James O'Brien calls out Nigel Farage's 'asylum seeker lies' | LBC
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- Government plans for asylum accommodation, like the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset, will cost tens of millions of pounds more than using hotels, with flagship sites housing hundreds fewer migrants than planned, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found.
The National Audit Office (NAO) said the Home Office expects to spend £1.2 billion on housing asylum seekers in large accommodation sites and latest estimates suggest they will cost £46 million more than using hotels.
James O'Brien reacts to these news and explores the role Nigel Farage played in 'misleading people'.
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Maybe people would be less angry if the government did the same for the homeless people
Yeah but they DON’T. And maybe they should. That way the right can’t weaponise that anymore. Also we may be able to look after some of the most vulnerable people in are society while we’re at it.
Most of the country think people are homeless because they're not working hard enough.
You've identified perfectly that it's a Government problem but who do the media therefore reactionaries target?
The people who can't afford places to rent or buy are suffering because of the ever widening wealth gap. House prices out of control ever since Thatcher butchered social housing. More Tory mistakes, and Torys using immigrants to deflect as usual.
Nobody cares for the homeless people, if people did care the homeless problem would be helped a long time ago.
And how many of these former hotels that are now being used as accommodation for asylum seekers are owned by Tory party donors that are now receiving tax payers money to home them?
Simple solution. Re-open the safe routes Patel and Cruella closed down and get back to processing applications at the rate we used to.
How many are owned by leftards … who knows
Shhhh they need more Dom Perignon. They didn't realise there moves would put prices up. Infact they lowered tax on champagne while increasing it on wine.
What do you mean safe routes?? We have the highest levels of legal immigration into this country we have ever had! The Tories have done nothing to reduce immigration and in fact have made it a lot easier. This is how lost everyone in this country is. People who against mass immigration think the Tories want to deal with it but are clearly not and those in favour of it think the Tories have shut down immigration unfairly. You are all wrong!
@@lukemurray4950so how do people legally apply for Asylum in the uk?
@@AntonyWallis Ask the 700,000 plus people who came in legally just last year alone. Only a few thousand came in illegally.
O'Brien never mentions about all the hotel staff being made redundant or all the private functions that might have been booked for weddings birthdays etc being cancelled. The only person lying is O'Brien they are in 4 not 3 star hotels & they do have a choice of what to eat 3 times a day plus the bike & the new phone then there is their allowance mustn't forget that.O'Brien seems to forget these people have come into the country illegally
You are patehtic. Come up with evidence. Waiting.
Seeking asylum isn't illegal.
@@Nick-fg4dq They have come from a safe country you have to seek asylum in the first safe country.l think its more of a case they know they will be better treated & looked after than in the EU countries . Britain does not have the money or infrastructure to keep taking more in. Over 700000 came in legally. The country carnt look after its own people let alone people who come here from safe countries
@@nigelknight6688 that's completely untrue,you do not have to seek asylum anywhere you don't want to,this first safe country stuff is complete bilge.
I doubt James has ever visited a migrant hotel or visited the channel to do his own investigation on the migrant crisis.
Indoor scarf, multi coloured bangles and huge hot beverage mug.... he'd be eaten alive.
you gave it a visit yourself then? please tell us about some of what you have seen with your own eyes
@iceman47 Never said I did, but James is meant to be the activist? but all he does is just sit in his warm studio and moans.
@@adambinnie1332 bit like you then
@@kickedwhendown247 He's got a brain then
Soon we’ll run out of room to put them into ‘luxury’ accommodation, there are being put into hotels James, pure and simple
Incomprehensible Jack, pure and simple.
Jack, get out and see. I visited three earlier this year. They are living in squalid conditions in old crumbly buildings that failed as 'Hotels', years ago. If they didn't have asylum speakers in them, they would be empty and rotting. One had been sitting empty for over twenty years mate, I know, becuase I spent a few years trying to negotiate it's use as an airsoft site but it kept being rejected on the grounds of health and safety! It's about as far from 'luxury' as you could imagine.
O'Brien has never gotten over Brexit.
I know, he's a right gammon isn't he!
neither did the country. How is it going for you btw?
Hard to get over other people's massive mistake bud.
and he was right. Get over it.
@@edvigq How so?
How would you know James? You've never actually visited one!
Simple logic. They're not being served foie gras and chateau nerf de pap every evening.
@@smon4164 Then you're ill informed, there are videos of them eating lobster for dinner.
@@An-Alien-On-Earth That's interesting, because when I googled "uk asylum seekers eating lobster" it didn't come up with any videos/articles showing this. Though one of the top searches that did return was "Rotten food given to asylum seekers charity finds".
So true how does James know if he's never been to one! If you Google it the home office say they are using at least 3* hotels
What about us Brits that can't eat proper meals, get health and dental care, heating, clothing etc..
