Home Office ‘clickbait’ deportation videos are exploitative and cruel
The Home Office’s decision to share footage of people being deported is “exploitative” and “obscene” says Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman.
Ms Chapman has accused the UK government of using the cruel footage as clickbait as part of its hostile environment agenda.
Ms Chapman said:
“Even by the disgraceful standards of the Home Office this is obscene. Our migrant communities are not a prop to be dehumanised and exploited by Keir Starmer in these sickening videos.
"How did the Labour leader go from being a human rights lawyer to using exploitative footage of people being deported as clickbait?
"It is the oldest and most cynical trick in the book. Labour are pointing the finger at marginalised people at the same time as they are attacking pensioners by cutting winter fuel payments and hammering households with even greater energy costs.
"Nigel Farage will be rubbing his hands together. The last thing we need is more state sponsored scapegoating, racism and division, but that is all that Labour is offering.
"The policies and the practices of the Home Office are an affront to human rights and the values that Labour is supposed to stand for.
“It is impossible to defeat the far right by normalising their hatred and implementing all of their policies for them."