To be honest. I wish someone would share it with the Labour government so they would stop pandering to Farage and his cronies. Consequently the Labour government should then be making a lot more of this eye opening journalism, by sharing it a lot more with the public. Excellent work, thank you.
So very true, the biggest issue in this country is the likes of Farage and his ilk are believed. The lemmings that follow him will not have their paths altered in the same way as the MAGA people believe everything that comes out of Trumps mouth. With the use (or misuse) of social media prevalent in all our lives it needs an uprising of huge proportions to change the path we are on. I just hope you and others can persuade before it is too late.
Looking forward to more articles Sam. Labour needs a ten point plan to make these billionaires pay more and have less power. Immigration is not the issue threatening our democracy. It’s people’s purses. And the gap between theirs and the richest in society who have far too much power.
Farage just isn’t challenged on tv. Brexit was a disaster yet here he is, today, even boasting about how he would do an Elon Musk type Doge here. If he was in a long-form interview getting robustly challenged he would struggle but whenever I see him getting asked anything remotely tricky, he either grins like a Cheshire Cat without answering the questions or attacks the interviewer. It’s just too easy for conmen like him. Even if Labour do some things well he would bend the facts and the press would back him. What I wouldn’t give for a Leader heading a Labour Party that could really go toe to toe with that creep, Farage.
Agree, absolutely. I was canvassing in Derbyshire last week, our excellent MP was accosted by a Reform no-neck. Our MP was excellent in trying to engage seriously and reasonably, no-neck wasn’t having any of that. Just wanted to mouth off, abuse and probably boast about his eruditon later. Watch ‘Cabaret’, it’s all there!
There are three issues here that require different treatment. First we have the criminal extortionists transporting refugees to the sea shore. Second we have the safety issue of the channel crossing and third how we treat the arrivals. What we will never do is remove the need for the persecuted or seekers of a better life to travel in hope of help and opportunity. I am now 82 and during my lifetime the world population has increased by about 6 billiom and many live in dreadful conditions scraping a living. Many others will have to move as climate change raises sea levels, creates greater storms and destroys settlements - not to mention wars.
Gangs are a matter of police business, channel crossing safety might be reduced by processing the refugees on the EU side, and there is no humane reason why most cannot be trained to fill the many job vacancies in this country which UK population do not like.
Building walls, fences, prisons is simply wrong and not necessary and it is wrong to put them in hotels in mainly run down areas of the UK unable to work. Working refugees contribute to our finances and reduce the initial cost of settling them. Shutting migrants out of developed countries with reducing population is stupid. It is a world wide challenge that needs constructive intervention. It will not go away and politicians should stop ramping up exaggerated social objections that demonise the victims who will otherwise enrich multi cultural societies.
I’m under the impression that the general publics belief on most things is totally wrong. Reading some social media is sometimes like reading the ravings of a gang of certified lunatics, who, unfortunately, are able to vote in elections.
Ah, I do love a politician posing for a photo. Farage doesn’t read the Sun. Such a neat ironed copy as well. But to be seen with such a headline … the stuff of dreams.
Farage is as much a man of the people as Donald Trump.
The Picts and Britons said this about the Romans. The Norse (Vikings) settled despite the rape and pillage preceding this. The Anglo-Saxons fought the Normans over this. They lost. And the country still exists, and the subsequent people born there identify as British. Most love the country and curse the weather! Modern Britons went far afield and said, 'Great Britain owns your land.' Ask the Irish. Ask Australian Aboriginals. Ask Māori. So, now define 'The National Identity'. Impossible. It is amorphous. Nothing stands still. You, Paul, are just another Pict, or early Briton, or Angle, or Saxon or Norman or person from the Colonies. Clearly, you are not one hoping to belong somewhere, in a place where your own countrymen are not trying to kill you or let you starve. You might then consider, 'Who is the crazy one?' when you cling to a white world that doesn't exist. It's called enlightenment. I don't know what you teach, Teacher, but you might try to learn empathy; you'll feel better.
You are an imbecile, we had a stable country prior to this recent invasion. As a woman you are far more at risk than than you would have been 30 or 40 years ago. I have dealt with real life, from Royalty, politicians, to lunatics, you seem to fall in the latter category. Get a brain transplant or implant, whichever is appropriate.
I'm sorry you are such an angry person, Paul, when confronted by the truth. I hope you get well soon. I feel more at risk from you after that uncontrolled outburst than I do from immigrants.
You really are sick, go and see a psychiatrist. If you think I am more of threat than some immigrants you are probably beyond help. Who raped and assaulted English girls??? You tell tales, fake tales. Perhaps you should be locked up for your own safety.
