TRIGGERnometry - May 16, 2025


Imagine There's a Border - It's Easy If You Try - Konstantin Kisin

Hosted by
Francis Foster Konstantin Kisin
Guests
Konstantin Kisin
Mentioned
Keir Starmer Nigel Farage Rishi Sunak Le Bravman Garolinica
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Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

150.47

Word count

1,439

Sentence count

83

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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Keir Starmer, who previously dismissed concerns about mass immigration as scapegoating, made exactly these comments in an attempt to appear tough on immigration. We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Imagine there's a border. It's easy if you try.
00:00:38.500 Imagine that by some miracle, the result of last year's general election was a crushing victory for reform.
00:00:44.900 Imagine Prime Minister Farage delivering an address to the nation outside of No. 10 Downing Street, in which he talked about the need to put British workers first,
00:00:54.320 denounced Tory failure to control the borders, and warned that strong measures were needed to make sure Britain does not become an island of strangers.
00:01:03.320 If you've even casually followed British politics over the last decade, you hardly need me to describe the inevitable fallout.
00:01:10.520 Endless TV debates, Guardian columns and Twitter meltdowns about Britain becoming a racist hellhole.
00:01:16.120 Swarms of celebrities led by Garolinica promising to leave the country, and they're not doing it.
00:01:21.800 Trans flags flown at half-mast in leafy London suburbs.
00:01:25.300 Until this week, this might have been impossible to picture in your mind's eye, but the mood music of British politics is changing fast.
00:01:32.940 This week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who previously dismissed concerns about mass immigration as scapegoating,
00:01:38.540 made exactly these comments in an attempt to appear tough on immigration.
00:01:42.620 We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.
00:01:49.680 So when you have an immigration system that seems almost designed to permit abuse,
00:01:56.320 then you're not championing growth.
00:01:59.040 You're not championing justice, or however else people defend the status quo.
00:02:04.040 You're actually contributing to the forces that are slowly pulling our country apart.
00:02:10.900 So yes, I believe in this.
00:02:14.200 I believe we need to reduce immigration. 1.00
00:02:16.900 Before anyone gets too excited, it's important to say that there is absolutely no chance that his words will be followed by serious action,
00:02:24.080 or God forbid, actual results.
00:02:26.420 That's not my opinion as a Starmer sceptic.
00:02:28.840 It's an observation based on his track record, and even more importantly, his character.
00:02:33.120 The nature of Starmer's political approach became clear long before he set foot in Downing Street.
00:02:38.880 It's often been claimed that asking politicians what a woman is, is a gotcha question.
00:02:43.960 In reality, it's been an extremely reliable way of identifying people who will lie in public about literally anything for the sake of popularity.
00:02:52.100 Starmer infamously failed this basic test of integrity and common sense before the last election. 1.00
00:02:57.420 A woman can have a penis. 1.00
00:02:58.640 The fact that in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling confirming that a woman is in fact an adult human female, 0.99
00:03:26.460 he abandoned his prior obfuscations on this question, is not remotely to his credit.
00:03:31.920 On the contrary, you'd almost respect him more if it stuck to his guns.
00:03:35.440 I bring this up not to admonish him for some pas faux pas.
00:03:38.760 In this week's speech, Starmer claimed that despite his cynical critics,
00:03:42.960 he's now taking a harder approach on immigration because, quote,
00:03:46.240 End of quote.
00:03:51.700 My contention is that if, in fact, Starmer believes anything at all,
00:03:55.660 he certainly does not believe in tackling illegal immigration as a matter of urgency.
00:03:59.940 Nor does he believe that mass immigration is as much of a problem as the British public think it is.
00:04:05.160 If he did, he would have campaigned on these issues and then done something about them after being elected.
00:04:10.660 In reality, every politician who has attempted to deal with illegal immigration
