Change law to kick out Rochdale rapist, No 10 urged

If this is true then it should be stopped immediately. No way should we be funding education in other countries.

Yes, I hope we're all happy with the amount of money this is going to cost. He could live another 20 years.

Dame Louise Casey was on the radio earlier. Doesn't understand why he's being released early and understands it will be nigh on impossible but thinks he should be deported

That’s exactly how it works.

For dual nationals that is how it works.

Remember when dual national, American born and American citizen Boris renounced his US citizenship ?

UK's foreign secretary renounces US citizenship | AP News

It's UN rules. Citizens can renounce citizenship so long as it does not leave them stateless. Indeed, for states such as the PRC who do not recognise dual citizenship, citizens have to revoke if they gain another citizenship ( under that States rules). But statelessness is not allowed.

There is this as well-

"The UK’s vision is for a more inclusive, prosperous, and stable Pakistan which is less reliant on external finance, more resilient to shocks, and contributing to regional security, while becoming a diminishing source of threats (criminal and security) to the UK and more aligned with the UK’s global geopolitical interests."

So the aid UK partnership with Pakistan is also about helping to reduce criminal and security threat. That will be replying to visa center requests to Pakistan police etc.

Now people might say cancel all visas and that goes away anyway. Fair enough, but then there is this.

"Our work to empower women and girls has ensured that over 34 million people were reached through campaigns to prevent violence against women and girls, minorities, and child marriages. There has been an increase in UK-Pakistan bilateral trade from £2.4 billion (2020) to £4.1 billion (2022)."

Source :

UK–Pakistan development partnership summary - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

I am with you @BIossomtoes after reading that document.

That is not how it works.

It is true. He renounced his Pakistani citizenship.

That's not true.

He’s a British citizen.

He is no longer a national of Pakistan.

Exactly. If people don't want to cut the aid, we can cut the visas instead. Where there's a will, there's a way.

I agree, our government's first responsibility is to its own citizens. We have homeless people sleeping rough including ex armed forces.

Just stop approving any visas for travel to the UK from Pakistan, until Shebir Ahmed is repatriated. It's not hard, but it needs to be ruthless.

£133 million and we have councils giving out tents here because they don’t have emergency accommodation available. I know where I’d like my taxes to go.

Pakistan gets £133 million in foreign aid, almost all of which is directed at education for women. I don’t want to see that removed, thank you.

Yes, and of course Labour or any other party wouldn't use the leverage they have (millions in aid to Pakistan, thousands of visas issued) to persuade the Pakistani government to accept him.

There’s no means in our legal system for keeping someone in prison beyond the end of their sentence. Hopefully one of the results of this case will be judges thinking hard about handing down concurrent sentences. If the sentences hadn’t been concurrent this guy would have been approaching 90 by the time he was released.

The point is, if he is deemed a danger he should still be in prison. The other stuff is all smoke and mirrors. He shouldn’t be out.

Also he isn’t a foreign criminal, he’s a good old fashioned home grown one. Where would we deport him to? Put him in a bus back to wormwood scrubs or wherever.

Labour will be motivated as it somewhat lessens the glare over rape gangs. The hurdle will be Pakistan saying no way.

The victims have said it too. They targeted white and Sikh girls.

Does he own anything, like property, I wonder? Because he will be means tested.

I don't think there is the slightest difference between what and why Starmer/Burnham are saying about deporting this man and what Farage says. It's about votes and popular support, not protecting women.