What the establishment gets wrong on immigration - Deep Dive into The Economist's analysis

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This is a Patreon-only deep dive into what the establishment gets wrong about immigration.. I've made it public because it's suddenly more relevant than ever.
The Economist is a good proxy for establishment thinking. It's increasingly leftist and idealistic, and it's very influential. The Economist's main article for the year is on migration, so I've gone through it and broken apart its arguments and assumptions.
Left-wing idealists see immigration as an inherent moral good (diversity=strength, yay!), while politicians see Britain as a banal economic platform and people as GDP-generating nodes, so want a steady supply of cheap labour to inflate the economy.
Both are missing a realistic view of immigration and how some country's shared values and culture give rise to a prosperous, free and pleasant society while others don't.
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[@TheJon2442]

Funny how so many are escaping war. But spend their holidays back in the counties they were escaping from!

[@adam7802]

lmao I know a girl who told me her sister is in a relationship with a guy who came here fleeing war... and he has gone on holiday back to the country he fled from. Not even joking. If I hadn't heard this I wouldn't believe your comment.

[@clogs4956]

I have encountered people who popped back to their war-torn country to see their old Mum every few months. The idea that they might be involved in smuggling never crossed me mind 🙄

[@fensterrose1585]

Right there's your chance. Bar the gate to re-entry. When re-migration comes (and it will come) any "refugee" is either barred from re-entry or, if they've gone "home" for a visit they can be sent back.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

I knew two Afghan men, brothers in their 20s who legged it over here to escape the Taliban the first time round, they left their mother behind, they never did try to get her over here, she's the one that should have been let in here not them. all they did was moan that the local council shoved them in a flat together instead of give them separate ones, hated those two absolutely entitled and blind to how good they had it. I couldn't get a council place at all and they got handed one within 6 months, fully furnished too.

[@swskating3865]

Well, if we know they left, maybe we can deny re-entry. We should put a ' don't take the piss' clause in our OWN convention on human rights instead of the EU one eh

[@AllanHinde-mb2pr]

Rome, Carthage, Constantinople never realised how much trouble they were in until it was too late

[@davidb3172]

Carthage went to war against the Romans. The Romans laid seige to Carthage and won. They destroyed Carthage, took into slavery the inhabitants and salted the earth around the city.

[@TheHeninhardenne]

Lebanon too

[@perikleshistory]

​@@TheHeninhardenne this one still upsets me

[@glenleon323]

Spain, Portugal, Greece, Persia, Egypt, Israel, etc

[@villhelm]

and guess who opened the gates every time… I’ll give you a hint, they’re currently wiping out a little strip of land in the Middle East…

[@evolassunglasses4673]

This is OUR ancestral homeland not an economic zone open to the World in the interests of international finance.

[@glenleon323]

The WEF runs it

[@laikanbarth]

Need to find out who is pushing all of this immigration. I’m talking about the wizard behind the curtain.

[@DeezNuggz]

you were conquered long ago

[@colin25250]

Good luck with that idea 🤔

[@rachelar]

That London

[@Sussex_Seagull]

thousands of young, battle hardened males arriving with no planning for location....what could possible go wrong?

[@Baldnesz]

Not battle hardened, Most are cowards or thieves.

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

​@Baldnesz every one of them with at least one "forceful intimate moment" to their name. Get ready for the left to say "well ask chloe in the local pub how many times johnny carling has been a bit persuasive" true, this happens. But ask them, do we need the boat people ADDING to it?

[@EdwardLowe-qv6yk]

​@@beaterbikechannel2538we don't need 99% of them, only 1% can work and that's for pizza deliveries. Load of crap.

[@dadrising6464]

Absolute madness imposed on all of Europe by the few benefiting.

[@jimhowes2983]

You forgot to mention how "tolerant" they are

[@ZX81v2]

When the Left is that far, everything else is the far right.

[@offshoretomorrow3346]

Notice the language: "rich" and "poor" countries? M***ist-speak for 'oppressor' and 'victim'. Which is poisonous lie. The Far Left is a mix of naked evil and raving insanity.

[@Jimbo-hw2rr]

Amen, mass delusion has permeated throughout society for far too long now

[@irreverend_]

The actual far left and actual far right are equally reprehensible. One thing is certain to me at least, the cons have fucked us and they aren't getting in again. What the hell was that shit with Truss?

