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Clashes over Albanian immigrants sentenced in Britain, Farage responds to challenge: We will make sure Rama keeps his word

2025-06-28 15:09:13Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Clashes over Albanian immigrants sentenced in Britain, Farage responds to
Edi Rama and Nigel Farage

British MP Nigel Farage accepts Prime Minister Edi Rama's challenge regarding immigrants sentenced in the United Kingdom.

"We will make sure that Edi Rama keeps his word," Farage told The Telegraph.

British politician Nigel Farage has harshly attacked Albania and the Albanian prime minister. Farage said: “The Albanian prime minister is mocking us over Brexit and saying Britain is ‘in a dark place, looking for places to dump migrants’. He claims that much of what we say after Brexit is ‘totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful’.”

Then he added in ultimatum tones: "Let me tell you something, Mr. Rama: do you know that one in 50 Albanians in Britain is in prison? So show some goodwill and take them all back tomorrow, because this is hypocrisy."

This statement did not go unanswered. In an immediate and ironic reaction, Edi Rama said:

"Oooopsss… Mr. @Nigel_Farage himself has challenged me on the facts! What an honor, for a 'giant man', as he described me (implying, of course, that I come from a 'small country'), to be drawn to the attention of the incomparable master of British politics' bombastic headlines," Rama said.

Rama stresses that Farage’s claim that “one in 50 Albanians in Britain are in prison” is not fact, but absurd, and that this is a typical tactic from the post-Brexit playbook “If it sounds scary, then it must be true.” Referring to the data, Rama explains that, even if it were assumed that every imprisoned Albanian is actually guilty (although many are in prison due to an unfair and outdated visa system), the crime rate among Albanians in Britain is no higher than that of the British population – it may even be lower.

The Albanian Prime Minister issues a public two-way challenge to Farage:

“Now, since we both seem to value ‘goodwill’ and are clearly allergic to ‘hypocrisy,’ I have an offer: Bring both of our numbers to the table. If your ‘one in 50’ claim holds up — I personally pledge to take them all back. This is not a competitive headline, it’s a public promise. But if that scary statistic turns out to be just tabloid fuel, I make no apologies. No drama. Instead, you will come to Albania — as my guest of honor.”

Two days ago, Prime Minister Rama, speaking to the British newspaper The Guardian, criticized the British effort to find a place to dump immigrants, while earlier Rama rejected several requests from British Prime Minister Starmer, and earlier even from the young Sunak, to open refugee camps in Albania, just like Italy.


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