00:00Confusing, because it's saying, the Telegraph is saying the figure has tripled for hotels at £4 million,
00:08though in fact it's been reduced from £9 million a day down to £4 million,
00:12so it's been more than cut in half and it's somehow tripled.
00:15Right, so because this is, the problem here is that there's fluctuations in when migrants are coming,
00:21when we're housing them, where we're putting them, have they had their appeals done,
00:24have they had the rights to remain, not the rights to remain, have they been given settled status and all this stuff.
00:29See, there's a lot of things that change throughout this course of time.
00:32However, this is to do with contracts that were signed by the Conservative Party.
00:37So they signed deals with hotels and all these things at a cost of, what they would assume,
00:42£4.5 billion between 2019 and 2029.
00:46Now, because costs have gone up so dramatically, they're now expected those original costs of £4.5 billion will be at least £15.3 billion.
00:55Alright, so whose fault is that?
00:56Well, it's probably the fault of the Conservative Party for not getting on top of the crisis in the first place.
01:01I mean, you know, this is the reality, isn't it?
01:03We won't be dealing with this issue, we won't be talking about this had we not got on top of it for a long period of time.
01:08And of course, unfortunately, Keir Starmer is seemingly unwilling to do anything about it either.
01:13No, actually, that is not true, because what Labour always promised, I mean, there is a problem with the boats, right?
01:21But what they always promised, the bigger problem, is there was an amazing backlog.
01:27And what you have to do is you have to process it and you have to send the people who shouldn't be here back, right?
01:34And that's what's happening. And they are, I mean, we know that for the Tories...
01:39Yeah, but Scarlet, the people coming over on boats are not being sent back.
01:44They are.
01:44No, they're not.
01:45They are.
01:45By all accounts, they are not being sent back.
01:47There is no evidence to suggest anyone who's come over here on a small boat has been sent back.
01:51But deportations are...
01:52No, no, this is absolutely...
01:53Deportations are voluntary.
01:54No, deportations are not voluntary.
01:57Only 20% of people that shouldn't be here have been forced back of that number that the government has given.
02:02No, because, Alex, you assume...
02:04We have to be honest here.
02:05We can't just...
02:05I am being honest.
02:07I want to say two things.
02:08One is you assume that anybody coming here on a small boat is not a refugee.
02:15I do assume that, yes.
02:16Well, many of them are refugees, right?
02:19Many of them are refugees.
02:20You can make that argument.
02:21And they say, well, I mean, I think that, you know, I do talk about a young woman I had staying at my house who was a Christian in Eritrea.
02:28And, yes, her parents had been jailed for the last nine years and she came here.
02:32But more important is where does the money come from?
02:36And it comes...
02:37All of the hotel migrants is it comes from our international aid money.
02:42Well, I know that might be fair enough.
02:45And I don't want to get into a debate of whether people are refugees or we can have that sort of discussion.
02:49However, what I will say is that the problem we've got here, Scarlett, is that this is 15 billion.
02:55The government have just said they're not going to compensate victims of rape gangs.
02:59They have taken away the winter fuel allowance.
03:02I know where it's coming from, but it's still taxes, Scarlett.
03:05It's still taxes that could be discounting...
03:08Yes, international aid.
03:09Who pays international aid?
03:10It's our taxes.
03:11So there is a pot called international aid, right?
03:15Which is our money, right?
03:16Yes.
03:17But if it didn't go on asylum, it would go to Africa, right?
03:21But no, it shouldn't be.
03:23This would not...
03:23It shouldn't be.
03:24That's the point.
03:24It shouldn't be.
03:25When we...
03:25When we're just...
03:26I don't think you understand budgeting.
03:28I do understand budgeting.
03:29I'm saying the budget should go to British people first.
03:32OK.
03:32OK, but, Scott, OK.
03:33OK, how do you think...
03:34Will you ever let me finish a sentence?
03:36The point is that we put, what is it, 0.3% of GDP into international aid, right?
03:45It does not go to rape gangs.
03:47It goes to international aid.
03:48And part of that, a great deal of that money goes on asylum seekers and actually Ukrainian refugees.
03:57I know, but, Scarlett, you're missing my point.
03:59My point is, why are we spending it on those things when we're telling victims of...
04:04Of the biggest stain in our country, they can't have a penny in compensation.
04:07No, no.
04:07All right.
04:08Because...
04:08Alex, are you stupid?
Comments