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James O'Brien destroys myth peddlers telling you to get cross about asylum seekers and immigrants.
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[@porcupineinapettingzoo]

What's so hard to believe that the people who've just blown 60 billion on their mini budget,100 million to send no one to Rwanda and refuse to tax the likes of BP with their record profits are worried about the cost of migration?

[@johnrussell3961]

We have a shortage of workers and at the same time are trying to get rid of fit young men.

[@TheDom277]

No to mention the 11 billion wiped off over the PPE contracts. It's funny. Just that 11 billion could pretty much solve the NHS backlog cost... Yet Sunak wiped the slate clean...

[@globalist1990]

💯

[@EdDueim]

@@waynekerrr9027 Really? I'd love to see where you got your figures (I assume you have checked reliable figures).

[@b62boom1]

​@@waynekerrr9027 you've obviously not tried to exist on unemployment benefits, if you think it's an easy ride. We're at almost full employment, yet have over a million job vacancies. Your bigotry is why we are where we are.

[@davidmylchreest3306]

The only reason we are talking about this is because the Home Secretary was in danger of losing her job for repeatedly leaking secure documents, and to distract from that went into parliament and threw red meat to the Tory voter base. And we are still talking about that instead of actual security concerns a week later.

[@hypatia4754]

I know. It makes me so mad that we are always continuing with the Tory led agenda of lies and bigotry.

[@DrMontague]

Is security documents were leaked it would simply show the British government to be war mongering scumbags. this is the reason they hate secure documents being leaked. The fcuktard working class might see them. Have you forgot Assange?!

[@RobBCactive]

Where were you? She was talking chit long before that

[@alberttatlock1541]

We have been talking about it for years. The "leak" you refer to only happed last month.

[@bunclodyboy8968]

i came to england in the late 1950s with my parents, we were spat on, refused accomodation, refused entry to local pubs, had signs saying no dogs no Irish, nothing has changed, the racism is now against albanians, romanians, bulgarians, and theyre children, waht a wonderfull country we live in

[@spurge83]

Lots of the people on the dinghies are from Albania. They get budget flights to Belgium, go to France and get on the boats. What basis do Albanians have for claiming asylum when they are in a safe country, they go through safe countries, to leave the European Union? Answer that, James.

[@graemehancocks4171]

Thank you for pointing out that “one in six of us not born in the UK” actually includes Boris Johnson himself, Sunak’s parents, Braverman’s parents, several owners of our newspapers, etc etc. The hypocrisy is staggering.

[@adamweisshaup]

Does that improve the very real problem? I'm struggling to see how that assessment impacts the math of the problem here.

[@HelenaMikas]

The Blue rinse Brigade OK them especially Johnson ...

[@Danny-is5if]

I don't see anything hypocritical about it. You're talking about individuals rather than data. Back when Boris was born, was it still one in six? Wake up.

[@Wolfboys589]

@@Danny-is5if What cretinous logic are you trying to portray here?

[@Danny-is5if]

@@Wolfboys589 Just logic, really. You're welcome to counter argue if you can though. Don't be emotionally driven in you're response if you have one.

[@docmalthus]

"Why're you getting cross about that?" "Because they're telling us to." Spot on. Game and match.

[@davidz3879]

He didn't try to say why people from thousands of miles away should claim asylum in the UK. No-one flees war-torn 21st century France.

[@colenewton5183]

a couple of months ago the Tories were complaining about the lack of workers in the uk doing low skilled jobs, now the they're complaining people are coming here to work? The will of these people to distract us from the real issues is crazy

[@alberttatlock1541]

No, they are not complaining about people coming here to work. They actually WANT people to come here to work, they re going to relax some of the immigration rules to allow it. What they do not want is illegal gangs of undocumented people arriving when we have nowhere to keep them, and rather than enjoy this green and pleasant land they want to turn our country into the lawless hellhole they have just fled from.

[@somtoo1]

It's what they do, deflect blame until there's nobody else to blame and then they'll still find something.

[@djtaylorutube]

No worries, with the increase in interest rate today, they're a suggestion of twice as many unemployed... Available to take those jobs right?!

[@colenewton5183]

@@djtaylorutube Well maybe not, if they're people who do skilled work they may not want to go to lower paid jobs, they'd rather wait it out

[@terrencehook2031]

A DAY!

[@rosslogie217]

The first thing we should do is to point out that this has been brought up because Tories are desperate to change the narrative. Great job in highlighting the Murdoch media and it's repulsive strategy.

[@56postoffice]

Murdoch should be held accountable for the damage on western democracy. No wonder he got US citizenship: Australia don't want him back.

