During Tommy Robinson’s London ‘Unite the Kingdom’ ‘Free Speech’ rally on Sunday, amid showcases of flags featuring America’s Don’t Tread on Me flag, songs calling for Palestine to be shoved up the arse, and hope for a 1776 style revolution, the British anti-immigration rally platformed Aotearoa New Zealand’s very own Brian Tamaki, of Destiny Church. Tamaki stood on stage and went on a shpiel about how all other religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Baháʼí  were specifically called out) are false, and called – to the cheers and applause of some 150,000 attendees – for the ban of “Any type of public expression” of these religions in Commonwealth countries, alongside the banning of Mosques and burqas because they’re a threat to Tamaki’s perception of Christain faith being the basis of the UK, Australia, and New Zealand’s existence. Alongside his speech, Tamaki had members of his church in traditional Māori attire tear apart several flags, including that of the Islamic State as well as Palestine. Meanwhile, across the world as he was enjoying his great British holiday, Destiny Church members established counter protests during a March for Palestine in Auckland where Church members performed a haka and held framed photographs of recently assassinated American talking head Charlie Kirk.  
Look, it shouldn’t take you long to pick up on the glaring contradictions in the whole thing, a Free Speech demonstration calling for the outlawing of non-Christian faiths while performing a ceremony of a non-Christian origin (a ceremony which, if I can add on, when done by Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, was described as barbaric and savage by the same gammons in attendance of the rally in London) doesn’t need someone to point it out for it to be funny. But I’m pointing it out anyways, because it is funny. It’s disturbing as well, of course, how Tamaki has gone from some fringe political talking head to Aotearoa’s top importer of American culture wars, platformed at Tommy Robinson’s event. Now I can only speculate, but, they probably had to phone him in given Thomas Sewell is locked up in a cage right now and couldn’t ‘Heil Victory’ or ‘Heil Aussie’ to the 150k pasties in attendance.