The immigration related clown show continues

Great post.

Why do the right wing lie? its like the go to option whenever they get found out.

Sunak had a majority of 80 ish MPs, he could have passed whatever law he wanted and changed any he didn't like.

He didn't, instead he called a GE.

Rwanda plan was for 250 in the first year, with max of 5000, across 5 years, so a less than 1% chance of being deported.

No deterrent at all.

Because "Austerity" was a deliberate plan to de-fund public services i order to give tax cuts to the wealthy and to businesses in the misguided belief that this wealth would "trickle down." The government expected volunteers and "big society" to step in.

It didn't work. Instead it resulted in the start of the downward spiral in the quality of public services while the money that should have trickled down was instead stashed away in bank accounts or moved abroad to be invested there.

Any idiot can claim to have "saved" money by not having their car regularly serviced, by not replacing the tyres, not changing the oil and ignoring all of the warning lights - but the inevitable result is that at some point the car will either break down, or even worse crash, as a vital part fails.

Opposing the deportation fellow humans to a prison camp in a third-world country does not make someone a "lefty."

25% of men in the UK have a criminal record. Should they all be deported - something that used to happen until the 1860s?

You hard of thinkers need to decide what the "far left" actually are. Just this week I've been called a Socialist, a Communist and now a Marxist. All very different things, but I doubt you know that as you get your news from Facebook and X

Why do you lot keep banging on about austerity?
In Covid more money was given out through the furlough scheme than in any other non war time in history. Yes they completely messed up with PPE, but why is that you only talk about austerity?

Is the right-wing Tory-owned media no longer bothered about the cost of living? Oh wait, they never were.

I think it’s relevant to mention the lefties.
The Rwanda plan could have been fully implemented had it not been for the bleeding heart lefties scuppering it at every turn

Don't know why Lammy, who knew about this release, didn't hammer this home yesterday.
By not asking the Tory question, he looked stupid.

However, why is it a Govt ministers fault if a Prison Officer doesn't do his job? all they can do is set the conditions, they cannot be held responsible for human error.

Apparently, Sunak called the last election when he did, because he knew the Prison System was about to collapse.

Not bothered by what nationality a criminal is, nor the colour of their skin. Mad that some people are. I heard the guy was a scorpio, maybe we should print that on the front pages?

You’re absolutely right.

The amount of stupidity on show is staggering.

I really worry we are turning more like the US each day. And I say that as someone who visits there regularly and has many loved ones there.

A large part of the population has always been stubbornly and unashamedly ignorant and prejudiced. This is why they jumped on to the Maga hate train so easily. Not a fan of Clinton but she was right to call them deplorables.

There are good things to take from the U.S. but we just seem to take the bad things and run with it.

How is that the point? Someone claimed they’re over represented and apparently they’re not so that poster was correcting them with FACTS.

It should be zero with British nationals too but it’s not as we don’t live in a utopia.

The fact that there is imperfection and deviance in any group of people, doesn’t mean they’re all bad. Plenty of countries have British “ex-pats” (ie immigrants!) and even British tourists who commit crime too.

Don’t bring facts and statistics to this discussion.

We need to protect ARE girls and women etc

Anecdata

Why mention Marxists? It was the Tories who vetted him, granted him a visa then didn't know where he was or bother to remove him when it ran out.

In April 2006, you may recall, Labour’s Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered Blair his resignation because 1,000 foreign national offenders were released at the end of their sentence without being considered for deportation.
It was refused but he was sacked in the reshuffle after the local elections.
History repeating itself?

Tories caused this, not Labour.

Why wasn’t he deported under the previous administration? They had 3 years to do it.

Isn’t it the point though that it should be zero.

I find it really easy to not commit crimes, I regularly don’t sexual assault anyone, violently assault anyone or steal anything. I don’t understand why we think that anyone that commits any kind of crime should be eligible to live in the UK.

It’s not that fucking hard.

If someone has committed a crime it should be straight on a plane and deported. The other guys who was accidentally released was apparently given £500 to not try to appeal because once he does we are stuck with him for years. The reality is it appears to be difficult to get rid of people. A visa overstayer should have been escorted directly to the airport.

This was true under the conservatives as well. I remember those idiots that managed to prevent the deportation of a bunch of sex offenders on their plane. Oh and the labour Mp’s objecting the deportation of criminals too.

It’s actual insanity.

Aye, people voting for tax cuts are definitely going to vote for parties explaining tax rises are necessary to fund good public services 🤔

It's scary isn't it. How much some people want to hate.
I don't necessarily believe in completely open borders.
I don't care more about immigrants more than homeless (white) veterans.
I don't think all immigrants should be given a brand new house with a home gym, big flat screen tv and a huge wad of cash while (white) British citizens starve. (I know this doesn't actually happen incase it's not obvious.)
I don't hate asylum seekers though, I'm balanced enough to see what is going on here.
The rich continues to get richer whilst blaming the most vulnerable in society for their mess and there's enough hate and prejudice in built in people to believe it.
Yes, I know some of those vulnerable people will be criminals, sex offenders etc. No I don't like having sex offenders of any background in the UK. I don't think anyone does.

It's not just to do with immigration- honest.