GB News presenter Andrew Pierce was forced to intervene as guests Carole Malone and Jonathan Lis clashed over the migrant crisis, with Malone fuming “how dare you”
GB News presenter Andrew Pierce was forced to intervene and plead with his guests to “please calm down” as they erupted in a furious row over illegal immigration and small boat crossings.
Panellists Carole Malone and Jonathan Lis engaged in a heated on-air battle regarding the migrant crisis, with Lis maintaining it’s merely a “problem” that won’t “not lead to societal collapse”.
During the programme, Carole raged: “This scheme is never going to work, we knew weeks ago it was never going to work. It’s going to be 35,000 in, 2,000 out maybe. The 50 in, 50 out… we know the 50 here are going to make human rights claims and be held up here. They’re not going to go. We knew that two weeks ago and now it’s been confirmed it’s happened.”
She continued her attack: “The bottom line is history has taught us there’s going to be societal collapse with the amount of people coming in.”
Carole pressed on: “There’s no deterrent here. There was a figure today that it’s 16 to one against it working, that’s a 6% chance that you’ll be one of the people to stay”, reports the Express.
Jonathan interrupted to challenge her: “So that’s not a deterrent?” prompting her angry response: “Let me finish the sentence!”.
The exchange became even more explosive when she confronted Lis directly: “Do you not think it’s a crisis?” only for him to fire back: “It’s a problem. 25,000 people arriving on boats is a problem, it’s an issue that has to be dealt with, it is not societal collapse. Nigel Farage is playing this up.”
Carole interrupted him, citing the statistics: “50 hotels of the 250 hotels we have migrants in were looked at and from those 50, 425 criminal offences have been committed. Of those, 109 were violent offences, 40 were sexual offences and four alleged counts of rape.”
Lis retorted: “Asylum seekers are human beings, human beings do do bad things sometimes. You can’t expect people. No, Carole, not everyone who comes over here is going to be a saint”.
Malone interjected, seething: “You can’t be allowed to say it’s okay to rape someone! How dare you.”
As Lis erupted: “How dare you say that, I would never say that”.
A flustered Andrew Pierce attempted to defuse the situation, pleading: “Hang on, can we calm down?” but Lis continued: “I would never say it’s okay to rape. What I’m saying is some people who come here will commit crimes and they should be dealt with in the normal way. It doesn’t mean we have to close down the asylum system.”
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