I’ve never understood the argument that people worry that foreigners work here and send their money to their country of origin. They are still subject to all the taxes. What’s the difference between an economic migrant and a native that saves all year to go on holiday abroad? And what’s worse? Someone who sends money out of the country after tax, or a banker who funnels millions to an offshore tax haven?
All those complaining about immigrants getting children benefits when the children stay in their origin countries might prefer them to come too? Seriously, their thinking makes no sense. The UK obviously need immigrants for the economy to grow and the people to be cared for. If there were queues for housing and other public services, blame the Tories for taking their money and not putting back the investment needed, don't attack the working tax paying immigrants. Attack all those rich guys who call themselves patriots and all they worry is to steal your money by funnelling it to offshore accounts to avoid paying tax while you have to pay yours.
Did anyone notice that the person on Nigel Farage’s from Migration Watch, talking about how terrible it is that people from abroad are coming here to live was born in Cyprus (making him one of the 1 in 6), came here when he was eight years old and couldn’t speak a word of English. He was literally complaining about people like himself, and making a tidy profit I suspect from doing so
@@1hunna877 sadly I had to watch it due to my job, and of if hadn’t been that he had the same name as a Kurdish friend, it wouldn’t have even occurred to me to look it up. It’s like they’ve taken an irony pill, but used it as a suppository instead
@@LiveDonkeyDeadLion Just like the poorest elements of society repeatedly voting for right-wing politicians whose policies are diametrically opposed to their interests second-generation immigrants are regularly the ones who will trenchantly support anti-immigration measures. It happens in most 'Western' nations and has gone on for decades if not centuries when 'the other' was just over the county border. It's bizarre and illogical but it's a well documented phenomenon.
It is terrible. When are people like you going to admit/understand that it is bad that British culture w/d be destroyed by numbers from abroad? When are the UN going to do something to fix these peoples countries abroad? You think it's a win for them all to come here.? Not true.
You should maybe actually listen to their reasons, which are in fact reasonable and sensible, instead of throwing a blanket over them to hide it and not giving their views any values. People whom migrate to Britain chose to come to a First World country, largely in part to escape the Third World. Turning Britain into a Third World country is clearly not something a migrant would want, and moreover is perfectly logical and reasonable.
I don't live in Britain, but I just wonder if media studies are on your school curriculum. Are newspapers studied in class and their bias analysed? I believe that education is the solution to most social problems, and schools have a role in turning out people who can think for themselves.
I did something called Media Studies in my GCSEs (In the UK that's like... the school you go to age 14-16) but it was more like english literature but with film instead of books, rather than studying newspapers or anything.
@@Carl-hs420a Your poor English reduces your credibility. Your comment sounds like a series of far-right tropes. We take less refugees than other European countries.
"Uncle Bob is raging but he's Uncle Bob and we just awkwardly laugh it off" No, you shouldn't, as Uncle Bob is part of the problem. Challenge his way of thinking. You don't have to be nasty, just make him think about what he's regurgitated.
Of course you do because you are 'young, cool and edgy' right? Uncle Bob is much older and has seen that rampant diversity and too quick inward migration does very little for cultural and social cohesion. Anyway go ask your friends of the subcontinent heritage if you can date their sister, daughter etc? You know, for the sake of assimilation and acceptance and all that.
It's painful tbh, you can't argue with reason or facts because it's not a logical argument that they're angry about. Their emotionally charged at the thought of the subject and often times it's jealousy and bitterness. All you can do is, in the calmer moments, chip away at the veil that has been built up by years of properganda in the media
During the Brexit referendum campaign immigration was ramped up as something we could solve instantly when we left the EU. I can't help but wonder if it is deliberately being used now as a distraction from what is about to hit us in terms of cuts and taxation. No one asks the why didn't Brexit fit it question.
People who drink this stuff in and then say they 'believe' it do not know how bias ALL our press really is. And, I'd say have lived very privileged and sheltered lives... Hard to show them another perspective.
lol, cringing at your comment. What's your opinion on those that take no heed of any press AT ALL but use their eyes? Seeing is believing, isn't it? I'd hazard a wild guess you live nowhere near the south coast, smh
@@cee-cee Yeah thing is your eyes tell you nothing of the people, their plight or if they are going to be accepted. you can just see desperate people struggling but of course the media have nothing to do with how you think about things. You just looked out your window and saw covid coming, the recession is something you have watched happen and you were watching in south korea when all those people were killed because cl has eyes everywhere
People who drink this in have no real core value system. They just have animosity and resentment. They have no moral structure to critically analyse the rhetoric the far right media are stoning us with on a daily basis.
"People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the centre of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. Without people you're nothing. That's my spiel.” words from the great man himself,Joe Strummer who was born in Ankara
What does Joe Strummer know about the English? He can’t be English if born in Ankara. The left told me that there’s no such thing as being ethnically English, and they also told me that wherever you are born, you are as fully part of that nation no less than someone who can trace their family back hundreds of years in that nation. Just another example of the left’s flexible definitions of important words and concepts I’m afraid you inadvertently used there.
It’s a fantastic distraction from the cost of living crisis. And it’s a easy blame game. Saying that it’s costing £150 per night to house people. Is going to get a reaction from normal working families who are already struggling and looking for someone to blame. Edit* Just noticed the biggest hike in interest rates.
Is it a distraction when people complain about MPs expenses, big companies bonuses and profits from lockdown, and other things the left (and rightly so) complain about? It isn’t wrong to complain about both of those types of waste of money, especially during an economic crisis brought on by the global elite, whom benefit both from migration and economic crises.
@@kylehill6384 it’s not wrong to complain at all mate. I think we are all in agreement that the money the UK taxpayer pays is not being distributed correctly. Why would a multi millionaire want a job that pays £140000 per year??
People are cross because of the lack of housing stock, strains on the NHS and rapidly changing racial and cultural demographics. Their country is changing drastically without their consent and they feel second best in the country where they were born. They're mad because a lot of asylum seekers have passed through plenty of safe countries to come to Britain.
Spot on - I dont understand why people can not clearly see this. Quite ironic most of the comments here talk about people being 'dogmatic' when they can not or will not even begin to accept some of these facts. Guess it just does not provide the same dopamine hit that virtue signalling and demonising another person provides. And just imagine the reaction from these same people if large numbers of Americans were moving to Japan and changing the racial and cultural demographics there or Brits moving to say Nepal? Fairly safe to say the Japanese or Nepalese would not be portrayed in such a negative light.
I left England 30 years ago to live in Crete Greece, where English was rarely spoken, but before coming I taught myself basic Greek and have learned a lot since, although I still don't speak it fluently I get by. The trouble is English people are lazy as to learning other Languages and think everyone else should speak English. I know Albanians, Greeks who speak 3-4 Languages and I would bet most of these Asylum seekers do also !
That's the other thing, English has become the global language, any one seeking asylum or refuge will likely go to the place that uses a language that they are somewhat familiar with. For many that happens to be the UK.
Media literacy and source analysis is the single most important skill for an informed citizenry today. It should be thought as a separate subject as soon as the kids are able to comprehend it.
We are the way we are due to people needing to blame someone for there lot in life so when people like the secretary of state or Nigel Farage and others, give us someone to blame we focus on them.
So glad you brought up the point about our numbers in relation to Europe. They literally pale in comparison. Let alone with the rest of the world. The UK just shouts the loudest about it. Laughable.
All that means is that all of europe will experience major social problems in the future, such as never been known on european soil before. And your grandchildren will ask you 'why did you let this happen?' Right before they join extremist groups.
And as long as we have these people that complain about their street being full of people that don't speak English just because they hear a conversation that isn't in English from time to time, debunking immigration and refugee misinformation takes up valuable time and resources that could be used to debate and implement fixes for problems that this country actually faces.
"Debunking immigration and refugee misinformation takes up valuable time and resources that could be used to debate and implement fixes for problems that this country actually faces." Am I correct in thinking you don't see these crossings as a problem? What are the problems that take precedent over this crisis?
@@jettyharrison4377 Oh no, the horror! How ever do you cope? If that it your biggest concern right now, or even in your top 10 or 20, then congratulations on leading a really successful and privileged life. Right now there are WAY more pressing issues facing the vast majority in this country. So well done if hearing a foreign language on a bus or street corner is a bigger concern to you than struggling to pay for a roof over your head or put food on your table.
