Farage Pledges to Send Britain’s Worst Criminals to El Salvador
Nigel Farage has pledged to send Britain’s worst offenders to jail in El Salvador as part of a five-year plan to halve crime rates that would involve leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. The Telegraph has more.
The Reform UK leader unveiled a £17.4 billion scheme to boost police numbers and prison places, and said he would introduce new rules to increase the number of jail sentences handed down by judges.
Referencing the murderer of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, Mr Farage said: “If that means that Ian Huntley goes to El Salvador, well our attitude is so be it.”
The policy is modelled on a similar idea by Donald Trump, who has paid El Salvador billions of dollars to house offenders.
Mr Farage said at a London press conference: “I haven’t spoken to El Salvador yet, but we do know they’re quite happy to take American violent offenders, so I don’t see any reason why [not]. They want the money, they want the income.”
Salvadoran prisons have made international headlines after the country’s government released images of gang members packed into jails. The country’s Terrorism Confinement Centre, completed in 2022, has been criticised by Human Rights Watch for its policy of only allowing prisoners to leave their cell for 30 minutes each day.
A policy document issued by Reform said the party planned to buy 10,000 foreign prison places over five years, at a cost of about £250 million a year. It would also require the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
The previous Conservative government reviewed a foreign prison scheme in 2023, and Estonian officials said they had received a request from the UK to discuss whether British offenders could be sent there to be jailed.
Asked about the human rights records of El Salvador prisons, Mr Farage said: “We are not going to send people for trial in El Salvador. Let’s make that absolutely clear.
“People will be tried in this country, and El Salvador might be quite an extreme example, but the idea that we could send prisoners to Kosovo, to Estonia and everything else is a very, very serious proposal.”
The suggestion by Reform comes amid a serious prison overcrowding problem in UK jails, which prompted the Government to release thousands of criminals early.
The other elements of Reform’s crime plan include hiring 30,000 new police officers at a total cost of £10.5 billion over five years, according to the costing document, and building 12,400 new prison places in Britain.
Mr Farage said the increase in some crimes in the UK had brought the country to “nothing short of societal collapse”, and disputed official figures showing that crime has fallen on average in England and Wales for the past decade.
He added that he understood why people had taken part in anti-immigration demonstrations in Epping at the weekend after Gerberslasie Kebatu, a 38 year-old asylum seeker from Ethiopia, was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. He denies the offence.
“I don’t think anybody in London even understands just how close we are to civil disobedience on a vast scale in this country,” Mr Farage said. “Of course, there were some bad eggs that turned up at Epping. There were the usual far-Right thugs. Do I understand how people in Epping feel? You bet your life I do.
He said there was “simmering anger and disgust” about “many hundreds of undocumented young males” coming to the UK from countries where “women and young girls are not even treated as second-class citizens”.
“So the answer is yes, I do understand the genuine upset and anger, and I’ll bet you that most of the people outside that hotel and Epping weren’t far-Right or far-Left or anything like that, they were just genuinely concerned families,” he said.
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What about send ALL criminals back to country of origin as the UK asylum program has been compromised as it is now controlled by non native UK citizens. That way we can free up prison space for our own criminals, which are bad enough, and perhaps there would then be a fighting chance of rehabilitating some or most of them?
I was working with a couple of Salvadorians who actually wanted to move back now that the country was being cleaned up. They miss the climate, and that there is less crime or no crime in some parts of the country. Food is cheap and fresher. Costs of living are low.
”There were the usual far right thugs”. Antifa aren’t far right! ‘Stand Up For Rapists’ aren’t far right! How dare Farage completely ignore the actual perpetrators of all the trouble, or at least the instigators, because I think there were a few louts turned up from out of town but we’ve all seen the footage by now and the significant part the police played in terms of supporting the far-Left agitators. Now this is scheduled for the 27th. More ‘far-Right’ trouble expected, eh? He’s such a duplicitous swine;
https://x.com/GhorbaniiNiyak/status/1947347944337981579
He didn’t ignore them. I was listening on the radio and he went on about how Antifa seem to get a pass.
