Yards from the Thames, in the churchyard of All Saints, which dates from the 12th Century, is the final resting place of the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold.
In fact, the village of Laleham in Surrey is pretty much as quintessentially sleepy old England as you can still find.
So locals whose youngsters attend the Church of England primary here were shocked in recent weeks to discover a young Afghan man constantly loitering outside, approaching female pupils, and becoming confrontational when spoken to.
According to one group of parents, he spat at them and seemed to suggest that paying to be smuggled into Britain by dinghy gave him free rein. ‘I’m allowed to stand where I want – I paid £3,000 to be here,’ is what locals say he told them.
Following police calls, the asylum seeker disregarded warnings and was taken into custody in accordance with the Mental Health Act.
Only then did it emerge that the Afghan, in his 20s, had last month been placed in a 1920s semi along with five other migrants, at the behest of the Home Office.
The house had been bought by north London businessman Joshua Grunt, 48, in October for £500,000, who immediately let it out via an agent to house migrants.
However, the local authority, Spelthorne Borough Council, insists it had neither been informed nor consulted over the arrival of any migrants, saying: ‘The Council has written to the Home Office asking for an explanation and an assurance that this will not happen again.’
Yet a Daily Mail investigation has found that such sudden arrivals of migrants in villages and towns are about to happen on a massive scale – all over the country – as a direct result of Labour’s promises to close migrant hotels. And the only people celebrating will be those making fat profits as a result, at taxpayers’ expense.
Investigations started last week at the edge of the Garden of England, where the people of Walderslade, a Kent suburb of Chatham, were furious.
Thanks only to a leak to a local councillor, they had discovered that they, just like the residents of Laleham, were about to find out what Keir Starmer’s dispersal policy looks like in practice.
What it is going to mean in Walderslade – where oast houses and miles of countryside are on the doorstep – is the sudden arrival, on two quiet residential cul-de-sacs, of two groups of asylum seekers, amid long-standing residents.
In total, some 221 migrants are officially expected to arrive shortly on residential streets across the predominantly rural borough of Tonbridge and Malling, and what is truly remarkable is that this is likely to be the template for the entire country.
To be honest, there are no words to describe how outraged I am, and we all need to express ourselves much more than sheer outrage because it looks like, from where I’m sitting, that the Labour Party despises Britain.
We are just being deceived by Keir Starmer and his Labour Party because they say they are starting to close down the migrant hotels, and they appear as if they are taking action, but what they are actually doing is taking them from one accommodation to another, so the numbers will still be the same.
It’s simple, Keir Starmer – we don’t want them in our hotels, we don’t want them in HMOs, we don’t want them in our country!
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