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Priti Patel sends Christmas card depicting herself as fairy magicking up deportations to Rwanda
Priti Patel sends Christmas card depicting herself as fairy magicking up deportations to Rwanda
Jon Stone
Wed, 21 December 2022 at 7:00 am GMT
Priti Patel has been accused of lacking “basic human decency” after sending out a Christmas card showing her as a fairy magicking up deportations to Rwanda.
The card, sent out to the former Home Secretary's political contacts, features a caricature of Ms Patel sitting atop a Christmas Tree with a magic wand.
Lying below her are baubles including a points-based immigration system, "national security", and "Rwanda" – a reference to her controversial policy of flying asylum seekers to sub-saharan Africa.
The ex Home Secretary is joined on the front page of her bespoke greetings card by Boris Johnson, who is depicted as a child gleefully opening the political presents she has conjured up.
“We have seen Priti Patel’s lack of basic human decency time and time again – why should we expect anything less at Christmastime?"⨠said Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesperson, of the card.
“This is the Christmas card of someone who read the nativity story and thought King Herod had the right idea.
⨓If Priti Patel had been around, Mary, Joseph and Jesus would have been on their way to Rwanda before the three wise men could arrive.”
Deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda was one of Ms Patel's flagship policies as Home Secretary, though no removal flights have yet left for the country thanks to legal challenges.
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