Pakistan is laughing at us. Over the past three years, they’ve deported a staggering 2.4 million Afghans. It was one of the largest expulsions of human beings in history. Yet when we ask Pakistan if they will please take back one poxy bloke, they say “Nope”. They are allowed to kick out undesirables, you see, but we are not.

Already Guardianista voices are being raised to say it would be “problematic” to tweak Britain’s laws

Already Guardianista voices are being raised to say it would be “problematic” to tweak Britain’s laws

The case of Shabir Ahmed, the Rochdale rape-gang leader let out of jail this month, gets more enraging every day. Pakistan is now flat-out refusing to take back its criminal citizen. In my eyes that is an act of hostility, and it should be treated as such by our government. Every tool of statecraft must now be deployed to make Pakistan relent and take back its monster who we are done with.

Ahmed was sentenced to 22 years for his reign of rape over white working-class girls in Rochdale. He was let out on licence at the start of July. Virtually no one wants him in the country, least of all the women he so viciously abused. Our incoming PM, Andy Burnham, has promised to exhaust all options for booting........

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