“I Paid £1,400 to Cross the Channel on a Migrant Boat” | The Sceptic Ep.94

An undercover journalist’s extraordinary journey onboard a migrant dinghy, the risk of war with Russia and Canada’s energy standoff with America.

In Episode 94 of the Sceptic, Ellie Hodges sits down with undercover reporter Christian Drogan to hear how he infiltrated migrant camps in northern France, paid €1,400 to cross the Channel and came face to face with smugglers, migrants and French authorities.

Strategist and ex-Royal Navy Commodore Steve Jermy on the West’s incompetent approach to the war in Ukraine, the risks of escalation with Russia and whether a negotiated path to peace is still possible.

And for our premium subscribers, Ellie speaks to the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor Dr Tilak Doshi about the growing trade and energy row between the US and Canada, and whether Mark Carney’s brinkmanship gamble will pay off.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

00:00 Intro

01:51 Christian Drogen on His Undercover Channel Crossing

03:32 Getting Into the Migrant Camps

04:36 Timeline of the Operation

05:30 Posing as a Criminal on the Run

07:14 Life Inside the Camps

08:38 Danger in the Dunkirk & Calais Jungles

09:17 Why Migrants Want Britain

11:28 Demographics of the Boats

13:13 What it Felt Like on the Dinghy

14:13 Who Was on the Boat

14:49 Border Force Reaction

17:22 Home Office Criticism

17:54 Could Anyone Repeat This

19:42 How Smugglers Sell the Dream

21:10 French Police Involvement

24:22 How to Stop the Crossings

28:29 Finding the Documentary

29:15 Steve Jermy on the Ukraine War

30:48 What the West is Getting Wrong

33:06 Europe Preparing For War With Russia

35:40 Why Supporting Ukraine And Nato is Flawed

38:53 A Negotiated Path to Peace

42:04 Does Negotiation Reward Aggression

44:13 What the British Public is Missing

48:16 Tilak Doshi on Carneys Gamble

51:31 Who Has the Upper Hand

56:00 Could the Dispute Backfire On Canada

58:34 Ottawa vs Alberta

01:00:38 A Larger Geopolitical Reshaping

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