Nigel Farage has blasted the Government’s plan to house asylum seekers in three disused military bases as “utter fraud”. The former UKIP leader fumed over how all of the bases combined weren’t enough to slash the taxpayers’ bill being paid for asylum seeker hotels. He complained the bases were only big enough to house a few weeks’ worth of incoming asylum seekers.

Earlier today, Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told the House of Commons that “thousands” would be accommodated at former RAF sites in Essex and Lincolnshire.

He promised to reduce the use of costly former hotels used to house asylum seekers.

Speaking tonight (March 29) on GBNews, Nigel Farage said: “All these plans are for those who expect to cross the English channel over the course of the next week.

“Nothing in this statement stops the boats. Nothing reduces the bill. I believe the whole thing to be a complete and utter fraud.”

The sites set to be used are RAF Wethersfield, RAF Scampton and Northeye.

Farage argued the sites could only house a few weeks’ worth of migrants based on migration data from the month of August 2022.

That month saw record levels of asylum seekers arriving by small boat. On August 22 alone, 1,295 people crossed the channel.

Farage added: “Not a single person will leave the over 450 hotels they’re housed in already. Not a penny will come off the £3.5 billion bill.”

The Home Office has so far stated that RAF Wethersfield and RAF Scampton will accommodate around 200 people initially but this number will gradually increase to between 1,700 and 2,000 respectively.

On his show, Farage put forward his own hypothetical plan for managing the UK’s high level of asylum seekers – a plan that would transgress the European Convention of Human Rights.

He said: “So what you say, very clearly is that anybody that comes to the UK via violent criminal trafficking games will never be given refugee status.

“That’s where you start and that’s a very good beginning. And if necessary, you have to use the royal marines to take people back to France. If that’s what you have to do…”

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