{"id":522598,"date":"2025-10-23T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522598\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:29:11","slug":"albanian-pm-delivers-scathing-summary-of-brexit-as-he-takes-aim-at-farage-theatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/522598\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian PM delivers scathing summary of Brexit as he takes aim at Farage &#8216;theatrics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister of Albania has delivered a scathing assessment of Brexit, whilst also taking a swipe at Nigel Farage\u2019s \u2018theatrics.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to the Chatham House for a summit to address trafficking through the Balkans, Edi Rama praised Keir Starmer\u2019s government for progress on tackling illegal immigration. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/politics\/albanian-pm-edi-rama-farage-row-394969\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Albanian leader<\/a> said co-operation on organised crime and illegal migration is working in a \u201cfantastic way\u201d that he believes is also \u201csustainable,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/visiting-pm-says-uk-paying-36109282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mirror<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/politics\/zack-polanski-confirms-green-party-would-take-uk-back-into-the-eu-399498\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zack Polanski confirms Green Party would aim to take UK back into the EU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rama pointed out that it is easy for the likes of Farage to be critical, saying: \u201cWe have seen more than once than the business of the government is something totally different from the poetry of the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He labelled the Reform leader a \u201cmirror of problems that has some theatrical capacity to be attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Rama gave a brutal summary of the impact Brexit has had on the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the irony of Brexit being sold as a way to control immigration but in fact having the opposite effect, he said: \u201cSome call them small boats, some call them\u00a0Brexit\u00a0boats. And one wonders why you left Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou left Europe because you wanted less boats, and you have more boats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cYou left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment. You left Europe because you wanted more happiness. Now you are depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rama also took aim at former home secretary Suella Braverman for previous comments she made about Albanians in. <\/p>\n<p>During her time in government, Braverman had said Labour would \u201callow all the Albanian criminals to come to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referencing the comments, Rama said he was still angry at Braverman, before highlighting her fall from grace by asking: \u201cBy the way, where is she?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust keep in mind, you know, don\u2019t mess with the Albanians because if the Albanians curse you, you just disappear,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prime minister of Albania has delivered a scathing assessment of Brexit, whilst also taking a swipe at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,2774,384,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-522598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-headline","16":"tag-nigel-farage","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}