Laurence Fox has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras after uploading a video online of police appearing to search his home. The Mail has the story.
Footage posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, this morning appeared to show uniformed officers in the now sacked GB News host‘s home as he sat on a sofa smoking a cigar.
It comes after the actor appeared on Maajid Nawaz’s Warrior Creed podcast on Tuesday, to “encourage mass removal of the surveillance state”.
He said: “I encourage them [Blade Runners] to tear down every single camera there is and I will be joining them to tear down cameras as well, because I’m one of those people that puts my money where my mouth is.”
Mr. Fox added he was “pretty close with several” Blade Runners – a secretive group behind acts of Ulez camera vandalism – and that he would be “out there with my angle grinder”.
The Met Police confirmed a 45-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras.
Later, GB News dramatically announced it had sacked Fox following derogatory remarks he made on the channel about a female journalist.
On Wednesday, a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed Fox sitting in his living room smoking a cigar while police appeared to search his home.
In the footage, he says: “Look how many coppers there are in my house…Coming to take everything out of my house. That ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in.”
It appeared to show multiple officers in what looks like Fox’s living room as he sits on a sofa watching them, dressed in a grey suit and smoking.
— GB News Spin Room (@GBNewsSpin) October 4, 2023
BREAK: Laurence Fox’s house has been raided by The Metropolitan Police this morning
It comes off the back of yesterday’s Rumble interview with Maajid Nawaz, where on ULEZ, he said he’d be ‘out there with my angle grinder’ and would be ‘happy to be arrested’ pic.twitter.com/UgBYBzcKBD
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: GB News has tweeted that “Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were both suspended last week pending internal investigations that have now concluded. As of today, GB News has ended its employment relationship with Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson. The internal investigation into Dan Wootton continues.”
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I very much doubt if Laurence Fox has or had any intention of actually doing anything. He perhaps did seem to encourage and for that (if true) a quiet word from the plod would have been enough. If only he had not spoken out against the elite too often; if only he did not run a political party that opposed they authoritarian ways; if only that he would not have been raided and arrested.
The global dictatorship is up and running…
Fox needs to learn some guile.
Be as wise as a serpent, innocent as a dove.
Don’t play into their hands or give them easy hits.
I tend to agree.
I don’t think people are inspired to rebel by people who rebel and get arrested.
But it depends what he does next.
If he keeps going, doesn’t stop, takes all the blows and basically martyrs himself, it could lead to a tipping point.
I don’t think so. After the interview, he can hardly have expected that something else would happen. He said that he’d be happy to get arrested and have a court trial over this. Which got him arrested and probably moving towards a court trial. And he’s probably better able to defend himself than the people who are actually taking down the cameras. That he got the police coming after him instead despite he didn’t commit the offence he was talking about also means the police will be busy with something that’s certainly not going to save a single camera. The political proponents of ULEZ had been in a much better position if they had either caught him in the act or could have accused him of hypocrisy because he didn’t really dare to commit it.
You look like my Trans Auntie….That should keep 50 plods busy!
He has handed them two open Goals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7bcdFopSxw&t=2s
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-hole-in-one-for-the-masterly-mark-steyn/
Kathy Gyngell reproduced this excellent article by Mark Steyn in The Conservative Woman yesterday. Coming full circle, Steyn-Wooton-Fox-Robinson I commend to you the words of Katie Hopkins in her ‘Katie’s Arms’ podcast of three days ago, (last 15 mins). Her take on Wooton is no-holds-barred and utterly scathing. She does however have a lot of time for Lozza. Well worth a watch.
I’ve read that. But this strongly reminds me of humming top: It’s colourful and rotates around itself making noises which some people find entertaining. And its meant to entertain these people. But apart from that: What’s the point?
The “point” is that Steyn’s taking legal action against OFCOM.
The “point” is that his voice was an unsupported cri-de-coeur. I’d wager TPTB at GB News along with Wootton et al wish they had supported Steyn in his hour of need. By not doing so, they’ve allowed OFCOM time to take careful aim.
Remember what the Steyn Show used to do on GB News? Vaccine victims ignored by the government and vaporised on social media. The industrial-scale gang-rape of English schoolgirls up and down the land from Rochdale to Banbury. The utter uselessness of the British constabulary, who are too busy dancing their clubfooted macarenas to investigate any crimes. Those are the “points.”
