“It Is INSANE!” | UK Illegal Migration To Add 2.2 Million To Population By 2034

Added: 2026-05-03

[00:00:00]Let's go straight over to my next guest.

[00:00:02]He is political commentator Benedict Spence. Welcome Benedict.

[00:00:06]>> Good afternoon Kevin. How are you?

[00:00:07]>> I'm good. Uh we're going to take a break from the Golders Green story because uh this is a story we would have done yesterday. In fact, a couple of stories really. Uh but of course you know events dear boy we were swamped of course by the horror in gold is green. But yesterday, the Office of National Statistics, so this is very official, predicted that 2.2 million more migrants will arrive in the UK in the next 8 years, rocketing the population to 72.5 million. Now, I'm no expert, but I look around this country uh and I read the newspapers, and I would suggest to you, Benedict, that this country, Great Britain, is already full. We can't take 2.2 million more migrants, can we? What the hell is going on?

[00:00:56]>> Well, I mean, this is uh the sort of the nasty inflection point, isn't it, between, you know, a government's well, successive governments insist on the one hand that we need migration to prop up the economy and also insist on the other hand that there's nothing that can be done to stop migration and then just sprinkle that with a little bit of and what's a border anyway? Why does it matter? And the thing is truly it is insane because we all see what's going on politically in this country uh and elsewhere as well. You know the rise of obviously reform but also now another movement in addition to that in restore which is you know small but still it exists. Um the the popularity of politicians now and movements in this country who pledge to get immigration down and the fact frankly that has become simply very mainstream for people to say quite outwardly that they do believe that there's too much migration into this country and you hear it from the most unexpected places sort of traditional labor uh live dem voters people who are themselves the children of migrants a lot of people who aren't migrants themselves who feel that actually that there's not simply too many people coming into the country but also far too many within that who have no interest of assimilating into the country at the same time. How are we supposed to cope? We don't build enough houses. We already have a massive shortfall as it is. We're not investing in infrastructure and all this seems to be is an effort to sort of inflate GDP figures without in fact increasing the tax. It's truly baffling.

[00:02:23]>> Uh it it seriously is. Uh there's another story uh uh that well it plays into the migrant crisis and the it's uh you know the way asylum seekers more and more are being dispersed. Uh the government going out of its way to stop putting them in asylum seeker hotels.

[00:02:41]Let's not get carried away with that.

[00:02:43]There's still about 30,000 migrants in asylum seeker hotels. But they're trying to put them into you know military camps, disused air bases. But more most pertinently more and more what they call houses of multiple occupation. Last week, place called Leilam, lovely Surrey village on the banks of the river, Tempames, discovered, the residents of that village discovered uh they didn't even know that a 500,000 cottage in their midst had been turned into an HMO, was full of migrants, and one of them was promptly arrested outside the local girls school, loitering and uh making the girls very, very uncomfortable. We later learned he had mental issues. Of course he did. Uh so they're furious and uh what the latest case of this is in a uh a village called Wales Slade. Uh that's near Chattam in Kent. Uh there's a culdeac there with a few bungalows. Uh the residents of that uh culdeac have just discovered that one of the bungalows has become a house of multiple occupation and the residents there are saying we are now frightened to let our kids out in the street and play. This used to be uh a safe place we don't believe it is anymore. So this policy, HMOs, houses of multiple occupation, it basically takes migrants out of hotels, out of military camps and disused air bases and puts them in a street near you, maybe your next door neighbor. I don't think this is the solution, do you?

[00:04:24]>> No. And this was always I think when they were talking about closing migrant hotels the bit where some of us sat there and go well be careful what you wish for because you know exactly what that means that our government will do and that means it'll scatter them to the winds. Uh which will make it actually even harder to keep tabs on people. That was always the big fear about taking people out of hotels um or camps. At the very least you knew where they all were most of the time. At night at the very least they were supposed to clock in and they needed to get their meals from somewhere. But now with their spread around all sorts of local authorities, different streets, different towns, different villages, you can't have enough eyes on these people at any one time. And I'm afraid, you know, there has simply been there has been a noticeable uptick in numbers of reports, allegations, charges brought against people uh predominantly migrants um for amongst other things very serious sexual assaults um and also things like theft and violence. There's no getting away from the fact that actually these things are happening more and more. As much as some politicians and commentators like to say, "Oh, they're only sort of isolated cases and actually lots of people who already here do these things anyway." Well, fine, they might do, but that doesn't mean we have to exacerbate the problem by importing people into this country who are coming here with the express intention of doing so. And then just to add just a little extra nugget of injustice to the edge of this, every single one of these houses, every single one of these properties is a property that could have gone to somebody else. That could have gone to somebody who is hardworking, taxpaying or possibly very vulnerable. And the point is because these are being effectively these are contracts by local authorities. People are being outbid for housing by their own local authorities.