00:04:15.580 has concluded that it is impossible to do without leaving the ECHR.
00:04:19.780 Even Rishi Sunak, who effectively forced out Sir Le Bravman for saying this out loud
00:04:24.560 and has claimed he went too far with his rhetoric about immigration,
00:04:28.560 has since said there is no other way of solving the problem. 1.00
00:04:31.980 Despite criticism from the right, I do not believe Starmer is stupid or incompetent. 0.93
00:04:36.220 On the contrary, I suspect he compares rather well on both of these measures with several recent prime ministers. 0.95
00:04:42.640 My point is something else.
00:04:44.520 Dealing with illegal immigration and unwanted mass immigration is very difficult.
00:04:49.080 It requires doing a lot of things that are popular with the public,
00:04:52.280 but extremely unpopular with the progressive lunatics and Starmer's party,
00:04:56.580 as well as the bulk of the virtue signaling commentaria.
00:04:59.940 These are not things that can be done without genuine conviction.
00:05:03.640 Let's be honest.
00:05:04.380 The Labour government is signaling about immigration in an attempt to nullify the onslaught of reform.
00:05:10.540 This won't work, not only because they don't actually believe in dealing with the problem,
00:05:14.840 but also because we all know they don't believe in dealing with the problem.
00:05:18.840 The Tories, incidentally, face exactly the same issue.
00:05:21.960 After 13 years of Labour governments, which oversaw more people coming to Britain
00:05:25.860 than had come between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and 1950,
00:05:29.980 followed by 14 years of conservative governments, which were even worse,
00:05:34.480 the British public simply no longer trust either party to deal with this issue.
00:05:38.600 And I don't blame them.
00:05:40.120 As such, Starmer will do on immigration exactly what he did on grooming gangs.
00:05:44.700 When forced, he will talk about the issue as if it's really important,
00:05:48.200 while acting as if it's not.
00:05:49.660 We all saw what the Labour Party really thinks about grooming gang scandal last week,
00:05:54.480 when a Labour Party frontbencher described it as a dog whistle.
00:05:58.080 I don't know if you saw the documentary on Channel 4 about rape gangs.
00:06:02.760 No, we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we?
00:06:05.900 No, there is a real issue.
00:06:07.920 Let's get that dog whistle out, shall we? 0.85
00:06:09.800 She's since apologised, but even more telling was that Starmer,
00:06:14.220 who spent weeks promoting the Adolescence Netflix series as a documentary,
00:06:18.760 which must be shown in schools,
00:06:20.760 ignored an actual documentary about grooming gangs that was released shortly after.
00:06:25.260 I rarely make political predictions, but on this I'm fairly confident.
00:06:29.260 Immigration will continue to be a massive problem that goes largely unaddressed.
00:06:33.460 The boats will keep coming,
00:06:35.000 deporting violent foreign criminals will still be nigh and impossible because of their human rights, 1.00
00:06:39.120 and low-wage, low-skill mass immigration will continue at a level that isn't tolerable
00:06:44.140 to a larger and larger section of the British public.
00:06:47.520 This will inevitably drive more and more people into the arms of reform.
00:06:51.320 The only question that remains is
00:06:52.940 whether Nigel Farage and his party can capitalise on the opportunity this presents.
00:06:57.720 If you enjoy these videos,
00:06:59.140 you should know that they're available on my sub-stack at constantinkissen.com
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00:07:09.120 The news moves fast, and it's not just about keeping up, it's about seeing clearly.
00:07:14.380 In a world where headlines are constantly shifting and narratives change by the hour,
00:07:18.820 understanding how a story is being reported is just as important as what the story is.
00:07:24.060 That's why I use Ground News.
00:07:26.140 It shows you how coverage of any story differs across the political spectrum,
00:07:30.820 helping you break out of echo chambers and actually see the full picture.
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00:07:43.500 UK Supreme Court says legal definition of woman excludes trans women.
00:07:48.120 The Spectator, which leans right, led with
00:07:50.240 the Supreme Court ruling is a victory for women.
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00:09:15.380 Thank you guys for thispoint.