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Green Party Deputy Leader Mocked for Hypocritical Refugee Housing Stance

This meme highlights perceived hypocrisy from UK Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millard. It opens with a photo of Millard overlaid with text reading 'Refugees Welcome.... Just NOT here.' The accompanying text explains Millard spent years publicly advocating for welcoming refugees, supporting safe asylum routes, refugee right to work, and criticizing the UK government's 'hostile environment' immigration policy. However, when the UK Home Office proposed housing 600 asylum seekers at an army camp near her home, she publicly stated she was 'absolutely appalled', raised concerns about safety, poor planning and lack of consultation, and threatened legal action to block the plan. The meme jokes that support for refugees comes with an asterisk when they would be housed near wealthy pro-refugee politicians, then uses a modified Team Rocket meme from Pokémon, changing their famous line 'Prepare for trouble, make it double' to 'Prepare for standards.. Make it double' to mock her obvious double standard.
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The meme calls out Rachel Millard for supporting refugee welcome policies only when they do not affect her local area, using a modified Team Rocket quote to mock her double standard.

Overview

This meme highlights perceived hypocrisy from UK Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millard. It opens with a photo of Millard overlaid with text reading 'Refugees Welcome.... Just NOT here.' The accompanying text explains Millard spent years publicly advocating for welcoming refugees, supporting safe asylum routes, refugee right to work, and criticizing the UK government's 'hostile environment' immigration policy. However, when the UK Home Office proposed housing 600 asylum seekers at an army camp near her home, she publicly stated she was 'absolutely appalled', raised concerns about safety, poor planning and lack of consultation, and threatened legal action to block the plan. The meme jokes that support for refugees comes with an asterisk when they would be housed near wealthy pro-refugee politicians, then uses a modified Team Rocket meme from Pokémon, changing their famous line 'Prepare for trouble, make it double' to 'Prepare for standards.. Make it double' to mock her obvious double standard.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of 9Gag content. It is a derivative work that combines real news reporting about Rachel Millard's stance on local asylum seeker housing with the widely used Pokémon Team Rocket 'prepare for trouble' meme template to make a satirical point about political hypocrisy.

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