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An asylum disaster risks being repeated, but as Green Deputy Rachel Millward speaks out, right wing fools have gone for a lamentable gotcha. Right, so a bit of bureaucracy, a sprinkling of dodgy decision-making, and a heap of political opportunism — and here we are. Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward, in her capacity as a local council leader and her colleagues are getting shredded on social media for having the audacity to raise legitimate concerns over the Home Office’s hasty, ill-thought-out asylum housing plans in Crowborough, deciding to drop 600 asylum seekers in a former military base. It’s a move that makes you wonder if the Home Office’s main aim was not just to house asylum seekers, but to guarantee a decent local rebellion in the process. The real kicker though? Millward and the council had their power stripped away by Whitehall ... 

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Kernow DamoLawSmearsLabour PartyAsylumAsylum SeekersGreen PartyRachel MillwardZack PolanskiRacism