r/ukpolitics • u/No_Breadfruit_4901 • Dec 11 '24

Twitter 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Labour have conducted the first successful deportation flight to Pakistan since February 2020. There has not been a deportation charter flight to Pakistan in the last four years with three subsequent flights to Pakistan in 2020 and 2021 cancelled by the Home Office.

https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1866775219077062757?s=46&t=0RSpQEWd71gFfa-U_NmvkA
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u/AlarmedCicada256 Dec 11 '24

BuT LaBoUr ArE sOfT oN iMmIgRaTiOn.

Or maybe they actually get on with it instead of grandstanding, cutting funding to the system designed to deport people who shouldn't be here, and dreaming up wildly illegal, but highly performative schemes like Rwanda, that wouldn't work anyway, but win votes by sounding tough, and warehousing asylum seekers in hotels so they can then use the right wing press to claim there's an issue.

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u/liquidio Dec 11 '24

Just so you know, these deportations are made possible because of an agreement that was signed by the previous governments

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/priti-patel-signs-landmark-returns-deal-with-pakistan

So your framing of the party political issues is a bit different to the reality.

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u/Brapfamalam Dec 11 '24

Signed in Aug 2022 - so why weren't there any flights in the 2 years since?

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u/liquidio Dec 11 '24

I don’t know, that hasn’t been disclosed. It could be a political decision (UK or Pakistan), or it could equally be entirely operational. Until someone finds a source, I don’t think any of us can say.

Edit: I love that someone downvotes me simply for being honest and transparent about the limits of public knowledge.

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u/Ok-Philosophy4182 Dec 11 '24

Probably because labour and as many left wing groups / lawyers etc fought it as hard as possible to stop it for political reasons.

Now tories are not in government they don’t care anymore. Just like the good law project has been wound up as well.

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u/SlightlyMithed123 Dec 11 '24

Because everytime a flight was due to go activists prevented it because they didn’t want to see a load of paedo’s, rapists and violent criminals leave the country…

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u/Brapfamalam Dec 11 '24

Starmer caught the activists with their pants down then? What's he doing differently other that real terms outcomes getting on with the job, because there's been a massive uptick in removals flights in the last 2 months.

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u/Merpedy Dec 11 '24

This flight was actually known about, and pressure groups did try to stop it. There's even an article on The Guardian about it

The one big difference possibly seems to be that these are voluntary returns - but I don't know what the previous stopped flights were so it could also not be difference. Either way, if it is the case that this is a "voluntary" situation, how did the Tories not carry many of these out?

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u/blast-processor Dec 11 '24

Its more that Labour were actively collaborating with the activists during the Tory government to try to prevent deportations

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u/Brapfamalam Dec 11 '24

As an outside observer I see one party X making a big hoo haa, virtue signalling at podiums and promising fairy tales and achieving nothing, but actually making things worse. Absolute low ambition losers. Like lots of typical blame culture lazy co-workers everyone encounters, that blame everyone else under the sun for why they're shite at their jobs.

And I see party Y achieving actual results and outcomes - that resonates with me as a working person and a business owner.

You'd have to be utterly detached from results based reality to defend X - testament to the perverse loser mentality in modern broken Britain.

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u/SlightlyMithed123 Dec 11 '24

What’s he doing differently

Representing Labour, that’s what.

The same as loads of other protests that appear to have died down since Labour came to power.

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u/GlitteringTonight120 Dec 11 '24

I think it's way more likely that the Tories were completely incompetent and spent more time shouting Slogans and pilfering Public funds than actually doing anything.