I wasn’t going to post this article here but since Facebook is heavily censoring me today I don’t really have a choice.

In response to the Home Office’s intention to use Linton-on-Ouse RAF base as an asylum camp, dumping 1500 migrants on the village, the village has mobilised in protest. Very quickly, a formal action group was set up, which has taken on itself the role of representing the villagers. However, not is all it seems.

One of the leading lights is Nicola David, a long-term campaigner for … refugee rights, and chair of a refugee support organisation called Ripon City of Sanctuary, located some 20 miles away, close to where she lives. Nicola David has appointed herself to play a prominent role in the campaign. Her organisation opposed the Borders Bill and opposes measures to end the the invasion of dinghies at Dover. Her website links to freemovement.org.uk and is part of the open borders NGOcracy that seeks to dismantle Britain’s system of border controls.

NGOcracy and legal activism is the very reason we can’t rapidly deport, and is the reason the hotels are filling up and overspill sites are needed. Being that “refugee” charities are awarded considerable grants and government funding, they have a vested interest in frustrating attempts to control the borders. Is she just drumming up business for herself? Either way, she can’t be considered sincere and for as long as she is involved, the Linton Action Group must be considered a false flag operation.

I’m given to wondering why Nicola David is involved at all. She doesn’t live in or near Linton, and in fact lives in massive mansion the other side of the A1M. Perhaps that’s why she says migrants “should be housed in major conurbations, not small villages”. Refugees welcome (just not here!). She’s a hypocrite. She’s seems mainly interested in self promotion, using any opportunity she can to get her own face and name in the media.

In a Yorkshire Live article, Nicola claims to have “opened her doors to a refugee several years ago and knows what it is like to welcome a stranger into her home”. “Najem arrived on Nicola’s doorstep from Syria. He initially came for a trial weekend, but ended up staying for seven months. “He was brilliant,” said Nicola. “We’d sit and watch The Apprentice together and Masterchef and he was always right. He would always call who would win. “Najem had done a degree in English in Damascus and then had been teaching English in Kuwait for three years before he came here, so his English was really good. He was really into linguistics and prided himself on his language, so it was really easy to communicate with him.”

This woman is clearly away with the fairies. It is usually the case that the first to escape any war zone are the affluent middle classes, of which there have been many Syrians claiming to be refugees – but somehow manage to post pictures of their exotic holidays on Instagram. If Najem had been teaching English in Kuwait for three years before he came here then there is no possible way he qualifies as a refugee unless he lied to the authorities. Either Nicola David was born yesterday or she thinks we were. She has a very high opinion of herself so we assume the latter.

The reality of these “adopt a pet refugee” is somewhat different. Not everyone is vetted beforehand. Growing numbers of refugees are being made homeless, and in many cases destitute, after relationship breakdowns with their Homes for Ukraine hosts in the UK, community organisations have said.

Some predict the system could crash entirely after reports of Ukrainian refugees being asked to leave the homes of their sponsors with only one day’s notice. This has left them with no option but to be referred to local authorities as homeless or, if they can afford to, to seek last-minute rented accommodation. Elsewhere we learn that Ukrainians themselves are exploiting the scheme. The government have made an active loophole that Ukrainians are using to get to the UK and jump the housing queue.

In purporting to represent the interests of Linton, Nicola David projects a toxic blend of virtue signalling narcissism and naivety. She should hardly be surprised if some Linton residents think she believes herself to be more enlightened, caring, courageous and generous than those who do not live in a grand mansion miles away from the proposed camp, immune from the plummeting property prices that the proposal has brought.

Certainly, the PR shots tell their own story. They portray a woman keen to be in the spotlight. What she does not seem to have grasped is that the Dover dinghy arrivals are, in the main, economic migrants abusing and defrauding the system, who could have made an asylum claim before reaching the UK but instead paid people smugglers. They’re jurisdiction shoppers. Moreover, few will be English-speaking graduate class refugees, of the type with whom David so happily bonded. As likely, they could be itinerant criminals from Eritrea, Somalia, Iran and Albania.

Despite that, Nicola David seems to be more interested in promoting the cause of refugees than she does the residents of Linton. To that effect, she has co-opted the Linton Action Group for what seem to be her own objectives, alienating many of the villagers and would-be supporters in the process. This is reinforced by Stalinesque censorship imposed by the Action Group, which has turned the campaign into a private fiefdom for the greater glory of David and her friends.

The Group is behaving more like an ego-affirming echo chamber. If the residents of Linton and the surrounding area continue to accept that this woman has any right to represent them, they must expect that their cause will be poorly served.