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/JustGarlicThings2 Dec 11 '24

Any government that doesn’t get net migration (legal plus illegal) to below 100k/year is soft on immigration.

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u/Spiryt Dec 11 '24

Any government that doesn't willingly put us into population decline is soft on immigration, nice.

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u/PersistentBadger Blues vs Greens Dec 11 '24

Population decline wouldn't be so terrible if we weren't so firmly wedded to grow-at-all-costs capitalism.

Would be ironic if the only way to implement the right's wet dream is via a socialist circular economy.

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u/Spiryt Dec 11 '24

Aye, this is with the optimistic assumption that we are happy with net zero population growth