[@Andrew-is7rs]

@@irreverend_ Who are the ‘far right’, where are they, what influence do they have, define ‘far right’ please

[@AsurmenHandOfAsur]

And their candidate is a Trotskyist!

[@elsmallo]

Unfortunately, simply talking about immigration, Islam and identity marks one out as a dangerous bigot in modern polite society. These people stand upon the achievements of their ancestors whilst denigrating their achievements and denying their hand in the creation of our successful, peaceful and ordered societies. It is a form of suicide, this pathological exophilia. I will vote for reform but we will be getting a Labour government, where these ideas are rampant. We are in trouble.

[@Norvik_-ug3ge]

@@elsmallo Labour gets five years. If Reform replaces the Conservatives in the meantime, the future is secure. Vote Reform.

[@czypauly07]

Have you read labours manifesto though? They clearly state how they intend to fix parliament so that they ​don't lose power. I'm extremely worried. @@Norvik_-ug3ge

[@Drasnier]

It also gets you targeted by the Islamists already in your country, with almost zero defence from your countrymen...

[@domm6812]

That is exactly it. It's become a dangerous, poisonous thing to discuss. People aren't willing to be rational or open minded anymore. They would rather lead with emotion and block out all logic and reason (and yes, of course emotion is a part of everything, but it shouldn't be the overriding, controlling force in decision making)

[@Moonlight99995]

I'm from Iraq and it terrifies me seeing UK turning into another Iraq , I hope more people start to wake up and stop this madness.

[@littlecatfeet9064]

I feel for you, because it’s the well-meaning white leftists who don’t listen to people like you who understand the risks.

[@jeremymott]

My condolences on what happened to your country

[@charliekane135]

They bring their hatred and repressed, barbaric ways with them. THAT'S the problem

[@chenrhrh]

I agree :/

[@londoncalling1757]

Then the authorities try to convince everyone it's an isolated incident !

[@danieltalbot8070]

A sick practical joke has been perpetrated against us. 'Close your eyes, everyone.... Now open them!' ...... 'Where the fuck has England gone? And Scotland! Wales! Ireland!'

[@a_lost_one]

Just watched 'Bastille - Pompeii' for the first time in about 8 years. It really hits differently now, given the current state of.. everything.

[@jamesdouglas6652]

Yes even Ireland has a sudden concept of immigration after centuries of the opposite… they have to adapt far more quickly than the U.K. a has been having to over the past several decades

[@maccagrabme]

Reform or lose this country, its as simple as that.

[@user-hg2ow2em6n]

​@@maccagrabmehope that's true or it will require a..... civil conflict!

[@spm36]

I went to the south coast near Bournemouth this weekend...large groups of Africans all laughing and joking on the beach...they ain't running from war just laughing at us

[@maccagrabme]

Its like hitting the jackpot for them, all expenses paid and not having to work. Meanwhile the rest of us are expected to pay for everything. Its Reform or we lose this country and everything we own.

[@dryrat8282]

They will never learn, because they have no interest in it

[@tonydavies3511]

I’d rather be Far Right than Far Wrong. VOTE REFORM and get OUR country back!

[@lachlank.8270]

You've got to come up with new puns guys

[@tonydavies3511]

@@lachlank.8270 I'd rather come up with a new government that has it's people's best interests at heart, rather than the WEF Uniparty puppets we've had for the past 30 years.

[@01r1sh]

@@tonydavies3511 30 years? And some.....

[@MrAgonizomai]

Happy people have babies. If the Brits are not having babies, it means that the government are not giving them anything to be happy about. If the natural, indigenous people of the country are not having babies, the government should be addressing their issues, not pandering to the people they bring in to replace them.

[@duckcensorship7446]

I'd take 200 000 of the nation builders from Hong Kong, over any of these economic migrants who offer us nothing.

[@joygallavan6790]

we dont need them, we already have a nation built ! Britain for the British not Nigerians OR Hong Kong nationals !

[@EdwardLowe-qv6yk]

Too true

[@jdbm1978]

It's just as much about quantity as quality. It would be disaster if all ex pats returned over the course of 5 years. There's a lack of housing, doctors, school places, police - whatever you like.

[@joel4535]

dont want any of any other nation thankyou

[@StephenTovey1960]

These immigrants stoke anger from the locals... and this will explode over time! It started to happen some time ago!

