It happens everywhere. Im Dutch and we have a bit of a housing crisis going on with prices skyrocketing. So I talked to this guy who claimed this is caused by refugees because he thought that the population is growing so fast. But thats actually not true at all. The last 5 years the population of The Netherlands is growing with less than 1% a year, a miniscule amount when you comapre that to the increase in housing costs. But somehow he was convinced we are overflowing with millions of refugees.... The real reason of course is that international investors, like American pension funds and the likes of Blackstone, are buying up properties and alreay invested billions in Dutch homes from the mid 2010's onwards. So it very much seems like a deliberate misinformation campaign, directed towards the Dutch people in order to prevent us from voting for a party that wants to put a stop to this. So what do they do: Of course, blame immigrants... Its just so sad this actually works so well that people are so convinced that they do not even seem to be aware of basic statistics like population growth. Same for the UK. Its poplation in 2019 was 66.8 million. Now its 68.35 million. Thats only an increase of 2.26% over 5 years, less than half of a % per year... The price increases are so big that this tiny number is completely irrelevant.
Same problem here in the US. And those same people who complain about it like the guy you talked with were all too often the ones voting against their interests and for Donald Trump all the while blaming "the illegals".
On the last subject, I left the Army in 1998 with GBP4000 in my bank, I got a mortgage without having a job, as I moved into the IT Contractor job sector. Having gone through a divorce and selling the house, went back to the Army. On leaving the Army after 22 years (2013), I can not get on the social housing or renting market let alone the housing market. How do I live, without family, I would be on the streets.
James, what are your thoughts on the muslim brothers who beat up the police officers that still havent been charged yet? Considering we dont live in a two tier policing system id like to hear your views
The reason why the question about refugees wanting to go back to their home countries hasn't really been asked is because people here struggle to comprehend that people would want to live anywhere but here. And the reason they hold that view about the UK is because it's home to them. People generally speaking want to be home.
Mr James, big fan of you and your show all the way from Canada keep up the great work I just hope one day will have people like you running our countries for the sake of the future of this planet
It may be different for Syrians in Canada where they were warmly welcomed. On Facebook today commenter after commenter on a Syrian immigrant's page were begging them to stay put because the community loves them and needs them.
I learnt about my condition later in life (past few years. In my 30s) and before getting a diagnosis I learnt about what it was, identified with it very deeply (and ADHD, but undiagnosed for that) but when I finally got the confirmation of the diagnosis, I felt relieved because I was afraid I was being a hypochondriac and that my dad was right by saying I was lazy and teachers telling me I need to concentrate in class. Something many others have said that fits is how I felt like a literal alien. I couldn't blend socially and everything I did that was "normal" was seen as "abnormal" despite how I thought I was blending in and doing my best. My thoughts and trail of thoughts were such a maze that, again, compared to others I appeared alien. I also identified with what a few of your callers said "Intelligent, but lazy" was often a label I got, yet I tried so hard to fight that "laziness" that I often had to shut down.
For the record people with adhd are on a spectrum but not everyone is on the adhd spectrum. Our brains developed differently and are physically different. We can all be forgetful, distracted or any other symptoms but that doesn’t make everyone a little bit adhd .
I think that you've forgotten discussions about Palestinian refugees - those in camps in the OPT, whose ancestral homes are only miles from where they now live; those in camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon; those who have settled in different parts of the world. They dream of having the right to return to their home. Many families still consider their door key as a precious possession. And the Jewish diaspora has continued to dream of return to Jerusalem. Very similar to the Palestinians. In both cases, they won't necessarily actually uproot from where their families have settled, but they'll want to be free to go safely to what they consider to be their original home country. Having had some extensive contact with refugee groups, I suspect that discouragement of the idea of heading home can include the consideration of children's schooling and well-being (after all, post conflict conditions often mean that schools & health services have been extensively damaged if not destroyed). Other considerations include concern about how to make a living during a time when rebuilding infrastructure is a big challenge. Many of the returning Syrians probably come from just across the border - and many of those coming from Jordan and Lebanon can actually move between their other (refugee) home & Syria. So they aren't necessarily rushing to move permanently home to Syria ... that move can take place when conditions lend themselves better.
yes. That is correct. Brexit turned to be the Global freedom of Movement. Check statistics. You get now more boat people coming per year than EE's under the EU's FOM. I don't even want to mention 1m coming legally under points based system.
