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Home Office to pay TikTok influencers to warn migrants not to cross the Channel
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Oh god, this is going to be a fucking wheeze for influencers.
They take a £1000 commission for a video saying "don't cross guys, it's not worth it".
Smugglers and their ilk continue pushing the other message.
When your life is shit, and one person is saying "life is wonderful in the UK, minimum wage is 5x what it is here, you can easily find work, we'll offer you finance for the transit fees", and the other is saying "don't go to the UK, you might get deported", which one is going to have more effect?
It's all about presenting, here's some ideas:
I hope someone makes that kind of videos.
The biggest deterrent the UK has is that these poor immigrants will have to deal with the conservatives and their inability to understand anything.
If they are prepared to put up with that I'm not sure anything will stop them coming.
They really should just put up a Conservative campaign stand in Calais
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
Not to mention the Streisand effect. They will get the exact opposite effect which they desire. But maybe it will be the lesson Europe needs...