[@andysandy97]

C'Mon Leo, why aren't you standing for PM? You are the most sensible person I am hearing at this time of electioneering!!

[@charliekane135]

He's too honest, doesn't have the required deflection and lying gene.

[@garyshotter8802]

He's far too trustworthy.

[@MegaRugster]

It's easier to talk bs than commit to action. Leo is all mouth and no brains.

[@charliekane135]

@MegaRugster Oh he DEFINITELY has brains. Nobody could write such scathing, satirical, sarcastic and funny dialogue without brains. Ironically, you had to edit a post containing 16 words 😆 You were saying . . . . . ?

[@MegaRugster]

@@charliekane135 I spelt a word wrong.. Leo is just another insulter, he isn't funny, but sometimes he is close to being right.

[@NicholasBrakespear]

I have the unfortunate privilege of being middle class in background, destitute and living in a council house in reality, after being made homeless by a landlady using that nice little legal loophole to reclaim the property without reason. As such, not only do I get to see reality as it actually is, and see how strained and broken basic services are now for those of us at the bottom, but I get to see middle class acquaintances constantly going on about the "far right" and telling me that my neighbour, who bought his council house and always drove a Mercedes, is a refugee - despite them knowing nothing about him. At university, while in the process of being made homeless, I was being told by middle-class peers that I was a fascist for my concerns. Now here I sit, trying desperately to sell books that nobody wants to read in an attempt to claw my way out of the gutter, and I can't even vote Reform in the hopes of some change steering this country back in the right direction, because there is no Reform candidate here - probably because the panic-election was specifically designed to prevent Reform from having a full-length campaign. Incidentally, isn't it about time we put a stop to that? Surely calling a snap election should be for emergencies only - not to wield election timing as a political weapon. Surely calling an early election for political purposes should be considered interference?

[@gwensteddy2038]

Welcome to the world. Make the most of it.. it's up to you whether you enjoy it or not. Ps some people can't get a council house, so maybe that's a privilege you got too 😁

[@NicholasBrakespear]

@@gwensteddy2038 There really are some tone deaf people in the world. What a shame they stubbornly refuse to stop singing.

[@user-qc5mz8fc7x]

A not so little side note ,one which I had not considered until now ,not having a candidate could be because of lack of time given before election or no one came forward at all ,does not help you either way maybe in 4 yrs or sooner things will work out

[@joygallavan6790]

too late now but you do sound like you would have been a great reform candidate,perhaps next time?

[@NicholasBrakespear]

@@user-qc5mz8fc7x Well let's be real - due to the political system, it's unlikely that Reform will save us all from a Labour government this time around. But it should mean that they're in a prime position for the next one.

[@Mari-Suzuki835]

VOTE REFORM UK!!! Enough is ENOUGH!!!!

[@markm-ci6rj]

Vote for another rent a gob like Johnson

[@stephensimpson8531]

Marx was against economic migration - he’d be “far right” now

[@codinghusky5196]

That's one thing he was correct on. Economic migration destroys families as well as countries. My country has huge economic emigration which skyrocketed once we joined the EU. The results are: - huge decline in local workforce quality and availability due to everyone with a bit of mettle and merit choosing the easy way out and emigrating instead of working hard to better the country and the society; - huge decline in number of children; as not only do the women also emigrate and birth children abroad, but the remaining population figures their kids will emigrate and so what's the point of having kids when you won't have a family when you age anyway

[@userre85]

​@@codinghusky5196 Greece?

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

He would have been against trans too, so definitely he would have seen that ideology as capitalist and luxury to feather the nests of big pharma by dangling a carrot very similar to the religions he detested.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

oh look my comment vanished for saying he'd be against the gender thing too, wonder why they delete things that are true, YT read some marx

[@stephensimpson8531]

@@GreatSageSunWukong lol - he was also something of a “race realist”. In conclusion - Marx was not woke. I hearby declare him cancelled 😛

[@TheGamesEmporium]

Land and resources are finite. The vast majority coming in are a net fiscal cost to the economy. They often require social housing, benefits and access to the NHS and the education system. We can't carry on like this.

[@davidbarnes4462]

Not often. Almost 100%.

[@Usual_Goon]

At what point do we become like South Africa where only something around 30% of the population work, and of that 30%, 2% pay 80% of taxes.

