GB News Presenter Called Out For Sweeping, Attack On Migrants: 'Many Are Just Normal People!'

Faiza Shaheen and Matt GoodwinA GB News presenter was repeatedly called out for his sweeping takedown of migrants on BBC Question Time last night.The government announced this week to house asylum seekers in disused military barracks, following backlash over the ongoing use of hotels.But GB News presenter Matt Goodwin criticised the new scheme, and claimed the UK is paying £15 billion to accommodate “people who are often breaking our laws”.Goodwin said: “We have governments, both Tory and Labour, which are incentivising people to break our laws, enter our country illegally, and to be frank, putting women, children, our people, at risk. That’s what we’ve seen for much for the last week.”He pointed to the Afghan migrant who was charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder after a stabbing in Uxbridge on Monday.The presenter, who supports Reform UK, said: “We need to put the British people first, take control of our borders, leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal Tony Blair’s the Human Rights Acts, and detain and deport anyone who arrives illegally.”But his remarks sparked a strong response from both the audience and his fellow panellists.One audience member said: “The number of people who arrived here in small boats so far this year is 37,000. There are over four million kids in child poverty in the UK and there are over 4.5 million who can’t get a dentist appointment.“We spend 90% of the media capital and discourse and media focus of the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?”That remark triggered applause around the room.Economist Faiza Shaheen – who was deselected as a Labour candidate last year – also questioned Goodwin’s claim that asylum seekers are “often breaking laws”.She said: “There are of course some people who are doing things that are deplorable, and wrong and they need to be deported, put in jail – the rest of it – but they are in the minority.”Shaheen pointed out that she’s met plenty of asylum seekers coming from Afghanistan, and the UK “had a role in why their country is such a bad way”, alluding to evacuation of British and American troops in 2021.“We should absolutely push away this idea that somehow we should be scared of all asylum seekers,” the economist said. “Many of them are just normal people trying to escape very horrible, difficult situation.” Goodwin pushed back: “When did it acceptable to impose an extreme policy of open borders, unvetted illegal migrants coming into the country?”But culture secretary Lisa Nandy responded: “I’ve seen this playbook before. When I was growing up in Manchester, my dad used to debate with Enoch Powell.“We heard the way in which people tried to tar every single person who didn’t look like them, or sound like them, or come from the same place as them, as somehow a threat.“What you’re doing is trying to create fear, and distrust, and division. Because that’s the only way you and your friends can thrive.”Related...Labour's New Plan For Asylum Accommodation Is Exactly Like The One They Spurned Just Months AgoKeir Starmer's Asylum Seeker Woes Just Keep Getting WorseLabour Condemned As A 'Moral Void' As Starmer Vows To Remove Asylum 'Golden Ticket'

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