James O'Brien lambasts minister for 'lying about illegal migrants staying in 4-star hotels' | LBC

James O'Brien blasts Justice Secretary Alex Chalk's idea that 'illegal' migrants are 'profiting from that illegality in 4-star accommodation'.
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[@ThomasKing19933]

The Tories have dehumanised this country.

[@Mark-Haddow]

What country? Where in my country, Scotland, is this allowed to happen?

[@NoName-cu4gr]

They've taken the baton from Farage and his kipper biggots and they've just run and run with it.

[@nathanfurnival8724]

I’m a Scottish person who can’t help saying Scottish Scotland and Scots all the time, where Scotland Scottish and scots in Scotland Scottish Scottish scots 😂

[@HelenaMikas]

@@Mark-Haddow well said ..

[@mwd331]

​@@Mark-HaddowScott, Scotland, Scottish. Did you mention you were Scottish?

[@pip1723]

It's tragic to see what's happed to this country over the past decade...

[@julezpanda14]

That's what happens when Tories are handed the reins

[@voodoochile333]

​@@julezpanda14Conservative only in name

[@frixosfriedman7813]

I think its a global trend. Many countries have gone off a cliff in recent times. I put it down to the inevitable outcome of the global economic system we inhabit.

[@voodoochile333]

@@frixosfriedman7813 yep. Open borders and control

[@csharpe5787]

Tory destruction. This is all about distracting the public. They are taking a leaf out of trumps book. Formally putins!

[@harrietwindebank6051]

Not my government. They do not speak for me.

[@PaulGappyNorris]

😂😂

[@stephenisom6089]

are russian,,

[@paulwright9106]

I did not vote for them either . I would have been kicking myself !!!

[@anonomous8719]

If you are a citizen of the U.K. then they are your government.

[@andrewhodgkins2292]

The problem is that lying politicians has become the new norm. NO politicians should be held to a higher standard, not lower. If politicians can't police themselves then it should be done by others. People with real powers to punish wrongdoing in the commons, the lords and local authorities.

[@lestrem11]

The Gestapo?

[@b62boom1]

I don't call the Tories fascists because I disagree with them, I disagree with them because they're fascists. When people use the language of fascists, and behave like fascists, it pretty hard to continue pretending they're something else.

[@nathanfurnival8724]

Are you rick out of the young ones ?

[@andrewcox2810]

Bit like the Labour Party.

[@kanedNunable]

@@andrewcox2810 derp. another dim bot eh?

[@OldGreyMulletTest]

@@andrewcox2810 But, but... whatabout, whatabout, whatabout...

[@frixosfriedman7813]

Imprisoning refugees on a boat is pretty much facism. Weve just about got to that stage, but because its been gradual and weve been brainwashed we havent really noticed.

[@captainhowdy9845]

The justice secretary talking about 'what the British people want' is going to find out EXACTLY what the British people want at the next election. And it's not 'more of your nonsense'.

[@patriciahiggins9188]

Can't wait

[@Metal05]

Problem is, there isn’t a better alternative.

[@grahamdhv3812]

​@@Metal05no-one can do worse than this.

[@Bushwacker-mb6hw]

Conservative

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

"Justice Secretary"??? That man's name should not be included in the same breath as Justice Secretary. All they are doing is weaponising their extremist voters, and causing stochastic terrorism.

[@mickeygamble1237]

They have been paying for the hotels with money that usually goes too foreign aid. They cynically then use it to pay tory business owners of hotels but now its running out so its barges & tents

[@colinanderson7384]

Do you have it on you to condemn France for keeping illegal immigrants in tents? Or is it OK for them to do that but not us? Do you think illegal immigrants should bypass dozens of safe countries to get here?

[@copperfield3629]

Given today's events, the comments about those inveigled into going onto the barge being worried about the water seem entirely reasonable to me...

[@vinderloovince3011]

Let them all in. Housing is cheap and plentiful, the nhs works quickly and efficiently and the motorways are mostly free of traffic.

[@kimcallaghan753]

It doesn't matter how many times you lambast them - they just keep on lying. Not until you hit them in the pocket (the only thing they care about) will there be any impact.

[@abdell75roussos]

Hits who in the pocket? wft??

[@AnkhGirl]

💯

[@damianbutterworth2434]

It`s better than 4 star. You don`t get free money in 4 star hotels.

