South Humber
Grimsby was once the largest fishing port on earth. Cleethorpes is still a proper British seaside. Immingham still moves the country’s fuel and goods. Brigg is a market town on the Ancholme. Barton sits at the foot of the Humber Bridge. Between them sit villages, ports and working people who were told that if they voted the right way, something would change.
This page is not a manifesto. Official policy is set nationally. It is a local reading of why those objectives matter here — from Grimsby and Cleethorpes, up through Immingham, Brigg and the towns along the coast, to Barton-upon-Humber.
Fishing, seafood processing, the port and nearby Immingham still put food on tables. Offshore energy has arrived; the question is who it is for. Restore Britain’s industrial and economic objectives — reward grafters, rebuild industry and energy security — are not abstract here. They are the difference between a working town and a managed decline.
Economy & taxation Industry & infrastructureWhen numbers are uncontrolled, the pressure shows up first in places that already wait longest for a house, a dentist, or a school place. Reverse mass immigration is a national objective. Locally it means being honest that South Humber — from Grimsby and Cleethorpes up to Immingham, Brigg and Barton-upon-Humber — cannot absorb unlimited extra demand and still look after the people already here.
Immigration & bordersFreeman Street, the town centre and the Cleethorpes front tell their own story: empty units, anti-social behaviour, and a public that is tired of being told it is imagining it. Safe streets are not a luxury. Families and traders should be able to use their own high street.
Law & orderPeople here use the same NHS as everywhere else, and they feel it when it does not work. Restore the National Health Service is a national objective. Locally it means access, waiting lists, and a service that treats this area as worth serving.
HealthcareThis is a British town. The Dock Tower, the seafront, the churches, the language, the humour, the expectation that you look after your own — that is the culture. Restore Britain’s social and cultural objectives exist because that inheritance has been treated as optional. It is not optional here.
Culture & identityChildren should be taught the country they live in. Adults should be able to say so. Elections should be secure. Those are national objectives; they apply in every classroom and polling station in this borough.
Education Civil liberties Election integrityThese are live local arguments, not slogans. The facts are on the public record — from Grimsby and Cleethorpes up to Immingham, Brigg and Barton-upon-Humber. What we do about them is why this branch exists.
The Market Place has been fought over at council for years. Traders were told parking would be stripped out and the square pedestrianised as part of a multi-million-pound revamp. Shopkeepers warned that taking the bays would kill custom. The new council has now said it will scrap the pedestrianisation and keep the parking — and was then accused of changing the scheme without consultation. That is the saga: a seaside square pulled between “regeneration” drawings and the people who actually trade there.
The Grade II listed Corporation Road Bridge shut in February 2023. It is a main way into Grimsby town centre, over the Freshney. It was supposed to reopen before Christmas 2023. Then summer 2025. The original bill was just over £5 million; the council leader has said it is now around £10.5 million because the structure was in worse condition than expected. The first contractor was dropped for delays. The latest talk is December 2026. Three years and counting, with commuters calling it beyond a joke. Infrastructure is not a luxury here. A town cannot function with its river crossing left hanging.
Industry & infrastructureNobody in this borough voted to become a Home Office dispersal area. Contractors are attracted by cheap houses, which then get turned into HMOs. As of 31 March 2026 the Government’s own figures put 282 people on asylum support in North East Lincolnshire — 276 in dispersal housing in the community, and 6 on subsistence only. The council leader has written to the Immigration Minister calling the borough a dumping ground, and has said placements arrive without a local vote or a say, while housing and services are already stretched. That is the scheme people mean: national policy, dropped on a coastal town that was never asked.
Asylum numbers by area Immigration & bordersAlmost a thousand potholes were reported to the council in 2025. Another winter then tore more of the surface up. The authority says it is filling dozens a day and has extra government money; drivers still know the roads that wreck wheels and dodge the same craters for months. If a council cannot keep the carriageway in one piece, it is not a side issue. It is the first thing people see of whether anyone is in charge.
Industry & infrastructureFreeman Street, Hainton Avenue and the rest of the high street keep sprouting the same three units: a vape shop, a convenience store, a barber — often with the lights on and nobody in them. That is not a functioning town centre. Trading Standards and police keep raiding local shops for illicit tobacco and illegal vapes: tens of thousands of cigarettes, hundreds of vapes, whole hauls in a single premises. Nationally the same pattern is now linked to organised crime, illegal working and money laundering. Residents have been saying it for years. Enforcement should match what people can see with their own eyes.
Law & orderGrimsby’s town-centre footfall fell by about two-thirds in a decade. Vacancy has sat above the national average for years. Regeneration money comes and goes. What people walk past is still shut units, a tired street, and the sense that the town was allowed to go. A British high street should be for British shopkeepers and customers, not a graveyard of failed retail and the same copy-and-paste frontages.
Economy & taxationCleethorpes North Promenade has had years of racing, wheel-spins and stereo noise. Residents have said they cannot live a normal life next to it. The council and police have put in cameras. That should not have taken this long. A seaside town that cannot keep its own front civil is not looking after the people who live there or the visitors who keep it going.
Law & orderThis is the hospital this coast depends on. It has carried a poor CQC history and, like the rest of the NHS, still misses the four-hour A&E standard more often than it meets it. Waiting lists are not an abstraction when you live in Grimsby or Cleethorpes. Restore the NHS means this hospital working for the people who pay for it.
HealthcareThis branch covers the south bank as far as Barton-upon-Humber, inland to Brigg, and the villages in between. Those places are not a footnote to Grimsby. They have their own fights on the public record.
The Port of Immingham handles around 56 million tonnes a year. A new eastern roll-on, roll-off terminal has been approved as nationally significant infrastructure, adding berths and capacity on the Humber. The town that lives next to that port still has to get its own bins collected, its own high street safe, and its own roads open. National infrastructure is not a substitute for a working town.
