As a migrant of colour, still struggling with the Home Office to regularise my immigration status in the UK, and as a campaigner against the “hostile environment” policy and draconian border apparatus, I read with interest Holly Hudson’s piece on why Green New Deal Rising activists disrupted a Bassetlaw Conservatives dinner that Priti Patel, the home secretary, attended (Why we confronted Priti Patel about her inhumane ‘Rwanda plan’ at a Tory dinner, 9 May).
In this age of more carceral border controls, it seems rather pedestrian for activists to think that disrupting a Tory dinner will make a difference, especially confronting someone with a far-right agenda such as Patel. I take issue that activists paid to attend this Tory dinner. Have they forgotten that disruptions should never financially feed the belly of the beast – that being the Tory party?
