People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a “stalag”.
The Home Office’s controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases – RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset – has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
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