Protestors at Crawley!

[preiffer]

Full story here

Anti-deportation campaigners today 'paid a visit' to Virgin Holidays, the Branson owned tour operators based in Crawley town centre in protest at Virgin's involvement in forced deportations of rejected asylum seekers to unsafe countries. The Home Office regularly books seats on Virgin Atlantic flights to countries such as Nigeria to forcibly remove people from the UK.

Somewhat misguided anger if you ask me... [ii]

...Around 11am this morning, 12 protesters walked into the offices on Station Road, armed with a banner reading "Virgin destroys lives" and leaflets exposing "this hidden, shameful business" of the British airline, owned by English entrepreneur Richard Branson.

[RichardMannion]

Mmm, now theres an idea - we could set up a charity that collects miles from Customer Relations and they can be used to fund 'reward flights' on VS so the Home Office doesn't have to use tax payers money to pay for revenue flights. Win-win in my book for Uk taxpayers.

My eldest daughter works airside at LGW North & after she finished work & boarded the courtesy bus to the staff car park the bus was given a police escort.

[Decker]

This just in from our reporter on the front line

The really funny thing? Although Virgin Atlantic flies to Nigeria, Virgin Holidays doesn't actually go anywhere near Nigeria. So yeah, preiffer, definitely misguided anger!

The protestors were shown from the building within about 5 minutes, when it became apparent they weren't actually the finance temps we were expecting.

[Pete]

Originally posted by VirginHolidays
The protestors were shown from the building within about 5 minutes, when it became apparent they weren't actually the finance temps we were expecting.

LOL!