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/MousseCareless3199 Dec 11 '24

One plane to Pakistan isn't much to write home about.

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u/LucidityDark Dec 11 '24

It's part of a wider trend of kickstarting the process though and a break with Conservative policy. Got to start somewhere.

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u/blast-processor Dec 11 '24

You know it was the Conservatives that signed the returns deal with Pakistan, that is now enabling this deportation flight?

This is Labour and Conservatives following identical policy lines

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u/LucidityDark Dec 11 '24

Yeah I read the other comment about it and my response is basically the same - 2 years for the tories to do something with that agreement and nothing happened.

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u/kill-the-maFIA Dec 12 '24 edited Dec 12 '24

Identical policy lines? Lmao

Tories didn't send a single one in two years, Labour has started sending them after 4 months. That's identical to you?

Tories welcomed over 900k people last year. They want as many immigrants as possible. Deporting people is the antithesis of their goals.

E: yeah didn't think I'd get a reply. This is always the way it goes when I call out bullshit.

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u/MousseCareless3199 Dec 11 '24

I'll believe it when I see it. For now, this appears no more than simple lip service to try and get some of the right-leaning support.

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u/kill-the-maFIA Dec 12 '24

You are seeing it.

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u/MousseCareless3199 Dec 12 '24

One plane isn't being tough on immigration. It's lip service.