It is undoubtably true that there are people in the United Kingdom who struggle to provide the basic necessities for themselves and their families. This is not the fault of asylum seekers and refugees, please look to the government which has been in power for fourteen years to apportion blame.
Blame the far right tories and brexit 😂😂😂
Blame the government, not random brown people
That's pure gammon 🤣🤣
You'd rather your government look after it's citizens instead of shooting £million missiles at wooden decoy missile batteries in one of the poorest nations in the world, Yemen and which has only cost £19million so far? You are so selfish.
James completely missing the point of what's going on with this , hotels are not the point we should be talking about. x
So what is the point?
What is the point we should be discussing then? Spending even more money on failed military camp schemes, or barges. Spending ludicrous sums of money on a Rwanda scheme, that will not act as a deterrent? Or, just maybe ...... processing asylum applications more rapidly, so we can return true 'illegals' faster & getting refugees into work? Or, working effectively with the French, to target & break smuggling gangs?
@@johnrussell3961 mass immigration
@@andyfreeman2588 . You mean the 1 million the Tories let in with work visas?
The Tories are gaslighting those concerned about immigration . That’s why so many as shifting to reform.
The party will be torn in two at the next election.
They are not moderate enough for the moderates, and not loony enough for the loonies.
Someone’s not happy about being a gammon 😂👌
Why do you think the oligarchy bang on about it ...james?? Its gets the loud mouths going and we ignore how much they've blagged from us from interest rates and oil n gas
Has James actually been to a town or hotel with undocumented refugees.
There a reason we have dbs for uk workers
The point is being missed. Seaside towns are being turned into Asylum holding pens. That’s very bad for those communities. They need holiday makers to stay in their hotels and spend money to help the local economy thrive. Turning these properties into asylum centres breaks down these communities.
They are already dilapidated as we sent our homeless and addicts there. They are shells of what they where. Already
Thank you more sense than James
He is a mental case
So who do you blame for these circumstances?
Exactly! When Labour do the same thing matey boy James will move on to his next grift.
@@django3422 There’s nothing to be gained from playing the blame game. Seaside Towns are falling apart and they can be saved by moving asylum accommodation to other areas, then investing in tourism which will re ignite local economies.
James o brian and people like him is why we are in this mess
It's people who voted Tory who are the reason we are in this mess.
Nothing to do with the ruling establishment and those who vote for them then 🤔💩🇬🇧
Yep, Blair
@@middleman9183 zzzzz. Have you come here from the past. Hello this is 2024, you're from like 20 years ago.
Yeah 14 years of the left in power are to blame. Oh wait......
I was in Temp Accommodation before Christmas. It was a room in a former 3* Best Western hotel. It was an absolute s*ithole. There was NO in house food, no cooking facilities, shower was fooked.
There were Asylum Seekers there too.
It was simply a bed in a room.
Thankfully, i wasn't on the streets but it was most definitely NOT luxurious.
Council was paying £1,790 a month for that 'luxury'.
Who owned it?
@@alfsmith4936 A tory 👍
Now Now Evil OBrien slumming it in Chiswick he’s had it tough has at leat 2 dozen refugees staying at his gaff a man of principal
@@englishstark6100 😂😂 is this a joke
@englishstark6100 you're rhetoric is utterly boring. Try thinking for yourself instead of allowing Sunak and his cronies to brainwash you. There's a whole world outside your mums basement you know.
I did a refit for such a hotel 8 months ago. Totally striped and 4 beds per room.. all room locks were deactivated and all plug sockets. no hotel staff whatsoever....... We turned it into a squat.
Striped wallpaper?
@@flumpaustin1994 it’s obviously a typo
But the facts aren't as exciting as the propaganda.
That would be illegal, so while you may have stripped and created dorm rooms, they will have then be fully retrofitted and replaced.
This has annoyed me for ages - a hotel is only four stars because of the level of service, dining etc. Once it ceases to be a hotel for paying guests, its former rating means nothing - it’s just a building with a lot of bedrooms.
I wouldn’t mind a night in one though with my meals cooked for me. Enough of the propaganda with they are just rooms.
@cynthiamorris1874 if they're not just rooms, what are they then? What do you expect to find during your one night there?
Better than sleeping in a cardboard box which is where most veterans are these days
And free accommodation and food.
@Jamie-uk2zh Well said but nobody seems to be listening.
People we're demonstrating outside hotels in Liverpool because the 'residents' were approaching local young girls and acting inappropriately not because of the conditions inside. This led to the protest and the jailing.
Such a lame narrative,
@@incognito96but true, you don’t like that though do you
@@pipins3616 always the approaching young girls narrative to get locals blood boiling, if that happened especially in Liverpool, those hotels would of been burned down. Not saying it did not happen, but a seeker asking for directions to any female, becomes someone else,s allegation. Did you see it with your own eyes? If not then , you really do believe everything you hear.
