Rama-Farage remote debate continues, Prime Minister: Don't drag an entire community of brilliant people through the mud

The remote debate between Prime Minister Edi Rama and British MP Nigel Farage on Albanian immigrants in Great Britain continues.

The head of the Albanian government said that from "1 in 50 Albanians are in prison", Farage now changed it to "1 in 3".

"These are people who teach your children, build your homes, care for your elderly and sick. They are not meat for the teeth of post-Brexit brainwashing propaganda. They are part of the living, breathing fabric of your society. Even without controlling for age, gender or socioeconomic status, your ratios fall. Not even one in fifty. And certainly not one in three or four. These are not statistics, they are scare tactics disguised as data," Rama writes in "X", A2 reports.

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Nigel, Nigel, Nigel…

From "one criminal in fifty Albanians", your claim has now transformed into: "Maybe it's one in three, maybe one in four, I don't know..."

Really?! Don't you know?

And this comes after you say you double-checked the numbers?

I have already directed you to The Telegraph's own data (generously, I might add) by selecting your reference, albeit a self-contradictory one. But you seem determined to persist in your error.

So, let me help you with 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 underestimate 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, build your homes, care for your elderly and sick. They are not meat for the teeth of post-Brexit brainwashing propaganda. They are part of the living, breathing fabric of your society.

Even without controlling for age, gender, or socioeconomic status, your ratios fall. Not even 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 clearly: why is it so difficult to admit that you were wrong, without dragging an entire community of brilliant, hardworking people who serve your homeland with dignity as if it were their own?

Britain is already great, and not least because of its diversity, its resilience and its multicultural strength. A nation in post-traumatic political stress has no need for scapegoats. No need for cheap shots. And certainly no need for myths instead of facts.

I sincerely hope that your upcoming visit to Albania will inspire you to fight for ideas, rather than 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 genuine hospitality, can we agree to discuss the facts, not your fantasies after the truth?

Let's set the date. (A2 Televizion)