{"id":80251,"date":"2025-09-14T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=80251"},"modified":"2025-09-14T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:20:31","slug":"rama-on-british-radio-a-mosaic-of-lies-against-albanians-used-as-political-alibi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-on-british-radio-a-mosaic-of-lies-against-albanians-used-as-political-alibi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama on British Radio: A Mosaic of Lies Against Albanians Used as Political Alibi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama gave an interview to Britain\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Times Radio<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, in which he described statements by British politicians regarding the number of Albanian prisoners in the UK as a \u201cmosaic of lies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Rama said the entire narrative had been used to promote Brexit, calling Nigel Farage\u2019s claim that \u201c1 in every 50 Albanians in Britain is in prison\u201d an \u201cabsurdity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThere is a lot of nonsense in all of this, because there is not a significant number of Albanian prisoners in the United Kingdom that stands out from the overall prison population or from other nationalities. So, it is just a small part of the larger mosaic of lies and self-deluding arguments that were used to convince the British people to leave the European Union. Where on earth will you find the people to build your houses, to serve you coffee, to drive your taxis and trucks, and so on?\u201d Rama said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">He stressed that many key sectors in the UK would face serious difficulties functioning without the work of Albanian migrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhere will you find the people to build your homes, serve your coffee, drive your taxis and trucks?\u201d the Albanian prime minister added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Rama also repeated his public invitation to Nigel Farage to visit Albania and see the reality of the country for himself:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cHe has said he will come for a visit, and I will be very happy to meet him. It\u2019s a good opportunity to get to know a man of great talent and intelligence, despite his political theatrics, and to show him the beauties of Albania. Maybe we can even convince him to choose Albania as his holiday destination,\u201d Rama said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">It is worth recalling that Rama and Farage exchanged remarks over the summer, precisely on the issue of Albanian migrants in British prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama gave an interview to Britain\u2019s Times Radio, in which he described statements by British politicians regarding the number of Albanian prisoners in the UK as a \u201cmosaic of lies.\u201d Rama said the entire narrative had been used to promote Brexit, calling Nigel Farage\u2019s claim that \u201c1 in every 50 Albanians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[150,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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