The Government CREATED The Rebellion? | Trending Ep353

Today marks 209 years since the Pentrich Rising, the last armed uprising against the British government. Gareth explores why its lessons may still be relevant today, and draws parallels between the past and modern political movements, asking whether governments and institutions still infiltrate opposition groups, elevate controlled voices, and use conflict or violence to justify crackdowns on dissent. He also looks at how Starmer's social media ban for under-16s would work in the UK, and the announcement by the robotaxi business Wayve that self-driving taxis will launch in London 'in the next couple of months'.

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SPEAKER_00 0:04

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's June the 9th, and that marks 209 years since the Pentrich Uprising or the Pentrich Revolution, which was the last armed uprising against the British government. Now, I know what you're thinking. It's hardly trending. You're a bit late with the news, it's 209 years ago. Well, yes. But it's as relevant today as it was then in terms of the similarities between what the UK was going through, particularly what the north of England was going through back then and what it's going through now. And there's there's a few other parallels and stuff as well. Now, at this time, anti-government sentiment, particularly among the working classes, was bigger and bigger, was growing and growing. And that north-south divide, which of course we hear so much about, was becoming pretty obvious. This was at a time when it was following the Napoleonic Wars, the economy was on its backside, taxes were flying up, of course, that was then falling onto the people and all the rest of it. And so anti-government sentiment, much like today, ladies and gentlemen, was beginning to take hold and it was becoming mainstream. It wasn't just becoming like a fringe thing where a few people had a few gripes. A movement was forming and it was growing. But of course, there was more to it than that, as there always is. And so I'm going to start with the official story of the Pentridge Uprising. Like I say, I've managed to I've managed to sort of get it in today's trending because it's 209 years ago today. So this is the official story. Short but sweet, basically. The Pentridge Rising or the Pentridge Uprising Revolution was an armed uprising around the village of Pentridge in Derbyshire on the 9th of June, 1817. While much of the planning took place in Pentridge, two of the three ringleaders were from a place called South Wingfield, the other was from Sutton and Ashfield. Now, and the the only there was one person that died, and they died in Wingfield Park. So this whole thing is going on in this area. Now I've always had an interest in it because basically I drive through these locations every day. In fact, I play ice hockey for Sutton and Ashfield. So it's it's kind of it's low it's very much local to me. Um, and local history groups and staff have got these plaques that are in specific points that are very important to the story and to the revolutionary march and stuff like that, where events happen. So, like I say, I drive past them. Now, the reference to the death is of a young servant girl who was shot. Some say accidentally, some say intentionally, by one of the ringleaders, a guy called Jeremiah Brandeth. So that was the that was the one death that happened in this in this armed uprising. The story goes that basically Jeremiah smashed the window of this house. They were basically going from house to house, getting more and more people. Some say that they were press ganging people. I don't know if if that went on or not. A lot of people were joining the march, and obviously, as it was going from village to village, more and more people were joining it. A gathering of some two or three hundred men, mainly miners, quarrymen, and iron workers led by Jeremiah, set out from South Wingfield to march to Nottingham. They were lightly armed with pikes, scythes, like the Grim Reaper, and a few guns, which had been hidden in a quarry in Wingfield Park. They had a set of revolutionary demands around social and economic reform. Again, very similar to today, a lot of people's demands in terms of immigration and whatever. Um, included in their demands was wiping out the national debt. Because, like I say, at the time, uh just after the Napoleonic Wars, the national debt was insane. It was absolutely I mean, it was nothing on today, but it was enormous and it was crippling the country and it shaped the economy of the UK for much of the 19th century. It was a pretty grim time. And of course, that led to increased taxes, and and people were on their knees, shall we say. In the end, they were surrounded by government forces in a place called Guiltbrook, and about 80 of them were arrested. Basically, the uprising was crushed almost as soon as it began, to be fair. They hadn't marched very far when they were captured. Three men were hanged and beheaded. Apparently, they just chop your head off after you're dead, at Derby Ghoul or Derby Jail for their participation in the uprising. Brandreth, who's the one that shot the servant girl and um and was the supposed ringleader, he was killed. Isaac Ludlam and William Turner. I there is relevance to this. Um, Derby Jail is meant to be one of the most haunted places in the UK, actually. And I used to live there, actually, in a in a flat within the area of it, and it is creepy. It is creepy. Now, of course, whether people believe in ghosts or whatever is another thing. Sort of irrelevant, really, because we've all walked into a ha into a house or into a room after someone's had a row or something bad's happened. And you know, didn't you? You're like, you had a row, you guys. Like, you and it mate, it felt like that constantly around there. Co-accused conspirator and leader George Waitman was sentenced to the same fate, but later they reduced that sentence and he was sent to Australia, which of course was a penal color colony at the time. He was taken away from his wife and kids, as many others were as well. Now, their letters that they wrote back to their wives from Australia are actually in a museum in Australia. And it says, because the accounts of these guys from the Australians and the authorities there, were that they were good men. Um they were they were decent blokes. So