Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. You obviously haven't been outside London – the whole of London stinks, inner & outer London, it's no wonder children's lungs aren't growing.
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  2. explain
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  3. sorry if you are not a native English speaker but would you please try again, this time using well-constructed English-language sentence structure.
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  4.  @GrayDogNowIDK  there are many examples of what CAN work provided there is permission and funding and volunteers and it's not already too late but new examples are getting less frequent. Due to Government policies we have more & more millionaires who can buy land just to preserve its biodiversity but I'm only aware of one who actually does – the King. He has thousands of acres but we need millions. Some local Councils, the Church of England, the Army, several Public Utilities & even a few private companies have small patches of land maintained in a natural state but they are small & the maintenance is unreliable because of ever-changing Government policies.
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  5.  @AliHussain-fz7pd  "Gov't is paying hotels for housing undocumented migrant labour" Sorry, I can't let that pass unchallenged – it's simply not true. There are hotels & Gov't is paying but they're not for "undocumented labour", they're exclusively for refugees whose asylum claim is unprocessed. As soon as the claim is fully processed, including appeals etc, the refugee is either on an outbound flight or they are unsupported on the street (usually picked up by a charity). The hotel stay is terminated. There is a lot to discuss around this, like why the process is slower under the current Gov't leading to more & more accommodation being required, whether the accommodation providers should be making donations to the Gov't & its Ministers, why there is not sufficient regular accommodation (requiring the use of hotels), whether hotels deemed unfit for commercial use should be used, whether leaky roofs & pest infestations should be dealt with by the accommodation provider or by the local Council & many other topics but that's not the immediate topic of this thread.
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  6.  @AliHussain-fz7pd  "wage compression" is solely a Gov't problem having nothing to do with immigrants, this is evidenced when we have a change of Gov't – under Labour Minimum Wage is enforced & is raised, there are wage councils & pay review boards taking almost all wages above the minimum, under Conservatives wage councils & pay review boards disappear & Minimum Wage gradually becomes less enforced, with obvious consequences.
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  7.  @NeilEvans-xq8ik  in the 1790s we had an Aliens Act restricting refugees from the French Revolution &, after a Daily Mail campaign, another in 1905 restricting Jewish refugees from the Russian pogroms, both largely unenforced, then in the 1960s, again after newspaper campaigns, we had a sequence of Acts restricting British citizens from the Commonwealth but apart from that the border was fully open till the 1971 Immigration Act. Open borders, historically, have worked absolutely fine. We did have mechanisms for ejecting undesirables but the vast majority of those ejected weren't immigrants, if immigrants transgressed laws they were dealt with in the same way as anyone else (often by hanging).
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  8.  @davidz3879  the 2 people you mention are in prison, proving that we have mechanisms to deal with specific problems as they arise. The first person you mention evaded border controls so would not have been picked up by any restrictions no matter how draconian & the 2nd seems to have been a model citizen until he sustained a mental health injury, possibly at the hands of the Police, something which could happen to anyone regardless of migration status. The "severe housing shortage" you mention is entirely the fault of the Government. All previous Gov'ts for many decades built around 200,000 houses a year, this Gov't built a couple of dozen till very recently.
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  9.  @AliHussain-fz7pd  your "differentiation to ensure that those that are coming in are desirable": how would it work exactly? Would it still be operated by Home Office & contractor staff? How would they be trained? Would they let through an annoying unqualified university dropout in their 20s who has been working in high tech but has been making a nuisance of themselves? That was Nikola Tesla when he emigrated from what is now Croatia. Without him moving to America, electricity distribution would have been delayed by decades (power stations every mile or 2 in towns & absent elsewhere), we might still not have AC electric motors (smaller than DC for a given power, especially 3-phase, another Tesla invention) & a host of other things we take for granted now. And there's hundreds, probably hundreds of thousands, of other examples of people who proved useful but probably wouldn't have made it through a Home Office 'merit' filter. A 'merit' filter is a brilliant way of denying yourself the best talent.
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  10.  @NeilEvans-xq8ik  I see you're basically into relatively open borders, I was attempting to challenge the idea there needs to be any restriction at all. We have 250 airports, 250 seaports (plus private airfields & docks) & an estimated (Ordnance Survey) 11,000 miles of coastline to be monitored by less than 9,000 border staff spread across shifts (3 I think). Bearing in mind that several places (eg Dover docks, Heathrow, Immingham etc) require concentrations of very large numbers of staff I think it's fair to assume our border is pretty porous. Dover has 14,000 vehicle movements a day, any of which could (& often do) have stowaways or deliberately concealed people (though anyone with sense would pick a less policed route). The staff aim to check around 1% of vehicles & that check can be cursory when they're busy. Border patrols are wildly expensive & not very effective, it's better to leave the border open & leave the Police to deal with wrongdoing as it occurs.
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  11.  @davidz3879  is that like the entire population of Turkey was going to move to England if we didn't leave the EU immediately? Think it through, what would make you leave your house & most of your possessions & move to a foreign country? Would you do it because someone said the border was open? Or even because all borders were open? You wouldn't? Well neither would anyone else unless something really bad had happened to their entire country.