@@Danny-is5if As someone that lives in a town on the south coast, one that does have migrant boats landing on it's beaches, nah, it's really not an issue that bothers most people here. Most locals seem bothered about getting them some food and blankets and waiting with them until the police turn up. I've never seen any of them, just the odd article appearing in the local paper. Are you honestly telling me that you cannot think of any other problems right now that the government could be solving but don't care. And there isn't sufficient pressure on them to act on them because their own base and associated medias are talking about thinks like refugees? Maybe you need to read some different news sources because you are living a very sheltered life right now it seems. I could think of quite a few economic issues right now that could do with some attention, some of which just played a major part in Truss losing her job
@@Ksportin Well, cookie for you I suppose for helping people who voluntarily paid human traffickers to risk their lives getting here by a dinghy. I bet you feel so virtuous. Tell me something, we've already established most of them are coming from Albania and certainly not refugees so don't call them that, it discredits actual refugees like the Ukrainians. What is so wrong with Albania? While you're at it tell me why didn't they apply legally for Indefinite leave to remain which currently costs £2,389, half the price they have paid to illegal human traffickers. Yes there are other huge problems in this country, obviously, but this is an emergency. We've got to the point where there is no more room for them to go. Do you think its acceptable that the government use British tax payers money to house them in 4 star hotels because they've lost control? Its costing 6 Million per day.
Many would say that the defining moment for Australian democracy was Federation in 1901. Before 1901, Australia consisted of 6 British colonies which were partly self-governing but under the law-making power of the British Parliament. In the 1880s and 1890s, it was suggested the colonies might be stronger and more efficient if they worked together. Several conventions were held to draft an Australian Constitution. The Constitution was approved by a vote of the Australian people in referendums held in each colony between June 1899 and July 1900. It was then agreed to by the British Parliament. On 1 January 1901 the Australian colonies united to become a nation. This is known as federation and resulted in the creation of the Australian Parliament, with the colonies becoming Australia's 6 states. Through federation, the states transferred some of their law-making power to the Australian Parliament... Tony cuenca
I'm British my wife's Greek our son was born in India and was educated in Holland, does that qualify him to be PM. Oh no, he's a European silly him he thinks UK is part of Europe.
This thing about being born in the UK is so interesting because I've watched several other LBC presenters accused of not being British when they were actually born in the UK....now if you're not born in the UK you're also a problem....then who exactly is OK? And who's making the rules? Who are the person or persons unknown who get to decide??? Sadly, it's people who just continue to need to find someone to feel superior to, and that quite frankly speaks to have you really feel about yourself if you need to "feel" better than others.
@@g.p616 I've noticed a lot of right-leaning anti-immigration folks are strongly pro-capitalist and against (what they believe to be) socialism / communism. if that's true, isn't the process of undercutting the local workers by desperately hard working and less demanding immigrants purely the playing out of the capitalist supply-demand forces?
@@g.p616 It is about feeling superior to coverup any inferiorities and insecurities, immigrants wont be able to undercut or sTeAL YOuR JoBs if you actually work hard and show them that You cannot be replaced, but then again thats not Your kind of work ethics is it? So there You go.
Funny how when the left reveal their xenophobia and obsession with racial lineages, by claiming the Royal Family is German because a man in the middle of the 19th century married into the family, and thereby reveal that they do recognise there is British ethnicity, and not just a passport or “culture”.
It saddens me to see so many examples of the worst of our society in the comments on this video. Some of the greatest qualities British society ever championed are fairness and charity. This hateful rhetoric championed by the likes of the Daily Mail sows the antithesis of these values. A blanket hatred towards assylem seekers (and foreigners in general) who are by that very definition people who are looking for a place to rebuild their lives in peace after meating tragidy and/or persecution in their home countries shows that the best qualities of British society are lost on these commenters. If those who made these comments are reading this along with others who campaign against immegrants of all types, I hope they feel ashamed as their lack of basic human decency detracts hugely from the society that we shold be.
They won't ever feel ashamed because their mind has been warped beyond recognition by the bile that those papers put out. It's easier to believe a lie than to search for the truth.
@@TheDom277 Maybe people have different experiences than you and those experiences shape their views rather than ignoring their experiences and blanket statement calling them all ignorant you could take time to understand them and why they feel the way they do and realise that their opinions are no less valid than yours.
@@TheDom277 That's true about everything, not just anything to do with immigration or asylum seekers, people take on board too much of what they're told without actually researching anything themselves!!
@@ronocko Experience shouldn't ever get in the way of true facts though. That's the problem. These people can dislike asylum seekers all they want. But they have to acknowledge the benefits they bring and the situation they're in. But they don't because of the things they read in papers like the Daily Express. As i said. It literally warps their mind. And reading these things is part of what makes them feel the way they do. It's literally build on lies and misinformation. Which is what JoB is talking about.
@@julezpanda14 Couldn't agree more. Brexit is a prime example. That is why at the time of the Brexit vote i didn't vote as i didn't know enough at the time to cast an honest vote.
If what I've read in the media is correct, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 allows the Home Secretary to cancel British citizenship for anyone who MIGHT be entitled to another nationality. Let's hope the next Labour incumbent gets to work.
It's incorrect. "Removing someone's British citizenship, also known as deprivation of citizenship, is used against those who obtained citizenship by fraud and against the most dangerous people, such as terrorists, extremists and serious organised criminals. It always comes with a right of appeal." Simply having another nationality or HAVING THE RIGHT TO ONE isn't a reason - ignorant LIAR.
Listening to an Albanian women talking about her son yesterday it suddenly became clear to me that Brexit caused this. Her son USED to come to the UK for 4 months a year to do migrant work - the kind of work that it quickly became apparent no UK citizens wanted to do - then he went back. While Albania isn't in the EU it has visa-free travel in the EU. NOW her son can't do that any more. Yes, he COULD try elsewhere, but by now I suspect he speaks English and has contacts with employers etc so, naturally, he'd prefer to work in the UK. BUT he can now only enter illegally and so has to expose himself to the criminals who do this. The ones that can also try to recruit him. He also has to stay because nobody is going to leave once they've made it over in a boat. So now we have illegal entry and possible links to criminal gangs. Well done Brexit >:(
I visited my mum in her care home yesterday. Typical care home, in the south of England. In the day room the BBC news came on. There were several stories about the "thousands" of "boat" people crossing the channel, along with conditions at the refugee facility at Manston, in Kent. I watched the mood in the room shift to aggression and antagonism, as the story unfolded. People became grumpy, and frustrated. There were various replies around the day room about "us" as a country, being a "small island" and being "full up" etc. The way the BBC framed the narrative was really shocking for me to witness. If the BBC can stir up a room full of pensioners who aren't really paying attention, what hope do we have for the rest of us? The story did credit the UK with being low down on the numbers of people coming here. But it felt very much like it was tacked on at the end as an afterthought, so they could tick the impartiality box. But the damage was already done. People were already raging and ignoring the end of the story. Most of the staff are foreign born, and I felt like I had to apologise for much of what the residents were saying as some of it decended to quite inappropriate levels. The staff told me this happens regularly, and they try to avoid having the news on tv if they can get to it in time. How, have we as a nation sunk so low? When did the BBC become the subtle agitators of the right wing?
The BBC have ALWAYS been right wing. This impartiality nonsense is to shut down left wing views in real time. They've worked out angry means votes. So angry it is.
Yes he does not live in a high multicultural area where resources are taken up like housing schools.hospitals GP waiting times where refugees get preferential treatment
I hope you retain your compassion when someone sticks a knife in your back,or bashes your kids,or attacks your wife. Those are the sort of people coming here now,not refugees,but potential criminals,with nowhere to go,and nothing to do. My advice,barricade your house.
I’m not from GB but I love this guy! The world is saturated with right wing, Murdoch loving media blowhards, so to find James’s articulate, sensible, moderate take on things has been a revelation!
Refreshing? It’s just an echo chamber to those with similar bias. Doesn’t encourage scrutiny or debate whatsoever but that’s how the lefties like it I suppose.
@@twisteddancer7773 there isn't always two sides to an argument worth airing. You're aware of that right. Racism and anti racism are not two sides of a coin...
I still remember, when arrived to UK 17 years ago and my second job was an agency worker to pick and pack car parts in a warehouse on the newly created night shift because of increased volume of orders at the time, and one of permanent employees offered me a ticket back home, because he blamed me for his loss of overtime... being fed by hate rhetoric and wearing horse blinkers does this to people...
I’m happy you are here and a contributing part of our society. Thank you for everything you’ve done and are doing in keeping up the tradition of diversity going back to the Romans. (unlike the head of Migration Watch who was born in Cyprus and didn’t speak English when he got here aged eight who doesn’t like people like himself and seems very unhappy about it, or the one who was on talk radio saying how unhappy he is that people like his parents who came here and coming here, he’s unhappy about it too).
