A lot of us on the American right are finding we like British Reform UK leader Nigel Farage more and more all the time. Mr. Farage isn't one to look away from a good idea, and one of those good ideas, he's borrowing from President Trump: Sending the worst, irredeemable, violent criminals to a permanent vacation in a prison in El Salvador.
This is an idea that should grow legs.
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.
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.
El Salvador isn't the only place that the Reform Party is considering sending these goblins.
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 Reform Party is also talking about hiring 30,000 more British police officers and building 12,400 new prison spaces. That's going to cost, as my Brit friend would say, a tidy few quid. But when you offset against the cost of letting criminals back out on the streets to re-offend, over and over, it likely begins to look like a pretty good deal.
One wonders - Mr. Farage offers no numbers - how much of this would be necessary if the United Kingdom had not, for some time now, been welcoming anyone from the Third World into Britain; not only welcoming them, but gifting them with generous benefits, as well, which just incentivizes more immigration.
And when you import the Third World, you get Third World behavior. Nigel Farage, along with Douglas Murray and a few others, are some of the few people left in the United Kingdom who are talking any sense.
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Britain, of course, once had a vast, untamed place where they could send hardened criminals, a place where they could be sure those criminals would never bother decent British subjects again.
They called it Australia.
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