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It will be a shock to people that even with a change of government
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even with a change of Home Secretary in the last few weeks, but no surprise that these flights cannot get off the ground
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And people will be up in arms because not only can we not seem to be able to deport people
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even if you have a one-in, one-out scheme, something that seems, you know, not something that I would support. I don't think it's what the public want
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I think they want to get rid of people that have come into this country illegally. They don't want to sort of trade like for like
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but that's where we are. But even when a sovereign nation like the United Kingdom
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does a deal with another sovereign nation that is on the forefront of Western democracy, that is France
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and we can't get somebody on a plane who's come from Eritrea
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who's clearly had their claim denied in the UK, only for 48 hours, 24 hours before that flight takes off
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they've all of a sudden discovered that they have been trafficked in some way or they have been abused under the Modern Slavery Act
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and they've been able to halt the whole process. This is a joke
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And the British public will be sitting at home thinking, how on earth can any government, you know, once bitten twice shy
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you know, the last government under the Tories got it hopelessly wrong, this government should have learned all of these lessons and yet we can get those flights off the ground It beggar belief and I think lots of people will be very angry about it There so much focus on the ECHR isn there But actually it the modern slavery
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act in this case that needs to be looked at, isn't it? Because people can just change their
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story. In this case, with this man, he said initially that he'd suffered no exploitation
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at all, and then when it looked as though it was set to be deported, he said, oh, no, I was. So if you're allowing for people to change their story, well, then they're never
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going to be deported. Well, exactly. And this will just be now an example that everyone else will try and
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follow to prevent their own deportation. Now, there's a question in the Home Office today
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whether actually when you arrive into the UK, when you have your process claimed, you should
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be asked that question as well about modern-day slavery at the same time. Well, you know
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hello. Absolutely. So you've got to ask, why are Home Office officials not bringing all
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this together? You know, this is not a new topic, I'm afraid to say. This is not something
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that is a new issue that a government has to grapple with. The last government totally
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failed to get a grip on it. We've had a Home Secretary, previous Home Secretary, now Foreign
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Secretary, that spent five years as the shadow Home Secretary, who spent, I think, a year and a bit
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as the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. If anybody should be as prepared as they possibly
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can be to get on top of this issue and to deal with this crisis, it should have been this Labour
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government. And yet again, more headlines this morning where people cannot seem to be deported
