Mark Brown

Reading this morning how the Pakistani Government is refusing to take back two Rochdale child rapists. This shouldn’t be a negotiation, there is no need to negotiate with the Pakistanis. If they don’t comply? £133 million in foreign aid, gone. Send them a bill for previous years too. Tax remittances. 25% sounds fair. In 2021, there was £2.94bn sent to Pakistan. Tax it. Enforce tariffs on Pakistani goods. We have a trade deficit with the Pakistanis. Use it. Suspend visas. Use it as leverage - be cold and calculating. I like the idea of doing it all alongside like-minded nations. A ‘deportation NATO’. I’m sure the Americans would join the effort, with plenty of others. Do it swiftly, brutally, and as one. The Pakistanis would fold by lunchtime. We don’t need to negotiate. We hold all the cards. Use them.