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🗓️ 16 July 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchew with my colleague and friend Gregory Copley, |
0:08.7 | the King Charles Report. The king is very busy knitting together, not opponents, but you'd say |
0:15.0 | that they live side by side. That would be Macron of France and Starmer of Britain. |
0:20.9 | Dinner that you introduced me to last week, Gregory Windsor Castle, also included Mr. |
0:27.0 | Starmor and Mr. McCrone coming to an understanding about what is to be done with the migrants who push their way across the English Channel in dangerous craft, |
0:36.2 | brought there by smugglers and the ability to return them to France |
0:41.8 | or wherever their origin was necessary for the two to hammer out. But I'm not concentrating on the deal. |
0:47.6 | I'm concentrating on the king's role. The king is above politics. But it appears from an |
0:53.1 | outsider's point of view that he's decided |
0:55.8 | that Mr. Stormer's in so much trouble he's going to help him. |
0:58.5 | Is that correct? |
1:00.4 | I wouldn't say that's the reason he decided to do it. |
1:04.6 | He's doing it because I think he knows that the Crown has this great strategic role |
1:10.0 | in stabilizing its country, in this case the United Kingdom, |
1:14.3 | as well as in providing a statesmanship level to interact with other countries. He's got a gravitas, |
1:21.6 | presence and prestige. And the fact is that President Macron invited the king over for a state visit a couple of years ago, |
1:32.2 | and the king went, and it was enormously successful and cemented or got rid of a lot of the problems |
1:39.5 | in the Anglo-French relationship, which resulted in Brexit. |
1:42.8 | Now, you've got a lot of people who are saying that the current immigration problems |
1:47.8 | were caused by Brexit, and that showed that Brexit was a mistake for Britain. |
1:53.0 | In reality, what it shows is that Britain made its move away from the European Union, |
1:59.5 | and the French still have not followed |
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