“This is INSANE. On so many levels” wailed Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist partner of Reform’s Richard Tice, as she retweeted a video of two Welsh schoolgirls welcoming refugees to the country and explaining the help they could get from a charity called the Welsh Refugee Council (WRC).
The original post quoted by Oakeshott claimed the WRC was “using 12-year-old girls in ads meant to entice migrant men to come to Wales. Most members of this council are from the Middle East, India and Pakistan. I think I’m going to throw up”.
Alas for those with a far right agenda, it turns out that the video in question was made in December 2022 by Year 7 students from Brynteg School in Bridgend and was aimed at the women and children then arriving from Ukraine. Pupils also donated clothes, bedding, jackets, shoes, toys and books to the families, while parents chipped in with donations to help them buy daily essentials. Oddly, a “community note” pointing some of this out was later removed by Elon Musk’s hellsite.
After this embarrassing misrepresentation – insane, in fact, on so many levels – perhaps Oakeshott might weigh in with a donation of her own?
