Please find below the link to my Interview with GB News’ Martin Daubney where we discuss the need to reduce legal migration.
You can find it between between: 12:12-17:20.
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Please find below the link to my Interview with GB News’ Martin Daubney where we discuss the need to reduce legal migration.
You can find it between between: 12:12-17:20.
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January 25, 2024
Good morning.
Why ‘reduce’ it ? Just STOP it !!! It is within your* gift.
*ie Government.
January 25, 2024
Our government’s response to legal and illegal immigration follows the same useless plan as that to stop illegal drugs coming in.
To stop both, you need to stop demand. When this government stops ‘the pull’, then the demand will be eliminated. Rawanda might help, but clearly the legal hurdles have not been addressed. Why do people want to come here, rather than stay in Spain, Italy, Germany or France? Make us the least attractive.
January 25, 2024
Immigration talk talk talk
Tax cuts talk talk talk
Brexit laws talk talk talk
Action talk talk talk
That’s the real Net Zero.
January 25, 2024
@Ian wragg. Great summation
January 25, 2024
Thats the real tory government
January 26, 2024
Agreed.
January 25, 2024
@Mark B +1
To easy, but then we would have to leave the EU, no longer be subject to their laws and taxes created by the unelected unaccountable. Didn’t a previous PM promise that and failed to deliver?
January 25, 2024
Didn’t we recently pass a law making anyone who crosses the channel illegally a ‘criminal’.
1. Have we told the French
2. Have we told the Border Force
3. Has anyone been locked up and taken to court and
4. Has it prevented the numbers crossing
January 25, 2024
3.5 million imported immigrants against repeated Tory manifestos over 14 years in last two years! The govt does not control or know who is going to leave the UK.
JR previously advocated cutting by 300,000 therefore it would mean 900,000 allowed to come here each year with fingers crossed some might leave or the govt could revise its estimate up or down to manipulate its own figures. Yes, those leaving the UK are based on an unscientific estimate!!
Hands up who believes any Tory MP about immigration (legal or illegal) after 14 years of lies and spin? None of them interested in illegal boat people until Farage raise the issue. Now we discover they were housing them in 4 star hotels allowing them to work, go home at Christmas and never deport!! I wonder why the invasion continues!!
Good try JR, you might even be sincere but your party by fact and record are definitely not.
reply I said cut by more than 300,000
January 25, 2024
Have they got anything right in the past 14 years …..have they achieved any of their manifesto targets or indeed PM pledges ….I think not
January 26, 2024
Reply to reply.
JR,
You know you would have to cut the 1.2 million each year by about 990,000 each year to achieve your manifesto that you stood on to be elected. More than 300,00 reply not even convincing. Again, cut the number each year by 990,000 or by 1.1 million to achieve Cameronâs tens of thousands!! Think,about that cut immigration by 1.1 million each year. You all knew you were deliberately breaking your repeated promises.
January 25, 2024
Exactly right JR – the figure for the cost of each migrant is probably far more like ÂŁ500k in the UK – when housing, roads, schools, dependents, benefits, policing, healthcare, defence, social services, wage depression for others, lack of social cohesion issues⊠are all properly considered.
Of course Sunak could reduce legal immigration now, but clearly he likes to have three Southamptons of un housed people to arrive each year. While he pretends not to.
January 25, 2024
@Lifelogic – to finance this the UK has Homeless people on our streets that the Government wishes to fine and lock up.
January 25, 2024
Reform have a policy ….its called ‘push-back’
January 25, 2024
He started in Southampton. Maybe he wants to increase imports of sardines in shipping containers.
âWhy are sardines squashed together?â sounded like the start of a joke. An answer given in the 1970s was âto reduce the oil which was more expensive than the fishâ.
January 25, 2024
You are also right (on talk radio) JR that growth is the only way out of this Conservative created economic mess (created by very high taxes, government that is far too large (and delivers so little of value), the vast government waste, the very long and counterproductive Covid lockdowns, the net harm Covid vaccines for all killing thousands, vast over regulation, daft employment laws, over restrictive planning… and the total insanity of net zero rip off energy on top.