[@TheGamesEmporium]

@Usual_Goon That's exactly where we are heading. I'm in my early 20s. The street I grew up in during the 2000s has been completely transformed. What was once family homes with smart, well-kept gardens has become a rubbish strewn mess. Houses have become bedsits, HMOs with the gardens ripped up for parking, extentions and outbuildings. It has effectively become a slum. My Mam and Dad sold up back in 2013 as they saw what was coming. I now live alone and nowhere live where I spent most of my childhood.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

and on average muslims have 6 kids per woman and they all have to be educated and get extra benefits like tax credits and child benefit who's paying for that?, even if the parents work (and muslim men can have upto 4 wives each) 2 parents wages paying their taxes is not going to cover the cost of education, medical needs, dentists, opticians and depending on where you are in the country free public transport for their 6 kids for 18 years. it does not add up, the political parties keep telling us we need the immigration because we are an aging society and someone needs to wipe our bums in a few years, the maths does not add up at all when they have 6+ kids in tow. Japan is an aging society too and they just build more robots and vending machines to fill the gaps and they are doing a damn sign better then us with a far higher standard of living, low crime and high social cohesion.

[@victorcates9330]

The argument seem to be some is good, so more is better, while ignoring if the 'some' were selected, encouraged to integrate and whether they had infrastructure in place. The some is good, more is better thing seems idiotic. Some water might be good for your crops. More might be better. Or not. It's contextual. They made a comparison to Australia. The bulk of Australian immigration has tended to be Indian or Chinese, I think. Some kiwis. But if people are coming from India, then maybe they speak some English or tend to speak Hindi. A while back, African migrants to New York went to some meeting and complained about things like food and pointed out that housing African migrants together didn't really work because they spoke dozens of different languages (a fair point, really). It might be as sensible as deciding that at an earlier point that you were getting a bunch of people from European warzones, so would have a hotel house all the refugees from the Balkans. Living in reality requires knowing that you'd need housing, translation services and come with the problem of people who, for all you know, might only have a primary education. If a lack of infrastructure dooms you to be an underclass, you might not have much nice to say about your new home. They also cited refugees settling in nations near them as some kind of proof. As is, western nations might actively block or discourage immigration, or plausibly contribute to housing refugees as long as it's far away. They have policies and treaties and relationships to manage the issue. So when the Economist scoffs at the idea that rich nations are discussing a flood, it wilfully ignores steps taken to get ahead of the issue. "It's not a flood" dodges the basic question of whether it could be a flood. (which would give the people's concerns a basic level of rationality).

[@martinheath5947]

Talking of poor countries, wages in Britain haven't kept up with overheads since about the mid 80s. At this point, apart from a rich and privileged select group at the very top, anyone with functioning eyes and ears is witnessing our rapid descent into third world status.

[@geoffdundee]

@martinheath5947 ........in 1999 i was earning £19k a year................that very same job is now advertised with the going rate at £20k a year

[@dadrising6464]

More of a decent into serfdom 2.0

[@01r1sh]

Not long now until the purge / hunger games begin, I estimate 25 years at most.

[@RandomWandrer]

No. Look, I know it's going downhill. But even at its worst, Britain is nowhere near third world. Go travelling. Look at how people live in second world lands like Egypt and much of India. The UK isn't even close to second world. I understand how everyone here is feeling. But let's not exaggerate, or we are just liars like the "economists" discussed in this video :(

[@janpetersen7440]

Immigration to western welfare societies is a direct economic deficit business because it burdens public services very heavily. In the years 1995-2019, the total cost of immigration amounted to over €400 billion in the Netherlands. Corresponding figures for the UK are probably 3-4 times higher.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

It baffles me how the economists can doctor the figures to make it look like mass immigration is a good thing. Sure, if you bring in even one person, he adds to the state’s economic activity, if only because his hotel has to be paid for, and his free iphone, and his food allowance, and therefore he adds to state GDP. But how is that a good thing if everyone here already has to pay for it? It’s bonkers, makes zero sense.

[@andrewhotston983]

Economists never calculate the cost of the extra infrastructure that each immigrant requires. In fact, they deny that extra people need more schools, hospitals, roads, etc!

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

They all use resources .Unless we are talking about golden visa millionaires .They were often money laundering anyway

[@helenromanelli2544]

Hailing from the USA--I follow British politics pretty closely. I find your youtubes and interviews to be very thoughtful, thought-provoking and balanced. I thank you. We need more journalists like you. Of course, those in the mainstream have to tow the party line--they might wish to speak about the issues of the day with a less biased cast, but...anyway. Glad you are here.

