We regret once again to inform you that your taxes are being spent on misleading propaganda.
It’s important to appreciate just what’s going on here. >
It’s important to appreciate just what’s going on here. >
https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1318212814947774465
This stat from the video is correct but out of context, bc a) most refugees in Europe don’t arrive via resettlement programmes but “spontaneously” ie independently of govt measures & b) the number taken by 🇬🇧 is a pinprick next to over 26 million refugees in the world in 2019> 
But this is the real problem: the UK’s focus *isn’t* currently on resettlement - the 5600 accepted under that route compares to more than 13k accepted after arriving independently. So why does the Home Office want you to think this? >
What the Home Office is doing is trying to make out that resettlement programmes are the only proper route for refugees & to delegitimise people who seek asylum after arriving spontaneously- which is the majority - in order to justify attacks on their rights
So what seems just like a silly and clunky little propaganda video which wastes your money and mine is actually something deeply sinister.
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