‘Destroying Our Way of Life’ – Locals Protest Putting 1,500-Strong Migrant Camp in Small Village
by Kurt Zindulka
Distraught villagers staged protests this week against the Boris Johnson government’s plan to dump some 1,500 migrants in a camp in their community of only around 600 adults.
The Priti Patel-led Home Office, which failed to consult or seek permission to install the migrant camp, was met with protest and ridicule on Thursday by the residents of the village of Linton-on-Ouse outside of York in the North of England.
Residents held banners reading “Asylum centre. Wrong plan, wrong place,” the York Press reported.
The government is planning on housing up to 1,500 migrants at the former Royal Air Force (RAF) base in the village, falling in line with previous military installations being converted into migrant camps amid the ever-worsening boat crisis in the English Channel.
Home Office officials were reportedly heckled on Thursday evening during a meeting in the village hall, with one woman telling the government bureaucrats: “Whatever you say, you are not going to give residents any peace of mind.”
Residents went on to express their concern that housing migrants totalling twice the population of the town would radically change their way of life — all without their prior consent.