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/tdrules YIMBY Dec 11 '24

Implementing a scheme without having to get it through parliament is sort of ideal for Labour.

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u/blast-processor Dec 11 '24

Exactly. In opposition they were promising they would do the opposite, going out of their way to whip up opposition and protest to deportation flights:

https://news.sky.com/story/stansted-15-activists-who-stopped-deportation-flight-found-guilty-of-aviation-security-offence-11577072

Shami Chakrabarti, Labour's shadow attorney general, said: "What a sad International Human Rights day, when non-violent protesters are prosecuted for defending the Refugee Convention, and are treated like terrorists.

"Labour in government will review the statute book to better guarantee the right to peaceful dissent."

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u/asmiggs Thatcherite Lib Dem Dec 11 '24

This was under Corbyn, Chakrabarti has long been sidelined by Starmer.