Wow! That first caller! I thought he was auditioning for a role as Alf Garnett!😂😂. He’s certainly got the Tory message - ‘let’s blame an unpopular minority for all our woes, whilst lining our own pockets’. Divide and rule is the name of the game.
@@anonomous8719 I'm sure it _is_ the thruth, but only in _his_ tiny, bigotted mind. And perhaps yours, too, but it's difficult to tell from your comment because of the atrocious grammar. I gather English isn't your first language.
I'm getting frustrated just listening to these people... cant imagine doing it live. The call with "Sarah", at around 11:30 Oli gives her the numbers that are basically "We have massive swathes of land that hasnt been used, 2% of all land in the UK is built on" and yet she's still insisting there's no space. What do you do with people who ignore all evidence to the contrary of their opinion?
We may have huge areas of empty land but that doesn't mean it is suitable for building on. A lot of it is wildlife reserves, hills, mountains(yes, we do have a couple or three mountains). The other problem we have with building out in this country is people who don't want it in their backyard who don't want their views spoiled and the value of their house to go through the floor. A lot of the land is floodplains. We don't have as much land as people think we do.
I only care about England and not Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland. Mainly cos I live in England I suppose. I must admit I never knew there was a problem with that. I mean I can’t help what I care about as far as I’m aware. But in case I’m wrong g I shall henceforth try hard to care about Wales.
The last guy did him easily, he couldn’t answer the point about pitches and tennis courts, getting obsessed with golf courses was a stupid point to try and make.
@@verystripeyzebra stop using homeless vets as a cudgel. Folks only mention or seem to care about them when they can use them as a weapon against immigrants. They aren't props to be used to justify your bigotry.
Channel 4 news is more subtle with it's racism. Whenever we get reports of people struggling in the UK they nearly always interview a black person . They know this will automatically lose sympathy from the anti-immigrant crowd and possibly sway the undecided too. Don't forget CH 4 also used "benefit street" in a similar way.
Their theory was someone else (but a British someone else) would do all those jobs, so they could have all the benefits of them being done, but not have to potentially deal with foreigners or adjust to a changing society. Then they realised their own kids and grandkids didn't want to become vegetable pickers in Norfolk, minimum wage carers in the care system, or any of the other jobs their own politics had steadily made more unpleasant, and, well, there's a reason the same people who supported Brexit freak out about the word "Woke" - it's a word that speaks of a changing society that means they need to change or be treated like relics.
Many of the British are lazy & choose to be on benefits instead. Liz Truss was correct. It's a very bad situation because our benefit system lends itself to being out of work.
@@craig3533you missed a valid point - many of the British are also very lazy & opt for benefits. I can also verify this by my own family ( which I have nothing to do with)
@@MCDONALD6969 I'd disagree it's a large proportion being lazy, as a lot of that is structural - the way the benefits system has been structured disincentivizes work for a lot of people, because Tories are more interested in performative cruelty than economic reality. You have a kid that needs childcare? Better earn enough to cover the cost of that expensive childcare, and the reduction in other support. But if it's minimum wage you'll struggle to do so without working crazy hours, and given a choice between working long days to pay someone else to care for your kid and caring for your kid, I get why not working is more appealing. Spend a big chunk of your wage travelling hours each way to do a demeaning job? Then what's the logic there? Until a government fixes those stupid mismatches, it'll keep happening, because until our system is fixed for a lot of people work is going to literally going to make them worse off.
@@user-xu5vl5th9n if it is anything near the population density in Hong Kong then maybe, but we are probably talking about a very small part of the country. Most of the United Kingdom is either countryside or very well spread out when it is urbanised.
You've just written the outline for a Monty Python-style sketch, to wit: LBC Moderator;: "Let's go to Oliver in Brighton." OIB: "King Athelstan needs to grow a spine and put a stop to these towheaded-heathens, with their weird gods, their tatoos and their smelly gefilta-fish." Everywhere they land they spead violence and larceny. The Land of Angles used to be a great place to raise 18 children. Make Angleland Great Again!"
It's quite sad really, hearing the callers worry so much about something they clearly know very little about. Yet they also have no desire to consider another point of view.
We need to repeat, over and over. Asylum seekers, possibly by design, cannot integrate, they aren’t allowed to work, they aren’t allowed to study, they aren’t allowed to choose where they live. They become isolated as they have no real way to meet people, they can’t even just go down the pub since they have no disposible income. Of course they end up with their own isolated social bubbles, or work illegally. Imagine being trapped like that for 2+years whilst you wait in limbo for the incompetent home office to process you? Stop blaming them. Blame the incompetent Tories and home office. Clear that backlog and get reasonable processing times. It will not only deter chancers as they’ll get turned around quickly (and no issues deporting them), but allow the genuine ones to live and contribute and integrate.
@@thespian1961 cannot. Did you not just read my explanation. Tell me, do you think you could integrate in a foreign country when its illegal for you to work, to study, to be told where you live and with whom, having no disposable income to go to a cinema, or a pub. Then add idiots like you blaming them for not trying hard enough and being hostile to them. Stop being a moron and realize we are excluding them from our society. Maybe try meeting some and learning about them.
