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Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

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Richard Seymour returns to the show to respond to more listener's questions and to address the recent outbreak of racist and Islamophobic violence in the UK. Become a £5 supporter on patreon to get access to all episodes of PTO Extra: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

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If we look at Labour's record, before being elected, Kirstarmer said that Rishi Sunak was the most liberal PM on immigration in history.

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He said that Britain needed to get over its addiction to migrant labour.

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He said too many migrants worked in the NHS.

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Yvette Cooper, who's now the Home Secretary, attacked Sunak for not having ended asylum hotel use, which she said was costing the country six million pounds a day.

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In terms of government budgets, that's a patent, by the way.

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Look at some of the other Labour MP.

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Sarah Edwards was elected in Tamworth in the West Midlands last year

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after the Tory MP was drummed out for a sexual assault scandal.

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She then went to Parliament and claimed that the cost of

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putting asylum seekers at the local holiday inn was $8 million a day, which the area desperately

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needed. That was a complete fabrication. Thangababeneer, who I'm glad to say lost her seat,

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was on television claiming that asylum seekers were costing the UK taxpayers at $8 million a

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day, said that was

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unforgivable in the cost of living crisis, warned that people who may be a danger to this

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country were left unprocessed as they lived in asylum hotels. So the picture we were getting

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from the official opposition, which should have been countering the Tories right-wing culture

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wars, was that asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants are expensive and dangerous.

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