[@dominicwood7865]

I now no longer live in the UK and if I came back ( I am a British eCitizen it would be to an independent Scotland that I would back) I had other reasons for emigrating but Brexit was the first blow followed be numerous others.

[@limpethead]

Independent Scotland that's in the EU. Wake up dude.

[@petercrosland5502]

Sadly too old to escape.

[@suchisthismystery2814]

​@@petercrosland5502Me too!

[@desolateones]

What a infantile thing to say

[@MrBigblue40]

​@limpethead you say that as if it's a bad thing.

[@Dave-kg9bb]

Hate when they say what people in Britain allegedly want. I'm British and believe me this govt don't speak for me.

[@nilsalmquist802]

Me neither. Well said.

[@Coelacanth1]

And we may reflect our feelings on the matter come polling day, for our vote is the only say we have

[@stephenisom6089]

what do you want no job no house no doctor no school places no hospital beds sewer works that can not cope ,,no villages as they become towns our towns become cities crime through the roof,, no police no dentist ,can,t get an ambulance ,,our countryside disappearing ,our children no home job future ..is that what you want then keep swamping britain and it will happen then what we have had it,,

[@mickadatwist1620]

I think you are in a minority cuz most Brits want the boats to be stopped.

[@Dave-kg9bb]

@@mickadatwist1620 We all want the boats stopped. This govt has no intention of doing it. They want the hard of thinking to get angry about something. They could create a safe route, or a French processing centre. But they actively choose not too, instead lying to the general public about people being 'illegal' to stoke their culture war. It's all fabricated.

[@dadisonline]

Why is it always hundreds of men? Are women and children not affected by persecution and war?

[@paulharris1502]

Exactly.

[@joebeattie3878]

Well done James. Its great to hear someone speaking up for the 'little people '.

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

According to the Home Office: "To claim asylum in the UK, a person must be physically in the UK. It is not possible to apply from outside the country, and there is no asylum visa. A person cannot obtain a visa with the explicit purpose of seeking asylum." Can anyone explain how someone can possibly claim asylum in the UK without being an illegal immigrant?

[@1972hermanoben]

Use a legal means to enter the country to begin with. Then apply for asylum. More easily explained than achieved.

[@andrewjenkinson7052]

@@1972hermanoben Surely if you CAN use a legal means to enter the UK you do not NEED asylum. More Catch 22.

[@1972hermanoben]

@@andrewjenkinson7052 Not necessarily. There are those with the means and opportunity to travel legally and then there's everyone else. The seeking of asylum, from the point of view of the person applying for it, is predicated on their perception of needing it rather than their capacity to travel freely.

[@jeremyfox5381]

@@1972hermanoben According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, which UK is signed up to, it is not illegal for asylum seekers to arrive by irregular means in order to claim asylum. Since the government has stopped most 'legal routes' for entering the country, people arriving on small boats are using 'irregular means". So they aren't actually illegal immigrants at all.

[@patrickchilds2987]

My understanding is that under International Law a person can be detained for entering a country illegally however their status under law cannot be legal or illegal until they have been processed and their status confirmed . Until then technically they are not illegal

[@cherylsalmon8429]

"The potatoheaded deputy leader of the tory party"😂😂😂

[@Stuark54]

We’ve allowed greed to be more important than human life. The fact that 0.1% own more than the bottom 90% speaks volumes for our society. We need HUGE tax reforms. It needs to be impossible for people to become billionaires. There’s enough for everyone, especially for immigrants who are fleeing war torn countries.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

But we don't know how many immigrants are fleeing here. Unless of course you do?

[@Ryuujin1024]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 If you don't know how many are how do you know its too much? And even if they are they don't have passports or UK citizenship they would stand out like a sore thumb, but you don't know how much.

[@Stuark54]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 that’s because our useless government has failed to process them and have failed to provide a safe means of travel here.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

@@Ryuujin1024 Can you repeat that sentence in a way that is coherent. Please.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

@@Stuark54 How does the processing of immigrants give an indication has to how many more will be fleeing here. You haven't thought through what you said, have you?

[@hugohugo2832]

Cisswood House near Horsham is a very luxurious hotel. It has been refitted and filled with asylum seekers. It’s still extremely comfortable. They mingle outside my house 100 yards from it. There’s nothing here. There are no other services here. None of them speak English. What is the thinking behind this?

