I thought this video was very informative.

"UK citizens are generally more pro-migrant than is often suggested" - Absolutely true, the populist right is very vocal online because of the repercussions of expressing these opinions in real life. Personally I think the failure of Brexit has pushed the average Brit way too far left on this issue though that many people are willfully ignorant of the issues. "UK is relatively good at integrating migrants" - I mean compared to like Sweden I suppose, but that is a very poor standard to hold a government at.

In my opinion, I don't think your team has anything to apologise for. 😅 I think the video content and coverage is indeed impartial: you are discussing exactly what the video title states you will be discussing. You are presenting an series of factual observations! Nothing more - nothing less.

"Hey we weren't balanced on this topic, so why don't you consume more of our content" Why would I want more biased content?

SHOWN YOUR TRUE COLOURS!

@@soccerguy325 the point is the UK isn't building enough, due to government policies.

more like bad at building houses. We were bad at it when there were 100k immigrants a year, and when there were 50k. It's a separate issue. There's plenty of evidence in this video showing how much better we are than most at immigration. But ever since thatcher, we sure have been terrible at building homes

I think HMO's also add to this problem

@@soccerguy325 Not really a thing in the UK but anyway most native Brits can't afford them and all cheap housing has been taken by the govt to house illegals.

And migrants get exploited into paying huge rents for a bunk bed in a slum house.

Fr

This x100

This morning on this thread -- I misspelt that word to imply 'fair exchange' i.e towards 'like for like' -- but going easy on the obsessions...

THats not a fair system - Most migratns are not refugees but here for work. its the low wage visa that allows so many to come in and barely speak english.

For the record at least 70% of these people were offered asylum here in France, which was almost unanimously REFUSED ! Our Security Services here now prevent up to 65% of these "small boats" leaving our shores. That means you only have 35% to contend with. But ask yourself, why has this escalated to 4 times of what it was before Brexit !

This at least is something everyone can agree on… if only we all agreed on the why too

Complete societal collapse within 40 years.

Youre very close behind.

Do you mean convict? Conviction is the is the outcome not the people

THE UK IS BEING DESTROYED BY ISLAM INDIA & BLACKS THE ENGLISH RACE & CULTURE ARE FINISHED YOU ARE VANISHING FROM FOOTBALL TV STREETS POLITICS POSTERS ON STREETS IN SHOPS ON THE NET ADVERTS ALL BECOMING BLACK THE 3 CULTURES WHO HATE YOU. NO HOUSING SCHOOLS HOSPITALS PRISONS FULL POLLUTION UP CRIME ON THE RISE WHEN YOU WERE IN THE EU 5.7 MILLION FROM EASTERN EUROPE ARRIVED 4 BILLION IN BENBEFITS THOUSANDS OF CRIMINALS

Oh no, left-wing propaganda channel lied again. Who would have guessed.

“Companies” like the NHS

If that was the case, the UK wouldn't have one of the worse cross sectional shortages in its post-war history.

That isn't the fault of immigrants though you gotta blame the government and the businesses for not having better labour laws and higher minimum wage

If companies make more money by employing immigrants than brits then they will. You can't blame them for that. The only purpose of private companies is to make as much money as possible within the law. The government could change that by increasing the minimum wage, strengthening employee rights and strengthening the bargaining power of unions. That way everyone gets better wages and more secure jobs. And when immigrants are no longer more profitable for companies, then companies will start employing and training up brits there is a demand for cheap labour, it's easier to reduce that demand than restrict the supply. But neither the torys or reform want any of that. Because they are both run by millionaires who profit off low wages and weak unions. They just use immigration as a smoke screen to distract working people from those doing the real damage, the governments who cut workers rights and the millionaires those governments represent But also, we are going to need to keep letting immigrants in, simply because otherwise our working population will keep shrinking compared to our elderly population. People aren't having enough children, something that's happening in every mature industrialised nation across the world. So far no one anywhere in the world has come up with a solution to this problem that actually works. So until we do figure out how to get people to have more kids, or work out a different economic system that doesn't rely on infinite growth, then we have a choice of welcoming immigrants or our nation going bust

People in government will really be like "you believe in sector bargaining/ full employment as a means to boost wages? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, of cutting immigration" and then not cut immigration.

Why do you think this is?

😂😂😂😂 so true! I clicked on the video thinking “I bet this is going to get me seething” Let’s see!

@kawinfinity so your saying that suggesting "the Tories are really good people" will get people on every side angry? Are you suggesting that tory supporters will be just as mad at that statement as labour supporters? Does that mean that the torys are actively trying to be bad people and therefore saying they are actually good is suggesting they are failing at their jobs? /s

I watched this and while surprising, I can't say I disliked this. In fact, I was happy. My thought was: we can now finally say the UK isn't racist or xenophobic and everything is fine over there. Good for them.

@@octavianpopescu4776 just google uk racists incident and you will change that opinnion.

