A group of Brits have sparked furious backlash online for their eyebrow-raising outfits at this year’s annual fancy dress parade in Benidorm.
Footage shared on X shows a group of marchers, half of whom are seemingly dressed as terrorists, and the other half as their prisoners in orange jumpsuits.
They are seen holding up Union Jack flags with the words ‘Enough is enough: Stop The Boats’ emblazoned on them.
Another one of their banners reads: ‘Coming to a town near you’, seemingly suggesting that terrorists are arriving to Europe as boat migrants.
The fancy dress event, now in its 31st year, takes place the day after Benidorm’s Festes Majors Patronals and sees more than 30,000 people fill the resort’s streets.
It is organised by local hotels and nightlife venues in Rincon de Loix, with support from the hospitality associations Abreca–Cobreca and Benidorm Town Hall.
But this year, it is the bizarre ‘stop the boats’ group that has caught people’s attention, especially online.
One X account posted a video of the group, writing sarcastically: ‘Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners.
‘It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.’
Others commenting on the video branded them ‘idiots’, ‘completely thick’ and ‘morons.’
One wrote: ‘It’s not hard to see why Spanish people want to ban British tourists from their country.’
‘If anything should make you embarrassed to be British, it’s this!’ another chimed in.
