Winston Churchill must be turning in his grave.
Petition against use of famous Dambusters air base as migrant camp reaches more than 50,000 signatures
REMIX News A petition launched to prevent the English military base used by the famous Dambusters in World War II from being transformed into a migrant detention camp has surpassed 50,000 signatures.
RAF Scampton, located in the county of Lincolnshire, has been earmarked by the British government as a potential site to relocate the more than 52,000 asylum seekers currently residing in hundreds of hotels across the country. The current policy of block-booking hotels is costing the British government an eye-watering £2.3 billion per year, Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick revealed on Wednesday.
“The government will use military sites being disposed of in Essex and Lincolnshire and a separate site in East Sussex,” Jenrick told reporters as he announced four new locations where asylum seekers will soon be housed. The government will use military sites being disposed of in Essex and Lincolnshire and a separate site in East Sussex,” Jenrick told reporters as he announced four new locations where asylum seekers will soon be housed.
This suggests RAF Scampton, the former home of 617 Squadron — better known as The Dambusters — who conducted perilous air raids on key German infrastructure during World War II, has been selected as one location despite stiff opposition from local residents, politicians and academics.
Its author, Hamish Falconer, claims the government policy “would destroy local plans to create a center for the future aviation and space industry, generating 1000s of jobs. Local plans include a heritage center to honor Scampton’s proud history as the home of the ‘Dambusters’ 617 Squadron.
In addition to the petition, a total of 40 historians penned an open letter criticizing the move, telling the government that “to erase Scampton’s heritage, rather than preserve, protect and enhance it further, would be a scandalous desecration of immeasurable recklessness.”
The Change.org petition titled “Stop RAF Scampton Being Turned into a Detention Camp” was launched a fortnight ago and has amassed 50,740 signatures at the time of writing.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
For the moslum and the woke we are mores nothing is holy for them and yes they will tear down our churches for them and yes they will either imprison or kill us for them. That is what is going on in europe. Here they give our churches to them so that they can build mosques, that is no bull. They build whole towns only for them with our money and land but no , no one is being islamized. To say this will get you the title nazi islamophob homophob climate liar and alot more so as of today all or just about all are keeping their heads down but that is what will get them in the end. We the few know this and we wait for our call to duty and yes we are ready freddy.
Shivers says
My uncle, a Canadian, flew from there, he was shot down, they never found him and obviously, never met him. This is disgusting, especially on the back of the latest insult of MUZ flaunting the fact the military machines Biden gave them, and lording on about it. What the hell are leaders thinking? Certainly not about Judeo/Christian lives.