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22nd May 2019
10:19pm BST

"But people were afraid to say that because then you’re going to accuse them of being racially biased. I’m racially biased. I can’t help it that’s how I’ve been brought up. I’m happy to say it. But they’re afraid to say it so they say no. So we gave them an excuse. We gave them an excuse. Because it’s not immigration. I speak to some of my friends who voted leave and I know them and I know why they voted but they say, “No no, it’s not because of that.” And they needed an excuse but they didn’t have one. And they quickly got one - sovereignty."When questioned about whether he thinks it's all motivated by the same forces, Barnes said it was and it was as a result of what we've been told. People have been fed a false narrative of immigrants wanting to come over to Britain to simultaneously take people's jobs while also be a drain on the NHS. The public have been told that some of these highly qualified individuals and their families want to move to England to either get social housing and low paid jobs, or even go on the dole when the reality is far different. "A mother and her child," Barnes said, "Of course they want to get on a boat and take their lives in their hands to come across the Mediterranean whereby they can be killed, they can be sold as slaves - to come to England to get a council house and to get benefits, of course they want to do that. "Of course a doctor in Syria, who’s a doctor who’s got a PhD, wants to get on a boat with his family with just a handbag and just a bag with clothes in it to come to England to work as a porter. Of course he wants to do that.Why does he want to stay in Syria and be a doctor? "This is what people have been told that people want to come here to go on the dole and to get benefits. And I know people, I’ve watched documentaries on people who are intellectuals, who are engineers, who are scientists, who are doctors, who have left everything behind because they want to come and live in a council house in England and work as a kitchen porter. That’s what we’ve been feeding them." You can check out the full episode below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2PZd-DfKw Ireland Unfiltered, brought to you in partnership with Carlsberg Unfiltered, will be available everywhere you get your podcasts and on YouTube every Tuesday.

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