[@peacheswilliams4539]

They do the same thing in the United States, YOUR NOT AMERICAN! LOL Nobody in America has originated from America, Everyone in America has history from another County except the Native Americans who were there first. BEFORE the Europeans. This entire Conversation is just to cause anger and hatred toward others and it's getting pretty old and tiresome.

[@Max-ht9hf]

If our children could, get a decent job that pays reasonable well, could obtain and afford a mortgage and be able to pay that mortgage, could obtain a council house or reasonable rented accommodation. Then the UK population might be more accepting of these ‘immigrants’ and asylum seekers. As it stands they can’t. They’re stuck in the family home in their twenty’s and thirty’s waiting for ther parents to die and leave them either a home or the necessary capital to set out on their own. Our society is broken and resentful what do you expect for these people to be welcomed.

[@paulgibbon5991]

We expect you to ask "why not both", and examine the people who profit from redirecting your anger from the crooks in government and the millionaires who are not being taxed, to some random Albanian who just risked his life to get here. Will you do that, or will you continue to get angry at whoever the Tories point you at?

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

I was going to answer you but, Paul Gibbon, answered almost the same i would, there is no reason to target the immigrants as the ones to blame. Even if immigration was hurting us as citizens, these people are not trying to hurt you in anyway, and if we have to think that way, we would need to consider many others issues, you could think the same about a person that comes from another city, just as english as you, one that comes from another region in the country and got the job you would otherwise get. Or if you moved and got a job, it would be you getting a job that another person from that area would have gotten. This is offcourse an outlook on live that only leads in one direction. Opps seems i got a reply in myself there, sorry it just happened :)

[@vinchenzo678]

My thoughts exactly....

[@romystumpy1197]

Maybe the average British person doesn't have the motivation,gritty determination and willing to make sacrifices,life isn't easy ,the weak will fall

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

@romystumpy Yes make bad conditions and the pampering of those already having a ball be the fault of those that already work hard with low reward. You should just work a little harder". Why do you want us to work harder not smarter. If you have to make some sacrifices at some times that's fine. If you have to make sacrifices and work harder all the time and most of the population has to do that there something wrong. Why do you want an advanced first world nation to be like an emerging nation?

[@MrG366]

One in six born overseas, including my 82 yr old dad who was born in Belgium and came to this country aged three months when Germany invaded.

[@vanrutgar6536]

Different scenario .

[@deezalmonds7680]

@@vanrutgar6536 How? 😂 Refugees fleeing war. Or is it just a different scenario because they're "white"?

[@vanrutgar6536]

@@deezalmonds7680 big difference between kids and mother's fleeing war Versus Albanian gangsters A 30 year old man saying he's a kid And chancers bored of tending the goats and thinks Europe is the land of milk and honey And men who haven't the backbone to stand and fight while leaving the women behind If you want polarised logic there you go

[@deezalmonds7680]

@@vanrutgar6536 Albanians? Fleeing to Europe? Albania is in Europe? Or have you never looked at a map? Also, by yout logic, the Jews should've picked up arms and fought against the Nazis then, rather than "coming to the UK, land of milk and honey".

[@vanrutgar6536]

@@deezalmonds7680 errrm I think you need look at a map of Europe and see how many Safe countries they pass through to get to UK in a dingy Italy a safe country Austria safe Germany safe France safe That's the shortest route from Albania to the English channel Seems there's a preferential choice Why UK ?

[@brenglover72]

The wealth avoiding tax is a far bigger issue.

[@BruderRaziel]

And relative to that dragging our feet on climate policy is an even biggerer issue, I dont see the point of this whataboutism?

[@edwardbrady5843]

Shush!

[@Vee-jc1qh]

Tax avoidance legal and tax evasion illegal is draining this country's wealth and is happening in many others. Time for change and stop all the loopholes, overseas tax havens, non-dom status, etc.

[@standarduck5860]

There can be multiple topics. You don't have to, and cannot in a modern society concentrate on one thing at a time. If you do that, nothing gets done except one thing. Why is your viewpoint so popular? It's absolutely ludicrous to respond to a problem by saying 'this other problem is more important'. Should we only attempt to fix one thing at a time?

[@aliziyaeddin5576]

I totally agree with you, they point in a direction and while you're looking, you're not noticing the wholesale robbery going on behind you.

[@bjsvp]

How can you think that listing a handful of the most successful foreign born Brits justifies allowing anyone to come here?

[@elibethea4484]

Because it's hypocritical to try and stop people from coming when several of the most powerful/wealthy people in the country are from forgein lands?

[@ThomasKing19933]

Things are going so badly? Understatement of the century, James.