He didn’t say Antifa were Far Right. Maybe you should go to EarSavers?
What are you even on about? I’m going off of the text above. The only ”thugs” in attendance were Antifa, who are not far-right.Perhaps you’re needing a stronger reading prescription in your old age?
I do attract men determined to deliberately misinterpret my posts, don’t I? 🙄
Yes the name “antifa” is a deliberate attempt to reverse exactly what they are, more like brown shirts.
Anybody want to bet that the far right thugs weren’t on the govt shilling?
Those dickheads are so transparent.
Kneel, Thieves, Ranting, Pillips, Pixie and about 600 others so Nige had better ask the Salvadoreans to get building and pronto.
Extra large sized cell for Johnson.
Yep. Actually him and Kneel can share a cell – two complete Next Tuesdays together.
They deserve each other
Don’t forget Blair, Brown, Campbell, Straw and a few others.
He’s actually a teeny tiny twat. You could stand him on your palm.
He’s quite wide. I’ve seen him in real life, on a bike.
Typical political posturing from Farage. We all know what the real problem is but instead of a straightforward ‘arrest and export’ he arrives at a solution that…
1. Doesn’t deal with the underlying problem
2. Leaves British taxpayers on the hook for the duration of the sentences
3. Makes matters worse by threatening to recruit more plod. More of the same useless and corrupt State supporting coppers is definitely NOT what this country needs.
Hopeless.
I think you have to trace back, why we have a problem with crime. Before the prisons is the judiciary, before that the CPS, before that the police, and before that the law making. And before that is Universal Human Rights. The concept that you can essentially do what the hell you like and you always have a ‘poor little me’ get out. Under Saxon law, we had the concept of ‘outlaws’, people who had failed to respect the laws and conventions, and failed to come to defend themselves and be judged. To my thinking Human Rights are not rights at all. They are privileges. They come with responsibilities of the individual towards society in general. This is essentially the corner stone of the high trust society. If you transgress then you do not have the right to your rights, you lose something for failing to ‘play the game’. Hence the career criminals who we allow to stay here because, chicken nuggets or whatever. If you are a criminal, you dont get to dictate your punishment or mitigate it with bullshit excuses, in my book.. Blair said the 1997 Labour government would be tough on crime and tough on the… Read more »
That’s a misleading headline. Nigel made a throwaway comment about sending criminals to other countries where it’s cheaper to house them. He didn’t pledge anything about El Salvador.
PS always listen to a speech rather than draw conclusions from a headline.
Do you Nigel? Really? I wonder
Maybe nice Mr Putin will sell or rent us a bit of Siberia. The prisoners could keep warm by digging for lithium or something.
The Establishment journalist Andrew Neil (Times) has fallen straight into the trap by complaining that sending the scum of the earth to El Salvador would be “uncivilised and inhumane.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch-9Bb6hTo&t=10s
He obviously fails to understand that people who are uncivilised and inhumane themselves don’t deserve civilised and humane treatment in a cushty British jail.
Personally, I’d be more than happy to send the Pakistani Gang Rapists to an El Salvadorian hellhole. And I’d happily have them castrated first.
I can’t wait to hear what the liberal moron Fraser Nelson has to say on the subject.
Their liberal Establishment sneering will (as usual) just promote Farage and Reform – because the working class have had enough of suffering from the consequences of the liberal Establishment’s virtue-signalling “divorced from the real world” policies.
They just don’t get that we have had enough of the mass immigration and all the crime that comes with it. I am long since passed caring if sending the scum of the earth to El Salvador is uncivilised and inhumane. It’s time for drastic action. I used to have a high regard for Andrew Neil, but that’s long since gone as well.
“There were the usual far-Right thugs.” (Farage) – seriously???!!! He is always banging on about the mythical ‘Far Right’. I think he’ll find that they were left wing thugs and paid agents provocateurs, shipped in by the police themselves.