@@LiveDonkeyDeadLion thank you very much kind sir. I tried to logically explain that the loss of his overtime was a business decision, and if not me, it would be somebody else, so even if he would buy me the ticket, he would not get his extra hours back anyway... I never claimed any benefit, and pay full amount of taxes. I also pay NI, while struggling to get any medical help, so I travel abroad, like many British born, and go privately... What can you do, they always whip the horse that pulls the wagon
@@jettyharrison4377 was it my decision to create new shift and employ agency workers or the business? should he take the issue to either them or the union? please look behind the first step... there are things happening behind...
second comment: if I move to Spain I am an ex-pat. I'm not an immigrant. I mean, I AM an immigrant if I do that, and weirdly those immigrants from the UK who live in Spain voted for Brexit because they didn't like immigrants. Maybe we should stop considering people on some kinda label, that the media or right wing politicians have given them, and just see them as people.
My Mum veers and lurches in mid conversation. You can be talking to her in the car, and she'll suddenly start chuntering about the someone crossing the road in front of her, that she's "paying his wages, he should get a move on!" about a man pushing his child in a pushchair, with no other distinguishing features than skin colour. My sister won't have anything to do with her after a car tirade with her and her two sons. She suddenly saw the hatefulness through her son's eyes and realised she didn't want that for them. I love my Mum dearly, and having tried to dissuade her from some of the problematic opinions, I try and laugh at her more these days. It's hard though, and heartbreaking sometimes.
thing is no asylum seeker is illegal, because once you have reported to the authorities you are part of the assessing process, and are legally entitled to have your application processed. The only illegal immigrants are the ones that stay undocumented and disappear (and therefore cannot claim anything). All the people in the asylum centre in dover are there legally, regardless of how they got there, as per the definition in the UN chart of human rights. The fact that the processing system is not fit for purpose is down to the government.
@@jettyharrison4377 hence why I said the ones in dover are all legal, and the fact that they entered the country through an illegal route does not make them illegal immigrants.
Well said. May I add, if we are so aghast towards refugees, why aren’t we demanding our governments work together internationaly and figure out why they are showing up and how we can make their home countries better so they will no longer need to flee.
James, I like you, I like LBC, but this concern of many rational loving people, has nothing to do with someone being born overseas. It has to do with the effects mass immigration has On a country's peoples. And as you know that can be very complex. So please, try to answer that as well in a fair and balanced approach.
Politicians find it necessary to distract from their failings by diverting attention to people who cannot defend themselves, because it's so easy todo.
Thank you once again James for being a decent human being. I applaud you. I wish some people could walk in other people's shoes it might give them a better perspective
When does it stop? When does it become too many? 40K this year, already enough to fill a town, 60k next year? Where is the line? Should we take every Albanian that wants to come to the UK just because they want a better life? Every Syrian? Iranian? Eritrean? We can't house the whole of Africa or the Middle East just because they 'want a better life', how is it the burden of the UK to bare? How is it fair that young, healthy, fit men are able to come to the UK, because they have the means (somehow) to have paid £3000- £5000 to people smugglers but those who desperately and genuinely need it can't? I'd argue that anyone who can afford to pay that to criminals is NOT a genuine refugee, but an economic migrant. Just because "we're not as high" as other countries in arrivals does not make it 'RIGHT' that people are illegally entering the country. My grandmother came here from Cyprus in the 1960s on a work permit, my partner is a Croatian who came to the UK on a work permit in 2013, asylum seekers who can afford to pay thousands to illegally cross the boarder spit in the face of all the hard working immigrants who jumped through hoops to come to the UK legally. Furthermore, the UK needs to get tougher, introduce a Zero tolerance policy for anyone granted asylum, if they commit a crime, deport them.
It's what happens when you skimp on the education budget. We need to be kinder to each other. Then refugees would be home, being kind to each other. People should get to move because they want to. Not because they have to.
And they're in talks of reducing school hours, so more pupils will be failing to pass exams and then not being able to gain a college education, meaning less and less skilled workers!!
@@dcraig7712 u wouldn't call a woman fat then ask her on date, so why call ppl thick (even though most of them are exactly that) and ask for their vote? Never underestimate the power of thick working class macho pride.
Ive been wondering about the legality of these comments? outright racism, pro-terrorism and extremely hateful speech on every right wing comment section, I was under the impression all that is outside 'free speech'
I have a close relative who is obsessed about immigrants. He thinks that they are the reason he has to wait three weeks for a doctor’s appointment. He lives in a leafy suburb and probably never sees an immigrant. I get very upset listening to his nonsense. I never heard him saying extreme things before the Brexit vote. It has really damaged our relationships.
I believe that the 'Johnson' family name was originally 'Kamal', and that the 'de Pfeffel' name was originally 'von Pfeffel', presumably changed during the First or Second World Wars.
@@jettyharrison4377 You would be wrong. Check it. Interestingly his great-grandad was a minister in the Ottoman government and was murdered for his left-leaning views. The female side of the family were a mixture of Swiss, German and English which would go some way to explaining the complexion which is so important to you.
How many more immigrants would you like to come. Have a think about it. Have you got room in your house. If you have spare room why have you not offered it to a illegal immigrant .
That would not be democratic, we are a monarchy with a democratically elected parliament. If you want to change to a referendum based democracy, observe the Swiss model.
Better yet, let's have a referendum on deporting British reactionaries to somewhere they'll be more comfortable. Some conservative utopia like Russia or Saudi Arabia.
and what would the question be? Although, considering you have the English flag on your thumbnail and knowing what that stands for with people like you, I think I already know the answer. You have my sympathy to a small degree, I'm sure it must be difficult, living a life full of bitterness, hate and failure.
@@swanvictor887 You seem to be making assumptions based upon your own prejudices, and using this to justify being insulting, and implying your own superior intellect. Arf
“If they can afford to emigrate, they can afford to eat in a modest restaurant” Some of my best friends are Albanian. The Albanians are being imported to replace the police; tough, uncompromising, conservative, trained in street fighting, and entirely corrupt. 😂
I live in a coastal area where there is very little diversity. The outrage and indignation about something they read about in the daily fail is off the scale. We have no housing because rich people bought most of it for second homes. I know who the them is, from them and us, and it certainly isn't displaced people.
they are same ones who go to Benidorm, eat a full English in the 'Only Fools and Horses' pub and stay n a hotel with Union Jack flags everywhere....and they come home and criticise people just like they are
At least they pay for their hotel rooms lol. I bet you have a problem with ex-pat Brits in Spain too don't you. You are a leftwing snob who looks down on the people you pretend to be all for. Just like James.
Some thrive on hate preaching. When you have majority of the people politically illiterate then hate preacher creep in with hateful agenda and sadly some people buying that hate.
I’m in my 40s, my mum is early 60s and my stepdad 70s. They genuinely believe the nhs is on its knees because of the immigrants… they read the daily Mail and the daily express. I can’t talk to them about anything political as they’ve become so dogmatic.
Hey James and LBC - any chance you can look into the large number of weekly excess deaths occurring right now. It's not getting any better and it's getting a bit surreal that no media outlets are looking into it. We know the DM and it's wantonly ignorant readership is irreconcilable but this is getting a bit obsessive tbh.
I'm not very politically smart, but I have humility a lot of immigrants have come to where I live and they look so happy especially the kids, the older people walk with their heads down as if they've done something wrong I feel so sad for them and hope we can all come from a place of love and humility,
Are y saying just because most people don't want thousands of illegal immigrants here we are being hateful. So y think otvright that life boat people get.chucked out of a hotel for immigrants. Our population in England is way too high for its size. We can't have thousands more coming in who.are illegal
What O'Brien seems either to be oblivious to or ignores to suit his own rhetoric is the rate of increase of immigrants. It is such that our infrastructure is now completely unsustainable. The last 10 years has shown an increase of two and a half million people in England and Wales. The Romanian population has increased by half a million. Hospitals, schools, housing all overstretched. This is causing suffering for all of us
Why so quick to blame a relatively small group of people worse off than you, than to blame the government for underfunding eduction sector, not building new schools?
Worse off than me? I can't afford £10K for a boat ride across the channel. I don't have the latest i-phone or designer trainers. I am not denying the right for people to seek a life in a new country but do oppose people smuggling.
