For the last hour, Sky News has been almost wall-to-wall on migrant hotel protests... or as chief correspondent Jon Craig puts it, 'illegal migration'. They desperately need some real news.
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Like how to fund and support the NHS, defence, care, potholes, schools, housing, utilities, railways, farming, manufacturing industry, hospitality industry, the environment, fishing industry, the list just goes on What about the boats?
aug 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
it's out there if they choose to look hard enough, and ask the tough questions
aug 31, 2025, 9:50 am • 0 0 • view
Apparently there is a “migrant crisis” despite total immigration numbers being way down from last year and “small boat” numbers being about the same.
aug 30, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
And now emboldened by the media the thugs are breaking into the hotels.
aug 30, 2025, 4:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Sky are grooming a nation.
aug 30, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump dying?
aug 30, 2025, 4:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Inshallah
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump let us down. Again.
aug 30, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
If I hear 'legitimate concerns' again I'm going to go and live in a cave. I have so had it with these knuckle draggers
aug 30, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Sky News need to be desperately better at what they do, and get some new commentators.
aug 30, 2025, 4:46 pm • 1 0 • view
I can remember when Sky News was pretty good.
aug 31, 2025, 7:53 am • 0 0 • view
You could knock the lid off hell itself and it wouldn’t get the lazy exposure migrant hotels are getting. “Pits of hell: still a harder life than migrant hotels” “So how do the pits of lucifer compare to the migrant hotels: Well for one: there’s no floating
aug 30, 2025, 4:17 pm • 8 0 • view
How many genuinely illegal migrants are there in these hotels? Are they not all going through the asylum process? When Farage and the far right talk about mass deportations, who are they talking about?
aug 30, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Zero
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
None, I expect.
aug 30, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Whereas because I feel chased away from the news nowadays, I’ve had an interesting Saturday listening to the Political Currency podcast.
aug 30, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Appalling! I wanted to scream 😱
aug 30, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Or at least look at the roundabouts
aug 30, 2025, 4:21 pm • 3 0 • view
There’s plenty of real news. They choose to ignore it and make their own. If news was determined by the size of protest, Palestine and Remain marches would top the headlines. Instead we get…
aug 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 3 0 • view
DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT #FARAGE ALWAYS BEING ON TV IF YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED THIS PETITION !!! DO IT!!!!! RT and thankyou for your attention to this matter! 😰 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
aug 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 1 • view
24 hour news channels are probably as corrosive as social media. Big news events as exceedingly rare so they have to fill time with nonsense. CNN was derided as “Chicken Noodle News” until the Challenger Disaster and subsequently the Gulf War raised its profile
aug 30, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
We have to face it. The fascists have won. I saw this slide coming from 25 June, 2016. Let's hope humanity survives the global conflict which is the only thing which will reset things, at least for 30 years or so.
aug 30, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
On 24 June 2016 I asked my wife if she could claim Irish citizenship. She could. We have made our preparations.
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Is there really nothing else happenin bin the world? Maybebif the government told the media to only talk about these protests they would disobey!
aug 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I want to say it wouldn't be that easy. But I accidentally think you may be on to something!
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 am • 0 0 • view
*actually
aug 31, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
*actually
aug 31, 2025, 8:16 am • 0 0 • view
Starmer has nearly 400 MPs, out of 650. He can pass laws making truth more important than the right to lie. He CAN require BBC to take sides against racists.
aug 31, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
Reminder that small boat migration is c.5% of all UK immigration. And asylum-seeking generally is far lower per head of UK population than most other west European countries e.g. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇮🇪. Yes even Ireland takes way more. Yet none have the same sense of crisis and moral panic as the UK.
aug 30, 2025, 4:25 pm • 216 92 • view
So your political advice to the PM is “tell people to chill out.” OK then.
aug 31, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Moral panic = worrying about stuff that liberals and centrists are too sophisticated to worry about
aug 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
And www.lbc.co.uk/article/russ...
