ACTIVISTS DISRUPT UK HOME SECRETARY’S SPEECH, SLAM ‘RACIST’ POLICY

Sun 08 May 2022:

Six young people disrupted UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s speech at the Conservative Party dinner on Friday. The group was driven out of the venue, but not before filming themselves provoking the chaos.

A cameraperson was among the group of six.

Patel’s address was about to begin at the Basset Bassetlaw Conservatives Spring Dinner, a 40-pound-a-head event, when the attendees began shouting. They demanded that Patel’s divisive Rwanda immigration policy be ended.

Notably, the group even clicked selfies earlier during the event and then went on to disrupt the speech in what has been reported in British media as “highly planned plot”.

British Home Secretary Priti Patel’s speech gets disrupted by activists as a Protest against her Rwanda refugee plan.
Patel was disrupted continuously by them shouting “Your racist policies are killing People” another said “We are disgusted by your racist policies” #Refugees pic.twitter.com/dPJo7MctY5

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One activist at the Bassetlaw Conservative Association Spring Dinner told Patel as she started her speech that the plans to send asylum seekers and refugees to Rwanda was “inhumane” before being dragged out of the dining hall by a bodyguard.

Another shouted, “As young people wanting to live in a fair and compassionate society, we are disgusted by your treatment of refugees,” before also being removed from the event.

Attendees at the dinner can be heard in video footage of the incident, shared by the activists on Twitter, chanting: “Out, out, out.”

“Priti Patel! We demand you drop your racist and problematic Rwanda migration policy,” another activist shouted.

The group included a grammar school girl turned vegan ‘ethical influencer’, a union activist and a decolonial activist.

Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan includes thousands of asylum seekers to the east African country.

The plan, unveiled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson last month, seeks to act as a deterrent to migrants who make illegal boat crossings to Britain from France. It has drawn heavy criticism from political opponents and campaigners.

In an exchange of letters with Patel, the top official in the Home Office highlighted uncertainty over the scheme’s value to the taxpayer.

The government has said it would contribute an initial 120 million pounds ($156 million) to the scheme.

“I do not believe sufficient evidence can be obtained to demonstrate that the policy will have a deterrent effect significant enough to make the policy value for money,” Home Office Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft said.

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