Thank you, but I’ve read the quote a few times already. It remains “Steyn uses somewhat famous anti-establishment causes to rant about the system in a way some people (apparently) find highly entertaining.”
Since 2020, I’ve been stopped, questioned and IDed by the British police for countless times for committing the atrocious crime of walking over a public bridge on a pavement in the dead of the night. And I’ve spent 15 hours in police custody after being violently arrested because I told a female bouncer that I had accidentally forgotten to leave my (folding) pocket knife at home before going to a club that I planned to spent a part of the night in and asking her if they’d still be open 30 minutes from now so that I could bring the knife home and come back. I then walked away and managed to get accross the next street when a bunch of bearded guys (colleagues of the non-lady) came running after me and slammed me into bus stop to fixate me there. Then, the non-lady came running, breathlessly announcing that she had already called the police.
Not quite clubfooted macarenas.
Not being funny RW, or wise after the event and all that, but explaining to a bouncer, of whatever sex that you were ‘tooled up’ with a knife wasn’t perhaps the smartest move ever. Admittedly, asking pemission to pop to your car to get a Glock out of the glove box would have been worse, but only marginally so. Lesson learned the hard way I guess..
Doubtlessly, the lady couldn’t be arsed to listen to what I was actually saying as she preferred her private hallucinations over that but nevertheless, I think the statement (as explanation why I’m not moving forwards into the club when at the front of the queue) I’ve just noticed that I accidentally left my pocket knife in my jacket. I think I should go home again to leave it there before entering the club is a perfectly harmless one which certainly shouldn’t lead to unprovoked outburts of physical violence.
Can’t you just leave the knife in the Jacket and hang it up with a ticket number, I got caught with one as a youth at a club but was for protection because got ganged upon once and walked home at night alone from Gym. Never had to use it. it was the hocked knife.
Everyone seeking to enter the club would routinely be searched before being allowed to enter it. They might have missed it but as I never meant to bring it with me, I just accidentally forgot to take it out of my pocket before leaving home, chancing that seemed like a really bad idea.
How long was the blade on the folding pocket knife?
I have no idea. From the general size of it, one would consider it suitable for peeling apples (or opening plastic packs, what I’d usually do with it). It was actually a prohibited kind of knife (a so-called locking knife), I just didn’t realize this because I’m no expert in all of this terminology. But by the time of the assault and the following arrest, no one knew this. I’d also gladly have handed it over voluntarily. But no one was asking for that.
In any case, it was certainly completely unsuitable as weapon for suddenly attacking someone.
Also back in 1997 hadn’t been driving long, had full car of lads when stopped by Police. They went through us all finding a bong in one lads bag, he stated no comment on the bong. They went through my glove box where I had a flick knife that looked like a fountain pen, he had it in his hands and put it back…I saw it as a small victory.
Im sure what he said was within the definition of conspiracy to commit… but i’m also sure they have more pressing priorities – knife crime being one. This feels like the State clamping down on political views it disapproves of.
How about I do want to kill whitey on BBC.
Massive win for Lozza. Will turn him into a folk hero, which is what he needs to rescue him after his appalling behaviour.
Which appalling behaviour? His opinions of the vile harridan went down very well in my circle of friends and acquaintances.
His opinions are one thing; airing them on the TV is another. He’s taken out one other person as collateral damage already, with another to follow possibly. They didn’t ask for that.
Likewise
I still find myself in a slightly ‘Pinch me so I’ll wake up!’ position. If I have children or grandchildren, I’ll have to explain that when I was growing up, you could say pretty much whatever you wanted to and that it was only in places such as the Soviet Union, China, N Korea and Spain that you could face the government hounding you and find yourself – and even friends and family members – being thrown out of your job if you stood for something they didn’t agree with.
Ever since the Rogue Parliament of 2019, I’ve looked on in fear and horror, thinking ‘Don’t they realise where they’re taking us, what utter darkness they’re unleashing on the land?’ The state is now driving people to commit crimes – notably in the case of the Big Brother ULEZ cameras – and attacking people who question their overreach.
And I see Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were sacked today. Dan Wooton will probably be cancelled next. Calvin Robinson, I suspect, will have an unfair dismissal case opportunity. I suspect most decent police officers have quit in disgust by now, leaving a wannabe-Waffen-SS in charge.