Thank You, reading this comment I feel understood 🙏🏻

I'm a working class white native, and honestly the problems here are more to do with class than whiteness. Rural and regional areas are also genuinely forgotten. Edit. One other thing I've just thought of is educational inequality: especially if you are learning disabled, the education system of the United Kingdom doesn't work if your parents don't have the capacity or time to help you with academic work, and don't also understand the subjects you are being taught. That's right from primary to university level. There is a silent implied labour within the UK education system from parents so there's a lot of guilt for people who aren't able to academically advance, because it relies mostly on their relationship with their parents and their parents style of parenting. I understand you see us struggling as someone with migrant experience, but honestly this is about class and how people born in places like Cornwall were never really seen as the same sort of people as the Queen or the professors of Oxford. J Draper has a really good video about racism in London, and within it the paradox of racism in the UK becomes clear: racism here is about whether you are a gentleman or a lady, but those with a head start in terms of 'breeding' have more chance of being seen as a gentleman or lady from birth. Thank you for having understanding, but honestly our problems overlap. British university education systems just extend the class system globally. I think the imperial influence of the UK has actually continued in that way, beyond the 60s. Have a nice day and I hope you are doing ok 💙

It is evident that you may be in the EU and control your market because Germany, France, and other nations require qualifications and exams from job applicants within particular sectors.

That is exactly why I gave up being an immigrant after trying a decade ago. I realised I was contributing exactly to the problems I was deploring and understood it was time to pack up. That bedroom in a shared house I was renting for an insane amount, maybe it'd be better off being rented by a local. Also the UK of the late 1990s had a booming economy and wages that allowed most people to be well off. Nothing like today's nation of dereliction.

​@@user-jn8wi3vf8qElites prefer to develop the London commuter belt instead of pursuing a more balanced model of growth. 😢 ,tories still praise Margaret Thatcher after all her reforms were proven to cause harm.

Step 1: conquer and rule the world Step 2: exploit and profit Step 3: empire falls apart Step 4: complain about immigration from places that where exploited

@@kuil What’s step 5?

@@metamind411 Try and figure it out

@@kuil Ah yes - we had a successful empire so we can't be anti-immigration. How about we just have open borders as a form of reparations!

@@neptune1525 Step 5: let the newcomers turn UK into the same shithole they came from

Illegal immigrants... do seek Asylum, you know?

collectively they're _mass_ illegal immigrants

Tbf this video is about immigration specifically and the attitudes towards it.

That's the government's fault, not migration

@@kindmulberry7196to which immigration contributes, it’s simple supply and demand. People unable to book GP appointments due to local practices being over subscribed. Families unable to get children into schools due to over subscription. Families with local connections unable to get social housing due to over subscription.

ah yes, the problem is not rich people hoarding over 90% of the country's wealth and caring about only themselves, it's the migrants!

Most migrants don't end up on the streets, he just said that most immigrant men are more likely to get a job. Govt's lack of investment into public services isn't on migrants

Now they've changed the title.

Real good means people live peacefully in self segregated communities, it's bad if it turns into Yugoslavia

I'm not sure what you mean by "policies that cater to infrastructure, public services etc". That is an incredibly vague collection of buzzwords that don't mean anything. What does this have to do with this video, that only looked at metrics on how much immigrants are different from their native peers in grades, employment and academic prowess. And from these metrics they conclude that immigration seems to be going well in Britain - when compared to other countries. Have you even watched the video? Or do you mean that immigrants should put in extra effort and hours and serve their British overlords for letting them in..? Also: "real-ly"

I agree we need better and more sensible infrastructure and public services, not less immigration

The housing crises is the everything crisis.

Exactly my thoughts. Well done for delineating so eloquently

Technically they weren't British citizens, they were only British subjects. The only British colonies that have ever had automatic British citizenship have been the British overseas territories since 2002, when a law was passed that gave them all automatic British citizenship just like the UK. The only British passport Hong Kongers were automatically eligible for was the British National Overseas passport from 1987-97, which is completely different to a regular British passport and until 2021 didn't offer you any right to residency in the UK.

these people were also part of the uk most likely at once, why werent they given citizensihp huh? so one colony gets different treatment from the other?

@@meretricioussimp7759 They want the benefit of services, tax, revenue that the colonies generate but not the people who generates it.

Hong Kong residents were BN(O)s, not full British citizens. British rule over HK was finite from Day 1 because it was a lease agreement with the (then) Chinese Empire and the law reflected that. Sooner or later it was going back to China and nobody wanted the legal headache of giving 5 million people British citizenship at once.

Indeed, Education and a history of paying taxes: Welcome to the UK sir/madam, may we take your coat? Please make yourself comfortable. Do try the canapes, they are divine... Persons not meeting this criteria: Thanks but no thanks, you see we are already building on floor plains and don't have enough land to feed our existing population.

It's intentional to draw strawmans

Imigration is illegal migration you can do any of those (especially the family one) legally to some extent.

aren't these all the same thing? it starts with worker migrants that are invited because of a "labour shortage" but then wont leave later. then comes the family unification migrant and the asylum migrants. And ye know poor mustafa have 4 wives, 50 children and over 200 cousins. And we of course have to take on all of them because we took him.

​@@handtrap8868They've really gutted what you can do with the family one with the new earning minimums (currently £29,000 with plans to increase it to £38,700 yearly income in the UK)

What your forgetting is that the Tory migration rhetoric literally isn't landing. As the video says perspectives of Legal migration hasn't been changed by the small boats problem. Also, remember that reform UK is FAR less extreme than the AfD. Reform's policies are anti-immigration and small government, the AfD is *checks notes* opposed to Denazification.

