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“These migrants have indeed fucked off” – Diane Abbott reacted in now deleted tweet over news of 41 migrants have died in the Mediterranean after their ship sank.
Diane Abbott has said about the news that 41 migrants have died in the Mediterranean after their ship sank by saying:
“These migrants have indeed f***** off. To the bottom of the sea.”
Abbott has a long history of PR disasters. Last November, she was heavily criticized for suggesting the rape of a teenage boy at a hotel accommodating asylum seekers in northeast London last month “is what happens when you demonize migrants.”
Others reminded the Labour MP that the migrants involved in the tragedy were not in the U.K., had no link whatsoever with the U.K., and the event had no relevance to the remarks made by Lee Anderson, who referred specifically to illegal migrants complaining about taxpayer-funded accommodation in Britain.
Abbott had previously chastised the Conservative MP for his language in relation to new arrivals in Britain, and claimed he had told asylum seekers to “fuck off back to France,” conflating genuine refugees with illegal immigrants, something Anderson clarified in an exchange on the social media platform X, previously known as Twitter.
Diane Abbott has deleted a tweet about the deaths of 41 migrants in a shipwreck off Italy that referenced a senior Tory Lee Anderson’s “fuck off” attack on asylum seekers.
The independent MP tweeted “These migrants have indeed fucked off. To the bottom of the sea,” as she shared a BBC news story about the disaster in the Mediterranean.
The blunt language is a reference to Anderson, deputy Conservative party chairman, who this week said asylum seekers who do not want to stay in a giant migrant barge in the UK should “fuck off back to France”.
Abbott had responded to Anderson’s comments on Tuesday, calling them a “new low even for the Tories”. Anderson replied that he had told “illegal migrants to go back to France not genuine asylum seekers”.
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