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Zack Polanski has taken on Labour’s deporter-in-chief

Mike Tapp is the Labour MP who acts like the government’s self-appointed deporter-in-chief. Accordingly, people have accused Tapp of being a Reform-style politician, because regardless of how people on the left think we should manage migration, we don’t take glee in the thought of deporting people.

Tapp, meanwhile, quite clearly relishes it:


Zack Polanski vs the deportation lover Mike Tapp

Mike Tapp usually mentions ‘violent criminals’ or ‘sexual offenders’ when he’s publicly getting a deportation hard on:

To be clear, we’ve no issue with deporting criminals or sexual abusers. The issue is Tapp’s antics are directly feeding into the right’s narrative that all migrants are criminals and abusers.

This rightward shift on migration is why we’re now seeing activists pushing the once fringe position of ‘remigration’ on national TV:


‘Remigration‘ is the policy of deporting the entire non-white population, including those who were born here. Where would we deport these British nationals? These people haven’t thought that far ahead; they’re just racists who’ve been humoured for too long by politicians and journalists.

Mike Tapp, we should note, is not pushing for remigration. If this was ten years ago, though, he wouldn’t be pushing for deportations in the same way either. The point we’re making is that when you continuously accept the right’s arguments, we just move further and further towards the absolute end point of their ideology.

In other words, this needs to stop before it gets out of hand.

On that note, Polanski used Tapp’s tweet to promote the Green Party, which is trying to be something more than just Reform with benefits:


Tapp didn’t like it up him, responding:


Mike, Mike, Mike – you’re forgetting yourself, mate – he wasn’t replying to one of your ‘foreign offenders’ tweets; he was responding to the ‘50,000’ deportations’ post. Tapp is really doing Farage-style politics if he wants us to believe that every one of the 50,000 were “dangerous offenders”.

Polanski seemingly agreed, responding:

Tapped out

As we reported last week, Mike Tapp is the sort of politician who thinks you can win the public over by pointing at a full English breakfast and saying ‘stop the boats’ (he also might have worms, but we were unable to confirm that one way or the other):


The reality is that when Labour copy Reform, they just make it look like Nigel Farage is two steps ahead of them.

Tapp disagrees with us on this, obviously, but Labour’s polling proves they’re doing something wrong:


Featured image via Barold / Mike Tapp 

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.