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We have no answers to the very many

challenging

panel.

>> Where should we house asylum seekers?

>> Right. Well, the government plan to

house asylum seekers in two military

sites. That's the new plan. One in

Invenesse and one in East Sussex.

Lisa. Um well I come from a town where

we were some of the earliest um places

to get asylum hotels under the last

government and it has been an absolute

disaster. We've had um people very

vulnerable people in our town who've

been put there with no notice to the

local community to the police to the

members of parliament to the council. Um

we've had farright racists outside

protesting. We've had a media circus

come to town when people are trying to

go about their daily lives. Um, and

we've had people being locked into their

hotel rooms and confined to their rooms

for many, many hours at a time. Uh, and

left there for a really long time with

no real hope of getting a decision on

their asylum claim and either being able

to move on with their lives, work,

contribute to the UK, or um, being

removed from the UK if they've got no

right to be here. So, I think

>> So, what makes you think it's going to

be any different with these barracks? I

mean, a Labour was very critical about

the conservatives when they put people

in in army barracks and the barracks in

in Venice, for example, it's right in

the middle of the city.

>> Well, it how is that different from

being a hotel in the middle of

>> the point that I was trying to make was

that um first of all, we need to learn

from the mess and the chaos that has

been created. And the biggest lesson of

all to take from that is why did we have

an explosion in the number of asylum

hotels in the country? Why did we have

all this strife and division in

communities? It's because the last

government effectively gave up on

processing asylum claims. So,

so you've got people languishing for

years who could contribute to our

country and you've got all this chaos

going on in communities. The single

biggest thing that we've done that will

make a difference to that is to process

asylum claims. Again, we've doubled the

rate at which those decisions are being

made. Um and uh to bring some coherence

to that system where we were spending

millions of pounds a day on asylum

hotels at the height of the last

government.

>> You're spending millions of pounds on

these barracks.

>> No, instead you you utilize government

buildings. You make sure that you can

house people decently and treat people

with decency because we're a warm decent

country. Uh you process those claims

quickly and then those people who can

stay and contribute get the chance to do

so and those people who can't are

returned. It seems to me we just need to

bring a bit of common sense back to what

has been one hell of a mess over the

last 15 years.

>> Now,

well,

it's always interesting listening to a

Labour politician talk about common

sense because that is the opposite of

what is happening in this country right

now. Everybody uh who's looking at the

absolute shambles of the borders,

everybody in this country is paying 15

billion pounds to accommodate people who

are often breaking our laws. These

islands are known for having a sense of

fairness. We created the idea of fair

play. That is not what is happening in

this country. We have governments, both

Tory and Labor, which are incentivizing

people to break our laws, enter our

country illegally. And to be frank,

putting women, children, uh, our people

at risk. That's what we've seen for much

of the last week from Wul. Rian White,

the young mother stabbed in the head 20

times by an illegal migrant from Sudan.

That's what we've seen in places like

Oxbridge. That's what we've seen in

places like Bournemouth. This is a

complete shambles. We need to put the

British people first. Take control of

our borders. Leave the European

Convention on Human Rights. repeal Tony

Blair's Human Rights Act and detain and

deport anybody who arrives illegally.

The

>> man here at the front in the gray shirt.

>> So, the government clearly needs to get

a better handle on illegal migration,

but people who've arrived in small boats

so far this year is 37,000. There are

over 4 million kids in child poverty in

the UK, and there are four and a half

million people who can't get a dentist

appointment. We spend 90% of the

political capital and discourse and

media focus discussing 37,000 people.

How much more could we achieve if we put

that effort into four and a half million

>> here in the checks?

>> By far right does the lady I don't mean

to attack you or anything. Do you mean

the general public? That's my main main

concern because you are labeling

ordinary old ladies, old gentlemen,

everybody as far right. It it's it's

trying to villainize people who are

quite frankly terrified.

>> Yeah.

>> You've got hotels,

all you can eat buffets. It does not

matter. I'm not attacking. Everybody

deserves a roof and to eat. And that is

a British citizen. That is that's as a

Yorkshire bloke. Yeah. We look after

each other.

>> Yeah.

>> As neighbors, everything. And we do.