@@euanstokes2828German laws surrounding the suppression of extremist politics are pretty harsh, I imagine Reform UK would vehemently oppose them if ever implemented in the UK, even the Tories might be reluctant given the recent Scottish Hate Crime fiasco

@@obama9535 no but I mean, the AfD have erm, interesting views towards the Nazis that basically amount to the 'Hitler did good things for Germany' trope. There's a lot of stuff in their electoral ads about Germany being proud of its imperial heritage. You don't see the same thing from reform

​@@obama9535 Surveillance of a party, in which a higher number of members are supporting deportation as a valid part of immigration policy (even for German citizens with migration background), is *not* harsh. It's reasonable, and, given our history, perhaps even too less.

The Tories’ immigration rhetoric isn’t landing because they’ve been saying the same things for years and yet immigration is still rising. Nobody can trust them on this issue.

Indians after 300+ Years of colonialism: Guess I'm in charge now.

International Chewry.

Why? I don't see a problem with this.

My ancestors are from Ireland, shall I go back so you feel better?

Pretty sure it's 1 in 5

​@@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn feel free!

I think people like you are petty sad individuals obsessed with skin colour and not people´s character

Reform are not for a "better future", some of the candidates maybe but Richard Tice has exposed himself, he's no intentions of stopping immigration he just wants to be the new Conservative party. A vote for Reform is a vote for more of the same.

Specifically what data did you think was random here?

But this video does the exact opposite of that - it is saying that the asylum rhetoric has had no effect on the way British people view migration in general.

​@@euanstokes2828Legal (referred to in the video as'regular') migration has a very different profile compared to illegal migration and asylum queue jumping. Combining them into one category misses major differences.

@@zen1647 but the whole point of combining them was to show that despite hostile rhetoric towards asylum seeking, the UK still has a pro-immigration outlook

@@euanstokes2828 No one has a problem with skilled immigrants who are able to assimilate into British culture. But only 15% enter the UK on a skilled immigrant visa - 85% have no job or skills. This demolishes the 'skilled workers argument'. Even most of those who do come in on 'skilled workers' visa, turn out not to be skilled but end up in low paying jobs, often using fraudulent certificates of qualification. (There's a thriving business in fraudulent nursing qualifications from Nigeria as a recent scandal showed).

You clearly weren't paying attention through the whole video. It explicitly says that English is the world's most common second language.

@@stephengray1344 Oh, my bad. Let me stress then that this is, in my opinion, the most important factor in the differences between the UK and countries on the main land.

This is great for immigrants to the UK but terrible for UK emigrants. Especially since the UK has been really bad at integrating language classes into the education curriculum.

@@SuperSmashDolls UK emigrants do okay. Everyone else speaks English too.

Language, plus also culture plays a huge part. The fact that the UK colonised nearly half the world means that fragments of British culture were forcefully implemented and thus entrenched in so many societies, and that’s why for some it may feel easier to adjust to a British identity rather than a Swedish identity for example.

If you work at a place, Uk is one of the best places that gives you economical freedom but instead some people still say oil is so expensive (literally one of the cheapests in europe) beside that; they want to drink in every second which results that they can’t save any money. The best english are who lived at least 1 year in a Mediterranean country so they could see some sunlight which led them to happiness.

​@@FireAgarioMore That's why most English people complain about their own economical freedom, in fact. Isn't it?

My anecdotal evidence says differently, what are you on about?

Which city is more segragated. Lets see the stats.

This video is pure gas lighting ! The exact inverse is true to almost every claim made herein. I could easily dismantle it atom by atom providing counter evidence, if I didn't have more important things to do . The headlines for pinheads like you are: -Immigration is wildly unpopular with the hosts and always has been. -It comes at enormous expense to them

This is a bot 🤖

Same here, we're being replaced forever and the left are dutifully cheering it on with a kind of sick pleasure.

Out of interest why did you come here? This whole comment section is so fucking anti UK. Was it just for family?

@@maxdavis7722 I came to work for a very interesting prop-tech start-up. But also I always admired the culture and the traditions here...

@@alexkarpukhin interesting, if you don’t mind, where were you originally from?

Every country that banks on population growth to paint a rosy picture of a growing economy will have facilitated immigration procedures, obviously. Good for you for it's entirely unsustainable.

@@maxdavis7722 in 2020 we came from Ukraine. It was quite different back then living during lockdowns and whatnot. But ultimately the UK never disappointed us...

Just like anything to do with growth - most particularly population growth. It grows the overall size of the pie, but everybody gets a much smaller slice of it.

@@pritapp788 that's not how economic growth works

Your employer not caring about your rights at the job isn’t because of immigrants, bud.

@@pritapp788This is entirely what the capitalist system is based upon, supposedly. But then the 1% gets 98% of the pie while the people get 2%, the remaining 99% of the population. Isn’t that interesting?

@@KoniTheChiwaNo, the best outcome of capitalism is large and comfortable middle class. 98% get all the wealth is typically what you see in the corrupt Economic Socialist countries like Venezuela or Soviet Union. Late stage capitalism, which the US is sliding into, sees 90% of wealth in fewer and fewer individuals and that is a problem. The middle class is being squeezed out due to hiring cheap workers and outsourcing good paying jobs, while in the Socialist countries wealth is never built at all to spread around. Everyone is poor in Soviet Union except some of the “bosses.” The Soviet Unions GDP for example never really recovered after WW2 while West Germanys skyrocketed with smart investments, competitive hiring and industry.

No you can't be deemed a local. The majority of the population will not see you as English because English is an ethnicity.

@@bookinsights1092 I take it all back. Enjoy your loser island as it further slides into irrelevance.

