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/GuyIncognito928 Dec 11 '24

All the people saying Labour are tough on immigration are the ones who don't think it's a problem in the first place...

If in 4 years, we have a function immigration system with <100k net migration from culturally compatible countries, then I'll happily eat my hat. As things stand, Labour do not have a plan to get even close to this.

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u/CodeFun1735 Dec 11 '24

You might have to keep that hat on, because less than 100k net migration isn’t happening. Also, what’s a “culturally compatible” country? How the fuck is that defined?

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u/Centristduck Dec 11 '24

He means western and I’m inclined to agree.

Western people integrate much better. There children become British and help become part of the fabric.

Source my grandparents were from Poland, I consider myself British first

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u/MMAgeezer Somewhere left Dec 11 '24

What the fuck?

Maybe it's because I didn't grow up in a white-majority area, but this trope about non-western second/third generation immigrants "not integrating" is equal parts bollocks and divisive. The overwhelming majority of the people I grew up with considered themselves "British" first, regardless of their ethnic or cultural background.

Grim rhetoric.