The tiny city that’s about to be flooded with 300 male migrants: It’s an unfolding catastrophe… and gaslighting means that if you complain about any of this you’re smeared as a racist: GRAHAM GRANT

There is more than a whiff of despair in Sir Keir Starmer’s latest bid to tackle the asylum crisis.

The idea is to clear out migrant hotels, which have become the focus of protests across the UK, by relocating the occupants to an Army barracks in the center of Inverness and a military training camp in East Sussex.

This doesn’t solve the problem, it just shifts it elsewhere, which in time will become focal points for concerned residents and activists.

This is an attempt at a solution to put the plaster on, but all it will achieve is increase tensions and fuel division in already fragmented communities.

Up to 300 male asylum seekers can be accommodated at Cameron Barracks in Inverness, which has been allocated more than £1 million for improvements under a program of refurbishment and refurbishment.

This rehabilitation operation will upset the soldiers and their families who languish in substandard housing conditions; but it also caused a backlash in the Highland city.

The fact that the barracks is within walking distance of two schools prompted the local authority to send a letter to parents saying the ‘safety and welfare of pupils’ would be a priority.

If it were truly a priority, this crazy plan wouldn’t have been proposed in the first place, and it’s not as if there was any consultation whatsoever.

Instead, hundreds of men could arrive in the barracks as early as next month; This is a bombshell for a city with a population of around 80,000, including its surroundings.

Last week authorities also announced that 600 asylum seekers would be temporarily housed in a training camp on the outskirts of Crowborough, East Sussex.

Officials also announced that 600 asylum seekers would be temporarily housed at a training camp pictured on the outskirts of Crowborough, East Sussex.

Home Office says it is ‘outraged at the level of illegal immigrants and asylum hotels’; Even though they are directly responsible on both fronts, they are angry at themselves for it.

Last month Home Affairs Committee MPs found the Home Office had ‘wasted’ billions of taxpayers’ money on shelters.

Just under 103,000 refugees are hosted by the Government; Just over 32,000, or about a third, are staying in 210 hotels.

The usual round of blame and blame went into overdrive in a vain attempt to explain these monumental failures.

But the real problem – illegal migration across the Canal – is getting worse as the Home Office tinkers around the edges.

In 2025, the limit of 10,000 illegal immigrants crossing the Channel was reached before the end of April; This figure was more than a month ahead of the previous year.

North of the Border, the SNP has spent many years virtue signaling on immigration; So much so that, from a political standpoint, it is almost impossible to question asylum policy with at least any degree of credibility.

In September, The Scottish Mail revealed on Sunday that SNP ministers had quietly shelved calls for Scotland to have full powers over immigration.

John Swinney says his government is ‘ready’ to facilitate Cameron Barracks plan; this was perhaps the only cross-Border war the SNP has actively avoided in recent times.

Remember, his own party isn’t always known for its inclusivity, and much of its base is filled with xenophobia.

The SNP’s stance on the issue has historically been flexible depending on audience, but Mr Swinney positioned the Nationalists as a bulwark against Reformation UK and described calls for mass deportations earlier this year as ‘utterly chilling’.

John Swinney says his government is ‘ready’ to facilitate Cameron Barracks plan

Hadush Kebatu is being arrested. In September, he was sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping, Essex.

Nationalists are responsible for Glasgow, the UK’s asylum capital, which is currently in the grip of a refugee housing crisis.

Many refugees stay in hotels, at great cost to the municipality, after declaring themselves homeless when granted permission to stay.

A council source told me: ‘There’s an assumption that people in Glasgow are quite relaxed about asylum seekers and refugees because we have a long history of being part of the Home Office’s distribution plan.

‘But if you tell them we’re facing budget cuts in excess of £60 million or huge council tax rises, it will be tested to the limit.’

Labor and the SNP are looking on from the sidelines at this unfolding disaster, contributing little beyond the idiotic plan to dump the problem on military sites.

Sir Keir may now personally regret abandoning the previous Tory government’s Rwanda plan, which would have seen people identified by the UK as illegal immigrants or asylum seekers be resettled elsewhere for processing, asylum and resettlement.

The Prime Minister has described it as a waste of money after £700 million was poured into the abortion scheme.

But it was just a waste because he trashed it before it even came out, arguing that he would ‘smash gangs’ instead.

This unsurprisingly did not happen, but Rwanda remains off the table because Labor had a commitment to abandon it in its manifesto.

But we know that other so-called unbreakable promises may be set aside at the Budget meeting later this month, including the promise not to raise income tax.

Sir Keir may now privately regret abandoning the previous Tory government’s Rwanda plan

Gaslighting has been stepped up a few notches so that if you complain about any of this you will be accused of being a racist.

At the center of the confusion is the completely dysfunctional Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In a podcast for The Spectator, its editor Michael (now Lord) Gove describes the time he was accused of bullying after the former Tory Cabinet minister spoke out over the Home Office’s delay in processing Ukraine’s refugee claims.

It also reveals the existence of ‘listening circles’ within the Home Office where staff can talk about their feelings.

It’s not hard to understand why he’s stumbled from one crisis to another, including the inadvertent release of one of the most well-known inmates jailed this year.

Hadush Kebatu was sentenced in September for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in July in Epping, Essex, where he had been living in an asylum hotel since arriving in the UK on a small boat.

His arrest sparked a series of protests in the region, which spread to other hotels across the country housing asylum seekers.

He was paid £500 by the Government after threatening to prevent his deportation to Ethiopia, but he later told Sky News he tried to hand himself over to a police officer the day before he was re-arrested but was ignored.

Then there was the migrant returning to the UK on a small boat after being deported under the woefully inadequate ‘one in one out’ scheme with France.

Let alone securing our borders, you wouldn’t even trust the people who preside over these mistakes with the tea tour.

As this farce deepens, you can expect more platitudes, more excuses, more demonization of anyone who dares to speak out, and more immigrants pouring into a country buckling under oppression.