[@chatham43]

...but it's great for Labour which is the main thing.

[@ThomasKing19933]

@@chatham43 yep, labour will win the next Election.

[@BigPurpleCarrot]

@@chatham43 Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but there won't be a GE anytime soon so it's bad for everyone.

[@rolandhawken6628]

Pity he can't offer any thing constructive ,but then he never does

[@nick1065]

If you’re Jobby though things are very much going baldly….sadly.

[@djart4866]

It’s costing the taxpayers £7 million a day. Money we haven’t got.

[@daniwalmsley611]

It's not just braverman, Sunak dodged an immigration question by shouting about brexit and the free movement of people... as though if we were in the eu all these people would either not be turning up or coming in with eu passports. Leaving the eu didn't stop asylum seekers, it didn't stop people coming from Albania or Syria or Afghanistan, it made it more difficult for lorry drivers and you on your holidays to go to Spain, Portugal, France, Germany

[@philhawley1219]

Dani Walmsley. You can take this problem to 50 years ago,and longer. Successive governments and prime ministers have lied to us to ever. I refer you to the words of Enoch Powell.

[@CallousCarter]

That wasn't just a dodge that was quite a new audacious framing of Brexit before the tories had always took the reclaiming our legal sovereignty angle now Sunak is saying it was about immigration. That's what they spent years saying it wasn't primarily about.

[@wanderer1955]

@Daniel Carter Sunak is PM. Sunak is an immigrant. Gee I wonder why he and his immigrant run government can't control immigration🤔

[@daniwalmsley611]

@@wanderer1955 2nd generation, he was born in the UK. And we don't have a immigration problem, we have a refugee problem. He's perfectly capable of turning away high skilled workers from france and germany but what he can't do is figure out if you use more red tape things take longer and you end up spending 6.2 million on hotels because the queue is konger and slower moving

[@wanderer1955]

@Dani Walmsley Question. Is Sunak white English or is he indigenous to Britain? He's only "British" because it's stamped "British" on his passport. I'm not interested in what's stamped on his passport. He isn't a native, and that's my point. Also, how many white English men or women with the name "Smith", do you think the ppl of India would vote for as their Prime Minister. Answer. NONE!!!

[@clarissagafoor5222]

Surely everyone knows that an asylum seeker/refugee is a person who had to leave their home - an immigrant chose to leave their home and move to a new country...

[@paulAnthony7236]

Men of fighting age and France has helped them over.

[@helenstiff6306]

I get annoyed filling in hospital letters all the languages I am beginning to think I am English but them before us

[@tech9803]

The UK: complains about immigration, after invading almost every country on earth in the past three centuries

[@vanrutgar6536]

Chip on shoulder?

[@britishrose9417]

Let's start calling them all "Ex-pats" and when people look at you funny, say "What? That's what we call the English when they go to other countries to live without being invited"

[@andrewrobinson2565]

I'm an emigrant there 🇬🇧 and an immigrant here, because I'm not coming back to the nut house that is Prison Island 🏝️. So, not an expatriate, but maybe an ex-patriot. 😭

[@royboy1901]

Most expats support themselves financially and have health insurance,you’re not comparing like forlike

[@JOEFABULOUS.]

There's no patriot like an expatriate

[@andrewrobinson2565]

@@JOEFABULOUS. +1. I'm an immigrant; passport, the works. 👍👍🏿👍👍🏿👍👍🏿☮️❤️🏖️.

[@kerryburns6041]

Lovely comment. Here in Andalucia the Ex--Pats are the English who refuse to try and learn a bit of Española, and consider the Spanish to be foreigners. The immigrants, (like me) find a warm welcome as soon as we try to assimilate. If only the same could be said of England ... This morning I spotted a guy on my lower terraces cutting the lush grass in my irrigation channels, for his rabbits. (Not pets ...) I wandered down for a chat, and introduced myself . He´s my neighbour, a Gitane, and we talked of the possibility of exchanging my avocados for his potatoes. This Englishman´s castle happens to be in Spain, and we do things differently here. I´d hate to be an immigrant in England.

[@rosslogie217]

General election now! down with the tories

[@chatham43]

....another intelligence offering from Rossy boy...that should be worth a few thumbs up here.😊.

[@raymondsawyer8626]

We can start sorting out the mess by a general election too remove the people who contributed to a lot of the problems we face in the United kingdom

[@monicanath4859]

Indeed! I do hope this happens soon!

[@hilarykirkby4771]

I despair of the gullibility of the British public. There was a time when I was ashamed to be British, but now it's changed: I am ashamed to be human.

[@chatham43]

...what is your problem with being British...this is what we are trying to protect....Britishness....

