The xenophobic and racist slogan “England for the English” has been elevated to the bucket by the British Home Office, after erasing Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Baloo the bear and other cartoon characters from the walls of the reception at Dover’s unaccompanied minors reception center as it felt it was sending a “too welcoming and hospitable” message to children who arrive in the country on foot without their parents, which would make them feel “overly comfortable ” and think that everything here is nonsense. When it is about “creating a climate as hostile as possible for illegal aliens”.
The definitive proof that the current Government of the United Kingdom has been passed the rice is that not only has the Labor opposition (logical), pro-human rights groups (also logical) criticized the outrageous decision, but until the far-right politician Nigel Farage, one of the architects of Brexit and who has made the fight against immigration his leitmotif: “Although it is understandable that those who cross the English Channel in inflatable boats are not accommodated in four-star hotels , erasing from the wall of the reception center the mural with the characters of Walt Disney and Hanna Barbera is excessively cruel, after all the children who apply for asylum are pawns in the game of the criminal gangs who traffic in the immigrants”.
Four stars, nothing at all. And not three, or two. In any case, a bad death pension with bars, barbed wire, fences and security cameras. A recent inspection of the Kent Intake Unit (KIU) in Dover, carried out not by an oenagé, but by the head of Her Majesty’s Prisons Department, has determined that “it has no windows, the beds are not made properly, the rooms are dirty because during the day there is no cleaning staff, the toilets and bathrooms are disgusting, the children have no children’s reading books and the selection of toys is minimal”. Apart from that, everything is fine, “it is in good condition, it is warm and very bright (with artificial light)”.
Too warm, decided the Secretary of State for Immigration, Robert Jenrick, the same one who fell as minister after leading a conflict of interest scandal, when he fast-tracked planning permission for the construction of 1,500 flats on the Isle of Dogs, one of London’s poorest boroughs, so that a Conservative Party patron could save €50 million from a council tax that was about to come into force .
But the treatment of a patron is one thing, and the treatment of minors who arrive on the coast of Kent by shepherd, without father or mother or any relatives, and who, in the opinion of the British Government, do not deserve a residence permit, is another. but not even the right to a smile seeing universal cartoon characters on the reception center walls. Lest they be inspired by Mickey Mouse, prototype, with his tiny stature and his whistling voice, of the one who has everything against him and is the favorite to lose, in sport and in life. When the goal is for those who should always win, “the home team”, there should be no surprises.
“The idea that erasing the cartoon characters will deter immigrants from crossing the channel on foot is absurd. We’re talking nine-year-olds! It is a clear sign of a chaotic government in the midst of crisis, whose own failures have led it to adopt cruel and petty language and policies.” But while the Administration, with one hand, wants to make life impossible for asylum seekers and send them to Rwanda, with the other it opened the doors to 660,000 foreigners last year, a historical record, because pay the tuition fees of fancy universities like Oxford and Cambridge, work in high-tech companies or do the jobs that the natives don’t want. Without this, the country’s economy would collapse completely.
According to the Home Office, the important thing is that the reception center in Kent has spacious interrogation rooms, places where you can pray and impeccable security measures, so that no one escapes. Cartoon characters are over the top. I could have replaced Mickey Mouse with witches, Cruella de Vil or the stepmother from Cinderella, but it would have been too expensive. He has limited himself to painting the walls a mortuary grey.
