Rod Liddle: UK Correspondent on Nigel Farage calling for immigration statuses of those charged with crimes to be released

The leader of the Reform UK Party has called for police to release more information about those charged with crimes. 

Nigel Farage believes details such as immigration status should be made public, saying it’s not in contempt of court for the British public to know the identity of those who have allegedly committed serious crimes. 

UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking it comes after the arrest of two men in connection with the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Warwickshire. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Riding high to the UK. We go, Roderick, very good
morning to you, my frame, Come on in, Mike errold Mike, Tommy,
what have they got him?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Full this time GBH or alleged GBH assault. What happened
was that this I dare say if your audience is
familiar with the name Tommy Robinson by now, given that
he's the kind of right wing icon of protest and
activism and very very much disdained by everybody else. He

(00:31):
was actually seen on a coast circuit television walking away
from a man who'd clearly been hit. The question is
whether Tommy Robinson hit him. He flew straight off to
Portugal and the police arrested him on his way back
from Pharaoh. It'll be interesting to see if he gets
a fair trial, because hitherto he hasn't been given a

(00:57):
fair trial. Now you might argue enough is an awful man,
but the way he's been treated by the law courts
in the past has inflamed the views of the far right,
and they feel they've got a point. You know that
there is a conspiracy against them. Always treat these people

(01:18):
the way you treat anyone else.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
All right, now, farage so he wants the immigration status
of people who are arrested. I'm watching yet again, Rod,
another summer of I if honestly, if I was in government,
would I promise to stop the boats? Knowing surely in
my heart of hearts, I didn't stand a hopenhill.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, yeah you might if you actually did it. I
think Germany has cut its it's refugee asylum seekers numbers
by fifty percent. America has cut its asylum seeker numbers,
you know, people coming over from Mexico, primarily by some
way the region of eighty percent. It can be done,

(01:56):
but it needs it needs to take of action and
severity which the Labor government, and in fairness before it
the Conservative government simply wasn't prepared to adopt. You can
do it. I think you know. One answer was the ruanderance,
which is to send all the asylum seekers to Ruanda.

(02:18):
What should certainly be done, and has never been done,
is to say to all of them, if you attempt
to enter this country, illege to me ut facto will
not be given asylum. And that seems to me to
be the most sensible route out of all of this.
It would be a deterrent, but anyway for ours wants

(02:38):
Faras wants police to release the immigration status of the
criminals who are arrested for serious crimes. And this is
based around one in Warwickshire in which it's suspected that
the people who sexually assaulted a twelve year old girl
were Afghans Flores.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Has it been through going through as we speak? He
gets it?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Am all right.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
It seems to be the north of Scotland.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's where I am. That's why I mention it. You see,
if you were talking to some bloke in London, he
wouldn't even know the florists existed. But up here, I'm
telling you the trees are down. You can't get out
your drive because of all the debris. But no one
south of what will notice for a second.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And what's it like in the middle of summer with
a storm? What have you got? Warm temperatures but big wind.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, that's exactly it. Warm temperatures, big with occasional very
dusty showers. But it has been seasonably warm. It's been
nice weather here. We're having a good summer. But these
storms come and you know August in Fairness is known
for storms that I dare say the BBC will be
telling us it's all climate change. But I remember being

(03:53):
August storms back when I was a.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Kid exactly, Hey, listen, just while I've got you and
quickly this I find hard to believe. So the government
will restrict civil service internships to students from poorer families
and they want to make Whitehall more working class. This
is driven by somebody called mcfed and pet Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster. And you are judged by what

(04:16):
your parents were earning and doing when you were fourteen.
How mental is this?

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, well, okay, let me be devil's advocate for a second.
It is unquestionably the takes that the civil service is
of a simle view politically into monoculture, and they are
largely they are almost entirely middle class people who've been
to Oxford got a PPE and a very pro remain

(04:49):
in the EU, very pro assylum secrets, etcetera, etcetera. So
they're out of step with the majority of opinion. And
I don't know that this is Labour's way of doing
Some think about it. It wants to enfranchise the working
class a bit poor, but I don't know how you
can accurately tell who's working classes who isn't And I
suspect that this will simply be a brief spurt of

(05:16):
de Yeah, I suspect it's just a quick burst of
that and then we'll hear no more about it. It
seems to me an absurdity.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, Rod go, Well, we'll see you Thursday, roder Little
and Britain. By the way, other matters, they plan to
evacuate more seriously ill children injured in Gaza. It's unclear
how many. They'll allow up to three hundred to enter
the UK to receive free medical care. Some have been
brought in privately so far, but the government's going to
get involved via metrics next time. In your europe entry

(05:45):
exit system, the ees will replace the current paper chicks,
which means they're going to go biometrics in the European Union.
And the population just for funzis England and Wales population's
gone up up one point two percent. They've gained seven
hundre six thousand, eight hundred and eighty one people. The
population now officially sits at sixty one million, eight hundred thousand.

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