Joseph Robertson
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345 appearances
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 16 Jan
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And I'm out there doing some very interesting things.
There's a new show launching, which I can't talk about just yet, but which I suggest people stay tuned on and find out more.
I think the brewing discontent in the United Kingdom about being part of this European club more or less started from the moment at which the United Kingdom joined the European community in the early 70s.
There's always been this tension between the kind of continental centric European Union built around particularly Germany and France and the act of post-war reconciliation and the UK being much more of a kind of maritime island nation.
It's always had these tensions.
Conservatives decided to hold the referendum.
The thing that really, really kind of dominated all the headlines at the time was the Mediterranean migration crisis, people fleeing the conflict in Syria in particular.
And there's a stable of.
very eurosceptic anti-European newspapers in the United Kingdom who are very, very powerful.
And they extremely skillfully conflated the question of our economic status in this huge single market, which I remain of the view had helped the United Kingdom enormously.
They conflated that with, do you want all these people coming across the Mediterranean and flooding into our country?
But immigration was the rocket fuel, and it's almost everywhere in Europe.
I definitely think it was.
Some people say, oh no, it was because of all the economic difficulties post the 2008 financial crisis.
I think that was definitely an important contributing factor.
But yes, I think the very visible items on people's evening news, on the front page of the newspapers of this crisis,
What came across to people as uncontrolled flight of folk across the Mediterranean definitely was, as you put it, the rocket fuel for sure.
That kind of politics needs to learn how to deal with the populists by being a lot more aggressive and populist itself.
I think at the moment what we've got, certainly in the United Kingdom and across Europe, what you've got is you've got a bunch of political parties that were formed
in a period of time which no longer applies.
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