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Politiko 2025-07-01 10:04:15

"Your fantasies after the truth", Rama continues photomontages with

The remote exchanges between the head of the Albanian government, Edi Rama, and British politician Nigel Farage continue.

It was the Prime Minister who started this Tuesday morning with a reaction to the statements made by MP Farage, who called for the deportation of Albanians, claiming that they are a nationality that "fills" British prisons.

Continuing the photomontages with Artificial Intelligence, Rama appears next to Farage with the "fish on the table".

Referring to data provided by the Albanian Embassy in London, Rama emphasizes that the real number of Albanians living in England is over 300 thousand, much more than the figures mentioned by the British newspaper "The Telegraph" or by Farage himself.

Rama called the British MP's figures and positions untrue, which he said were taken out of context for post-Brexit propaganda purposes.

Full post by Edi Rama:

“Nigel, Nigel, Nigel… From “one criminal in fifty Albanians”, your claim has now morphed into: “Maybe it’s one in three, maybe one in four, I don’t know…” Really?! You don’t know? And this comes after you say you’ve double-checked the figures? I already pointed you to The Telegraph’s own data (generously, I might add) by choosing your reference, albeit a self-contradictory one. But you seem determined to continue in your error.

So, let me help you with some further clarification. According to data from the Albanian Embassy in the UK, an institution that deals with real people, not Brexit phrases, the number of Albanians in your country is not 53,000, as The Telegraph initially suggested. In fact, in the same article, it admits, and I quote, “the analysis is likely to have underestimated the size of the Albanian population”. It then speculates that the figure could be as high as 140,000. In reality, Mr. Nigel_Farage

You know what? The number is over 300,000, bro! These are the people who teach your children, who build your homes, who care for your elderly and sick. They are not the fodder for your post-Brexit brainwashing propaganda. They are part of the living, breathing fabric of your society. Even without controlling for age, gender or socio-economic status, your ratios are falling. Not one in fifty. And certainly not one in three or four.

These are not statistics, they are scare tactics disguised as data. So let me ask you plainly: why is it so hard to admit you were wrong, without dragging an entire community of brilliant, hard-working people who serve your country with dignity as if it were their own? Britain is already great, and not least because of its diversity, resilience and multicultural strength. A nation in post-traumatic political stress does not need scapegoats.

There is no need for useless blows. And there is certainly no need for myths instead of facts. I sincerely hope that your upcoming visit to Albania will inspire you to fight for ideas, instead of fighting against people – in the spirit of the great liberal tradition that your country has long stood for. I look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful country as an honored guest. But before you arrive to enjoy the real sunshine and sincere hospitality, can we agree to discuss the facts, not your fantasies after the truth? Let's set the date,” Rama writes.

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