[@095daz]

The Conservatives talk about 'small boats' being the British peoples priority when really it is paying the mortgage and increased interest rates, paying fuel bills due to the obscene amount of profit the energy companies are making and not being able to 'save the planet' and having to take the car due to the obscene amount of money privitised public transport costs me to travel.

[@Koi-addict33]

All the issues you talk of are worse because of the millions of illegals here

[@simon1066]

The depth of hatred I have for this evil conservative government scares me.

[@anthonysmith8800]

Me and my mates think the same. 'Hate' can often be overused but I think we all genuinely mean it

[@annemoncrieff3875]

Doesn't scare me just makes me angrier. Hate them and their voters.

[@annemoncrieff3875]

​@@TrotterTowerswhat?!!

[@darrengrimmer8541]

It’s funny but I genuinely hate labour

[@williamdeypres1122]

LOL. Wait 'till Starmer's mob get in.

[@raysmith9152]

Well said, as usual James, spot on.

[@anthonydebski5814]

The REALLY sad fact is that those of diminished mental capacity, like 'brexit' & Tory voters, pick up on it and use it as FACT!

[@StarBoyyX]

His right James is wrong again - he will be here in a 3rd world britain in 20 years biting his tongue just to save face 😂

[@MagyarBrit]

James, you are not the only one who is ashamed and disgusted at what the country has become under this government. It is shameful in every way.

[@markjohn4802]

It's not 6 million a day. It's over two billion a year . Wakey wakey. It's all a pretence, the government secretly love the inflow.

[@dingdong289]

Move them in next to you,to share your limited resources. Job done. !!

[@Silver-st2zq]

​@@dingdong289The toff Tories have very big houses they could because the Tory voters with way less money and wee house's don't have the room.

[@thewhiteworkingclassman7471]

And what have we got to be ashamed of like ?

[@thewhiteworkingclassman7471]

There have to pay for room service alcohol drinks go to the GYM just like I have to 😂

[@andreasstavrinides6980]

I've met Alex Chalk and admired him as a lawyer. What a shame that he's using his considerable skills in this way, defending barbaric policies instead of simply getting on and processing claims efficiently, so that those with a right to be here can start contributing (we have a LOT of job vacancies they could help to fill) and those with no right to be here can be sent home. It seems his ambition to climb the slippery pole outweighs his humanity.

[@PeerAdder]

Self before party, party before country. It's a common theme.

[@andrewtorrens947]

So they process the claims quicker.....and get refused...where do you suggest we deport them to????....there is a country ready and waiting to take them....I am so glad you think we should speed up the process so we can deport them!!!

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

In what way do they contribute ?

[@andreasstavrinides6980]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 If you'd bothered to read what I wrote, they can contribute by taking some of the jobs employers are desperate to fill. That means they will pay taxes. In fact, they will pay more taxes than natives doing the same jobs as them because of the NHS surcharge. An immigrant doing the same job as you will actually be contributing more to this country than you do.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

@@andreasstavrinides6980 Oh, the old "they'll pay more in tax than they take in benefits" argument. If you think anyone that isn't sending their children to private schools or has private health insurance is paying more in tax and contributing to the governments coffers just because they're at work then you obviously have no understanding of how the tax system works.

[@jayfo4950]

The hotels in Kidderminster were already shut and had been for some time.

[@NailahRoberts]

When the UK is mostly under water due to raising sea levels and we have no choice but to 'migrate' to other countries are we to be treated in the same inhumane way eh tories?

[@middleman9183]

nothing inhumane here

[@Silver-st2zq]

​@@middleman9183😂🤣 Toff Tory England after 13 years of the nasty party it would not surprise me if they got voted in again 🤪🤣

[@angelastannard1405]

What is Happening in our country as a 84 year old woman 👵 very proud to be a wpman mother of 3 wonderful girls eldest 64 then 62 and my younger one 58 have been a widow for 12years have lots of grandchildren and great also a great great granddaughter love them all but also worry what sort of world they are living in 🎉😢

[@arw8719]

Yeah I know, none of your grandchildren will be able to afford their own home in their own country, and all of them will work until they die.

[@janefuller6518]

A country that will be unrecognisable.

[@itinkthereforeiiz]

If a tory ever tries to say their party should be taken seriously 10, 20, 50 years from now, we should play them this clip.

[@jrphartley]

Corbyn spectacularly unpopular? An enormous lie like this undercuts EVERYTHING you say.