Pirata ​@@bookinsights1092

100% incorrect. The (white) British people hold that British identity extremely close to their chest, which is why even 5th generation minority British people will still get asked “so where are you actually from” despite their identify at that point being unequivocally english

@@bookinsights1092I consider my friends who have immigrant parents who were born here to be British. My nan was born here to Polish parents (refugees from WW2) and she’s as British as they come. I’d even consider my mate who was born in Estonia to be more British, as he moved here only a few months after birth so he’s been here for way way longer.

Very, very good question that! I mean - if I think about what a large proportion of income immigrants in South Africa send back home to their families (especially the Zimbabwean workers I have spoken with)... some of them keep barely enough money for them to get by on a day-to-day basis. They left their families and everything that they know, to go work their hands to the bone, in order for the family to survive. 😢 I can totally see the same thing being true in the UK.

how much did your government spent for your education and everything needed before you start working? hundreds of thousands of quid. . While immigrants, especially those highly skilled, you spent zero and you get a fully working adult to contribute to the economy. Even with the little amount they send back home, they are still an economical advantage compared to lowly skilled locals like yourself who has not paid enough tax to cover the expenses for you to grow up. Whether you admit this or not, the influx of immigration is a result of the UKs downfall, and not the other way around. You need more people because the locals are not having babies and are barely productive because of either laziness or just plain old stupidity, your economy is not growing on it's own. You're poor and you need more people to look like you're less poor.

It is surprising when you think about it but it's true. We usually look at immigration as an internal problem, but compared to the rest of the world we're cosmopolitan. A good way to put it is this - in France they banned the Hijab with basically 0 opposition from non-Muslim French people. In Britain such a policy would be unthinkable.

@@euanstokes2828 tbh I think a large silent majority would support it, it’s just an incredibly loud minority the MSM only lets you hear from

@@euanstokes2828 Your reply to their comment makes absolutely no sense, it's not addressing anything they said at all. The UK didn't have the Napoleonic code civil & doesn't have several laws, institutions etc because of that. One obvious thing that happens on mainland Europe is that you show your ID to your prospective employer. If an employer doesn't do their due diligence in making sure their employees are legally able to work, the government comes down on them HARD as illegal black market work. So employers are incentivised to keep on the right side of the law. In the UK this is almost the opposite. Finding work without papers is easy & the chance that the government cracks down on illegal employment situations is so negligible that it's laughable. You may have not understood that point, but it is a solid one. The second point as well. Unis in the UK charge extortionate rates for Brits & well above that for foreign students. Trying to bring up the hijab ban in secondary schools in France is just ... idiotic. Secondary schools in France are ALL state funded. There is a strong separation of religion & state in France. So you're not supposed to have any outward religious symbols at school.(yarmulkes & others are banned as well) Quite frankly that's better than the UK where you get an excellent education if your parents can pay for it & send you to public school, you can get a good education if you are smart & get lucky on the eleven plus test & you go to grammar school or you go to a comprehensive & are f*cked. Comps are becoming more & more a dumping ground. So excuse me, while i don't bow for the "great british education system." Go look up privateschoolmaffia(dot)com

@@LeafHuntress I know why France has this ideology but that doesn't stop it being wrong lmao. What your suggesting is principle with no actual substance and highlights exactly why France has a major problem with integration where the UK doesn't. Because in the UK, these things are no big deal, by passing laws like this you make it a big deal. Considering religion in this topic muddies the waters, so let me put it this way. If someone in France wore a political party badge that would be fine. That's free speech. It's self expression. So why is it any different if someone expresses an opinion in this way about God? What practical problems are there with Muslims being muslim? Also, you clearly have 0 understanding of the UK uni system. The UK charges international students way more and although uni should be free (it actually is in Scotland where I live) England and Wales have very generous student loan programmes for locals. We do let in more international students because we have far more uni places than we need and we use this money to subsidise scholarships etc. No uni in France comes close in international recognition to Oxford, Cambridge or St Andrews, and basically every major city has a redbrick University. Is the system problematic? Yes, but immigration isn't the problem. What frustrates British people is you'll say Brexit was because we're racist Europhobes then propose policies like this. By the end of this year, Scandinavia, Northern Europe and France are likely to be a sea of right-wing governments and the UK is set to elect a leftwing party by a landslide. Europeans have a serious problem with immigration and they need to stop looking down on Britain with such snobbery if they want to realise it. Especially the French.

@@euanstokes2828 FFS what a bunch of UTTERLY ANNOYING word salad. You really cannot write, argue & debate can you? 1. OP talked about something. 2. you go:"blablabalbla irrelevant nonsense not related to the comment or the video blablabla" 3. I told you that OP was right & called you out on your irrelevant nonsense. 4. you now react with the reason you probably actually wanted to write all along; that the French are snobbish. Wow! Such insight! Very much! Do stick that proud empire schtick up your arse. I'm not interested. And your continued obsession with muslims is noted, as is your conflagration of SECONDARY & TERTIARY education. Please stop this bollox, i will not react to that shyte again. Your assumptions about my feelings about people in the UK are far of the mark, especially because some of them are my family. I hate brexit. But as JamesO'B says;"contempt for the conmen, compassion for the conned." Migration has push & pull factors. The push factors are well known; war, poverty etc. The pull factors specifically to the UK are the fact that the UK initiated or otherwise played a part in those wars, the former empire, the language & the facts i already described about ID-cards. You can try to wriggle away from that all you like. The video didn't mention it & it should've. Why are those such sore topics for Brits?