@@incognito96The one James is parroting or what actually happened?
@@pipins3616Alleged.
There are four hotels full of 'asylum seekers' in my town. How many are near you, James?
How fortunate you are ❤
@@CEO786 how many do you have?
Wish your type would stop stealing asian symbols tbh
@@Seph0rzwish your type would stop stealing English symbols (our language) tbh
@@HarbingeroftheNew Cry more everything that happens you deserve
That's brought the trolls out in force James!
One man's (literally) trolls are another man's army of realists!
Can't get my head around why anyone other than Brits aren't getting the help they need people coming to play the system should be back of the line and then sent home.
I don't understand how a sensible comment like yours has one like!
Are there really that few Brits left living here, I'll give you an extra like!
Can you figure out how your choice of words here has made your statement the reverse of your intent? Don't expect your little sycophant here to help you, he can't see his hand before his face.
So ask yourself why
It’s the plan
Same in the USA
Same in Europe
All for the new world order
This country will be brown in 20 years as a big majority!!!!
How sad for anyone with grandchildren
Most of them are not 'playing the system'. They are genuine refugees who we have an obligation (humanity?) to help. If Brits are being denied stuff that is the Government's fault, not the refugees.
James you get so much wrong. 1. Farage does not describe ‘ foreigners ‘ as staying in these hotels. He states it’s illegals immigrants. They’ve landed illegally. By saying foreigners you try and give the impression that he’s against anyone outside the uk. That’s wrong. Also try broadcasting a fair opinion. They were hotels and ex army camps are more expensive. These people should not be coming here to start with. Stop blaming British people for being frustrated with the situation.
Stop bombing their countries then.
Shouldn't be coming here to start with? I suppose you are one of those people who thinks they should all stay in France. Try being a refugee for a change (which of course luckily you never will) and see how it feels. Feel the desperation. That's what drives these people to risk their lives in crossing the channel. Blame the Government for their incompetence in dealing with the asylum claims and shutting down the legal routes
@@chrispark9343 A very small percentage are desperate.
@@paulmunster212know a lot of them do you?
@@paulmunster212 How do you know? Do you think they get in the boats for fun?
The hotel may have closed the door last week but if the juicy government contract hadn’t appeared would it still be a hotel this week
Yes, so, what's your point?
what do you mean?
@@glenngroves2315 It's simple really. The hotel owners can't make their business profitable so they opt for the secure taxpayer funding instead. Be interesting to see how may of these hotels had decent occupancy before closing to accept refugees.
What about the people that lost there jobs, no mention of that.
DEYTUKURRJURRBS
You mean the hotel employees?
That man foams at the mouth.
Had the misfortune recently to be sat with this sort of mindset that thought 'hotel' related to their all inclusive 4 star resort in Tenerife they'd stayed at recently. Fools.
Who,James?
Sitting , you can't be 'sat' unless somebody gets hold of you and physically sits you down.
How many million a day are they costing us ?
How many million a day are they costing us ?
@@neilrafferty2097Is this the best you can contribute?
Lets find out what the hotels are billing the govt for this... they won't be doing it for less money than just staying open as normal. Missing the point as usual LBC
They still are providing less service which is his point. The hotel owners still need to be paid but now they don’t have to provide any amenities.
@@rwaanabarnes7166 so what is the point then? That we shouldn't complain because they don't get room service? It's still a ridiculous circumstance. There's a hotel near me where we've got people there for 2 years in hotel rooms that usually cost 80 pounds a night each. You people don't live in the real world
Let's find out which companies, apart from SERCO, are benefiting?
I know of several hotels that have been closed to home immigrants. Technically, they are no longer hotels, but that's not the point. In most cases, they are still owned by the same group, although they have handed management over to third parties. For O'Brien to suggest that all buildings now housing immigrants were derelict or non-viable is nonsense. Farage is not the liar here.
He never said they were derelict or non-viable, simply that they ceased to be hotels when they were taken over by SERCO, and putting "luxury 5-star hotels" in your Daily Mail headline, or latest tweet, is disingenuous - entirely designed to get people frothing at the mouth.
Could you please timestamp where he calls them derelict or non-viable? I listened but couldn't hear him make that claim.
@wolfnipplechips it's thd tzx payer paying for it ! Some tax payers furious and some ok with it however let it be put to a referendum !!! Oh no point how could I forget tge establishment and the sheep don't like referendum results
@@ste7759 No one is OK with it. Some fall for headline baiting, others don't. I want to see the people processed.
The people who want you to get angry about stuff, are completely invested in maintaining that rage - so they make stuff up.
The part of the population who don't go anywhere near tabloid media, of billionaire funded channels like GBNews, or their online bilge, also recognise there is problem, but they have actual solutions.
Performative garbage about Rwanda and EU courts is nothing more than culture war BS, designed to keep people furious at the bogeyman.
