Crowborough has just learned a brutal lesson about how this Government really operates, quietly, arrogantly, and with total disregard for the people who live there.
While families slept, migrants were moved into accommodation in Crowborough under the cover of darkness. No warning, no proper consultation and no respect.
Residents woke up to find that decisions affecting their safety, their town, and their children had already been taken without them, imposed from above, all by people who will never have to live with the potentially dangerous consequences.
This site was used to train 6,000 army and RAF cadets each year, as well as for police and fire training. They have all now been kicked out to accommodate illegal immigrants instead.
Let’s get one thing straight right now. This is not about compassion, this is not about being “kind”. This is about democracy, public safety, and trust, and all three have been completely trashed… yet again.
At the moment, there are only a few dozen men on site. But locals know exactly what’s coming. The facility can house up to 500 illegal migrants.
That is not a temporary measure; that is a major settlement, now forced onto a town that has already made its opposition crystal clear.
The Crowborough migrant camp is collateral damage for national failure - Adam Brooks | Getty Images
Residents are told to accept it, to stay calm and to trust the system.
Which system exactly? The one that has lost track of tens of thousands of migrants? The one that admits it doesn’t know where people are?
The one drowning in backlogs and failures while ministers issue bland reassurances? Public trust hasn’t disappeared by accident; it’s been smashed by years of incompetence, denial and heinous asylum seeker crimes.
These migrants are free to walk the streets of Crowborough. Past schools, past parks, past women and children. And locals are expected to just nod along while being given vague statements and empty platitudes. Even the Home Office does not know the past of these men.
People are not stupid, and they’re not paranoid either. Across the country, we have seen exactly where this bonkers policy leads.
Time and again, communities raise concerns. Time and again, they are dismissed. And only after something goes horribly wrong do politicians suddenly discover regret. Regret that last literally hours.
The protests we’ve already seen in Crowborough are just the beginning. Right now, the numbers are relatively manageable.
But if that site is filled to capacity, if more people are moved in without consent, and locals continue to be ignored, those protests will grow to massive numbers. That isn’t incitement; it is an opinion based on common sense and the local protests near me.
What makes this even more infuriating is that there is a simple alternative. If people enter this country illegally, they should not be released into open communities.
They should be held in secure, humane detention centres while their claims are processed. That is not extreme; that is what a serious country does to protect its citizens. Borders mean nothing if the law is simply optional.
Instead, this Government takes the easy route for itself and the reckless route for towns like Crowborough. Dump the problem locally. Avoid scrutiny and hope that people eventually give up.
Crowborough is being used as collateral damage for national failure.
The people who live there are not radicals or troublemakers. They are ordinary, law-abiding citizens, parents, workers, pensioners, who pay their taxes and expect to be heard. They have every right to ask why their town was chosen, why their voices don’t matter, and why their safety comes second.
One thing is absolutely certain. Crowborough will not take this lying down. And frankly, nor should it.
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