Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Priceless audience reaction to asylum comment on BBC Question Time
The Independent
Follow
12/5/2024
Question Time audience member reacts to woman saying she doesn't believe in asylumSource BBC
Category
🗞
News
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
if they have the sufficient qualifications to do the jobs that we
00:04
probably need. And as far as asylum goes? I don't believe in any asylum. I really
00:11
don't. I think we have taken more than our fair share in this country. I feel
00:18
very sorry for the little towns, little villages that these people have been put,
00:23
where people have lived all their lives and they're frightened.
00:29
Do you feel sorry for the people who are fleeing war? Do you feel sorry for the people who are fleeing persecution?
00:35
I think there's far too much made of this that they're fleeing wars.
00:40
Is there a war in Algeria? Is there a war in Morocco? Is there a war? Where are they coming from? Syria?
00:50
Lost from Syria. One point. We're fifth in Europe. In terms of the numbers of
00:56
asylum seekers, we are fifth in Europe. One of the ways that this debate has
01:00
developed is the idea that they're all coming here.
01:04
Let's let Jackie in. Thanks guys. So I'm proud to live in a country...
Recommended
0:19
|
Up next
Watch timelapse of cloud rolling over Minnesota as storms cause power outages across state
The Independent
today
0:37
Republican Senate candidate spells name of own state wrong in campaign video
The Independent
today
0:36
Military jet performs evasive manoeuvre to avoid flock of birds in its path at Spanish festival
The Independent
today
1:03
Black Mirror star joins ‘stop starving Gaza’ emergency protest outside Downing Street
The Independent
today
3:05
Do you support housing asylum seekers on barges?
National World - LocalTV
8/8/2023
2:25
UK migrant barge sparks debate on asylum seeker treatment
euronews (in English)
10/23/2023
0:58
Fiona Bruce's intervention on BBC Question Time
The Scotsman
3/11/2023
1:19
Audience question prompts gasps at BBC leaders debate
The Independent
6/27/2024
0:27
British Home Secretary questions whether migrants are genuine asylum seekers
euronews (in English)
1/2/2019
2:28
Exceptional circumstances being applied to asylum seekers are becoming 'far from exceptional', former lawyer claims
GB News
6/5/2025
0:22
BBC Question Time audience give resounding no when polled on support for Rwanda deportations
The Independent
6/30/2023
0:31
BBC Question Time audience member hits out at ‘idiots blocking brilliant Rwanda scheme’
The Independent
3/22/2024
1:25
BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce and Labour minister Jacqui Smith in heated clash over migrant crackdown
The Independent
2/14/2025
0:19
BBC Question Time audience member clashes with panel speaker over link between mental health and poverty
The Independent
3/22/2024
2:40
WATCH: Mark White reveals how Yvette Cooper dodged GB News questioning
GB News
4/29/2025
1:05
Question Time audience shout ‘shame’ as Sunak says he is prepared to leave ECHR
The Independent
6/20/2024
0:36
Spokesperson from Kent Refugee Action Network condemns government response to migrant crisis
KentOnline / KMTV
11/19/2021
1:07
Question Time audience member tears into MPs over ‘disgusting dehumanisation’ of immigrants
The Independent
2/15/2025
1:23
Jimmy Savile abuse survivor speaks out ahead of BBC’s The Reckoning
The Independent
10/9/2023
0:36
Sex offenders to be denied asylum rights in new law
ODN
4/29/2025
10:00
Can Cyprus cope with the current flow of asylum seekers?
euronews (in English)
6/28/2024
0:39
Transgender doctor is ‘chromosomally male’, consultant tells tribunal
Evening Standard
today
3:40
Cloudy, showery in the west – Afternoon Weather Forecast UK - Met Office Weather 29.07.2025
Evening Standard
today
0:45
House prices rise across the UK but fall five per cent in London's West Central postcodes
Evening Standard
today
1:04
Finn Wolfhard announces details of 2025 tour
Bang Showbiz
today