The Tory's need that bogeyman, so the red-wall voters will stay with them.
@@ste7759Last referendum was Brexit, leave won the vote and was carried out. So what are you referencing?
James 400 arrived today. The most ever in one day. That's not Billy bunch & numbers saying that James. Its just counting.
£6m a day and rising on accommodation.
I guess everyone will just need to embrace that and make the most of it.
So the government should be making sure it’s capable of processing those people quickly. That’s the problem. 100,000 could arrive a day and it’s not a big issue if they can be processed quickly.
you're moaning about the cost but are quite happy for the people YOU VOTED FOR to spend over 2 MILLION POUNDS PER PERSON to fly them to Rwanda....
H Y P O C R I T E
@@swanvictor887 I never voted Tory ever! That's a bit presumptuous of you🤔
@@Statueshop297That's ridiculous! Let 100,000 in a day why don't we - a typical LBC viewer comment.
The tories purposely stopped processing them. They also removed the ability to claim asylum without arriving here. This is a Conservative manufactured issue
We’re “told” that it cost £8million per day for this accommodation, s**thole or not. It’s a mess. It’s never going to end. The boats will still keep coming. Open safe routes, they’ll still keep coming, passport or not.
They will stop coming if they know they can’t get in illegally.
@@paulmunster212 But the vast majority are legal asylum seekers, the Tories have destroyed the processing system of Asylum seekers meaning we've only processed 25% of immigrants that have applied for Asylum, of those 25%, 67% are granted legal Asylum.
The issue is there is no legal routes to apply for Asylum, no matter what ridiculous proposals like Rwanda they put in place until there is a way to apply for Asylum from outside of the country there will be illegal crossings.
We had 1.2 million legal immigrants vs 35,000 illegal of which 67% based on stats are actually legal migration, so if we stopped all forms of genuine illegal immigrants we'd stop 11,500 people.
Exactly as James said, they're blaming anyone but themselves and trying to keep you thinking that they're not the problem but 11,500 illegal immigrants.
@@TheKoolBean There are no legal routes to apply for asylum because our coastal towns are being destroyed by using them as holding pens for illegal immigrants. It has to stop.
@@paulmunster212 You cant stop them if the claim asylum. We need safe routes.
@@30secondpickmeup safe routes you mean open the Door to more, shouldnt come in the first place, you will only encourage more to come over
\its the fact that if they processed them quicker there wouldn't be this need to accommodate so many.
Really? Please explain how that's true?
@@davidatkinson5858 So the average processing time for an application has gone from an average of 6 weeks to process 95% of claims to now taking over 12 months to process them. Numbers aren't really that much higher...ONS has plenty of stats for you to review.
@@bensalt1185I mean why bother even processing them, at this point we may aswell just let them in unchecked, seeing as over 90% of applicants get to stay anyway.
No wonder the country is in such a mess.
@@eyesoddMake your mind up, will you?
@@eyesodd Oh yeah its definitely the 0.1% of the population that is responsible isn't it?
James, Nick Ferrari is the gammon in your life. Does he listen when you say this???
He's too busy growing concrete.
@@Zobbster Ha. That was Mike Graham... but I can definitely understand how you confused them. Two saggy jowled mouthpieces for the Tories.
@@bertrach All those angry red shouty bully faces all merge into one!
@@Zobbster Hehehe.
Does he think labour s going to wave a magic wand and make it all better
It doesn't need a magic wand, it just needs the claims to be processed. Remember the Tories stopped processing claims.
@@verystripeyzebra 😂
@@verystripeyzebra Exactly. Speed up the process and deny anyone who has come here illegally and then it's sorted.
@@MultipleUselessness no asylum seekers come here illegally. Just process the claims and remove those with no valid claim.
@@verystripeyzebraCrossing the channel by dinghy and entering the country illegally is funnily enough.... Illegal 🙄
The Tories cut everything starting in 2010. And one of the first was asylum processing.
Labours asylum hostels became full and the queue burst out in to b & B’s and hotels.
Then along came Brexit and we left the Dublin Accords. That was the way New Labour have returned so many to France.
Bilge
@@nick1065true bilge.
Labour have not returned any to France. They have not been in power to do that
@@chrispennington9652 He was referring to how they did do that when last in power. It is not worded very well but he did call them New Labour which would be the Blair/Brown years.
@@nick1065truth
unsubscried
Is the typo meant to be ironic lol
You are right. They removed all the original furnishings in the ones i have been in. They get very basic essentials.
Obrein won't debate Matt Goodwin or Douglas murray,?
It never ceases to amaze me how cruel and dehumanizing others can be toward people in need. It’s literally the least Christian thing. I’m not saying there are issues to be addressed - there very clearly are. But why don’t we start blaming the government for the deterioration of the NHS, cost of housing etc instead of demonizing other people. Our people need help, others need help. We can and should to both as a wealthy country. Our government should spend their time on solutions instead of picking on the latest out group. It’s truly disgusting.
