Labour's Piddington migrant camp plot highlights the contempt they have for Britons

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The party should be listening to locals and acting on them urgently, writes migration expert Robert Bates

The plight facing the small, tight-knit community of Piddington is one which the whole country is watching intently.

It has shown in stark terms the contempt-heavy-handed officials in Whitehall, the very same incompetents who have allowed the Channel crisis to continue unabated for eight years, have for the law-abiding people of this country.

Not so much as a consultation. With the stroke of a pen from a well-remunerated Home Office official, no doubt with a smile as they made the decision, a community has been upturned.

An erstwhile tranquil village of just 350 people has been ordered by the British state to accommodate 1,250 unvetted young men from the third world. If it can happen to an affluent parish in Oxfordshire, then it can happen anywhere.

As GB News has exclusively revealed today, the women of Piddington are calling on female MPs to recognise the intolerable risk to which they are being exposed and for some semblance of solidarity to be shown by a political class that is more concerned with the rights of illegal migrants than the British public.

For every woman living in Piddington, there will be ten young men from places like Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea where the rights of women are non-existent. They will not be detained; they will be free to wander the streets, to loiter in bus stops and public areas, and to hang around outside parks.

The Labour Party should, of course, be listening to these concerns and acting on them urgently. The Government’s own migration Tsar, the head of the Migration Advisory Committee, has explicitly warned the nationalities coming across on small boats are far more likely to be prone to crime, and in particular sex crime, than British nationals.

“Life as we know it will be destroyed. We will not feel safe walking our streets. We are already living in fear”, write the Women of Piddington. These words capture what is happening across the country, as long-standing communities are dispossessed of the most basic right to feel safe.

However, having seen the way the political class has treated other communities previously raising these very concerns, such as those in Essex, then it is very unlikely the concerns of Piddington’s residents will be listened to at all.

It is far more likely MPs will deride this letter as "bigoted" or "far-right" than dare to engage in the conversation. One can already imagine the howls of execration that will be coming from Labour backbenchers, afraid such a topic is an attack on the multicultural dream they continue to pursue.

Yet their response will speak volumes. It will give further rise to a sense now firmly entrenched across the country, and growing greater with every boat that crosses the Channel, that our institutions are not currently fit to advance the interests of the British people.

It is a terrible thought those tasked with keeping us safe are turning a blind eye, but one that has been consistently proven to be justified. The Home Office is more concerned about the public backlash after each migrant attack than it is about the victims or their families.

At this point, it is hard to see what further evil can be enacted on the streets of Britain, by a man who should never have been in the country, that will persuade the government to finally act decisively.

Because another attack will take place. It is all but certain. Neverthelessm Labour will continue to parrot the same lines: that numbers are down and that the hotels are being closed.

The problem is, of course, there are already hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants here and they face little prospect of removal.

This issue is not going away and the next election will be fought on this basis. Come polling say, the public will not forget Labour has made it clear where it stands.