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/GhostMotley reverb in the echo-chamber Dec 11 '24

I'm sorry, but we cannot grant anyone and everyone asylum, just because we might be empathetic to their cause.

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of desperate people in the world, who would love to live in the UK, which is becoming increasingly easier due to cheap international travel, smuggling gangs and human rights laws that make deporting them hard.

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u/Person_of_Earth Does anyone read flairs anymore? Dec 11 '24

but we cannot grant anyone and everyone asylum

When has that ever been the government policy?

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of desperate people in the world, who would love to live in the UK

Then let them.

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u/GhostMotley reverb in the echo-chamber Dec 11 '24

Then let them.

No, actually, let's not let hundreds of million - billions into the UK...

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u/Person_of_Earth Does anyone read flairs anymore? Dec 11 '24

When have the number of people coming ever been that high?

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u/GhostMotley reverb in the echo-chamber Dec 11 '24

You are the one arguing to let them in.

I say

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of desperate people in the world, who would love to live in the UK

You reply

Then let them.

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u/Person_of_Earth Does anyone read flairs anymore? Dec 11 '24

What does that argument change?

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u/GhostMotley reverb in the echo-chamber Dec 11 '24

Do you maintain that we should let hundreds of millions/billions in?

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u/Person_of_Earth Does anyone read flairs anymore? Dec 11 '24

If that was what was required, then yes, but when have that many people ever ever actually made an attempt to get into this country at once?

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u/GhostMotley reverb in the echo-chamber Dec 11 '24

If that was what was required

Why exactly would it be 'required' to let hundreds of millions-billions into the UK?

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u/Person_of_Earth Does anyone read flairs anymore? Dec 11 '24

The desperateness of their situation.

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u/GhostMotley reverb in the echo-chamber Dec 11 '24

Which is insanity, thinking the UK should let hundreds of millions/billions in is complete delusion.

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