The government now have tax payer funded radio adverts saying “heat pumps are three times as energy efficient as gas boilers”. But this completely ignores that fact that loads energy generating electricity is wasted at the power station and electricity cost 3+ times more than gas (and they cost far more to install and maintain too). So do not expect them to cost less to run but more.
I do not expect the ASA will do anything about this misinformation. They even allow ads saying one bus is more “green” than 80 cars or similar drivel (even a red bus). Out by a factor of circa 30 times.
Even the usually sensible Simon Heffer (off script) is going rather potty. Lauding the clever Michael Gove (the socialist dope who, like Starmer, wants to kill private schools by making parents pay 4 times over killing fair competition). Also saying Boris and Truss were the worst MPs in history. Not so true Boris was a twit when he went net zero (was this his wife?) Truss never had a chance as Sunak and Bailey had set an economic bomb for her – she walked right into the trip wire. Major, Blair, Brown, Heath, Wilson, May and Sunak are all worse than Boris and Truss. Not that any have even been particularly competent. All since Thatcher fell for climate alarmism – later net zero. He even seemed to think Sunak was bright, honest and decent cannot see have he is all those. He keeps saying he has cut tax!
January 26, 2024
LL,
You forgot Cameron, he shifted his party to socialism following his idle Blaire.
January 26, 2024
LL,
In very small print we read 3 electric buses caught on fire over the last week in London! Very dangerous. When they catch on fire presumably more toxic smoke against environment.
January 25, 2024
Nope, migrants work hard and pay taxes, we should be rolling out the red carpet for them. You can cut legal migration or you can have economic growth. You can’t have both.
January 26, 2024
Lemming explain why despite the biggest increase in the population in our history in the last twenty odd years GDP per capita has only modestly risen.
It should have risen enormously if your argument is right.
January 25, 2024
âRishi has great strengths. He is decent to his core, fiercely intelligent and works formidably hard.â So says Simon Clarke in his article in the Telegraph calling for Sunak to be replaced before they hit the iceberg.
Well perhaps, but if this is so Simon why did he cause (entirely predictably) the 12%+ inflation (as Chancellor with his QE, lockdowns, why does he support net zero rip off intermittent energy and his vast waste of taxpayers money)? Why does he endlessly lie about his âtax cutsâ when taxes are still going up hugely. Why did he support coercing of net harm Covid, net tech vaccines even for the young and those who had already had Covid? Why does he even now resist an investigation into the hundreds of thousands of (mainly cardio) excess deaths almost certainly caused by this? Why did he support the parties attacks on and eviction ofAndrew Bridgen for the crime of telling the truth? Why did he make his five rash pledges yet then do nothing to even try to hit four of them?
Anyway, even if Rishi had these qualities marching behind him in step in totally the wrong direction and so directly over the cliff is totally moronic. Nothing to be lost by ditching this deluded globalist, socialist, vast immigration lover & loser with all his tax to death, open door to immigration, broken compass, net zero lunacy.
January 25, 2024
Allister Heath today:- âThere are two viable ways to respond to an existential threat in the state of nature: fight or flight. You either destroy your predator, or you run away. You donât just stand still, wave a white flag and wait for the end. The same is true in the political jungle, and yet the Toriesâ nervous systems are now so dysfunctional that they have produced neither of the rational physiological responses to the terrifying likelihood of a Labour landslide.â
Sunak says all pull together chaps and march in step with me and my 180 degree broken compass straight over the cliff together. My policies are open door immigration net ÂŁ750k PA, ever higher taxes, net zero rip off intermittent energy, rigged markets in energy, transport, schools, dysfunctional healthcare with vast increasing waiting lists – all this while lying that I sort of want and pledge the reverse.
Should go well Sunak letâs see this Autumn/Winter shall we. Starmer is even worse and could be beaten with sensible, non socialist, non green crap policies that the country desperately needs but you have left it rather late.
