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The Owen Jones Podcast

How Society Is Destroyed By Anti-Immigration Anger

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Enough is enough. We've been lied to for years: and so I'm going to show the truth about immigration, and how it's been used to deflect anger at everything wrong with this country.

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0:00.0

This is the biggest lying British politics, and I fed up of it, and it's about time we

0:04.4

tear it to pieces. Should have been done a long time ago. Now, I was on a TV show today,

0:08.4

and the topic was, should the government make cutting immigration its priority? That was,

0:13.6

of course, after the publication of record numbers of people arriving in this country,

0:18.6

or net immigration, more arriving than leaving. And it just struck me. That has been the

0:24.1

government's overriding priority for years. It's one of the only things we talk about in this country.

0:29.1

We're an entire referendum in 2016, which, let's be honest, above all else, was about immigration.

0:36.3

And ever since Theresa May, Boris Johnson, I can't remember the one between that, Rishi Sonak,

0:42.1

all they've gone on about is immigration, clamping down an immigration, and so on and so forth.

0:47.6

I do not understand the oxygen out of everything else. We don't hold politicians to account.

0:52.4

For the way they've shredded our public services, done down our living standards, left

0:56.9

infrastructure in this country, quite literally falling to pieces. Have you seen the state of our

1:00.4

roads? The fact that we've got people driven into poverty in one of the richest countries

1:06.3

that has ever existed, that much of this country, let's be honest, is not to the standard you'd

1:11.6

expect of a country which says it's as rich as it currently is. Now, let's what we're going to do

1:16.4

first, as well as talking about how we don't, or how we've allowed these politicians to deflect

1:22.7

anger, just not make us focus on things that actually matter in our lives and just talk about

1:27.4

immigration. That's how immigration has ruined our lives, not the actual immigration itself,

1:31.7

but the fact we talk about it rather than holding our government to account for all the things

1:35.2

they've done. Let's talk about the immigration figures today. Let's just debunk this whole panic,

1:40.7

which has been whipped up. So, the overwhelming majority of what's driving the record levels,

1:47.2

over 600,000 net immigration, much lower than predicted, many were predicting it would be a

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