Shouldnt surprise anyone that the cost of buying a home has skyrocketed. Demand drives up cost, and we are overpopulated in London. Most people are chasing social housing because its all they can afford even when working and thats just backwards
Nah. Since Right To Buy, the number of homes being built each year has dropped. There are undeveloped plots of land that could house 2 million people. But don't worry there's tonnes of Buy To Let Landlords.
The population density of Britain is four times that of France. The population density of Britain is far greater in Britain than Germany, France, Spain and other European countries. 😊
That's what happened when immigration levels went to record highs immediately after we officially left the EU in 2020. The two together is not an accidental coincidence. Anyway developed islands always have greater population density then Mainland countries.
The UK is also... smaller. Also it's 2.3 times denser than France and around the same as Germany. We have fewer urban centres than France or Germany too so people congregate in fewer places. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply. Maybe we should stop having babies?
Population density. Are you kidding me? Firstly, your stats are off. But it's a meaningless stat. Houses are unaffordable in the USA and their population density is 1/3 of the UK. It's not the density, it's the system that incentivises scarcity. Sell less houses for more.
James I think some time soon you should do a show examining the role of people like George Galloway and Tulsi Gabbard in cheerleading the Assad regime. Also western leaders such as Tony Blair started developing closer relations with Syria after Bashar inherited the presidency in 2000.
There is definitely an odd incentive for anti-immigration parties (and not just in the UK) to keep loud rhetoric on the topic but to actually encourage or turn blind eye on immigration behind the scenes. Aside from the fact that pretty much all advanced economies rely on importing labour nowadays, one could just imagine these parties will have their sense of purpose diminish if the problem could be sorted overnight so why even bother. Instead, when it gets reported that net migration keeps rising, even the milder voters will be pressured into having to admit migration is getting too much, making them sound as if they are getting radicalised on the topic.
your precious EU ain't so keen on immigration anymore either James- some of their proposed policies to control it would please the most hardline Brexiteer
Thank you James for helping my best friend lately in hospital. He literally woke from a coma to turn the radio off when your boring ,condescending whinging voice came on 👍🏻
If refugees have the right to permanently residency, what happens to the next wave of refugees and the next and the next. Interesting that every call said oh we love our country, but then gave excuses / reasons as to why they couldn’t / wouldn’t return.
You should try living under a regime that threatens your very existence, threatens your family, introduces oppressive laws. Like these are just people, like you or I, these are doctors and teachers, husbands and wives. You right wing lot love to dehumanise these people, and blame them for whatever grievance is today's focus. What would you do in their situation? Risk your family and stay, or move to a country where you have a chance at being safe.
1:22:22 i totally agree, it's easy for all the women around me with their problems. They just don't understand how tough i had it in the battle of the somme. 🤦
James the Israelis didnt have home country until 1948 then it was given to them by U.K. ,France and some Arab countries U.N. so they dont hav the sam experince like for example the Chileans who left during Pinochet i think 3000 some became working mates, most of them at the beginning wanted to return ,but most of didnt because their kids hardly spoke spanish ,had schoolfriends,but all of them i knew went back for holidays,when Pinochet was arrested in spain.
@@dolmen6613 by "a government with a spine" do you mean "King nigel, first of his name, leader of the first men and majority shareholder of the reform party"?
@@dolmen6613 by "governments with a spine" do you actually mean "king nige, first of his name and leader of the first men, majority shareholder of reform party uk co"
Why shouldn't Sadiq Khan be knighted ? He's demonstrably the best mayor London has ever had.(In the opinion of londoners, and they are the only ones who count)
@@talksmoke1190I'm assuming you listened live earlier today? Because your comment appeared 41 minutes ago, 15 minutes after it was posted, on a two and a half hour video 🤣
I'm wondering what the point of the question about Syrian refugees is about? Those that have fled from Syria and are granted asylum in the uk have a genuine reason to be here I think you'll find most "far right" people are objecting to those that come illegally from France?
It's not illegal, we broke the Schengen Agreement when we left the EU. Other countries are not obliged to stop migration to our country. There is a reason why immigration sky rocketed from 2020. It happened at the exact same time as we left the EU. Not a coincidence
It happens everywhere. Im Dutch and we have a bit of a housing crisis going on with prices skyrocketing. So I talked to this guy who claimed this is caused by refugees because he thought that the population is growing so fast. But thats actually not true at all. The last 5 years the population of The Netherlands is growing with less than 1% a year, a miniscule amount when you comapre that to the increase in housing costs. But somehow he was convinced we are overflowing with millions of refugees....