these weren't necessarily, I mean, Brandworth with the shooting of the of the servant girl, that's sort of slightly different vibe, but the rest of them, it said, were just decent blokes, just guys that were struggling. You know, guys that that were trying to get some kind of change to their circumstance, much like today. Now, obviously they execute the three guys, they send others to Australia, others went to prison, and anyone that helped them, or even didn't even help them, entertained them, were punished as well. So there was one lady that owned a pub, and they used to meet there in a back room and have a chat. Well, she was done. Basically, they took all her license away and her ability to work, so she was impoverished and died in poverty. Others where they'd basically called in and had a pint and a bit of cheese and bread. Do you mean they had their licenses taken away? So there was this massive punishment on the people of Pentridge and around there. Then the story takes a turn, folks, which is why it's relevant today and why I wanted to talk about it. And this is where I um, this is why I think it's is worthy as well of a of a feature on the anniversary. I mean, 209, it's hardly the biggest anniversary, but um can't go back nine years, and I can't be bothered to wait until 250 years. Because there was another man arrested, a man by the name of William Oliver. But he was not tried, therefore not hanged, not sent to prison, not sent to a penal colony out in Australia to to work or whatever, because it would have caused embarrassment for wait for it. The government. Right. So who's William Oliver? A few days after the uprising, in a series of astonishing articles in the Leeds Mercury, um, beginning on the 14th of June 1817, so just five days afterwards, they're all he's already on this. Edward Barnes or Bairns, um, who was journalist, alleged that the Pentridge events had in fact been incited by the earlier activities of William Oliver, the one who got away, known as Oliver the Spy, who'd been known to the rebels as their London delegate. Baines also alleged that the authorities had known from Oliver, because he'd been reporting back to them, he's a spy, that the rising was about to happen, but had decided to let it happen, let it go ahead, in order to advance their own political ends. Sounding familiar, folks. So they allowed the Pentry Cup Rising to happen so they could crush it, use it as an example to crack down on anti-government sentiment that began to grow, understandably grow, much like today. Baines revealed that Oliver was actually W.J. Richards, a spy working for Lord Sidmouth's home office. The newspaper article of the 14th of June was read out almost in its entirety by Francis Burdett on the 16th of June in the House of Commons, where it gave rise to sensational debates, which were repeated several times. The accusation, of course, was that Oliver, the Home Office informer, was in fact the moving spirit in the Pentridge disturbances, and that without him they wouldn't have taken place at all. Bear in mind, these debates are happening before those three blokes have been executed and before the others have been sent to Australia, but they executed them and sent them to Australia anyway. So it seems that Oliver was not just a spy that was there to, you know, report back to the government, and it wasn't simply a case of the government going, thanks for letting us know that the uprising's happening. Thank I tell you what, we're gonna let it happen so we can crack down on it. That's bad enough, particularly for the servant girl who's ended up getting shot and wouldn't have done it not happened. But actually, it's deeper than that. They actively made it happen. So this is this is um this is where it goes. Oliver infiltrated underground radical groups calling for political and social reform. There's nothing radical and you know, because radicals put out there as if that, oh my goodness me, what they're crazy radicals. Well, wanting political and social reform at a time when everyone's on their knees, it's not exactly, you know, that's normal. Um but he posed as this London delegate, because obviously around these parts, everyone's got an accent. And in those days, obviously, people travelled less. And and so if you arrived at an area and you didn't speak like the locals, I get it now. And my daughter gets it at school. They think she's a you know a posh southerner or whatever. So he poses as this London delegate. Oh, yeah, no, I've been you know of course to control the game, you've got to control both sides. We see that all the time, and that is what's happening here. He travelled across the Midlands and the North, which are the areas that are most impoverished and most struggling, like I say, that north-south divide, actively encouraging impoverished villagers to take up arms. So he's not just a spy, he's an agent provocateur. Oliver fabricated rumors that thousands of revolutionaries were already marching on London and promised the men of Pentridge that they would be joining a nationwide uprising. Again, apply this to today. Who are the elevated leaders of movements? As in, who are they really? Who are the people elevated to lead the revolutions, to to lead the resistance, to lead the freedom movement, whether it be against COVID or whether it be a movement against mass immigration, whether it be a movement against anything? Who are the ones getting the algorithmic support on social media, which is where all this stuff is done now? Who are the ones getting all the column inches, getting featured on on television and all the rest of it, while others are ignored and marginalized and shadow banned? Who are they really? He egged them on and suggested the date for the march. So he's even setting the date for the march. He's not really a spy, is he? He's an integral part of this, and then secretly informed the local militia of an impending uprising. When a few hundred desperate, poorly armed men marched through the rain towards Nottingham, they were easily dispersed and captured by the King's Dragoons. Following the failed rebellion, the government used the uprising to crack down on dissent. Of course they did. Problem reaction solution, but in this situation, they've actually created the problem. They've created the problem in terms of the, you know, inequality and desperation within society. They've created that. Normally what happens