Nigel Farage’s latest attack on asylum accommodation presents a former RAF base as a “luxury” migrant holiday camp. The gym, football pitch and minibuses are real. But so is the less glamorous reality: Wethersfield is a former military site providing basic asylum accommodation. There is a familiar political technique in the argument over RAF Wethersfield: show facilities that genuinely exist, describe them in the most emotionally loaded way available, and.