Should IS Enforcer Shamima Begum be allowed back into the UK?
I’ll be honest, I didn’t have Reform Leader Nigel Farage suggesting that we need to have “a conversion” about the return of Islamic State enforcer Shamima Begum on my New Year Bingo card! Yet that’s exactly what has happened. And for additional clarity, Reform Chairman Zia Yuzuf also thinks it might be preferable for her to be brought back to the UK to serve time in prison than to remain in a camp in Syria.
Now, when this story first broke it carried the following sensational splash.
“No no” he didn’t actually quite say that, say the fanboys. You are misquoting him! Ok, here is the full transcript of his words.
It’s not something he *wants* to do but it might need to be done because… Seb Gorka!
What happened next clarified things. Or did it? Farage rushed out a statement claiming that he had not called for her return. Then his Party chairman Zia Yusuf spoke;
So he thinks Shamima Begum *should* be allowed back and put in prison. But why? She isn’t a British citizen any longer.
And why was this?
The current British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has made it clear Begum will not be coming back. The Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has made it clear Begum will not be coming back. However Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf want to have a “thoughtful” conversation about the matter. WTF?
I’ll leave the final word to Ben Habib and Elon Musk.
It’s been an eye opener watching Nigel Farage these past ten days. First, he stated that we should not mass deport, then he attacked Tommy Robinson and now he is ambivalent on the return of IS enforcer Shamima Begum.
The Reform leadership needs reformed urgently.
Stripping her citizenship after she left to join Islamic STATE was the only thing we could do. Any further crimes she committed would be impossible to prove here in the U.K. where are the witnesses ? The lawyers would have a field day. She’d be out in no time.
No! If she comes to a British prison she’ll be let out in no time. Zia knows this. I want her to stay at the expense of the country she deserted us for, Syria. She’s no longer a British citizen. Don’t let her back in. We aren’t going to pay for her. Is Zia pulling Nigel’s strings?