[@vapeymcvape5000]

Go sip your tea and eat your crumpet and leave the discussions to the grown ups.

[@joekavanagh7171]

@@chatham43 there is only one race - the human race.

[@zippymufo9765]

@@joekavanagh7171 Unfortunately for you the nation-state is the current model, which precludes such Utopian fantasies. If you want some "human race" movement, you need to push for supranational government.

[@AWMJoeyjoejoe]

@@chatham43 Can you define "Britishness" for me please?

[@37Raffaella]

Same in the US 🥺

[@brianwilliams9605]

The UK. Almost the national food is curry. Very much a UK dish. Go to where it really comes from. You love fake curry and call it British. If it wasn't for Queen Victoria there would be no curry for the masses. I think almost every curry is made by an immigrant and their families. Without those immigrants you would be left with the worst fish and chips in the world. Welcome immigrants. Your taste will love them.

[@Anglo_Browza]

That’s India Indian was British, one country… not Albania or Ukraine… we are a country not a charity

[@vinchenzo678]

They get Hotels now.. 3-4 star Fact, mobile phones and money. The way Council lists operate is on points. People who claim to be in danger or have children then go higher up on the list. So someone who is say 18 and wants there own place away from Parents then falls behind the ones who's parents havnt paid into the system all there working life. Fair?

[@Manu-Official]

In other positive news, Hancock is being deported.

[@martynblackburn9632]

He will be back and his constituents will be singing Hosanna when he does.

[@tenniskinsella7768]

We have to think of our own population.beforevwe let thousands of more people in

[@searan5130]

So tell me where do the thousands of asylum seekers actually end up living?

[@noelpucarua2843]

You don't even have to be born in the UK to be King. Think of all the Germans who have done it!

[@Mishima505]

George I and II were the last monarchs born outside the UK.

[@noelpucarua2843]

@@Mishima505 Thank you for providing the supporting information. I though people would know what I wrote is in fact correct, but you are probably right to give concrete examples. There are some who think that all their children and children's children etc, etc...right down today, are German.

[@johnmarsh2078]

We are facing huge swathes of the country running on fumes, people choosing between heating and eating etc. Yet we pay £2 billion pa to house people who pay criminal smugglers thousands to place them on boats to flee war-torn France. Then we pay the same sum again to provide food, pocket money and healthcare and education for these people. How can this be right, when our own citizens who were born here and have contributed to the country's coffers are in such dire straits? We should be very cross about the freeloaders invading our country in their hundreds of thousands. And even more cross that NOTHING is done to stem the tide.

[@animelover9037]

Spot on they are not refugees and why are they all young fighting age men some of which hate us !!!

[@buskingkarma2503]

Genuine question here for you James/his supporters,,,,do you have many economic immigrants living next door to you or in your community?

[@johndean8295]

Something not natural about this presenter ..he just twists everything and u wouldn't trust him.

[@francoisemcdermott6725]

Moved to Belgium before completing my degree with the OU.. finished and graduated in 2020. Graduation ceremony delayed till last month due to Covid. My photograph, paid for plus supplement given to my loving abroad arrived today, not cheap but proud husband insisted I get one.. I had to pay the equivalent of over £20.00 to the postman: Non-EU. I feel so sad for all the small UK businesses.

[@andrewwatts2443]

Jeremy Hunt: "Nothing is off the table" Rishi Sunak: "we are going to have to make some difficult decisions" Outcome: Taxing the rich and big business is off the table, closing tax loopholes is off the table, reclaiming money from dodgy contracts is off the table. Taking anyone to court for failing in their public contracts responsibilities, cutting corporate welfare is off the table. The least difficult decision in the world, cut welfare and public services. Dump the cost of everything onto the poor, working and middle class. When everything collapses sell it all off to the private sector as it's the only thing to do. Why do they need the extra time for the budget as we all know what they are going to do.

[@JOEFABULOUS.]

Another 120.000 sick and disabled killed by Tory austerity policies just like 12 years ago before ian Duncan Smith crawled off in shame

[@annemoncrieff3875]

Reasons Scotland needs out because these r not our views, politics policies.

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@annemoncrieff3875 You do know that most of the UK would follow you at this point, and form a Greater Scotland?

[@marcchrys]

I was born in Germany because my Greek Cypriot dad was in the RAF..and only came to the UK when I was 3... am I not "British"? :-(

[@joekavanagh7171]

Are decency, integrity and humanity now things of the past?