aug 31, 2025, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
It has been like this for years during the summer recess, albeit this year does seem worse from the perspective of someone regularly asked to speak about immigration. It's wall to wall non-stories, and seems context and facts just go by the wayside. Incredibly tedious.
aug 30, 2025, 4:27 pm • 14 0 • view
Don’t even watch the news now. It’s just wall to wall bile.
aug 30, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I preferred the old silly seasons e.g. sightings of the Loch Ness Monster and suchlike.
aug 30, 2025, 4:37 pm • 13 0 • view
My favourite remains "Elvis found alive living on an island with JFK"
aug 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 6 0 • view
people should be reminded that johnson implemented an aussie style point system for imigration promoted by farage!
aug 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 0 • view
It's getting that way in Germany, to be honest. Merz insisting on turning back claimants at the border and then losing the court challenge that results. And that despite asylum numbers being down sharply.
aug 31, 2025, 9:49 am • 1 0 • view
But are we panicking really? The press are, but I went to a food/drink festival in town today and although it was hammering down, it seemed the same as it always does, lots of cheese and homemade chutney and homemade wine, very unpanicked in fact
aug 30, 2025, 4:29 pm • 2 0 • view
bunkfest?
aug 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
People are generally fine while ignoring the news and social media.
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 3 0 • view
The benefits given to asylum seekers in the UK are *very* basic compared to France, Germany and others. In the UK, they are also forbidden from working. If they were simply economic migrants, it would be far better for them to stay 'on the continent'. But some instead risk everything to come here.
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 72 9 • view
Craig is becoming openly political in his reports. A few days ago, it was “asking” whether the Royal Navy should be deployed against small boats, now it’s this bsky.app/profile/oldt...
aug 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 22 2 • view
I don’t get this deploy the navy stuff, surely the Q to ask any proponent of it is will the navy b asked to fire on people? If they r not then what’s the point, if they are then just ask are u happy then to c unarmed people including children shot by our armed forces & demand they answer this Q
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 am • 3 0 • view
Absolutely. It’s from the same people who criticise RNLI for rescuing migrants from the channel. Dehumanising and disgraceful.
aug 31, 2025, 7:08 am • 7 1 • view
Even a death-trap "small boat" is more manoeuvrable than a big navy ship, and smaller navy vessels atttempting to "turn them back" would guarantee swamping. All this border-barrier talk leads to shooting.
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 am • 4 0 • view
Ugh
aug 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Sky News has become another instrument of radicalisation in recent months.
aug 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 14 1 • view
Sky News has always been garbage.
aug 31, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
People want government that can act on their concerns But we have government tied in knots by international obligations This will end The only question is will democratic parties do it, or will the quasi-fascist right do it I know which I’d prefer
aug 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Govt is tied in knots by a fear that backwards people will not vote for it. Fxxk the bigots.
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 am • 2 0 • view
don't tell the papers!
aug 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Sadly facts don’t matter. People will believe what they want to believe.
aug 30, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Silly season, silly viewers. Great seaside video though!
aug 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Utterly insane. If they were working they would be less dependent on public benefits, but once against bigotry trumps not only compassion, but basic sanity.
aug 31, 2025, 8:57 am • 3 0 • view
The coverage is the crisis
aug 30, 2025, 9:26 pm • 7 4 • view
manufactured outrage distraction
aug 30, 2025, 9:43 pm • 3 0 • view
If they had the BBC stirring up migration hysteria, every day, they'd have the problem we do.
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 am • 2 0 • view
Perhaps Trump will do the decent thing and pop his clogs? We can but hope… 🙄
aug 31, 2025, 7:26 am • 1 0 • view
In other countries the tv news will focus on topical, intelligent reportage on a particular concerns, industries, companies, local initiatives, events that bring people/communities together etc in a constructive way. UK news by comparison is a complete bilge-fest. It really doesn’t have to be.
aug 30, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump will fill the void. Been quiet lately.
aug 30, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Dead quiet.
aug 30, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Let's hope so..
aug 30, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep.