The real reason of course is that international investors, like American pension funds and the likes of Blackstone, are buying up properties and alreay invested billions in Dutch homes from the mid 2010's onwards. So it very much seems like a deliberate misinformation campaign, directed towards the Dutch people in order to prevent us from voting for a party that wants to put a stop to this. So what do they do: Of course, blame immigrants...
Its just so sad this actually works so well that people are so convinced that they do not even seem to be aware of basic statistics like population growth. Same for the UK. Its poplation in 2019 was 66.8 million. Now its 68.35 million. Thats only an increase of 2.26% over 5 years, less than half of a % per year... The price increases are so big that this tiny number is completely irrelevant.
Same problem here in the US. And those same people who complain about it like the guy you talked with were all too often the ones voting against their interests and for Donald Trump all the while blaming "the illegals".
We’ve had to build a brand new city of 1.5 million people since 2019 and you seriously don’t understand why that is a problem?
The interview with Hassan Akkar left me gutted. I really hope Syria can recover from what the Assad regime has done to it.
You live in cloud cuckoo land if you believe that.
@@CraigChaplin So you're going to insult me for expressing hope? That's pretty low.
On the last subject, I left the Army in 1998 with GBP4000 in my bank, I got a mortgage without having a job, as I moved into the IT Contractor job sector. Having gone through a divorce and selling the house, went back to the Army. On leaving the Army after 22 years (2013), I can not get on the social housing or renting market let alone the housing market. How do I live, without family, I would be on the streets.
I heard in some much older episode a caller claimed they give all house to immigrants!
Opposite of an exodus is a .....return James. Like the great march of return. Those in exile, return. Refugees return.
James, what are your thoughts on the muslim brothers who beat up the police officers that still havent been charged yet? Considering we dont live in a two tier policing system id like to hear your views
I bet that you don't even realise the total stupidity and obvious ignorance of your comment.
Do you ???
No you don't!
The reason why the question about refugees wanting to go back to their home countries hasn't really been asked is because people here struggle to comprehend that people would want to live anywhere but here. And the reason they hold that view about the UK is because it's home to them. People generally speaking want to be home.
Home is where the heart is.
Britain is where the benefits are.
@@taffyterrier Yeah, because people will risk life and limb to get £50 a week. Grow up.
Who told you that? @taffyterrier.
@@mangosamosa437850 pound a week ,try 500 what planet are you on .
Having met people who are refugees, and spent time listening to them, your argument carries some weight.
Unfortunately, becoming rich is mostly about being lucky or born to wealth.
Hard work anyone can get rich
A lot dream about anywhere but Britain to be fair. I left the UK in 2008. I live in Queensland now and love it here. Wish I moved over sooner.
Mr James, big fan of you and your show all the way from Canada keep up the great work I just hope one day will have people like you running our countries for the sake of the future of this planet
I live in Southampton and never want to go back to Croydon.
It may be different for Syrians in Canada where they were warmly welcomed. On Facebook today commenter after commenter on a Syrian immigrant's page were begging them to stay put because the community loves them and needs them.
Canada us massive u.k very small no comparison at all you probably go months never bump into them I go a hour
I learnt about my condition later in life (past few years. In my 30s) and before getting a diagnosis I learnt about what it was, identified with it very deeply (and ADHD, but undiagnosed for that) but when I finally got the confirmation of the diagnosis, I felt relieved because I was afraid I was being a hypochondriac and that my dad was right by saying I was lazy and teachers telling me I need to concentrate in class.
Something many others have said that fits is how I felt like a literal alien. I couldn't blend socially and everything I did that was "normal" was seen as "abnormal" despite how I thought I was blending in and doing my best.
My thoughts and trail of thoughts were such a maze that, again, compared to others I appeared alien. I also identified with what a few of your callers said "Intelligent, but lazy" was often a label I got, yet I tried so hard to fight that "laziness" that I often had to shut down.
Homecoming is the word you are looking for. But Return is probably a better word as someone has said.
For the record people with adhd are on a spectrum but not everyone is on the adhd spectrum.
Our brains developed differently and are physically different.
We can all be forgetful, distracted or any other symptoms but that doesn’t make everyone a little bit adhd .
I think that you've forgotten discussions about Palestinian refugees - those in camps in the OPT, whose ancestral homes are only miles from where they now live; those in camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon; those who have settled in different parts of the world. They dream of having the right to return to their home. Many families still consider their door key as a precious possession.
And the Jewish diaspora has continued to dream of return to Jerusalem. Very similar to the Palestinians.
