Elon Musk’s father believes ‘good chance’ Tommy Robinson will be prime minister one dayTimes Radio
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00:00If you're a student of history, which I am, then a student of history will tell you that
00:05there's a very good chance that Tommy Robinson will one day be the Prime Minister of England.
00:10Wow.
00:11Yes, very good chance. Well, you know, if you're a student of history,
00:15if you're not a student of history, then I can't help you.
00:19Okay, well, why don't you educate us then? Why does history tell us one day
00:24that Tommy Robinson will be the leader of...
00:26Well, the number of people who became head of their country, leaders of their country,
00:32who were initially imprisoned by the authorities that ruled at the time.
00:37And, you know, so we can start with this country. Nelson Mandela, in 1963, was sentenced to death
00:45for bombings, particularly one bombing where they bombed pylons of electric lines,
00:51which resulted in the deaths of many people and children, terrible harm to them and
00:58lives not worth going on with. And he was sentenced to death for that. And it was commuted,
01:04thank heavens. But at the time, he was considered a criminal, a serious, real bad person. And,
01:13you know, he eventually turned out to be something quite different. But at the time,
01:20if you'd said to people, he will be the president of South Africa one day,
01:25people would have thought you had lost your marbles, or something was wrong with you.