
Originally Posted by
jon1959
It is an obvious target for ridicule (from all sides) but the piss take only works when it is rooted in fact.
The Air France pilot took off from London to Paris with a full aircraft apart from a couple of empty seats where the ‘one for one’ migrants had been disembarked pending an appeal.
These are normal seats on scheduled flights - not the moral, legal and financial lunacy of the Rwanda Scheme - where a similar legal challenge would have resulted in an empty plane, one that HMG had already paid for up front.
That did justify the headlines!