In both cases, they won't necessarily actually uproot from where their families have settled, but they'll want to be free to go safely to what they consider to be their original home country.
Having had some extensive contact with refugee groups, I suspect that discouragement of the idea of heading home can include the consideration of children's schooling and well-being (after all, post conflict conditions often mean that schools & health services have been extensively damaged if not destroyed). Other considerations include concern about how to make a living during a time when rebuilding infrastructure is a big challenge.
Many of the returning Syrians probably come from just across the border - and many of those coming from Jordan and Lebanon can actually move between their other (refugee) home & Syria. So they aren't necessarily rushing to move permanently home to Syria ... that move can take place when conditions lend themselves better.
That thing about the battle of the Somme - I don't understand how anyone continues to take seriously someone as unserious as Lee Anderson.
Brexit = immigration... really james
But migration levels increased dramatically since we officially left in 2020
yes. That is correct. Brexit turned to be the Global freedom of Movement. Check statistics. You get now more boat people coming per year than EE's under the EU's FOM. I don't even want to mention 1m coming legally under points based system.
Rom outside the eu
@@Sam88-l4kthanks to the ECHR 😂
ECHR have nothing to do with immigration.
Shouldnt surprise anyone that the cost of buying a home has skyrocketed. Demand drives up cost, and we are overpopulated in London. Most people are chasing social housing because its all they can afford even when working and thats just backwards
Nah. Since Right To Buy, the number of homes being built each year has dropped. There are undeveloped plots of land that could house 2 million people. But don't worry there's tonnes of Buy To Let Landlords.
@@jamesfx2 There's also the issue of the ratio of mean income to mean house prices. When I bought mine it was 1:5, now it's probably more than 1:10.
The population density of Britain is four times that of France. The population density of Britain is far greater in Britain than Germany, France, Spain and other European countries.
😊
That's what happened when immigration levels went to record highs immediately after we officially left the EU in 2020. The two together is not an accidental coincidence. Anyway developed islands always have greater population density then Mainland countries.
The UK is also... smaller. Also it's 2.3 times denser than France and around the same as Germany. We have fewer urban centres than France or Germany too so people congregate in fewer places. I'm not sure what you're trying to imply. Maybe we should stop having babies?
Population density. Are you kidding me? Firstly, your stats are off. But it's a meaningless stat. Houses are unaffordable in the USA and their population density is 1/3 of the UK. It's not the density, it's the system that incentivises scarcity. Sell less houses for more.
@@jamesfx2don't know where you got the stat that housing was unaffordable in USA, your way off there much cheaper than UK..
Some people love crowds. Crowds don't bother them.
Home is where the heart is.
James I think some time soon you should do a show examining the role of people like George Galloway and Tulsi Gabbard in cheerleading the Assad regime. Also western leaders such as Tony Blair started developing closer relations with Syria after Bashar inherited the presidency in 2000.
A few unhappy Brexit supporters seem to be a bit triggered by facts
..nothing new then... sigh.
More than a few. More like the vast majority. Often the same crowd complaining about all things "woke".
Facts depend on what you believe.
@ you could look up the definition of belief, thanks for proving a point
It is sad that they had to flee their homeland.
What help will the government offer to the Syrians wanting to get back home ?
There is definitely an odd incentive for anti-immigration parties (and not just in the UK) to keep loud rhetoric on the topic but to actually encourage or turn blind eye on immigration behind the scenes. Aside from the fact that pretty much all advanced economies rely on importing labour nowadays, one could just imagine these parties will have their sense of purpose diminish if the problem could be sorted overnight so why even bother. Instead, when it gets reported that net migration keeps rising, even the milder voters will be pressured into having to admit migration is getting too much, making them sound as if they are getting radicalised on the topic.
James are you saying immigrants prefer to be in the Brexit hellhole of the UK rather than the EU paradise?
well - nothing's keep them -they're free to leave
No mention of farage ,,, well for forst 30 secs😂
Well done Germany, it was thier ex Chancellor who welcomed the illegal immigrants.
your precious EU ain't so keen on immigration anymore either James- some of their proposed policies to control it would please the most hardline Brexiteer
Tomorrow its Brexit, Farage and Trump.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you James for helping my best friend lately in hospital. He literally woke from a coma to turn the radio off when your boring ,condescending whinging voice came on 👍🏻
Not only was your joke boring, I almost puked thinking about how clever you think you are
@@gailforce Mission accomplished then
😂😂
Truly a man of the people👏👏🏅😂
😂😂😂
Citation Needed*
If refugees have the right to permanently residency, what happens to the next wave of refugees and the next and the next. Interesting that every call said oh we love our country, but then gave excuses / reasons as to why they couldn’t / wouldn’t return.
