Posted on 03/20/2023 2:30:30 PM PDT by RandFan
Nigel Farage has voiced his strong opposition to plans that would see the home of the Dambusters turned into a migrant camp.
RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire was confirmed earlier this month to be considered as an asylum centre by the Home Office.
The airfield was used as the headquarters for the famous World War Two Dambusters squadron.
Speaking on GB News, Nigel Farage said the plan would be an act of “cultural desecration”.
“Scampton was a very, very important place. This has been for many years the home of the Red Arrows,” he said.
“As many of you know, we have been running down the size of our armed forces and this has meant that in 2022, Scampton stopped being an RAF base.
“There had been a very good, local plan to keep the runway open, to build hotels, to have a heritage centre remembering the incredible deeds of the men and women in the 1940s.
“And a plan to have a big tech park built around it. It would have been up to £300m in investment into an area that needs levelling up.
“To find out that the Home Office actually want this place to become a migrant detention centre, they’ve advertised for jobs already.
“I think this is dreadful for this local community and frankly an act of cultural desecration"
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Happily the Ministry of Defence has already changed the grave marker for Wing Commander Guy Gibson’s dog so the newcomers won’t take offense.
Hey could be worse...... Lizzo played James Madison’s crystal flute....that freakin’ enfuriated me
World War II was over a long, long time ago.
We are living in different times, and we need different solutions to our problems.
EVEN the least educated farmer know to NOT let the foxes into the henhouse.
Even though he would ENRAGE the Neocons (the people who caused the Ukraine War), Farage is about the ONLY hope left for the UK before it becomes a clone of Argentina (meaning a once-great country turned into a Third World s-hole).
We are living in different times, and we need different solutions to our problems.
To add insult to injury, the foreigners are not expected to adapt to local English customs, but rather the other way round.
We camped by the Mohnesee Dam in Germany for the better part of a week in the summer, in the early 60’s.
I think that was one of the dams that was hit.
I’m don’t recall if it was a “cubs” thing or just summer program doings for army brats.
My Mom put a glass jar of peanut butter in with my “kit bag”.
It broke and and got tumbled around enough to get on all my stuff. Yuck.
The children shall not be accountable for the deeds of the fathers.
You are right.
It’s time to lighten up.
Don’t mention the war.
“Don’t mention the war”
It was only five years ago the day I was born. When I was a cub scout, my town’s WW I vets led the Memorial Day parade, some still wearing their uniforms. I read about the death of the last civil war veteran in my local newspaper. We kept a minute’s silence at 11:00 on Armistice Day (11/11). I still do it.
But we have moved on. The last draftee from WW II, and the last legal Nazi, are both 96 years old.
Look how many people here keep calling our communist revolutionaries “Nazis”.
It’s all far, far in the past.
They can forget. And they can do it all over again next time. And it seems like they are about to start learning again?
I agree.
It’s not important to “THEIR” history.
How would you feel if we set up a camp for illegals on the Gettysburg Battle field site?
Now in English schools, when they talk about Churchill they only mention that he killed millions of Indians.
Great movie. I forget their pet dog’s name.
Do you know who killed more Indians than General Custer?
Union Carbide
Too Soon?
George MacDonald Fraser used that word some in his literary works.
Black labs matter
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