We’re in a phoney war right now. Civil war is coming. God protect us all when it does, because it will make our England bleed (to ‘borrow’ from Shakespeare, because if you’re going to be apocalyptic, steal from the best!!
) No one really wins in civil wars and there’s a lot of misery too, as we’ve seen in Yugoslavia.
Civil war or an insurrection?
Insurrection would be if we the people storm Parliament and the royal palaces. Civil war is when definitive sides emerge and enter combat. The one thing I hope is that the grassroots of the military on our side, even if the current seniors aren’t. But we’re reaching a point where police or the military are going to be ordered to fire on British citizens and we have to wonder whose side they’ll be on then.
I am well aware of the distinction between civil war and insurrection hence my question. If you believe in civil war in which way will the two sides divide?
I wasn’t lecturing: I was more mulling the ideas over in my head and writing my thoughts down. Force of habit…
The dividing line will ultimately be postmodernist, pink liberals and objective reality-based libertarians and conservatives.
The sides won’t obviously call themselves that, but in essence we have the ‘Year Zero New Utopians’ who hate the country, believe all of its history is one of ‘colonialism’ and plundering other continents, that all of our scientific achievements have ruined the world, that humans are – at core – possessed of the Original Sin of simply being alive. This faction believes that identity is all and it trumps objective reality; that if someone doesn’t like something, it should be made illegal. They want to erase our history and start again. They are less willing to look someone in the eye and kill them, but if they control the state, will happily organise the mass murder of anyone who disagrees with them. Essentially, they’re every totalitarian regime that’s plagued us for the last couple of centuries. Unfortunately, culturally, the UK’s political parties, civil service, education service, the present military leadership media class and the corporations are currently a milquetoast part of this group (emphatically, not every individual within these organisations is.)
The rest of us broadly accept that no country has a clean past, that facts trump feelings, that objective reality is the basis of life and science, that the world is physically pretty much the same as it was a few decades ago and that things basically ought to be pretty good for us if we use the fuels at our disposal and that freedom of speech and conscience is part of a healthy society. If this side is supported by the military, things will be easier. The Year Zero mob are better at street protests and cowardly vandalism. The rest of us, if we put our minds to it could take back our country, but we’re slow to realise that war has already been declared and our freedoms have steadily been salami-sliced since the 1990s, when John Major signed away much of our sovereignty to Agenda 21 and the EU.
I don’t want a war, because we’ll all end up losing. If the utopians win, there will be genocide, because they’re f***ing loons at heart: they believe in gender theory, for chrissakes, so they’re capable of anything. If ‘everyone else’ wins, the utopians will go underground and start fomenting discord again.
I’ve said along, we need new countries and a diaspora. In past centuries, if people hated what their country was become, they left and found somewhere new. Now, thanks to the communications revolution, we’re on ‘Prison Earth’ where anyone alive can be taken out by a drone strike when he walks out of his front door.
We don’t do God now. The State is now God, as shown, e.g., in the Sudiksha Thirumalesh case.
You need Boat loads of foreigners who have no loyalty to these shores, oh wait!
And that’s why they are here isn’t it!
As I have been posting for about two years.
Had we stayed in the EU, you can guarantee the merged armed forces and police services would eventually have been moved all over the continent, so that none of the police in the UK would be British, nor would any military based here. It’s much easier for a bunch of French or German police and troops to open fire on Polish citizens in Poland than to open fire on people from France or Germany.
We’re living under the rule of the same deranged fanatical cults who ranted stood in town halls in semi-military uniforms 150 years ago and had horrifying ideas about eugenics and social engineering. Now, they’ve had a corporate makeover and wear expensive, tailored suits and fly private jets to Davos.
Daily Mail comments ‘turned off at the current time’. I wonder why?….
Legally, they have to be turned off. Now he’s been arrested and thus been investigated, the press is limited on what it can report and some comments could get the Mail and the person commenting in legal problems. It’s different on blogs such as this.
Although Laurence is his own worst enemy, gobbing off with his lack of a filter, it’s plain to all by now that the police pick and choose which ”crimes” they wish to pursue. Well, they blatantly make up ‘crimes’ and wrongdoing, it would appear, just to persecute and intimidate citizens, which makes them look as pathetic as school bullies in my view. It also seems like when they do want to go all out to harass someone and take them in then they appear to require a disproportionate amount of manpower.
