If we're divided on immigration we'll lose the fight against wealth inequality
September 17, 2025
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I I live near Canary Wolf and there's
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there's one of these migrant hotels near
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where I live in Canary Wolf and um my
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cameraman told me there was one of these
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protests the other day. I went down
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after I shot the YouTube and um I went
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there to this hotel and there was there
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was the counterprotesters on the other
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side and um yeah to be honest it was as
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you say George you know it's two groups
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of people stand on opposite sides of the
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each other names and um
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I worried when I saw that that that was
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future of this country. Um,
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you know, I'm an economist, right? And I
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stick to economics. I'm not an expert on
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wealth inequality. I'm very confident on
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that. But I think if people such as
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rates of immigration, you've got every
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right to say that and you've got every
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worry that this growing division is
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going to tear our country apart and it's
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going to prevent people like me from
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from getting the change that I need. And
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what that will mean, George, is that
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kids will suffer very much economically.
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And and and I worry, and you know, this
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is what keeps me up at night, to be
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honest, George. How do I convince the
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public? This is my country, you know,
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and I I don't hate people on either side
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expert in immigration, and I'm probably
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never going to be. Um, but I'll tell you
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country allow themselves to be divided
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on this issue, then the current state of
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play will continue, which is rich people
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richer while workingass people get
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poorer and poorer and poorer. So listen,
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George, I got every respect for you and
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your opinions and and I would encourage
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resist that temptation to point fingers
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and call names because listen, if the
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people of this country are divided, then
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