[@y_ffordd]

yes

[@Haree78]

I saw some people reacting to the 1 in 6 in /r/ukpolitics like it was vindication that we needed to do something about it, that it was proof of a huge crisis. The fact that that is an entirely normal statistic for developed countries and lower than many others seemed to go over their head. How do these people expect growth enough to pay off the astronomical debt the Tories have racked up, and our pensions without importing hard working cheap labour?

[@RavenGhostwisperer]

But what about the purity of the British blood? It has to be at least as pure britishness as the royal family ... oh, wait ...

[@Aegmog]

Of course, the only way to pay off debt is to import more people and expect them to work the worst jobs because they're cheap. I thought they came for a better life, but no, you expect them to clean your toilet (and live 9 to a house to afford the rent). Not to mention the forecast 'era of austerity' to stabilize the economy.. continued mass immigration and continued cuts to services, what could possibly go wrong?

[@bipolarminddroppings]

@@RavenGhostwisperer Britain has no pure blood, thats the joke. We are mongrels with blood from just about every other European country that invaded us over the centuries. Italian blood - check. French blood - check. Norse blood - check. Germanic blood - check. We were always the most multicultral place in Europe, even a thousand years ago. Its why our language is a bastardisation of French, Latin, Norse and Germanic words...

[@bjsvp]

How do you know they are hard working?

[@johncharlesworth3770]

The latest visitors are not allowed to work.

[@koevoetje]

The UK has become a sad country......

[@BA-sf4uw]

the rhetoric aboyt refugees is very disturbing. so disturning i cannot stomach it

[@tomazou2010]

When does it stop? When does it become too many? 40K this year, already enough to fill a town, 60k next year? Where is the line? Should we take every Albanian that wants to come to the UK just because they want a better life? Every Syrian? Iranian? Eritrean? We can't house the whole of Africa or the Middle East just because they 'want a better life', how is it the burden of the UK to bare? How is it fair that young, healthy, fit men are able to come to the UK, because they have the means (somehow) to have paid £3000- £5000 to people smugglers but those who desperately and genuinely need it can't? I'd argue that anyone who can afford to pay that to criminals is NOT a genuine refugee, but an economic migrant. Just because "we're not as high" as other countries in arrivals does not make it 'RIGHT' that people are illegally entering the country. My grandmother came here from Cyprus in the 1960s on a work permit, my partner is a Croatian who came to the UK on a work permit in 2013, asylum seekers who can afford to pay thousands to illegally cross the boarder spit in the face of all the hard working immigrants who jumped through hoops to come to the UK legally. Furthermore, the UK needs to get tougher, introduce a Zero tolerance policy for anyone granted asylum, if they commit a crime, deport them.

[@dolmen6613]

try telling any of this to JOB and his Remainiac friends

[@ljt3084]

One in six born overseas. I just checked. Its one in four in the government itself if you include family members, parents etc. Where is that Daily Mail headline.

[@angelalord6269]

those came here legally not in dinghies across the Channel. It is the sheer number of those crossing this way that is infuriating people.

[@Hundeputzmunter]

@@angelalord6269 Surely you can see that this immigration rhetoric is simply designed to get people angry and distract them from the incompetence of our government?

[@angelalord6269]

@@Hundeputzmunter Yes I can see that too. It doesn't stop them coming over does it - only the tides and weather does that.

[@terryloftus8626]

😂😂,Excatly,even their hero Bozo was born in New York,but let's be quiet about that.America are having the same debate which is hilarious because their ALL immigrants 😂😂😂😂

[@angelalord6269]

@@terryloftus8626 there are still a few true Americans - the immigrants didn't wipe them all out.

[@travelwell6049]

Suella Distraction Braverman. Does she know she’s descended from immigrants?

[@steviemac42]

Is every show about brexit, let it go James.

[@Human_Being__]

The basic fact is that we simply don't want them here! Our NHS is already on the brink.

[@sliceoflife7423]

Could've sworn in another of his videos, it's mentioned your NHS is also being held together by immigrants, cause of staffing issues and all. Also show your health care workers more love in general. It shouldn't be on the brink if yall actually cared about it.

[@Daisy-yq1gi]

My wife is Ghanaian and it took 18 months for us to bring her here legally. Albanians are neither asylum seekers or refugees. James your failure to distinguish between genuine and deserving refugees and chances is problematic.....

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Its not his job to distinguish between them. Its the government's. I'm sure James is fine with sending people away who aren't genuine refugees, I know I am. But we don't know who is genuine and who isnt until their applications have been processed and so in a decent society, we presume they are all genuine until their case has been heard, just as we presume someone is innocent until proven guilty.

[@chatham43]

....jumping the queue and spoiling it for genuine asylum seekers is pretty disgusting but James doesn't mind.