"Margaret Thatcher was against this!" I wonder how he voted for Brexit, I suppose he didn't follow Maggie's view there. Though my favourite rebuttal to these people who complain about Asylum seekers (sorry Economic Migrants) is: "Should we send all the Ukrainians back to their homeland?" the response is normally "Oh god no! They've been through a lot we cant send them back to a warzone!" Why are (lets be honest) non-white people any different?
Little England that gave the world English, the Judicial system, democratic government, the industrial revolution and modern living. 52% of inventions came from "Little England" How bloody selfish of us.
So, if the lady who said UK doesn't have enough land left to build on, didn't have to stay in UK because of brexit but could go and live in Spain or France where the weather is better, the health service is better and the cost of living is less!!!!!!!!!
@@Stevies_Precog_Gym_n_Spa420 your idea of a good society is one with a high population density. I happen to think that you can have a perfectly good society with a lower population density as evidenced by multiple other countries.
It took me a year and a half to get a flat. Out of a shared house of 15 people. All forgeners. Native brits are not having enough babies so where has the problem come from?
Blimey, its time Edward shuffled off - he's certainly enjoying himself having a massive, ill informed, prejudicial rant about anything and everything, but migrants in particular. He reminds me of my ill educated, Sun reading mum when she was alive, god rest her soul....
My old mum was the same, always a racist she ended up watching the BBC and ranting about 'bloody immigrants taking over'. Had a cousin call me (drunk) few months ago ranting 'we've got to fight, I don't like Katie Hopkins but she's right, in a few years you are going to be forced to wear a burka' drunk or not he actually believes this
@@TinaButcher-r6m depressing ain't it... but I'm older than my mum was when she died, ,and I don't feel the way she did, quite the opposite. But then I'm better educated and far less ignorant than she was... However, the great ignorant, non thinking unwashed are still with us sadly, and they're not all old
@mjwilliamsb2676 oh hell yes depressing it is. When I've been at family gatherings (very large family) I've had to listen to around 25 of them rambling on about 'bloody immigrants/much better when England was white/women were much happier when they had no rights' rot and in the next breath they ask 'how come we don't see you much anymore' - errrm, I preferred not to expose my children to this kind of hogwash.
Really ironic, Brexit accelerated the "great replacement" plan. Before the UK was in the EU mostly Christian migrants came from Europe like Poland, Hungary, etc. Now almost all EU migration is replaced with migrants from Pakistan, China, African countries, India, which are mostly Muslim.
The last caller was a dimwit! Listen here, if a hungry person has only got £10 to their name and it's enough to feed themselves on Christmas day, that person would be foolish to abandon buying any food and instead spend that money of Christmas decorations, whilst they stay hungry. Choosing not to buy decorations and buying food to feed their hunger doesn't mean the person is anti-Christmas decorations. It just means that they understand that the resources they have must be prioritized. So available land for housing in the UK is more a priority than the recreational activity of golf. But unfortunately, this plank on the phone couldn't see that and thought Oli's words were a rebuking of all forms of golf. Berk!!
Here here to the Scottish guy who made valid points, the homeless get treated like second class citizens compared to those who claim asylum and FYI asylum seekers with refugee status can claim benefits if they have a BRP so the condescending smug LBC presenter is wrong in this case.
Edward. You're seeing too many Muslim's because we intend to live in muslim communities those lads from the Midlands are a very very small minority, we don't all think like that.
There are also a lot of houses standing empty, of which many need to be rehabilitated. There is a solution which would be relying on people doing something for themselves. I.e: whenever possible-->help them fix the houses themselves, help them procure materials, assist them with expert advice. Down with the golf courses? Yes! I don't like football, but it is sthg for over 2%, same with cricket: more than 2% are concerned. I do not think the UK is rich enough to afford so many golf courses. Far more people play tennis than golf.
I recommend that you watch Iain Dale's interview 4 months ago with the Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely. It has not "Aged Well". Her comfortable fluency with lies and misinformation is astonishing. Iain Dale is of course his usual obsequious stomach turning self, with a total lack of journalistic integrity.
@bazzacuda_ "66 million people in a land the size of England. I'm not talking about the UK..." She's DENSE alright 😊. I'm French and her numbers are all wrong. Private school failure? Her accent says yes. 😂🎉
Where you find the strength, I will never know - these walking headlines seem to do no research on subjects that enrage them oh so much Good work trying to set the record strait, even to those that don't want to listen to the facts
Scottish guy isn't quite as bad as the the others but 'Starmer has no depth' is a ridiculous thing to say about a man that has dedicated most of his life so far to helping / rescuing people in the worst possible legal situations you can find yourself in. Keir Starmer was literally knighted for spending years going to various countries in the caribbean where corrupt governments had condemned people to the death sentence and refused them legal representation because they were poor - and represented them free of charge. There are many people alive today that would have been executed by their own governments because they couldn't afford legal representation that owe Keir Starmer their lives. This isn't difficult information to find, and I don't know why Labour don't mention it more. There is not a single tory that would ever consider doing anything remotely as selfless as that. But yeah, Scottish guy who doesn't even know that asylum seekers can't claim benefits thinks Starmer has no substance . . .
