Dan Hodges

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1,371 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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People are boiling because they they they have identified a problem, they have asked their politicians to solve that problem and their politicians have failed to do so.
That's why they're boiling.
They are not going to be de boiled with respect by people going round falsely telling them there are easy solutions out there that are simply not be simple solutions that are out there that are simply not being implemented because their politicians don't have backbone.
I know you keep say you keep repeating that.
how are they
which I completely agree with.
Yeah.
Yeah, and as I I and you know, and I I think I was completely open about as I said, there are various stages in this debate and at the beginning, not again, it it wasn't that the problem wasn't addressed because of a lack of backbone, the problem wasn't addressed because the various pol politicians didn't want to get into a situation where they were being seen to be bigoted towards migrants in this country.
be bigger, it is a lack of backbone.
No,
no.
But the but the point is but the the point is uh as I said, in my view, the attempt not to not to help fuel bigotry is not something I would characterize as a as as a lack of backbone.
I think where you and and I've acknowledged this.
Yeah.
But it is quite clear.
That
There was a moment, you can talk about a round about Brexit, maybe even before Brexit, where politicians recognized, actually, firstly, there were gen genuine, you know, really genuine concerns by large numbers of people who couldn't, by any stretch of the imagination, be characterized as as bigoted, even though some people on the Liberal left still attempted to do so.
And there was a recognition that this was a genuine pop problem that had to be addressed.
So
We can have a debate.
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