The terrible irony that a publication like the Daily Mail, would have any consideration for pensioners is quite tragically hilarious! Far from it, they do not give a flying F about pensioners anyone else. The strategy is and ever will be to make people afraid and angry. All they need to do is point them in the direction of those they should be angry and fearful of. And hey presto, the latest money making marketing strategy has been invented
I think you’re forgetting that not that many read newspapers in this country anymore. The fact that O’Bore keeps banging on about it further illustrates just how desperate his bigotry is.
James ,I hope you are going to give it your best and when the hotels run out of bed space you are going to take some of the ones who can't actualy get a room a place in your house .
Very simple James, all of those examples you gave had money, and NON of those came to the UK illegally or to live off the tax payer getting benefits that many.of our own people need. Shame on you for peddling such nonsense for the very same reasons as you criticised The Mail in doing.
Pensioners are not paid on what they put in. They are paid on the wages of those working now in terrible conditions made worse by the very pensioners they are propping up. You clearly have a massive sense of entitlement and don't care who you have to shaft to get what you imagine you deserve.
@@mobsiesixsixsix9785 The pensioners your on about paid into the system all their lives and deserve every penny they get and plenty of them would have worked in terrible conditions themselves so your point is ridiculous.
@@buster9168 Where is the money going to come from if everyone downs tools? C'mon Buster explain how that works. Given you think you know everything about reality. On top of all that most young people these days won't see pensions no matter how much they put in. I expect you're fine with that though, right?
@@mobsiesixsixsix9785 You seem to live in a imaginary world where everyone is downing tools. Never going to happen same as your idea that young people won't get a pension. Only question is will that pension be enough to live a decent life but that conversation has been going on for decades and nothing new.
@@buster9168 Look around the NHS is next. As for the younger generation getting pensions, have you seen what's happening in the real world or do you live in a little bubble of your own? The rising pension age the lack of funds to keep paying it. Wake up Buster you're in a dream world.
James, this is one of the best and most heartfelt broadcasts I have heard in a long time. You are a shining light of reason and compassion in a tense world. Keep going!
It’s the saddest I’ve heard from James in the last few years - my father who is/now was my best friend is deep inside this dark hate cave. He’s got a PhD in physics. He’s now 76. He was VP of a few large American high tech companies. He isn’t poor… at all… he’s got everything. So why?? I’ll bring him back to reality but the next day he’s back in this dark place again. I’m trying so hard for the last 5 years but it’s impossible. 😢
The likes of yourself and the Daily Mail whip up hate. That's what you do. Whether you like it or not. You do it yourself when people phone in and you do nothing but make them look silly for a living.
Lol, that was well over a century ago. What has that got to do with the thousands arriving today after paying people smugglers to get them here, or we're your parents proudly part of a migrant scam?
Maybe it is time for a National and grassroots gratitude movement in the UK. Start reporting the words and actions of people who say "I am so grateful for (whatever it is)...."
I'm all for immigration and think the entire world should be accessible to anyone. But you need to also think about if you want to live in a country which has no housing why do you think your entitled to just arrive and get it. Affordable housing is non existent amd it will only get worse with people loosing their houses due to interest rates rising and cost of living.
I’ve never understood the argument that people worry that foreigners work here and send their money to their country of origin. They are still subject to all the taxes. What’s the difference between an economic migrant and a native that saves all year to go on holiday abroad? And what’s worse? Someone who sends money out of the country after tax, or a banker who funnels millions to an offshore tax haven?
You really have know idea do you!
They also spend money on food, clothes and shelter one would imagine. VAT would be included.
All those complaining about immigrants getting children benefits when the children stay in their origin countries might prefer them to come too? Seriously, their thinking makes no sense. The UK obviously need immigrants for the economy to grow and the people to be cared for. If there were queues for housing and other public services, blame the Tories for taking their money and not putting back the investment needed, don't attack the working tax paying immigrants. Attack all those rich guys who call themselves patriots and all they worry is to steal your money by funnelling it to offshore accounts to avoid paying tax while you have to pay yours.
@@MrAckers75 'no' not 'know'
@@rollosinternet1853 My thought exactly it’s just so much easier to kick down.
Did anyone notice that the person on Nigel Farage’s from Migration Watch, talking about how terrible it is that people from abroad are coming here to live was born in Cyprus (making him one of the 1 in 6), came here when he was eight years old and couldn’t speak a word of English. He was literally complaining about people like himself, and making a tidy profit I suspect from doing so
It’s so sickening to watch
@@1hunna877 sadly I had to watch it due to my job, and of if hadn’t been that he had the same name as a Kurdish friend, it wouldn’t have even occurred to me to look it up. It’s like they’ve taken an irony pill, but used it as a suppository instead
@@LiveDonkeyDeadLion Just like the poorest elements of society repeatedly voting for right-wing politicians whose policies are diametrically opposed to their interests second-generation immigrants are regularly the ones who will trenchantly support anti-immigration measures. It happens in most 'Western' nations and has gone on for decades if not centuries when 'the other' was just over the county border. It's bizarre and illogical but it's a well documented phenomenon.
It is terrible. When are people like you going to admit/understand that it is bad that British culture w/d be destroyed by numbers from abroad? When are the UN going to do something to fix these peoples countries abroad? You think it's a win for them all to come here.? Not true.
You should maybe actually listen to their reasons, which are in fact reasonable and sensible, instead of throwing a blanket over them to hide it and not giving their views any values.
People whom migrate to Britain chose to come to a First World country, largely in part to escape the Third World. Turning Britain into a Third World country is clearly not something a migrant would want, and moreover is perfectly logical and reasonable.
I don't live in Britain, but I just wonder if media studies are on your school curriculum. Are newspapers studied in class and their bias analysed? I believe that education is the solution to most social problems, and schools have a role in turning out people who can think for themselves.
Oh please tell me which countries do have that in their curriculum and how they teach it, because we're all in desperate need of it.
I did something called Media Studies in my GCSEs (In the UK that's like... the school you go to age 14-16) but it was more like english literature but with film instead of books, rather than studying newspapers or anything.
LBC thrives on people who can’t think for themselves! Labour voters!
Most amusing……..
@@Carl-hs420a Your poor English reduces your credibility. Your comment sounds like a series of far-right tropes. We take less refugees than other European countries.
"Uncle Bob is raging but he's Uncle Bob and we just awkwardly laugh it off"
No, you shouldn't, as Uncle Bob is part of the problem. Challenge his way of thinking. You don't have to be nasty, just make him think about what he's regurgitated.
Of course you do because you are 'young, cool and edgy' right?
Uncle Bob is much older and has seen that rampant diversity and too quick inward migration does very little for cultural and social cohesion. Anyway go ask your friends of the subcontinent heritage if you can date their sister, daughter etc? You know, for the sake of assimilation and acceptance and all that.
@@manufacturedconsent7850 uncle Bob, is that you?!?!
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@@manufacturedconsent7850 I have to ask, what are you on about?
@@マウリツィオ-g6e Indeed Mauricio indeed.
@@joe94c Where are you struggling with English?
It's painful tbh, you can't argue with reason or facts because it's not a logical argument that they're angry about. Their emotionally charged at the thought of the subject and often times it's jealousy and bitterness. All you can do is, in the calmer moments, chip away at the veil that has been built up by years of properganda in the media
During the Brexit referendum campaign immigration was ramped up as something we could solve instantly when we left the EU. I can't help but wonder if it is deliberately being used now as a distraction from what is about to hit us in terms of cuts and taxation. No one asks the why didn't Brexit fit it question.
Yes. The Tories don't want to solve the problem because it's their principal vote winner. Red meat to the base.
They have manufactured this situation to rile up their xenophobic base, because they need the distraction to fill their pockets
Spot on Terry
Without brexit most of these people wouldn't have to break the law to get here. It's a failure on a massive scale.
Yep....Take back control and all that
How's that working out...
People who drink this stuff in and then say they 'believe' it do not know how bias ALL our press really is. And, I'd say have lived very privileged and sheltered lives... Hard to show them another perspective.
lol, cringing at your comment. What's your opinion on those that take no heed of any press AT ALL but use their eyes? Seeing is believing, isn't it? I'd hazard a wild guess you live nowhere near the south coast, smh
@@cee-cee don't be like that. Her bedrooms are chocka
@@cee-cee Yeah thing is your eyes tell you nothing of the people, their plight or if they are going to be accepted. you can just see desperate people struggling but of course the media have nothing to do with how you think about things. You just looked out your window and saw covid coming, the recession is something you have watched happen and you were watching in south korea when all those people were killed because cl has eyes everywhere
People who drink this in have no real core value system. They just have animosity and resentment. They have no moral structure to critically analyse the rhetoric the far right media are stoning us with on a daily basis.
