Civil servants hand £90k to radical group that wants end to all borders

A RADICAL migration campaign group that promotes ‘abolishing borders’ and blamed last week’s 27 Channel boat deaths on government policy receives state funding, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Migrants Organise, which has arranged protests outside the Home Office over the migration crisis, has received nearly

£90,000 in Whitehall grants over the past three years, Freedom of Information documents have shown.

Civil servants are accused of being ‘determined to prop up pressure groups with taxpayers’ cash’ in signing off the funding.

The grants have been given by the Home Office, the Department for Digital, Culture,

Media and Sport and the Greater London Authority. They have given the group £21,502, £40,842 and £27,500 respectively since 2018.

Recent social-media posts by Migration Organise include describing the Government’s immigration policy as

‘cruel and inhumane’. One read: ‘The whole damn system has to go!’

The group has also retweeted messages saying the deaths of 27 migrants last week were a ‘direct result of this Government’s horrific fortress Britain policies’. It has also retweeted calls to ‘Abolish all borders’ and ease migration routes into the UK.

Tory MP Craig Mackinlay branded the group’s public funding ‘madness’ last night and said it seemed to be a ‘policy of providing the poison for one’s own enemy to put into the communal well’.

John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Taxpayers should not be subsidising campaigners to preach and protest.

‘Some officials seem determined to prop up pressure groups with taxpayers’ cash, despite them campaigning on extremely divisive issues and even blockading public buildings. Ministers must stop paying out to political groups pushing for policy changes.’