British Liberals Cheer Migrant Camps in Villages… as Long as It’s Not Their Villages
20th August 2026
The same voices who demand “fairness” and insist every community must share the burden of mass illegal migration suddenly discover local democracy the moment the coaches might stop near their postcode.
A Mail on Sunday poll has laid bare the gap between principle and practice. Just 15 percent of people are happy with the idea of more illegal migrants arriving in their own area. Fifty-seven percent actively oppose it.
Yet many of those who back Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s call for affluent and rural places to “play their part” draw a firm line at their own front door.