The death penalty is a controversial subject for sure and in the UK it’s currently not active, with the last executions way back in 1964.

However with the UK set to leave the European Union and a host of laws to be reviewed some groups are pushing for the death penalty to be introduced.

One of the groups is Leave.eu, a lobby group who advocated for the UK leaving the EU (and possibly were the group that made the idea mainstream) and whom now are pushing for many changes in the way the country works.

Their new campaign image claims it costs just five english pounds ($6.20) to execute a prisoner vs 250,000 pounds ($309,000) per year to keep them in prison.

So they created an image to show this, the image shows murderer, a black murderer in fact, and a noose to represent the death penalty!

Now, that’s absolutely racist, in my opinion.

The UK is majority white so they should have chosen a white “remorseless” killer, seeing as this whole leaving the EU has caused a huge rise in hate crimes….

And anyone with any sense knows that you don’t put nooses and black men anywhere near each other. And although the UK had a slightly different history you’d have to be living in a cave to not understand what this means to people.

So, I can only image they did it on purpose, judging by their previous xenophobic actions (in my opinion) this is hardly surprising.

Below is their tweet and the image, please go pay them a visit and let them know what you think of their campaign!

How much should the British taxpayer spend on remorseless murdering scum like this? pic.twitter.com/qf3nd8nzgv

— LEAVE.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) April 6, 2017