[@vanrutgar6536]

Well said Either James is naive or simply stirring us all up

[@vanrutgar6536]

@@bipolarminddroppings apart from the homeless indigenous Brits who end up destitute in doorways Meanwhile dingy invasion get hot meals and a bed

[@TheEverest72]

@@vanrutgar6536 He’s not naïve.

[@kathleentheverybestigreene8186]

Keep it up James👏👏👏

[@TomRipley7350]

So what do we tell old women finding illegal immigrants in their homes and gardens in Dover about whom we know nothing? Does their fear mean nothing?

[@sarangistudent8614]

Did you know that anyone can arrive here from India and walk into 10 Downing Street and become prime minister without even needing an election. It’s true I tell you, saw it in the daily mail of all places 🤣🤣🤣

[@CliffUK49]

I think it depends on how much money you give to the Tory party 🤮. It must be a fair bit because a peerage is about £3 million 😔😔😔.

[@lindapestridge3073]

Price less .

[@FormulaProg]

How dare Brits get mad at illegal immigration shock horror

[@ChristopherCricketWallace]

what a finish! "...because they're telling me to." WOW.

[@ThomasKing19933]

We do have to get a grip on the migrant situation James, the government is in total chaos.

[@basilfawlty8244]

The chaos is NOTHING to do with immigrants. Blame the culprits, not the scapegoats.

[@ThomasKing19933]

@@basilfawlty8244 that's basically what I'm saying, I'm not blaming immigrants.

[@makslargu5799]

But asylum seekers are not immigrants, that’s a conflation.

[@imagecollections6665]

It's not the government's fault 40,000 people have turned up expecting asylum. It's the French.

[@imagecollections6665]

@@ThomasKing19933 Yes it's the immigrants. Shouldn't be coming here. Stay in France.

[@WhippyWhipGaming]

I'm going to say something very unpopular now but it has to be said, it's not the amount of asylum seekers people are worried about, its the culture many of them come from, a big amount of the come from cultures where women are considered second class citizens etc. If it were 49k Italians and Germans coming across on boats nobody would care, but people in the uk don't want homophobic and misogynistic cultures seeping its way into towns where our daughters live

[@upnorth2421]

Yep, that is why you have gladly taken so many ukrainian women with their children /s

[@WhippyWhipGaming]

@@upnorth2421 I'm not in charge of who's allowed to come here, I'm just telling what the public are thinking,

[@ragajos]

@@upnorth2421 what's wrong with Ukrainians

[@ragajos]

I thought being in the EU ref free movement was free movement of EU citizens eg Italy, Germany, France etc. Not the whole of North Africa and the middle east which happened after Germany opened its borders wide

[@geoffpegler4506]

@@WhippyWhipGaming how do you know what the public are thinking?

[@jrsydvl7218]

We have our right wing lunatics telling everyone "If you don't like it, leave". I guess they never considered leaving one place has them arriving in another.

[@jstelzner]

Just think how much money they saved the NHS on neonatal care.

[@cpuuk]

In 2019 299 people landed by boat; In 2022 22,000 have landed. But for the life of me I can't work out what changed in-between. I'm no expect, but I think "taking back control" doesn't mean what Tories think it means.

[@LiveDonkeyDeadLion]

Alp Mehmet, the current chairman of Migration Watch said in an interview in 2013 with the BBC that he arrived in the United Kingdom from Cyprus in 1956 when he was aged eight, but unable to speak English. Cyprus of course was part of the commonwealth meaning he automatically had British citizenship in those days, but the law has since been changed meaning that if he hasn’t come here in 1956 he would no longer be a British citizen. Kinda like what they are trying to do to the Windrush generation

[@dave10097]

Support provided under section 95 of the 1999 Act is usually provided in the form of free, furnished accommodation (with no utility bills or Council Tax to pay) and a weekly cash allowance to cover the asylum seeker's other essential living needs. Free access to healthcare and schooling is also provided.19 Apr 2022

[@markjones3459]

No one can tell the truth? Only you according to you

[@okaythanks7855]

James, my heartfelt thanks for the important work you do every day. As an immigrant who came to the UK at 15 (now 30) but who outwardly looks and sounds native British, I am often scared to reveal my true origins to people as I have been stung by negative reactions in the past. You have helped me feel like I do indeed belong here, and that I am a valid member of British society, even when sometimes it does not feel that way. I hope you are allowed to continue being a beacon of reason, common sense and compassion for as long as possible.

[@okaythanks7855]

@Paul W.A Thanks for the kind words. I am Egyptian but of Greek heritage, so I look caucasian. I also don't have a discernible accent when I speak English.