Are you talking about the bias that is trying to prop up a rishi lead conservative Party?
"People are out there doing bad things to each other. That's because they've been dehumanised. It's time to take the humanity back into the centre of the ring and follow that for a time. Greed, it ain't going anywhere. Without people you're nothing. That's my spiel.” words from the great man himself,Joe Strummer who was born in Ankara
What does Joe Strummer know about the English? He can’t be English if born in Ankara. The left told me that there’s no such thing as being ethnically English, and they also told me that wherever you are born, you are as fully part of that nation no less than someone who can trace their family back hundreds of years in that nation.
Just another example of the left’s flexible definitions of important words and concepts I’m afraid you inadvertently used there.
Brexit unleashed.. so much anger propagated and encouraged by most of the media.. so sad to see what the UK has become..
All the anger is propagated by your hero O’Brussels. Keep up
@@nick1065 Read the comments here, the bile directed at completely legal asylum seekers is despicable.
@@matthewwakeman5047 Nick is just someone's troll account. Pay it no heed.
And no anger and one eyed perspective on this platform????
hold politicians to account.
Exactly. They are responsible for mass immigration destroying this country. I don't blame the immigrants, I blame the politicians.
It’s a fantastic distraction from the cost of living crisis. And it’s a easy blame game. Saying that it’s costing £150 per night to house people. Is going to get a reaction from normal working families who are already struggling and looking for someone to blame.
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Just noticed the biggest hike in interest rates.
It is costing £150 per night to house people. I don’t understand your point? In some instances it’s costing more. It is what it is…
@@massiveinmyunderpants my point is that the media and the government are shifting tactic to take the heat away from there incompetence
Is it a distraction when people complain about MPs expenses, big companies bonuses and profits from lockdown, and other things the left (and rightly so) complain about?
It isn’t wrong to complain about both of those types of waste of money, especially during an economic crisis brought on by the global elite, whom benefit both from migration and economic crises.
@@kylehill6384 it’s not wrong to complain at all mate. I think we are all in agreement that the money the UK taxpayer pays is not being distributed correctly.
Why would a multi millionaire want a job that pays £140000 per year??
Its part of the reason there is a cost of living crisis.
People are cross because of the lack of housing stock, strains on the NHS and rapidly changing racial and cultural demographics. Their country is changing drastically without their consent and they feel second best in the country where they were born. They're mad because a lot of asylum seekers have passed through plenty of safe countries to come to Britain.
Spot on - I dont understand why people can not clearly see this. Quite ironic most of the comments here talk about people being 'dogmatic' when they can not or will not even begin to accept some of these facts. Guess it just does not provide the same dopamine hit that virtue signalling and demonising another person provides. And just imagine the reaction from these same people if large numbers of Americans were moving to Japan and changing the racial and cultural demographics there or Brits moving to say Nepal? Fairly safe to say the Japanese or Nepalese would not be portrayed in such a negative light.
Blame the Tories then.
Correct. Nothing to do with racial discrimination as JOB likes to spin it.
Albania has not been blown to pieces.
Look up refugee council it tells you all you need to know about refugees. Its not just about being blown to pieces
So? It’s still a country with no job opportunities or future, why shouldn’t they come here?
I left England 30 years ago to live in Crete Greece, where English was rarely spoken, but before coming I taught myself basic Greek and have learned a lot since, although I still don't speak it fluently I get by. The trouble is English people are lazy as to learning other Languages and think everyone else should speak English. I know Albanians, Greeks who speak 3-4 Languages and I would bet most of these Asylum seekers do also !
Well said!
That's the other thing, English has become the global language, any one seeking asylum or refuge will likely go to the place that uses a language that they are somewhat familiar with. For many that happens to be the UK.
@@ngc4486diane what a load of nonsense
@@atroxie clearly you don't live in his town but have the nerve to call his life “nonsense” smh
@@ngc4486diane sure buddy
Media literacy and source analysis is the single most important skill for an informed citizenry today. It should be thought as a separate subject as soon as the kids are able to comprehend it.
We are the way we are due to people needing to blame someone for there lot in life so when people like the secretary of state or Nigel Farage and others, give us someone to blame we focus on them.
I will bet you'll turn over channel when the news about the Manchester bombing enquiry is on tonight
So glad you brought up the point about our numbers in relation to Europe. They literally pale in comparison. Let alone with the rest of the world. The UK just shouts the loudest about it. Laughable.
Why should we base things on how bad it is in the rest of Europe?
@@michaelgriffiths5723
Contrasting one situation with another can be useful when gaining perspective.
@@JB.zero.zero.1 we shouldn’t be in a race to the bottom
We're not in Europe !
All that means is that all of europe will experience major social problems in the future, such as never been known on european soil before. And your grandchildren will ask you 'why did you let this happen?' Right before they join extremist groups.
And as long as we have these people that complain about their street being full of people that don't speak English just because they hear a conversation that isn't in English from time to time, debunking immigration and refugee misinformation takes up valuable time and resources that could be used to debate and implement fixes for problems that this country actually faces.
"Debunking immigration and refugee misinformation takes up valuable time and resources that could be used to debate and implement fixes for problems that this country actually faces." Am I correct in thinking you don't see these crossings as a problem? What are the problems that take precedent over this crisis?
@@jettyharrison4377 Oh no, the horror! How ever do you cope?
If that it your biggest concern right now, or even in your top 10 or 20, then congratulations on leading a really successful and privileged life. Right now there are WAY more pressing issues facing the vast majority in this country. So well done if hearing a foreign language on a bus or street corner is a bigger concern to you than struggling to pay for a roof over your head or put food on your table.
@@Danny-is5if As someone that lives in a town on the south coast, one that does have migrant boats landing on it's beaches, nah, it's really not an issue that bothers most people here. Most locals seem bothered about getting them some food and blankets and waiting with them until the police turn up. I've never seen any of them, just the odd article appearing in the local paper.
Are you honestly telling me that you cannot think of any other problems right now that the government could be solving but don't care. And there isn't sufficient pressure on them to act on them because their own base and associated medias are talking about thinks like refugees? Maybe you need to read some different news sources because you are living a very sheltered life right now it seems. I could think of quite a few economic issues right now that could do with some attention, some of which just played a major part in Truss losing her job
Left wing muppet
@@Ksportin Well, cookie for you I suppose for helping people who voluntarily paid human traffickers to risk their lives getting here by a dinghy. I bet you feel so virtuous.
Tell me something, we've already established most of them are coming from Albania and certainly not refugees so don't call them that, it discredits actual refugees like the Ukrainians. What is so wrong with Albania? While you're at it tell me why didn't they apply legally for Indefinite leave to remain which currently costs £2,389, half the price they have paid to illegal human traffickers.
Yes there are other huge problems in this country, obviously, but this is an emergency. We've got to the point where there is no more room for them to go. Do you think its acceptable that the government use British tax payers money to house them in 4 star hotels because they've lost control? Its costing 6 Million per day.
As a 9th (second fleet) generation Australian, I'm all for refugees. They made my nation. Poms are so insular, but the world has caught up.
Phil... I think the English made what Australia is today a democracy.... Tony cuenca
Many would say that the defining moment for Australian democracy was Federation in 1901.
Before 1901, Australia consisted of 6 British colonies which were partly self-governing but under the law-making power of the British Parliament. In the 1880s and 1890s, it was suggested the colonies might be stronger and more efficient if they worked together. Several conventions were held to draft an Australian Constitution. The Constitution was approved by a vote of the Australian people in referendums held in each colony between June 1899 and July 1900. It was then agreed to by the British Parliament. On 1 January 1901 the Australian colonies united to become a nation. This is known as federation and resulted in the creation of the Australian Parliament, with the colonies becoming Australia's 6 states. Through federation, the states transferred some of their law-making power to the Australian Parliament... Tony cuenca
In fairness Australians aren't known for their tolerance. I'm not British btw.
@@eavannicgabhann In fairness, you obviously speak from authority then
@@ray.shoesmith Nope, don't speak from authority, just saying how the Australians are known internationally *shrug*.
Lots of people in the US claim we don't have room for immigrants, or money, or food, or anything at all. I don't agree.
I'm British my wife's Greek our son was born in India and was educated in Holland, does that qualify him to be PM. Oh no, he's a European silly him he thinks UK is part of Europe.
That is so patronising.
