#LONDONCALLING: "ISLAND OF STRANGERS" @JOSEPHSTERNBERG @WSJOPINION
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
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| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm John Batchel with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.8 | He's in London. |
| 0:42.5 | He writes political economics, and we turn to life in London. |
| 0:52.0 | Sir Kare Starmar making a speech that is surprising in that it doesn't come to mind immediately as a labor policy. |
| 0:59.2 | This is limiting and reducing immigration to avoid what the Prime Minister says quite picturesquely as an island of strangers. There are stats attached to this |
| 1:05.7 | as the London Times I'm looking at. And he uses language saying that this will end a squalid chapter. He's promising |
| 1:14.8 | that immigration will fall by 100,000 people per year under new measures that he's recommending |
| 1:21.6 | to his vast majority in the parliament. The numbers here are daunting, especially after the COVID hit in 2020, where the request for asylum |
| 1:33.0 | and the immigration skyrocketed. |
| 1:35.9 | Joe, is this an everyday problem in London, the immigrants who don't have the language who don't |
| 1:40.6 | have work and are at sea? |
| 1:44.5 | Well, what's interesting is that it feels like a bit less of a problem in London |
| 1:49.1 | because London is a major global metropolitan center. |
| 1:54.3 | And so I think that the people who live in the capital are accustomed to higher levels of migration |
| 2:00.0 | and more foreign-born population, the political |
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