Sam Gregory | bsky.app/profile/sammgreg.bsky
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Storyteller and civic journalist at @NowThenMag. (he / him) 🏳️🌈 Obv mostly here now: https://t.co/UjrweixcKC
Today we announce a new policy: In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of thousands at a time. Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there a couple of weeks before being deported. So here’s our promise: A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP. Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council. And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green controlled parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to locate the detention centres. Put simply, if you vote in a Reform council or Reform MP, we guarantee you won’t have a detention centre near you. If you vote Green, there’s a good chance you will. This is an important exercise in democratic consent, not just for our mass deportation policy, but for where the detention centres are placed. Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates for open borders, I look forward to their warm embrace of this policy. votegreengetillegals.com
“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
So it turns out these remarks were 2 months old - and held to cause maximum damage today, to coincide with the King's visit and (bonus?) now the Mandelson hearings. Fascinating tactics. Who benefits? One source says: "This is connoisseur-type placement, designed to destroy a state visit."
