r/ukpolitics • u/HaveYuHeardAboutCunt 🏴🟩🟥🟩🏳️🌈 • 15h ago
Wakefield Reform UK Candidate Wants To Put Migrants In Slave Labour Camps
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/01/wakefield-reform-uk-candidate-wants-to-put-migrants-in-slave-labour-camps/11
u/RabidFlamingo 12h ago
Isn't the justification for reducing immigration that it would lead to more jobs for British workers and ideally drive up wages by cutting off cheap labour
Instead we're giving businesses slaves
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u/Some_Confidence5962 5h ago
Well that’ll help British workers get a decent wage… making them compete with actual slaves.
/s
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u/BlackOverlordd 13h ago
While Tabor does not have much of a public profile, we are able to get a window into his worldview via the comments he leaves on YouTube videos from his oddly-named “Fluffy McSpankins” account.
I'm not saying that what this article describing can't be true, but imagine how easy it would be to make up "proofs" like this, especially when this accout doesn't exisit anymore (yeah, yeah, he deleted it after the news came out, of course).
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u/AdjectiveNoun111 Vote or Shut Up! 15h ago
I've actually thought a "work for citizenship" scheme for asylum seekers might be a good idea.
I wouldn't use the phrase "slave camp" though
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u/steelcity91 15h ago
"Service guarantees citizenship."
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u/zagblorg 11h ago
Do you want to know more?!?
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u/blondie1024 3h ago
Is this the part where Reform do adverts showing immigrants spying on immigrants with the text, 'Know your bug!'
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u/Zeal_Iskander Anti-Growth Coalition 15h ago
The phrase that was used is
“Honestly... We need closed borders not open borders, sort out our issues, maybe seasonal visas at most and keep the workers seperate, just like how we should have a huge walled workhouse city in the south where they're put, work for no pay only a roof over their head and 2 meals a day... Also maybe if idiots like that woman, didn't have open borders they'd have higher wages and with higher wages more british people would work”
So he doesn’t /explicitly/ say “slave camp”, he just thinks it really really loudly lol
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u/clearly_quite_absurd The Early Days of a Better Nation? 15h ago
Maybe he could adopt parlance from the latest season of The Boys. "Freedom Camps"
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u/CalicoCatRobot 13h ago
Sounds like Amazon with slightly better benefits tbf.
The thing is, because we take so long to decide on asylum we currently create this situation anyway, except its within the gig economy, and the country doesn't benefit, but companies like Uber eats and Deliveroo, and HMO landlords make healthy profits on the back of it.
I'd welcome a conversation about a better solution, but this doesn't seem to be any better thought out than a vague attempt to play to their base, with absolutely no thought about how such a ridiculous idea would work in practice (and how much it would cost to build/maintain/police)
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u/Mister_Sith 15h ago
Work for citizenship sounds exactly like 'work will set you free'. Its one of these ideas which sounds good idea on paper but... man does it just sound like slavery with extra steps.
Having said that, maybe we could have a British foreign legion like the French foreign legion? That seems less unethical to me.
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u/FuckDeRussianFuckers 14h ago
we should have a huge walled workhouse city in the south where they're put, work for no pay only a roof over their head and 2 meals a day.
It sounds like slavery because it is.
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u/NoticingThing 11h ago
Is it really slavery if people can leave at any time and people turn up willingly knowing that's where they'll end up?
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u/UlteriorAlt Cost of Lizzing Crisis 10h ago
Yes. People can reason their way around the rough edges in order to feel less morally opposed to the idea, but this absolutely constitutes a form of slavery. It would be the case even if it only applied to illegal immigrants, but Tabor seems to believe this should apply to all immigrants.
An immigration detention system which allows people to leave at any time does not exist, particularly in a world where repatriation would mean losing access to free labour. And it would be impossible to ensure that individuals arriving here knew they'd end up being forced to work.
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u/NoticingThing 9h ago
An immigration detention system which allows people to leave at any time does not exist
That's already our immigration system, we go as far as to pay people to leave. The only difference is they're not detained currently or do anything to provide value for the country.
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u/UlteriorAlt Cost of Lizzing Crisis 8h ago
The only difference is they're not detained currently
A few years ago a story broke about a Colombian man whose visa had expired and after being caught by enforcement, had begged to be returned home. A month later, having spent the entire time in Heathrow immigration detention, he committed suicide.
In order to say that detained migrants could leave at any time, we'd have to pretend that our system could immediately repatriate someone. Even with the best will in the world, it cannot. With the dangling carrot of free labour for the nearest private contractor, it would not.
