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2: HEADLINE: UK Political Realignment and the Migration Crisis GUEST NAME: Joseph Sternberg SUMMARY:Joseph Sternberg discusses the UK's political realignment following the Conservative Party's 14-year misrule. Kemi Badenoch aims to revive the Tories with Tha

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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HEADLINE: UK Political Realignment and the Migration Crisis GUEST NAME: Joseph Sternberg SUMMARY:Joseph Sternberg discusses the UK's political realignment following the Conservative Party's 14-year misrule. Kemi Badenoch aims to revive the Tories with Thatcherite economic policies and a strong stance on welfare reform, prioritizing work and fairness. However, the Tories lack credibility on the highly controversial issue of illegal immigration across the English Channel, allowing Nigel Farage's Reform party to gain ground. The migration problem remains intractable due to high costs and lack of political incentive.
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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Joseph Sternberg. He's in London.

0:29.5

He consumes the British news all the time on a variety of avenues, the radio, the TV, the street, the headlines.

0:40.4

Again and again and again, I read, I see, I hear migrants.

0:44.8

The migrants are coming.

0:46.4

How do they get to Britain?

0:48.0

There's a waterway that's very dangerous, the English Channel.

0:53.2

They cross in rubber rafts run by smugglers, and those rubber

0:59.0

rafts are unreliable. There's a lengthy report in the London Times in these last hours

1:04.2

calling the English Channel an open sky graveyard. They do not know how many people are lost in that crossing. And yet, you see the

1:15.5

solution right in front of you. France is a solution. They're launching from the beaches of France,

1:21.4

and these smugglers would not be hard to solve and detain and take away and cut off the lifeline. Why not? Is there an answer,

1:30.8

Joe, from France? I think that the problem that you've run into all along is that no one wants

1:36.9

to actually deal with the hassles of solving the illegal migration problem, because remember,

1:42.9

what you have to do is catch the illegal migration problem because remember what you have to do is catch the illegal

1:48.5

immigrants in your country and then you have to have some mechanism for processing them

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