The British Town Where 'Migrants' Outnumber Residents By NICK CRAVEN

Daily Mail : It’s Britain’s biggest and most controversial camp for asylum seekers whose 800 mostly male migrants will soon outnumber the residents of the village it abuts.

But while the Wethersfield centre has been criticised by everyone from refugee charities to anti immigration politicians like Priti Patel, the one group who have been conspicuously silent have been those residents themselves. 

And MailOnline has found that the likely reason for the curious hesitancy of locals to discuss their plight is the fear of being condemned in a ‘woke backlash’ by outsiders as intolerant or - worse - even racists. 

Wethersfield Airfield Asylum Accommodation, to use its formal title, is situated on the site of an old RAF and sometime US Air Force base in rural Essex.

And while it’s impossible to find anyone who supports the facility, it’s also obvious that many do not want to speak out against the camp publicly for fear of being accused for their views - despite it being a fraught subject in village groups on Facebook, WhatsApp and the like.

It’s not unusual as a journalist to find people who don’t want to speak on the record or be photographed - but when it’s a village of 707 and a national issue on their own doorstep, the reluctance of those in Wethersfield to talk is certainly strange.

Some villagers will tell you off the record how they do not feel safe walking the streets and country lanes at night due to the threat of anti-social behaviour by groups of men roaming the area.

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