Why are protests erupting in Dover, Portsmouth, and elsewhere? It’s a question that’s on the mind of many British people right now. And it’s a question I explore on this week’s episode of The Silent Majority Podcast, in which I walk you through a series of bombshell revelations about what is really going on in Britain’s broken asylum system and explain why people are being gaslit and misled by the system. If you want to support a platform that speaks up for the silent majority, challenges the establishment, and now reaches millions of people every month, then please join us as a paid supporter. Paid supporters make everything we do possible — they can unlock every full episode of the podcast, every article, live discussions with me, our subscriber-only group chat, and the knowledge that you are helping us reach millions of people with arguments and evidence they simply won’t get anywhere else. Join us today and help us keep growing. PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello, everybody. Welcome to the second episode of the Silent Majority podcast, the place where we like to push back against establishment narratives. We like to ask questions that very few people are willing to ask. And more importantly, we like to give you information and evidence you’re probably not going to hear today anywhere else. Now, this week, we’re going to be looking at the disturbances, the eruption of protests and demonstrations in the United Kingdom, in Dover and Portsmouth. Of course, those are related to migration. But I’m going to be asking what actually lies behind the simmering public anger in the country, because I do think we are approaching a very dangerous place. But before we get going and discuss all of that, before we start, I just wanted to say, if you’re listening as one of our free subscribers, if you’re listening on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, wherever you get your podcasts, our early episodes are going to be completely free and open to everybody. But after a little while, we’re going to limit the podcast to a short preview for our free subscribers, and the full episodes are going to be available to our paid supporters over at mattgoodwin.org. And the reason we’re doing that is because we are using the support from a small number of our paid supporters to invest in social media, to build a platform that actually genuinely represents the silent majority. We are reaching tens of millions of people now every month across social media, through things like our Substack newsletter and now this podcast. We are immensely grateful to our paid supporters for making that possible. So if you want access to every post, every episode, the group chat, live discussions with me, head over to mattgoodwin.org and become a paid supporter. Now, enough of that because it’s time to get going with what we really want to talk about today. And that is the eruption of significant protests and demonstrations in Dover and Portsmouth. Many of you will have seen the scenes. These were highly coordinated events, public protests in two major places in the UK. We saw hundreds of people, in some cases dressed in black, wearing balaclavas, taking to the streets, blocking off essentially the port of Dover. And then just a few hours later, the next day even, we saw those extraordinary scenes in Portsmouth where a small boat, a mega dinghy, carrying around 140 illegal migrants arrived off the south coast of England. And when it became clear that that mega dinghy—and of course, this is significant because most of the dinghies and boats do not land at Portsmouth, they go around to Dover—hundreds of protesters started to gather, not just locals, but people from organized networks. And they proceeded to block roads. They tried to block the boat from arriving, and they tried to prevent the police from taking those illegal migrants and asylum seekers to be processed. And Britain was once again this week confronted with, I think, a level of anger, frustration and tension around the immigration issue that is now becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Many Labour politicians quickly proceeded to criticise the protests, demonise the protesters. Prime Minister Andy Burnham described “poison” being brought onto Britain’s streets. The Labour Policing Minister described the protests as being unacceptable. Labour Minister Emma Reynolds described them as being “thuggish”, as dealing with or bringing intimidation. And I do think it’s interesting because for the last few years, we have had a political class in this country, a ruling class, that has been more than happy, more than willing to allow mass protesters to march through the streets of London, Hamas sympathizers, anti-Semites, all kinds of extremists. And they’ve barely said a word. But here we have working-class British people protesting peacefully so far—and I’ll come back to that point—and yet Westminster and much of the left in British politics has had a complete nervous breakdown. I do see a significant amount of hypocrisy. Now, before getting into what’s caused these protests, what lies behind them, the chaos in the asylum system and some absolutely remarkable figures and evidence that we’ve discovered over the last seven days—and I’ll walk you through all of it—and I’m going to talk a bit about where I think this could be taking British society if we do not get control of the borders, obviously I’m just going to insert the caveat at the top of this podcast. I do not support violence. I don’t think anybody who’s involved with our newsletter supports violence. We do not support intimidation. We do not support people breaking the law. We do not support people—well, I don’t support people wearing balaclavas. I don’t think they’re particularly useful. I agree with some politicians this week who have said the best move for Britain is to ban all face coverings, including the burqa and the niqab. We are entering a society here, if we’re not careful, where face coverings are being normalized and becoming mainstream. But let me be crystal clear at the top of this podcast. Let me tell you what I do support. What I do support is the right of the British people to peacefully protest against what is happening to their country. And rather than simply condemning these people, rather than simply calling them far-right extremists, misinformed, and then quickly moving on, as much of the political and media class is doing, I think we need to ask a much more important question, which is what I’m going to answer today. Namely, why is this happening? Why are people becoming so angry in Britain? Why is the country being pushed to the very edge? Why are we seeing so many protests and demonstrations in recent years? Because it’s not just Dover and Portsmouth. It is Epping. It is Bournemouth. It is Dundee. It is Falkirk. A number of towns and cities now have seen significant public protests and demonstrations against a specific policy that is being imposed on this country from above. Britain now feels like it’s on the edge. In fact, only recently, the credible pollsters YouGov asked the British people—this is a mainstream pollster—to what extent do you think it is likely that there will be civil conflict in Britain in the next 10 years? And one-third of all British people, one third, one in three, felt it is very likely that there will be civil conflict, potentially even civil war, in Britain within the next 10 years. So in this episode, I want to really interrogate this and explore this, focusing in particular on what we’ve learned this week about the absolute chaos that is unfolding in Britain’s asylum system. Because while all of these protests were taking place, all of the demonstrations in Dover and Portsmouth, something really important was happening in the background over the last seven days. One story after another broke, one bombshell after another, involving an asylum system in this country that increasingly looks completely overwhelmed and out of control. And I’m going to walk you through the big revelations because when you put them together, I think you begin to understand something critically important. The small boats, the more than 209,000 people who have arrived now in Britain illegally on the small boats—and remember, in some polls, immigration is still the number one issue in the country. It’s why I talk about it perhaps more than other issues. But the small boats are only the most visible part of the crisis that is unfolding in Britain because behind those boats—and this is the important point—sits an asylum system that is simply not working. Sits a government machinery, the blob, the establishment, that is simply not in control of what is happening in this country. So let’s go through what we’ve learned over the last seven days, because I think it has been quite a week. I want to start here with the whistleblower, with a government insider that has blown the whistle on what is really happening behind the scenes. And I want to start with what they have revealed to the British people. Just 1% of asylum claims in Britain, according to somebody who is working on asylum claims, just 1% are genuine claims for asylum. That is what they told the Times newspaper. One in every 100. This is not a fringe. This is not out on the margins or the extreme. This whistleblower went straight to one of the biggest newspapers in the country and said just 1% of asylum claims that they can see that are being processed are genuine. Now, of course, this is not an official Home Office statistic. This is not an official report. But this is somebody who says that they have personally assessed thousands of asylum claims. And what they have seen is nothing short of astonishing. They have talked about what people inside the system apparently call package claims. The same stories, the same supporting evidence, the same circums
