Transcripts For RT The Alex Salmond Show 20240713

And the government is committed to doing so to seek in the best possible outcome those negotiations give way and of course however while the men distributes in the bill they issue itself has not gone away and today we speak to some of the committed campaigners with then id with a pilot who intend to bring it back to the Political Center estate i think the more of us the better and we will definitely i will get every celebrity a every face that i can under this campaign i will do anything to make it happen we need to make it work and i will refugee in the United Kingdom can take the children with them but our child refugee can take that out of peters siblings with them and i think has a great inequity because surely children who are refugees deserve the same rights as adults or refugees and i dont think its been fully thought through the consequences of not doing that are told and spitters arguments were made up against it which are shown not to be true. With the parliament she prospects looking much less hopeful for the child refugee campaigners thought so now turning tighter a new pressure from outside Parliament One aspect is to focus on the contribution that the descendants of child effigies of the past have made to this country alex speaks to the start of a 1000 t. V. Programs Debbie Arnold whose mother was brought to this country as a toddler on contract transport. That arnold welcome back to the show this is lovely to see you alex i feel i feel like im part of the furniture well the last time we spoke to you i believe you because both. Are more than our Television Screens but we can spot your posting in the homeless but youve got a very particular interest in taking up the cudgels on behalf of child refugees cudgels are taking up with the formidable log dubs of yes love does well my mother was on the kids transport and so was elf dobbs and so im im trying my best to get the word out and make things now that of course the government has well what if they dont need the lord said they were going to carry on this amendment and then the went into the commons and they said we were so what happens now but the governments position which just have from stephen bach to the braces is that ok doesnt have to be in the legislation in order for it to be government policy to help a child left. If you got doubts about that well i mean because beforehand what it was legislation it still wasnt done and so and then they had to go to court to say you know this is not being done so that it and then of course now its not part of the legislation so i dont really kind of well understand what the governments talking about but there again i dont most of the time so what youre saying is that if the government didnt all its commitment that was the previous government yes exactly government when it was in the legislation how can you trust them what is not in the legislation before and wouldnt a government want to help police that were talking here about child refugees who dont have any immediate family with them in europe but have family in the u. K. Would a couple really want to not the facility a lot of these people obviously not and i and i dont understand how we my mother came over here on the kids transport as well i mean they didnt have any relatives over here and they had to be sponsored to come here and thats what you know 10000 kids came over here and then even then the government didnt want to do it but it was. Public opinion so now we need Public Opinion to change but how do we change that if Public Opinion was so strong im sure theyd listen to it but people dont understand the difference between immigrants and refugees and there is a massive difference but what are you saying that were back because everybody in this country says oh yes look at the conduct transport program thats a sign of the open hearted you know rossetti of of this country are you saying that wasnt an unambiguous policy and they didnt want it dont if there were you know they didnt want to do it but the but the Public Opinion swayed and they said they had to do after kristallnacht they said thats it weve got to do something and they did but. Youre mum she she was with a small child who she was on couldnt there she was you know came over here at 4 years old and she was put on the train and a lot of people dont know either that they were told that if they cried when they were with the parents took them to the station they were told that if they cried or showed any emotion they wanted to put the kids on the train so you can imagine it was like a silent thing and they were saying goodbye to the children and the children little children 4 years old how could they understand what was happening i mean its such a sad a horrible thing but there again they came over to england they saved their lives and i wouldnt be alive if it wasnt for the can transport but i went to your mum you dont one day when you were old enough to understand that this is how a kid no she didnt she you know was always part of my life always was what was a part of anybody elses life i remember when i was little growing up and seeing in films of auschwitz and my mother used to run to the t. V. Set and said oh perhaps i can see my mummy and daddy and it really used to make me stop sad so i never was very interested he used to just upset me the whole thing about the war id never want to talk about it because i upset her so much generations of people who came as part of the program must have been massive contributions with a new world of acting and if you come across a lot of actors who were part of course as. We had one interesting i think people didnt really talk about it its only recently now that i know so many people that are connected now that im friendly with after hes got a dame shirley i mean shes she shes very high up in an office and there are thousands in fact theres a list of people who came over on the can to transport you know top physicians top you know people of surgeons everything people have saved lives constantly and there are people now when we went to the there was a kid a transport reunion and it was just fantastic