#077 - Alp Mehmet - Immigration Policy: Is Britain Becoming an Island of Strangers?
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Alp Mehmet is the Chairman of Migration Watch UK and a former British ambassador with decades of experience in immigration policy, diplomacy, and public service.
In this interview we discuss mass immigration, demographic change, and political cowardice. Alp explains why current migration policy is unsustainable, how GDP per capita is falling, why integration has failed, and what the real cost of ignoring these trends could be. With over 1.2 million people entering Britain yearly and political parties dodging the issue, is the UK on a path to irreversible cultural and social change?
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| 0:00.0 | People who come here, you know, we say, you know, they've got to integrate. Well, integration is a two-way street. |
| 0:07.4 | Integration is about accepting, about becoming a part of the society that you have chosen to join. |
| 0:16.4 | And that's what is now, I would argue, is not happening in the way that it did 50, 60 years ago. |
| 0:24.6 | We are no longer a homogenous society. We don't any longer have a shared backstory, a shared history, a shared culture. |
| 0:34.6 | And that, I just don't think it bodes well for the future of our society. |
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| 1:28.2 | Pleasure. |
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| 1:31.0 | It's been the hot topic of the moment for about 25 years actually. |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.6 | If not even before that. |
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| 1:39.9 | And it's got blended with other topics, economic issues, social issues. |
| 1:49.5 | And I can sense the kind of temperature of the room from the comments on YouTube. |
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