January 25, 2024
+++
Really only one possible conclusion.
A Starmer win ( like the extraordinary coming to power of Sunak) is simply what is on the cards.
Preplanning.
Or Sunak would do something. Surely?
January 25, 2024
Nadine Dorries gave an interesting theory on GB News yesterday.
She thinks the Party Grandees know Sunak is leading the NaCP to electoral oblivion but they don’t want another Leadership Election now. They are in damage limitation mode and brought back Lord Dave of Greenshill Lobbying with a view to him taking over from Sunak in late summer as Interim Leader/PM because he has electoral experience, looks the part and they hope will steady the ship. A way will be found around the need for the PM to report to the Commons. Post GE, when the Party has lost but not been obliterated, a Leadership Election will be held.
The Establishment’s priority now is to preserve the Westminster Uni-Party so they can continue with their UK-destroying CONsensus policies and that means the NaCP must not be obliterated.
I don’t usually have much time for Dorries, but it sounds plausible to me. There’s no way Sunak would have appointed Cameron without an instruction to do so, when he was so obviously going to be upstaged by him.
January 25, 2024
@Donna +1
January 26, 2024
It was interesting to hear her say health s3cretary has no control or say over NHS other than agree funding. Bearing in mind Simon Stevens was Blaireâs health advisor and was in charge of NHS most of the time Tories were in power. Why not change Stevens for a Tory, same for other public services, quangos etc?
January 25, 2024
@Lifelogic – any ‘Conservative’ even the most inexperienced would beat Starmer hand down. However noting the notion of collective responsibility that excludes all this Conservative Government – after all it is still the Boris Johnson Cabinet, changing the man at the top changed nothing
January 25, 2024
Why has the Government apparently signed up to the WHO Pandemic Treaty in the teeth of opposition from the British people? They just love handing control of us over to unelected foreign entities.
January 25, 2024
Total and evil insanity.
January 25, 2024
traitors to the people
January 26, 2024
Because next time they want to remove your Civil and Human Rights over a scamdemic, they want to be able to say “Not our fault; it was the WHO wot made us do it” …. just like they used to with the EU.
And that will include the Climate Scam.
January 25, 2024
@Lifelogic +1 agreed but they and CCHQ don’t get it, as such they have all become the problem. Such a waste this vote Sunak campaign, so many good Conservatives are to be sacrificed on ego and the WEF Socialist dream
January 25, 2024
Simon Clarke MP told people to vote Sunak 24/10/2022; saw this yesterday X: “Today @Conservatives need to unite. Really extremely serious events are unfolding and our country needs leadership. @RishiSunak is the right person to assume the immense responsibility of being Prime Minister and he will have my full support”
It’s just embarrassing now. Simon, you can’t change leader again. You all made your bed; your MPs, not the membership, selected two people roundly rejected by the membership just a month or two before.
January 25, 2024
Why does Sunak also run such absurdly high legal immigration levels while pretending not to want this – when this clearly depresses living standards to a huge degree, increases taxes, depresses wage levels and caused huge extra demand for services, housing, schools, roads, power, NHS… and causes even further tax increases.
January 25, 2024
Points well made but the government will not do anything about the issue.
Most of the public know this.
January 25, 2024
Just rhetoric hoping to get a few votes and give the illusion he is in a Conservative Party. Most already know JR and few others were abandoned years ago and kept for presentation purposes only.
January 25, 2024
+1. Sunak shows no sign of wanting to provide what the public were promised in the various manifestos not what they want now. Not beyond his totally empty 5 promises that this and his is clearly not even trying with those.
January 25, 2024
Peter
Sadly I have to agree with you, we should stop all immigration for 10 years, which should give ourselves time to sort ourselves out, and re-set with far more sensible policies.
