Keir Starmer Dismisses Nigel Farage's Mass Deportation Plan With A Simple 2-Word Slapdown

Nigel Farage unveils Reform's mass deportation plan.Keir Starmer has dismissed Nigel Farage’s plan for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants with a devastating two-word slapdown.The prime minister’s spokesman said the Reform UK leader was “not serious” after he vowed to “renegotiate” the Good Friday Agreement if he wins the next election.Under the Reform plans, anyone entering the UK via irregular routes would be arrested, detained and quickly deported.The party said it would aim to deport 600,000 immigrants in its first five years in office.Farage said he would remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if he becomes prime minister to stop “activist judges” blocking the policy.At a press conference unveiling his party’s plans on Tuesday, Farage admitted he would also have to renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland and is underpinned by the ECHR.He said: “Is that something that can happen very, very quickly? No, it will take longer. So unfortunately, it will take a little bit longer with Northern Ireland.”But his comments were seized on by Starmer’s official spokesman, who said it showed Farage’s entire immigration plan was “not serious”.He said: “Let’s be clear, the ECHR underpins key international agreements on security and immigration, and the Good Friday Agreement.“Anyone who is proposing to renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement is not serious and that is why we are focused on the serious, practical steps that will repair the chaos that the asylum system was left in, return people who have no right to be here and deal with the issue of small boat crossings.”Farage has also said that a Reform government would detain illegal immigrants in disused RAF sites instead of hotels or in private accommodation while they await deportation.However, when asked where they would be, he said: “I’m not going to be drawn on the specifics of any individual geographic location because if we were to do that and present it as a plan, what the government would probably do is sell off the site and turn it into a solar farm.“So we’re not going to go into specific geographies, certainly not at this stage.”Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said: “Farage’s plan crumbles under the most basic scrutiny. The idea that Reform UK is going to magic up some new places to detain people and deport them to, but don’t have a clue where those places would be, is taking the public for fools.“Of course Nigel Farage wants to follow his idol Vladimir Putin in ripping up the human rights convention. Winston Churchill would be turning in his grave. Doing so would only make it harder for each of us as individuals to hold the government to account and stop it trampling on our freedoms.”Farage has also said he will look to strike return agreements with Afghanistan, and refused to rule out paying the country’s brutal Taliban regime to take back their asylum seekers.Daisy Cooper said: “Reform’s Taliban tribute plan would send British taxpayers’ cash to fund their oppressive regime, fuelling the persecution of Afghan women and children and betraying our brave armed forces who sacrificed so much fighting the Taliban.“Clearly British values mean nothing to Farage and his band of plastic patriots.”Related...'That's Quite A Flip-Flop': BBC Presenter Burns Nigel Farage Over Deportation U-TurnNigel Farage Says Reform Will Deport All Illegal Immigrants. But Last Year He Said It Was 'Impossible''A Bull***t Artist': Kemi Badenoch In Fresh Foul-Mouthed Blast At Nigel Farage

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