[@johnhumphreys4265]

"Alexa, remind me tomorrow to make someone's life even more wretched than it already is." "What time shall I remind you, Suella?"

[@ThomasKing19933]

This would be funny if it wasn't so true.

[@JJVernig]

Why do I have the feeling Alexa puts Suella straight through to Jeff Bezos, brainstorming how to make life as miserable as possible. Also for those pickers in the Amazon warehouses.

[@silversurfer640]

johnhumphreys4265 The Tories excel in this. Universal credit (or Universal Punishment)as a job centre employee once called it. Yes a job centre employee actually called it that.

[@trytellingthetruth.2068]

Giving someone free full board and lodgings plus free money is making their lives more wrenched than it already is. Wow, they must've had it real bad.

[@buttyboy100]

@@trytellingthetruth.2068 If the government would do the decent thing and get their applications for asylum processed they could be working and contributing to society instead of getting their £9.58 a head that they receive now if they are in a hostel or hotel that provides food. It's about five times more than that if they buy their own food. There are such gaping holes in the care industry and in hospitality that many thousands would instanty find employment and pay tax. Who knows, some asylum seekers may even have skills that we despearately need . As there are now around 550,000 people leaving the UK every year, taking their skills with them, we need everyone we can get or the economy will continue to shrink.

[@richardlewis7498]

so the barge is worse housing than the tents in france

[@albertskinner4578]

James you speak my truth,your phone ins disgust me,the amount of people that phone in to you is truly so far from reality I'm dumbfounded,they draw the cloke ,the curtain of humanity that keeps me watching and listening to people who have no spirit of humanity in their entirity.Where do we go from here,has humanity learnt nothing.

[@Anigmama]

Jeremy Corbyn unpopular? Just keep saying it and it might become true! Apparently this lot were preferable. Although they are precisely the reason Corbyn became Labour leader.

[@nigelsynnott7344]

Who led Labour to their worst defeat since 1935? He must have been so popular - at least in your fevered imagination.

[@annishilcock4587]

And when he became an unelctable leader why they were voted into power again.

[@johnatkinson7479]

corbyn was only popular within student and ultra left groups, not with the guy on the street

[@nichotto]

@@nigelsynnott7344made unpopular by one of the most concerted efforts to blacken anyone’s names in modern political history by our wonderful extreme rightwing press and world class gaslighting. Corbyn’s policies were popular and progressive but his character had been successfully blackened.

[@TheBigMidweek1889]

Corbyn slashed tories' majority in the 2017 election. Granted he didn't win, but it forced Theresa May to run crying to the DUP for help with a bribe. Forget about 2019, which wasn't a typical general election. It was more an EU referendum MK2. " Get brexit done" was all we heard from Johnson. Corbyn would wipe the deck with the Tories right now, given the state this country is in.

[@norwegianzound]

Spoke to an Irishman and he said he is so relieved that Ireland is no longer an economic basket case as the idea of taking the traditional immigration route to Britain or America would be totally depressing today, rather than economically liberating.

[@AnkhGirl]

9:40-11:22 sums up the Tories perfectly. Well done, James.👌🏾

[@IceyJones]

it started like that in germany in 1933........

[@mrmuds8624]

3:37 "capitalising on the fact that Jeremy Corbyn was spectacularly the most unpopular Labour leader" You sure James? I'd argue he was the most popular leader if you go by the number of members that joined Labour after he became leader. If it wasn't for you along with the rest of the British press, we could have had a man in charge who actually cared about the betterment of our country rather than the absolute poo show we've had for the past 5 years.

[@alistairmonro]

Students were paid to join so those numbers are artificially inflated

[@mrmuds8624]

@@alistairmonro Never heard of this before, where is your evidence and who was paying them?

[@bushman143]

JOB support Starmer and the New Labour ideology. Neoliberals claiming to be progressives.

[@alistairmonro]

@mrmuds8624 student unions in Manchester. My evidence is that I was approached, and my brother actually joined.

[@Koi-addict33]

😂😂😂

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

If the Tories wanted to actually clear the asylum seeker backlog they'd hire more civil servants to work on the cases. But they don't, they need a scapegoat. It's the only hope they have for the next election

[@pauljames5079]

The civil servants don't want to do anything about it

[@chrisd5964]

​@@pauljames5079🤡

[@vinderloovince3011]

The quicker the backlog is cleared the more people will come.