It all looks good on a resume but listen to the man speak. Doesn't feel like this knighted lawyer is even in the room with us for various human rights abuses since then. He has refused to commit to ending the use of barges when it comes to holding asylum seekers and his response to the ethnic cleansing in Gaza has been pathetic. There's a long list of reasons why he should be good but it just doesn't seem to materialise into anything of substance.
The only problem is inequality and everyone's personal perception of where they lie in the overall pecking order. Its just a shame a lot of people have been convinced to direct their frustration downwards.
As a Land Agent I have been involved with managing extensive areas. I have also been involved with social housing. I would suggest building multi storey accomodation. Ergo: same footprint as a house, but several floors of dwellings, i.e the same as done by our European neighbours.
BTW (responding to first caller) most asylum seekers CANNOT just fly here and claim asylum! The only way to 'legally' claim asylum in the UK is once you've arrived here, BUT ALL routes by flight, train or boat have been cancelled (unless you're a rich Tory party donor)!! Therefore OUR OWN government has created a situation whereby the ONLY legal way into Britain for an asylum seeker is via illegal routes e.g. small boats and similar routes) hence the massive increase in 'small boats' (surely the very definition of an oxymoron). It is cruel short-term thinking and there must be much better ways to collectively deal with the diaspora of desperate people
The drugs problems of this nation have always existed and it stems from alcohol use, which most Muslims don’t drink. So this first bloke is completely wrong. He just needs to visit any city centre in the U.K. on a Friday or Saturday night to see what the problem is. It used to be opium that alcohol used to lead to but now it just different stuff. That’s just the geopolitics of the planet and where the stuff is being produced.
Don’t you have to pass a habitual residence test to apply for housing benefit/local authority housing support? So you can come here, live here for about 10 years then gain evidence to demonstrate you’re a habitual resident. Plenty of local authorities offer the option of a one way mega bus ticket to Poland or wherever rather than add to already massive wait lists.
Genuine question with no malice intended but we keep getting told diversity is our strength and we need immigration for various reasons but i honestly can't see it where i come from can somebody please explain
It's not that hard. The UK has a large number of vacancies in health care, hospitality, and agriculture, to name a few. Because you can't just train a few more of these people in a few months, if you want the work to get done, you're going to have to get them from abroad. It's either that, or the business goes under, the hospital remains understaffed, the farmer will plant less produce if he can't get the workers from Romania to harvest it. And so on. Stopping immigration will shrink your economy, it really is that simple. That is the price you pay. So, unless you're prepared to get substantially poorer just to keep some foreigners out, the UK needs immigration, just like every other modern economy that wants to thrive does. Unless you don't mind being poorer and having to wait longer for medical treatment, among other things.
Is it that easy though? . if you look at how many people have come here in the last 5 years then look at the number of job vacancies still available it don't seem to be going that well ,what are they all doing?Sorry i'm still non the wiser thanks anyway for your explanation.
@deedarinkent Brexit has ended freedom of movement, which means there are fewer Europeans filling those vacancies. You're none the wiser because you haven't thought it through. If you have a tight labour market, with many vacancies, it makes sense to allow people from elsewhere to do those jobs. If you don't want that, then accept that those jobs won't get done. You can't have it both ways. An open economy needs the possibility to attract labour from somewhere else. A closed economy doesn't. Nobody can emigrate to North Korea, and nobody wants to. An economy that puts up too many barriers to immigration when it suffers from a labour shortage is no longer run by rational people. By leaving the EU and its single market, the UK has just made it a lot harder for itself to get everything done, while simultaneously making it harder for businesses to make the money to pay for it all. You can try to keep out the scary bad world out there, but the price is a smaller economy, less influence, even less health care and public service than you have now, forever. All that because you're scared of foreigners.
@deedarinkent And I've given you an adequate answer. You don't understand what the point of immigration is? Tell that to the Nigerian doctor or the Spanish nurse that stops one of your loved ones from dying in a hospital. If you're not afraid of foreigners, then what's the problem with immigration? The reason you can't get your vacancies filled is because you've made it more difficult for Europeans to fill them. Seriously, how complicated is this? Fewer foreigners means hospital staff that's just not there, because they've run out of British ones. Sorry. It's not rocket surgery.
Oil should get into govt offices, he’s naive and may be not aware of process / economy. He’s innocent and have good intention, but world politics is too complicated.
The last caller compared tennis courts which are 30x20m2 to golf courses which are on average well over 100 acres (405,000m2) in the UK. Not one of our finest.
Now, I am trying to learn to be sympathetic to people who worry about foreign or immigrant labour suppressing wages or jobs but for 1 thing, immigration rarely suppresses these things, though moving jobs overseas is more common. I always insist on maintaining that this is the fault of the bosses not the foreigners or immigrants since the bosses are the ones doing it.
The second caller was being totally obtuse, you go to any city outside London and they really arent that dense in fact around rail stations could and should be upzoned for medium density. Much of the farmed land is being used for animal agriculture in the middle of a climate crisis. She complains that roads are full but thats largely because the railway systems need a huge amount more capacity, frequency and faster journey times for both passenger and freight traffic - much of which HS2 and the various supporting projects would have improved but now wont.
