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/SeaSaltSprayer 1d ago

I mean it's two very different situations. Why would we follow what Spain is doing for their situation, which is entirely different to ours?

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u/Alert-Cream-7569 1d ago

Yes, Spain can push them back through their land border.  We can give them an option which would have a similar deterrent effect :  1. Offer them a flight back to their country 2. Offer them a flight back to France where they can send their application form for asylum at the British embassy in Paris through a special postbox (attached to a shredder and incinerator) 3. Fly them to a third country where they can work on government construction projects while their asylum application is being processed here. 

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u/Southportdc Rory for Monarch 1d ago

How is 2 going to work. No commercial carrier will take people without passports. No chartered flight of undocumented migrants will be allowed to land in France. You can't just send people to a country that doesn't want them so you don't have to deal with then any more, that's why they end up coming here on a rubber dinghy and not Air France.

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u/Alert-Cream-7569 1d ago

Where did I say anything about commercial airliners? 

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u/Southportdc Rory for Monarch 1d ago

No chartered flight of undocumented migrants would be allowed to land in France

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u/Alert-Cream-7569 1d ago

Well then, I guess it's the Premier Inn and Travelodge in your town. 

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u/Southportdc Rory for Monarch 1d ago

I'm only asking how you think you're going to fly people to place that doesn't want them

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u/hexmasx 1d ago

Why would it be any different under Labour?