[00:06:06]their own local authorities take money in taxation and use that money to turn these houses at a time when the country faces a housing shortage to turn it over to people who are in this country illegally, enter the country illegally and then behave illegally once they are here. I think that just takes the biscuit.

[00:06:23]>> Uh indeed, I'll just leave uh this story. I got another breaking news story I want to get your thoughts on, Benedict, but I'll leave you with this quote from local resident in this culdeac, Sarah Ryder. She's 59 years old. She's got three grandchildren uh who live there. She said, "We're just so upset because we have uh grandchildren and we don't know who's going to turn up. The grandchildren we have play used to play in the street, but that's not going to happen anymore." You know, that just sums it up. You know, this is pretty penicious what's going on. Lots and lots of local communities, unsuspecting local communities, suddenly foisted upon them are houses full of migrants. I don't want to impugn those migrants inherently, but you can understand why local communities are extremely perturbed about this. Now, uh thank you for your comments on those two stories, but this is literally just broken and you're just the man. Uh this is from the spectator breaking news.

[00:07:22]West Streeting has the numbers and is ready to go should a leadership race kick off after the local elections. uh friends and allies of the health secretary are telling the spectator that they say he has the numbers in the parliamentary labor party. In other words, enough rebels are willing to back him and willing to vote for defenistrating the prime minister Kama.

[00:07:45]Uh the specky goes on to say briefings from other leadership contenders that he is tainted by Mandolson is rubbish. This is what camp streeting is saying. Uh I mean camp as in his camp. Uh uh so uh the the team I I'll say team streeting uh say he will be f vindicated by the end of the humble address process. Friends of west are extremely loyal and reached far and wide within the labor movement including among party members. Many got to know him during his student politics days and he has stuck by them ever since. So we know Angela Rener is on maneuvers. Fantastic story by the way about Angela Rain in the papers this morning that on Monday uh she went to the strangers bar and got completely blotto smashed into a door which apparently will not open and shut anymore. Uh but you know uh good for her. I say that's the sort of thing that will get Angela into power because she's a human being like the rest of us. But interesting stuff that streeting has the numbers. Now we are hearing come the local elections uh the big the cut off point the experts always said if Labor lose 1,500 local seats or more uh 1,500 West we're treating is toast.

[00:09:08]Uh pollsters are now saying it's pretty unlikely uh that he will uh not lose 1900 1875 seats. So, he's well over the uh the threshold, the 1500 threshold. Uh and uh the spectator revealing that Westing has the numbers to mount a challenge. It could be beginning to happen. I would suggest.

[00:09:34]>> Yeah, I think you're right. I think it is starting now. And that was always going to be the thing was when did what the prime minister was doing, what did his when did his behavior stop simply being about tarnishing brand star and start tarnishing brand labor? At what point is it counselors? And then of course eventually MPs start looking nervously over their shoulders and thinking how much time do we have to actually claw back the public's resolve and the public's support on the current trajectory. The curious thing about that is I would say for for a start I'd say uh I concur with you on the idea of Angela Raina um we shouldn't be bashing her for going and having a drink. I thought it was really nasty and Puritan the way that the Green Party MP >> absolutely hated that. Me too. Me too.

[00:10:14]MPs they should be allowed to have a drink like anyone else. And actually, let's get this on record. There is no problem with drunken MPs. We we do not have, you know, I'm no fan of most of the MPs, but they are not drunken ls.

[00:10:30]They're just not. So Hannah Spencer, the Lib Dem Puritan, no, sorry, the Green Party Puritan trying to bismerch the fumes of alcohol down the corridors of Westminster Power. You know, just shut up. MPs are allowed to have a drink like anyone else.

[00:10:47]Absolutely. If anything, I think people would probably rather that their MPs were slightly more blotted most of the time because it might stop them coming up with some of the city policies that they do. Um, but on the subject though of Angela Raina that it's going to be really fascinating this because I'm not surprised to hear that where streeting actually has the support within the MPs because the MPs will understand that he is probably the more talented of the two, certainly more talented than Ed Milliband. Um, and in many ways would probably go down better with the electorate more generally. the issue is going to be with the party members more broadly. Of course, that's how we got Jeremy Corbyn. That's how we got Ed Milliband the first time. The party membership tends to be much more to the left of I'd say even the MPs uh and certainly the general public. Who is it that they decide to give it? I wouldn't actually back Wes Streeting uh to win a leadership contest if he was up against Angela Rener and Ed Milliband because I think the Labour members would as they often do do something rather stupid and make things worse.

[00:11:47]>> Yeah, don't forget these are the people that once chose Ed Milliband as their leader. So, anything could happen, but it does look as if it is beginning to happen. Benedict, great to have you on the show. Thank you so much for your time. Benedict Spence there, political commentator.