Thanks, Nigel. My only doubt about the door colour tied to the company, which was not apparently solely concerned with asylum seekers, was the incident when a group in one of the houses had repainted the door white, and it was shortly after repainted red. But even that could be tied to a determination to conform with the company paint code, with no intent to identify asylum seekers. (I live in an area with very strict design rules, so expect that sort of thing.)

I think one has to have very convincing proof of intent before waving around accusations of imposing identification deliberately to make people second class citizens. I suspect the worst that could be said of the wristband fracas was that they thought that if they didn't make them tamper proof (they couldn't be removed and replaced), people would be passing them around and fiddling the system.

Meanwhile, has anything been done to identify and deal with the perpetrators of the illegal harassment? They are the real guilty people in all of this, and should be very firmly, and publicly, sat on.