A BIZARRE Home Office video claiming that “activist lawyers” are disrupting its deportation efforts was fiercely slammed as “dangerous” and “nasty” today.

The video tweeted by the Home Office on Wednesday shows a rudimentary graphic of aircraft on a map leaving Britain towards Africa, the Middle East and Asia, to the sound of pre-flight music.

Text in the graphic reads: “We are working to remove migrants with no right to remain in the UK. But current return regulations are rigid and open to abuse, allowing activist lawyers to delay and disrupt returns.”

The tweet says: “Small boat crossings are totally unnecessary and we continue to return migrants with no right to be in the UK. Another flight left today with more planned in the coming weeks.”

Law Society president Simon Davis said the tweet was “misleading and dangerous,” adding: “We should be proud that we live in a country where legal rights cannot be overridden without due process.”

Care4Calais founder Clare Moseley told the Morning Star: “The refugees that reach Britain are some of the most vulnerable people in the world. They are running for their lives from incredibly dangerous countries like Syria, Yemen and Sudan.

“It’s right that lawyers should support them, and help them make their case. We should be proud that Britain is a country where people as vulnerable as refugees are supported and given a voice.

“The lazy and nasty attacks on lawyers — and the headlong rush to deport people from this country before they’ve had the chance to have their cases heard — are the tactics of bullies.

“The vast majority of people in this country believe we should treat people who come here and ask for our protection with decency and dignity, and the government is failing that test.”

Labour Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe said the tweet was the “latest example of the inhumanity which the Home Office has hardwired into our immigration system.”

She told the Star: “With this attack on impartial, professional lawyers, this hard-right Tory administration is following Donald Trump’s playbook by trying to centralise power so they can trample over basic human rights.

“After effectively being found institutionally racist by the Windrush Lessons Learned review, the Home Office must halt its fanatical scapegoating of migrants.

“And the government must stop trying to distract from its awful coronavirus record with this divisive, damaging rhetoric.”

Responding to the Home Office video, PCS union general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “The Home Office video is a callous and inaccurate portrayal of a complicated issue which needs compassionate and calm discussion.

“People fleeing persecution have the right to seek asylum in the UK, and they have the right to be treated with dignity and humanity.

“To use a graphics similar to Dad’s Army and equating that with migrants fleeing war and famine is politically and morally repugnant.

“Home Office staff do an important job often in very difficult circumstances. And the last thing they need is the Home Secretary playing crude political games.”