Dorries Day - No Way!
BBC Question Time in chaos as Nadine Dorries explodes on immigration - 'Insane!'
The conversation on last night's BBC Question Time expectedly turned to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments on immigration, where the businessman and Man UTD co-owner claimed the UK was being "colonised" by immigrants. A heated debate broke out between former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Nadine Dorries and Green Party MP Ellie Chowns. Dorries, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK last year, claimed that although Ratcliffe got his numbers wrong, he "got his point across".
Ratcliffe has incorrectly claimed that the population of the UK had risen by 12 million to 70 million people in the last five years, when it had actually risen by less than three million people in that period. He blamed immigration for many problems in the country, saying high levels of immigration are costing the UK "too much money". On Question Time, many guests in the audience appeared to disagree with Ratcliffe's comments, as did Chowns.
However, Dorries took the opportunity to attack the Green Party's 'open door' policy, which she branded "insane". The debate started to get rather heated, with Dorries saying that immigration is the reason Reform UK are doing so well.
Dorries argued: "It [immigration] is a fundamental problem that we have to sort. The insane policy of the Green Party, that you just have open borders; we've seen an increase of 12 million people, we've seen how our schools have suffered, we've seen how our NHS has suffered, we've seen the unrest, we've seen the problems as a result of that.
"To say open borders, and we just let people walk into the UK, it's just simply an insane policy."
Chowns clapped back, saying to the Reform defectee: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fermenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country. It's completely untrue, inequality is the problem in this country.
"Housing is a problem in this country, because we have had 40 years of governments not investing in housing. The health problems we have got in this country are because we have governments, including the government of which you were a part for 14 years, failing to invest in our public services, presiding over decline."
Applause followed Chown's response to Dorries. The latter admitted that Ratcliffe got his numbers wrong, and Fiona Bruce, presenter of Question Time, later confirmed there are 12 million more people living in the UK now than there were in 1995, a 31-year period.
Ratcliffe yesterday apologised for his comments on immigration. He issued a statement, which reads: "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern, but it is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bbc-question-time-in-chaos-as-nadine-dorries-explodes-on-immigration-insane/ar-AA1WgEJ2
The conversation on last night's BBC Question Time expectedly turned to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments on immigration, where the businessman and Man UTD co-owner claimed the UK was being "colonised" by immigrants. A heated debate broke out between former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Nadine Dorries and Green Party MP Ellie Chowns. Dorries, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK last year, claimed that although Ratcliffe got his numbers wrong, he "got his point across".
Ratcliffe has incorrectly claimed that the population of the UK had risen by 12 million to 70 million people in the last five years, when it had actually risen by less than three million people in that period. He blamed immigration for many problems in the country, saying high levels of immigration are costing the UK "too much money". On Question Time, many guests in the audience appeared to disagree with Ratcliffe's comments, as did Chowns.
However, Dorries took the opportunity to attack the Green Party's 'open door' policy, which she branded "insane". The debate started to get rather heated, with Dorries saying that immigration is the reason Reform UK are doing so well.
Dorries argued: "It [immigration] is a fundamental problem that we have to sort. The insane policy of the Green Party, that you just have open borders; we've seen an increase of 12 million people, we've seen how our schools have suffered, we've seen how our NHS has suffered, we've seen the unrest, we've seen the problems as a result of that.
"To say open borders, and we just let people walk into the UK, it's just simply an insane policy."
Chowns clapped back, saying to the Reform defectee: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fermenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country. It's completely untrue, inequality is the problem in this country.
"Housing is a problem in this country, because we have had 40 years of governments not investing in housing. The health problems we have got in this country are because we have governments, including the government of which you were a part for 14 years, failing to invest in our public services, presiding over decline."
Applause followed Chown's response to Dorries. The latter admitted that Ratcliffe got his numbers wrong, and Fiona Bruce, presenter of Question Time, later confirmed there are 12 million more people living in the UK now than there were in 1995, a 31-year period.
Ratcliffe yesterday apologised for his comments on immigration. He issued a statement, which reads: "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern, but it is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bbc-question-time-in-chaos-as-nadine-dorries-explodes-on-immigration-insane/ar-AA1WgEJ2