aug 31, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view
Many Brexit voters thought Brexit was going to end immigration from Asia and Africa…
aug 30, 2025, 5:27 pm • 16 4 • view
I remember this interview, I laughed at his stupidity
aug 31, 2025, 8:31 am • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately he’s wasn’t the only one who thought like that….
aug 31, 2025, 8:42 am • 0 0 • view
Hes in the top 5 percentile for brain cells in Barnsley.
aug 31, 2025, 8:37 am • 0 0 • view
Many Brexit voters were/are idiots
aug 30, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Our education system has failed. About a third of our population seems to have the mental agility of a wrinkly potato
aug 30, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
The man is dense enough to redefine the laws of physics.
aug 30, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
The reason we have more RoW immigration is because the Tories wanted a fairer immigration system so relaxed RoW visa requirements. This was coming in Brexit or not.
aug 31, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view
Rubbish… The reason we have more RoW immigration is Tories’ God-awful Brexit wiped 5% off UK GDP… Tories’ covered-up that huge drop in UK GDP due to their disastrous Brexit… by massively increasing RoW immigration which increased UK GDP by having significantly more workers in UK economy...
aug 31, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view
Tories caused the problem with their shitty Brexit… Tories tried to cover-up the problem by massively increasing immigration… Now Tories complaining the massive increase in immigration they implemented is a problem… NEVER trust a Tory.
aug 31, 2025, 11:05 am • 1 0 • view
I bet he's flying his flag, blissfully unaware of how stupid he's been. What a plank.
aug 31, 2025, 5:52 am • 0 0 • view
These were the people who failed to do their homework at school. They failed here as well.
aug 30, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
why? they decided to go from a " local" FoM system to farage's aussie style point system. they called it taking back control! as a result, 4M cane legally between 2921 & 24. thanks nigel!
aug 30, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Should have voted remsin, mate.
aug 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
So we were right they are racist. Ends.
aug 30, 2025, 6:08 pm • 3 0 • view
The Brexit they voted for actually quadrupled legal migration from circa 250k per year to over a million each year in 2025. The Brexit they voted for also caused small boat crossings to skyrocket - from practically ZERO in 2015 - to 50,000 a year in 2025…
aug 30, 2025, 5:35 pm • 16 3 • view
Fools of the highest order.
aug 30, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
And it turns out the vast majority of this massive rise in immigration into the UK after Brexit is from Asia and Africa - precisely the regions that many Brexit voters specifically wanted to stop entering the UK by voting for Brexit...
aug 30, 2025, 5:41 pm • 10 0 • view
Now Britain’s got wall-to-wall coverage of thugs with neck tattoos screaming at hotels - and every lamppost in England is festooned with tacky nylon George cross flags that were made in Guangzhou… Brexit… the arsehole that will never stop shitting on Britain!
aug 30, 2025, 5:46 pm • 21 2 • view
Oh shoot- that is what those are about. There were some putting them up when I was running. They were very quick to get it done when I started to stare at them and give them dirty looks. Next time I’ll stop and “engage”.
aug 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Chinese factories who make all the plastic George cross flags - and USA’s Amazon registered in Luxembourg to avoid UK taxes when selling all the plastic George cross flags to moronic Brits - are now both making a fortune from Brexit Britain’s inherent racism manifesting as toxic patriotism.
aug 30, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Thick as f$ck racist in Barnsley. ‘I voted to leave the European Union to stop Muslims and those from Africa coming to the UK’ The statement is moronic on its own, but when you add the fact that Brexit meant losing the right to return immigrants to France etc, you have an ‘idiot trifle’.
aug 30, 2025, 6:20 pm • 5 0 • view
did they think Africa was in the EU??? or just that they could stop small boats from coming from France- the farage -agenda.
aug 30, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
There weren't many small boats when we were in the EU, because we could send them back it was disincentivised. Brexit is why we have many more small boat crossings
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view
There weren’t ANY small boats before 2019
aug 30, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps President Trump could die and do us two favours in one.
aug 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Hopefully if Trump dies that will also get rid of Farrightage because he'll be off to the US howling with grief and we'll get a break.
aug 30, 2025, 6:19 pm • 3 0 • view