Amid the recent outrage over Boat People, many of whom are Albanian, arriving on the south coast of England in dinghies with the connivance of the Government, the UK Column decided it was timely to remind the public of a presentation made to a UK audience in May 2018. The late Ian R. Craneof Another view Conference of Albanian Scholars, Dr. Orsi JazesiHe has worked at universities in both Albania and Canada.
Dr. Jazesi forcefully argues that Western globalists, particularly British Prime Minister Tony Blair and London School of Economics alumnus George Soros (a strong friend of Edi Rama's government in Tirana), are responsible for the wave of desperate emigration from their Balkan homelands, having made large parts of the country virtually uninhabitable through the devastation of the economy and the carving up of a horribly poorly managed fracking concession.
Two years after this presentation, the Rama government imposed one of the most inhumane COVID-19 lockdowns on the country in the world. According to Dr. Jazeci: 21st Century Wire reported:—The Albanian people have been defeated by their indomitable resistance.
