The Government's Ship Idea
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS TO BE HOUSED ON LUXURY CRUISE SHIP screamed the headline in the Daily Express.
That was in February of 2016.
And it never happened.
The idea has been mooted in various ways about ten times in the last decades - including by Rishi Sunak when he was chancellor in 2020.
Each time the idea is dropped for being unworkable, unaffordable or illegal. So why do we keep falling for it?
Also - should the descendants of slave owners be making reparations to the people or the places they have hurt? We talk to Laura Trevelyan who's family has decided to make amends for their own past.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Now look, we're very good at telling you when we've done well. |
| 0:09.0 | You might have seen that the newsagents hit 24 million downloads and climbing yesterday. |
| 0:14.0 | But I think it's also important to admit when we screw up. |
| 0:17.0 | And on Monday, when I was away, Lewis and John were in charge, this happened. |
| 0:23.2 | Yeah, and the one person who sort of fell for it and then thought, I'm not having anything to do with |
| 0:27.8 | it, was Gavin Williamson. So when you're even outwitted by Gavin Williamson, you're in a pretty |
| 0:33.9 | rough state of affairs. Gavin Williamson. |
| 0:38.1 | Millions have you got in touch. |
| 0:39.6 | Well, one or two anyway, to ask why Gavin Williamson |
| 0:42.7 | had been seemingly stripped of his keenly earned, |
| 0:45.9 | richly deserved knighthood. |
| 0:47.3 | He hasn't. |
| 0:48.1 | Of course. |
| 0:49.4 | John, what would you like to say? |
| 0:51.4 | I'd like to say I am very sorry, Sir Gavin. |
| 0:57.0 | Lewis. |
| 0:58.0 | I'd like to apologise to both Sir Gavin and Lady Williamson for this shocking breach. |
| 1:04.0 | It was a breach. |
| 1:05.0 | And let's be honest, in doing that, we took away from him his just deserts, something that he's worked for and earned his entire political career. |
| 1:15.1 | And I know John and I, we've reflected on it. |
| 1:17.5 | Full of remorse. |
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