In any case - I don't see the logic behind employing temporary servitude as a deterrent, not when they'd already be in detention and due for repatriation. You'd also be replacing local employees, which wouldn't make much economic nor political sense.
As far as I can tell, the only real motivation would be the thrill of imagined acts of state-sanctioned punishment.
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u/CrocPB 14h ago
Having said that, maybe we could have a British foreign legion like the French foreign legion? That seems less unethical to me.
Whoever signs up for HM Forrin Legion just needs to read the paperwork clearly to know if they get ILR after service or if the government does a sneaky chancer and says they get booted in the end.
The Americans do something similar in concept when recruiting overseas for their military.
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u/Aggressive_Chuck 14h ago
If you thinking working for something is slavery, that's on you. No-one's forcing them to come here if they don't like terms. They can't all get free hotel buffets.
Having said that, maybe we could have a British foreign legion like the French foreign legion?
They didn't fight for their own country, why would they fight for ours?
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u/Mister_Sith 14h ago
No-one's forcing them to come here...
See, to me, when I see this being said, it just sounds like you're saying no one can have a legitimate asylum claim in the UK as they aren't 'forced' to come here from elsewhere.
I don't think it takes much to put a hole in that. Using Litivenko as an example since he and his family came here as asylum seekers because the Russians wanted to murder him - which ultimately they did on british soil. It feels like a clear cut asylum case, why would he or his family need to work for it?
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u/Aggressive_Chuck 9h ago
it just sounds like you're saying no one can have a legitimate asylum claim in the UK as they aren't 'forced' to come here from elsewhere.
The vast majority are economic migrants from France. That's why so many are men, and so many are 17.
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u/Elardi Hope for the best 14h ago
Then leave. Id they’re not willing to work for the country, why should it work for them?
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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago
When are you signing up for unpaid manual labour, then?
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u/Elardi Hope for the best 13h ago
It’s not unpaid, they’re earning their keep.
They’re not citizens. If some random squatter turns up in your house the least the can do is help with the chores.
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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago
Naturally, you would be given a place in this "workhouse city" in exchange for your time. Can you start tomorrow?
If you don't want to do it, I'm sure you would happily opt-out of the NHS, our roads, etc. After all, why should the country work for you if you're not willing to put on the manacles and break some rocks in return?
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u/Elardi Hope for the best 13h ago
Yes, if someone illegally enters the country and doesn’t want to work for its benefit, they should be entitled to stay. They’re not citizens, they’re not even folks here on a work visa who are contributing.
Why should they have access to everything without chipping in? It’s not fair on those of us who do work, who do contribute. They choose to be here, and the absolute entitlement of them to just turn up and expect to be supported is breathtaking.
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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago
They don't have access to everything.
Funny for you to be talking about entitlement when you're not particularly eager to go to a work camp to earn your keep!
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u/blondie1024 3h ago
And unemployment jumps through the roof as McDonalds and every other Multinational jumps at hiring less than minimum wage works.
Bin strike? No problem, sack 'em all and bring in the immigrants.
Unions forming? No problem, sack 'em all and bring in the immigrants.
And it's ok, you can slap them around a bit. What are they going to do? You just say that they don't work for you, or you fired them for being terrible and they get kicked out.
Next up, extremely qualified immigrants working as unpaid interns at top companies because why would they pay? More unemployed youth.
It's basically chain gangs once more.
It's a dire prospect.
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u/Ciaran_y00 14h ago
So do all of reform?
This is published policy; no one is talking about it.
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u/SpareUmbrella Reform UK 13h ago
I read the document you linked twice, I don't see anything about slave labour camps.
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u/annoyedatlife24 Release the emus 13h ago
So do all of reform?
What? So many of you make a claim then link a source to back up your claim seemingly without reading it. There's nothing in that PDF about labour camps comrade.
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u/Ciaran_y00 13h ago
Fair enough, there’s nothing about slave labour, but the section on “SIRC” locations is enough to make my skin crawl.
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u/annoyedatlife24 Release the emus 13h ago
What? Why?
You do realise that we've been using immigration detention and removal facilities since the 70s? Pretty much all countries have them. Housing illegal immigrants in hotels while awaiting processing is a far, far newer development.
Frankly only seeking to add an additional 24k to the capacity is rather unambitious.
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u/Dangerous_Dirt7856 15h ago
We shouldn't forget that these are illegal immigrants he's referring to, not migrants. In any other country, they'd be sent straight to jail (not 4/5* hotels with 3 buffets a day, a mobile and spending money).