[@billymabum3514]

Until you next door to 15 of them you don’t get a say

[@tarquinmerryweather4929]

"James get your tin out again" says Keith.

[@ashleecantu6470]

Things there and things in the US are practically identical. The major difference is you guys have healthcare.

[@michaelk.jensen1611]

For now...

[@alanpatten468]

One in six born overseas.Why am I getting cross about that? Not cross but sad. A statistic that makes me realise how poorly managed immigration into this country over my lifetime is one of the reasons the very nature and cultural fabric of British society has changed for the worse and the country is now comprised of many people who do not share our values or beliefs and largely, though there are exceptions, choose to live in ghettos with those of their own faith and background. Assimilation to them is an unworthy concept.

[@tt-ew7rx]

We did not implement the optional restrictions on freedom of movement because we wanted to counter the supposed France-Germany axis in the EU by courting support from some of the other countries, many of which want no restrictions on their people to move to the UK. The same motivation, in addition to strapping us more tightly onto the US foreign policy priorities, drove our enthusiastic support for the eastward expansion of the EU - more eastern countries joining would theoretically dilute the influence of France-Germany and those countries would naturally follow the lead of the UK wouldn't they? As it turned out, not at all. As usual, our own miscalculations are always blamed on other people.

[@g.p616]

The greater the immigration, the lower the wages and training we can demand.

[@andrewwelsh131]

and boris gets free £20k accommodation from the billionaire who make sure he gets over £100k per speech

[@anthonydebski5814]

James....you tenure on this Planet...has been an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT, more...an ABSOLUTE necessity! your career leaves a TRUE legacy of fact-checking and human-scale argument for a BETTER Society...Live Long & Prosper, Mate!!

[@GurmitBSingh]

Perfectly right

[@jimbobjimjim6500]

"Mariana Trench of delusion" Lulz!!!.....One of my favorite things O Brien said is "Performance art stupidity" lulz, he said it months ago.

[@Welshy101]

Truth ? yet why should we think your telling the truth ? You have your point and free speech but your nit 100% right your blind sided like most people. How many have you let in your house that have come off the boats ? How many do you have next door to you ? 🤔

[@paulsmith5218]

The other day he was telling us that all other countries take more than us. When that turned out to be bs he now says it doesn’t matter anyway how many we take.

[@adamweisshaup]

Where was the argument against the alarm at the illegal immigrant problem here in England? Oh, right. It's a James o'Brien commentary, never mind.

[@5ynthesizerpatel]

what illegal immigrant problem?

[@adamweisshaup]

@@5ynthesizerpatel I suppose that depends on ones own perspective from a nationalistic point of view, Mr Patel.

[@5ynthesizerpatel]

@@adamweisshaup - or you could, you know, describe the problem instead of dancing around it like a coward

[@adamweisshaup]

@@5ynthesizerpatel I don't know why I have to explain this to you like you're an idiot, but this is the internet I suppose. A relatively small island with a limited capacity to cope with the needs of its LEGAL citizenry will be strained and begin to fail to provide basic and vital services to those who haven't scammed their way here through student visa schemes or passed through several safe European countries in order to claim asylum. Scammers and outright criminals have no right to further burden the NHS, national power grid, water treatment facilities and other vital aspects of infrastructure because England is a soft touch. Is that clear enough for you or are big bright coloured crayons needed for a further explanation?

[@kevinmoran1216]

Get Braverman out she's very dangerous I don't care if she says things we want to hear , she is very bad news and she has to go

[@iangascoigne8231]

The funny thing is the group of people who have done the best in the last 12 years is pensioners with the triple lock.

[@chatham43]

....and they should be so grateful.

[@romystumpy1197]

Pensioners are the customers I see in my local m&s foodhall,pensioners going on holiday 4 times a yr, but they aren't drunks gamblers or smokers

[@iangascoigne8231]

@@romystumpy1197 What’s gambling and smoking got to do with anything? I think there a some pensioners out there who gamble and smoke.

[@militellum]

Are the British Tories a reflection of the American Republicans or vice versa? Both are offering their respective countries nothing but division and derision and both are using reprehensible “replacement theory” bs because they are devoid of humaneness.

[@craigfowler7098]

Well said

[@neilgentleman-hobbs8267]

What an absolute star this man is. Sad he wouldn't be allowed on prime time TV

[@Aegmog]

Stunning and brave. To really put his words into perspective do yourself a favor, take a visit to Manor Park in London anytime after dark. It's a real eye opener.

[@afeefm2887]

@@Aegmog 😂😂😂 bro picked manor park of all places

[@gedrooney9305]

Prime time TV is exactly where he belongs..just after Lovejoy

[@zippymufo9765]

James is wealthy and doesn't have to rub elbows with these "immigrants" that he claims to love.

