Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/reform-would-create-ice-style-agency-and-new-detention-centres-migrants

Reform UK has announced it would create an ICE-style agency to oversee the deportation of illegal migrants if it were in government.

Zia Yusuf, Reform's new home affairs spokesperson, said on Monday morning that a Reform government would establish a UK Deportation Command.

Its task would be to deliver "Operation Restoring Justice" to fulfil the party's plan of deporting 600,000 illegal migrants.

He also announced an overhaul of the Prevent counter-extremism programme to target "Islamist extremism", and said a Reform government would ban groups it deemed extremist.

Yusuf further said that new laws would stop the "incendiary" act of churches being converted into mosques.

Yeah good luck building detention centres. Labour tried that on a disused airfield and still got objections from the locals. To reform voters everything sounds like a good idea until it affects them.

I wonder how many of these ones who use Christianity as their key to xenophobia go to church regularly or read the Bible. I'd wager very few.

I'd love to know why it's "incendiary" to turn churches into mosques instead of, say, overpriced flats or nightclubs.

There's a beautiful half mosque half cathedral in Cordoba.

Presumably because one of them will torch any converted building they come across.

Farage's only god is Mammon.

I am all for this. Once built, the first people tossed into this new British gulag should include Zia Yusuf, his entire extended family and Kirsten Farage - Nigel's German wife. Oh and his kids . . as they are only "half brits".

In the second wave, we should use the electrical register to round up all the members of Reform UK itself. After the half-brits, next should be the half-wits.

And after that . . all the Brexit voters??

*First they came for the Communists . . . *

(the /s should be obvious, but I'll include it just for clarity)

Who are they trying to appeal to with this? I know that Reform is ahead in the polls but basically every conservative party across the planet is suffering from their relationships/similarities to trump and US republicans.

Do they think this will make them appealing to MORE people?

The government needs to outlaw campaign donations from anyone not residing in the UK and anyone who is not a UK citizen. The law should also require full disclosure of donors. And the law should have sufficient teeth that people go to prison for violating it.

*First they came for the Communists . . . *

Had they came for the fascists first, people might quit posting that fucking quote endlessly.

This is the plot from Years and Years (on Netflix, great show) and its fucking terrifying.

Besides copying Republicans what they are also doing is moving the overton window right by making concentration camps for Muslims an acceptable talking point.