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  12.  @davidz3879  If you were Home Secretary how would you make absolutely certain nobody at all crossed the border without your permission, even people who have already crossed 5 borders undetected? Even if they're using fake ID & travelling as a child? Don't forget we have 250 airports, 250 seaports, 11,000 miles of coastline & you have less than 9,000 staff spread across 3 shifts (3,000 staff per shift).
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  13.  @davidz3879  you didn't read what I said about the housing shortage did you?
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  14. UN? International Criminal Court!
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  15. always blame 'immagrunts', that saves the real culprits getting blamed.
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  16. Putin is eager to launch nuclear weapons
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  17. Sorry to break it to you chap but it's you that's detached from reality.
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  18. ​ @peterpeter5666 if it turns out to be foul play why wouldn't the same thing happen here?
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  19.  @limpethead  good!
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  20. 2:06 "infiltrated"?? Do you really need to use inappropriate & inflammatory language to describe a military operation when you won't use the word in its appropriate context of israeli infiltration into your own Parliament?
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  21. The background was mostly absent, 1870 1920 1948 & 1967 weren't mentioned even once.
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  22. It was never about Hamas, it has always been about Eretz Yisroel & the lunatic prophecy they're working towards!
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  23. Details, please.
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  24. Starmer's treason doesn't bother you? His Israel-supporting purges distorting the Party into something Kier Hardy wouldn't recognize? His adoption of Tory policies starting with their "fiscal rules" which pretty much guarantee yet more "Austerity" (& another million deaths)?
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  25. "for the good of the people of this country" is not keir Starmer's Labour, people will only be voting Labour because Torys are even more dangerous & because the propaganda convinces people there are only 2 parties.
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  26.  @samjay1256  yep, they'll get pink elephants & rainbow unicorns too.
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  27. why? because Israel are the power brokers in Western governments & israel doesn't want aid for the people they're trying to get rid of.
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  28.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Iran is essentially under siege by USA & Israel, it hasn't got the might to pose a serious unilateral threat.
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  29. 13:15 LIAR!
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  30.  @vehement-critic_q8957  no, that's the Council of Europe, a completely different (& older) organization.
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  31. 6:40 how, exactly, do you find "unprovoked" to be an appropriate word to use in the face of increasing attacks by Israel & daily multiple killings?
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  32. "Britain wrote up a document for its governance of Palestine that included the fostering of a Jewish national home. Britain sought approval from the Council of the League of Nations for that document. The Council did approve the document. Britain took that approval as an endorsement of a Jewish national home. The Council, however, was not given an opportunity to influence the content of the document. As a result, the commitment for a Jewish national home was that of Britain alone. Britain denied that Jewish national home meant a Jewish state." – Cambridge University
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  33.  @JacobStein1960  the borders within Asia Minor were not entirely freshly-created by the League of Nations, there had been borders under the Ottomans & before. Sykes-Picot, San Remo, Sévres & Lausanne redrew some borders & erased some but many remained unchanged, the borders of Palestine (from the River to the Sea & from Lebanon & Syria to Egypt) among the unchanged borders. (Kurdistan notably vanished, which has caused problems ever since). Under the Ottomans & previously borders were a little vague & were mostly about where individual households chose to pay taxes, but also followed ethnic regions this seems to be at least partly why the Sykes-Picot Agreement was drawn on a fairly coarse map. (Under Sykes-Picot Palestine was to be a protectorate jointly administered by all 3 parties but the Agreement collapsed because of Russia's position after WWI)
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  34.  @jacobsaunders1092  no, Hamas is not their army, Hamas is their government. There are several small armed militias but they're not Hamas. Palestine has no army, it was disarmed in the 1920s by the British Mandate & has not been allowed an army since.
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  35.  @fiddlecastro1453  you know Fidel Castro was a Socialist?
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  36. People must learn how to vote 😢 These politicians weren't teleported from outer space, every single one of them was voted into place!
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  37. do you seriously think a "jihadi" would risk failing his mission by falling off a rubber boat & drowning? unless he's as much of a f*ing moron as you he'll get a passport & fly in on an aeroplane! even more likely, just like most terrorist incidents in this country, he'll be born in this country & radicalized by nutcases like you
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  38. @jasoncruiser That's a remarkably illiterate response!
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  39.  @graemeanderson9633  after 45 years of "cutting waste" how much "waste" do you think is left? Is it possible they're just preparing it for sale?
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  40.  @graemeanderson9633  I assume you know the previous government set up a bunch of "special economic zones" & "freeports"? You may well think they look rather like tax havens & then there's the City of London, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands & the British Overseas Territories which are all tax havens.
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  41.  @graemeanderson9633  Corporation Tax & Income Tax were identical till the 1960s, I believe under a Tory government.
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  42. @32 Irish rats ...from the lowest base in western Europe & almost enough to keep up with inflation.
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  43. none of that changes the climate.
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  44. "The Gaza debacle" is outright treason!
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  45. Hamas wasn't even formed till more than a century after this began!
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  46. ​ @glanyan5462 your understanding is obviously very limited 😮
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  47. Starmer has upheld his promises to the Board of Deputies and to... um... well, just them.
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  48. @@malcolmmackenzie-xy7ts yes they do, extensively for years
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  49. So vote for a different party! It's not difficult, it's just tick a different box on the same slip! I'll be voting Green because I actually want to see a genuine improvement.
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  50. ​ @keithworrall8481 where? Greens.
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