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WATCH: Martin Daubney declares Britain has 'lost its mind' after handing foreign criminals £2,000
Sep 24, 2025
GB News host Martin Daubney has been left outraged at "astonishing" footage showing foreign criminals being given £2,000 on their deportation flight out of Britain.Reacting to the revelation, Martin declared it a "joke", hitting out at foreign criminals having their "pockets lined by the taxpayer".FULL STORY HERE.
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this story because there's some astonishing footage today that shows Romanian deportees
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that have been in prison, a variety of very serious offences, physically, literally being
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given credit cards with £2,000 on which they can plug into an ATM when they land
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Keqing. We know they're entitled to this money, but the video makes it absolutely breathtaking
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that British taxpayers are lining the pockets of foreign criminals for them to spend when
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they land. It's a joke. Siobhan Mahmood, who's the new Home Secretary, three weeks in the job, she says this, out of context, it's not great
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It doesn't look good. Well, you're telling me you're giving here charged up cards, 2,000 quid on each one to criminals or people being deported, certainly, out of this country
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Now, what we're told is it does represent a saving on the cost of having them put it up in prisons
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If that were the case, that would be £54,000 a year. They're saying it's been, Savannah Mood says
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it's been a long time that we have been offering financial packages as an incentive to people who drop their claims
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So the idea is they drop their claims and stay here, but they get £2,000. Yes, a lot of money, but a very bad look
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And we know that they're entitled to this, but I don't think people were, it was so transparent that it was just blatant
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Literally, people on this flight, you can see on your screen now, they're sat down, some of them are having to be restrained to their seats
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They being flown back to Romania and they literally been given credit cards with on And there a second story out today as well which I think makes it even more Here that footage now look So the camera is going down the aisle on a flight This flight is packed full of people being deported
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back to Romania. In a short moment's time, you will see a credit card
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literally being taken out of an envelope and given to a foreign criminal
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There it is on your screens now. That's somebody who probably presumably works for the Home Office, Border Falls
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Here's some money, off you go. Here's some money. Two grand on a card, handed straight to a foreign criminal
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This is the kind of thing, Chris, that makes people feel... It's like a credit card. It's like you get through the bank
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This is 50 foreign national prisoners filmed by ITV News the first time cameras have been on board the plane
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This is the reality, frankly, of trying to get foreign national offenders out of this country
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More will happen. The rules changed earlier this week to allow Siobhan Mahmood
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to remove people who have served less than 30% of their time here, not 50%
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50%, six staff accompanying every passenger up the stairs to prevent them from fleeing
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But the point the government would make, were they here, is that it does save long-term a lot of money of housing them in prison
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£54,000 a year, £2,000 on a card is good value, but it is shocking to see it
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Do you know how much British prisoners get when they come out of prison? £46 quid
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£46 quid. They give them £46 quid and off you go, son. £2,000 to a Romanian sex offender
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I don't know, but can they access benefits when they get out? Can they get any support from local services
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They're British. These are foreign criminals getting a two grand paycheck on a fly home
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I think people look at this and think we've absolutely lost our minds
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