by Sunny Hundal

I’ve been railing against the Home Office’s GO HOME campaign for several days now because it revives an old National Front slogan.

It’s worth noting that the #racistvan is only touring Asian-heavy areas of London (Hounslow, Barking & Dagenham, Ealing, Barnet, Brent and Redbridge) and offering only Asian languages for translation (Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu).

Anyway, this exchange was posted to Twitter today.

Just had a callback from the Home Office after texting the #racistvan. Managed to keep him on the phone for 20mins. — PukkahPunjabi (@PukkahPunjabi) July 26, 2013

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Eventually established that he would not provide a taxi for me to "go home" to Willesden when I'm stuck in Harrow #racistvan — PukkahPunjabi (@PukkahPunjabi) July 26, 2013

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Said I didn't have a visa, he reassured me that I didn't need one to go between Willesden and Harrow so I was not an overstayer #racistvan — PukkahPunjabi (@PukkahPunjabi) July 26, 2013

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Do text the #racistvan number on 78070. You will get a callback from the Home Office, lets waste their time! — PukkahPunjabi (@PukkahPunjabi) July 26, 2013

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Try it yourself!

There have been other messages sent to the #racistvan number too and posted on Twitter

Amusing text sent to the Home Office #racistvan number by @mattd_williams. Find innovative ways to waste their time! pic.twitter.com/LS0hUuBI5F — Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) July 26, 2013

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A new text service to help people GO HOME, eh? Very handy! (Text 78070) #racistvan pic.twitter.com/uepYk7bqEK — Garmon Ceiro (@GarmonCeiro) July 26, 2013

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