Yes lets fill it up with non brits!

That's what we call population replacement.

​@@kinoraiand that is called conspiracy theory. Also you do know the population statistics of the UK right? Do you think the gain in labour support was made up of immigration? That would mean 10s of millions of immigrants suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Yes immigrants are more likely to vote Labour, but the bulk of shift in support for Labour, statistically has to be from white British people. You act like native British people couldn't possibly care about immigrants, when clearly you are projecting your own views onto them

@@kinorai The US and Canada also have large immigrant populations. And yet the conservative parties there are not losing popularity. So your loony theory doesn't really make sense.

@@SashedPotatoAnd why do you people support their genocide? Look at London. It isn’t even an English city anymore. It’s been colonized by others who stole the homeland as punishment for England’s “original sin”.

How do u think it could be fixed?

When they put the migrants in the cities they cluster them all together when they should spread them all out thin. If they’re clustered they’ll just create their own little segregated groups and won’t integrate, then you have the situation we are in now with the “us districts” and the “them districts” and eventually you end up like Sweden with “no-go zones”…

Britain has had immigrant communities since the 19th century and society hasn't collapsed yet

​@maxdavis7722 it cant. Nowhere has this happened and it been good.

the more immigrants there are in a place the more likely the brits living there are to see immigration in a positive light. And over the last decade public sentiment has become only more positive toward immigrants. So yeah, go to any English city and you'll see why people like immigration so much

I mean speaking as a recruiter we take on a fair few immigrants (like our new health and safety manager) and it's never down to that. Sometimes they just have more skills and experience. Most organisations want someone who will do the job as well as possible and will last

​@@james3098 If there wasn't as many people flooding the country, giving you so much choice you'd have to pay people better. The poor want jobs that keep up with inflation and the rise of cost of living and the rich want and are getting richer. We're fighting a losing battle so I left. I live abroad now and I'll never go back. Trust me people feel discriminated against and are dying to speak out but have no choice but to comply.

Excellent point! They need to improve their data analysis communication skills.

What do you mean we told you so? We're more pro-immigration than you guys by a significant margin and always have been. We should be the ones saying 'we told you so' when we kept trying to tell you that Brexit was about more than immigration. What a notice with a lot of Europeans in the EU is that they are pro-immigration only for themselves. Your not against Brexit because you think Britain should accept more immigrants, your against Brexit because you want special treatment.

@@euanstokes2828 Do you really believe that? Brexit was never about immigration? This is pure doublethink.

@@euanstokes2828 But I give you the benefit of the doubt, the immediate causes of brexit were two: 1. The perceived austerity policies of the European Commission, which was seen as a bunch of unelected bureaucrats who imposed suffering on the Greek people (deliberately ignoring that the main proponents of Austerity were led by Cameron's own Premiership) 2. The migrant crisis of 2015, due to the civil wars in Libya and Syria and the increased activities of the Islamic State and the perceived immobility of the EU in dealing with the Migrant Crisis which led to many in the UK believing that a so-called 'ethnic replacement' under the EU was inevitable ( I lived in the UK in those years, I remember the tabloid headlines) In short, the Conservative Party tried to restore our political virginity by trying to lay the blame for austerity policies on the EU and promising to control so-called immigration (not just illegal immigration, but all immigration in general). What has been happening over the last few years has demonstrated that the problems of the united kingdom were never caused by the European institutions, and brexit supporters now claim that the whole project was based on 'democracy', ignoring that the project was doomed to failure from the start.

@@edoardoturco8780 As is unfortunately quite typical of Europeans, you are viewing British immigration policy only with relation to Europe. I don't know how to tell you this but, there are other continents out there. Yeah of course Brexit was impacted by immigration but anyone who was here at the time will tell you that in 2016 it was at the bottom of our list of priorities with Brexit. What was more important was for instance trade and commerce. British people were worried about British business being outcompeted by European ones, especially those that can hire workers in poor Eastern European countries. Your looking at only the most extreme arguments for Brexit on the far right. This is not why most people voted for it. To a certain extent, British people feel more attached to the commonwealth than Europe.

@@edoardoturco8780 also let's not forget, the Conservative party was pro-EU as well until like 2019. The man who called for a Brexit referendum, David Cameron, was a remainer and campaigned for a no vote. Both the remain and Leave camps were cross party at the time.

Exactly most people when polled think it's around 70k net, when it's closer to 700k net. The same people who are complaining that they can't afford a house, and they don't put the two together.

@@SaintGerbilUK The guilt of being anti-EU migration and Brexit being a failure has swung the opinion pendulum way too far to the left. The only way the average person will acknowledge there is a problem now is if it gets catastrophic.

@@SaintGerbilUKImmigrants aren’t the reason people can’t afford a house. It’s the wealthy who are driving up the prices by buying more with all the money they made during the lockdown.

Almost like the government is prioritising non-uk born people over native Brits.

"Many are not fit to work" yet unemployment is lower than most other countries. Curious where you've got this from? And what studies make the claim that "unhealthy" people are "not fit to work"? Long term unemployed are usually disabled, not overweight 😅

@@n00dl3ok I live in Aberdeen, Scotland and 25% of Aberdeen do not work and just sit on benefits 🖕🏻

@@n00dl3 Depends on how your government defines 'unemployment'. If you take your dog out for a walk, you're counted as a dog-walker and thus employed, thanks to the Tories.