How do we persuade people is this when everyone grasping for power now sees this as the key to getting there? I never ever hear any politicians actually point this stuff out. We never hear Keir Starmer explicitly state this. Why? Because is it a great fall back and distraction for staying in power? It would be refreshing not to fall in the trap if scapegoating refugees and immigrants but that requires being emphatic and honest. And I think politicians are afraid of falling out of favour and losing their jobs in the face of this particular issue (oh and trans stuff too for that matter). It’s also easier to let that blame for policy failures land at the feet of the powerless rather than look those failures or positions straight in the face and treat us all like adults who can understand more than a soundbite.
Where has Farage claimed any other numbers than the ones you've shown?
Good luck saying to people that this isn't a problem, because the cost is only £3bn for the net 728,000 people coming to the UK. People don't want an extra 700-900,000 people coming here every year. They want migrants if they make us richer, and most of these immigrants are low-paid workers who will cost us all, in the long term.
You are confusing refugees with general migration. The costs are related to refugees/asylum seekers, who are 5% of migration and that includes Ukrainians & Hong Kongers. You wouldn't guess that from the headlines would you?
A video going round this week asked members of the public how many people were granted asylum in the UK last year. Only 1 person was close; he said 40k, the answer was 39k. Others thought it was millions or hundreds of thousands!
The majority of people coming to the UK come to work or study. They PAY to do so. They pay (for profit, not cost) visa fees, NHS surcharge (even if they're coming to work as an NHS doctor!) and international students pay exhorbitant fees that help keep universities afloat for British students.
Migrant workers are ineligible for any support from welfare system (not tax free childcare!) and have "no recourse to public funds" stamped on their passport and can't live in social housing.
I suspect if British migrants in other countries were subject to such rules, our newspapers would call it unfair.
This only changes when they get permanent residency. This used to take 5 years, it will now take 10. Of course they have to pay the same tax and NI as other workers, but if they lose their job, they're entitled to £0.
Migrant workers have to keep renewing their visas (can cost thousands each time) and paying an annual NHS surcharge.
The idea that this is huge cost to the taxpayer simply doesn't add up.
We need a debate on immigration based on facts not fiction.
To be honest. I wish someone would share it with the Labour government so they would stop pandering to Farage and his cronies. Consequently the Labour government should then be making a lot more of this eye opening journalism, by sharing it a lot more with the public. Excellent work, thank you.
So very true, the biggest issue in this country is the likes of Farage and his ilk are believed. The lemmings that follow him will not have their paths altered in the same way as the MAGA people believe everything that comes out of Trumps mouth. With the use (or misuse) of social media prevalent in all our lives it needs an uprising of huge proportions to change the path we are on. I just hope you and others can persuade before it is too late.
You are a sheep that blindly follows LIEbore.
Looking forward to more articles Sam. Labour needs a ten point plan to make these billionaires pay more and have less power. Immigration is not the issue threatening our democracy. It’s people’s purses. And the gap between theirs and the richest in society who have far too much power.
Farage just isn’t challenged on tv. Brexit was a disaster yet here he is, today, even boasting about how he would do an Elon Musk type Doge here. If he was in a long-form interview getting robustly challenged he would struggle but whenever I see him getting asked anything remotely tricky, he either grins like a Cheshire Cat without answering the questions or attacks the interviewer. It’s just too easy for conmen like him. Even if Labour do some things well he would bend the facts and the press would back him. What I wouldn’t give for a Leader heading a Labour Party that could really go toe to toe with that creep, Farage.
Agree, absolutely. I was canvassing in Derbyshire last week, our excellent MP was accosted by a Reform no-neck. Our MP was excellent in trying to engage seriously and reasonably, no-neck wasn’t having any of that. Just wanted to mouth off, abuse and probably boast about his eruditon later. Watch ‘Cabaret’, it’s all there!
There are three issues here that require different treatment. First we have the criminal extortionists transporting refugees to the sea shore. Second we have the safety issue of the channel crossing and third how we treat the arrivals. What we will never do is remove the need for the persecuted or seekers of a better life to travel in hope of help and opportunity. I am now 82 and during my lifetime the world population has increased by about 6 billiom and many live in dreadful conditions scraping a living. Many others will have to move as climate change raises sea levels, creates greater storms and destroys settlements - not to mention wars.
Gangs are a matter of police business, channel crossing safety might be reduced by processing the refugees on the EU side, and there is no humane reason why most cannot be trained to fill the many job vacancies in this country which UK population do not like.
Building walls, fences, prisons is simply wrong and not necessary and it is wrong to put them in hotels in mainly run down areas of the UK unable to work. Working refugees contribute to our finances and reduce the initial cost of settling them. Shutting migrants out of developed countries with reducing population is stupid. It is a world wide challenge that needs constructive intervention. It will not go away and politicians should stop ramping up exaggerated social objections that demonise the victims who will otherwise enrich multi cultural societies.
Thank you.
I’m under the impression that the general publics belief on most things is totally wrong. Reading some social media is sometimes like reading the ravings of a gang of certified lunatics, who, unfortunately, are able to vote in elections.