This thing about being born in the UK is so interesting because I've watched several other LBC presenters accused of not being British when they were actually born in the UK....now if you're not born in the UK you're also a problem....then who exactly is OK? And who's making the rules? Who are the person or persons unknown who get to decide??? Sadly, it's people who just continue to need to find someone to feel superior to, and that quite frankly speaks to have you really feel about yourself if you need to "feel" better than others.
It's not about feeling superior, it's about competing in the job market with desperate immigrants who will undercut your wages.
@@g.p616 Is that a bad thing? If one has the feeling that they're not earning enough money, they can always improve their professional qualifications.
@@g.p616 I've noticed a lot of right-leaning anti-immigration folks are strongly pro-capitalist and against (what they believe to be) socialism / communism. if that's true, isn't the process of undercutting the local workers by desperately hard working and less demanding immigrants purely the playing out of the capitalist supply-demand forces?
@@g.p616 pretty sure immigrants don't determine minimum wage. Well done for showing how thick you and your rhetoric are
@@g.p616 It is about feeling superior to coverup any inferiorities and insecurities, immigrants wont be able to undercut or sTeAL YOuR JoBs if you actually work hard and show them that You cannot be replaced, but then again thats not Your kind of work ethics is it? So there You go.
Totally agree with everything you are saying. Heck, our Royal Family has German routes, but we admire them because they are rich and connected.
And white
Apparently English people don’t consider Europeans as immigrants
And the Europeans are the ones who commit benefit fraud claiming from here and then going back to Italy Spain France
@@beatpeace879 Because culturally they are a closer in group and have more similarities.
Funny how when the left reveal their xenophobia and obsession with racial lineages, by claiming the Royal Family is German because a man in the middle of the 19th century married into the family, and thereby reveal that they do recognise there is British ethnicity, and not just a passport or “culture”.
It saddens me to see so many examples of the worst of our society in the comments on this video. Some of the greatest qualities British society ever championed are fairness and charity. This hateful rhetoric championed by the likes of the Daily Mail sows the antithesis of these values. A blanket hatred towards assylem seekers (and foreigners in general) who are by that very definition people who are looking for a place to rebuild their lives in peace after meating tragidy and/or persecution in their home countries shows that the best qualities of British society are lost on these commenters. If those who made these comments are reading this along with others who campaign against immegrants of all types, I hope they feel ashamed as their lack of basic human decency detracts hugely from the society that we shold be.
They won't ever feel ashamed because their mind has been warped beyond recognition by the bile that those papers put out. It's easier to believe a lie than to search for the truth.
@@TheDom277 Maybe people have different experiences than you and those experiences shape their views rather than ignoring their experiences and blanket statement calling them all ignorant you could take time to understand them and why they feel the way they do and realise that their opinions are no less valid than yours.
@@TheDom277 That's true about everything, not just anything to do with immigration or asylum seekers, people take on board too much of what they're told without actually researching anything themselves!!
@@ronocko Experience shouldn't ever get in the way of true facts though. That's the problem. These people can dislike asylum seekers all they want. But they have to acknowledge the benefits they bring and the situation they're in. But they don't because of the things they read in papers like the Daily Express. As i said. It literally warps their mind.
And reading these things is part of what makes them feel the way they do. It's literally build on lies and misinformation. Which is what JoB is talking about.
@@julezpanda14 Couldn't agree more. Brexit is a prime example. That is why at the time of the Brexit vote i didn't vote as i didn't know enough at the time to cast an honest vote.
If what I've read in the media is correct, the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 allows the Home Secretary to cancel British citizenship for anyone who MIGHT be entitled to another nationality. Let's hope the next Labour incumbent gets to work.
That means the get rid of bojo, his father, sunak's wife etc.
It's incorrect. "Removing someone's British citizenship, also known as deprivation of citizenship, is used against those who obtained citizenship by fraud and against the most dangerous people, such as terrorists, extremists and serious organised criminals. It always comes with a right of appeal."
Simply having another nationality or HAVING THE RIGHT TO ONE isn't a reason - ignorant LIAR.
@@annemoncrieff3875 you beat me by 6 minutes lol.
@@seang2700 how so ?
@@seang2700 if that were true the Daily Heil, Express and Torygraph wouldn't spend so much effort demonising Labour
Just think "human" and you can't go wrong.
Listening to an Albanian women talking about her son yesterday it suddenly became clear to me that Brexit caused this. Her son USED to come to the UK for 4 months a year to do migrant work - the kind of work that it quickly became apparent no UK citizens wanted to do - then he went back. While Albania isn't in the EU it has visa-free travel in the EU.
NOW her son can't do that any more. Yes, he COULD try elsewhere, but by now I suspect he speaks English and has contacts with employers etc so, naturally, he'd prefer to work in the UK. BUT he can now only enter illegally and so has to expose himself to the criminals who do this. The ones that can also try to recruit him. He also has to stay because nobody is going to leave once they've made it over in a boat. So now we have illegal entry and possible links to criminal gangs. Well done Brexit >:(
I visited my mum in her care home yesterday. Typical care home, in the south of England.
In the day room the BBC news came on. There were several stories about the "thousands" of "boat" people crossing the channel, along with conditions at the refugee facility at Manston, in Kent.
I watched the mood in the room shift to aggression and antagonism, as the story unfolded.
People became grumpy, and frustrated.
There were various replies around the day room about "us" as a country, being a "small island" and being "full up" etc.
The way the BBC framed the narrative was really shocking for me to witness.
If the BBC can stir up a room full of pensioners who aren't really paying attention, what hope do we have for the rest of us?
The story did credit the UK with being low down on the numbers of people coming here. But it felt very much like it was tacked on at the end as an afterthought, so they could tick the impartiality box. But the damage was already done. People were already raging and ignoring the end of the story.
Most of the staff are foreign born, and I felt like I had to apologise for much of what the residents were saying as some of it decended to quite inappropriate levels.
The staff told me this happens regularly, and they try to avoid having the news on tv if they can get to it in time.
How, have we as a nation sunk so low?
When did the BBC become the subtle agitators of the right wing?
The BBC have ALWAYS been right wing. This impartiality nonsense is to shut down left wing views in real time. They've worked out angry means votes. So angry it is.
I look forward to Mr.O'Brien's program,because I know that I will hear thoughtful,and compassionate things.
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Agreed
Yes he does not live in a high multicultural area where resources are taken up like housing schools.hospitals GP waiting times where refugees get preferential treatment
True if you like a daily helping of propaganda.
Brilliantly articulated. A lesson in reasoning your point with calm sense and compassion.
I hope you retain your compassion when someone sticks a knife in your back,or bashes your kids,or attacks your wife. Those are the sort of people coming here now,not refugees,but potential criminals,with nowhere to go,and nothing to do. My advice,barricade your house.
So basically bully O’Brien hates people with different views.
@@hugebartlett1884 I think I fear YOU more than the so called criminals your imagination entertains.
@@anonomous8719 That would sum it up.
@@anonomous8719 How is your life so warped that you actually believe the nonsense you spout?
I’m not from GB but I love this guy! The world is saturated with right wing, Murdoch loving media blowhards, so to find James’s articulate, sensible, moderate take on things has been a revelation!
Well said James 👏🏿 👌 👍🏽 🙌
This is so refreshing , what a contrast from stations such as Talk Tv.
At least talk tv is slightly more balanced than here. They look and have people on both sides of the argument. Unlike they do on here
Refreshing? It’s just an echo chamber to those with similar bias. Doesn’t encourage scrutiny or debate whatsoever but that’s how the lefties like it I suppose.
@@twisteddancer7773 there isn't always two sides to an argument worth airing. You're aware of that right. Racism and anti racism are not two sides of a coin...
@@uniteddreamer Think they are
@@uniteddreamer Don't waste your breath on him. A lost cause. Talk TV? Balanced? Really????
Great. I love this radio programm
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James for PM
Well said James
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I still remember, when arrived to UK 17 years ago and my second job was an agency worker to pick and pack car parts in a warehouse on the newly created night shift because of increased volume of orders at the time, and one of permanent employees offered me a ticket back home, because he blamed me for his loss of overtime... being fed by hate rhetoric and wearing horse blinkers does this to people...
I’m happy you are here and a contributing part of our society. Thank you for everything you’ve done and are doing in keeping up the tradition of diversity going back to the Romans.
(unlike the head of Migration Watch who was born in Cyprus and didn’t speak English when he got here aged eight who doesn’t like people like himself and seems very unhappy about it, or the one who was on talk radio saying how unhappy he is that people like his parents who came here and coming here, he’s unhappy about it too).