You should try living under a regime that threatens your very existence, threatens your family, introduces oppressive laws. Like these are just people, like you or I, these are doctors and teachers, husbands and wives. You right wing lot love to dehumanise these people, and blame them for whatever grievance is today's focus. What would you do in their situation? Risk your family and stay, or move to a country where you have a chance at being safe.
Because theyre coming from a war torn country? Maybe they have a family that they must provide for/ protect?
Because they have family they are trying to protect from an oppressive regime in a war torn country?
Would you take your family from a safe country to one that is war torn?
1:22:22 i totally agree, it's easy for all the women around me with their problems. They just don't understand how tough i had it in the battle of the somme. 🤦
James O’Gammon… boring, condescending, whining, and dissembling on an industrial scale
O’Gammon 😂😂
Is he wrong though
@@CurseOfDaSmurf he is always a wrongen
@@rFuzzyBearX what specifically did he say in this video that was wrong?
@@rFuzzyBearX nothing? If you can't back it up at least have the courtesy to stop commenting on things you don't understand :)
James O'Brien. What a crushing bore
yet here you are lol
Is he wrong though Brenda?
How many years have you listened to come to that decision 🤔
James the Israelis didnt have home country until 1948 then it was given to them by U.K. ,France and some Arab countries U.N. so they dont hav the sam experince like for example the Chileans who left during Pinochet i think 3000 some became working mates, most of them at the beginning wanted to return ,but most of didnt because their kids hardly spoke spanish ,had schoolfriends,but all of them i knew went back for holidays,when Pinochet was arrested in spain.
They dream of free money.
don't judge people by your own standards, oh entitled one.
You dream to fill your pockets through stolen resources that your type claim to own!
Who wants to pay for other people's problems and paying this country and its people's are. Dead the hype.
They pay for your country and peoples theft..everyday for decades!
Syria brought us Steve Jobs
o'brien still having a breakdown over brexit .. bore off
Well done for winning! Remind me what you won though?
Who is it that is continually forcing you to listen ???
@@CurseOfDaSmurf - control of our borders -if we had a Govt. with a spine - not the fault of Brexit that subsequent Govts did nothing
@@dolmen6613 by "a government with a spine" do you mean "King nigel, first of his name, leader of the first men and majority shareholder of the reform party"?
@@dolmen6613 by "governments with a spine" do you actually mean "king nige, first of his name and leader of the first men, majority shareholder of reform party uk co"
I guess 30p Lee is older than he looks! ;-)
So many of you in the comments seem to have difficulty with facts and truth and reality.
SADIQ KHAN is for a knighthood l wonder if JAMES thinks he’s best friend deserves a knighthood
Why shouldn't Sadiq Khan be knighted ? He's demonstrably the best mayor London has ever had.(In the opinion of londoners, and they are the only ones who count)
@ try asking all the families of the people that have been killed in London on KHANS watch
Benjamin is Putin. Periode
Ob rien is useless
People who do nothing but misspell comments on yt are useless.
@robinhood20253 so are you
@@talksmoke1190I'm assuming you listened live earlier today? Because your comment appeared 41 minutes ago, 15 minutes after it was posted, on a two and a half hour video 🤣
@Sam88-l4k they're trolls mate, they don't actually consume the content they hate.
@@Sam88-l4k Obrien is a hypo. His show is basically him pandering to himself
I'm wondering what the point of the question about Syrian refugees is about?
Those that have fled from Syria and are granted asylum in the uk have a genuine reason to be here
I think you'll find most "far right" people are objecting to those that come illegally from France?
Could be. But I have a suspicion they don't want asylum seekers either.
It's not illegal, we broke the Schengen Agreement when we left the EU. Other countries are not obliged to stop migration to our country. There is a reason why immigration sky rocketed from 2020. It happened at the exact same time as we left the EU. Not a coincidence
Now Assad has been toppled it is time for Syrian refugees to go home.
@@Sam88-l4kwe was never in the Schengen area your comment is invalid
@@kbarlow81 regardless. So immigration did not sky rocket after we left the EU?
Worm
Brexit😂
Influx?
Was this show worth the £3k James is reportedly earning per show?
No
Jealous much,julien?
@ no, are you?
yes.
yep! I'd rather common sense prevail over idiocy any day.
YES BACK IN THERE OWN COUNTRY
Just ask the palestinians James
Ask them what ?