to see i mean the people now who came over very old but that their children and what theyve given to society and how weve changed this country because this country saved my mothers life and i feel that all the contributions that she made and all the people that came over in the kinda made have made a huge difference to this country so weve paid back our dues as perhaps some of the lemming center attached to the new Holocaust Memorial will do to sure the contribution will so they should do i think that would be fantastic so why when given the track record when lets talk about lord dobbs for a 2nd i would believe respect because of his background because he was part of the program because he speaks with former rival thought of the on the issue which is he see the politics of this lying and hosier Campaign Going to take shape as you mobilize public and well i dont know man are they going to be formidable to govern though i know i love i love to work with them at the moment im working with im just you know being a Spokes Person for how i feel im not my views of my own not his as you say but i dont know whats going to happen next obviously else will come up with a plan and i should be behind him but weve got to hope weve got to get Public Opinion behind us if we cannot get the government behind us weve got to get Public Opinion and somehow we will im sure i was partly a campaign will be mobilizing some of your your sugars powers to get the message across yes absolutely i think the more of us the better and we will definitely i will get every celebrity a every face that i can on to this campaign i will do anything to make it happen. We need to make it work in terms of the contribution and youre saying that people dont always appreciate the difference between immigration and refugee how do you illustrate folks dont grading immigration which in itself many would argue i would argue is a fairly good thing for yes i think immigration is good but i think people think that people come over here as immigrants and they take from our society they take from the n. H. S. They take from this they get free this they get free that they get you know benefits where is thats what they feel they come over im not saying they do that but i think thats what they think the terms of National Health service a question would be very much to well exactly but thats what people think and i think on the other hand with refugees these people need help theyre not coming over here to to to take or even contribute particularly they just need to be saved they just need someone to look after them they are vulnerable we look after animals and i am a huge animal lover we look after our animals so well now because we have to we get animals from all over the world from greece we have programs with greece and spain bringing in rescue dogs but we cant bring in rescue children and yet the happy moments of the last few years one thinks of the autumn of 2015 will the picture of eileen could be called dish lot of clears all that lying dead on the beach you know mobilize change Public Opinion and not just of this country but but what will why how do you create that intimacy with people without people always having to rely on a picture of a complete after the individual client i think you need someone to explain i think people need to know its just about knowledge i mean before hand we used to just leave animals didnt we we didnt treat them very well and i think now that because weve had so much Public Opinion that Everybody Loves you know like paul ogrady for the love of dogs we have all these wonderful programs we need probably more media on the a lovely. Programs to show how lives have been changed we need to do something very special to show this compassionate country be a program on successful refugees yes the contribution that many exactly exist as you know that yes i think that youre absolutely right and no ones done that we need to know we need to know the success of these people but we need to help people we need to feel compassionate towards these little children some of whom are sleeping in the fields on their own they have no family well if anyone could put forth a program idea to get onto screens on both the right lets lay out there as the next thing so lost in your own career whats what should be an activity sort of question well i still do lots of voice overs im also a producer of shows on cruise ships which is great which i actually produced and put on myself and im also a contributor to close Time Magazine so im doing loads and loads of things so i on that a start my my career goes in one thing and out of the other but i think i still think i might like to go back to a soap but you keep coming back and joining us now i love coming here so thank you for having me clive place alex. 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Welcome back 2 years ago while lord dubs led the campaign for child refugees in the house of lords to spend to mcneill the m. P. For the human year let the count paint in the house of commons his private members bill sailed through a 2nd reading in 2018 with all Party Support only for the government to use procedural tactics to frustration from becoming little alex big deal about how to make progress in the new political environment of a government with a massive commons majority and im joined by someone whos taken key parliamentary initiatives in the house of commons on the issue for 3 g. s meal newly reelected this chair of the International Trade Committee Congratulations i can just tell you that much i like your man glad to be in buckets and sing group. This time with the border seeming to learn International Trade on the hoof every time we turn on the television he thinks a lot as thoroughly as wu is a deal so on the subject of refugees in the last parliament you produce the the family unit here refugees family reunification bill would sail through its 2nd reading a great achievement for a private members bill but then go down by the government lost in the the sands of commons procedure of what happened to the year they were given it was technically called a money resolutions or can get up to committee