“PUT THEM ON A PLANE BACK!” TORY PEER CALLS FOR CHILD RAPISTS WHO RENOUNCED PAKISTANI CITIZENSHIP TO BE RETURNED
A Conservative peer has said the UK should cancel all foreign aid to Pakistan unless the country accepts the return of two child rapists.
Speaking on GB News Shaun Bailey said:
“We need to care for ourselves. We are a nation that’s increasingly sending a message aboard that we don’t care. We’re standing on all these principles that nobody cares about.
“We sit in Parliament and talk about our international reputation, whilst we’re internationally seen as fools, as a soft touch. We need to get on top of that.
“And let’s be very clear, I would not send a penny to Pakistan until they accepted their international responsibilities. Because I bet your bottom dollar, if it was reversed, we’d take them back. So why do we expect less from them?
“Pakistan is a fully recognised country in the world, with sophisticated people. They can deal with their own criminals. We shouldn’t have to.
“And again, it should be linked to that aid. We have leverage, let’s use the leverage. It is morally moribund not to respond by taking that money back.
“The safety of our girls, the sanctity of our borders and just our pure reputation in the world should be defended.
“And if the Labour Party doesn’t do this, it will start to send a message as to why people shouldn’t support them.
“What I see when I’m in parliament is that we administer the law by the letter of the law, but we don’t seem to understand that other people game the system.
“With all these things such as people wanting to leave the ECHR, if you get down to the core of it, is people gaming the system. It was never set up to be abused like this, but it can be abused.
“I get the temptation to just send them back. But if we have any international reputation, it is that we are a civil nation. And there is an argument if someone commits a crime here, we put them in prison to make sure they actually serve their sentence; that’s part of looking after the victim.
“But we should be equally as robust at sending them back and if they have any kind of Pakistani citizenship, I would put them on a plane back.
“What I wouldn’t want is for that person to do whatever havoc they created here and then go home and have a great time.”