The thing about golf just seemed to be 2 people not giving any leeway, there are 9 golf courses within 30 miles of me. We could reduce that to 2 and build loads of housing and people can still play golf. However that represents probably 4 different councils, so a bit of central planning or inter council cooperation might be nice.
@walter3433 OK well for a start obviously at work we don't talk about religion or their beliefs. I think the bad press about Muslims comes from the fundamental extremists, and the media loves to jump on them and portray them as the average. However in my experience the extremists are the minority, although a very vocal minority. Muslims come in all types and sizes. Some of the Muslim women I know wear a full close fitting hijab. Some have some hair poking out at the front, I know some who just have a headscarf over their head with their hair clearly visible, and some don't wear a scarf at all. I only realised they were Muslim when they mentioned they can't eat lunch due to fasting in conversation. I know Muslims who smoke tobacco, drink alcohol and even eat pork. They laugh when I raise an eyebrow, but they still see themselves as devout Muslims. Honestly though, who am I to judge. If they're comfortable and they've come to terms with it in their own minds, I'm happy for them.
Working class people who vote Tories are turkeys that are voting for Christmas.
The only reason a working class person would vote tory is racism/xenophobia.
When you boil it down, there's literally no other reason.
And anyone voting for labour is a cow voting for Burger King
How many times have I heard that one?
Probably bexause it's true eh lad@@thespian1961
Now like that will vote for new new labour under stammer. Just another tory
That first caller couldn’t care less about the people of this country, he voted to cut support to his “own people”.
A giveaway is always the use of "these people".
Now you know why all attempts to discover intelligent life are looking away from the earth.
Nah, he doesn't care about anybody of any colour, ranting just gives him something exciting to do with his time.
I think he was too thick to know what he was saying.
The first caller was absolutely right
Wow! That first caller! I thought he was auditioning for a role as Alf Garnett!😂😂.
He’s certainly got the Tory message - ‘let’s blame an unpopular minority for all our woes, whilst lining our own pockets’.
Divide and rule is the name of the game.
Well said my friend ❤
He said the truth but keep hiding behind ‘racism’
@@anonomous8719 I'm sure it _is_ the thruth, but only in _his_ tiny, bigotted mind.
And perhaps yours, too, but it's difficult to tell from your comment because of the atrocious grammar. I gather English isn't your first language.
Changed the subject when it was mentioned that some places don’t need any immigrants to have high crime levels.
Demographics is Destiny. Have you even looked at the trajectory? Or how Islam took over 50 odd countries. I dont think this Oli guy has either.
Hello to all from a Muslim man here and happy new year to all especially Peter (the first caller) typing this in 2024
Great to see Oli appearing on a Nicholls compilation! I think Oli's gradually coming into his own, great to see 👊
I'm getting frustrated just listening to these people... cant imagine doing it live. The call with "Sarah", at around 11:30 Oli gives her the numbers that are basically "We have massive swathes of land that hasnt been used, 2% of all land in the UK is built on" and yet she's still insisting there's no space. What do you do with people who ignore all evidence to the contrary of their opinion?
They don't even attempt to listen. People like this will never critically think or change their minds no matter what facts they are presented with.
We may have huge areas of empty land but that doesn't mean it is suitable for building on. A lot of it is wildlife reserves, hills, mountains(yes, we do have a couple or three mountains). The other problem we have with building out in this country is people who don't want it in their backyard who don't want their views spoiled and the value of their house to go through the floor. A lot of the land is floodplains. We don't have as much land as people think we do.
I think you proved their point.
What do you do with them? Ask them to join the Tory Party, what else.
I think it was Liz Truss calling in. She couldn't work out 66 x 2 😅
Basically everything the first guy says is epic bollocks.
Caller number 2’s reference to England - “not the UK” - is so telling. All these people care about is England.
No one outside the M25 actually
Ironically their birth certificates and driving licences say their nationality is British. It doesn't say English. But all they care about it England.
I only care about England and not Scotland Wales or Northern Ireland.
Mainly cos I live in England I suppose.
I must admit I never knew there was a problem with that. I mean I can’t help what I care about as far as I’m aware. But in case I’m wrong g I shall henceforth try hard to care about Wales.
@@Lifelongloser That’s a cool story, Anthony.
She’s right though - England is dense. Well at least some of the people are
Oli has done a grand job, but i fear that these "gaslit, neurotic" callers are lowering our country's cognitive thinking levels.
The last guy did him easily, he couldn’t answer the point about pitches and tennis courts, getting obsessed with golf courses was a stupid point to try and make.
If someone could clue me in on how immigration led to the creation of “warm banks”…I’m genuinely curious.
Legal immigration or illegal immigration?
How did any form of immigration lead to food banks?
Because they took all the warmth, or it was given to them for free instead of homeless veterans.
Are you mental?
@@verystripeyzebra stop using homeless vets as a cudgel. Folks only mention or seem to care about them when they can use them as a weapon against immigrants. They aren't props to be used to justify your bigotry.
First caller 'backs up' his argument using a source he would usually call WOKE NONSENSE. Channel 4 !
Channel 4 news is more subtle with it's racism. Whenever we get reports of people struggling in the UK they nearly always interview a black person . They know this will automatically lose sympathy from the anti-immigrant crowd and possibly sway the undecided too. Don't forget CH 4 also used "benefit street" in a similar way.
