. UKIP needs to learn how to fight as dirty as our dirty, lying, cheating BBC and other media scum, for that is what they are. They hate democracy and if we don’t give them a very, VERY good slap, this country is doomed.
It really warms my heart to see a nice bunch of diverse British loving Brexit supporters.
Decent people versus the self righteous gullible puppets protecting Goldman Sachs and evil globalists.
Spoke to Mr Hicks this afternoon – the poster truck was at today’s Freedom rally – and the truck and driver can be hired for £350 a day plus VAT so a total of £420 a day.
I meant to add: ask the Editor-in-chief to give your email address to Russell Hicks and he will reply on how to donate for further excursions by the poster truck.
Well Done Russell!
Where’s the Donate Button for the next trip please?
Me Too….. I am in for 1,000 pounds at the first opportunity.
Could do with such a truck running around every major town in UK.
Thanks Rob, we need your help please, just contact Viv.
Please get in touch with Viv, this is urgent,
Russell,
How do the hire costs compare with buying one (and associated service/insurance/road tax) and having it on the road more or less permanently? I’m sure a few volunteer drivers could be found.
Storage and maintenance of the truck is an issue, and insuring multiple drivers. I’m sure if could be cheaper and finding volunteer drivers is not impossible.
Fabulous.
Well done, everyone.
Thanks Ceri!
Love the posters, brilliant. Should be parked outside the BBC most of the time.
Happy Independence day!!!!
That’s just what I want to do.
Well done and thank you for your efforts Mr Hicks. Saw the poster van on St James Street. Gave a toot but it was inaudible amongst the Westminster City Council and Mayoral traffic Khanage.
I’ve never seen such stupidity in Westminster as property developers now seem to run London.
A corrupt Tory Councillor on WCC Planning Committee was recently removed after 500+ planning applications were aided by bungs for planning consent.
Are the two things related ?
Thanks Bryan. Poster trucks work, which is why bad people drip poison in our leader’s ear, saying that they don’t. We urgently need to run more. Please contact Viv if you are interested in helping.
Politicians + Private Contractors = Corruption. It isn’t just confined to the so-called “Third World”; it is just better concealed and explains so many of the “crazy” decisions by politicians.
The Establishment are world leaders in corruption and built an empire on it.
They even award ‘honours’ to the most helpful.
Well done Russell !
Mr Hicks should be given a UKIP medal on stage at the next conference. A magnificent sight. What was the cost and how do we donate for future runs of the truck?
i agree and well done to him
I would willingly contribute to more of these truck runs, please arrange for some where to send donations, just for this sort of thing.
Agreed !
David, please contact Viv, so we can speak.
MOST IMPORTANT RODNEY, please get in touch with Viv, we must speak.
Stout Yeoman, lovely to meet you today! But we have been CHEATED BIG TIME by the BBC and we CANNOT let this pass. Please contact Viv, let’s talk. Also, Terry please get in touch.
Delighted to have found you and the poster truck. I’ll email you tomorrow as I went to an Independence Day party tonight and am a bit worse for wear right now.