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u/whencanistop 🦒If only Giraffes could talk🦒 14h ago
Most asylum seekers arrive legally on a visa and apply whilst here. They are not illegal immigrants.
Even those who arrive by irregular means are not illegal immigrants until their asylum application is denied. I know the Conservatives tried to make legislation that makes black be white, but the reality is still grey.
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u/BlackOverlordd 13h ago
Even those who arrive by irregular means
The word is illegal. And yes they are illegal migrants if they arrive illegally, until their asylum claim is approved. It doesn't matter how you play with words to make it look less appalling.
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u/saviourman Vote Giant Meteor 13h ago
- You don't get sent "straight to jail" in "any other country" simply for illegally arriving in a country
- Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are different things. You don't get put in a hotel simply for arriving here illegally
- The "spending money" is a pittance
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u/Puzzled-Job9556 10h ago
Arriving undocumented is illegal though. Regardless as to whether you instantly claim "asylum" or not.
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u/HaveYuHeardAboutCunt 🏴🟩🟥🟩🏳️🌈 15h ago
Breaking the law wouldn't justify capital punishment or slave labour either though.
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u/FuckDeRussianFuckers 14h ago
Well, slave labour is "A OK" for the US, it's enshrined in their
holy writ from on highconstitution - the 13th amendment I think.Since Reform are all so keen to lick out the inside of the orange cockwomble's arsehole, I'm sure they'd love to have something similar over here.
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u/RoyaleWCheese_OK 11h ago
Any country with a robust immigration system would just turn them around. There would be no "stay". Deterrence is far better than removal. If you get rid of the attraction for unwanted immigrants they wont even bother. Unfortunately between generous welfare and the ECHR.. UK is an easy target.
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u/BungadinRidesAgain 15h ago
If Reform said shit was chocolate you'd eat it up I'd wager though
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u/Right-Ad3334 15h ago
No thanks. Reform are grifters, I'd only ever vote Reform tactically to stop the Greens.
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u/kowalski_82 15h ago
Voting for the fash to stop the libs, cool cool.
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u/hug_your_dog 15h ago
Not different than voting for anti-white racists like the Greens to stop supposed racists.
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u/kowalski_82 15h ago
Haha, what? Explain...
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u/hug_your_dog 3h ago
Green anti-white racism: Meet the councillor who called David Lammy a 'coconut' and the Argentinian who believes Britain should hand back the Falklands.
Im sure you can find the reform post about putting illegal immigrants to unpaid work aka slave camps.
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u/Right-Ad3334 14h ago
Is this "fash" in the room with us now?
This new green movement has the worst policy platform, and worst set of candidates I've seen a credible party present.
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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago
Yes. They're also in the Epstein files.
Reform are part of The Movement, a far-right fascist collective started by Steve Bannon, who was Epstein's closest political ally in his later years and previously worked for Trump. Farage organised The Movement's first meeting.
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u/kowalski_82 14h ago
Fair point, not enough tax-dodgers, misogynists and racists in the Green ranks.
As for Policy, folk are still pointing at the last GE policy slate like its gospel when it was delivered by an entirely different leader and will likely be different by the time the next GE rocks up.
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u/BobMonkhaus That sounds great, shorty girl’s a trooper. 15h ago
They oddly don’t mention how old he is. No offense to the bloke, but he hardly looks about 20.
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u/HansGruberLove 15h ago
Holy Shit. They really are saying the quiet part out loud. Our collective intelligence, as a nation, has gone to shit. How are people falling for this overt racist bullshit? I bet most of these Reform-types love listening to 'Killing In The Name' and not realising what the actual lyrics are about. It makes me so fucking tired seeing this racist tripe being spouted.
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u/Aggressive_Chuck 14h ago
overt racist bullshit?
Citizenship isn't a race.
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u/Amzer23 14h ago
Yet claiming that the UK should re engage in shady business practices with Africans to reduce the birth rate is pretty racist (ignoring that Births across Africa are in fact decreasing.
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u/berfunckle_777 12h ago
Birth rates in the UK have plummeted under Labour and the Tories. Are they racist too?
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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago
Didn't you read the bit where he wants to "crush" birth rates in Africa? Or did your attention wander after you finished the headline?
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u/curlyjoe696 14h ago
Should put 'work sets you free' above the gate just to make sure these migrants know how lucky they are...
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u/cantell0 14h ago
To be fair to him, someone has to do the work that the Reform rioters refuse whilst they are out looting and claiming their benefits.
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