Children’s Asylum Centre ‘too welcoming’ 😢

What a foul and spiteful demand. What a slap in the face for the people who painted the murals. What a horrible thing to say.

Lone children in a foreign country and the Home Office doesn't want to be 'too welcoming'. 😢😢😢

I'd understand providing basic accommodation but removing a mural that is already there!!! It's plain nasty.

I can only imagine how the people who work there must feel.
They must be absolutely livid.

The Tories (or the more lunatic of their number) really are weaponising immigration.

Do they really think that this is going to go down well with the public??

Unaccompanied, traumatised children mustn't be made to feel welcomed and safe?

Guy Venables, cartoonist and illustrator said:
“Jenrick’s decision to censor artwork for children is a baffling display of astonishing, pointless cruelty,” Venables says. “In response, my offer is simple. We will go the centre and do another mural. A huge one. A mural illustrated by many of the country's best cartoonists and illustrators. Jenrick might, just might, think twice about vandalising several professional national cartoonist's work just to deny a vulnerable child something fun to look at.”

www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/07/06/leading-uk-artists-offer-to-create-murals-in-refugee-detention-centres-after-government-minister-orders-staff-to-destroy-welcoming-artwork

Absolutely abhorrent 🤬🤬🤬

I saw his picture in my link and really would like to wipe the smirk off his smug face
🤬

Not physically, I should add 😯

He must have a very low opinion of the people of this country if he thinks we will applaud such a mean spirited act.

What a spiteful and mean thing to do - horrible man.

I was so incensed by this this morning that I started a thread and could not get myself together to write it I was angry, upset, mortified to think this country had come to this
Such a spiteful nasty thought I hope from the bottom of my heart that this can’t go through poor little kids uprooted from everything they know
I cannot wish any good feelings on this horrible, horrible, miserable, mean spirited man
I hope he gets boils on his bum

Absolutely appalling.

I share your feelings BlueBelle - what a shrivelled dark heart this man must have.

No matter what your thoughts on asylum seekers you have to have a particularly cruel streak to want to paint over cartoon murals.

As well as being incensed I also felt a bit tearful - my grandson is 17 and the idea that any arsehole politician would be so mean towards him if he ever had to seek sanctuary elsewhere fills me with rage but also sadness.

Preferably more visible, Bluebelle

Unbelievable maliciousness.

Jenrick was previously Secretary of State for Social Care in 2022.

As I understand it, the staff painted the murals without permission and he said it was a law enforcement centre.

What's a law enforcement centre?

In every report it is described as an asylum centre for unaccompanied children.

Who the law requires to be detained.

Grey walls, cells?
Without Mickey Mouse?
Bread and water?

I think we are only being told part of the story.

Primrose53

I think we are only being told part of the story.

What do you think is the rest?

A bit of sensationalist reporting, one side only.

What part aren't we being told, Primrose53?

Every publication has reported the same story.

Has Jenrick said anything to refute it yet?
We've been out.

Wow, that's just so deeply unpleasant, even the Daily Mail has covered the story in the same way as the Guardian. That must be a first. Making Britain too welcoming! Not given permission! The pettiness of this man is just astounding