Two panellists clashed in a fiery debate about migration and British tradition on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg present this morning.
The heated change included the weird suggestion {that a} President Nigel Farage could be a good suggestion for Britain. Unison General Secretary Christina McAnea and Richard Tice, the chief of Mr Farage’s right-wing Reform UK social gathering argued over whether or not there was a singular “British culture”.
The union chief accused Mr Tice of turning the talk right into a tradition struggle in an “appalling” method and hit again after Mr Tice mentioned immigration was making the nation “poorer financially” and “poorer culturally”.
Ms McAnea responded: “When I hear people say things like it will affect our country culturally, and I’ve heard you say this before and I’ve heard other people like Farage say it as well, I don’t even know what that means. Because we are a country where people come from all over the world and I’m the grandchild of migrants from Ireland and my culture is probably very different from yours.”
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She added: “It is an appalling way to turn things into a culture war in this country.” Mr Tice claimed Tony Blair and David Cameron all imagine “multiculturalism has failed”, including: “We should live and operate under one single British.” But Ms McAnea hit again: “I don’t care if they said it. There is no one single British culture.”
Mr Tice mentioned he “completely” disagreed together with her and that there’s “the British way of life”. Pressed on what he thinks that is, he mentioned: “I think that sense of Britishness, who we are, our heritage, our history, our Christian values and ethos. That is the base of our single British culture and that’s what we want people to unify under. We welcome smart sensible levels of immigration, but mass immigration, people living in silos, different cultures, is not good for our country.”
Ms McAnea shook her head at his clarification, saying: “We can’t go back to the 1940s or 1950s”, to which Mr Tice responded: “Absolute nonsense.” Ms Kuenssberg was pressured to intervene, saying: “We must move on but we will come back to you both at the end of the programme. I’m sure there’s not going to be unity between you two on the panel, but it is great to hear a lively debate on the programme.”
It comes as figures revealed this week that UK internet migration hit a report breaking 745,000 final 12 months – greater than 3 times increased than promised by the Tories of their election manifesto. Mr Tice mentioned Mr Farage, who’s at the moment starring in I’m a Celebrity… Get me out of right here, shall be “absolutely furious” when he says the migration figures when he returns from the jungle.
Mr Farage has been dropping hints he may try a return to frontline politics. Asked if he thinks the previous Ukip chief shall be seeking to take his job as chief of Reform UK, Mr Tice mentioned: “I’ve always said I want as much help as possible but I’m a bit more ambitious. I quite like the idea of President Farage – maybe you can have President Farage and President Trump.”
Cabinet minister Laura Trott was this morning requested about the specter of Reform UK after Lee Anderson was secretly recorded boasting he was provided “a lot of money” to stop the Tories and be part of the social gathering. She insisted she was not frightened about Reform UK outflanking the Conservatives from the precise.
“I’d be very clear {that a} vote for Reform or another social gathering which isn’t Conservative is a vote for Keir Starmer as prime minister,” she informed Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips. “But what I might say is likely one of the causes it is so vital for me to come back on exhibits like yours is for us to speak as a authorities what we’re doing to cease the boats.”