Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,A quiet North Yorkshire village of roughly 600 people is set to be flooded with around 1,200 single adult male asylum seekers at the nearby disused RAF Linton-on-Ouse base. Local women would be outnumbered six to one.Labour MP Rachael Maskell has raised the alarm over the plan, which forms part of the government's wider push to move roughly 3,750 people into three former military sites near villages as it tries to empty asylum hotels.The base sits beside a primary school and nursery, has only four buses a day into York, and already faces severe shortages of water, sewage capacity and electricity. Maskell has written to border security and asylum minister Anna Turley and is due to meet Home Office officials this month.Women 'to be outnumbered six to one' after Labour floods illegal migrants onto tiny village's doorstephttps://t.co/s5yXOP9cY8
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 13, 2026"It's just the wrong site," Maskell said. "The last government realised that, once they got into the detail. All we're saying to this Government is that it's really important that they recognise that too, because the site is in a worse state now than it was when the Government last looked at this."Similar plans for Linton-on-Ouse were abandoned in 2022 after fierce local opposition. Now they are back under active consideration. Local Tory councillor Malcolm Taylor captured the mood of residents who moved there for a quiet life: "They've moved there for the peace, tranquillity and quality of life. This hand grenade has been thrown in."Professor Olga Matthias of the Linton Action Group called the village "categorically the wrong place for so many reasons."'That doesn't add up at all with what the left have been telling us.'
