Two groups will hold protests in the city
Two separate groups will march through central Lincoln to protest government plans to house asylum seekers at RAF Scampton.Although the groups both oppose the Home Office plans, they hold very different views on asylum seekers and refugees.
‘Hitler lookalike’ Alek Yerbury pictured at the protest in Skegness | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite Superintendent Lee Pache said: “The right to peaceful protest is a key part of our democracy and across the world people look to the UK for the way we facilitate and uphold that right. The Save Our Scampton group were out rallying and leafleting the public in Lincoln on Saturday, April 15 – calling government proposals the “wrong plan” in the “wrong place”.that protests in Lincoln this weekend are not aligned with the Save Our Scampton ethos, stating “it is absolutely not the message we would like to send.”
Hamish Falconer outlined the RAF Scampton plans to the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Scunthorpe. | Photo: Hamish Falconer “I am fighting the Home Office’s proposals for RAF Scampton because they will cost us investment and heritage opportunities but also because they will be utterly inhumane to anyone sent to the bleak shipping container camp they intend to establish.
“Refugees are not to blame for Tory-imposed pay restraint, the threat to thousands of jobs or the ongoing funding crisis in the NHS and our public services. “What we are hoping to achieve on Saturday is to mobilise and marshall the forces at our disposal, that are prepared to actively demand a resolution regarding the Scampton issue.
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