Labour's priorities are 'never with the British people', Reform councillor tells GB News

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The Government's exposed secret asylum scheme for thousands of Afghans has sparked a fiery row on GB News, questioning the "priorities" of Labour.Reform UK Councillor Jaymey McIvor clashed with commentator Jonathan Lis after criticising the lack of support for "homeless British veterans".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00It really aggravates me. All this all protect, protect, protect these people that help the British Armed Forces.

00:05What about homeless British veterans that don't get to get lovely housing, that don't get loads of support?

00:10Well, they should. Why does it always have to be a zero-sum game? Why can't they be helped as well?

00:13Do you think, sorry, do you think that those people shouldn't have had any kind of assistance?

00:17Do you think they should have been able to help them?

00:18It's priorities. Where is the British government's priorities?

00:21I haven't seen any fantastic ideas on how we can help people I've just mentioned, you know, homeless British veterans,

00:28who, some of whom are living in horrendous circumstances in hostels and things,

00:32yet we've got people that have helped interpret and help our British soldiers,

00:36and that service should be honoured, I agree.

00:38But where is the British government's priorities? It's never with the British people.

00:41It's always with other people.

00:42If one of those people had been killed by the Taliban, for example, in a revenge attack,

00:47the headlines would have been even worse, the government.

00:50But why cover it up? What you've said there, a lot of people, by the way,

00:53loads of people watching this might disagree with it.

00:55Maybe you genuinely just think, well, what's the point? How can we trust any of these people?

00:58We were paying them to work for us. They were just doing a job.

01:01They might not have been that supportive of the Brits.

01:03And also, crucially, no-one seemed to fight back against the Taliban, really, did they, when the tanks rolled in.

01:07So maybe you think we shouldn't have offered these people a thing.

01:09But if it is a natural, logical argument to say they helped us, these interpreters,

01:14we should bring them over, why cover it up?

01:16What are they afraid of? And as to this point to speak,

01:18if the government is capable, or governments are capable, of lying about the largest evacuation in modern history,

01:25what else are they lying to us about?

01:26Well, yeah, that's the issue.

01:27Listen, I actually don't think the average British person is thinking

01:30these people risked their lives to help the British government in an invasion

01:33that many people would disagree with, and therefore we should just leave them out to dry.

01:37I actually don't think, I think if you made the case that they have been vetted thoroughly,

01:41they helped the British armed forces for years,

01:44and they're coming here with their families because they faced a significant risk,

01:47which was heightened by a stupid email that was sent by a soldier,

01:50I think most people would be like, fine.

01:51It's the cover-up that is the issue,

01:54and it's the fact that they know what they're doing is going to anger the British public.

01:57And then this is why it boils down to,

01:59why do we have our politicians say,

02:01oh, you can't vote for this party, you can't vote for them because they're all incompetents?

02:03There is no faith, and there should be no faith in the British political system right now,

02:06because all the major parties are failing us.

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