Red herring is more when you follow something thinking it’ll lead to something. Dead cat strategy is purely theatrical distraction. Like a magician they want you looking at what their doing with the right hand, rather than the card coming out of their left sleeve.

The person your replying to didn’t say they were human traffickers etc, just that they had been charged with it. Which is true.

Considering the fact that they’ve been charged with these crimes is why their passports have been seezed is relevant to what’s being reported. So ommiting any mention of that from the headline a choice.

Exactly

A lot of continental Europeans drink UHT which only needs refrigerating once opened.

The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case. Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as “throwing a dead cat on the table, mate”.

That is because there is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point… is that everyone will shout “Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!”; in other words they will be talking about the dead cat, the thing you want them to talk about, and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief

You think celebrating aggressiveness in the workplace anywhere is good? IMO anyone who beats their partner or gets drunk and starts bar fights should be punished, not celebrated.