It’s easy when it’s not your money
Now then, Now then, some of these comments have the stench of the Gammonista about them, I'm out of here!!.
bye!
How many indigent Africans should the U.K. give safe harbour to James? There’s over a billion of them
If they get to the UK, they are our problem. If we had stayed in the EU they would be an EU problem..
A Billion!? You are having a laugh!, Braverman said there were 7 Billion wanting to get to the UK!
It's the Palestinians you should be worried about
They're all coming here are they, you need to stop listening to Nigel Farage. He's just scaremongering to keep the money rolling into his account
All of them what a ridiculous comment
It you have a opinion James will tell you why you wrong how can spending millions a day on hotels in a cost of living crisis where people are struggling to eat be justified have to help yourself before you can help others madness
Did you know that you can get a free account with Grammarly?
He couldn't challenge anything you said so he's talking about your grammar. Pretty much what Jim O'Brian does.. klause, you need to get a life bro.
Opinion and fact are two separate things. From what I see, most people who call in with an opinion are lacking in the fact department and end up looking silly.
You didn't watch the video did you?
@@PLl-jr8xiTo be fair, it is hard to know what point he is trying to make?!
I’m a paramedic and have been to these so called hotels to treat patients. They are technically hotels. But I won’t keep my pet rat in them.
Is a tent better?
They can stay in France then. We never asked them to come here.
Brit people still pay cost
Since these "hotels" have been used, the vermin in them has gone up.
Maybe it's the clientele?
I think the Bibby Stockholm was accommodating people before, but not to the same numbers, and the contract was probably well over priced.
Not hotels what absolute bullcrap
@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn👆Swallowing the narrative
Who's making and keeping the profits follow the money
Under what legislation does it state that they stop being hotels then
You should look up what the word "hotel" means. It also includes guest services for paid customers. Using the buildings as asylum centres, turns these hotels into... asylum centres.
I don't know why JoB is soo invested in denying reality?
I agree with you
JOB loses the arguments everytime
He lives in the bubble he accuses other people of living in . His little fans give him the confirmation he needs by listening and buying his books.
He only speaks within his little echo chamber these days…why else doesn’t he debate with senior figures he disagrees with?
What reality? How do you feel when you guys have been reduced to fighting for cramps with refugees? That your lives are in such a state that you envy refugees. This is more serious than anything else bieng discussed here
@@nick1065 Nick Ferrari interviewed a government minister recently & he refused to answer a simple question so Nick cut the interview short. That's why James doesn't interview Tories oh & because they lie like Reece Mogg did in the interview he did with James.
Are these not hotels previosly let out to the business community before covid changed work patterns. How else were tory landlords going to maintain their incomes if they didnt slow down asylum applications?
They came from France, so they shouldn’t be here just by saying a magic word. We’ve basically been given open borders, which the majority did not vote for.
Meanwhile in other news Leo Varadka resigned today because he lost two referendums he thought he would win easily. Remind you of something mr o Brien
We all lost the Brexit referendum. Unless you're a millionaire playing the financial markets, obviously.
@@weswheel4834The point being the people voted against what he wanted. Not once but twice
They had feminists and progressives voting no on both referendums. They were vague without legislation to address tax issues, possible citizenship issues and state care responsibilities.
It was poor leadership in bringing the changes forward, not the actual substance of the changes.
@@spinozalogos3109Yes he was against family values and the roles women have.
@twisteddancer7773 Well he would be ,wouldn't he?
Oh come on ! Do you think they are being fed gruel,and sleeping on a bale of straw ?
Oh shup up!
Farage lied????? No?????????? Really????????
Plenty of lies spoken here too
Hahaha so witty
@@cynthiamorris1874O'brien lies every day. He hates the UK so much he should move to Ireland if they would take him.
James o brien,
What a wally .
Caused brexit and then ran away. Such a joke of a man.
I thought David Cameron caused Brexit?
He’s off again….
And Farage will be living and working in America soon if Trumpton gets elected.
I think the voters caused brexit
No a democratic vote brought about Brexit, if you don’t like our Democracy then move away. NOW
It ceased to be a hotel last week can you hear yourself
Yeah, they've been converted into low quality hostels. It's not complicated.
They bang on about the bibby Stockholm like it's a solution when it won't even hold the amount that illegally entered the country just yesterday.
O'Brien, I thought you were more intelligent than this. To argue they are not hotels ignoring the real heart of the matter is just gaslighting the public. No better than any politician.
Obbluber has two brain cells and they’re fighting for third place.
Agreed . Anyone with a half a brain cell was aware that the services offered would not be the same as 4 or 5*. They sacked the original staff for starters…no pun intended!