[@johnscotcher9753]

​@@pauljames5079Typical Tory - it's always somebody else's fault!

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

What defies logic, is why this vessel isn’t seaworthy enough , to tow it across the channel and dump it on the French coast.

[@swift_learn]

Stick them in your house then James.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Think we should do a poll on should we send 30p Lee or aslum seekers to France. Bye bye Lee.

[@patriciahiggins9188]

They wouldn't have him for a million quid

[@MrRailjunkie]

That's not fair on the French.

[@denisalderson3749]

Right about 13 years of disastrous policies, then you get Kid Starver saying he'll keep the same policies

[@grahamdhv3812]

No-one can be worse than the Tories: in a league of their own for contempt of the British people.

[@denisalderson3749]

@@grahamdhv3812 that's true

[@colinanderson7384]

@@grahamdhv3812 Ironic considering they're Tories in name only

[@henwoods2683]

They must think the British people are totally thick. ....its spin

[@btpennycook]

They have access to a warm room with a tv and food it beats a tent in France anyday

[@martinstevens5892]

In another time and place Anderson would be wearing a brown shirt.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I know 30p Lee is a drunken coward, but I wish he'd stop hding in his echo chamber and come out and debate someone on the left. He'd get angry and probably run away but it wpuld be fun to see.

[@mikecook1537]

In fairness we haven't exactly got enough room for anymore I'm sure James wouldn't want them living on his road Funny that

[@moragmckay3779]

@@mikecook1537 Why do people assume others are at heart as bigotted as themselves? I am very happy to have an Immigrant family as neighbours. Despite our barely having nodded hello in the short time they had been here, they immediately dropped a note through my door with their telephone number and all their names on it in case we needed any help, or just someone to talk to, when we were shielding during the Pandemic. (None of my "friends" even thought to ring me.) Since then, they've enriched our lives. A street full of immigrants would be very welcome. I'm sure James would agree.

[@dolmen6613]

most people agree with Lee

[@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207]

@@dolmen6613 And your source for that claim is???

[@mikecook1537]

@@davidgriffithsbjjcoach7207 his constituency have elected him? The fact that the red wall voted conservative?

[@watchflexwatchflex5956]

They are definitely staying in at least 3 star hotels. I could take you to 3 in my town alone! Get out of your London bubble and check these things out yourself

[@carveh13]

They selectively lie of course. Lol

[@hilarykirkby4771]

Since when have people been illegal! We play the head bangers' game when we use that term. People are either entitled to residency in the UK or not. Those are the terms we should be using.

[@johnrussell3961]

Asylum servers and refugees are not given residency.

[@sisuguillam5109]

​@@johnrussell3961true - but the point still stands that they are not illegal and arriving by small boat is not either.

[@gwangjuboy1]

We can't take in the whole world for goodness sake. Last year we had net migration of 600,000 people, equal to the population of Sheffield. Ffs.

[@johnrussell3961]

@@gwangjuboy1 . Those are not asylum seekers. Most are those the Tories chose to let in.

[@gwangjuboy1]

@@johnrussell3961 Most of them were Ukrainians and Hong Kongers. As if that isn't charitable enough (to the point of reducing ourselves to even greater deprivation), you want these people here too? A city the size of Sheffield, in the midst of a major housing shortage and collapsing public services?

[@michaelharrington5975]

They are not aylum seekers

[@doctorfunkshock]

And you are a thought reader exemplaire - I haven't met many of those.

[@MrRailjunkie]

@boro662 Yes if only he'd stop pointing out the failures of the Tories because I want to be gaslit & brainwashed instead.

[@michaelharrington5975]

@@doctorfunkshock They chose to travel through safe haven countries before britain

[@grahamlees4394]

@@michaelharrington5975 and that is illegal because....

[@michaelharrington5975]

Obrien keeps saying they are asylum seekers, if so why don't they seek asylum in the first country they enter

[@dorkangel1076]

Its a very disingenuous comment designed to make people think being a refugee is like being on holiday. How many people would like to go on holiday then spend most of their time in a their hotel room with no money, few possessions and no idea of when they'll ever get to leave.

[@sifromwales5452]

I agree. When hate is focussed, it's a very dangerous thing.