I’m confident that had Laurence been of a different ethnicity and posted actual hateful, criminal content, such as how to stone your disobedient wife to death;
https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/watch-imam-lectures-on-how-to-stone-women-to-death-says-they-should-be-buried-waist-deep-to-protect-modesty
or perhaps that ‘apostates’ should be killed for turning their back on Islam;
https://twitter.com/nuriyahk/status/1709194306328666413
…then he would have been left well alone by the pigs. Well, the above two scummy gits are still walking amongst you in the UK. Think I’d rather take my chances mingling with our Laurence Fox.
Unfortunately my suspicions of the gb staff culture has just been confirmed by now sacked Deacon Calvin Robinson “nobody !! Rang me to ask are you ok there was no HR duty of care”
As I thought gb staff void of kindness.
Everyman for himself. Too late now for those piping up with faux tentative concern.
They are next either by cancelling or self censorship or by management gagging.
That cannot be a palatable existence. Owned!
I am worried about Laurence and think he may need help.
Also, Car Radio, BBC this afternoon I just caught the end of a conversation where they were discussing Conservative MPs spreading conspiracies at the party conference about 15 minute cities. This must be a follow on from Radio 4 on Saturday when Even Davis was discussing 15 min cities with a Conservative MP. He was saying how his constituents were concerned about their freedom of movement etc but he didn’t mention Oxford or Canterbury where they actually were trialling it with the NRC cameras. It seems to me, they want red meat for votes, but rather not go too deeply into AGENDA 2030 Sustainable Development. Or UK FIRES.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/chris-packham-is-it-time-to-break-the-law
Chris Packham goes on a personal journey to decide for himself if it’s ethically acceptable to break the law to protest against government policies on climate change
I expect the same treatment very soon????
Do we think Laurence has a good lawyer who will get him out of this mess or do you think he’ll face the full force of the British injustice system and get sent down?
”A far-right commentator has been jailed for 60 days in Switzerland for calling a journalist a “fat lesbian” who is “unhinged” — a sentence that has been hailed by LGBT activists as a victory over intolerance.
Alain Bonnet, a French-Swiss dual national more commonly known as Alain Soral, was handed a custodial sentence by a court in Lausanne on Monday after being convicted of defamation, discrimination, and incitement to hatred.
The offensive remark dated back more than two years ago when Soral took aim at the body image and sexual orientation of Catherine Macherel, a critic of his and journalist for the Swiss French-language newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures.
Soral described Macherel in a Facebook video as a “queer activist” who was “unhinged” and labeled her a “fat lesbian.”
The Franco-Swiss writer was initially convicted of defamation last year and was ordered to pay a fine for his transgression. However, the Vaud public prosecutor’s office appealed the ruling, arguing that Soral’s remarks fell under reforms to the Swiss Criminal Code passed back in 2020, which made for derogatory remarks based on sexual orientation to be viewed in the same way as discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, or nationality.”
https://rmx.news/crime/swiss-commentator-jailed-for-60-days-after-calling-critic-a-fat-lesbian/
If your concern is directed towards these things then go right ahead but if you have any nous you will see that we have far greater fish to fry at the moment and we don’t have the luxury of idling about. Either you glean it or you don’t and if you do then you are already preparing for it anyway. For all of the collapse of Christianity and our common culture and high culture, it is still there and it is written into the soul of the people who live in these islands. There is still enough genius left in the British mythos to carry us through. All of humanity is out there but our overlords don’t want us to know that.
Neil Oliver just wrote this. Sparse on deets so we just wait and see now..
”Just spoken to my dear friend @LozzaFox
. He’s home and well. He’s without his phone and other devices but wants everyone to know he’s ok, deeply moved by all the love and support and will be back in touch with the world whenever possible.”
https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1709671498024112441
I like Laurence Fox but this is the second time in a couple of weeks he has made foolish comments and with the ULEZ statement he appears to be deliberately provoking a reaction from “the authorities.” It doesn’t mean he’s wrong, but it does mean he is steadily making himself less effective.
He needs to learn that you can stalk, challenge and provoke the crocodile: but you don’t deliberately feed it.