James O'Brien's BRILLIANT Question On Immigration Drop!

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:02]Hi guys, another brilliant monologue by James O'Brien on the issue of immigration. Now, before we get to it, a bit of context. So, net migration numbers are way down. This is a result of Tory policies and Labour policies to discourage people from coming to Britain to either study or to work and to discourage others from bringing family members with them. Now, whether this is going to improve the situation for ordinary people as in the sense that it will help the economy remains to be seen. But, I want to show you this clip here where James is asking the question, is this actually going to work? In the sense is is it going to help the Labour Party? Have a listen.

[00:00:41]The argument was lost. Okay?

[00:00:45]And immigration coming down was a priority for everybody except the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. Okay?

[00:00:51]Everybody, pretty much.

[00:00:54]So, Labour has adopted that and Labour has pledged to bring down the immigration numbers spectacularly.

[00:01:01]And they are.

[00:01:04]They are in the 12 months to December 2025, the number of people entering a country minus the number of people who leave stood at about 171,000.

[00:01:14]A fall of almost 800,000 from where it was just 3 years ago.

[00:01:19]That's absolutely extraordinary and for the record, I don't think it's over yet.

[00:01:24]I think it will continue to fall.

[00:01:26]So, is it going to work?

[00:01:30]Is it going to work?

[00:01:33]Is is is another racist. You've made the label racist meaningless, which is what all racists say. This is Ian getting in touch to prove that he's a racist.

[00:01:40]You've made the label racist meaningless. We don't care, lol. I'm spend my entire life texting radio presenters who've just made points that I don't care at all about, Ian. You irredeemable flump. Um it's an all-time record. It was forced upon us. It's not enough. They're coming. So, you see, he's got he's got it. He's furious.

[00:01:55]They're coming down. Damn.

[00:01:58]All that's left is racism.

[00:02:01]But I can't be a racist. You've made the label meaningless. So, ignore people like Ian and ignore people like James.

[00:02:07]Ignore your racist uncle or your Uncle Keith on Facebook. Think about this curious, this unidentified, this almost unknowable constituency of countrymen and women who are going to respond positively to the news that immigration is plummeting because they have been persuaded through no fault of their own.

[00:02:23]Look at the effort that's gone into it.

[00:02:25]That immigration is a bad thing and the lower it is the better.

[00:02:29]So, if it stands at as it did just just 3 years ago, 944,000, and your emotional calibrator, your emotional meter, your emotional meter responds to a figure of 944,000 by going up to eight or nine on the anger scale, then by all the laws of logic, it should come down to two or three when the figure stands at 193,000.

[00:02:54]Unless you're racist like Ian and James.

[00:02:56]If you're not racist and you're genuinely concerned about the numbers, if if 944,000 makes you vote for Farage, then 193,000 should effectively involve you giving your head a bit of a wobble and and remembering what's best for the country.

[00:03:13]Okay. So, I I leave a link in the description to this entire clip. It's about 25 28 minutes long.

[00:03:21]But I want to focus on this point here.

[00:03:23]The idea that there are there are people who are concerned about the numbers. That they're not actually concerned about immigration itself, they're concerned about the numbers. So, these people, by definition, should be happy now.

[00:03:37]They should no longer be angry because the numbers have come down. Now, this unfortunately creates a bit of a doom loop. What I mean by that is economies need workers, need skilled workers. And if a business can't find the workers they need in the local area, they'll try and find them from further afield.

[00:03:59]And if they can't find them further afield, they'll go outside the country.

[00:04:04]They want skilled workers to come in and do jobs that the local people can't or don't want to do. That's the reality.

[00:04:10]Now, if a business can't access the workers they need, what happens? Well, they don't expand or worse, they downsize. They close down because they can't expand. They can't compete with other businesses who can access the workers they need.

[00:04:25]And then what do you have? You have a situation where the economy suffers, the exchequer doesn't get the revenue it needs, and then you end up with a situation where the government either borrow or they tax the rich, or what do they do? They impose austerity. And austerity, of course, harms the most vulnerable people in society. It harms the the working class.

[00:04:47]Your rich people don't care about public services because they don't generally need them or they feel they don't need them.

[00:04:55]And then you have a situation where people are angry because everything has gone to crap. And who do they blame?

[00:05:01]Well, they're told to blame the immigrants.

[00:05:04]So, parties get it into their minds, well, we need to bring down immigration. If we reduce immigration, then everything will be wonderful. So, you have a a sort of doom loop where politicians are saying the solution to our problems is to bring down immigration. They implement measures like stopping visas for students, stopping visas for workers, and this has the consequence of damaging the economy.

[00:05:30]The economy is damaged.

[00:05:33]Austerity is implemented, and then the people get angry because public services are not operating or the government have no money.

[00:05:41]That's the argument being put forward.

[00:05:43]Now, is Labor going to succeed here? Are they going to be able to take this argument away from Nigel Farage? You've seen before how Farage and Reform would focus more on the small boats than so-called legal migration.

[00:05:58]Because the small boats were something visual. Something that you could point at.

[00:06:03]GB News would would have their clips that they would repeat, you know, 24/7.

[00:06:09]Look at all these small boats coming over. Look at all these men going into ex-hotels. Look at these Look at these individuals who have no right or should not be in the country, invading the country. So, when the the focus was on immigration in general, and that wasn't working, well, then they moved into a different type of immigration, they they asylum seekers or as they'd call them illegal immigrants.

[00:06:33]So, if the the numbers of so-called illegal immigrants don't come down, then unfortunately, I think this issue will remain as toxic as it has.

[00:06:45]That's the problem for labor.

[00:06:48]The How does labor get out of this?

[00:06:50]Well, I I'm off the idea that labor should be promoting immigration, talking about how it actually benefits the economy, benefits society, but I don't think they're going to go down that road.

[00:07:00]The current Home Secretary is to the right of some conservatives, some Tories. So, I don't see her embracing the positivity of immigration. So, instead, she's going to double down on immigration is bad.

[00:07:15]The numbers are too high. We are actually bringing down the numbers, and that's benefiting ordinary people. When in reality, in the long term, it's not.

[00:07:24]Because you need workers in an economy.

[00:07:27]And if you don't have the skilled ones yourself, then you're going to have to go further afield. And we're already seeing another phenomenon. We're seeing people leave the UK to work in Australia, to work in in teachers, nurses, where the conditions and pay are better.

[00:07:45]So, that's also a problem. It doesn't get a lot of traction in the media. The instead the focus is on people coming into the country, not people leaving.

[00:07:55]So, unfortunately, I think while Labour will score a few points in the short term by saying, "Look, we have succeeded in bringing down the numbers." In the long term, this is terrible for the economy.

[00:08:07]And it's not good for society. And the following government, if they see a situation where they don't have the tax revenue to implement public services or to rebuild them, they will go down the road of austerity. And who benefits from austerity and cuts to public services?

[00:08:24]Populist parties.

[00:08:26]Let me know in the comment section, guys, what you think. And I'll see you in the next video. And once again, I'll leave a link in the description to the full video from James O'Brien. I recommend watching it.

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