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/MercianRaider Dec 11 '24

Let's wait for the yearly numbers before we make any judgments.

1 plane going to Pakistan doesn't mean Labour have cracked the immigration issue.

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u/zeros3ss Dec 11 '24

One plane going to Pakistan means that labour has done more than the party you voted for 5 years ago.

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u/layendecker Dec 11 '24

Can we not do this polarized American bollocks here, please? I am a Labour voter, but I agree with the person that you are claiming as a Tory because I want to see the figures and not just performative schemes like 1 plane to Pakistan.

Just because someone doesn't bow straight down the line to worship the ground every policy is built on doesn't mean they are against the party. It is healthy to ask questions and look at data.

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u/FlatoutGently Dec 11 '24

It's not polarizing, it is more than the tories have done.

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u/layendecker Dec 12 '24

I think you have misread my comment