@@LiveDonkeyDeadLion thank you very much kind sir. I tried to logically explain that the loss of his overtime was a business decision, and if not me, it would be somebody else, so even if he would buy me the ticket, he would not get his extra hours back anyway... I never claimed any benefit, and pay full amount of taxes. I also pay NI, while struggling to get any medical help, so I travel abroad, like many British born, and go privately... What can you do, they always whip the horse that pulls the wagon
@@jettyharrison4377 was it my decision to create new shift and employ agency workers or the business? should he take the issue to either them or the union? please look behind the first step... there are things happening behind...
@@jettyharrison4377 it was a big US company, he had nothing to say and the unions couldn't help either
second comment: if I move to Spain I am an ex-pat. I'm not an immigrant. I mean, I AM an immigrant if I do that, and weirdly those immigrants from the UK who live in Spain voted for Brexit because they didn't like immigrants. Maybe we should stop considering people on some kinda label, that the media or right wing politicians have given them, and just see them as people.
You can't 'just move' to Spain
@@davepangolin4996 wow, thanks brexit.
@@davepangolin4996 I mean, I did move to Spain. It was very easy to do. Perhaps not as easy right now but hey.
@@AKAtAGG It is easy to move to the UK if you have a passport , no criminal record , some money and a skill.
@@davepangolin4996 No, it isn't easy at all. What gives you the impression it's easy?
My Mum veers and lurches in mid conversation. You can be talking to her in the car, and she'll suddenly start chuntering about the someone crossing the road in front of her, that she's "paying his wages, he should get a move on!" about a man pushing his child in a pushchair, with no other distinguishing features than skin colour. My sister won't have anything to do with her after a car tirade with her and her two sons. She suddenly saw the hatefulness through her son's eyes and realised she didn't want that for them. I love my Mum dearly, and having tried to dissuade her from some of the problematic opinions, I try and laugh at her more these days. It's hard though, and heartbreaking sometimes.
They will use the word "illegal" to justify their hatred
Genius....you will be telling us they are not immigrants next
thing is no asylum seeker is illegal, because once you have reported to the authorities you are part of the assessing process, and are legally entitled to have your application processed. The only illegal immigrants are the ones that stay undocumented and disappear (and therefore cannot claim anything). All the people in the asylum centre in dover are there legally, regardless of how they got there, as per the definition in the UN chart of human rights. The fact that the processing system is not fit for purpose is down to the government.
@@jettyharrison4377 hence why I said the ones in dover are all legal, and the fact that they entered the country through an illegal route does not make them illegal immigrants.
@@jettyharrison4377 You might want pan put down the Daily Mail dear.
Well said. May I add, if we are so aghast towards refugees, why aren’t we demanding our governments work together internationaly and figure out why they are showing up and how we can make their home countries better so they will no longer need to flee.
James, I like you, I like LBC, but this concern of many rational loving people, has nothing to do with someone being born overseas. It has to do with the effects mass immigration has On a country's peoples. And as you know that can be very complex. So please, try to answer that as well in a fair and balanced approach.
@T3cadeus morris dancing lessons for all imigrants
Politicians find it necessary to distract from their failings by diverting attention to people who cannot defend themselves, because it's so easy todo.
Thank you once again James for being a decent human being. I applaud you.
I wish some people could walk in other
people's shoes it might give them a better perspective
Me desperate refugee needing more free money
If they were face down in the gutter those same immigrants would help them up!
@Tom Don't judge others by your standards. 🙄
@Tom Stop looking in the mirror. What type of people do you know cynic?
@Tom I reiterate! 🙄
Thank you.
When does it stop? When does it become too many? 40K this year, already enough to fill a town, 60k next year? Where is the line?
Should we take every Albanian that wants to come to the UK just because they want a better life? Every Syrian? Iranian? Eritrean? We can't house the whole of Africa or the Middle East just because they 'want a better life', how is it the burden of the UK to bare?
How is it fair that young, healthy, fit men are able to come to the UK, because they have the means (somehow) to have paid £3000- £5000 to people smugglers but those who desperately and genuinely need it can't? I'd argue that anyone who can afford to pay that to criminals is NOT a genuine refugee, but an economic migrant.
Just because "we're not as high" as other countries in arrivals does not make it 'RIGHT' that people are illegally entering the country.
My grandmother came here from Cyprus in the 1960s on a work permit, my partner is a Croatian who came to the UK on a work permit in 2013, asylum seekers who can afford to pay thousands to illegally cross the boarder spit in the face of all the hard working immigrants who jumped through hoops to come to the UK legally.
Furthermore, the UK needs to get tougher, introduce a Zero tolerance policy for anyone granted asylum, if they commit a crime, deport them.
The daily mail is so hateful
It's what happens when you skimp on the education budget. We need to be kinder to each other. Then refugees would be home, being kind to each other. People should get to move because they want to. Not because they have to.
That little rant was a perfect recruitment pitch for the antiwoke brigade. And saddest bit? You don't even know why.
And they're in talks of reducing school hours, so more pupils will be failing to pass exams and then not being able to gain a college education, meaning less and less skilled workers!!
@@tombartram7384 maybe you could explain that to me please instead of being so secretive? Help me out, be kind please
@@dcraig7712 u wouldn't call a woman fat then ask her on date, so why call ppl thick (even though most of them are exactly that) and ask for their vote?
Never underestimate the power of thick working class macho pride.
Well done James for talking sense.
The response from the public on right wing media channels is disgraceful.
Ive been wondering about the legality of these comments? outright racism, pro-terrorism and extremely hateful speech on every right wing comment section, I was under the impression all that is outside 'free speech'
I have a close relative who is obsessed about immigrants. He thinks that they are the reason he has to wait three weeks for a doctor’s appointment. He lives in a leafy suburb and probably never sees an immigrant. I get very upset listening to his nonsense. I never heard him saying extreme things before the Brexit vote. It has really damaged our relationships.
I believe that the 'Johnson' family name was originally 'Kamal', and that the 'de Pfeffel' name was originally 'von Pfeffel', presumably changed during the First or Second World Wars.
And Boris was born in the USA.
2 yr recession and all the country talks about is immigrants. What a pathetic country we are!
@@jettyharrison4377 heh
@@jettyharrison4377 the Swiss genes in Johnson outweighed the Turkish genes
@@jettyharrison4377 You would be wrong. Check it. Interestingly his great-grandad was a minister in the Ottoman government and was murdered for his left-leaning views. The female side of the family were a mixture of Swiss, German and English which would go some way to explaining the complexion which is so important to you.
How many more immigrants would you like to come. Have a think about it.
Have you got room in your house.
If you have spare room why have you not offered it to a illegal immigrant .
SUPPORT a REFERENDUM ON FOREIGN MIGRATION ;
That would not be democratic, we are a monarchy with a democratically elected parliament. If you want to change to a referendum based democracy, observe the Swiss model.
Are you joking the REMOANING LABOUR PARTY WOULD RUN FOR THE HILLS !!
Better yet, let's have a referendum on deporting British reactionaries to somewhere they'll be more comfortable. Some conservative utopia like Russia or Saudi Arabia.
and what would the question be? Although, considering you have the English flag on your thumbnail and knowing what that stands for with people like you, I think I already know the answer. You have my sympathy to a small degree, I'm sure it must be difficult, living a life full of bitterness, hate and failure.
@@swanvictor887 You seem to be making assumptions based upon your own prejudices, and using this to justify being insulting, and implying your own superior intellect. Arf
Glad to be extraordinary too!
“If they can afford to emigrate, they can afford to eat in a modest restaurant”
Some of my best friends are Albanian.
The Albanians are being imported to replace the police; tough, uncompromising, conservative, trained in street fighting, and entirely corrupt. 😂
I live in a coastal area where there is very little diversity. The outrage and indignation about something they read about in the daily fail is off the scale. We have no housing because rich people bought most of it for second homes. I know who the them is, from them and us, and it certainly isn't displaced people.
I agree with you James, it's all a diversion.
It's an invasion
Nonsense.
Brilliant James;
they are same ones who go to Benidorm, eat a full English in the 'Only Fools and Horses' pub and stay n a hotel with Union Jack flags everywhere....and they come home and criticise people just like they are
How do you know? Ever been to Benidorm or did you just watch the TV program? Let the plebs have their fun.
At least they pay for their hotel rooms lol. I bet you have a problem with ex-pat Brits in Spain too don't you. You are a leftwing snob who looks down on the people you pretend to be all for. Just like James.
