Crisis? What crisis?
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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are considering whether the so-called 'migrant crisis' in the Channel is a storm in a teacup or something genuinely worthy of the alarmist response. And on You Ask Us they respond to the prompt: 'Should the Parliamentary Lobby be abolished?'.
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| 1:35.9 | quote-unquote migrant quote-unquote crisis and you ask us |
| 1:39.6 | should the parliamentary lobby be scrapped. Happy New Year Stephen. |
| 1:48.0 | Parliament isn't back yet but we are and I'll tell you what there has been a huge crisis |
| 1:54.6 | hasn't there huge enormous crisis. I don't know about you but I spent most of Christmas |
| 1:58.8 | patrolling the wall at Stover. The yeah you wrote in your column this week which I thought was a good intro which is the channel migrant |
| 2:04.2 | crisis. Every word of that kind of deserves an asterisk to explain that it's not really. |
| 2:08.2 | I mean it is happening in the channel. |
| 2:09.4 | Yeah this thing is happening in the channel. |
| 2:11.6 | But how many people is it? |
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