[@yvonnelashford2969]

Leo is a comedian with a side hobby but these days that’s where we are finding real news - Jo Rogan, Russell Brand and Jimmy Dore are others.

[@lockymonster]

They had the argument in the USA someone said migrants bring in 15 billion the senator replied but it's costing us 150 billion so we're still 135 billion down.

[@Scitch-et4vk]

Vote reform 🇬🇧 last chance to save the uk here. If Labour get in we are done !

[@ukguy]

I honestly think Labour will get in, but they will do such a terrible job that Farage will get in the next election.

[@_Devil]

Its funny how slippery the slope was from "No, it's not happening" to "Yes, it is happening, and it's a good thing"

[@revanslacey]

Would love it if Leo was a Reform MP.

[@gwensteddy2038]

Lol he wouldn't be able to keep his sarcasm in check.... But it would be entertaining 😂

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Humour is the perfect political weapon. It penetrates the shield of lies that politicians create to protect themselves and strikes straight at the heart of the matter.

[@johnscott-kw3bf]

Don't think he is a Putin fan.

[@basic_unit]

Well said Leo! You're on fire.

[@elsmallo]

Christ, my choices are: 1. Immigrants or 2. Robots. Can't I have 3. My own people

[@Oseiwe]

I love this guy. Reminds me of when I discovered Bill Mahr in America. You guys call yourselves comedians but you clearly have better senses than those entrusted with the power to determine where society goes

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Yep. Always liked Bill Maher, though he suffers from acute TDS and nothing, not even a mountain of actual facts, will convince him the orange man is not a psycho who wants somehow to destroy America. He was one of the few lefties who was talking openly about Biden’s dementia long before “that” debate.

[@GalorOmer]

Finally someone speaks about the NGO complex, really important to expose them.

[@williammkydde]

The cruel irony: NGO supported by govt, while its definition as such explicitely excludes govt.

[@jondingwall5941]

They are never prosecuted for illegal people trafficking, but if a stowaway sneaks into a truckers vehicle the unfortunate driver will be fined tens of thousands of pounds

[@erloriel]

I mean, I was called "Adolf" today for telling someone that they shouldn't cross, when the light is red. So I suppose it is more about a celebration of the rejection of any and all laws of a society...

[@Baldnesz]

They know the laws they can exploit.

[@erloriel]

​@@Baldnesz Oh no, these were "locals". Just very left-leaning ones that are absolutely desperate to reject reality and think that any form of control (including emotional self-control) is fascism.

[@swskating3865]

Let them cross on red, might induce the darwinian possibilities

[@lamestreammedia3154]

People say being a waiter doesn't pay. Hey, it puts food on the table.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

boooooooo hissssss

[@gregsmith1070]

😮🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ragnarironspear1791]

Brilliant as always Leo

[@Albemarle7]

They know exactly what they are doing! Great Replacement is the true goal.

[@joygallavan6790]

Cloward Piven strategy

[@Camille_Anderson]

Most are African, Albanian or of M.Eastern origins and are military aged males. We are paying billions to hotels for their stay & then they receive priority stock social housing fully furnished and on full benefits. The billions wasted on human rights lawyers, especially the Muslim firms in London that were closed last year for processing fake asylum claims and showing them how to get past deportation, should be appropriated on far more worthy beneficiaries than them. I have seen way too many criminals pass our useless security checks and evade justice. This country is hemorrhaging money on people who are dishonest, ungrateful and undeserving of billions of our taxes whatsoever

[@ph8077]

Jesus, Leo stop absolutely nailing every issue with salient sarcasm, will ya?!

[@stevenaustin8274]

Have you never seen him before? That’s what Leo does and does it brilliantly

[@12alocin]

Just been reading about a woman doctor who's just got an MBE, she arrived from Afghanistan as a child. She says that people coming in small boats are fleeing to safety! From France!

[@StooFras-TheFiresofHell.]

What kind of doctor a witch doctor perhaps.🤣

[@I_am_that_one_guy]

Is it really so hard or bad to ask whoever's moving to the nation that they're coming to, to act like the people who already live in the nation.

[@JM_93]

Racist! You should be acting like them to make them more comfortable!