O'brien is addressing the false claims that immigrants being kept in these holding centers are enjoying 5* service at the the taxpayer's expense.
So no, his argument isn't gaslighting at all, it's laying out the facts.
How did the Farage interview with Trump go.
You will have to watch his interviews. You won't find it here.
Really well prince Harry will have a big surprise if Trump wins . James a migrant just stabbed someone on a dingy today James it’s 3.6 billion a year and over 8 million a day you need to wake up and smell your coffee
very well lets hope he wins.
@@caymanblack9567 Farage isn't running.
@@caymanblack9567 He won't.
JoB can get as angry as he likes, but he'll never win the fakesylum argument.
What are you talking about
I think you just proved his argument, dips#$%!
Cognitive dissonance, not JOB, you.
@@Pdiddy860what's cognitively dissonant about what he said?
@@cujimmi what did he say?
What happens to all the staff who worked inside these former hotels, out of interest?
dumped
@@middleman9183 I meant their working life, not romantic
@@oldex6564 so did I
@@middleman9183 How did you find that out?
@@oldex6564Do you watch/read the news at all?
Many hotel staff have been interviewed because they have lost their jobs and sometimes accommodation, when the hotels are handed over to the illegals.
You are missing the point. Who then is buying these ‘closed’ hotels? 🤔🤔🤔
James always misses the point.
James, i get you point, however ( there is always a however). I live in Ireland….we depend of tourism quite a lot. Many small towns ,villages only have one hotel…Now they have no hotels. No hotel accommodation for tourists at all…solving one problem begets another.
Rwanda may be scrapped when Penny Mordaunt makes her big splash debut as Tory leader.
Will that be the 4th PM in 5 years then?
I stayed in a hotel 3 years ago that was definitely a hotel and refugees were also there, so does James think I'm lying?
You're using an antedote not a fact
You read 1984 OBrien Ministry for Truth.
Yes, some of them still operate as a hotel & take in regular guests as they house asylum seekers, which JOB is omitting.
Ring in with an anecdote that supports his p.o.v. and he will NOT challenge you.
@@brandontrammel4581 It happened and I remember it well? What are you talking about?
So James O'brien where exactly are all these illegal immigrants staying if not in hotels? Because, that's exactly where they are. Unless of course you'd like to house a dozen in your home? No, didn't think so.
YOu've missed the point. They are of course staying in those buildings - but they ceased to be hotels when government agencies (SERCO, I think) took them over. Did you actually watch the video?
@@wolfnipplechipsIt's just splitting hairs though isn't it.
If you remove all the fixtures and fittings from a church.... it's still a church!
@@eyesoddA church without any seats. Yeah, everyone can sit on the stone floor but it's basically fine. I don't think you understand... well, a lot based on what I've seen coming from you.
@@eyesodd well you’re intentionally choosing a specific type of iconic building. Is an empty room a gym? Is a room with a yoga mat on the floor a luxury gym? I don’t care whether you call it a hotel to be honest, because I’m not the one trying to get people angry. It is the right wing media who are pushing the idea that these people are living in luxury hotels - and their motivations for doing so is what really matters. Dishonestly designed to inflame.
@@wolfnipplechips The fact is it WAS/still effectively is a hotel.
The Star rating is irrelevant, the owner is being payed to house people in it. Much like a hotel owner would get paid by guests, only difference is the guests are left to fend for themselves.
They should only have HMOs to house asylum seekers and slowly phase out public taxpayer money going to private homeowners, then build social housing for homeless British citizens with the money saved.
Give them sweet fa
I think James should direct most of these questions to his bosses, this station has provided a platform for the people he complains about each day.
The only thing more nauseating than Elon musk is Nigel farage on asylum seekers.
You housing any?
@@burymeingarbage Why should private citizens take on the responsibilities obligations of the government?
@@burymeingarbage yes why?
Britain is a place that lives of reputation alone. Establishment live of reputation alone. Not accomplishments. People believe what they want to believe and laugh in the face of reality because reality will force them to act with courage, which they don't have. Better to act cowardly and blame others for your bad decisions than own up to them. Cultish delusion.
Britain is a narcissistic country. It thinks its reputation is far better than it actually is.
Go somewhere else then. Bet you don't
@@GH-pt3egyou go. Or can't you take criticism?
@@GH-pt3egWhat a strawman argument. I'm not a huge fan of Peter Hitchins but his interview on Novara Media sums it up pretty accurately.
@@7ookee no thanks. Im happy here. Stop whinging or go...
A lair calling another person a liar
Oblubber has two brain cells and they’re fighting for third place.
The trouble is that the govt have ignored the publics wish to restrict immigration. That was bound to cause trouble
Well , they are living for free.
Imprisoned more like. And if the Home Office hadn't been stripped to the bone, they could have been processed by now and on their way.
@@petergaskin1811 On their way . . . home,hopefully.
