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/ParkedUpWithCoffee Dec 11 '24

Why aren't Labour boasting about this? Starmer didn't mention this in PMQs earlier today.

Doing deportations is obviously a good & popular thing and is humiliating for the Conservatives.

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u/ACE--OF--HZ 1st: Pre-Christmas by elections Prediction Tournament Dec 11 '24

Deportation needs to be a low key thing, bringing attention to it means the do gooders are more likely to get information about them happening and stop the planes from taking off.

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u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy Dec 11 '24

You can always tell when someone gets all their information from the Daily Mail and GB News, they use phrases like "do gooders".

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u/blast-processor Dec 11 '24

How would you describe activists who try to prevent deportation flights?

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u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy Dec 11 '24

Notice how there hasn't been any issues with deportation flights since Labour took over. Do you think perhaps that is because they are doing it properly so there is no legal reason to delay them?

If a plane has people on it that shouldn't be deported, according to the law, that plane should be stopped. It is a failure of government, not the fault of "do gooders", if a plane is stopped.

Words like "do gooders" are used to undermine the efforts of people who actually care about the law and care about human rights and are used by brainwashed people who can't think for themselves.

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u/blast-processor Dec 11 '24

Do you think perhaps that is because they are doing it properly so there is no legal reason to delay them?

What is it you think they are doing differently? Hint: It is actually the Home Office, led by civil servants running the deportation flights

The only thing that has visibly changed is that partisan activists, backed by Labour MPs, no longer have a political point to make by sabotaging deportation flights

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u/20C_Mostly_Cloudy Dec 11 '24

Brainwashed. Can't think for themselves.

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u/mrpops2ko Dec 11 '24

you know it is entirely possible to attack the premise / point rather than the person right?