Since when was 'muslim a race'? Silly presenter.
I thought all the brexitards were going to do all the jobs after they Brexit that they moaned were being stolen by pesky foreigners 😂😂
They’re all too busy getting pissed in Weatherspoons.
Their theory was someone else (but a British someone else) would do all those jobs, so they could have all the benefits of them being done, but not have to potentially deal with foreigners or adjust to a changing society. Then they realised their own kids and grandkids didn't want to become vegetable pickers in Norfolk, minimum wage carers in the care system, or any of the other jobs their own politics had steadily made more unpleasant, and, well, there's a reason the same people who supported Brexit freak out about the word "Woke" - it's a word that speaks of a changing society that means they need to change or be treated like relics.
Many of the British are lazy & choose to be on benefits instead. Liz Truss was correct. It's a very bad situation because our benefit system lends itself to being out of work.
@@craig3533you missed a valid point - many of the British are also very lazy & opt for benefits. I can also verify this by my own family ( which I have nothing to do with)
@@MCDONALD6969 I'd disagree it's a large proportion being lazy, as a lot of that is structural - the way the benefits system has been structured disincentivizes work for a lot of people, because Tories are more interested in performative cruelty than economic reality. You have a kid that needs childcare? Better earn enough to cover the cost of that expensive childcare, and the reduction in other support. But if it's minimum wage you'll struggle to do so without working crazy hours, and given a choice between working long days to pay someone else to care for your kid and caring for your kid, I get why not working is more appealing. Spend a big chunk of your wage travelling hours each way to do a demeaning job? Then what's the logic there? Until a government fixes those stupid mismatches, it'll keep happening, because until our system is fixed for a lot of people work is going to literally going to make them worse off.
Surely, the sooner we replace the first caller with superior immigrants the sooner we can begin to repair the British Isles.
We've had more immigration in the last twenty years than the previous two thousand. How much more would you like?
@@thespian1961 Good point - but wasted on the spastic left.
@@thespian1961depending on your definition of immigration that’s very much up for debate
Every time someone mentions overcrowding in the UK, my colleague from Hong Kong laughs.😂😂😂
A little stroll around Mong Kok would give some of these callers an instant coronary !
Population density of parts of London is higher than you think.
@@user-xu5vl5th9n if it is anything near the population density in Hong Kong then maybe, but we are probably talking about a very small part of the country. Most of the United Kingdom is either countryside or very well spread out when it is urbanised.
Romans, Saxons, Normans, vikings.And those came with big boats to kill and plunder. Now that was something to complain about !
You've just written the outline for a Monty Python-style sketch, to wit:
LBC Moderator;: "Let's go to Oliver in Brighton."
OIB: "King Athelstan needs to grow a spine and put a stop to these towheaded-heathens, with their weird gods, their tatoos and their smelly gefilta-fish." Everywhere they land they spead violence and larceny. The Land of Angles used to be a great place to raise 18 children. Make Angleland Great Again!"
watch this space!
It's quite sad really, hearing the callers worry so much about something they clearly know very little about. Yet they also have no desire to consider another point of view.
Rwanda has a higher population density than uk. But these people still think we are should send oeople to a fuller country because we are full.
We need to repeat, over and over.
Asylum seekers, possibly by design, cannot integrate, they aren’t allowed to work, they aren’t allowed to study, they aren’t allowed to choose where they live. They become isolated as they have no real way to meet people, they can’t even just go down the pub since they have no disposible income.
Of course they end up with their own isolated social bubbles, or work illegally. Imagine being trapped like that for 2+years whilst you wait in limbo for the incompetent home office to process you?
Stop blaming them. Blame the incompetent Tories and home office.
Clear that backlog and get reasonable processing times. It will not only deter chancers as they’ll get turned around quickly (and no issues deporting them), but allow the genuine ones to live and contribute and integrate.
Cannot or will not?
@@thespian1961 cannot. Did you not just read my explanation.
Tell me, do you think you could integrate in a foreign country when its illegal for you to work, to study, to be told where you live and with whom, having no disposable income to go to a cinema, or a pub. Then add idiots like you blaming them for not trying hard enough and being hostile to them.
Stop being a moron and realize we are excluding them from our society. Maybe try meeting some and learning about them.
@@thespian1961 The comment you are replying to explained not only which it is, but why.
"Margaret Thatcher was against this!" I wonder how he voted for Brexit, I suppose he didn't follow Maggie's view there.
Though my favourite rebuttal to these people who complain about Asylum seekers (sorry Economic Migrants) is: "Should we send all the Ukrainians back to their homeland?" the response is normally "Oh god no! They've been through a lot we cant send them back to a warzone!" Why are (lets be honest) non-white people any different?
Only 2% of land in the uk is covered in buildings if you include roads and railways ect it's still only 5 %
Immigration isn't such a hot button topic in Scotland. Our country is empty, theres plently of room.
Yea there’s a reason for that.
When Brits live in other countries they are good??? When people from other countries come to live in Britain they are bad??? Yep. That's bigotry.
Lord 😂😂 uk is lost
And this is the result of a poor education system.
_You can't argue with stupid, and you can't reason with crazy._
Oli keeps doing a fantastic (if futile) job of disproving that maxim!
