TENS of thousands of people are expected to protest in London, Glasgow and Cardiff this Saturday to express outrage at the response to the refugee crisis from the UK Government and the media.
Protestors will march under the slogan “refugees welcome here” and will be joined by groups of people, who have travelled from the refugee camp in Calais, and trade unionists, who have volunteered to work with asylum-seekers in Greece.
Weyman Bennett, Joint National Secretary of Stand Up To Racism, which is organising the events, said: “David Cameron would like refugees to be out of sight and out of mind but this will not solve the refugee crisis. We want to send a message to Cameron not to bulldoze refugees’ homes and to let them into Britain.”
Last week, the Commons Home Affairs Committee said there was an "impending shortage" of housing for asylum seekers in the UK.
It pointed out how the issue was being made worse by a lack of "fair and equal dispersal" with some areas receiving hundreds of people and others getting none; Glasgow has the most with more than 3000 refugees.
Labour’s Keith Vaz, the committee chairman, who is due to travel to Scotland this week to see conditions first hand, said the dispersal system "appears unfair with whole swathes of the country never receiving a single asylum-seeker".
Also last week, David Cameron said the UK Government would co-operate with any inquiry into the alleged mistreatment of asylum-seekers in Glasgow but the Prime Minister stopped short of meeting calls for the Home Office to launch an official probe.
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