Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at the UK’s leading blind people’s charity, accusing it of helping small boat migrants after mistaking it for RNLI.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) reminded people that they’re “not the lifeboat people” amid threats to the RNLI in the wake of anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover this month.
Volunteers at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have been targetedby far-right demonstrators for the charity’s rescue work bringing some small boat migrants ashore.
RNIB said: “For absolute certainty, we're the Royal National Institute of Blind People, not the lifeboat people.
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