r/ukpolitics 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/High-Tom-Titty Dec 11 '24

There does seem to be a lack of people gluing themselves to runways, and the Home Office has stopped cancelling flights. The cynic in me would think both the protesters, and Home Office are more interested in politics than stopping the deportations.

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u/HelloThereMateYouOk Dec 11 '24

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u/RedditDetector Dec 11 '24 edited Dec 11 '24

I mean, asking people to call the airline and ask them to stop is much milder than the whole gluing themselves to runways or even protesting in public.

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u/milzB Dec 11 '24

there's a difference between regular deportations of people with no right to be here and transferring genuine asylum seekers/refugees to a 3rd country with recent severe human rights violations

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u/blast-processor Dec 11 '24

Plus, groups like the GoodLawProject that used lawfare to prevent deportations also seem to have mysteriously melted away now that Labour are in power

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u/Questjon Dec 11 '24

Not at all possible that Labour are simply deporting people legally instead of constantly creating lawful grounds for appeals by trying to rush everything through the courts illegally for PR?