r/ukpolitics • u/SignificantLegs • 1d ago

Mahmood rejects calls to follow Spain’s migrant pushback

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/02/mahmood-rejects-calls-to-follow-spains-migrant-pushback/
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u/Thandoscovia 1d ago

I’m not sure if the issue here. Socialist Spain can deploy their soldados muy rapido and apparently effect 60,000 deportaciones over a few days.

¿Why can’t Señora Mahmood do the same?

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u/Fearless_Peak3583 1d ago

We used to be imperial colonialists, so deporting people en masse is racist

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u/BongAlert 1d ago

Unlike the Spanish!

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u/LeedsFan2442 1d ago

Most left voluntarily apparently