Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Afghan refugees arrive in Birmingham ready to be relocated across UK" video.

  1. Housing is screwed anyway and has been for a long time before this, but Brits do seem to keep voting in the party which is in the pockets of the developers. They don't want too much increased supply because short supply keeps house prices high.
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  2. Our homeless are on the streets because the government doesn't have the will to home them. They were homed during last year's Covid lockdown.
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  3. They would not have been accepted on the planes if they were undocumented and since they have worked with British troops, I think it's clear where they stand.
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  4. I'm sure they'll be tested if they haven't been already.
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  5. They've all been checked. Only those with British passports and/or visas are been allowed in - mostly because of working with British forces.
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  6. The level of ignorance in these comments is staggering. They all have to go through quarantine. Do some research before commenting.
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  7.  @takkers687  Exactly
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  8.  Rahul D  If you watch the news you will see plenty of women and children on the flights.
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  9. No. Men who have worked with the British in Afghanistan and there are women and children on these flights.
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  10. I doubt it. These were the ones working with British forces.
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  11.  Iona Hugh G. Jasole  Such ignorance. Look things up before you comment. They all have to go through quarantine.
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  12.  @ianfroud70  Ex forces? Are you referring to a Brit?
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  13.  @mizdamazda4884  I think the government and the forces feel they have an obligation to protect those who worked with them in Afghanistan. Luckily for them, decisions about whether they should be saved or left to die are not up to you.
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  14.  @richardturner5703  My feelings are not hurt. Why did you imagine that? I'm not a snowflake.
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  15.  @ianfroud70  They have to take him if he is British. They will have checked him out.
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  16.  @REVERSESARCASM  Well you would have heard that from the sources of info you probably consult (if any).
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  17. All of them. Jeez, have you not been watching the news!
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  18.  @JustMe-sy3wc  I could see the people with my own eyes, unless some Hollywood director was hiring a cast of tens of thousands at great expense for the purpose of fooling you.
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  19.  @SURGE101  If you keep up with the latest news, they say they've checked him out and it was a mistake that he was on that list.
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  20.  @SURGE101  The UK government said they would take 20,000 staged over a period of time, starting with 5,000. They sure will be needed to fill all those job vacancies.
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  21. No. These are people who have worked with British forces and their credentials have all been checked. Have you not been watching the news?
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  22. @bad santa The jobs are open to British born citizens, but it seems British born citizens aren't applying in sufficient numbers. Perhaps there are not enough British citizens. The economy expanded when we had all that manpower from the EU. Now that we don't have it, certain economic sectors are likely to contract again.
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  23.  @stequality  Not true. They don't want to work for peanuts that they can't afford to live on if they can get better paid work and they will try for the better jobs first. Even migrants would do better jobs if they could. My daughter once worked as a waitress and she was the only English person working in that restaurant which was part of a chain. The other staff said to her 'why are you working here? If we could speak English as well as you we would get better jobs'. Also some manual jobs take a certain amount of physical stamina which not everyone has. P.S. Most migrants are keen for their children to be well educated so they can get better jobs than their parents.
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  24. There were plenty of women and children on the flights. Have you not been watching the news?
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  25. Do you mean Covid? They were wearing masks on the flights.
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  26.  @stephen.v5122  *wear *Britain. You can if you want to. You are not grounded, just advised not to go to red alert countries, but I sure wouldn't want to be on a plane with all that air being recirculated.
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  27.  @richardturner5703 ' Never actually check a fact' seems to be the motto of most ignorant comment on here.
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  28.  @richardturner5703  They've since said they've checked him out and it was a mistake that he was on the 'no fly list'. Do keep up.
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  29.  @andyetheridge  I've no idea what a terp is.
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  30. The island can't get smaller unless you are referring to coastal erosion.
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  31.  @erdevon3257  I was interpreting you literally. Of course the island is not getting smaller. I won't be drawn into your argument. The island has diverse roots, celts/Britons, Scots, Picts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Jutes, Vikings, Norman French, Huguenots, Flemish, Jews from Europe, Irish, Polish, Gypsies and many more.
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  32. *quarantine
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  33.  @hectorbrown656  I don't know why he can't be deported if he arrived under false pretences. The odd one one is bound to slip through in such a scramble but that's the nature of the chaos in these situations though I think the authorities have done their best under the circumstances to weed out any undesirables.
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  34.  @futoru_globe_trekker6558  You should visit rather than judging by prejudice.
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  35. Why?