[@patrickchilds2987]

Absolutely it just serves to demonise them. Like the assumption that they are uneducated and looking for economic advantage. Among the refugees there are doctors, lawyers, academics who have been forced to flee their country. Certainly the numbers seem to some as unacceptable but are well below in comparison with the numbers that Turkey, Germany, Spain and France accept. Last year in total in the EU 965,665 people claimed asylum. Instead of empathy they are happily blamed for underinvestment by successive governments going back to the 1980’s in areas such as housing, Healthcare, Infrastructure, education. The fact that people actually believe it is staggering

[@malcolmclarke3033]

Looks like they are not "gonna need a bigger boat". This "small boat" problem, is it out of all proportion?

[@davidedwards1476]

That's all you ever do Mr O'Brien just complain about the Tories and Brexit, but you just like Starmer do not say what you would do to improve the problem that you slate the government about, 😒

[@MrRailjunkie]

James is a radio presenter not an opposition politician.

[@davidedwards1476]

@@MrRailjunkie All he is a doom and gloom complainer, anyone can criticise, but to come up with a alternative solution means you know what you are talking about, remember he is a multimillionaire and has no understanding of life as we know it 😒

[@MartinParnham]

The other thing I point out with the hotels thing is that you'd think these asylum seekers were taking rooms that local people would have taken. As if they were wanting to stay in a hotel in a town where they live during the week...

[@trevorhenriques7733]

Among a certain segment of the UK population, there is a visceral desire to see that “those people” have a much more MISERABLE existence “than I do”.

[@tohellorbarbados7119]

@@trevorhenriques7733 "There must be someone worse off than myself"... because they deserve it... and I don't...

[@PatriotPaul16]

No, they are costing local jobs. The vast majority of the hotel staff are sacked.

[@stephenglancy8551]

These hotels havent taken government contracts out of the goodness of their hearts. They have clearly signed up to deals which GUARANTEE them more than they were making in the normal commercial market. Its another con. These hotels would all have been failing businesses because of Brexit, Covid and the cost of living crisis so a wee government bail out to house asylum seekers is lovely all round. And it still allows the Tories to paint a picture that immigrants are having a wonderful time. We are being taken for mugs at every turn and it suits those horrible 30p types to be able to put it in a neat and tidy wee box and blame immigrants.

[@trevorhenriques7733]

@@PatriotPaul16 , In the room occupied by asylum seekers, who change the bed linen, who does the catering, who does the cleaning, etc, etc etc ??? If the hotel employees are sacked, how is the fault of asylum seekers ?

[@carolinegathercole8473]

HOSTELS

[@Koi-addict33]

They are staying in the atation hotel and hilton in hull city

[@georgepkoutsavakis8005]

I immigrated to the uk in 1965 and left in1987! That england was not that bad then (not my cup of tea though) but seeing and hearing what it has become is both sad and unsurprising. It won’t change until the new generations take over and move the uk closer to the rest of the world.

[@stephenisom6089]

or until we are so overpopulated we break snap then what nowhere to go done for,,

[@buttyboy100]

@@stephenisom6089 Que?

[@spainy801]

'Sort the backlog' is what the slogan should be, not 'Stop the boats'.

[@garethhanford8723]

If they can't stop the boats, they can't stop the backlog.

[@litchfiedr]

​@@garethhanford8723don't try and talk sense, they wont get it.. they arrive from France they're refused entry simple ...

[@fin1131]

sort and stop

[@tans430]

And their lies and right-wing rhetoric is what made me leave the UK James. I like you am disgusted by the whole lot of them.

[@EmpiricalMind]

right-wing rhetoric = Not celebrating the demise of your country and it's people.

[@ChrisMurray-iw9ij]

Where did you flee to?

[@ga-ow7yf]

​@@ChrisMurray-iw9ijI Bet he didn't get on a dinghy. 😂😂😂

[@sidonthebank]

You don't live here 😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrRailjunkie]

@@EmpiricalMind If it wasn't for right wing rhetoric that demise wouldn't have happened.

[@jimcourt9164]

Potato Head, Thick. That’s hardly the language of the kindness people .. is it JOB

[@HumanRightsEqualityForAll]

Those cheering for dehumanising sector of their fellow human beings, the cycle of misery won't stop at those you don't like only... Wait and see

[@Hannah-pk6iq]

I wish he would interview Jeremy. The most unpopular leader really? who told you that James? Oh yes the right wing media.Give your head a big wobble.