[@turokforever007]

Many have been released from prison then sent to the border

[@charliekane135]

Apparently yes

[@elsmallo]

It's like these people can't imagine economic negatives to immigration... they seem to think it's immune. All historical labour shifts and movements have had effects on prices, wages and prosperity... how do they close their eyes on this issue?

[@mrbenn1489]

Easy when one's eyes aren't open in the first place.

[@gwensteddy2038]

Not affecting them yet

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Worst thing is the cultural damage. Again, these people either refuse to see it or despise their own culture.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

nah they want more immigration to drive down wages and reduce rights, I live in london I already apply for tonnes of jobs, I've not had a job since 2015, who's going to employ a native woman who has children, when they can employ some 20 something year old man fresh off a boat available 24/7, and the longer it goes on the worse it gets, as we age and once that spot on our hands turn red no employer wants us. I've sat in the job centre for years surrounded by mothers and men over the age of 50 who can't get a job for toffee, they want a saturated market so people will accept anything no matter how dire and dare not speak about their rights for fear of losing the one job they will manage to get in their lives, they want there to be a massive housing shortage high demand = higher rents and being able to rent out sheds you can barely lay down in.

[@gavinbissell8847]

Shame they never think of our children as being future doctors and enginers if the gave them a good education and industries to work in

[@christinalayzelle832]

Vote Reform UK 🇬🇧 💙

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Then what?

[@alexispaterson814]

@Fatnothern. We build a better country for us, England for the English, Wales for the Welsh, Scotland for the Scottish, Northern Ireland for the Northern Irish. All under the one banner of the UK and the union flag.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@alexispaterson814 With Reform UK at the helm?

[@jayamd3579]

@@FatNorthernBigot you comment that on everything ....

[@glenleon323]

Is Farage a Mason?

[@notmyrealname9032]

Great monologue Leo - keep up the great work.

[@oopsimath]

Just brilliant. Thank you from Russia

[@charliekane135]

Very, very, very, very well said Mr K

[@johnnymookergee4935]

Reform 2024

[@ragnarok7976]

It's not an accident that westernized countries are desirable to move to, it's a result of superior (not perfect) cultural practices. Its not that we are fortunate to be born here, it's that we inherited the responsibilities of the people who created these cultures. Outsiders do not have a right to our prosperity because they did not inherit the responsibilities that created it. Now if they would like to adopt our responsibilities then we can have a talk about them getting a slice of the prosperity but most of them bring their own cultural attitudes despite them seeing first hand the result of those attitudes.

[@swskating3865]

Very well put

[@Nathan-tu9lu]

VOTE REFORM EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTS... even if you don't think your local candidate will win. If REFORM can get a high percentage of votes nationally there will be big questions about the fairness of the current system.

[@emperorsnewclothes9405]

the answer is, set up cites in 3rd world countries based on white European values

[@gwensteddy2038]

Lol check how that's going for places like Iran and Lebanon... Maybe think about what Israel is going through. There is a certain demographic that only accept Sharia law and will go to any horrific lengths to get it.

[@phenomX4]

That already existed. It was called cannolism, cologneism or something like that. Very evil I have heard!

[@emperorsnewclothes9405]

@@gwensteddy2038 gaza could be the start , rebuild it as a giant white european based mega city, millions of arabs who want western values, a few getting yetted by opponents would be very sad i'm sure.

[@charliekane135]

They come for the money not the 'values'.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

@@emperorsnewclothes9405 Gaza was once a nice little jewish bit of land with irrigation, factories and housing, when Israel ceded the land and ordered their citizens to leave, the arabs burned everything instead of use it themselves.

[@joegill3612]

I believe it was Lenin who said 'Left wing Communism is an infantile disorder'.

[@danieltalbot8070]

A brilliant little speech!

[@user-gj5se7er3r]

Well said Leo

[@brocktoon8]

VOTE REFORM!

[@RichardEnglander]

15:00 mass immigration causes wage and productivity stagnation whilst exacerbating the housing EMERGENCY and driving overcrowding and lowering housing standards. This is because the Law of Supply and Demand applies to domestic housing and labour supply too. Mass Immigration is not sustainable in any way, not socially, culturally, economically, or environmentally. Immigrants from outside the West are a net economic drain AND bring many other problems. Some curry slop isn't worth it. Time to take back our country. Vote ReformUK ❤

[@craphead9842]

Its called Dragflation.... Tony cuenca

[@garyshotter8802]

And it is an emergency. I live in Winchester and I've seen rents rise by 60% in five years, a two bed new build is 12 times the average income.

