‘What I witnessed filming Go Back To Where You Came From was horrendous’
The show has been widely condemned.
A contestant on one of Channel 4’s most controversial shows ever has admitted he doesn’t think it’s actually paid off in bringing people together about one of the most important issues this country faces.
Go Back To Where You Came From began airing earlier this month, and has faced immense backlash for putting six ‘opiniated’ Brits with varying views on immigration in the situation asylum seekers around the world face as they attempt to make the deadly journey to the UK.
Showing them how vulnerable and desperate people must be to flee their homes and often separate families to try and find a better life here, the programme attempts to give viewers an ‘unflinching look at the truth of immigration’.
And while it may have done that, from showing horrific scenes from refugee camps in Somalia and war-torn Syria, according to one of the contestants, it hasn’t brought people together at all.
Go Back To Where You Came From has been widely condemned and slammed as ‘A Place in the Sun’ meets ‘Benefits Street’, with Amnesty International calling it ‘deeply disappointing’ to turn horrific real-life experiences into ‘sensational’ TV.
Nathan Rimmington, a 32-year-old dad from Yorkshire, opens the show saying: ‘Supporting illegal immigration is like supporting rape and murder,’ and makes his thoughts on immigrants travelling in the back of vans heard loud and clear.
