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Begging to work is a humiliating, not to mention deeply unnatural, state.

Nine Swiss nationals who returned to Geneva on Sunday also complained about what they called the "inhumane detention conditions and the humiliating and degrading treatment", Reuters news agency cited a statement as saying.

"It's scary. It's humiliating when the freedom is taken away from you," he recalls.

The dramatic but highly produced scenes in the video prompted condemnation online, with social media users calling it dystopian and "humiliating".

There does seem to be a supportive cohort of disgruntled Labour MPs, particularly among the 130-strong group who rebelled over welfare reforms and forced Downing Street into a humiliating 11th-hour U-turn.