Refugees – UK response – Calais (April 2022)

UK visa response to Ukrainians “shameful”.

The Home Office turned away Ukrainian refugees escaping the war because they didn’t have the right paperwork.

A Ukrainian woman and her 8-year-old daughter slept rough for 4 days and nights in freezing temperatures to cross the Polish border, only to be refused entry to the UK at Calais. 

We cannot turn our back on those fleeing persecution in Ukraine. The UK must give an ambitious commitment to resettle Ukrainian refugees in the UK. 

In comparison with the rest of Europe the UK government is harsher on Ukrainian refugees but softer on Russian oligarchs.

They dont want to let them in. They pretend we are doing more than everyone else, and lie about it.

For the Tories, demonising foreign “others” has long been a convenient means of diverting working-class anger at economic insecurity away from powerful interests. They have always demonised and scapegoated migrants and refugees. The last thing these people want is more refugees, they think the UK “can’t afford” them and it should “look after its own first”.