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The New Immigration Plan CONSULTATION ENDS 6th May 2021

Please consider responding to the governments 6 week Consultation on the most wide-ranging changes to the immigration system in the UK which seeks to remove rights from those seeking asylum and increase the use of detention centres and considers removal to the third country whilst claims are being considered.

Enter a response to the Consultation on the government website here

Consider signing the Refugee Action Open Letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, outlining concerns regarding the content of the proposals and the way the consultation is being carried out here

St Paul’s Cray: Racist slogans on bus stops say ‘Vote Fox’

Read article by Euan O’Byrne Mulligan on Newshopper website here 

A life-long Orpington resident “felt sick” after discovering racist slogans graffitied on two bus stops in St Paul’s Cray.

Paula Peters, 49, noticed ‘KKK’, ‘STAY WHITE’ ‘NO KNEE’ and ‘VOTE FOX’, an apparent reference to the mayoral candidate, written on Ravenscourt Road shelters as she travelled to a hospital appointment this morning.

A pair of elderly women who asked what Paula was doing as she photographed the messages allegedly said: “Bloody blacks taking bread out of white people’s mouths”.