Deportations reach five year high.

[Mungler]

This thread has to be a joke; indeed the article itself is a joke.

‘Deportation’ is defined as the action of forcing someone to leave a country

Were told 13,500 went home but the small print is ‘most of them voluntary’. That is not deportation.

The Guardian is such a rag and I can’t wait for it to finally go bust.

So, how many is most? Is it 6,751 or much closer to 13,000. Indeed, in the context of this article how is ‘most’ acceptable reporting?

These ‘deportees’ are asked ‘if you want to go back we’ll pay for your flight and give you some spending money’. Chances are they were heading home and liked the idea of some free money from the lefty thickos who true to form love dishing out free money. Again, that is not deportation in any sense.

This is not tackling anything.

Lets see what the stats say for the next period - once you’ve given everyone who already wants to go back home a free air ticket and some spending money, there’s going to be less low hanging fruit unless you start fudging more of the stats and say start to count returning foreign holiday makers - I wouldn’t put anything past this government.

 

21 hours ago, oowee said:

More good news. Keep on the case Kier 👍

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/15/deportations-reach-five-year-high-despite-concerns-of-rights-groups

I assume this thread is tongue in cheek satire.

Edited Monday at 06:10 by Mungler

[Penelope]

Mean while:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-chicago-b2662790.html

[parivrajaka]

19 minutes ago, Penelope said:

Mean while:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-chicago-b2662790.html

I wonder his plan for the "sanctuary cities"?

[Westward]

19 hours ago, oowee said:

Law breaking illegals? No. I am talking of the 2.5m with work permits (and families) from India, Pakistan and Nigeria that have come post Brexit. Europeans can still apply of course but why should they? 

I'm probably older than you and I can assure you that, no matter how anti Brexit you may be,  it's nothing to do with that. Back in the mid 80s I was flying out of Heathrow on business about 8 or 10 times every year. I can vividly remember seeing 747s arriving and unloading hundreds of Asians almost every time I was in the international terminal. 

What irks me is that no one seems to have any idea how to even slow it down, much less halt it. We don't need Starmer's grovelling Brexit reset, what we really need is a moratorium on permission for uneducated, unskilled or otherwise unemployable immigrants.

Perhaps then the multi thousands employed to manage and administer the 1.22 million people who settled in the UK last year or the 3.4 million visas issued, could find more useful employment.