Sarah Carter and others have been protesting against a Home Office plan to house 2,000 asylum seekers in portable cabins on a disused air base in Lincolnshire. The protest site has faced conflicts with far-right groups and incidents of assault.
I get called far-left, I get called far-right, depending on who I'm having a conversation with,' Sarah Carter tells me. We're standing in a self-assembled shack outside RAF Scampton, a disused air base in Lincolnshire, once home to the Dambusters. For the last year, she - and others - have been protesting against a Home Office plan to house 2,000 asylum seekers in portable cabins on the airfield.
She stays here for days at a time, swapping over with friends to make it a permanent protest site, and has just taken delivery of a new double bed when I visit. Still, it's cold, and the traffic that thunders past makes conversation hard. Sarah is a Scampton local who found others from out of town trying to co-opt their cause - the organised far-right. 'The main group were pretty far-right,' Sarah tells me. 'And then there were people there that maybe weren't quite as aware of the situation that we're supporting them.' Fights broke out and the police were called out regularly. Sarah says she and her husband were assaulted by men in balaclava
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