“Whose Streets?” Fury Erupts for Sixth Week as Crowborough Revolts Against Migrant Barracks and Starmer’s Silent Strategy

Thousands of people are marching on a town for the sixth Sunday in a row to protest against migrants moving into an army barracks.

The camp in Crowborough, east Sussex, will soon have 600 migrant men staying there.

The Daily Mail can reveal around 100 are believed to soon be moving in from another camp in Kent, which is due to close.

Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, is closing on Friday 19 December, with around 100 migrants leaving.

Sources say they will be moving into the base at Crowborough, 50 miles away, in a shocking example of how the immigration system is in disarray.

Locals Crowborough gathered for the sixth Sunday today in a row to protest against asylum seekers being housed in a cadet camp in the town.

Protesters assembled outside the camp’s gates before marching into Crowborough’s town centre.

Organisers expected up to 4,000 people to be in attendance at the protest.

Crowds march through Crowborough during the peaceful protest on December 14, 2025

A veteran from the parachute regiment delivers a speech during the peaceful protest in Crowborough — December 14, 2025

Chants of ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ and ‘Crowborough says no!’ were heard.

Families carried signs saying ‘Not Racist, Just Afraid’ and ‘Protect our women and girls’.

Many also draped Union Jacks and Sussex Flags over themselves.

Dozens of police accompanied the protest, which went peacefully.

Earlier this week, police were forced to intervene after local residents blocked the gates to the camp, preventing staff working there from leaving.

One protester was dressed as Santa carrying a ‘naughty list’ with politicians including Keir Starmer and local Green Councillor Rachel Millward on it.

Organiser Ryan Holden, 44, said: ‘This is a massive protest against what is being done to us without our say. We understand we’re getting 100 from Kent soon. It’s a disgrace.’

One source at Napier Barracks said: ‘They will be leaving Napier Barracks and will be moving into the Crowborough site.

‘It’s the final days of Napier Barracks, it’s down to dozens of the site and there’s a lot of preparations underway to move them out.

‘It’s migrant hokey cokey. It’s madness really. It’s moving from one problem to another.’

Two security guards said they would be moving to Crowborough.

Crowborough town councillor Peter Bucklitsch said: ‘The Home Office is playing fast and loose with us all. They think they can do what they want. It is not right.

A man holds a flare as crowds march through the streets of Crowborough against migrants moving into an army barracks in the town

Protesters at Crowborough, east Sussex protesting the migrants moving into army barracks

Campagners had Union Jacks and even a cardboard cutout of Winston Churchill

One woman held a sign which read ‘Crowborough says no 600 men in the army camp’

‘I understand they will be coming from Napier Barracks this week. It is outrageous we are not being told.

‘Crowborough is not an anti-migrant place. But we have grave concerns around this. And how the Home Office has handled this is totally wrong.

‘The system is in chaos. There is no solution.’

A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘We are furious at the level of illegal migrants and asylum hotels.

‘This government will close every asylum hotel. Work is well underway, with more suitable sites being brought forward to ease pressure on communities and cut asylum costs.

‘We are working closely with local authorities, property partners and across-government so that we can accelerate delivery.’