Jeremy Kyle and Mike Graham discussed the rising cost of UK passports, which has increased by 7% to £95 for adults and £74.50 for children. They criticized the government for prioritizing migrants over British citizens, noting the strain on public services due to high immigration levels.
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00:00I was listening again this morning.
00:01Were you indeed?
00:02I loved your approach.
00:03This is what you did.
00:04You went, to be honest, nothing's really worked in the news, has it?
00:07JFK files are boring, Harry's not being sent back, so what's your news today?
00:11I loved it.
00:12We did.
00:13Well, make your own news, really, because you can.
00:14I mean, there's no reason why the news is what we tell you the news is.
00:16Can I do that now?
00:17I think you can.
00:18Tell me your news.
00:19Tell me the news that matters to you on Drive.
00:210344 419 1000.
00:23Make it up if you want.
00:24We've only got two and a half hours to fill.
00:25Good news as well sometimes you get from people, because we do sometimes give people a bit
00:29of a diet of bad news.
00:30Yes.
00:31So sometimes, occasionally, it's worth remembering that there are still some good things about
00:34living in Britain.
00:35What?
00:36I can't think of any at the moment.
00:37A pint of English beer.
00:38A pint of English beer, I was told, was nine pounds.
00:42A pint of Irish beer, actually, a pint of Guinness, somebody paid nine pounds for a
00:46pint of that.
00:47Somebody got in touch with us this morning.
00:48At Cheltenham.
00:49I think it was at Cheltenham, yeah.
00:50It's one of the reasons why Cheltenham's, figure-wise, on its backside.
00:53I think it was 9.60, I could be wrong.
00:54Absolutely outrageous.
00:55That's ridiculous.
00:56Pricing people out, Mikey.
00:57That's way too much money for a drink.
00:59I've got a breaking news story, which only you and your inevitably stylish way will talk
01:03about.
01:04Yeah.
01:05A blow for Brits, as the cost of a UK passport has been signed off by the British government.
01:09Ministers have understood, my friends, to have signed off a 7% rise on the price of
01:14renewing your travel document.
01:16That would see the cost of applying for a new passport online increased by six quid
01:20to 95 pounds, nearly, and 74 for kids.
01:24That's ridiculous, isn't it?
01:25I mean, another 7%.
01:26Yeah.
01:27Who's getting that, the government?
01:29Of course they are.
01:30What are they going to do with that?
01:31Freeze the pensioners to death.
01:32Give it to some migrants, probably, who don't even have passports, because they chuck theirs
01:34in the sea.
01:35So, of course, if you turn up with no passport at all, you get treated better than if you
01:39actually have to buy it.
01:40So we will not condone this, but basically, don't renew your news passport, which is going
01:43to cause...
01:44We'll just throw yours in the sea on the way back from Molde.
01:46You'll get in anyway.
01:47Yes.
01:48And probably, you'll end up in a hotel.
01:49Yeah, exactly right.
01:50And you'll probably end up with a nice new car as well while you're at it, because you'll
01:53get some driving lessons, maybe a motability car if you say you're suffering from ADHD
01:57and account of the, you know, the PTSD you're suffering from.
01:59Well, you could ring them up and say, because the journey on the boat was so traumatic,
02:03I've got PTSD.
02:04Yes.
02:05Can I have a 30 grand Nissan as an insurance?
02:07Right.
02:08A tank of fuel every month?
02:09That would be nice.
02:10Can you give me a house?
02:11But I can't drive, though, so can you give me some driving lessons as well, so that I
02:14can drive the free car, because that would be ideal, preferably somewhere near where
02:19I live at the moment.
02:20Yes.
02:21Are you still doing your Migrant of the Day feature?
02:22We do our Migrant of the Day feature, yeah.
02:23What did you have today?
02:24Today, I think we had a guy who could not leave his hotel, because he's frightened of
02:30going outside, and that's why they can't deport him, because he's...
02:34He's frightened of going outside?
02:35Yes.
02:36Why is that?
02:37Well, he suffers from agoraphobia, apparently.
02:38Right.
02:39And he's being put up currently in a hotel in Kent, at our expense.
02:43Right.
02:44But he's not, he doesn't want anyone to come and deport him, because he'll have to go out,
02:47which he doesn't want to do.
02:48So he can't be deported, because he can't leave the house.
02:50This is nothing to do with chicken nuggets or anything.
02:52Nothing to do with chicken nuggets, no.
02:53Right.
