Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on Immigration - Oct 19
Tuesday, 20 October 2020 07:53
Chris Stephens (Glasgow South West) (SNP):...Leaked documents
provided evidence that the Home Office was considering wave
machines to deter boats, nets to clog boats’ propellers and the
transportation of asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles away to
Ascension Island for processing. Those are preposterous suggestions
and show how far the Government will go to drive home and engender
the Brexit ideology that has already poisoned some of the political
discourse in this country... Conor McGinn...Request free trial
(Glasgow South West) (SNP):...Leaked documents
provided evidence that the Home Office was considering wave
machines to deter boats, nets to clog boats’ propellers and the
transportation of asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles away to
Ascension Island for processing. Those
are preposterous suggestions and show how far the Government will
go to drive home and engender the Brexit ideology that has already
poisoned some of the political discourse in this country...
(St Helens
North) (Lab):...We have also had these ludicrous proposals
about Ascension Island and Saint
Helena—I had to read it twice when I saw it in The
Sunday Times, lest it was a reference to St Helens.
Either would be preposterous, frankly. That shows a lack of
strategy at the heart of Government around how we will get a grip
of this issue...
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