We've already tried the education gambit, unfortunately when we challenge the students with what they've learned, most can't pass the tests and when it comes to the parents; none of them are willing to accept that maybe little Susie or Timmy is just not as bright as they'd have hoped or need to put in more effort - culturally they're too babied. Instead the schools lower the passing grade, more kids "pass" the school looks good for the pass rate, funding increases, the nation's IQ drops a few points and we're worse off at the end of the generation then we were at the start.

They'd never do that, because they are a fair and balanced channel.

@@SaintGerbilUK They are usually good at providing both sides, especially with their political videos (Biden and Trump for example). However with this topic like many they don't want to even touch the negatives on this topic which just undermines their whole argument. TLDR has really begun to go downhill lately and I hope they see the response to their latest videos and make a positive change or at least realise the UK is in fact really diverse and not everyone is a Middle Class Londoner, some of us have been forgotten about by the Capital.

@@TheEmpecinadoMrBurns Its true about many of their videos, for example they portray the Israel/Palestine issue as a conservative problem, yet it cost Labour a seat and has much more infighting among Labour supporters, to the point that it might impact them in the GE. And yet they promote ground news...

@@SaintGerbilUK Yes and without us becoming our own echo chamber, I originally began to watch them as I found them to be less bias than most however I've noticed a change especially since October. The example of immigration how we are more open to immigrants but lumping in Ukrainians (mostly made up of women and children) with those from Hong Kong (People with connects to Britain and our values and standards [oversimplification]) to economic migrants consisting of young men is beyond disingenuous.

It's interesting that you have this experience, as for me I found the opposite to be true. I grew up in the UK countryside. I have European parents and as such look 'not British'. I spent my whole life constantly being, to use your words, reminded that I'm different. However, visiting various European countries I get to experience the invisible, being part of the furniture, life and really it's so much more relaxing. This is why I support freedom of movement, so people like you or I can choose where we feel most comfortable and live there.

Like anti-abortion activists who have had abortion.

It's not rich. It's called understanding SUSTAINABLE and LEGAL migration.

@@DLB-po6nn Lmao conservatives hate legal migration just as much as they hate illegal migration. You're such a fool if you think they make a distinction.

Good for the UK

​@@howardmurphy743Yeah if you ignore the crime rates and going broke

@@deeznutz8320 Explain to me why white people in the North commit crime? Without immigration, there will be too many pensioners that take away from the economy, and not enough young people working (giving to the economy). then leading the nation to go broke without immigration (look at japan or korea)

If you are going to disagree, at least give your reasoning

@@MeTheCoolDude look at any city? look at the crime? are you ok?

The failures of multiculturalism are self evident

@@Yawnymcsnore Seems like your brain has been severely damaged by right-wing populism.

Id like to disagree but without the respect part

Yeah and because of this my job is finally well paid because there’s hardly anyone in construction the workforce is tight. It took a labour crisis for business to realise “oh wait we can pay decent money and still make sickening profits”. C***s

See, let me tell you that the last part of your sentence is a complete crock. The state of jobs here is awful, any time a vacancy opens up anywhere there's 300+ applicants for it and they require multiple years experience and a large list of requirements for a minimum wage entry level job, because they can get away with asking for such a list as they're spoiled for choice. Getting into any industry here if you don't already have experience is literally impossible.

@@KCzz15 yeah I mean, by "highly skilled" I meant work experience or postgraduate

@@awwastor The reason for that then is because as I said: It is impossible to get any work experience as an Englishman. Every job that used to be entry level now asks for years of experience so they have their pick of whoever they like, which usually ends up being a migrant as they'll work harder for less pay. This widens the experience gaps even further as if you're English nobody will bother taking a chance on you so you can get any experience at all.

Brexit failed, carry on wearing your clown make up. Every time the British folk “rise up” it is just a joke.

Modern slavery

@@LoveOfLam pretty disrespectful to people in actual slavery.

SOME MIGRANTS

Reverse Colonisation

During COVID Tories, namely James Cleverly, signed trade deals with Commonwealth countries allowing Corporations such as Just Eat to tout for drivers overseas at 20% lower hourly rates.

The sources are all linked

tbf there are minority politicians in France and Germany too, though France is very divided on issues like immigration and accepting other cultures. You can see this even within regions, i.e in Avignon Macron got 70%, Le Pen 30, in Orange, it was Le Pen 60, Macron 40. People in rural France see the worst headines and imagine that everything in big cities is a total chaos when it´s not actually true. It doesn´t mean there aren´t issues but it simply isn´t a constant war.

The UK has always been more civilised than mainland Europe tbh.

My partner is an immigrant (from Greece), and I have friends from immigrant backgrounds. Obviously I love my friends and they’re lovely people, and very welcome here. I don’t think most people have a problem with ‘immigration’ per se. What people dislike is far too much immigration of people who don’t respect our values, and throw their toys out of the pram when we don’t want to live like they do, and refuse to integrate into our society

@@reececollison5101 It tends to be the other way round mostly in my view. Lots of immigrants come with a very rosy picture of the country but many locals throw a whiny hissy fit and accuse them of every crime under the Sun

@@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn yes one of my grandfathers very much has that attitude. But you do tend to find empty vessels make the loudest noise. Luckily most people are decent people though. I’m not some raving lefty btw, I agree illegal migration should be properly dealt with and legal migration needs to be much lower. But that doesn’t make me a bad person and I’ll still be nice to anyone who is nice to me, and being an immigrant doesn’t automatically make them a bad person. If I was from a poor country wanting better opportunities, I’d do exactly the same thing

Which Brits though?

