For the third weekend in a row, hundreds of residents in the east Sussex town of Crowborough have protested against the government’s plans to house asylum seekers at a military site.
It is no surprise that the Home Office’s plans, announced in October, have provoked such a fierce backlash. According to the BBC, up to 540 single male asylum seekers are to be housed at an army training camp on the outskirts of this small town. At last Sunday’s demonstrations, protesters chanted ‘Crowborough says no’ and ‘protect our community’. They also wore individual numbers, each number representing one of the immigrants soon to arrive.