[@MrRailjunkie]

He would have loved to interview Corbyn but Corbyn refused to do interviews with anyone who dare criticize him.

[@Hannah-pk6iq]

@@MrRailjunkie Really, when/where did he say that?

[@equaliser2265]

One picture of two immigrants walking onto the barge shows one of them giving the finger.

[@johnlewis9158]

Lets just hope he has the bad fortune to fall overboard when no one is around to save him

[@johntthomson7538]

As most cruise ships are half empty , why don’t we put these poor people on them for a nice wee cruise.

[@doctorfunkshock]

Cruise ships are one of the biggest ecological problems of the moment.

[@janetmackinnon3411]

I am so ashamed of the passport I hold.

[@ga-ow7yf]

You need to get out more and make sure you take your medicine.😂😂😂

[@sidonthebank]

You plonkers 😂😂😂😂

[@fin1131]

bye then

[@wofutokerati]

I feel like going down to Kent, taking a dinghy off a new arrival and heading out on the return journey. This country is gone.

[@sidonthebank]

You must have the Burgundy one then

[@jasonstickler4570]

If the government is putting them up in 4* hotels that is poor procurement on the part of the government who are supposed to be prudent with the tax payers money.....this is on them

[@richardhowlett4097]

This government wastes millions, they are totally incompetent. Roll on the next election and let's see them lose their jobs.

[@markwalker4142]

They’ve wasted billions and always follow the money to find the truth . Who owns the hotels and who benefits from public money being stolen by these true blue thieves and gangsters . As I’ve always said the largest organised crime group occupies number 10 .

[@grahamdhv3812]

Did Johnson's lawyers not get around 500,000 from public money to defend the liar?

[@dingdong289]

And when they try to be prudent (Bibby) it's still not acceptable to you. !!

[@markwalker4142]

@@dingdong289 prudent !!! Don’t make me laugh .

[@annmcbride81]

Well said James

[@karencattelldeves3815]

Disgraceful

[@frankpaterson9786]

Corbyn was NOT the "most spectacularly unpopular leader of the Labour party". He came very close to winning a GE in 2017 with a massive increase in the Labour vote. I think among socialists you'll find Starmer is far less popular. JOB you decry the Tories but you helped undermine the genuine alternative to the Tories and now champion Starmer. A Tory........full stop.

[@DucdePommfrit-bi1gd]

He only came close to winning in 2017 because May ran probably the worst election campaign in history and would have lost to almost anyone else.

[@paulharris1502]

Starmer is further to the right than most Tories.

[@ralphhendrix6983]

My husband is from the USA we have had paid between 12k to 15k so far for his visa.

[@raysmith9152]

all of that probably goes straight in the pockets of the MPs

[@watercolourmark]

I wonder if those on the barges suffer from Bibby Stockholm syndrome?

[@GerardONeill-mx1th]

Grand research, delivery & challenge as always James ! It's to their shame that the gauntlet throwers of the past 13 years haven't the inclination to pick one up !?! SOULLESS POLITICAL PLANKTON ! 🤔😎

[@samgrainger1554]

Isnt corbyn still pretty popular?

[@eddiecalderone]

Yes with anti Semites

[@samgrainger1554]

@@eddiecalderone you'd have to belive he was, and theres plenty reason why people would want to concince you of that even if he wasnt.

[@stephenglancy8551]

Theres a noisy minority, galavanised by 30p lee and others that seem to be in this comments section. James Obrien certainly exercises them and its because he manages to hit a nerve. He holds up the mirror and has been doing so for all the years Ive listened to him. Leading MPs shouldnt be swearing. The next minister shouldnt be defending him. Put your racism down for two minutes and just think about what you expect from people who are paid well from the public purse. They should be an example. Still if you want your children to come in from school and say they are suspended for saying someone should f off back to where they came from you know where they learnt it from.

[@Coelacanth1]

Indeed for the poorer folk of these isles have more in common with the incomers than they do the political elite and those they truly serve.

[@alistairmonro]

Majority *

[@leekelly2142]

Fish swim. Birds fly. Tories lie.

[@joannagreen1762]

I hear they are going to Chiswick so please be kind to them

[@kev643]

Are they still going to sack nurses?

[@fricozoid1]

Remember you're never allowed to call them sc*m though!

