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00:00and cameras running. I'm Simon Maclaurin of Stand Up For Racism. I'm standing next to the activist of the year, recently run it, Mavs Garcai.
00:15We're here to stand up to UKIP, who have now moved on from being a bit of a racist organisation to an organisation which has now got open fascist in it.
00:27We've been coming out week in week out because we've had these anti-refugee demos and as long as they turn up we'll be here to say refugees are welcome here,
00:37to put out positive images, positive messages about communities welcoming refugees and about our NHS.
00:46So many structures in British society would be so much poorer without immigrants coming over here and making them as brilliant as they are.
00:56Absolutely, I'm here with Simon and so many other people to stand up against the racism. I believe that they're here today because of colour and because of where people have come from.
01:10I'm sorry, who is here today?
01:13The UKIP demonstrators who believe in deporting everyone, mass deportation now is their motto.
01:22As Simon says, without the wonderful immigrants including my family and many people's families over the years, this country wouldn't be what it is today.
01:34I'm here partly as well because we have councillors who call themselves independent but who are supportive of the right wing racist commentary and the rhetoric.
01:44We really need to stand together to fight the lies and the misinformation that these people, with people in the council as their supporters as well.
01:57We need to stand up together against that.
02:00Okay, thank you both for speaking to the news. I'm just going to step back a little bit and pan around and just give us an idea of how many people are here.
02:07Thank you both.
02:09You are going to win what? Struggling. Because you're idiots.
02:34They are bleeding the economy dry and it is our taxpayer money doing it. You don't understand.
02:51They are not being smuggled in. Smugglers do it in the day and at night. They are being transported across to be put in hotels for rich people to make loads and loads of money.