January 25, 2024
It’s getting boring. Words won’t turn the bloody boats aroudn nor will it stem from the flow of the legal importation of peoples whose only is to provide human ammunition for the Left’s (Labour, unions, Lefty Oxbridge racist civil servants) agenda to change the demographic and cultural mix of the UK
John’s party is directly responsible for all that we are seeing. It decided to stand back and allow the Left to destroy this once proud nation. Why? They hated being called a racist and xenophobic and so they simply capitulated. The Left now control the Tory party
January 25, 2024
@DOM +1
January 25, 2024
With regard to getting people off benefits I do wish that politicians, just for once, would listenâŠ.
The world of work has been made SO TERRIBLE by dint of pc and red tape that many are just totally terrified of having to re-enter it.
( Again, politicians should go undercover to experience the horror)
Thanks to govt. incessant interference this also applies to self employment.
You would NEVER catch me setting up, or even dreaming of setting up another business.
January 25, 2024
Very interesting responses as seen in comments, social media etc regarding the govt. bleating re supposed conscription. ( Strange echoes of plagues and weather warnings).
â Wouldnât catch me risking my life for this lot!â and similar.
Having ruined the country, parcelled it neatly in gift wrap and given it awayâŠ.
What the bl**dy Hell did anyone expect?
January 25, 2024
How about one in one out for a few years, and the one out should not include Brits emigrating
January 25, 2024
The IFS are saying that tax must rise if immigration falls.
How? We are importing too many people who do not contribute so by reducing that costs will fall.
This immigrants contribute more than they cost narrative needs to stop. We had 750,000 (net) arrive last year and cost of government went up. Explain that.
January 26, 2024
+1
If the immigrants contribute more, why is the government still borrowing more and more money ?
It is a question that is worth answering, not by you, but by our so called government.
January 25, 2024
As you say in the interview, SJR, the way the driver shortage was dealt with gives a model for overcoming skills shortages. But the infrastructure to train new goods vehicle drivers was already there: is it there to train British people in the skills now required? You may be aware that your local university had the ‘foresight’ to close down a course training care workers a few years back. If your approach is followed, it would be subsidised to re-open that course. I would support that.
January 25, 2024
So if Sunak is talking the talk and you’re behind him walking the walk why does nothing happen? We need drill down and the 5 whys (in this case why nots) please.
January 25, 2024
I do sometimes wonder whether there are Labour activists secretly working for the Not-a-Conservative-Government.
How could a “Conservative” Government possibly implement a scheme which incentivises human traffickers and criminal migrants by providing them with “free accommodation; “free” food; “free” medical care; “free” mobile phones and bicycles; “free” education; “free” pocket money ……. and the possibility of a job at 80% of the normal wage, thereby making them cheaper to employ than a Brit.
Then they make British taxpayers pay for the scam and call them bigots and racists if they dare object.
This Government gives every impression it HATES its own people. And now they’re astounded to find that the sentiment is reversed ….. and they’re facing electoral obliteration.
January 25, 2024
@Donna +1
January 25, 2024
I did hear a long and reverential interview on the BBC a moment ago with the UN high commissioner for refugees. He said the concern which electorates have over high migration was due to politicians whipping up fear using âfake newsâ and condemned slogans like âstop the boatsâ. Obviously there was no push back on this tendentious and dismissive claim by the BBCâs Nick Robinson.
There does need to be very urgent and very obvious change by the government for any possible positive electoral impact.
January 25, 2024
I can accept a bulge in legal migration because of the situations in Hongkong, Afgahnistan, and Ukraine. Many of the chinese will endeavour to move on once they realise what a dump they have entered, however welcoming. Ultimately the ukrainians will choose to return home when the fighting stops. However the number of scam entries have been far too high.
From now on I can accept a level of legal immigrants at half the level of those who leave permanently. After twenty years we must assess whether we could rise to one out for one in.
All must be put through an extended course of integration into the culture, law and norms of the UK. I do not accept our capital comprising 50% of people who were not even born in the UK. Neither do I accept the importation of foreign norms of behaviour alien to our culture and law. Behaviour as in Rochdale and many other cities should result in deportation after a custodial sentence based on ethnicity rather than place of birth. Nor do I accept allowing our right to protest laws being used to play out overseas conflicts on our streets. The people, not low wage industrial concerns, must dictate who and at what levels of salary we allow entry and for how long, not lobby groups. Real shortages should be filled by mandatory retrained members of the indigenous population.