We've welcomed and uh we've welcomed

everybody into this country and it's

it's made Britain great.

>> But when you you are villainizing these

words by saying that we are far right

and things and coming from Labor, I grew

up very much Labor.

>> Yeah.

>> And I'm struggling to support Labor

anymore.

>> All right. Well, let's let her answer.

very

no at all. And you make an important

point because there's an important

distinction here by faright people um

protesting about those asylum hotels.

You know who I meant? I meant the people

who traveled to our town with swastika

banners and stood outside the hotels

creating such havoc that in the end the

only threat that the police assessed

that there was in the town was the

threat from those people to the hotel

staff and the asylum seekers. That's

what I meant. Um, I don't mean people

who live in my town, including me. I

bring my family up there. This is my

town. This is my family, my friends, my

community, who were absolutely incensed

by the chaos that we were seeing around

us. And the fact that the company who

placed those asylum seekers in the hotel

did so with no regard to their safety

and no respect for the community that

they're placing them in either. I think

that's disgraceful. That's why we're

taking an action to close those hotels

and find a much more suitable solution.

>> I mean, there are people in Invenesse

saying Labour's not giving them any

respect either because they don't want

people in those barracks. But I'm just

pointing that out. Yes. F.

>> Yeah. I mean, I just want to I guess

there's no doubt that there is absolute

chaos in what our asylum seek system

looks like right now. I mean, whether

you look at how slow it's been to

process the applications or where people

are living and what's happened in some

of those communities. But I really want

to pull you up, Matt, on this point

about saying they're often breaking

laws. There are, of course, some people

that are doing things that are

deplorable and wrong and they need to be

deported and put in jail and the rest of

it. But those are the minority. And I

really want to highlight this because I

at Christmas was invited by this refugee

charity local to me in East London and

was asked to um judge a competition that

children were doing. And honestly, these

families, some of them had come through

irregular routes. They want the same

things as us. They want the same things

as us. They want their kids to do well

in school. They're coming from places

like Iraq and Afghanistan which most of

us here have memories long enough to

understand that we have a role and why

those countries are in a bad way from

Sudan where there's absolute atrocious

things happening on the ground and we

don't talk enough about and UAE is one

of the countries involved there and we

sell them arms. So again, this has

something to do with us.

And we should absolutely

just push away this idea that somehow we

should be scared of all asylum seekers

because many of them are just normal

people trying to escape very horrible

difficult situations and just build a

good life and everything.

>> Just briefly

there's there's a group of people that

really haven't been mentioned so far

which is the British people. When did it

become acceptable to impose an extreme

policy of open borders, unvetted,

unvetted illegal migrants coming into

the country? Nearly 200,000 on the

current trends. By the next general

election, on the current trends, we will

have another 181,000 illegal migrants

coming into this country over the next

few years. You say they don't commit

crime, violence, etc. What do you say?

What do you say to the family of Rian

White, the young mother who was murdered

by a man from Sudan? What do you say to

the family of the 8-year-old in

Lambbeath who was raped by an asylum

seeker? Or the 12-year-old in Unaten who

was raped by an asylum seeker or the

10-year-old in But this is a narrative

that we have. And if we talk about it,

we're far right. If we talk about it,

we're racist. And by the way, Lisa, your

your leader, Kia Starmer, just stood at

Labour Party conference and said, "If

you are voting for the Reform Party, if

you want to change this country, you're

far right. You're Nazi. You're fascist.

It's abs." No, that's what he said.

>> Sorry. Well, okay. Well, you you've said

what you think. Now, let me tell you

what actually happened. See, the thing

is, Matt, that I grew up in Manchester

in the 1980s. My dad came to this

country from India and we were and

remain a proud diverse city that has

been strengthened by waves of

immigration and and I just say to you

I've seen this playbook before. I agree

absolutely with FISA that the cases that

you mentioned are absolutely appalling,

horrific, disgraceful and that's why one

in one of the cases that you meant there

isn't a live court case police

investigation at the moment. We took

swift action and we removed the guy from

the country. But let me just say this to

you. I've seen this before. When I was

growing up in Manchester, my dad used to

debate with Enoch Powell. And we heard

the way in which people tried to tar

every single person who didn't look like

them or sound like them or come from the

same place with them as somehow a

threat. What you're doing is trying to

create fear and distrust and division

because that's the only way that you and

your friends can thrive. We have no

answers to the very many challenges.