Because we won't let them work, while the Home Office spends months processing their asylum applications!?!
@@neilrafferty2097Well you won't know where 'home' is, or whether they can be returned, unless their asylum applications are processed. Get onto the government to accelerate the process. You have my full support there.
@@philthrelfall5294 Shouldn't be wasting time on them because they shouldn't have been allowed to set foot in the country in the first place.
And full of fighting age men,, and the Hotel Bill picked up by the Tax Payer,,,, Now the RAF want to teach them to fly fighter jets,,, sure what could wrong..
At some point, we have to believe our lying eyes. Just look at the intake of children in overburdened local schools or visit the A&E to experience what immigration has achieved. The wait in A&E is longer than ever, but weren't we told that immigrants would fill all the vacancies so better public services would be provided. The check-in process at A&E was so slow because most of the queue was made up of newly arrived immigrants who hadn't been registered at a local GP surgery. The infrastructure cannot cope with this surge in new arrivals to the country.
The nhs has been deliberately starved of funding by the tories. 40 new hospitals….the feckin cheek of that. Lies lies and more lies. You are blaming the wrong crowd.
Try going to A&E without the largely immigrant staff trying their best with inadequate staff and resources. You'd bleed to death before being seen.
For your further information this could all have been avoided if one of two things had happened; first, if the Government had accepted the offer of the French Government to build a fully working Asylum processing centre in France, staffed by UK Border Force officers - or second, if the UK Government hadn't stripped the Home Office bare and stopped them from actually processing asylum claims.
But the Government don't want the asylum problem to be solved, they want it to carry on, and on. So that people like you have got something to whine and moan about.
Truth
No star 1 ,2,3,4,5 star shouldn't be here
So a government that invests in services and infrastructure then.
There's one of these Hotels near one of my Dog walks. I got talking to a refugee one day and did my walk with them. We've become friends since and the stories they tell me aren't nice. They're deffo not hotels. If you're not there during meal times forget having that meal, even if you're sent out to do voluntary work at that time. They get £9 a week to live on
I also used to listen to Farage
Fraternising with the enemy no different from being friends with a German soldier in 1940
What did they expect?
That is probably a big improvement. It use to be zero, breakfast, lunch, dinner at 5 pm. The sanitary were given on demand and there were staff making women wait for period pads for as long as they feel like. This glamorous picture is just a picture.
Free board and lodging and they're complaining?
@@apemoon1731 The Savoy.
James O’Brien is the most gammon presenter on radio!
I have booked to stay in a Hotel where I am from and it was full of asylum seekers but was still running as a hotel.
How many did you house O'Brain?
Yes, its all our imagination. Prix !
It’s even better when them and their mates are raking it in, legalised corruption, does it get any better 😂
O'Brien...opinion combined with stubbornness. A prefect description of him. How many asylum seekers has O'Brien personally provided shelter for? NONE.
He's all talk. Stays in Chiswick
Why should he have to do the governments job?
@@MrRailjunkie it's easy to talk. Actions speak louder than words. James lives in Chiswick which is just about the most white middle class part of London. He just virtue signals and does nothing that doesn't benefit himself and his career
Why do you think 95% of all boat arrival illegal immigrants are fit, strong, young men of fighting age? Why do you think they destroy or hide their passports and any ID documents?
Perhaps because it will reveal they come from peaceful countries. Some even have registered in Italy, France and Germany but decide, because they have stricter, balanced rules about what they are entitled too and do not hesitate to deport any who breach their laws.
Once they get here, they are our problem .
If we stayed in the EU, they would be an EU problem..
Farage was wrong to say Brexit was a solutuin.
You think it's easy to invent yourself from a different country. Countries where we have consular and embassy services. Local people with local knowledge.
As for fit young men. The routes can be dangerous. One route across the Sahara is littered with the skeletons off those that don't make it.
Families will use their savings to send one member ahead to lay down roots.
The journey is arduous, dangerous, bandits gangs etc. there'd a reason they don't send Grandma.
Guess who fill up the mass shallow graves when the militias have been ...fit young men.
James O’Brien should be in government. Not on the radio.
"Ropaganda"? Consider asking someone with better literacy skills to write the headline on the thumbnail.
The idiot that authorised this should be made to pay it back.
I worked for a Care company which homes 8 Refugees in the community. Free Rent, money every week. Once they get a positive decision they get priority local housing.
I was so sick & shocked I resigned.
Sure you did.
What care company?
how did you know the "priority local housing" bit?
This is a bunch of disingenuous nonsense. "It's the cheapest option". No. It would've been cheaper to simply not spend tax payer money housing illegal immigrants whilst they wait for their free benefits. What a plonker.
No such thing as an "illegal immigrant " just illegal forms of entry. And their asylum seekers could have their applications processed in France as was offered but that was rejected. Are you really suggesting that the UK ignores international law and refuses the house refugees?