[@maccagrabme]

@@garyshotter8802 Meanwhile most of these people will be sharing and/or getting their rents subsidized.

[@ewaf88]

You should have watched the FT economist yesterday on C4. Tom Harford said that immigration is making no difference to our economic mess. The program was called Skint

[@ukguy]

You have to be a dunce to think that it is doing nothing to our economy.

[@StooFras-TheFiresofHell.]

Immigration on the scale it is now is ruining many a country,and our so called overlords cannot see this,they keep telling us it's good for the economy,these educated idiots must think we all button up the back.🤬

[@geoffdundee]

@ewaf88 ......thanks for that comment.........i missed that programme and thanks to yourself and YT im off to watch it right now. 👍

[@ewaf88]

I hope you enjoy it

[@geoffdundee]

@@ewaf88 ......i will....id to go cook my evening meal first...shud be cooked by 9.30 then i can watch b4 bedtime.

[@lorneyoung6298]

Old school liberals are now considered far right🤪

[@lena-Ramone]

Thankyou for everything you are doing , you are spot on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@demammoet]

They never got "anything" wrong. It was always ideologically motivated and made up to be q good thing without anything to back it up with all the EVIDENCE to the contrary.

[@hughjasse3375]

Ok, so over the past couple of years, I've started to regularly see delivery type mopeds on main motorways. Not the souped up 100-150cc types (that are still not motorway legal), but the little 50-80cc deliveroo/Uber eats type hairdryers. Doing 40mph or so in the first lane or hard shoulder. I've also been caught up in traffic jams as well recently, caused by various south Asian people on delivery or passenger peddle rickshaws, on major roads. It's bad enough having large numbers of people who do not civilly queue for anything, just barging to the front in a free-for-all. Now we have the sort of pavement and road chaos of Islamabad, Mumbai or Lagos. The 3rd world is chaotic because of chaotic culture, lack of emotional control, impulse control, civility or delayed gratification. We have collapsed a high trust, civil society by importing chaotic and aggressive cultures, and it will just drag us down to 3rd world conditions, as our morality and civility is dragged down. Perhaps a dystopian cross between Robocop and Haiti.

[@jondingwall5941]

Hey! but it gets the dangerous goons off our pavements

[@cnrspiller3549]

Keep 'em coming Leo. Great videos.

[@modero6370]

3 per room is good. I was once in an apartment here in Fort McMurray, Alberta where the whole living room was a giant mattress. I counted 12 of them but maybe several inhabitants used one. The smell was unbearable.

[@moriwaki1105]

I truly can't understand how Everyone doesn't see why this Mass Migration thing is Crazy !

[@shamster7182]

Lineker is to blame.

[@steviemac8075]

Leo this is “expertly” done. I like your thought process 👍🏻👍🏻

[@gwensteddy2038]

Vote and join Reform UK 🇬🇧

[@Macboy62]

Your best yet Leo. Keep it up. 👏🏻🇬🇧

[@sfrwriter]

Couple of points: Does anyone remember the Zero Population Growth movement back in the 70s? Back then a smaller population was promoted by the leftists. I'm not against that, but I wonder what has changed and why the leftists are now pro-mass migration to increase the population (especially since it only benefits the capitalists who they hate). Also, right now Australia is facing a similar issue with a muslim MP (Fatima Payman) like the UK with that elected muslim councillor in Leeds (Mothin Ali). Australia has had better control of the borders, but has unfortunately still allowed the ☪️ancer in and allowed it to spread.

[@littlecatfeet9064]

There’s a small political party called the Sustainable Australia Party that believes in smaller population (especially in Australia, which is the driest continent and ecologically vulnerable). Otherwise, the very woke Greens, who used to be less radical, love open borders without any thought of how that will work economically and environmentally, and want the immigrants to be given new housing wherever. That probably means bulldozing a hell of a lot of trees in places like Southeast Queensland. Edit: and Fatima Payman is what used to be called a fifth columnist.

[@masterofparsnips5327]

Vote Reform UK !!

[@melissakennedy5897]

I’m not fearful or compassionate. I’ve turned into a stone.