02:55One's got to feel a degree of sympathy for that.
02:56I mean, I don't know who's coming up with these excuses, but they come up with a new
02:59one every single day.
03:00Lefty lawyers paid for by us.
03:01Unbelievable.
03:02But let's go back to the passports, right?
03:03Yeah.
03:04Because sometimes, from time to time, I've had to order one that you need quickly for
03:06one reason or another.
03:07Yes.
03:08Do you know how much they want to charge you for that?
03:09£222.
03:11If you need a passport.
03:12The one-day turnaround service.
03:13The one-day turnaround service, which some people do, because you realise your passport's
03:17run out, you haven't got time to send it away, or you need to travel quickly for some reason,
03:21or they used to have to do it a lot when I was a journalist and a reporter.
03:25£222 for one passport.
03:26That's absolute daylight robbery.
03:28And the above inflation rise, ladies and gentlemen, marks the third time the price
03:31of passports has gone up in just over two years.
03:33What do you make of that?
03:34Oh, three double four.
03:35Four double nine.
03:36One thousand.
03:37JD Vance, who I believe will be the 48th President of the United States of America, says Britain
03:43is stagnating.
03:44Nating?
03:46What is it?
03:47Stagnating.
03:48Stagnating, yes.
03:49MG.
03:50Because of its high levels of immigration.
03:51I completely bloody well agree with him.
03:52Well, he's not wrong, is he?
03:53No.
03:55I mean, we hear this all the time.
03:56The reason the roads are crowded, the reason that the NHS is crowded, the reason that everywhere
03:59you go on a train is crowded is, guess what, we've got more people here by a factor of
04:04at least 10 million, I would say, in the last 10 years.
04:06We're told the official figure is like five million.
04:08Not enough houses, and the public services that are screwed anyway are getting further
04:12screwed, right?
04:13And there's more and more people living in smaller and smaller spaces.
04:16You know, London as a city now is completely overrun with people.
04:19It's ridiculous.
04:20You can't walk down the street without bumping into people.
04:23You know, it's absolutely incredible how many people are now here.
04:26Do you believe, I mean, there's been a whole week about benefits Britain, we've talked
04:30about migrants, 3.5 billion pounds, we've talked about, I mean, the thing yesterday
04:35that got me, mate, was 25% of the younger generation think actually they might just
04:38give up work.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Life fund.
04:41But I'm really, I'm probably the most outspoken I've ever felt in my life.
04:45I would stop all benefits for these people.
04:47I think it's an absolute con.
04:48Somebody texted me yesterday and said, what happened 60 years ago?
04:50We had none of this.
04:51We had to walk up bloody hell first thing in the morning.
04:53In most countries of the world, you're allowed to be on unemployment for a certain period
04:56of time.
04:57In America, it's about six months.
04:58You get unemployment for six months.
04:59Could you go to America or me today and get unemployment benefit?
05:01No.
05:02Well, then why the hell do people come to this country and get it?
05:04Because we're a soft touch.
05:05Yeah.
05:06We're absolutely idiotic about the way that we think that we're supposed to be the welcoming
05:09place for the entire world.
05:11You know, people go to different countries in Europe and they all end up here because
05:14they can't stay in Germany, can't stay in Sweden, they can't stay in Denmark in the
05:18same way they can stay here.
05:19But in America, you go as an American, if you're unemployed for six months, after six
05:24months they say, that's it, now you've got to get a job.
05:26And guess what?
05:27People get jobs.
05:28This is what I don't understand.
05:29If you've got a country and your people are suffering, why are you asking more people
05:34to come here?
05:35I know.
05:36I know.
05:37To me, it's just not sustainable.
05:38And how many times do you hear people saying, oh, but you know, we must offer sanctuary
05:42to people who are fleeing war zones.
05:43Well, why?
05:44Why do we?
05:45You know, it's not our war.
05:46If somebody's having a war in South Sudan against North Sudan, you know, what's it got
05:51to do with us?
05:52I sort of.
05:53The Ukraine thing got me.
05:55It was right, morally.
05:56It's been bombed.
05:57But, but, but I mean, I can't have people who say, oh, do you know what?
06:03I'm having a terrible time.
06:04It's because you're in a tent on the French beach.
06:06You can stay there.
06:07Somebody said to us the other day, why are people coming here from Albania?
06:10Albania is a very nice country.
06:11It's got plenty of money now because they've got plenty of drug money that's been siphoned
06:14back there.
06:16A lot of resorts have been built.