[@glen9303]

I do 😮

[@paulbird3235]

Will Barroness Mone be putting up her luxury yacht (which she bought with the money she ripped off from the FAKE PPE) for tender. I'm sure it will be up to standard and pass all safety requirement's.

[@susansantapola]

Fair comment 👍🏻

[@stephenisom6089]

will job house a migrant no he is a hypocrite ,

[@stephenisom6089]

err creepy crawly

[@johnwoods7650]

What has this got to do with Ireland?

[@garywilton246]

Its not a lie. Its truth. Theu are staying in 4 star hotels.

[@arachnustox201]

No, James, you are not alone. Truth, decency and humanity still matter. Please keep speaking up for us!

[@alistairmonro]

But he doesn't speak the truth?

[@riverbluesky]

😂😂😂

[@anthonysmith8800]

Hey Justice minister, please DO NOT LIE on behalf of me. If you're going to lie, at least have the decency to own it (I know, 'decent Tory' is an oxymoron).

[@alistairmonro]

Like a logical lefty 😂

[@anthonysmith8800]

@alistairmonro yes, we all like logical Lefties but thank you for mentioning it. We agree 👍

[@edcoad4930]

Console yourself with the idea that Captain Lee Stupidson will be a Lord by the end of 2025.

[@Bertrum123]

These money men love us all arguing .because while we are we don't see them with there hands in the till .

[@markjohn4802]

I'm sure there's 30 million people that would like to move to the UK, and with temperatures on the rise that figure will also rise. This is about people seeing the grass is greener, compared with begging and subsistence living, it really is greener. Great healthcare! live forever. We can stop this if we stop it, that would send a clear message to the growth obsessed capitalists.

[@mahmed4581]

Is the whole world waiting to enter the open border UK😇

[@markjohn4802]

​@@mahmed4581That's almost 8 billion, but you got a like.

[@maximushaughton2404]

They say 4 star hotels, because they know the vast majority of the public can not afford to stay in a 4 star hotel in this country. So it give the impression, that the asylum seekers are getting better than you.

[@patrickchilds2987]

Absolutely, this whole narrative is ridiculous

[@samgrainger1554]

Performative cruelty

[@carlt9265]

Up the tories always right

[@citygasbatteryriot964]

If these hotels really are 4 star rated, it implies they must be keeping the bar, restuarant, kitchen, reception and cleaning services all fully staffed, not just bouncers on the door, otherwise they are 0 star non-hotels..

[@patriciahiggins9188]

How about room service?

[@citygasbatteryriot964]

@@patriciahiggins9188 "we've run out of xxxxx's..?" or " I want 2 fish suppers from Killybegs harbour, at 2 in the morning, I'll pay the helicopter, just get out of bed, get the frier going".

[@citygasbatteryriot964]

@@patriciahiggins9188 now called room serco

[@citygasbatteryriot964]

@@patriciahiggins9188 Bingo!

[@jimcraig6523]

Simplistic rant to an insoluble conundrum. We all know what the Tories are and have always been. ...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." Bevan 1948 after being brought up in abject poverty

[@andrewhoult4630]

Get the TORY'S gone

[@UselessGit]

The Tories should just change their name to Norsefire

[@zootsanchez]

Or in Osborne and Gove's case, Nosefire

[@benny210169]

The Humber View Hotel near me is a 4 star hotel. Immigrants are staying there. The hotel staff got sacked and replaced by immigration staff. Jobby being a big jobby as usual.

[@rob-c.]

Then you don’t understand James’ point at all.

[@benny210169]

@@rob-c. Oh I do understand. Jobby was being disingenuous, as usual. The politician was correct that they are in 4 star hotels. It's irrelevant if they get the 4 star service or not. These hotels won't lose their star rating because of it.

[@rob-c.]

@@benny210169 It isn’t irrelevant - what do you think the stars are awarded for?

[@benny210169]

@@rob-c. As I said they won't lose their star status, whilst housing gimmegrants. So it is.

[@alwhyte6533]

@@rob-c. it's for the quality of the brickwork...

[@thecockerel86]

The British National Party want their policies back.

[@alistairmonro]

There is a reason they were so popular and changed mainstream policy.

[@seancarr7483]

Says the guy who lives in one of the strongest tory towns in England (Reigate ) ,why dont we put them up in hotels in his lovely area.

[@tedbhoy1]

where were these folk in 1066

[@gezblair]

These people claim to be proud of this country but they act in a way that shames this nation,