@@wendysimpson6395So regardless, they've broken the law to get into the country.
If I was in charge, straight deported back where they came, with no option to return or apply for asylum as you already tried illegally, that's quite fair isn't it?
@@eyesodd think you need to inform yourself. There is no safe route. The Dublin Agreement no longer applies so people cannot be returned as before. How do you know from whence they came without processing their applications?
Bet the LSE is proud of Jimbo.😂😂😂
He has a history of BS dare I mention Brexit 😂
Why are we waisting any money on illegal migrats when this countries people are suffering because there is not enough money to run public services properly like policeing and the nhs even our military needs a massive upgrade honestly at this rate British people will be seeking asylum in france cause contrey has become a uninhabitable mess
Guess we shouldn't have kept electing Tories.
@@verystripeyzebraThe Labour Party did what between 1997 and 2010?
@@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 reduced homelessness, poverty, illiteracy, NHS waiting lists, court waiting times. Increased educational funding, NHS funding( in real terms), life expectancy, opportunity, wages, economic growth, standards of living, functioning public services,
Eliminated the benefits trap.
Processed asylum claims relatively expeditiously, and removed failed asylum seekers in their 10s of 1000s.
The country worked, people were not set against one another in typical Tory divide and rule fashion.
The 2012 Olympics was the final fanfare of a happy(ish) nation. Ironically with loser Johnson lording it up as mayor, proud of his multicultural city. Something which is actually more in line with his politics ( though he's still vested in his idea of the superiority of the white Englishman, an upper class Englishman, not working class peasants, they're just there to work, and be brave cannon fodder in times of war )
Of course there were people who still struggled and may not have fully felt the benefits.
But on the whole, the lives of people were vastly improved.
The difference is night and day, growth v decay.
@@verystripeyzebraDeluded, Blairs Labour opened the asylum floodgates and introduced the human rights law, so we are now stuck and can't get rid of them, what a great legacy.
Oh Blair is a warmonger aswell, took us to an illegal war, where are those WMD'd again?
People can attempt to blame the Tories, but it was Labours open door policies that has caused all this.
@@eyesodd we were always subject to human rights law. The human rights act merely enabled claims to be heard in our domestic courts rather then the ECHR.
Opened the Asylum floodgates..er no, we have been subject to the UN convention for refugees since we signed up to it, Blair did nothing to change our obligations under international law.
Ah, the war, yes, a terrible foreign policy decision, but everything he achieved domestically was not dependent on his foreign policy blunders.
Between 97 and 2010 life improved for so many.
As for your misunderstanding on domestic and International law, you really need to have a basic grasp of the matter, or you are not sufficiently informed to form a reasoned opinion.
JoB thinks he knows what he's talking about. He doesn't.
Which business would say no to 80% renting capacity for full year?? I wouldn't.. I'd cash in
They fell for his £387 million savings a week too, if Uk comes out of EU.
Nigel Farage, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson are the main reason ordinary people are struggling...I've seen a dad takes his little boy to food bank to get something to eat before takes him school.
And then the dad goes to shops and buys a trolly load of cider and ciggies….
I worked in 2 hotels providing this service and i swear, i felt bad that i was the face of our government that allowed them to Live in such conditions! And the companies that the government hire to provide it and the people they enploy have little conpassion for then too!
Why were the hotels in such bad conditions?
If you feel so bad take some of them in your gaff, or don't you feel THAT bad?
@@burymeingarbage Yeah! If you have empathy for another human, you can only express that if you bring them into your life and feed and take care of them! If you don't then your feelings are cancelled out!
@@burymeingarbageI don't understand how you think such a pointless, childish comment adds to the conversation?
@@umariireason9127Soo your empathy falls short of putting them up? You welcome them just not at your gaff that about right? That's not empathy that's hypocrisy
i thought 'Gammon' was meaning pork. Like the term 'Hogs' in Right wing America. Everyday is a learning day.
No, Gammon is used as a term by leftists to describe those of the same colour as them, who don't have the same view point as they do.
It's a weak slur basically.
I can't even get a dentist appointment.
O bean..pea brain
🚨 Gammon alert!! 🚨
@@tariqjoseph3562You definitely have James O'brien bed covers and posters all over your wall 😂😂
@@burymeingarbage doing well today, caught two Gammons 👌🤡
Stop em coming
Problem sorted
Who’s Em?
@@miker3039 Ffs
How?
Ireland are giving these poor refugees tents !
Have you seen the images of the new Irish camps for Ukranians?
Germany has similar constructions.
If you spend money to build portakin like housing , you have no need to use hotels.
@@johnrussell3961So once those portacabins are full, and the next lot turn up, then what, build more cabins?
Why the f should we be housing them at all, when people living working and paying taxes in their own country can't house themselves!