Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, shared on GB News that he has received numerous letters from foreign national prisoners requesting deportation back to their home countries. Farage humorously referred to himself as the 'deporter-in-chief' while reading letters from prisoners expressing a desire to be removed from the UK prison system. He noted that this influx of correspondence coincided with the government's announcement of plans to expedite the deportation of foreign criminals. Farage questioned the current policy of waiting until prisoners’ sentences are nearly served to start deportation and expressed skepticism about whether these new measures would be effectively implemented.
For the last few weeks, letters have been arriving in my office. I was quite surprised to see one from His Majesty's Prison Full Sutton. It says 'I'm a foreign national prisoner. I've been sentenced to 15 years and six months for GBH with intent', which I think means he's a gangster. 'Why won't you deport me? Please get rid of me. You'd save huge amounts of money.'
Another one came in today from Spain. 'Please deport me, I haven't seen my wife and kids for the last three years.'
But it's interesting that overnight, clearly these letters to me, there's obviously a campaign of some kind going on because overnight the Government have announced they will start to deport foreign criminals rather more quickly.
I just wonder, you know, will this ever actually happen? Will it be enacted? Will we start to get rid of people earlier? And why don't we just get rid of them on day one?
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