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  36.  @sylviapage2159  Brits travel on coaches every day.
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  37. *Boris
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  38. I'm sure they do have to.
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  39. They probably hope that too.
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  40. They were all checked in Afghanistan before they were let on the planes. Did you not see the sniffer dogs sniffing the luggage, and these are people who have worked with British forces.
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  41.  IM NOT A TROLL I JUST TROLL A LOT  About a dozen. How many will you be putting in yours?
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  42. We do need more builders.
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  43.  @simonharrison1874  Ha ha. I think it's you who should visit to improve your knowledge of it.
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  44. Or working in the building industries or the hospitality industries or the Care industries or in the NHS or as lorry drivers. We are short of all of those.
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  45.  @stequality  Do you know that two thirds of those '20 million' benefit claimants' are pensioners? (Even when people have paid contributions throughout their working lives for their pensions, pensions are still described as 'benefits' in government forms.) About 1.5 million of those pensioners claim pension credit. The rest paid full contributions or aren't claiming credit. As for the remaining 7 million (of the 20 million), about 4 million these are disabled people or their carers. As for the rest....Universal Credit is paid to 2.3 million. Almost half the people claiming Universal Credit have a job or jobs but their earnings are so low that they can claim Universal Credit. Income Support is claimed by 372k and jobseekers allowance by 183k.
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  46.  @stequality  I've noticed traffic has been a lot better recently but that might also be to do with Covid and more people working at home.
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  47.  @stequality  Well we have the congestion charge and some empty supermarket shelves and more people working from home. That may explain it.
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  48.  @stequality  Well Brexit and Covid are quite recent. Some towns and cities have a problem which is not to do with those factors. I have relatives in Hereford and the traffic there, over many years, has varied from pretty bad to almost impossible. I'm not sure why. Maybe old towns weren't designed for high traffic levels and don't have the scope to improve the road design.
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  49. *paid. Look up the benefit entitlements of refugees before making assumptions.
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  50.  @jose-Maki  Just google what benefits migrants to the UK are entitled to. You will get fact check statements like this: 'Most non-EU nationals who are subject to immigration control are not allowed access to "public funds" (such as jobseekers' allowance or tax credits), although they can use public services like the NHS and education. EU citizens who are working have similar access to the benefits as UK citizens.'
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  51. They're here because many of them are already British passport holders or helped British forces. They've been flown direct from Afghanistan. Do you not watch the news?
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  52.  @katdes7305  Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to benefits. Don't you check your facts?
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  53.  @katdes7305  They may claim to be asylum seekers but they have to be checked out to see if they are genuinely asylum seekers or economic migrants. The latter are sent back, but yes they are housed and fed until their cases are sorted out. I am a taxpayer and I'm also paying towards the £37bn that Boris handed out to his friends and supporters in contracts for which there was no competition, and which have not been published as legally required, and for no little benefit to the country, as assessed by experts. I guess you're o.k with paying for that as long as the friends and supporters are not foreign.
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  54. Understaffing is due to Brexit but here's some people who may be willing to fill those vacancies.
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  55.  @johnp6636  There sure aren't Brits queueing up to fill those vacancies.
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  56. There were lots of women and children on the planes. Do you not read the news?
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  57.  @knightofwangernumb2998  You mean you don't read sources you don't agree with and decide to call it propaganda. You can at least see the images of people on the planes if you look.
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  58.  Rahul D  When my daughter worked as a waitress, she was the only English person working in the restaurant and the other staff said to her 'Why are you working here? If we spoke English as well as you we would not be working here.' Most English people aim for better paid jobs. The immigrants are prepared to work for lower pay it seems because where they come from pay is even worse or jobs are not available. The theory was that if we came out of the EU, pay would have to increase to attract more British workers. We shall see. P.S. Immigrants are keen for their children to be educated so that they can get better paid jobs than their parents.
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  59.  Rahul D  I'm sure there are still many people desperate to get out - men and women.
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  60.  @billykimbah2528  Youtube doesn't show dislikes on comments but you can dislike a page.
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  61.  @gowdsake7103  Yes I've seen lots on the flights. Do you not look at the news pages online?
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  62.  @chriswilde7246  A spoiled vote is an ignored voter. Better to vote for a smaller party as the main parties do take note of their national share of the vote, and how many votes nationally they are losing to other parties, so that can affect policy indirectly sometimes.
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  63.  @chriswilde7246  O.K. Start your own party or continue to be ignored is the sad reality.
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