https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q39HW8TwHz0
The Pub Landlord succeeds by doing anti-woke and anti-PC.
He asks - Why does everyone hate the English? And did a survey of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Germany.
When people say 'I'm offended by that', he opines, they mean 'I don't find that funny.'
Al stood for Parliament to encourage people to vote, he claims and he believes he succeeded.
He asks - are you asking an artist not to be true to themselves (regarding Taylor Swift doing politics)
Why does everyone hate the English? He asks. It's on The History Channel. Google it to see what he found. Germans have no opinion one way or another, for example. French see us as rivals.
His political career.
On 14 January 2015, Murray announced his formation of the "Free United Kingdom Party" (FUKP) and declared his candidacy, deploying his Pub Landlord persona, for the seat of South Thanet running against UKIP leader Nigel Farage, as parliamentary candidate in the 2015 general election. Murray's agent, Dan Lloyd, told the BBC: "it's definitely happening". The party's logo is an upside-down pound sign, not dissimilar to UKIP's purple and gold pound sign.
Murray said: "it seems to me that the UK is ready for a bloke waving a pint around, offering common sense solutions", adding: "let it be known that like many of the parliamentary hopefuls in the forthcoming election, I have no idea where South Thanet is – but did that stop Margaret Thatcher from saving the Falkland Islands? No!”
Farage appeared to welcome his new opponent on Twitter, saying "the more, the merrier", and a spokesperson for the UKIP MEP said: "at last, serious competition in the constituency". The Conservative candidate, Craig Mackinlay, said he enjoyed Murray's video and his proclamations but was not worried that the comedian would split the anti-UKIP vote. Finally, the Labour candidate, Will Scobie, insisted it was "always good to have people putting their names forward to stand" and that Murray would "certainly make things interesting". When nominations for South Thanet were released on 9 April 2015, it was confirmed that Murray would appear on the ballot paper with no description, rather than his FUKP name and emblem.
The results of the election were announced on 8 May, revealing that Murray received 318 votes. When it was announced that Farage had failed to get elected, coming second in the poll to the Conservative candidate Craig Mackinlay, Murray's reaction – feigning shock and clapping on stage – garnered widespread media attention. Speaking to the media during the vote count, Murray invited Farage to a drink in his pub to drown his sorrow at losing.
Political views and activism
Murray with Paul Chambers (centre) and Stephen Fry (right) outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London on 27 June 2012 Murray, together with Stephen Fry, supported Paul Chambers's High Court appeals after Chambers had been arrested for contravening the Communications Act 2003 when a joke tweet was regarded by police as "menacing" and a terrorist threat. An appeal against Chambers's conviction was successful.
In August 2014, Murray was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.
Ed - any notion that ThePub Landlord might favour an independent England seems unlikely - or even favour peace. He never mentions Russia as far as I know. He's mainly focused on the past - featuring WW2 in his programmes. And jokes about Britain being better than the rest.
That said he wears St George's Cross badges and has them on his posters. Is he moving his interest away from British towards English patriotism like another comic character - Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson)? He might as well. It would round off his search for a way to give meaning to it all. What people call a British accent is actually an English accent. Come on Al. You're not a Scot, a Welshie or a Paddy. You're English, and must be true to yourself, artistic or otherwise. Britain is a fake nation created to foster war - and you're promoting it.