[@vanrutgar6536]

@@zippymufo9765 exactly

[@richardstrong293]

Absolutely full of it

[@hermeshermu]

As Belarus, England is using fptp, so therefore that's part of the problem along with political uneducated people.

[@johncummins3860]

We have gone way beyond a "certain point " and you know it! !

[@BetsyBigNose]

Yes right about the conflation, but that doesn't mean absolutely nothing should be done about people illegally entering the country via "small boats" from (safe and nice country) France.

[@chatham43]

....yep these remoaners love France except when it it counters their argument of fleeing persecution in France.😂😂

[@bipolarminddroppings]

No one said nothing should be done. You are arguing against a position that no one is arguing for...

[@alistairroyle9337]

Don't need any

[@garethjohnstone9282]

"Refugees" from Albania?

[@swanvictor887]

didn't that old lady with her face on the stamps, marry some Greek bloke....?

[@lesley7239]

And she was of german descent herself

[@paulinehood5526]

In terms of housing, I am homeless or roof less living with my parents I have two kids, a house cane up in my parents street I spoke with the housing officer and was told that someone more in need had been allocated the house. It transpires the someone more in need was a family of immigrants who had originally lived in London but didn't like it so moved to Scotland and declared themselves homeless as they didn't like London. I am still living with my parents 2 years on, thier neighbour handed in new toys for thier kid to teu and make them welcome hecwas told no thanks we do not want to integrate we have our own people, so please don't bother us.

[@sandrafinbar]

Wow, that comment not to bother us is straight to the point. How ungrateful !

[@dondoodat]

Daily Mail, registered in a tax haven and owners living in France, all to avoid contributing tax to our country. Telling us who are patriotic and who aren't. You couldn't make it up.

[@barrybarry6592]

The strategy in my view is that of a magician, draw the eye away from the real action.

[@bryansmith1920]

this emotion I have about the current situation I have suddenly realised must be how a roman citizen would have felt living during Caligula's reign

[@markwilliams2620]

Yep. The sales at _Summa Vinum_ must have been through the roof.

[@pointsofsue2487]

When you are rich and privileged like James O'Brien then you can mock.

[@rosesandviolets1554]

Government is trying to stop people complaining about what is really important here which is affording food for our table by the way prices are going. I love the way you talk about it and really makes sense. People should not listen and believe everything politicians say

[@davidcooks2379]

James, you are absolutely right, everybody was happy with immigration and asylum seekers up to a certain point. This point was passed about 15 years ago

[@Kevinho11]

What happened about 15 years ago that crossed the line for you?

[@tony_w839]

Allegedly, The Daily Mail started an anti-immigration campaign against Labour culminating in Tory governments since 2010.

[@mw89181]

@@Kevinho11 The answer is plainly obviously; too many people came here. 10 million people legally plus millions illegally is far too much. It has meant that our country has become segregated and foreign cultures have displaced British culture and communities. This would not be accepted in any other country and it is not acceptable here.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Asylum numbers have been lower for the last 15 years than the previous 3 decades. How exactly has historically low numbers caused people to have had enough?

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@mw89181 Daily Mail reader detected.

[@peterjol]

It might make people welcome immigrants/asylum seekers if it was simply made financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would agree we NEED people to do and work much less....in that way more people coming into the country can only mean we get to enjoying working even less...with no loss at all, real or imagined.

[@DrMontague]

Capitalism has to exploit human for profit. They couldn't let you work 10 hours a week and give you a full time wage. This would mean they would be operating at a loss

[@goyonman9655]

There's more to life than finance and taxation

[@terrencehook2031]

"Nobody tells the truth" who is your actual mum and dad, and your birth grandad, who was a policeman? "Nobody tells the truth". (According to Wikipedia!)

[@malcolmholmes2205]

So glad my family and I don't and will NEVER live in England

[@janephilpott6565]

Wow, this is sooooo accurate and concise 👏👏 well blo0dy said.

[@Mogzilla86]

Let's keep spending 7m a day on illegal immigrants instead of the British

[@punkndisorderly7691]

Am I supposed to have been convinced something by watching that?

[@hohohohehehe6910]

Something tells me that evidence wouldn't be enough for you.

[@punkndisorderly7691]

@@hohohohehehe6910 don't listen to the voices in your head pal

[@krisradjpaul278]

How many illegal immigrants live in Chiswick?

[@TheGazza636]

This is smoke screen tactics again.typical torys.time we got them out.

[@bryansmith1920]

It's George Orwell's two minuet hate room created in this physical realm and named Braverman's closet