Via the BBC, Kevin Hollinrake, MP for Thirsk and Malton, has said activists opposing all immigration who had attended meetings in the village “should stay away”. “Far-right activists” are “not welcome” in the campaign against plans to open a centre for asylum seekers in a North Yorkshire village, he said.

The Home Office intends to house up to 1,500 men at a former RAF station at Linton-on-Ouse, near York.

Residents’ concerns were over the suitability of the location, he said. He confirmed some far-right activists had attended meetings held in the village about the intended centre for asylum seekers. “This is about the scale of the problem. I think the far-right activists don’t want to see asylum seekers in the UK at all and I don’t support that view.”

The Tory MP said local residents were instead concerned about housing a large number of men in a small rural community, not about immigration.

We would note that the facility very recently housed a large number of men when it was an active RAF station. It wasn’t a problem then. The concern is that the Home Office is dumping 1500 itinerant single men who have paid smugglers to gain entry into the UK with a view to exploiting our joke of an asylum system. They can’t even admit that.

As a nearby resident, I can also confirm that a handful of far right activists, mostly well behaved, have made an appearance, but they’re not saying anything that locals aren’t saying privately. There are very real concerns about safety and there is precedent enough to say that these are not unfounded concerns. These men have no right to be here. They are jurisdiction shoppers and they weren’t forced to hop into a dinghy from a safe country. This asylum facility is symptomatic of a massive Tory policy failure and now they’re dumping them on us.

In reality, the Linton Action Group, does not speak for the whole village, nor does it own the issue. Those of us who are outraged at the massive and systematic breach of our borders have every right to protest peacefully and doing so does not make you far right or anti-immigration. There is even a case for rescuing some of the most vulnerable refugees from camps but these would be women and children who are prey to violence and sexual exploitation. The army of invaders arriving in dinghies are predominantly men.

Hollinrake is essentially maintaining the fiction that these men are genuine refugees and not economic migrants who are cheating the system – and in taking the line that it’s just the unsuitability of the site, he aligns himself with the NGOcracy and the false flag “Linton Action Group”, who are saying these migrants “should be housed in major conurbations, not small villages”. Essentially, their line is that anyone who rocks up with their hand out should be given a free house. – (just so long as it’s nowhere near us). Social dumping on the working class.

Elsewhere, Hollinrake seeks to allay fears by saying “most will be law abiding”, but the very act of paying criminal gangs to gain entry to the UK tells us how much respect they have for our immigration laws. Why would we expect them to be law abiding at any other time?

The Linton Action Group reeks of NIMBYism but there is also a thick strain of snobbery. Wanting control over our borders is very much a low status working class concern, and too grubby for the precious darlings of local politics to be associated with. It is precisely that refusal to listen to warnings that will see someone’s daughter dragged off and raped. We’re supposed to stand aside and let our betters do our politics for us, and trust in them to act in our interests.

But as we reported yesterday, there is an inherent conflict of interest. Refugee advocacy groups associated with the “official” campaign want to protect their business model of keeping asylum seekers in communities, which in terms of local authority grants, is highly lucrative and very rewarding in terms of community gongs and high society dinners. It’s fashionable to pretend you care about refugees but there’s no mileage in standing up for the working class. Hollinrake has picked his side.