Bari Weiss
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210 appearances
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4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Jan
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So if Nigel Farage and reform hadn't been in the picture, you think Labour still would have won?
When you talk about managerialism, you know, this sort of like tweaking and, you know, focusing on tiny details rather than talking about like the big issues that actually impact people's lives, that inspire people, that shape culture in the world. Is Keir Starmer the image you have in your mind? Like, is he the ultimate image of the sort of managerial leader?
Like what?
The two issues that Brits care the most about are the two that I think drove this election here in the U.S., which we'll get to. And of course, that's the economy and immigration. I want to ask you about both, starting with the economy. This is the state of Britain's economy today. Wage growth has been flat for 16 years. The GDP is shrinking. National debt is almost 100 percent of GDP.
And productivity growth from 2019 to 2023 was 1.5 percent. And just as a point of comparison, it was 7.6 percent in the U.S. It's not the liberals that are responsible for this state of affairs. It's the conservatives. How did that happen?
You think of conservative parties, not just in the UK, but just more generally, as the party of growth, of free markets, of, you know, all the things that we know. How'd that happen?
My point is like the socialists aren't responsible.
Let's talk about just immigration a little bit more deeply and just put some numbers to this because it's pretty unbelievable. Net migration to the UK hit a record high of nearly a million last year. 11 million migrants have come into the UK since 2012. The population is only 68 million people. That is 16% of the population in the last 12 years.
Big picture, and then we'll get into some of the details. How has this changed the fabric of British society?
In other words, they come in, they get on the National Health Service and... But also...
And doing it under the guise of civil rights language.
Just to stick on immigration for a minute, I was really struck by this number. 54% of people crossing the English Channel by boat are from five countries. Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea, Syria, and Sudan. You have said many times numbers matter. In other words, labor markets matter, economics matter, what we were just talking about. But culture matters more. That's right.
Put meat on the bones of that. What do you mean by that?
From our vantage point here... And obviously, the U.S. is not immune to this, but it seems 10x or maybe even more bad in a place like London. We're watching as every single Saturday, massive numbers of people, some of whom are perhaps...
Recent migrants, some who are second generation, are marching through the middle of London, one of the most important capitals in the Western world, cheering on behalf of terror groups.
And Nigel Farage, who we've mentioned, the leader of reform, the leader of this sort of right-wing party, he says he wants to close the border, freeze all non-essential immigration, stop channel crossings with the program to detain and deport illegal migrants, and return small boats to France. proposed solutions different from those of Farage?
But is the other X factor here fear? I mean, ahead of this interview, I was texting with some friends, writers in the UK, and they said, you have to talk about Islam. And I said, well, doesn't everyone ask Kemi about Islam? And they say, well, we're scared to actively and openly talk about it. It's we're willing to say some cultures are better than others, more tolerant than others.
And the unspoken thing there is that people who are coming to the UK from countries where anti-Semitism is the norm or anti-Westernism is the norm, where mob rule to some extent is the norm, happen to be coming from places where, you know, Islam, or if you want, radical Islam, is normative. And they're bringing those values that are antithetical to British ones or Western ones along with them.
And, you know, someone texted me sort of a glib text, and he said, why do you think Douglas Murray doesn't live in England anymore. Why do you think X, Y, and Z don't live in England anymore? They don't want to go the way of Mike Freer.
In other words, referencing the gay MP who had been wearing a stab vest, who I think was a victim of arson, whose life was threatened because he dared to stand up for Israel. So how much of that is really the elephant in the room?
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