Despite inspections that demonstrate the unsuitability of accommodation such as Napier, the Home Office recently extended the contract to 2025. In the nationality and borders bill currently going through parliament, the Home Office described the former military barracks as a “prototype” for how reception centres may operate in the future. Under plans by the home secretary, Priti Patel, to change the asylum system, the Home Office says it will develop more large-scale asylum accommodation in remote areas, including the former RAF airbase at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire.

It’s becoming clearer by the day that the government has no intention of ramping up removals – and the Rwanda agreement is a cynical piece of electioneering. The Linton-on-Ouse facility is intended as a permanent facility. One of many. Local residents might as well have an open prison on their doorstep.

Everything about this stinks. Decent homes, of the kind that young British families could never afford at Linton, are being refurbished to house illegal immigrants - when they could be given to those who will contribute to the community.

Private homes on nearby streets will now lose much of their value, and will be impossible to sell. We’re putting out the welcome mat, at the taxpayers’ expense, while destroying private equity – with zero public consultation. Local democracy is overridden every time.

Everything about this is utterly foul. We have a government that cannot even function at the most basic level of controlling our borders, spending taxpayers’ money to cover up its own incompetence, while wrecking decent people’s lives without so much as a second glance – and is persistently lying to us about it.

Instead of heeding the public demand for controlled immigration, the Tories preside over record levels. Meanwhile Labour calls for more “safe and legal routes” for itinerant scroungers.

The bottom line is that these are mostly men of fighting age, of limited skills, many of whom have already had asylum claims rejected because they are economic migrants, not refugees. They pay substantial sums to smugglers (more than many Brits have in savings), with the intention of circumventing our immigration rules and abusing the asylum system. Our compassion is our weakness. This is moral blackmail.

There is seemingly no end to this. The Tories are unwilling to do what is necessary to stop this invasion. These new asylum centres will fill up in no time, and we will see them expanded, to the point where we have tens of thousands in long term incarceration. This will end up with explosive and bloody consequences.

Meanwhile we see a relentless campaign by activist lawyers, NGOs and unelected lords to disarm the state of any defences against illegal immigration. Virtually anyone who rocks up, having greased the palms of people smugglers in France, can expect to evade deportation. They know that Patel isn't serious and that the Tories won’t take on the open borders blob. The British public are being cheated and taken for fools, and it’s only going to get worse. Only UKIP will put an end to it.