Channel 4’s Go Back To Where You Came From is full of numb-nutted claims and no proper debate on immigration

IF there’s 1 happening I hatred connected TV it’s a fait accompli dressed up arsenic a superior governmental investigation.

You cognize the benignant of show. It ever involves idiosyncratic Channel 4 oregon the BBC regards arsenic a bigot experiencing a ­tearful roadworthy to Damascus epiphany erstwhile they’re presented with the nationalist work broadcasters’ wide mentation of the world.

A show, successful short, precisely similar Channel 4’s Go Back To Where You Came From series, wherever the starting constituent and model isn’t truly a due statement astir amerciable immigration astatine all.

It’s The Apprentice, close down to the wheelie suitcases the participants trundle on a Kent formation arsenic they vie to spot who tin marque the astir outrageously numb-nutted claim.

An unofficial contention won by Dave, a cook from Mansfield, with: “Winston bastard Churchill would beryllium rolling successful his grave. So what I’d bash is get the Royal Navy to instrumentality up landmines, and immoderate vessel that comes wrong 50 metres of this beach? They get fookin’ blown up.”

No shame

Dave, I should adhd quickly, is besides by acold the astir sympathetic beingness successful this experiment, wherever the participants person been divided into 2 groups of 3 to recreate the journeys amerciable immigrants/asylum seekers marque to scope Britain.

On the anti-immigration broadside of things with him, there’s Chloe, Jess and Nathan, who’s consecutive retired of Harry Enfield’s aged blunt Yorkshireman sketch.

He “says what helium likes and likes what helium bloody good says”, which is mainly: “This spot is simply a s**thole.”

There is astatine slightest a redeeming honesty to Nathan, though, compared to the pro-immigration pair, wherever the precise slightest of our troubles is posh, left-wing Mathilda who, similar a batch of chap travellers, exhibits perfectly nary shame erstwhile she tells working-class radical they’re “privileged”, conscionable to adjacent down an argument.

The truly atrocious news, however, is toxic Bushra Shaikh who, coincidentally, has washed up present via The Apprentice and is live to everyone’s “racism” and “bigotry” but her own.

She hates Britain, naturally, claiming “a ample portion of it is heavy arsenic s**t”, and a week aft the day of Hamas’s October 7 pogrom tweeted that Jewish radical who determination to Israel, often to flight from radical similar her are: “A clump of lying ­scumbags.”

She besides thinks we should: “Send this European occupation backmost to Europe.”

The operation 'lowest communal denominator' truly doesn’t bash this carnal justice, but if those benignant of introduction requirements were enactment connected the participants they besides applied to the show’s locations.

’Cos if they didn’t, C4 would’ve started their travel successful Albania which supplied 50-60 per cent of small-boat illegals successful 2022, 83 per cent of whom were male.

There’s much daze worth to beryllium had, though, by sending them to Somalia and Syria, which person some been reduced to Stone Age rubble by Islamist terrorists, warfare and governmental corruption and nutrient a much forlorn-looking benignant of “refugee” than the Balkans.

The awkward information present for C4, of course, is that Britain has taken successful implicit 109,000 Somalians and 30,000 Syrians, since 2000.

So I cannot truly fathom the guilt-tripping constituent to the show, but volition admit it makes for immoderate startling dialog successful Mogadishu erstwhile the horrifying details of pistillate genital mutilation are explained to Nathan.

“They chopped the clitoris off.”

“The clit? Why the fook bash they privation to chopped that off? It’s the champion bit.”

Jess: “It’s the aforesaid arsenic you having the doorbell extremity off.”

Which would efficaciously permission nothing.

Scorn, though, truly shouldn’t beryllium poured connected Nathan.

It should each beryllium reserved for Channel 4 which, conscionable similar Bushra Shaikh, is truthful mislaid successful its ain woke prejudices and loathing of Britain that, if we took successful each azygous ­asylum seeker connected the planet, C4 News, from its bunker heavy nether London, would inactive impeach the state of having “white saviour syndrome”.

That’s wherefore I’ll everlastingly regret our past useless Government’s cowardly refusal to merchantability disconnected Channel 4 and rise £1billion for the Exchequer. You could’ve hired a batch of Border Force officials with that money.

SNORE OF THE JUNGLE

NETFLIX has taken immoderate of the biggest arse-aches successful Britain and plonked them down successful the Costa Rican jungle for a glorified crippled of fell and question with Holly Willoughby and Bear Grylls.

It’s a amusement called Celebrity Bear Hunt and features nonrecreational foghorns including Big Zuu, Steph McGovern, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Lottie Moss and Mel B, who introduced an assemblage information constituent erstwhile her flight trade leaked during the opening game.

“Mel! MEL!,” yelped Bear, coaxing her backmost to the riverbank, “That vessel volition sink, past you’re successful the h2o with crocodiles. So we tin bash this the casual mode oregon the hard way.” “THE HARD WAY,” I heard myself yelling backmost astatine the television.

Not retired of axenic humor lust, you understand, but conscionable due to the fact that the show’s lacking existent jeopardy oregon immoderate spark of originality beyond the

“Chopper’s incoming” catchphrase Bear has introduced to destruct 1 of the celebs.

So hopeless did it become, successful fact, that midway done the 2nd occurrence we were reduced to watching recorded highlights of the contestants sleeping, accompanied by the legend: “Cacophony of snoring.”

An infectious process, arsenic it transpired, arsenic I didn’t aftermath up until I heard Una Healy, from The Saturdays, claiming: “Danny Cipriani was determination to promote Shirley Ballas from behind.”

Chopper’s incoming.

• AND yes, the close survivalist word for the presumption Bear Grylls recovered himself in, with the reptiles and Mel B, is “caught betwixt a croc and a hard face”.

TV gold

THE random genius of Michael McIntyre getting Tony Hadley to accidental goodbye successful Armenian to Heather Small, connected his mode to “buying a lottery ticket”, during the Big Show’s superb Unexpected Star segment.

Lucy Punch and Joanna Lumley capturing the insincerity and unpleasantness of London perfectly successful BBC2’s Amandaland.

And U&Drama’s reruns of Bergerac, which person a Nostradamus prime astir them, from pre-empting of Strictly’s rise, during bid 7 (episode three), to occurrence 2 of the 2nd series, starring the large Rikki Fulton, wherever Operation Yewtree is foreshadowed successful the astir chilling manner imaginable.

Channel 5’s imminent reboot amended not desecrate this BBC masterpiece.

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Sent successful by Robert Morgan, of Wester Hailes, Edinburgh.