Keir Starmer issued stark warning as 500,000 Britons set to walk out in major national protest: 'It's not right wing to be afraid of what's going on'

WATCH NOW: Richard Donaldson, organiser of The Great British National Strike, discusses planned action

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Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 23/05/2025

- 14:15

The protest movement is taking place in all city centres across the country this weekend

Britons have been urged to "unite" against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in a nationwide protest against the current Labour Government.

The Great British National Strike, taking place this weekend, is set to see more than 500,000 people across the country walking out in protest of the state of the UK.


Speaking to GB News, organiser of the protest Richard Donaldson said he is "not prepared to wait four years" for Starmer to be potentially ousted from power - instead calling for a general election now.

Defending the nature of the strike, Donaldson argued that it is "not right wing to be afraid of what's going on" in Britain.

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Richard Donaldson has called on Britons to take a stand as part of the Great British National Strike

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Explaining the reason for the protest, Donaldson stated: "This is a movement about unity. We are the Great British National Strike, and it is a protest.

"It is going to be taking place tomorrow at 12:00 pm in every city centre across the UK.

"We stand against illegal immigration, net zero, inheritance tax and the attacks on our farmers, the attacks on our most vulnerable, the lack of inquiry into rape gangs and the attacks on free speech and two-tier justice."

Making clear that the protest is "open to any legal British citizen" across the nation, Donaldson stressed: "Anybody is welcome, if you are a legal citizen of this country - whether you're black or white, whether you are on the left wing of politics, the right wing, whether you are religious, you're Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, whatever, it doesn't matter.

"If you are a legal citizen of this country and you are fed up of the way things are going, please, please join us."

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The Great British National Strike protesters are demonstrating against a number of Britain's issues

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When pressed by host Nana Akua on what he means by "the way things are going" with the Labour Government, Donaldson claimed that there is a "whole list" of issues infuriating hard-working Britons today.

Donaldson expanded: "There's so much. We've got around 14.3 million Brits living below the poverty line, we've got four million children going to bed hungry every single night. Fuel debt on average now in the UK is £1,094 per household.

"We're £12.1trillion in national debt, if you spread that out amongst our taxpaying citizens that's about £180,000 per person.

"At the same time, we're paying £8million a day just on hotels for illegals, and we spent £16billion last year."

As Nana argued that Starmer would claim the Labour Government were "voted in on a landslide" and have "a mandate to do the things they are doing", Donaldson told GB News that "many people" are "not prepared to wait four years" for another election.

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Donaldson told GB News that he is 'not prepared to wait another four years' of Starmer in Government

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Donaldson said: "If you'd got a job based on lies on your CV and you got caught out on those lies and you didn't do the things that you said you were going to do and you didn't have the intentions that you set out when you when you applied for that job, you'd get sacked pretty quickly, wouldn't you?

"So for me, I'm not prepared to wait another four years, and I know very many people aren't prepared to wait for another four years.

"The people us, all of us need to stand together here, and the only way we can we can do this is through unity."

He concluded: "We're not being represented. When you speak to the average Brit, 99 per cent of us are all of the same opinion. It's not right wing to be afraid of what's going on.

"It's not right wing to not want our country to be flooded with illegal criminals. It's not right wing to oppose the net zero policies that are coming in."