Wait one second.

>> If you talk at the same time, no one can

hear anything. Plus, I want to make sure

other people speak as well. So, very

briefly, I appreciate the passion you're

speaking with. Finish your point and

then very briefly respond.

It's the only playbook you've got

because you've got no real answers to

the challenges this country fa faces

including that list you just read out.

Um the question would be how are you

going to do any of those things? You

don't know. You've never answered the

question and so you create fear and

distrust and chaos because that is the

only way you can gain support.

We used to be a country that respected

people who played by the rules. And

those people in Manchester played by the

rules. It's not about race. It's not

about ethnicity. What's happening now is

we have governments that are

incentivizing people to break the rule

of law to violate our sense of fairness.

And you are the people who are paying

for that. 15 billion. Let's hear from

some of them is how much you're paying.

There's lots of hands up and I want to

hear from some of them. So, man in the

gray sweatshirt there. Yes.

Matt, you talked about narrative and

mentioned the families of victims of

some horrific crimes, but a few weeks

ago in our country, a seek woman was

raped on her way to work by two white

men who told her to go back to her

country. What would you say to the

victim of that family and the motivation

behind that attack? Do British people

do white British people not also commit

these violent crimes? and is your

narrative not that these crimes are only

committed by asylum seeks and refugees.

>> Okay.

>> I'm

>> very briefly

>> I'm interested in evidence the freedom

of information requests that have been

submitted because the government won't

give you this data.

>> You're not actually answering his

question. What would you say

this information but they won't give you

the information about what's going on in

the country? The freedom of information

request show.

>> Matt, you're not answering his question.

>> I am. If you let me speak for you,

>> the freedom of information request show

>> the family of the sick woman who was

raped by two men who died. Exactly the

same thing that I would say to the

families of the grooming gang victims.

It's horrific and they deserve justice.

>> So why why didn't you bring it up when

you brought up all the victims of crimes

by asylum seekers?

>> I'm going to take it away

>> about narrative and that is your

narrative.

>> I hear your point, Harro. You've been

sitting here very quietly

>> and probably quietly is quite a good

word because one of the reasons why the

issue of immigration in the country,

asylum hotels in the country has become

so toxic is because people do not

listen. They do not recognize that this

is an really difficult vital but

difficult area which governments have to

solve. But because there is so much heat

in the argument, because there's so much

point scoring in the argument, it's so

difficult for anyone to get out of the

position that they've got themselves

into. Yes.

>> And do you think the Conservatives are

not point scoring on this argument at

the moment?

>> I think that we have actually in the

last 14 months, we have looked at what

we did, look at what can be done, and

come up with better solutions as to what

can be done in the future. And yes,

>> i.e. i.e. they were bad solutions while

you're in power.

>> No, not necessarily. I don't think that

at all. We were dealing we were dealing

with a situation that was evolving. We

were dealing with a situation where for

example we suggested using barracks.

Labour didn't um support that. They do

now because they've realized the reality

of being in government. Reform will

realize the reality if they were to come

to government as well. But this is much

harder than just a headline. Much harder

than just trying to set a solution that

will um get a bit of reaction from the

public. And we cannot do this by point

scoring. You cannot do this by pitching

one against the other because it has to

be a solution where communities feel

like they're being listened to, the

British public feel like they're being

listened to, that health care and

services which are there to support the

British public, but are also going to be

used by those using the migrant hotels

are being used and actually able to

support those who need them with British

people at the front of the queue because

that's what is needed to

>> and do you think that the conservative

government shares any of the

responsibility for the fact there are

that we are in the situation we're in

now? Immigration in the last few years

exploded around the world. Absolutely.

And yes, I'm asking about the

conservative and yes, we were not immune

to that. We absolutely were not immune

to that. We recognize that completely.

