Last weekend I travelled to Margate to watch David Icke at the Winter Gardens. Due to opposition calling for his shows to be protested earlier in his tour, his management had decided to not reveal the location of the show until the day before – furthermore, guests were encouraged to use the back entrance due to a small expected group of protesters.

Due to work I arrived late so did not see any protesters.  Upon entering, I was impressed by the size of the audience, I suggest a few thousand in attendance for a four and a half hour presentation.

It is possible that because of my late arrival I missed it but throughout the evening I heard no talk about shape shifting reptillians, the building of the moon, saturn being a spaceship or other ‘out there’ theories which David Icke has become famous for.  Instead he presented an articulate and passionate monologue warning of a bleak future if we do not wake up to what is going on.

Icke suggests that the world is run by global elites pursuing an agenda to create a fascist society, destroying liberty,  an omnipresent surveilance, a microchipped population and a world government and army run by AI; he has been researching this subject for 20 years and gave examples how this was becoming closer as the elite slowly tiptoe closer to its goals.  This is done by ‘problem reaction solution’, a process manufacturing a problem so that people react calling for something to be done for the elite to introduce a solution which they had wanted and planned in the first place.

He uses 9/11 as a classic example of this showing a famous video of Former NATO Commander Wesley Clark who tells everyone of the United States’ plan to invade seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.  Icke explains to win support for this each country is presented as a problem so the public are receptive to change and then the solution of invasion/ occupation is given.  The agenda is the same no matter the political party in power; Bush and Blair invaded Iraq, Obama and Cameron invaded Libya and Syria and now Trump has seemingly set his sights on Lebanon and Iran.

Icke also talked about the links with the increases in transgender to Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, the difference between political Progressives and Liberals (he analyses the Nazis as Progressives), the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, George Soros, the dangerous powers of Google, Amazon and Facebook and their collaborations with DARPA (developing military technology) to paint a picture of a troubling future.

So one might expect Icke’s concern and knowledge of the manipulation would cause him to be angry and call for people to fight back.  Instead, he calls for a response to come from the heart, you don’t change the world by hate (what you hate you become) and calls for people to respond with non violent resistance.

Icke’s presentation is persuasive and uses different news headlines and articles to demonstrate his argument. A criticism however, is many of his articles are written by the same writer Andrew Cheetham; thus the credibility of these sources could be questioned.

Icke’s call for people to recognise how religion, gender, nationality are all methods of divide and rule and calls for people to come together and unite. Whether conspiracys exist or not, Icke’s conclusions provide an exciting and interesting alternative to common thought and everything in the mainstream media; this coupled with his rallying cry for unity makes it is easy to see why he continues to attract audiences all over the world.

Please leave any comments, particularly if you went and can add any information about the opening of the show.