Amazing ! People famous amongst family and friends for being a total knob.
Desperate to go on LBC radio and demonstrate the fact "TO THE WORLD"
Love to the family, Edward.
"An asylum seeker is someone fleeing war and famine".. in France.
The best is when a caller claims they aren't racist, then proceeds to be incredibly, stupidly racist.
Your race card has been rejected.
A yuletide dose of 'Little Englanderism.'
No Christmas season is complete without one. 🙄🤨
Lol. Passive animals and parking 🅿️.
Little England that gave the world English, the Judicial system, democratic government, the industrial revolution and modern living. 52% of inventions came from "Little England"
How bloody selfish of us.
That first guy is so full of hate, and shit.
Oli Dugmore… you are a f*****g legend. Love your work, wish we had more voices like yours in the media. Bravo sir, bravo.
How rude, the first caller didn't wish Oli "love to the family"
The first man blamed the government, then the Muslims. So which is it?
So, if the lady who said UK doesn't have enough land left to build on, didn't have to stay in UK because of brexit but could go and live in Spain or France where the weather is better, the health service is better and the cost of living is less!!!!!!!!!
Some of us want to live in the UK and make it more prosperous. I want to see more green spaces and not more houses.
Tough. You live in a society.
@@PorthLlwyd
@@Stevies_Precog_Gym_n_Spa420 that's irrelevant. You can have fewer houses and still have a society.
@@PorthLlwyd you can, not s good one, what's your point.
@@Stevies_Precog_Gym_n_Spa420 your idea of a good society is one with a high population density. I happen to think that you can have a perfectly good society with a lower population density as evidenced by multiple other countries.
It took me a year and a half to get a flat. Out of a shared house of 15 people. All forgeners. Native brits are not having enough babies so where has the problem come from?
6th biggest economy? No it's the 8th biggest, we are over get used to it.
Top presenter. Oli needs a regular slot at a reasonable hour
Never heard of oli so don’t know if he’s a newcomer to LBC but he’s a welcome addition.
Oli does Politics Joe
You're not missing much - he's a left wing snowflake which is why these clips are so one sided. Very bad journalism.
Blimey, its time Edward shuffled off - he's certainly enjoying himself having a massive, ill informed, prejudicial rant about anything and everything, but migrants in particular. He reminds me of my ill educated, Sun reading mum when she was alive, god rest her soul....
I’m probably the same age as Edward. We appear to be polar opposites. So glad that we are.
My old mum was the same, always a racist she ended up watching the BBC and ranting about 'bloody immigrants taking over'. Had a cousin call me (drunk) few months ago ranting 'we've got to fight, I don't like Katie Hopkins but she's right, in a few years you are going to be forced to wear a burka' drunk or not he actually believes this
@@TinaButcher-r6m depressing ain't it... but I'm older than my mum was when she died, ,and I don't feel the way she did, quite the opposite. But then I'm better educated and far less ignorant than she was... However, the great ignorant, non thinking unwashed are still with us sadly, and they're not all old
@mjwilliamsb2676 oh hell yes depressing it is. When I've been at family gatherings (very large family) I've had to listen to around 25 of them rambling on about 'bloody immigrants/much better when England was white/women were much happier when they had no rights' rot and in the next breath they ask 'how come we don't see you much anymore' - errrm, I preferred not to expose my children to this kind of hogwash.
There is plenty of room in Ireland for English people welsh and Scottish
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Really ironic, Brexit accelerated the "great replacement" plan. Before the UK was in the EU mostly Christian migrants came from Europe like Poland, Hungary, etc. Now almost all EU migration is replaced with migrants from Pakistan, China, African countries, India, which are mostly Muslim.
These people should stop reading the Daily Mail and try and really understand issues.
Oli discussing a dense population, and then opening the phone lines to prove his point.
Not so very long ago it was the Irish!
Thanks for posting these. Happy New Year! :D
B......b... . b........ but Brexshit?!?!?
What is wrong with these people?😡
The last caller was a dimwit! Listen here, if a hungry person has only got £10 to their name and it's enough to feed themselves on Christmas day, that person would be foolish to abandon buying any food and instead spend that money of Christmas decorations, whilst they stay hungry. Choosing not to buy decorations and buying food to feed their hunger doesn't mean the person is anti-Christmas decorations. It just means that they understand that the resources they have must be prioritized. So available land for housing in the UK is more a priority than the recreational activity of golf. But unfortunately, this plank on the phone couldn't see that and thought Oli's words were a rebuking of all forms of golf. Berk!!
Here here to the Scottish guy who made valid points, the homeless get treated like second class citizens compared to those who claim asylum and FYI asylum seekers with refugee status can claim benefits if they have a BRP so the condescending smug LBC presenter is wrong in this case.
Union membership would help more than reducing population density.
"I remember when things were great" said EVERY old man in the history of the world. Your rosy memories are not real history, angry old haters.
I like this Host . He's patient with the xenophobic old Tories. Can't be easy .
we have more land used for golf courses than housing.
The first caller's only redeeming feature was that he sounded a bit like E.L. Wisty
91.2% of land in England is undeveloped and 2 % is deemed vacant.
That first called was to put it mildly, talking out of his arse.