We must get much tougher on what we demand in behaviour of those we invite into the UK. You do not have to be a member of Mensa to know that crime and its type have increased with the explosion in immigration. Just watch the news for a few clues.
January 25, 2024
Rwanda agreement blocked by the House of Frauds. We are not fooled by this dog and pony show, it was always the intention for it to be blocked. You have had 13 years to reform the HoL, and have just appointed more Lords.
The real intentions are shown by the decisions to allow illegals to work (after which no judge will deport them) and spend our money on private boats to bolster the Channel Taxi Service. And why is public money being spent to back a legal bid to impose Muslim prayer rooms on private schools?
January 26, 2024
Rwanda, as I have said so many times, is a SCAM. For every one we give them, they send us one of theirs.
January 25, 2024
I can’t understand why you keep going against tory government policy ie stopping the boats in ‘name only’ ….get with the programme (the French/EU continue to allow free movement, and its against ECHRs laws to restrict the poor immigrants having a day-trip boating in the channel)
January 25, 2024
This government wastes years doing nothing about major problems. Eventually it realises how much of the badness has become known and responds with a mere token measure in a sham of showing willing. Independent observers would assess this government as intent on doing as many bad things as it could while clinging on in office. Bad operators need dumping with all the other rubbish they create.
January 25, 2024
We are following the EU policy of immigration from and integration and assimilation with the Arab World, with our own variation of immigration from everywhere. Rather undemocratic, but this country is a tyranny now.
January 25, 2024
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that âMillions of households face steep tax rises after the next election as the country grapples with the most challenging debt burden since the 1950s, according to a leading think-tank.â Stating the obvious. Was always going to happen after we get bribed with our own money before the election.
The IFS? Whoever they are. Funding appears to be re-routed money from the Taxpayer via taxpayer funded State entities. We could start by stopping funding to those that give them our money and then we could see how independent they are.
To many jobs for- the-guys with their noses in the trough because they canât get real jobs in the real World. The Conservative Government is acting like a third World Dictatorship (not meant to disrespect those dictatorships, but you get what I mean)
January 25, 2024
“the IFS warned that tax cuts announced by the current chancellor ahead of the election risk being followed by steep tax rises in the next parliament”
Then again that is the WEF diktat and Sunak/Hunt are its disciples
January 25, 2024
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the insane costs of net-zero …..and the tory ‘hits’ just keep on coming
January 25, 2024
Legal and illegal immigration has been a hot topic for some time. Don’t MPs talk to and, more importantly, listen to their voters? Action should have been taken years ago, starting with Cameron, whose 2010 manifesto promised to reduce it. It is as if the PM has suddenly realised there is a problem.
Likewise, Hunt suddenly seems to think tax cuts are a good idea. Has he been listening to ordinary people in the last 12 months? He still has not restored the ability for tourists to reclaim VAT, so he is not listening to business people either. Equally, what has Hunt done to reduce Government spending to make room for tax cuts?
When the blind lead the blind they both fall into the ditch!
January 25, 2024
I say it again Sir John, when the alligators are snapping at your arris (Sic) the original idea was to drain the swamp…remember?
January 25, 2024
I remember Farage, when Germany and Europe where welcoming millions of undocumented immigrants across their borders, he said âwhat if you allow them in, rush though the checks, give them benefits and then they rape your daughter â what are you going to tell her parentsâ
Your government isnât protecting its citizens âŠfirst rule of government out of the window
January 25, 2024
Stop all immigration for at least five years …..and get control, get control pf over-stayers, get control of illegals, get control of deportations, get control of our systems, get control of our borders
January 25, 2024
I’ve come to the conclusion that we might as well forget the election. Sunak will lose it and Reform can do no more than make the outcome even worse for him. When you are back in opposition, unless a new leader wortking with the constituency parties can get rid of most of the Wets and replace them with MPs and candidates in the Redwood mould, the future is looking bleak.
