The migrant who returned to the UK on a small boat less than a month after being deported to France on the “one in, one out” scheme has submitted a modern slavery claim in a bid to block his removal.
The unnamed Iranian migrant has claimed that he was a victim of trafficking during his time in France.
Doesn’t Laddie have an inventive lawyer?
A lawyer we are paying, of course.
Much like how politicians would talk about fixing our relationship with the EU, what the two main parties do is just kicking the can down the road. Announce a scheme, say it will fix the problem. But it won’t. Repeat.
The only real answer is to accept that the post-WW2 arrangement doesn’t work. It was never meant for a mass of Iranians. The costs of travel meant only the elite came. You got the Emperor Haile Selassie living in Bath, because that was in Britain’s interest.
Which is why the only thing that will actually work is ending the general right and replacing it with specific permission. The Home Secretary decides that certain individuals or named groups can come in. We want to get people who know how to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme. Or the leaders in exile. Or the women and children from countries where we are supporting a war (like Ukraine).
We’ll get there, eventually. I expect a lot more can kicking all around for a while though.
I saw the Sage of Ely with Poleannski – and, well – it was natural to report the sighting here ….
https://x.com/_BoldPolitics/status/1981070414026575997
Heavens, he’s a pompous get isn’t he?
LOL – you add up all Spud’s nonsense figures and it still doesn’t even cover the current government deficit.
What’s going on with the potato’s combover? Put some orange in it and he’s got trump hair
I feel sorry for the students….
Why does he bounce around that way? I suppose it is a welcome distraction from the nonsense coming out of his pie-hole.
A lawyer we are paying, of course.
And the opposing lawyer and eventually the judge hearing the arguments.
It’s a win, win, win business.
Doesn’t Laddie have an inventive lawyer?
Yup. And she’s probably a migration tribunal judge in her spare time…
So, the court finds that he’s been trafficked, and repairs the damage by returning him home to Iran. Simples.
And that’s what’s wrong with deportation.*
Give all illegals 6 months on Mingulay before deportation. Tell ’em they’ll get two years if they come back. Five years the next time.
*Odd logic with deportation. They got into the country illegally before. They are there, right? What logic gets you to think that they won’t do what they’ve already done ??? The law needs more sting.
The law needs any sting.
Ever slept in a Nissen hut? I’m not sure if the fleas are descended from the ones who bit the original German POWs or are a more recent arrival, but the average modern person won’t last a week with no WiFi, no leaving the camp, no fizzy drinks or coffee, no walking around money because they won’t be going anywhere, no phone calls, no videogames… just a bunk in a Nissen hut, three vegetarian meals a day, water to drink and a Bible to read.
The MoD has plenty of land that can be used for this, and Nissen huts and barbed wire are cheap as chips. Also, because it’s MoD land, attempted incursions by lawyers, activists etc. can be met with lethal force.
We don’t even need to be cruel, there’s nothing cruel about free room and board. But absolutely no fun allowed and no prospect of being allowed to mingle with the legitimate inhabitants of this country, and they’ll be begging to leave in days…
This is a good test. We didn’t roll out the carpet for WW2 refugees. We stuck them on the isle of man, mostly. People who are legit will think “better than getting sent to Auschwitz”.
Tui do package holidays to Albania. It’s no longer Envar Hoxha banning everything but Norman Wisdom films. But 1/6th of asylum cases are Albania.
Is that British English for Quonset hut?
Nissens are simpler and easier to build than Quonsets. The corrugations go different ways. Nissens were invented first, Qhonsets decades later. There’s a Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6g3BbnhRTc
It makes you wonder about Sir Keir’s brain.
Nobody wants “one out, one in”, they want them all out and nobody in, but Sir Keir announced this retarded scheme as if he’d won the Pools.
I know Sir Keir is part of the grooming gang party and only thinks approved thoughts permitted by which of his owners is buying Mrs Starmer’s knickers this week, but you’d think the alternative to populism isn’t to deliberately be as unpopular as possible, no?
Looking forward to Labour’s next vote losing schemes, such as a free large spider in your car that only comes out when you’re driving, obligatory anal polyps, and the National Leprosy Service.
It is odd. The scheme was so transparent you could make windows out of it.
There will, of course, be a waiting list for the spiders and a postcode lottery for the leprosy.
Ask my missus. When she wants something doing and the prospective doer (me) finds there are many reason why it is difficult to do or must be delayed, she thinks it’s because I don’t want to do it. And it is. You may think applying the same logic to governmenr inaction would be reasonable. They don’t do it because they don’t want to do it. This is not solely confined to illegal immigration.
The purpose of a system is what it does.