06:17People go there on holiday.
06:18Right.
06:19What are they coming here for that they have to run away from?
06:21Allegedly to commit crime.
06:22Well, they're coming here.
06:23A year ago, the biggest percentage of many of the Albanians that are coming here are
06:27coming here to be part of a nice question about that because they run all the drug gangs
06:31in this country.
06:32But why are we giving them asylum?
06:34Why are we even accepting them applying for asylum when they come from a country which
06:37is probably safer than ours?
06:39Completely agree.
06:40Oh, three double four four.
06:41But I'm 1000.
06:42There is a moment in which you and I can believe there is a future jazz.
06:44I'm 16.
06:45I'm going to show and definitely think that there is such a lack of ambition from people
06:48my age.
06:49I have a part time job as a waitress.
06:50I also started to do things to help my future career, hopefully in journalism.
06:54Work is rewarding and should be encouraged.
06:56If I had to sit indoors all day every day, I think I would go mad.
07:00You would.
07:01Ellie, how good is going to get her a job?
07:04She'll get a job because of that, because if you're determined to get a job, you will
07:07get one and you will be and you will be good at that job and you'll move on to another
07:10job.
07:11And that's the whole point of going to work.
07:12I can't imagine anybody not wanting to do that.
07:15It's complete kind of anathema to me.
07:16I don't even understand it.
07:17We were brought up differently, mate.
07:19We had to go to work.
07:20When did you get your first job?
07:21My first job was when I was 14, I went to work in a bakery and I worked there pretty
07:24much every weekend and all through my time at university, I'd work during the holidays
07:28as well because I didn't have any other way of having money.
07:31My father didn't give me pocket money.
07:33I started cleaning cars at 12.
07:34I worked for Marks and Spencers from 16, stacking geese bananas on one pound sixty three an
07:39hour.
07:40You see, I'm joking.
07:41I hated it.
07:42One pound sixty three an hour.
07:43My pay day was, I think, six pounds for a shift from about eight o'clock in the morning
07:47to about four in the afternoon.
07:48Right, I want your voice notes.
07:49I want your voice notes.
07:50Your first job, what was it and what did you earn?
07:52Voice notes.
07:53First job, what did you earn?
07:5403444991000.
07:55Do you know who Sally is?
07:58Sally?
07:59Yeah.
08:00Which one?
08:01Ches, following the amazing launch of Mike Graham's bumper stickers which have gone nuts,
08:05could you please table the idea with the maestro of a talk calendar?
08:09No.
08:10That's a good idea.
08:11Well, I think it's a marvellous idea.
08:13But I think, Mr February, so the problem we'd have is, because you are the main man, I think
08:20you'd have to, I think...
08:21Well, I'd have to do more than one month.
08:23Well, I think you could do every month.
08:24That would really hack Kevin O'Sullivan off.
08:26Well, that would, yeah.
08:27Which month would we give him, though?
08:29January.
08:30Because it's cold and everything looks smaller.
08:31And miserable.
08:32Miserable and dark.
08:33Maybe what we should do is do it based on what month your birthday is on and then that
08:37way you could be sort of even handed about it.
08:39Yes.
08:40So I'd be July.
08:41When would you be?
08:42So I'd be August.
08:43I'd be somewhere.
08:44We could.
08:45Yes.
08:46Around a pool.
08:47Around a pool with a couple of margaritas.
08:48Yes.
08:490344...
08:50I want that.
08:51I want to know what your first job was.
08:52I want the calendar as well.
08:53But I want your first job and how much you earned via voicemail, 0344 499 1000.
09:00Can I go serious a sec?
09:01Yeah, do.
09:02Because I've got one more serious thing to tell you about.
09:04This piece of crap that was Nicholas Prosper who butchered his mother and siblings and
09:07planned that Sandy Lane Hook style massacre, jailed for 49 years today, and I think we're
09:12always criticising but we should salute Justice Cheema Grubb who ordered the 19-year-old murder
09:17to attend stating you do not want to be here but it is not your damn choice, it is mine.
09:22It turns out that judges can make that choice.
09:24Of course they can.
09:25I salute that judge.
09:26That Kyle Clifford, that Sharif piece of crap.
09:29These people should be dragged from their cells to face the people whose lives they've
09:33destroyed.
09:34I totally agree.
09:35It must be part of the punishment.
09:36Yes.
09:37Surely.
09:38You should not be allowed to avoid that.