[@rachelar]

The Goths depressing Rome with their music haha

[@salkoharper2908]

Imagine Emo Romans chilling with their new Germanic Goth friends haha.

[@williamsafari6437]

immigration LEGAL OR ILLEGAL has worked wonders IN GOVANHILL GLASGOW 🤣🤣🤣 .Some of them were arrested in glasgow city center in broad daylight selling HUMAN BEINGS in 2019

[@geoffdundee]

@williamsafari6437 ..........R.I.P. Kriss Donald

[@QueenAmethyst55]

​@@geoffdundee❤

[@SebastianSkadisson]

Spot-on! Leo nails it.

[@alexbetts8291]

Wages have not risen since 2000

[@Kadwid]

That global % change is like 40 million people, the size of a medium European country. LOL

[@bhhbcc4573]

I had a chat with a tour guide in London. He explained that while he did speak about Churchill and company as controversial etc., he did not believe it personally, it is what he thought is expected of him. People know what they are allowed to say in public to survive. Sad really.

[@Max-ht9hf]

Unsurprisingly nurses and junior doctors can’t get the government to agree to decent pay rises, why? Well one reason might be the NHS can continue to bus in medical and nursing staff from Africa and Asia denuding their healthcare systems!

[@alanjax7685]

what like how they have a spare £5000 to pay gangs for a boat trip?

[@stkrdknmibalz8038]

Swede here. While we might have passed the point of no return we can all rest easy because we're on "the right side of history".

[@alaia-awakened]

The refusal of people to wake up to this is infuriating.

[@garyhart6421]

I'm an old lefty too --- who the modern left, left behind --- and call an ist-a-phobe. Sick of it !

[@johnmay6090]

Me too.

[@libbymcglynn5]

😂 Never heard it be put that way before, being called an “ist-a-phobe” but it sums it up Perfectly! And I feel the same as you!

[@littlecatfeet9064]

@@libbymcglynn5Yep, same. There are many of us. And I love ist-a-phobe too.

[@trev8591]

Possibly the most important rant of this decade? Agree with all your points, Sir. Vote Reform?

[@LeoKearse]

I'll be voting Reform 100%

[@michaelferguson387]

I wouldn’t say Australian immigration is better, it has just been happening for less time. 500,000 per year. You wouldn’t know you were in Australia in Sydney or Melbourne

[@tumslucks9781]

Australia has 2 million non whites. Strewth!

[@peterd788]

You are right about the left moving rather than previous supporters of the left moving. In the 1970s union activists used to hand out leaflets saying "Brown faced Pakistanis will steal our jobs" in response to the UK accepting, mostly, Indians expelled from Uganda. The allegation of racism used to be a thing directed at the left rather than at conservatives.

[@Spitfire515O]

I’ve been saying the same thing for years. I was a 90’s liberal but had some conservative leanings, fan of guys like Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell, and believe that being non-partisan is the only way to be fair and objective. My core views haven’t changed, landed mostly in center, but now some label me as far right. What a joke.

[@nigeldix4841]

Thanks again , brilliant

[@VrillonAura2012]

Did kier starmer write this tripe, Four years of labour this country will look like Afghanistan good bye Britain 😮

[@Angelsilhouette]

"Medieval" is generous. "Studies find" which studies? Who requested and/or funded them?

[@kangasdan]

Leo, your video essays are great pieces of journalism. Thank you.

[@Katzenjammer82]

Excellent stuff.

[@mcc5901]

Kearse excellent as always! Yours was a much better political comment than the Economist!

[@jamesmoran5192]

Leo really needs to research the Kalergi Plan to get the background to all this.

[@GeorgesDupont-do8pe]

Yes, used to read the Economist..

[@GeorgesDupont-do8pe]

Then I woke up.

[@kipp0man]

"I still think the main entry route into this country should be through the birth canals rather than across the English Channel" That is pure genius! 😎

[@LeoKearse]

Thanks man!

[@dallassukerkin6878]

Excellent to hear the right points being so eloquently expressed.

[@milkywaykid3440]

Superb, subscribed!

[@rhoetusochten4211]

Outstanding. Good to see the 3Speech appearance didn't dull your wits.

[@mikimoto99]

Trojan horse invasion! You nailed it👍🏻

[@MarkJones-hc9pf]

Brilliant piece Leo. You're improving with age my friend.

[@LeoKearse]

Many thanks!