Ah, I do love a politician posing for a photo. Farage doesn’t read the Sun. Such a neat ironed copy as well. But to be seen with such a headline … the stuff of dreams.
Farage is as much a man of the people as Donald Trump.
Good work but it is speaking to the converted, how do we get this message into the diet of the misinformed?
If you think unlimited alien immigration is not a threat to our national identity, you are an imbecile.
The Picts and Britons said this about the Romans. The Norse (Vikings) settled despite the rape and pillage preceding this. The Anglo-Saxons fought the Normans over this. They lost. And the country still exists, and the subsequent people born there identify as British. Most love the country and curse the weather! Modern Britons went far afield and said, 'Great Britain owns your land.' Ask the Irish. Ask Australian Aboriginals. Ask Māori. So, now define 'The National Identity'. Impossible. It is amorphous. Nothing stands still. You, Paul, are just another Pict, or early Briton, or Angle, or Saxon or Norman or person from the Colonies. Clearly, you are not one hoping to belong somewhere, in a place where your own countrymen are not trying to kill you or let you starve. You might then consider, 'Who is the crazy one?' when you cling to a white world that doesn't exist. It's called enlightenment. I don't know what you teach, Teacher, but you might try to learn empathy; you'll feel better.
You are an imbecile, we had a stable country prior to this recent invasion. As a woman you are far more at risk than than you would have been 30 or 40 years ago. I have dealt with real life, from Royalty, politicians, to lunatics, you seem to fall in the latter category. Get a brain transplant or implant, whichever is appropriate.
I'm sorry you are such an angry person, Paul, when confronted by the truth. I hope you get well soon. I feel more at risk from you after that uncontrolled outburst than I do from immigrants.
Ah, I see you are a lefty, that explains everything. Imbecile.
You really are sick, go and see a psychiatrist. If you think I am more of threat than some immigrants you are probably beyond help. Who raped and assaulted English girls??? You tell tales, fake tales. Perhaps you should be locked up for your own safety.
I doubt that the cost of immigrants is the main complaint against immigration.
How do we persuade people is this when everyone grasping for power now sees this as the key to getting there? I never ever hear any politicians actually point this stuff out. We never hear Keir Starmer explicitly state this. Why? Because is it a great fall back and distraction for staying in power? It would be refreshing not to fall in the trap if scapegoating refugees and immigrants but that requires being emphatic and honest. And I think politicians are afraid of falling out of favour and losing their jobs in the face of this particular issue (oh and trans stuff too for that matter). It’s also easier to let that blame for policy failures land at the feet of the powerless rather than look those failures or positions straight in the face and treat us all like adults who can understand more than a soundbite.
We didn’t have a problem of asylum seekers before Farage/Johnson and their ilk campaigned for Brexit, just like Putin demanded.
The migrants get the blame for the Kalergi plan but they are just pawns. Those with influence denying the Kalergi plan are the real problem.
Every community is rightly up in arms about the level of immigration. Trying to pretend there isn’t a problem will not help.
All that will happen is increased tensions and hostilities will occur.
Reform are controlled opposition as much as the Uniparty is.
They may be shoe-horned in as Trump was.
Being aware of the whole globalist madness behind the theatre is the first step.
If you demonise the Tier 2 propagandists you play into the hands of the perpetrators - this is what gives them credibility.
Where has Farage claimed any other numbers than the ones you've shown?
Good luck saying to people that this isn't a problem, because the cost is only £3bn for the net 728,000 people coming to the UK. People don't want an extra 700-900,000 people coming here every year. They want migrants if they make us richer, and most of these immigrants are low-paid workers who will cost us all, in the long term.
You are confusing refugees with general migration. The costs are related to refugees/asylum seekers, who are 5% of migration and that includes Ukrainians & Hong Kongers. You wouldn't guess that from the headlines would you?
A video going round this week asked members of the public how many people were granted asylum in the UK last year. Only 1 person was close; he said 40k, the answer was 39k. Others thought it was millions or hundreds of thousands!
The majority of people coming to the UK come to work or study. They PAY to do so. They pay (for profit, not cost) visa fees, NHS surcharge (even if they're coming to work as an NHS doctor!) and international students pay exhorbitant fees that help keep universities afloat for British students.
Migrant workers are ineligible for any support from welfare system (not tax free childcare!) and have "no recourse to public funds" stamped on their passport and can't live in social housing.
I suspect if British migrants in other countries were subject to such rules, our newspapers would call it unfair.
This only changes when they get permanent residency. This used to take 5 years, it will now take 10. Of course they have to pay the same tax and NI as other workers, but if they lose their job, they're entitled to £0.
Migrant workers have to keep renewing their visas (can cost thousands each time) and paying an annual NHS surcharge.
The idea that this is huge cost to the taxpayer simply doesn't add up.
We need a debate on immigration based on facts not fiction.
Migration has proved to be net positive. 💁
Measured how?
https://www.davidsonmorris.com/immigrants-economic-contributions/
Have a little google yourself.