Like him or not, I think Nigel Farage is a key player going forward.
Either he comes back and heads up Reform, playing a long game and displaces the Conservative party over the next decade, or he rejoins the Conservatives and somehow becomes leader against the wishes of the Wets.
One thing is certain, as leader he would wipe the floor with Starmer at every PMQs and when he adopts popular policies like those we constantly discuss here, we could see you back in power after one term.
Under any other scenario, it look like we are facing at least two terms under Labour.
January 25, 2024
Agree â The voters arenât necessarily pro Farage, theyâre pro Farages sentiment, vision and above all, his straight forward speaking
January 26, 2024
I’m not sure just how Marmite a character Nigel really is. Obviously Remainers hate him with a vengeance, but will they choose Labour over a Conservative party with him as leader ?
But as you say, Glen, Nigel genuinely believes what he says, and the policies he supports, which are very close to those proposed by our host, are what a large percentage of voters want to see implemented. There is no chance of that happening under Sunak or Starmer.
We are in dangerous territory for the Conservatives. I can see Reform with Nigel at the helm bridging the gap to Sunak and probably beating the Conservatives in the polls. But that won’t easily be translated into seats.
January 25, 2024
Youâre continually making more immigration laws without getting it right first time, a bit like you knife & dangerous dogs laws âŠ.stop appeasing everyone (the media the woke) and make good laws for the UK people
January 25, 2024
OT but important
âAn electric bus has caught fire in London, making it the third to burst into flames in the capital this month. Firefighters tackled the flames engulfing the single-deck bus at a bus garage on Chelverton Road in Putney on Wednesdayâ
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/electric-bus-london-fire-putney-capital-b2484622.html
Surprisingly not reported on the BBC or Sky
January 25, 2024
So thatâs nice thenâŠmanslaughter and attempted murder verdicts in NottinghamâŠThree deaths.
And prison for sticking up perfectly legal posters!
Thereâs justice for you!
January 25, 2024
Using the courts theory, every criminal is mentally ill !!!
January 26, 2024
He committed the terrible sin of, ‘Thought Crime’
January 26, 2024
Our not fit for purpose Home Office boasts in a tweet on 24th., January: –
“Today we returned a further 38 people to Albania with no right to be in the UK. This included offenders convicted of drugs offences and sexual communications with a child.”
There is action! Yet in contrast Pakistan told migrants living in the country that they must leave by November 1st 2023 if they didnât have proper authorization papers to remain. Rather than only its Interior Minister Patel/Braverman-like making speeches about being “absolutely determined” to do something or other, 110,064 foreign nationals left the country voluntarily during the timeframe, while a further 541,210 were forcibly removed.
Many of those who have left were Afghans, so we can expect them here soon perhaps.
January 26, 2024
This site is so heavily censored it is worse than useless
Sadly the same as our government, I think that the majority of contributors know that
January 27, 2024
Not strictly about migration but definitely about the security of our borders and posted here because I know my (Labour) MP will not be in the least interested.
HMG advice to visitors from Sweden gives the following possible reasons for visits when covering if, and for how long, Swedish nationals may enter the UK without a visa:
Tourism or visiting family and friends
Work, academic visit or business
Study
Transit (on your way to somewhere else)
Join partner or family for a long stay
Get married or enter into a civil partnership
Stay with your child, if theyâre at school
Have medical treatment
For official diplomatic or government business (including transit through the UK)
Their is no category which obviously covers furthering and publicising an international political campaign by encouraging civil disobedience and the obstruction of UK citizens and businesses going about their lawful occasions, yet Greta Thunberg pops in and out of our country for just that, and nothing else, as if we were her back yard (burning much fossil fuel in the process). Why? Do border controllers no longer ask arrivals the reason for their visits? Do they accept obvious lies because they sympathise? Is the Home Office still not really convinced that we have left the EU CTA? I think we should be told.