#UK: The recent riots in the North -- and poor growth and worse housing. Conrad Black, National Post
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
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https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-the-chaos-on-u-k-streets-was-preventable
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series, |
| 0:05.0 | this is CBS, I in the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.0 | Recent news in the United Kingdom, including a new government, |
| 0:12.0 | the Labor Party led by Sir Kurt Starmer, also is dominated |
| 0:17.5 | by news about riots, riots in the United Kingdom. |
| 0:21.8 | Why? What happened? How did Kirstarma, the new Prime Minister, confront those |
| 0:26.3 | riots, especially in the North? I welcome Conrad Black, writing for the National Post to reveal to me something I hadn't seen in the English |
| 0:35.8 | press. |
| 0:36.8 | Conrad, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:39.0 | The Tories were in power for 13 years. |
| 0:41.1 | Now, Labor has reason to believe five years are easy, maybe 10 with |
| 0:46.3 | their overwhelming majority. But at the beginning of labor's sovereignty |
| 0:51.4 | riots in the north that that at the time, and I just repeat the way the |
| 0:57.1 | London press reported, there were murders in the north, the murders were |
| 1:01.6 | especially upsetting because it was children. A alleged |
| 1:06.8 | murderer was detained. He is born in England, but his parents are from Rwanda. |
| 1:15.4 | The immediate headlines pointed to the riots |
| 1:19.2 | as a response to, in some fashion, immigration or race or origin all of that. |
| 1:27.0 | But you bring forward facts that are important to consider, |
| 1:31.0 | especially in light of the fact that the riders were blamed as racist. |
| 1:36.2 | What can you tell us about the neighborhoods where the riots took place? |
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