But that's wrong. Have you ever been to Tower hamlets?

Statistically Tower Hamlets was in the top three places for social mobility (2017). I think that’s a testament to Britain’s social mobility (a key part of integration). You can be born a working class immigrant and become an educated professional within a generation.

@@vksepeif hazard a guess that that is because there aren’t many natives left in tower hamlets.

And its a joke because we see it all the time how much Brits hate it

*_Satiric Verses_* i think you should remember...

😂😂😂

Oh wait a minute.......

Oh wait you're serious, let me laugh even harder.

You are thinking of legal immigration by a work visa not the millions of illiterate boatmen

I wonder if there's like a study somewhere that shows all the cities in the UK and the number of immigrants travelling to each one.

It is a net benefit... to certain sectors: -that rely on cheap labour to undercut local wages -that welcome an injection of big money from abroad (money laundering, real estate, higher education) Creates plenty of low paid "service" jobs and ultimately does little to boost the economy or living standards.

@@Observer-O immigrants tend to be attracted to big cities, as that’s where the opportunities tend to lie. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester. Southampton too as there will be a lot of job opportunities there due to the docks. Where I’m from in Norwich there is certainly a large white majority population, probably due to it being a relatively small city with few job opportunities, and a very long way from any other big city. Devon and Cornwall are the same

phone scammers, macrocosm/microcosm, the Cobra Effect.

What does native Brit mean? How many generations have to have been born in the UK before you are classed as a native Brit is it 2,6,10? Is Boris Johnson a native Brit he was born in New York to British parents is Rishi Sunak a native Brit he was born in Southampton to East African immigrants with an Indian background ?

@@nguene Sunak is an Indian.

​@@BarryStanton1488Indians have been in Britain in large numbers since the war

⁠​⁠@@nguenewell first of all you should be white. Just like how Africans are black, ethnic Europeans and therefore native brits should logically be white. Also, Christian or not religious I think are good defining factors of a native Brit. Boris Johnson is far more British than Rishi Sunak could ever hope to be. But let’s be honest, Sunak is an Indian oligarch who is exploiting the U.K. from the inside for his own benefit (just the like rest of the current Conservative Party, exploiting the nation for their own gain). If you want a definition of British identity I can give it to you, but don’t cry racism or any other -ism or -phobia, because non-white regions of this planet have their own national identities and they’re almost always racially defined to some degree. The British are white, speak English as their first language, are usually either Christian or non-religious, and have lived in the U.K. for more than 2 generations.

​@nguene you know the answer. Anyone who isn't British but British-something isn't native

They're semi-Americans.

If they are European, why do they speak American? /j please dont kill me

London has one of the largest muslim population and it has changed for the worst, white people are not see as the number one anymore we are the forgotten race and we have been let down for the past 20/30 years this post will be deleted

That's more of a skill issue. A company would be more likely to hire someone with the necessary skills for the job than someone who happens to be British. At my company I work in the engineering side, British people that are working are the older ones whereas the younger engineers are generally migrants. This might just be because young British people are no pursuing engineering like the older generation did. This is supported by my experience in university where migrant and international students outweighed the number of native British people.

@@marufbepary100 when they hire a foreigner(s) then it undecuts british wages

​@@Anthony-xd1ljfeel free to provide your source of data that proves this? 1. Brexit actually proved the opposite is true once and for all. We drastically restricted EU labour and ended up with worker shortages everywhere i.e there were no British ppl stepping in to do the job, the foreigners weren't competing for the jobs they were adding to them. 2. Since we had these shortages the gov massively increased non EU labour, the put an earnings threshold on the requirements, the threshold was higher than the majority of Brits make i.e. they have made it that foreigners take the high paying jobs and Brits have to take the low paying ones.

​@@Anthony-xd1ljI think you missed his point, namely there's not that many people applying with the skills to fit the role, - its got nothing to do with wages; they could always be higher but that's one specific example out of many.

from my perspective as a Pole this country is not running in a good direction

But you as a Jamaican, have come to Britain to be Jamaican, not British. That's what rubs people the wrong way

tons of Jamaicans & other Caribbean people are here. < he honestly doesnt get it and thats why we shouldnt be allowing it to happen. You wont be rocking up to China and fucking with them. @@marcusmelville4111

You see this is an intelligent response. The meatheads commenting on this site can´t get beyond "duh blacks".

Agree. Solutions lie in knowing the problems! There are not enough skilled professionals in UK, needing to import doctors and nurses for example. Simple solution: send enough locals to school, college and Uni! That will solve the manpower crisis and no more immigration is needed. No excuses, as to how it's done (if College fees are high, find a way to reduce fees and hold government to account to fund tuition fees). The other aspect is Brits do not want to work in low paid jobs like care-home work, fruit picking work for example! These are fundamental problems which people do not want to address and blame immigration for the work-shy locals! Services will break down if immigration is stopped! Government knows this and hence lets businesses and sectors import talent/labour!

