Mob ambushes Priti over Rwanda plan
PROTESTERS ambushed Priti Patel as she addressed a Conservative constituency dinner, demanding that she end her ‘racist’ Rwanda migrant scheme.
The mob – later revealed to be from the climate change pressure group Green New Deal Rising – filmed themselves interrupting the Home Secretary and later uploaded the footage on to social media.
It is believed the group posed as young Tories to attend the £40-a-head Bassetlaw Conservatives spring dinner in Nottinghamshire,
‘They contributed to the people they are against’
with one even taking a ‘selfie’ with Ms Patel before disrupting her speech.
Shortly after Ms Patel stood up to speak, a female protester shouted at her: ‘Your racist policies are killing people. Your plans to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda are inhumane, they’re inhumane and are going to ruin people’s lives.’
As the woman was escorted off the premises by security staff, other protesters shouted about their ‘disgust’ at the policy, which will see adult males sent to start new lives in East Africa. They branded it cruel and problematic.
They chanted: ‘Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here!’ Ben Mitchell, one of the protesters, posted a photograph taken with Ms Patel as he gloated on Twitter: ‘It was lovely to see you last night, Priti Patel! You even thanked us for coming all the way up just for you ... you’re so welcome.
‘We hope you now know that young people will not be silent while you sanction these racist and inhumane plans.’
Other protesters included Fiona Quekett, a former grammar school student who has a profile on the Ethical Influencers website, Holly Hudson and Roseanna Wiseman, it was reported.
Ms Hudson, who took part in the protest, said: ‘I am disgusted by Priti Patel’s Rwanda plan and her immigration policies. They are violent, illegal and inhumane and have been condemned across society.’
Fellow activist Hannah Martin said: ‘Those who stand for climate justice also stand against Priti Patel’s cruel plans that demonise people who are escaping terrifying situations as they bear the brunt of the multiple crises of war, poverty and the climate catastrophe.’
Diners responded by chanting ‘Out, out, out’ as security staff removed the protesters.
Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Conservative MP who represents Bassetlaw, said: ‘In fairness, they spent a fortune on tickets and even bought them for the raffle – presumably not to blow their cover. So in effect they contributed financially to precisely the people they were campaigning against.’
A Home Office spokesman said the plans to send migrants to Rwanda ‘fully comply with international and national law’.