Camp Of The Saints

How the asylum seekers of East Sussex can fill their days

For the first time in almost a century, when Arthur Conan Doyle was buried in a Turkish carpet in his garden, my hometown of Crowborough is in the news.

For those fortunate never to have been, Crowborough is a small place in the Weald of about 20,000 souls. The cadet training camp, where my school pals and I endured a week of army exercises and tinned rations, has been turned into a migrant hostel for more than 500 asylum seekers, sparking a furious reaction from the local residents. I have much sympathy with them – but also for the young men who have been sent to live there.

WHILE the perturbations from the shooting in Minneapolis continue, the repercussions of just one aspect of the UK’s derelict immigration policy are given far less exposure in the British media.

This is the demonstration outside the Crowborough military training area in East Sussex, which has been turned over to housing illegal migrants as an alternative to keeping them in hotels.

CROWBOROUGH IS BEING WATCHED BY BIG BROTHER.👮

One protestor- a young mum @HollyEngland25 – has been arrested, and others are getting ‘visits’ because they dared to say they don’t want unvetted illegals with very different values, walking the streets beside their children.… pic.twitter.com/18Pz1snZge

— FreeByTheSea (@Free_ByTheSea) January 26, 2026

Crowborough, a sleepy town in the countryside has been turned upside down by the Home Secretary’s decision to house illegal migrants in a nearby military base.

Thousands turned up to protest.

Sadly, Sky News and the BBC couldn’t spare a single journalist to cover the story. pic.twitter.com/5qT9JtIdrM

— Alex Armstrong (@Alexarmstrong) January 26, 2026

Furious protesters hammered on the gates of a small boat migrant processing centre chanting ‘send them back’ in Dover this afternoon.

There were tense scenes as around 50 demonstrators – many of them women and some accompanied by their children – confronted police guarding the Western Jet Foil facility opposite Lord Warden House.

The processing centre, which serves as an entry point where health checks are conducted before the migrants are moved to Manston asylum centre in Kent, has been closed for days for urgent repairs.

THERE is a reason why some of the most revealing facts about modern Britain do not come from government press releases, ministerial speeches or mainstream media, but from Freedom of Information requests.

Again and again, as I have demonstrated, it is only when independent journalists and researchers force the British state’s hand that we learn what is really going on beyond the carefully managed narratives of the BBC and Westminster.

Three months ago Kim Bailey considered her life humdrum. ‘I was working full-time as a manager in the public sector.

‘I’d walk my dogs in the forest. I’d been married for ten years. I didn’t go out much,’ says the modest mother-of-four by way of illustrating just how unremarkable her routine in the pretty East Sussex town of Crowborough was. ‘I was boring – very boring,’ she insists.

Walking the streets with banners? Certainly not. Rebutting the words of seasoned politicians at public meetings? Not so much. Appearing on breakfast television? Nope. ‘I’d never been on a protest before, I’d never done anything like this in my life.’