​@@Talushallux1Doctors and nurses yet you import Africans instead of Asians😂

People to some degree "become native" over time, i.e they are perceived as native. Relatively few Brits these days think that black Britons don´t belong in the country, whereas if you asked people in the 1960s, plenty of people agreed with Enoch Powell´s proposal that they should be paid to leave the country. Likewise, the Irish were basically seen as almost subhuman by many Victorians, but now nobody cares about people of Irish descent in the country. Interestingly there´s some evidence to show that groups go more right wing, once they´re no longer perceived as "foreign". I.e the Italians and the Irish, who faced a lot of prejudice up to the 60s in the US, have gone much more right wing in their voting patterns. It seems to have happened to British Jews somewhat too, I think they are one of the few ethnic minority groups that vote majority Tory, and many British Indians vote Tory too.

That's because Canada is a Settler colonist Society. Whites are NOT native to the Americas, and everyone knows this. (This is a Reply to the last part of your Comment btw.)

You disgust me

This is gross

@@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nnthey don’t become native over time Africans will never become European

Nobody in the U.K. has a problem with legal European migrants, the problem isn’t with immigration, the problem is with the illegal migrants who are disrespectful and low quality (usually from Islamic nations in Middle East or Northern Africa). It isn’t an “immigration problem”.

I think the way to deal with it, is not just thinking clamping down will make things better. The evidence is that this doesn´t actually work in practise. In fract, we´ve tried the clamp down approach repeatedly and it hasn´t worked. Probably opening more legal routes is the best thing we can do.

@@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn I don’t think we’ve come close to a fair attempt on a clamp down tbh. I think your legalese approach will fall further victim to Russian geopolitical tremors in Sahel.

@@dreadlock360 "legalsese approach", legalise means legal jargon, so you´re not making sense. I´m saying that it should probably be liberalised. "I don’t think we’ve come close to a fair attempt on a clamp down tbh" What would be a fair attempt? I mean the laws have got stricter. You could propose expanding the border force massively, but then you have to raise taxes to do that, or cut another service. This is the thing people don´t realise. We can´t wave magic wands and make immigration stop. It would be possible to reduce it a lot, but you would have to make a massive investment. And people need to think if it´s really more important to them than funding the NHS.

@@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn I say legalese because it’s an accurate description of the emptiness of your proposed solution - let’s just throw more laws at it! Very much reminiscent of how the Irish border issue would be resolved with ‘high tech solutions’ it has no substance. Answer me this how many illegal migrants even attempt, even Google for, a legal entry first before attempting crossings? As for harsher enforcement, obviously the Rwanda plan (I love Rwanda, and as a white man have lived and worked extensively in Kigali and Lusaka - they’re lovely cities) and any active enforcement plan comes under intense (and to an extent rightful) scrutiny - that so far has limited any fair test application of the powers. We’ve yet to see an active effort by anyone but French gendarmerie in recent weeks at actually turning around small boats, and preventing their voyages. If we did go a legal route, rather than creating more bureaucracy as you suggest (which also has to be funded by tax FYI), perhaps it’d be better to add a tougher line law - one strike policy - if you get caught illegally trying to enter the UK you can never ever come here or stay. A true deterrent. End of the day; the weakness of European immigration and border system lays in the ability to exploit, overwhelm and frustrate our bureaucratic machine - with no quick fire tools for processing and effectively removing individuals. It’s toothless. And any attempt to sharpen the blade is dulled by emotional blackmail.

Exactly and this is what doesn't happen in Europe. We take this for granted in the UK. A wise man once said, when even your immigrants are anti-immigrant, you know you've got a good immigration system.

I see this a lot with 2nd generation migrants

Hence the high murderrates

You're looking for the impossible then; news is a concept of humanity and humanity is naturally biased one way or the other to one degree or the other.

What's biased about this? If that's what the statistics say, that's what the statistics say.

​@octavianpopescu4776 it's clearly a Liberal biased take. No mention of the crappy hotels asylum seekers get assigned to whilst homeless people freeze to death, no mention of the asylum seekers drowning in the channel or asphyxiating in the back of trucks, no mention of the asylum seeker who pretended to convert to Christianity to avoid deportation and then threw acid at someone, no mention of statistics that portray immigration negatively such as 46% of those who follow Muhammad in Britain supporting hamas.

@@mappingshaman5280 They're saying the UK is a model country and that we, Europeans, are more intolerant. They're actually praising the UK, instead of criticising it, as lefties would do, they're praising it for how tolerant and diverse it is. Or one of the criticisms on the left of the UK is that it's racist or this video goes against that idea. So, I don't see it as having any liberal bias.

@@mappingshaman5280Every problem blamed on immigrants is actually due to rapidly increasing wealth inequality and the extremely poor handling of the economy by the Tories.

Source, the actual sources they list when presenting the stats.

they literally have 18 sources.

source: in the discription you mankey.

you might feel like that because you are in an echo chamber. But if you look a opinion polls and politics, the UK is becoming more friendly and tolerant

Exactly the tag line for the leave campaign was "take back control" It feels like they haven't taken back control and just given up control.

Oh, yes, if this country needs anything, it's another referendum. With roughly 35-40% of the electorate planning to vote for Tory or Reform, what we need is quality education and teaching of critical thinking skills, not another meaningless, divisive box-ticking exercise.

It's been on most governments manifesto to reduce immigration since Thatcher. Non have delivered.

@@hg82met”stop holding democratic votes because I don’t like the majority result” is literally what you just said.

@@TheRedmike67 Democracy only works if you have a free press and an educated, informed electorate. Otherwise you just have an electorate with no critical analytical skills, brainwashed to vote against their own interests.