Lol "I think we'll be better off without you." So cold, but so true.
Wow Edward is surely Colin from Portsmouth... love to the family, Edward...
Edward. You're seeing too many Muslim's because we intend to live in muslim communities those lads from the Midlands are a very very small minority, we don't all think like that.
The Tories must be so pleased to hear people like this man who is full of hatred. Blame the vulnerable and not this cruel government for austerity.
There are also a lot of houses standing empty, of which many need to be rehabilitated. There is a solution which would be relying on people doing something for themselves. I.e: whenever possible-->help them fix the houses themselves, help them procure materials, assist them with expert advice. Down with the golf courses? Yes! I don't like football, but it is sthg for over 2%, same with cricket: more than 2% are concerned. I do not think the UK is rich enough to afford so many golf courses. Far more people play tennis than golf.
Yes Oli, class counter arguments combating the nations wilful ignorance on space and land ownership
I recommend that you watch Iain Dale's interview 4 months ago with the Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely. It has not "Aged Well". Her comfortable fluency with lies and misinformation is astonishing. Iain Dale is of course his usual obsequious stomach turning self, with a total lack of journalistic integrity.
God save us all from Telegraph readers who won't listen
I love Oli Dugmore. If there's no more Nick, I'd love to hear more from him!
There aren't 66 million people in England, Sarah. Duh!?😊
@bazzacuda_ "66 million people in a land the size of England. I'm not talking about the UK..."
She's DENSE alright 😊. I'm French and her numbers are all wrong. Private school failure? Her accent says yes. 😂🎉
Thanks for uploading!
Trying to confront an ignorant bigot with logic and facts? Good luck with tht.
Where you find the strength, I will never know - these walking headlines seem to do no research on subjects that enrage them oh so much
Good work trying to set the record strait, even to those that don't want to listen to the facts
How does that 1st caller manage to string a sentence together?
In an inexhaustible run-on style, I'd say.
Scottish guy isn't quite as bad as the the others but 'Starmer has no depth' is a ridiculous thing to say about a man that has dedicated most of his life so far to helping / rescuing people in the worst possible legal situations you can find yourself in.
Keir Starmer was literally knighted for spending years going to various countries in the caribbean where corrupt governments had condemned people to the death sentence and refused them legal representation because they were poor - and represented them free of charge. There are many people alive today that would have been executed by their own governments because they couldn't afford legal representation that owe Keir Starmer their lives.
This isn't difficult information to find, and I don't know why Labour don't mention it more. There is not a single tory that would ever consider doing anything remotely as selfless as that.
But yeah, Scottish guy who doesn't even know that asylum seekers can't claim benefits thinks Starmer has no substance . . .
It all looks good on a resume but listen to the man speak. Doesn't feel like this knighted lawyer is even in the room with us for various human rights abuses since then. He has refused to commit to ending the use of barges when it comes to holding asylum seekers and his response to the ethnic cleansing in Gaza has been pathetic.
There's a long list of reasons why he should be good but it just doesn't seem to materialise into anything of substance.
Have your presenters lined up all the members of the reform party for you to interview?
The only problem is inequality and everyone's personal perception of where they lie in the overall pecking order. Its just a shame a lot of people have been convinced to direct their frustration downwards.
As a Land Agent I have been involved with managing extensive areas. I have also been involved with social housing. I would suggest building multi storey accomodation. Ergo: same footprint as a house, but several floors of dwellings, i.e the same as done by our European neighbours.
I love gammon but hate Gammons!
But if you hate, then aren't you gammon too?
BTW (responding to first caller) most asylum seekers CANNOT just fly here and claim asylum! The only way to 'legally' claim asylum in the UK is once you've arrived here, BUT ALL routes by flight, train or boat have been cancelled (unless you're a rich Tory party donor)!! Therefore OUR OWN government has created a situation whereby the ONLY legal way into Britain for an asylum seeker is via illegal routes e.g. small boats and similar routes) hence the massive increase in 'small boats' (surely the very definition of an oxymoron). It is cruel short-term thinking and there must be much better ways to collectively deal with the diaspora of desperate people
The drugs problems of this nation have always existed and it stems from alcohol use, which most Muslims don’t drink. So this first bloke is completely wrong. He just needs to visit any city centre in the U.K. on a Friday or Saturday night to see what the problem is. It used to be opium that alcohol used to lead to but now it just different stuff. That’s just the geopolitics of the planet and where the stuff is being produced.
Don’t you have to pass a habitual residence test to apply for housing benefit/local authority housing support? So you can come here, live here for about 10 years then gain evidence to demonstrate you’re a habitual resident. Plenty of local authorities offer the option of a one way mega bus ticket to Poland or wherever rather than add to already massive wait lists.
Genuine question with no malice intended but we keep getting told diversity is our strength and we need immigration for various reasons but i honestly can't see it where i come from can somebody please explain
It's not that hard. The UK has a large number of vacancies in health care, hospitality, and agriculture, to name a few.
Because you can't just train a few more of these people in a few months, if you want the work to get done, you're going to have to get them from abroad. It's either that, or the business goes under, the hospital remains understaffed, the farmer will plant less produce if he can't get the workers from Romania to harvest it. And so on.
