Thom Aster

Operation Scatter: The £15 Billion Shadow War on Britain's Streets

Government's secretive dispersal program transforms entire communities while enriching private contractors through questionable deals

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Thom Aster
Sep 09, 2025
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The alarm bells should have rung louder when they called it "Operation Scatter." The name itself reveals the cold calculation behind what the government euphemistically terms "full dispersal" — a £15.3 billion program that has systematically weaponized Britain's housing crisis to break apart asylum seeker communities and redistribute them across every corner of the nation.

What began in April 2022 as a supposedly temporary solution to close migrant hotels has morphed into the largest social engineering project in modern British history. Under the cover of fiscal responsibility, this operation has handed unprecedented power to three private corporations while forcing local authorities into compliance through financial coercion and bureaucratic diktat.

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