Author-VIC PARSONS
A drag queen from activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants went to British Airways’ headquarters every day for a month trying to deliver letters calling for the airline to stop deportations.
The 100 letters form part of LGSMigrants’ campaign, #DearBA, which is demanding British Airways end its deportations contract with the Home Office.
Migrants, British Airways staff and customers, artists, politicians and poets have all written letters to British Airways calling for it to stop deportations on its flights.
The letters are a response to British Airways’ own campaign marking its 100th birthday, featuring love-letters to Britain from staff and celebrities.
“They just don’t seem to care,” says drag queen Helvetica Bold, who dressed as a postal worker for her month of trips to British Airways’ headquarters in London, in the video shared exclusively with PinkNewsby LGSMigrants.
“I’ve been dragging myself up to the bloody British Airways headquarters every day for a month. And the stack just keeps getting bigger!
“They’re too busy making money to care that hundreds of people are asking them to stop deporting people. It’s a disgrace!”
British Airways has previously said that it carries out deportation flights to comply with UK law.
David Lammy MP is one of the people who wrote a letter to British Airways as part of the LGSMigrants campaign.
“In its centenary year, the question our national carrier faces is whether it wishes to truly represent ‘the best of all things of British’ – of British fairness, morality and due process and end its part in deportation flights, or whether it will continue to play its part in this shameful process,” Lammy said.
“I would strongly urge British Airways to choose the former,” he ended his letter.
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