RAF Scampton

borebage53

borebage53

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The iconic Lincolnshire RAF base is to be used to house up to 1500 asylum seekers. Closed by the Ministry of Defence and sold off last December.
Wartime base of the famous 617 Dambusters Squadron and until recently home to the Red Arrows,who have been relocated to nearby RAF Waddington just south of Lincoln.
RAF Wethersfield in Essex also to house asylum seekers!
 
borebage53 said:
The iconic Lincolnshire RAF base is to be used to house up to 1500 asylum seekers. Closed by the Ministry of Defence and sold off last December.
Wartime base of the famous 617 Dambusters Squadron and until recently home to the Red Arrows,who have been relocated to nearby RAF Waddington just south of Lincoln.
RAF Wethersfield in Essex also to house asylum seekers!
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We spent a few days over Christmas just a couple of miles away from RAF Scampton.
All around the area are small “posh” villages , and I can’t imagine that they would be very happy about the announcement.
While there, we visited the local pub called The Dambusters Inn, which is full of memorabilia although the establishment had nothing to do with The Dambusters, because there wasn’t a pub there during the war.
The airmen at the time had to drink in a pub nearer to Lincoln.
Partially drove around part of the base, but it’s all fenced off with high fences and barbed wire.
 
An agreement was reached for the Ministry of Defence to sell the site to West Lindsey District Council in a back to back partnership with developer Scampton Holdings. A proposed £300 million investment plan into the regeneration of the site and also to preserve and protect the existing heritage sites and historic buildings.
Although the Heritage Centre and Museum already on the site has been permanently closed.
Why on earth Jenrick has proposed Scampton to be put forward to house asylum seekers with a £300 million investment plan already in place is causing a great deal of alarm and scepticism locally and nationally!
 
My travels occasionally take me past the former RAF Lyneham base in Wiltshire. It was closed in 2011 and is now known as MOD Lyneham for its security and maintenance. All its operations were moved to RAF Brize Norton.
In 2015 the Army transferred its REME capability and training school from Arborfield and Borden into part of the site. There is also a REME Museum and visitor centre situated close to the main gate!
 
Of further interest to WW2 buffs and afficianado’s was RAF Tempsford which was situated next to the A1,2 miles north of Sandy,Bedfordshire and 4 miles south of St.Neots,Cambs.
During WW2 it was the RAF’s most secret airfield housing the 138 and 161 “special duty” Squadrons. 138 Squadron dropped supply’s and agents into occupied France for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). 161 Squadron had the Lysander flight and did the insertion and pick-up operations for agents in occupied Europe!
 
I'm guessing this means the government have given up on stopping the asylum-seekers, or illegal immigrants, coming here in the first place?
Didn't we just give France a load of cash?

Putting asylum-seekers in hotels all around the country was a devious plan by the government, to turn public opinion and sentiment in their favour, for the Rwanda policy and other measures.

This plan concentrates the discontentment into smaller areas, now the psych-op has been completed.
 
Well, certain idiots within the Tories did mention a while back that the road to the next election would be littered with continuous conversations around asylum seekers & culture wars.

They've already told you what they'd prefer the general public to be thinking about, rather than the way the economy has been run into the ground.

And so here we are...
 
mickyhoss said:
Is Nigger the dog buried there?
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The dog of Guy Gibson VC. Only 26 when he was killed in action in September 1944. Flying a Mosquito from Woodhall Spa as “target marker” for a raid centred on Rheydt and Moenchen-Gladbach he was shot down
while returning near Steenbergen in Holland. His death was not announced until January 1945.
 
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