The Home Office is hosting a shadowy arms fair to help arms companies sell their deadly wares to stop people crossing borders.
Security and Policing 2022 takes place in Farnborough from 15-17 March. It’s a secretive event run and paid for by the Home Office, where arms companies, surveillance companies, police, prison and border agencies rub shoulders with ministers and senior civil servants. Journalists and other observers are barred from attending.
The fair is at the heart of the Hostile Environment and state repression. At the same time as closing down routes to safety for people on the move – making it ever more deadly to cross borders – the Home Office is profiting from selling weapons and technology to police those borders.
These borders kill – just 3 months ago, 27 people died on our shores, trying to reach safety here. Since then, there has been no accountability. This mass tragedy should have marked a turning point. Instead, our government has carried on p…