upstairs in the commons and there was a tory whip was particularly difficult about and when on the election as leader of the house i asked several times of business questions why the money resolution wasnt forthcoming i was sort of stalling walling fee for weeks on the trot i asked the same question effectively and to the leaders of those under lead some of the time when there was really no will within the tory party to move that on i mean wed only given children the same rights as adults something thats normal across decent countries across the world but lets deal with the procedure 1st im in for people watching around the world so here was a bill on a friday piece of already shuttled back to the constituencies was was kind of of a commanding majority usually you know a large number of m. P. s attending but even with the parliamentary assent of government to the black arts of god that put certain procedure of knowledge to bog down in the house of commons and the tone of that make you feel was very well summarized the it really was difficult because id met some of the young refugees in question who had hoped at the 2nd reading stage that meant perhaps if he says that may not be taken a dangerous journey through the sahara could just fly here in safety if you go with people traffickers to the sahara particularly as a woman well we dont need to spell it graphically what might happen is sadly not. Isnt and if you fall off one of the vehicles then these just left and so its a dangerous journey both physically in mentally in many ways to try and get yourself to a place of safety so were trying to do was to get children and families reunited these are people who have families already in the United Kingdom who were seeking to join them from danger zones and war zones as refugees from from rome the continent that that was the objective of your bill absolutely and it happens in other European Countries where the child more typically a teenager might arrive in a certain jurisdiction the family have been split up for so one reason or another they might have wondered across africa or the middle east of whatever and ended up in a european country to relative safety in normal countries the a low children have the same right as adult refugees as an adult refugee in the United Kingdom can take the children with them but our child refugee can take that out of periods or siblings with them and i think has a great inequity because surely children who are refugees deserve the same rights as adults or refugees and i dont think its been fully thought through the consequences of not doing that at all and spitters arguments were made up against it which are shown not to be true so what is the governments logic here will remember memorably of dubs in the house of lords succeeded an amendment to teresa mayes breaks a bill tried the same thing and succeeded in the lords of abolish johnsons woodrow bill but heres this big majority in january to overturn in the house of commons but what is the governments motivation a minute most were talking a few 1000 people involved why are they so dead set against a structurally provision and take all these children to rejoin the farms well its evidence of 2 things to do to that question i think theres an ingrained behavior and motivation in the home office which is and is going by. To end the 2nd world war with orphan children of the holocaust there was resistance to deal to when did we have for instance the 300 children in to czechoslovakia the resistance in the home office to allow them a sense of normality after the horrors had been to an all across so theres that stand that runs through the home office for decades but i think more worryingly perhaps in the current conservative government its just a feeling that they might get bad headlines from trashy tabloids who might see the taken in too many people and that i think is such a baseless and unthought through a motivation a kneejerk motivation that it really is sickening when you put out against what children have had to face. In becoming a refugee the uprooting of the families the dismemberment of the families the killing in some cases of members of the families of the other Death Threats to other members of the families let me ask about your constituents to know who the leader of the west of miles ahead pretties was clearly feeling when you were fortunate enough to get a prime position in the in the private members ballot that perhaps the members should have been proposing something more directly related to the Western Islands as opposed to the issue of child refugees the joy of any blowback from your constituency that perhaps you should be mailing your own files well theres always one or 2 side in voice but the overwhelming majority in 90 plus percent i would say they were on the side of this i mean in the hebrides in particular unlike the near independent feature well as with the population growing in the hebrides we see deep population and we want people in fact there were some Syrian Refugees a quarter of all the Syrian Refugees to the United Kingdom of come to scotland and some went to the island of us and the other other 5 or 6 islands were completed they didnt get any refugees theyre refugees tend to mean and you spark new initiatives filling up schools vitality in the Community People youll get to know quite quickly as you know to answer your question there wasnt global so if you like the opposite when our society has experienced the hard. Of emigration theyre more willing to see the benefits of immigration that is absolutely right and also the understand from their cousins and friends who are emigrants to other places and have been welcomed to other places that when migrants and immigrants come towards you then they should be welcomed in the same spirit that you cousins and friends and family were welcomed in other parts of the world but what the prospects for this parliament with a massive total majority in the house of commons have got a lot dubbed still active still campaigning in the house of lords is there anything you can do in the commons to keep the issue alive well sadly in the current lot of private members of those