Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith and special guest, CEO of migrant support charity PRAXIS, Minnie Rahman, discuss the protest flashpoint in Epping and ask what does a humane, open, fair immigration policy look like and how we can make the case for it.

And in Part II, as Parliament goes into recess, we look at the assortment of Oppositions' Positions and whether they add up.

Plus 'Wokey Dokey'.

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“I dislike the term ‘integration’ applied to immigrants. The people who are not integrated in this country are the politicians and the Eton crowd. They are the ones who need to integrate with the general population.”

“The [Johnson] gov't added to the mistrust about immigration, by cynically injecting record numbers of migrants as a counterbalance for a disastrous Brexit. They knew the economy was going to suffer significantly and the easiest way of that not happening was to shove an extra million people's product onto the GDP.” 

“Local funding has been cut and cut and cut. And when local authorities cannot afford libraries, or leisure centres, or even a fireworks display, then communities don’t spend time together, they don’t work together, they don’t get to know or understand one-another.”

“I don’t think this country is particularly racist. But it is very insular. It is very: We’re in. You’re out. But the crux of the out-group does not seem to be race. It is more: We understand the rules. You don’t know the rules. We hate having to explain the rules. Therefore, we don’t want you.”

“We don’t talk enough about class. Class division is ignored and pushed into the conversation about racism. Now, obviously, class and race are integrated and racism does exist in the country. But progressives lack a clear vision. We are missing strong voices on the left that can go out and say: I get it. You’re having a shit time. But this isn’t the solution.” 

“We are basically serfs. Doffing our cap and heralding privilege in such a grotesque way that people can’t even see through this bullshit peddler, who went to Dulwich college, became a banker, and now tries to tell you that refugees are the problem and not this entrenched privilege from which he and his ilk have benefited far more than anyone who has arrived on a boat.”

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