Lol..yes I have...stuck to Tapas Alley and the bars round there...
You go live with it !
invite them all the Chiswick James
Some thrive on hate preaching. When you have majority of the people politically illiterate then hate preacher creep in with hateful agenda and sadly some people buying that hate.
The most hateful preacher here is O’Brien
@@nick1065 what a coincidence I have just mentioned your type above in 2nd line.
@@nick1065 so hatred of racism, bigotry and xenophobia is wrong?
I’m in my 40s, my mum is early 60s and my stepdad 70s. They genuinely believe the nhs is on its knees because of the immigrants… they read the daily Mail and the daily express. I can’t talk to them about anything political as they’ve become so dogmatic.
Why don't you censor them. Insist they read that which you read and then they will share your dogma.
That's why they say ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.
@@jettyharrison4377 ... hahaha hahaha the irony
@@jettyharrison4377 That's not what i meant as you know, kindly don't twist my words you crafty little Tory xD
Where do you suggest we house them?
Hey James and LBC - any chance you can look into the large number of weekly excess deaths occurring right now. It's not getting any better and it's getting a bit surreal that no media outlets are looking into it. We know the DM and it's wantonly ignorant readership is irreconcilable but this is getting a bit obsessive tbh.
Jobby won’t mention it though because he was in favour of lockdowns. And he can’t ever be wrong can he?
Bang!
Well said (as usual), James.
Answers are racism and egoistic behaviour.
I'm not very politically smart, but I have humility a lot of immigrants have come to where I live and they look so happy especially the kids, the older people walk with their heads down as if they've done something wrong I feel so sad for them and hope we can all come from a place of love and humility,
Are y saying just because most people don't want thousands of illegal immigrants here we are being hateful. So y think otvright that life boat people get.chucked out of a hotel for immigrants. Our population in England is way too high for its size. We can't have thousands more coming in who.are illegal
What O'Brien seems either to be oblivious to or ignores to suit his own rhetoric is the rate of increase of immigrants. It is such that our infrastructure is now completely unsustainable. The last 10 years has shown an increase of two and a half million people in England and Wales. The Romanian population has increased by half a million. Hospitals, schools, housing all overstretched. This is causing suffering for all of us
If more immigrants are allowed to work, more tax will be generated to pay for the services you talk about.
@@joekavanagh7171 ...and in the case of the NHS, we need more people to work there, too!
@@joekavanagh7171 well that depends on how much tax they pay.. And then needs to be deducted from cost of services they use.. Don't you think?
Why so quick to blame a relatively small group of people worse off than you, than to blame the government for underfunding eduction sector, not building new schools?
Worse off than me? I can't afford £10K for a boat ride across the channel. I don't have the latest i-phone or designer trainers. I am not denying the right for people to seek a life in a new country but do oppose people smuggling.
Ok James let’s have these illegal immigrants living down your road , let’s see if your views change on them
The terrible irony that a publication like the Daily Mail, would have any consideration for pensioners is quite tragically hilarious! Far from it, they do not give a flying F about pensioners anyone else. The strategy is and ever will be to make people afraid and angry. All they need to do is point them in the direction of those they should be angry and fearful of. And hey presto, the latest money making marketing strategy has been invented
I think you’re forgetting that not that many read newspapers in this country anymore. The fact that O’Bore keeps banging on about it further illustrates just how desperate his bigotry is.
@@nick1065 enough people read the Daily Mail to sway the Brexit result.
@@nick1065Bigotry? I think you'll find that word doesn't mean what you think it means...
@@uniteddreamer It sums up O’Brien perfectly
@@nick1065 it really doesn't. Maybe you're just a tad sensitive...
I love this channel...love from Australia
James ,I hope you are going to give it your best and when the hotels run out of bed space you are going to take some of the ones who can't actualy get a room a place in your house .
Well said.
@@tomazou2010 yes totally agree !
Very simple James, all of those examples you gave had money, and NON of those came to the UK illegally or to live off the tax payer getting benefits that many.of our own people need. Shame on you for peddling such nonsense for the very same reasons as you criticised The Mail in doing.
Same nasty stuff in the United States.
torys having a hard time ! time to get out the hate flag again, hate these hate those hate every one but the ritch, again again again again
Words are not violence and never will be.
Tell that to someone who has suffered verbal abuse in a marriage for years. The scars are much deeper than physical violence.
@@carolbeckett7922 I never said it can't be damaging or abusive, but believe it or not the definition of words does matter.
Suella Braverman Parents do not love her! Please
People should be angry, frightened, and hate filled. But towards those who keep scapegoating those with equal or less to keep the eye off themselves.
It is true James. Pensioners really do have to fight for what they deserve, what they are entitled to!
Pensioners are not paid on what they put in. They are paid on the wages of those working now in terrible conditions made worse by the very pensioners they are propping up. You clearly have a massive sense of entitlement and don't care who you have to shaft to get what you imagine you deserve.
@@mobsiesixsixsix9785 The pensioners your on about paid into the system all their lives and deserve every penny they get and plenty of them would have worked in terrible conditions themselves so your point is ridiculous.
@@buster9168 Where is the money going to come from if everyone downs tools? C'mon Buster explain how that works. Given you think you know everything about reality.
On top of all that most young people these days won't see pensions no matter how much they put in.
I expect you're fine with that though, right?
@@mobsiesixsixsix9785 You seem to live in a imaginary world where everyone is downing tools. Never going to happen same as your idea that young people won't get a pension. Only question is will that pension be enough to live a decent life but that conversation has been going on for decades and nothing new.
@@buster9168 Look around the NHS is next. As for the younger generation getting pensions, have you seen what's happening in the real world or do you live in a little bubble of your own? The rising pension age the lack of funds to keep paying it. Wake up Buster you're in a dream world.
Fair point, made me think..
Spot on James
....acne I suspect.
You would agree with a chimp.
@@chatham43 low intelligence I suspect
Great video, thanks
We need a General Election. When we have a Home Secretary that is 'Inciting Hatred'...They all need to go.
GE AT ONCE PLEASE!
Yes open boarders
@@LeeCharles1993 You have been brainwashed.
@@SuperTreemendus if everyone from Albania wants to come over let them as lord O'Brien things its wonderful and has no downsides
@@LeeCharles1993 do you really want an open boarder?
@@SuperTreemendus yes open boarder to everyone as diversity is are number 1 strength
Punch up not down.
James, this is one of the best and most heartfelt broadcasts I have heard in a long time. You are a shining light of reason and compassion in a tense world. Keep going!
It’s the saddest I’ve heard from James in the last few years - my father who is/now was my best friend is deep inside this dark hate cave.
He’s got a PhD in physics. He’s now 76. He was VP of a few large American high tech companies. He isn’t poor… at all… he’s got everything. So why??
I’ll bring him back to reality but the next day he’s back in this dark place again.
I’m trying so hard for the last 5 years but it’s impossible.
😢
The likes of yourself and the Daily Mail whip up hate. That's what you do. Whether you like it or not. You do it yourself when people phone in and you do nothing but make them look silly for a living.
That rich London bloke with the title Starmer, won’t go hungry or cold this winter!
They should be sent to Rwanda.
Oh James let me get the violin out!
My parents came to the Uk in 1906.
So tell me I am not British and my children and grandchildren are not. I have a UK passport.
Why ?
Lol, that was well over a century ago. What has that got to do with the thousands arriving today after paying people smugglers to get them here, or we're your parents proudly part of a migrant scam?
1 in 6? I'd be more worried if 1 in 6 read the Daily Mail.
Maybe it is time for a National and grassroots gratitude movement in the UK. Start reporting the words and actions of people who say "I am so grateful for (whatever it is)...."
I'm all for immigration and think the entire world should be accessible to anyone. But you need to also think about if you want to live in a country which has no housing why do you think your entitled to just arrive and get it. Affordable housing is non existent amd it will only get worse with people loosing their houses due to interest rates rising and cost of living.
Some of the refugees will be builders; problem solved.
@@matthewwakeman5047 so we are relying and hoping this will happen?
That is because the Tories didn't build the houses they said they would... This is why they're pushing this spiel to cover their failings.
@@matthewwakeman5047 highly doubt they are. Unless tin huts are a new thing in the UK building industry.
@@Copiumgold Explain please.
Well said James. Wish I could be as articulate as your self. Best wishes from Yorkshire.
The main point of Brexit was to be able to get rid of the so-called "immigration problem". It didn't change the topic nor any of the other grievances.