nobody has taken up the baton i was hoping somebody would take up the baton so we will find parliamentary devices bills behind the chair or whatever will behave the chair over there what is that where theres no much of a devising but the private members bill but at least we can present it in the house is to get behind the chair of the speaker well get some traction some motion with will do some work with n. G. O. S as well what youre saying is you get a law you dont get the same opportunities as being lucky at the ballot for members you know your garden team taking you can still get your your bill printed you can still use the extra you can use the parliamentary mechanism has to fire the Public Campaign you sell a question with some experience of these of these methods absolutely and thats and thats what its about sort is about keeping this in the public consciousness i dont think given Boris Johnsons huge majority itll be much in Boris Johnsons conscience unfortunately or the to the governments conscience who knows they might have a change of heart and some at some point they are going to reach any road to damascus unless we try and at least work with n. G. O. S to keep just to do the forward because its a normal thing in normal countries. To resist giving child refugees the same rights as adult refugees i mean if you even slipping and im not advocating this if the slip in the right so muddled refugees a little bit some form of equity should adults and children badly. Teaching children only badly is reprehensible and surely theyre going have a change of heart im not going to take a deputation of some of these families and to see bombers jots to see if you can get that change of heart see if you can appeal to is better than i think every device that is possible that we can play at the heartstrings and play that at the reality of the situation for the Prime Minister should be considered and all other members of the government particular the home office and the and in immigration minister as well because if we dont this will wither on the vine so we have to find things over the next few years hopefully perhaps in the next parliamentary year somebody comes out of the of the heart for the private members bill if im lucky enough to be one myself and if this hasnt been sorted by then i would obviously a got the button again and run with it once things always interested me and that. Would be a collection of of the generations who have achieved so much who were the beneficiaries of of refugee programs and the can been wonderful Debbie Arnold of spectacular show business and soap careers as one of your your key supporters and campaigners but an example of all those in National Life who are only here and only achieved what they achieved because someone at some point the sighted to rescue them from that sea germany or from or from other extraordinary difficult circumstances internationalism is of an argument for getting an assembly of of these great achievers have contributed too much to save these people would not be part of the fabric of the country unless somebody had said you know suffer the little children and let them come in absolutely i mean i think theres also looking behind as to why that happens i think when people come into a Different Society whether we go to another society or they compare society we see things through different eyes because he different perspectives and different opportunities im reminded as youve been speaking about or a month from the end of lewis who helped. People from a boat from vietnam and in the vietnamese boat people and he got them to hong kong left his own merchant ship and helped him get to hong kong and these people later settled in canada and having left vietnam with nothing with lovely the cloak roughly the clothes on their back some of them on their multimillion years if not more and caliban is welcomed refugee reconvenes that various times in canada has been over to see the people who left destitute or know beyond wealthy in canada and matter of a few short decades or whatever their few g. s seem to go i dont have any academic evidence for this but it seems the anecdotally it perform has the experience of being a refugee whatever they certainly enrich the societies that in help the societies and were lucky to have refugees who should think with that with the benefits refugees bring us not what were doing for refugees for the short period that are getting on the feet what would use chair of the National Trade Committee Say to about the issue of child refugees are here to your your minute with a private list appealing to his battered nature of what would your message to bulldoze jobson be well todays refugees are tomorrows trade partners and the countries they come from will be an invaluable bridge dont spurn anybody be the refugees or be the potential trade partners that has benefit which will benefit from us all to embrace both and this planet will thank you very much indeed thank you. When the opposition parties agreed to the christmas election then i think peace Angus Macneil described as a parliament to Christmas Present for boris high right he was the implications of a tory landslide go far beyond the reach of politics it breaks it and impact on many issues with opposition held sway in the Minority Parliament similarly the house of lords has moved from a commanding position to being emasculated cameron has to break sit or anything else cannot be summarily overturned in the cormans thus the campaigners for legislative protection for unaccompanied charges fijis were only to find new ways of progressing their campaign the focus will no longer be on crunch parliament she votes but on the low good job of persuasion of Public Opinion however feelings remain strong and the government would be unwise to underestimate the impact of publicity and on how the public can be touched by the plight of refugees children and politics probably venture authorities are what kinds for much but not quite for everything meanwhile from alex myself and the rest of the team its good bye for night and well see you next week thank you they. 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