09:39And I said this at the time of Kyle Clifford.
09:41People say he might be disruptive, he might upset the people in the court if he starts
09:44shouting, which is what that awful ghastly Southport killer did, well you just put a
09:48gag on him.
09:49Yeah.
09:50Completely.
09:51Literally put his head inside a crash helmet, I don't care.
09:52But he has to be there, he has to see it and he has to hear it.
09:55You know we go back to politicians and how you could gauge the strength of feeling in
10:00the British public.
10:01Make that absolutely cast iron law in a heartbeat.
10:03Trump had rights and order would be done.
10:05No exceptions.
10:06No exceptions.
10:07How can there be an exception?
10:08Well I've got PTSD.
10:09You've got a family whose daughter you murdered or butchered.
10:11I know, I know.
10:12Well I'm going to leave you with a headline that I didn't want to read but have now just
10:15read.
10:16Starmer refuses to rule out extending a stealth raid on income tax.
10:20I mean, fracturing the foundations, putting more money back in your pockets for working
10:25people.
10:26I mean, how much more does he think we can take of this?
10:29Can I, can I, listen, you're more intelligent than me but here's what I'm going to say to
10:32the great British public.
10:34The Labour concept which has been going for years is really simple.
10:38They will promise the earth and you will inherit the earth but if you are successful
10:44or have made a bit of money or have a business, you will be screwed.
10:48Completely screwed.
10:49And we're not talking about the people that they say owe them multi-millions, we're talking
10:53about somebody on 50 grand a year, 40 grand a year, people who have just got a successful
10:57small business.
10:58Farmers are a living example of that.
10:59They cannot, we cannot pay for all this crap he keeps going on about unless he just taxes
11:04people more.
11:05The restaurant owner just yesterday from Canterbury who's run his business for 26 years, attached
11:10to the local rugby club, he's shutting it because he says he can't afford to pay the
11:13extra minimum wage to the 18 to 21 year olds that I employ.
11:17I can't afford the extra national insurance I'm going to have to pay for the seven or
11:20eight people that I have, you know, actually running the place who are on full-time employment.
11:24He says I've just decided to give up.
11:26Isn't that awful?
11:27What a terrible indictment of this country and of this government.
11:30And growth, by the way, we both know this, is created by those sorts of businesses.
11:34And he says he gives, he reckons, his business 100,000 a year to the Treasury, which now
11:38they won't get.
11:39So, brilliant.
11:40Well done, Rachel Theves.
11:41Richard the Third, or Richard the Turd, as I call her.
11:44But it's true.
11:45So, the Labour concept is essentially we're going to raise taxes.
11:48Yeah, that's all they can do because they can't make money any other way.
11:51Funniest story of the week before you go, I'll put you right on the spot.
11:54Any funny stories?
11:55Well, Jürgen's always a funny story for me.
11:57This is brilliant.
11:58Listen to this.
11:59Jürgen Mayer.
12:00Please listen to this, it's brilliant.
12:01The man that runs GB Energy, right?
12:03Jürgen Mayer.
12:04Jürgen Mayer.
12:05He was, I can't remember why he was talking the other day, but he was talking about what
12:09it is that they're going to bring, this amazing, they're on the path, is the new phrase, right?
12:13Forget about, you know, we're actually doing it, they're on path.
12:15What does that mean?
12:16Which I presume means on the way to doing something.
12:18We're on path to do the math.
12:19But let me tell you, but he still, in GB Energy, does not have an office.
12:23He said that they're proudly based in Aberdeen.
12:25He filmed the video in London, right?
12:27He's never been to Aberdeen.
12:28He's not, you know, he doesn't know how to get to Aberdeen.
12:30He still doesn't have an office.
12:31He still doesn't have a website.
12:32He hasn't got any energy to sell you.
12:34He's not buying any energy, doesn't make any energy, doesn't create anything, doesn't have
12:38any employees.
12:39I don't know what he's doing.
12:40How much is he on?
12:41I think, well, he's on six figures, easy, probably two or three hundred thousand.
12:44I just have this impression of Jürgen leaving the Jürgen Mayer household and Mrs. Jürgen
12:49going, I'll see you then, I'll see you later, darling, back for some bratwurst tonight.
12:54You have some sauerkraut in a sandwich.
12:56And some sauerkraut.
12:57And he just pretends he's got a job, right?
13:02Yeah.
13:03Yeah.
13:04Yeah.
13:05Yeah.
13:06Yeah.
13:07Yeah.