Stopping immigration will shrink your economy, it really is that simple. That is the price you pay.
So, unless you're prepared to get substantially poorer just to keep some foreigners out, the UK needs immigration, just like every other modern economy that wants to thrive does.
Unless you don't mind being poorer and having to wait longer for medical treatment, among other things.
Is it that easy though? . if you look at how many people have come here in the last 5 years then look at the number of job vacancies still available it don't seem to be going that well ,what are they all doing?Sorry i'm still non the wiser thanks anyway for your explanation.
@deedarinkent Brexit has ended freedom of movement, which means there are fewer Europeans filling those vacancies.
You're none the wiser because you haven't thought it through. If you have a tight labour market, with many vacancies, it makes sense to allow people from elsewhere to do those jobs. If you don't want that, then accept that those jobs won't get done. You can't have it both ways.
An open economy needs the possibility to attract labour from somewhere else. A closed economy doesn't. Nobody can emigrate to North Korea, and nobody wants to.
An economy that puts up too many barriers to immigration when it suffers from a labour shortage is no longer run by rational people.
By leaving the EU and its single market, the UK has just made it a lot harder for itself to get everything done, while simultaneously making it harder for businesses to make the money to pay for it all.
You can try to keep out the scary bad world out there, but the price is a smaller economy, less influence, even less health care and public service than you have now, forever.
All that because you're scared of foreigners.
@@maartenvandam344 l dont remember saying if i am pro or anti immigration just asking a question thats all and i am not scared of foregners
@deedarinkent And I've given you an adequate answer. You don't understand what the point of immigration is? Tell that to the Nigerian doctor or the Spanish nurse that stops one of your loved ones from dying in a hospital.
If you're not afraid of foreigners, then what's the problem with immigration? The reason you can't get your vacancies filled is because you've made it more difficult for Europeans to fill them.
Seriously, how complicated is this?
Fewer foreigners means hospital staff that's just not there, because they've run out of British ones. Sorry.
It's not rocket surgery.
The second caller talking about population density should go to new York or tokyo to realise what utter nonsense that is
Those still bigger countries though. London is smaller than Tokyo and New York.
I agree with everything the 2nd caller said. Oli claims to like the natural world, but he wants to see it built on.
Their here, because you were there. Stop bombing their countries.
That's the fault of corrupt government - not the British public.
Oh so this is a form of revenge.
Can LBC allocate Oli a slot from 6 -10 and 1-4 daily please!
All of Edward's complaining about immigrants and not one mention of Poles or Spaniards. Hmm, I wonder why
Oli was absolutely spot on!!
The thumbnail says it all really…
Wow they're some odd people awake during Oli's slot
Oil should get into govt offices, he’s naive and may be not aware of process / economy. He’s innocent and have good intention, but world politics is too complicated.
The last caller compared tennis courts which are 30x20m2 to golf courses which are on average well over 100 acres (405,000m2) in the UK.
Not one of our finest.
Poor Edward, 😂😂😂
please can we swop 100 refugees for that 1st caller?
Now, I am trying to learn to be sympathetic to people who worry about foreign or immigrant labour suppressing wages or jobs but for 1 thing, immigration rarely suppresses these things, though moving jobs overseas is more common. I always insist on maintaining that this is the fault of the bosses not the foreigners or immigrants since the bosses are the ones doing it.
The second caller was being totally obtuse, you go to any city outside London and they really arent that dense in fact around rail stations could and should be upzoned for medium density. Much of the farmed land is being used for animal agriculture in the middle of a climate crisis. She complains that roads are full but thats largely because the railway systems need a huge amount more capacity, frequency and faster journey times for both passenger and freight traffic - much of which HS2 and the various supporting projects would have improved but now wont.
The thing about golf just seemed to be 2 people not giving any leeway, there are 9 golf courses within 30 miles of me. We could reduce that to 2 and build loads of housing and people can still play golf. However that represents probably 4 different councils, so a bit of central planning or inter council cooperation might be nice.
I wanna say thank you for your call, I’m not sure I mean it.... lol
Cognitive dissonance at it's finest, (chefs kiss).
The last guy passionately & angrily calling in to defend golf was hilarious
I work with a lot of muslims, they're really nice people.
Despite of their beliefs😁
@walter3433 OK well for a start obviously at work we don't talk about religion or their beliefs. I think the bad press about Muslims comes from the fundamental extremists, and the media loves to jump on them and portray them as the average. However in my experience the extremists are the minority, although a very vocal minority.
Muslims come in all types and sizes. Some of the Muslim women I know wear a full close fitting hijab. Some have some hair poking out at the front, I know some who just have a headscarf over their head with their hair clearly visible, and some don't wear a scarf at all. I only realised they were Muslim when they mentioned they can't eat lunch due to fasting in conversation.
I know Muslims who smoke tobacco, drink alcohol and even eat pork. They laugh when I raise an eyebrow, but they still see themselves as devout Muslims. Honestly though, who am I to judge. If they're comfortable and they've come to terms with it in their own minds, I'm happy for them.
I don't even play golf, but his build on golf courses argument is nonsense.
Radio host : You try and tease out the details of what someone thinks..
He is of course using the verb "thinks" in the loosest possible sense