Far-right extremists hide 'cruel' leaflets in food parcels delivered to homeless people in Manchester
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA far-right extremist group has come under fire after hiding propaganda leaflets in food parcels handed out to homeless people on the streets of Manchester.
Activists from Patriotic Alternative have shared pictures of themselves on social media handing out sandwiches, fruit and snacks, along with anti-refugee flyers.
Leaflets given to rough sleepers in Manchester, Newcastle and Salford say: "Five star hotels for migrants whilst Brits are on the streets," the Mirror reports. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community They are similar to flyers pushed through letterboxes across Merseyside days before a riot outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Knowsley, Liverpool – where a police van was torched and 15 people were arrested in February.
Salford and Eccles MP Rebecca Long-Bailey said: "Racism and hatred offer no hope for tackling homelessness." Newcastle Labour MP Chi Onwurah said: "It is cruel and hypocritical for a far-right group that seeks to divide us all, that scapegoats the poorest and wants to make us all poorer, to be giving out food parcels.
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