Fate of RAF Scampton
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Agreed FB,
There should be some way those that helped us in Afghanistan and got left behind, but made it out should be able to identify themselves to a consulate or Embassy in Europe and then be fast tracked over to the UK.
There should be some way those that helped us in Afghanistan and got left behind, but made it out should be able to identify themselves to a consulate or Embassy in Europe and then be fast tracked over to the UK.
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Meanwhile over at Wethersfield
https://www.planet-today.com/2023/03...-to-leave.html
https://www.planet-today.com/2023/03...-to-leave.html
Military families living on a historic air base in Essex have been told they have to leave their homes, as the Home Office looks set to move asylum seekers onto the former RAF facility in a matter of days according to reports.
The families of British military servicemen have been told that they will need to vacate their homes to make way for male asylum seekers, many of whom will have entered the country as illegal migrants. Breitbart reports: A military wife and mother has revealed that her household has been informed that military families living on the MDP Wethersfield former Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Braintree, Essex will need to leave their homes to so far undisclosed locations.
This is so the government can house migrants at the facility as it tries to shift away from the controversial hotel migrant housing scheme. Speaking to The Express, the military mother said: “There are a lot of concerns about the impacts that it would have on their children because, you know, their children struggle a lot more with those things. So it’s quite hard for them, you know, having to uproot their children.” While they have been told that they must leave their homes, the government has yet to come up with alternative housing for approximately 24 military families. They will therefore be forced to temporarily live alongside the often unvetted migrants when they are shipped onto the base on April 1st. The base has erected a fence “about 100 metres” from the military family homes which will supposedly separate them from the incoming migrants, however the mother said that the fence is not sufficient to keep anyone from crossing, saying. “I don’t think it would keep my dog in,” she said.via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/03...-to-leave.html
The families of British military servicemen have been told that they will need to vacate their homes to make way for male asylum seekers, many of whom will have entered the country as illegal migrants. Breitbart reports: A military wife and mother has revealed that her household has been informed that military families living on the MDP Wethersfield former Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Braintree, Essex will need to leave their homes to so far undisclosed locations.
This is so the government can house migrants at the facility as it tries to shift away from the controversial hotel migrant housing scheme. Speaking to The Express, the military mother said: “There are a lot of concerns about the impacts that it would have on their children because, you know, their children struggle a lot more with those things. So it’s quite hard for them, you know, having to uproot their children.” While they have been told that they must leave their homes, the government has yet to come up with alternative housing for approximately 24 military families. They will therefore be forced to temporarily live alongside the often unvetted migrants when they are shipped onto the base on April 1st. The base has erected a fence “about 100 metres” from the military family homes which will supposedly separate them from the incoming migrants, however the mother said that the fence is not sufficient to keep anyone from crossing, saying. “I don’t think it would keep my dog in,” she said.via @planettoday #PlanetToday: https://www.planet-today.com/2023/03...-to-leave.html
Tell me that is not true.
The military covenant.
Oh! the disgrace. What have we become? I despair, I despair.
The military covenant.
Oh! the disgrace. What have we become? I despair, I despair.
i know of at least one flight out of Afghanistan that could have been used to bring people to safety. Sadly there were those that thought rescuing dogs was a higher priority.
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i don;t know the base in question but what;s the betting the Patch in question is an 'outside the wire' one rather an inside the wire ... interestingly a good few years ago the still in use SFA at Scampton was changed to be 'outside the wire' presumably to reduce the need to staff the guardroom etc once the CFS activities wound down in the mid 1990s leaving the Reds and various minor units on the camp
Wethersfield: High Court injunction plan for air base migrants.
BBC radio online today.
BBC radio online today.
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Sadly a whistle blower, Raphael Marshall, who worked as a desk officer in the Foreign Office,stated..."...clearance for Operation Ark came "at the direct expense" of thousands of Afghans left behind "
I see the petition with regards to Scampton is at almost 50,000 signatories. Shame that the petition in itself, titled "Stop RAF Scampton Being Turned into a Detention Camp" is grossly misleading. The guests will in no way shape or form be detained. That fact was clarified during discussions regarding Linton On Ouse when it became clear they would be free to roam and the Home Office imposed 10pm "curfew" amounted to nothing more than a welfare call to those who were adrift. .
https://www.change.org/p/stop-raf-sc...detention-camp
I wish Scampton and Weathersfield every success in blocking Home Office steam-roller tactics. Both sites are wholly unsuitable and if ithey are like Linton - even the refugee charities and welfare organisations said so!
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There are over 50,000 accommoodated in hotels. There is no evidence that the likes of Scampton, Wethersfield, Catterick etc will have the capacity or even be cheaper, but it will make another good headline. Why not spend the money on processing those waiting for a decision and solve the problem the government created in the first place?
Looks like it's a done deal. https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/n...YizPzKrj3RELVk
My counter-proposal is tented cities on Flatholm and Steepholm in the Bristol Chhel just S of Welsh Coast. Bracing, and no risk of the migrants catching anything nasty off the natives. Nice views to the north.
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Catterick too... that WILL be fun and games with the pongos there.
"In future, pongoes are to be referred to as soldiers"
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Why? it's historic
Why not Holbeach; nice flat area in the Wash?
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There are over 50,000 accommoodated in hotels. There is no evidence that the likes of Scampton, Wethersfield, Catterick etc will have the capacity or even be cheaper, but it will make another good headline. Why not spend the money on processing those waiting for a decision and solve the problem the government created in the first place?
Simple fix, remove their Hotel accomodation full stop and turf them out onto the streets. ( all bar any Ukrainians or Afghanistanis that helped us.)
After all that is how they live in the likes of Calais, no wonder they wish to cross over to the UK, hotel, food and allowances. Before turfing them out scan their eyes and finger print them etc, so they can be picked up and deported as and when.
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Make it the law that anyone who originates from a country deemed safe will be immediately returned there*, without access to the asylum laws. It would be a start, and deal with the Albanians at least.
CG
I mean, the next day, and as soon as arrest warrants have been discounted.
CG
I mean, the next day, and as soon as arrest warrants have been discounted.
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especially given that you have all ready attempted to justify discrimination / defend those who discriminate against people with EA 2010 Protected Characteristics in another thread