is you get a reaction from the people, but what they've done in this instance is they've created the reaction as well. They've created the uprising through their Oliver the Spy so that they can then offer the solution, which of course is to crack down on dissent and crack down on people that have had enough, people that have got to that point of no, I'm not taking it anymore. Three of the rebel leaders, Jeremiah Brandeth, Isaac Ludham, and William Turner, were tried for treason, hanged, and then post-humous humorously beheaded. So they'd kill him, hang them, and then cut their head off just to, you know, add insult to injury. While Oliver, bearing in mind he's the ringleader, really, was let off scot-free, was given land in South Africa, which was a British colony at the time. So the British have given him land, the British establishment have given him land, and he's allowed to live out his days there because can't possibly live out his days here because people know what's going on. And so it wouldn't be long, probably, until retribution was enacted. Now, are we going to sit here and suggest that they're not doing this now? That they're not infiltrating the freedom movement, the anti-war movement, the anti-immigration movement, you know, during COVID, the anti-lockdown movement or the anti-umov. Of course they are. And so the reason I want to talk about this today or bring this up today is because I think it's so important to be streetwise in terms of who we follow. My answer would be to not follow anyone apart from yourself. Don't follow some elevated frontman or front woman who has come from nowhere overwhelmingly and is getting all this massive algorithmic support or column inches or the rest of it and is stood there dictating to the people what they should be doing. You should be getting angry. You should be doing this, you should be doing that. We need to fight, fight, fight back and all this sort of stuff. Yes, we need to stand up against these people, but when it comes to fighting and violence, trust me, that's exactly what the government wants. That's exactly what the establishment in all its different guises want. They want the aggression, they want the violence, they want you to chuck a rocket of copper, they want you to chuck a Molotov cocktail, because that, just as it was 209 years ago, gives them an excuse to paint any resistance in a certain way and destroy it from within. Now you can you can you can do that. I mean, I I saw um Ben Habib, who I interviewed once before, he was part of Advance UK. I think Advance UK's sort of stepped down now and now he's he's some part of reform. No, some part of restore, sorry, forgive me. Some part of restore. And he was talking about Nigel Farage and the Restore Party and actually how to for Farage to be acting the way that he is and doing the things that he does, saying the things that he says or whatever, actually plays into the hands of the more left, not the left and right mean anything anymore, but that kind of more Labour establishment because they can look at uh him and say, look, you had your opportunity with this populist movement. This is what you got. It's not great, is it? Right, we've tried it, it doesn't work. And um, and you know, whilst I would not align with Ben Abib on lots of things, I do wonder how much of that is true in terms of, you know, they've they've they're doing it with Trump. I think the pendulum swing is coming back towards the the other side now, towards the you know, the wokism and the rest of it. So they can say, look, we tried your anti-woke, we tried your um anti-globalist in Donald Trump, and look what happened. It's a horror show, right? Well, let's move back this way. Um, there could be some some truth in that. So you can you can have these elevated members of movements that essentially destroy movements and they take movements down. Look at the alternative media. The alternative media used to be anti-everything. It was anti-AI, it was against Elon Musk and what he was doing with his driverless cars and all this sort of stuff, and SpaceX and everything else. It was against both political parties because it doesn't matter what side you vote for, government gets in. That was the that was the theme. Since COVID and during the Rona time, the alternative media was massively taken over and became some sort of massive pro-Trump, so political again, pro-Trump or pro-reform. Suddenly Elon Musk is a god and AI's great. You can see how that was completely infiltrated and brought down and is being brought down to the point where there's very few genuine alternative people out there. Very few, actually. Um so I would say bear in mind you know, 209 years later, but you have to learn from things, the Pentridge Uprising and the Pentridge Revolution, and particularly the name William Oliver. Because there are more William Olivers out there now, I would suggest, and there will certainly be more William Olivers in the future. Because there's no way that the British guy, and you can apply this to all different countries, by the way, it isn't just a British thing, it's just I'm saying Britain because Pentrich is a it's a British story, it's a British um historical event. But if they are infiltrating this movement of disgruntled people in the Midlands and north of England, as MI5 had infiltrated the miners' strikes in the 1980s, you famously had a guy called Silver Birch, who was this kind of, you know, spy type guy that was working for I want to say the Daily Mail. It was the right-wing press anyway, and it infiltrated these miners' strikes and stuff. Again, people that were really struggling. There's no way they didn't infiltrate the COVID resistance. There's no way they're not infiltrating the um the resistance against mass immigration. They will have their agent provocateurs in there. And I would suggest we would when should they be outed, we would recognise them. That's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Don't mention the reptiles, Dave. Even less is said about the Grey Pope, which some believe to be the true ruling power in the Vatican. Humans are missing a mass address. All of them had political signals. I've never seen it before. This is the ultimate suicide cult. What if the symbols around us every day are just ornamental? We lost a thousand years of distance. What if there are instructions?

SPEAKER_00 19:16

State of awareness is not manipulatable.