We did see immigration increase while

we're in government. We've seen it

increase again this year. Small vote

arrivals are already higher this year

than they have been in the previous um

year as well. This is not a one

government issue. This is not a one or

twoyear issue, but it is an issue that

we do need to solve.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
asylum /ˈæsɪləm/ B2	noun - protection granted to refugees or political dissidents
migrant /ˈmaɪɡrənt/ B2	noun - a person who moves from one place to another, especially to find work
refugee /ˈrɛfjʊdʒi/ B2	noun - a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or disaster
government /ˈɡʌvənmənt/ B1	noun - the group of people with authority to govern a country or state
policy /ˈpɒləsi/ B2	noun - a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual
border /ˈbɔːdər/ B1	noun - a line separating two political or geographical areas, especially countries
claim /kleɪm/ B2	noun - a demand for something as rightful or due verb - state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence
decision /dɪˈsɪʒən/ B1	noun - a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration
process /ˈprəʊses/ B2	noun - a series of actions or steps taken to achieve an end verb - handle or treat by a series of actions
community /kəˈmjuːnəti/ B1	noun - a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common
chaos /ˈkeɪɒs/ B2	noun - complete disorder and confusion
discrimination /dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃən/ C1	noun - unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
fear /fɪə(r)/ B1	noun - an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous verb - be afraid of someone or something
rights /raɪts/ B1	noun - legal, social, or ethical entitlements or freedoms
justice /ˈdʒʌstɪs/ B2	noun - the quality of being fair and reasonable; legal process of determining rights
illegal /ɪˈliːɡəl/ B2	adjective - contrary to or forbidden by law
security /sɪˈkjʊərɪti/ B2	noun - the state of being free from danger or threat
protest /ˈprəʊtɛst/ B1	noun - a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something verb - to express an objection to something, especially a public authority
violence /ˈvaɪəl(ə)ns/ B2	noun - behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something
fairness /ˈfɛənəs/ B2	noun - the quality of making judgments that are free from discrimination or bias

Key Grammar Structures

• >> Where should we house asylum seekers?

  ➔ Interrogative sentence with modal auxiliary

  ➔ The sentence "Where should we house asylum seekers?" uses "should" as a modal auxiliary to express obligation or advice, with the inversion typical of questions (subject-verb).

• Lisa. Um well I come from a town where-we were some of the earliest um places-to get asylum hotels under the last government and it has been an absolute disaster.

  ➔ Complex sentence with relative clauses and past perfect

  ➔ The sentence includes a relative clause "where we were..." modifying "town," and uses the past perfect "has been" to describe a completed action's impact on the present.

• >> So, what makes you think it's going to be any different with these barracks?

  ➔ Second conditional with 'going to' future

  ➔ This is a second conditional question implying hypotheticals, with "what makes you think" as a structural phrase and "it's going to" expressing future in the past.

• You've had people very vulnerable people in our town who've been put there with no notice to the local community

  ➔ Passive voice and participial clauses

  ➔ The passive "who've been put there" shifts focus from the doer, and the clauses use participial forms like "vulnerable" and "with no notice" as modifiers.

• We need to bring some coherence to that system where we were spending millions of pounds a day on asylum hotels

  ➔ Gerund as object and relative clause defining system

  ➔ The gerund "spending" functions as an object in "where we were spending," and the "where" clause specifies the context of the "system."

• Detain and deport anybody who arrives illegally.

  ➔ Imperative mood with relative clause

  ➔ The imperatives "Detain and deport" give a command, modified by the relative clause "who arrives illegally" to specify the subject.

• This is not what is happening in this country.

  ➔ Cleft sentence emphasizing contrast

  ➔ The cleft structure "This is not what..." divides the sentence to emphasize "not what is happening," highlighting a discrepancy.

• We've had hotels, all you can eat buffets.

  ➔ Present perfect for past actions with present relevance

  ➔ The present perfect "We've had" indicates experiences continuing to affect the present, listing facilities like "hotels" and "buffets."

• Those people who can stay and contribute get the chance to do so

  ➔ Conditional relative clause with modal 'can'

  ➔ The relative clause "who can stay" uses "can" to express possibility, leading to the consequence "get the chance to do so."

• I just say to you I've seen this playbook before.

  ➔ Present perfect for life experiences

  ➔ The present perfect "I've seen" refers to a prior experience relevant now, emphasizing repetition of "this playbook."