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From Marrakech to Your Living Room. The Plan Was Always This. A producer of Pickle Storm, a CBBC comedy aimed at children aged around seven, confirmed it in their own words. The charity that met with the production team described its purpose with equal clarity: to "tap into children's media and directly impact framing of migration in children's content." The producer said the intervention "really will inform our writing." The show's second series was edited accordingly. A children's television programme was shaped by a charity whose stated mission is to change how Britain thinks about migration. Nobody asked the parents. The charity is called Heard. It has received more than £4.5 million in grant funding since 2021. A second charity, Imix, has placed hundreds of sympathetic migration stories across the BBC, the Mirror and the Guardian, and claims more than 11,000 bookings on programmes including Newsnight and Good Morning Britain. A third, Counterpoint Arts, received more than £400,000 from Arts Council England and oversees an initiative seed-funded by George Soros's Open Society Foundations, whose stated aim is to use pop culture to shift the way Britain thinks and feels about migration. None of these organisations appeared from nowhere. In December 2018 Britain signed the Marrakech Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The compact's own closing statement called on governments to push back against what it described as distorted narratives, in partnership with civil society groups, business leaders and migrants themselves. Heard, Imix and Counterpoint Arts are the civil society implementation mechanism the compact called for. Britain signed the document. The charities were funded and activated. The Pickle Storm producer confirmed the intervention worked. The sequence runs from a UN conference in Morocco in 2018 to a CBBC production suite in 2025. The same framework reaches deeper into the state than most people realise. The Teal Book is the British government's definitive operational guide for project delivery across Whitehall, connecting more than 26,000 civil servants who deliver policy at every level of government. Published under this government in April 2025, it is on the government's own website. Its chapter on equality, diversity and inclusion states explicitly that British EDI policy is governed by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, citing the UN's own Agenda 2030 document as a listed reference. Every major government project, from housing to healthcare to border policy, is being delivered within a framework explicitly tied to a UN commitment signed in 2015 without a referendum or a manifesto commitment. The destination of that framework is now visible. Shabana Mahmood's Community Sponsorship Scheme asks British families, community groups, employers and universities to sponsor refugees directly, committing to their financial, emotional and settlement needs for the first year. The nationalities prioritised are Sudanese and Eritrean nationals, chosen because they represent the largest groups currently crossing the Channel illegally. The UNHCR, not the British government, determines who benefits. Mahmood described community sponsorship as the new norm for refugees entering Britain. The preparation came first. The next generation is being conditioned through children's television, soap operas and national newspapers to regard migration as normal and those who question it as the problem. The institutional framework was embedded second, in the operational guidance of 26,000 civil servants, referenced explicitly to a UN commitment. The community delivery mechanism arrives third, asking British families to provide the physical infrastructure. Each stage presented as unconnected. Each stage documented. Each stage already underway. "The sequence runs from a UN conference in Morocco in 2018 to a CBBC production suite in 2025."