Industry & infrastructureImmingham and Habrough were awarded £20 million over ten years through the Government’s Pride in Place programme, with Stallingborough brought into the fund too. Pop-up events are asking residents how it should be spent. That is the right question for the full ten years, not just the launch photo. A port town that keeps the country’s fuel and goods moving deserves to see that money land on its own streets.
Economy & taxationWorks on the A1173 between King’s Road roundabout and Kiln Lane roundabout, including North Beck Bridge, began on 24 August 2026. That stretch carries Immingham’s port traffic as well as everyone who lives there. Close it and the town feels it immediately. Infrastructure here is not a nice-to-have.
Industry & infrastructureImmingham held a public meeting in June 2026 with Humberside Police, the council and the local MP after concerns about anti-social behaviour, intimidation and alcohol-related disorder in the town centre. Residents and traders should be able to use their own streets. A meeting is a start. The test is whether it changes what people actually see.
Law & orderResidents of South End, Goxhill, have been raising HGV traffic for years — including reports of dozens of lorry movements in an hour, and vehicles meeting on a road that cannot take them both. Meetings with the MP have come and gone. An independent report was promised and delayed. Villages on the way to the port are not a rat-run. They are places people live.
Industry & infrastructureBrigg is a market town where the Ancholme crosses the old road, with markets going back to a 13th-century charter. The river that made the town is also its recurring risk: flood alerts, monitored levels, and the town centre and leisure centre hit in the worst of them. Flood defence and drainage should not be an afterthought because Brigg is smaller than Grimsby.
Industry & infrastructureLloyds closed its Brigg branch in March 2026. A temporary banking hub opened at The Angel; the permanent home is planned at The Buttercross. The council is right that a market town serving a wide rural area still needs cash and a face across a counter. Major banks walking off the high street is not a small-town luxury issue. It is how a town stays usable.
Economy & taxationPlans to turn the former Monument Garage on Bigby Road into a convenience store were refused, then came back. Dozens of residents objected, as did Brigg Town Council. Market towns do not need every spare plot turning into the same copy-and-paste store. Highways, parking and what the town actually wants should come before another chain frontage at the roundabout.
Economy & taxationOutline permission for up to 390 homes south of Horkstow Road was granted on appeal after councillors refused it. Persimmon has now put in detailed plans for 388. A separate scheme for about 196 homes off Barrow Road, tied to a relief road, has been deferred and then refused, with developer contributions cut hard on “viability”. Residents have kept raising the GP list in Barton. New houses without the surgery, school and road to match are not a gift to the town.
HealthcareBarton sits at this branch’s northern edge, at the south end of the Humber Bridge. In November 2025 residents backed a Neighbourhood Plan by about 90 per cent. North Lincolnshire Council adopted it in December. That is the town saying how it wants to grow. Decisions made for Barton should start from that, not from what is convenient in a distant civic office.
Culture & identityRaised safety barriers on the Humber Bridge were approved in 2025. Detailed design then found the original wire system cannot be anchored at some points, including the Barton tower, so glass panels have been proposed in those stretches. The bridge is how Barton meets the rest of the country. Getting the works right, without leaving the south bank as an afterthought, matters here.
Industry & infrastructureSouth Humber people are split between North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire councils. In July 2026 the Government confirmed both stay as separate unitaries. This branch still stops at Barton and Brigg: it does not cover Scunthorpe or north of there. Whichever council collects your bin, services should work for the people paying for them.
Industry & infrastructureThe Home Office publishes how many people are on asylum support by local authority, not by town. There is no official “remigration” count for Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham, Brigg or Barton — remigration is Restore Britain national policy, not a government statistic. We will not invent a town-by-town table the Government does not publish.
Covers Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham and the NEL villages. Snapshot: 31 March 2026.
That is 17.63 people per 10,000 residents — rank 110 of 361 councils. The stock has risen sharply: 141 at the end of 2023, 277 at the end of 2025, 282 by March 2026. Initial accommodation in the same snapshot: 0.
The Home Office figure is for the whole council, including Scunthorpe — which this branch does not cover. Snapshot: 31 March 2026.
That is 4.32 people per 10,000 residents — rank 202 of 361 councils. Brigg, Barton-upon-Humber and the North Lincolnshire villages sit inside this total. We cannot honestly say how many of the 74 are in our patch, because the Home Office will not publish a town split.
| Area | Council figure that covers it | Town-level asylum split | Official remigration count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | North East Lincolnshire: 282 on support (276 in dispersal housing) | Not published. The Home Office withholds town, postcode and constituency breakdowns. | None. Remigration is Restore Britain policy, not a current government programme with local totals. |
| Cleethorpes | Same NEL total: 282 | Not published. No official Cleethorpes-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Immingham | Same NEL total: 282 | Not published. No official Immingham-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Brigg | North Lincolnshire: 74 on support (63 in dispersal housing) — whole council, including Scunthorpe | Not published. The 74 is not a Brigg number, and it is not “none in Brigg” either. | None published. |
| Barton-upon-Humber | Same North Lincolnshire total: 74, including Scunthorpe (outside this branch) | Not published. No official Barton-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Villages in between | NEL villages sit in the 282. North Lincolnshire villages (including Goxhill and Barrow) sit in the 74. | Not published at village or postcode level. | None published. |
Restore Britain’s national objective is to reverse mass immigration: deport all illegal migrants, and deport a legally resident foreign national who is unable to speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, refuses to work, fails to integrate, commits crime, or actively hates our way of life. That is set nationally. This branch does not invent a local remigration quota, a local target, or a local “level” the Home Office does not record. The figures above are the public-record stock of people on asylum support in the two councils that cover South Humber — the closest official numbers that exist for these towns.
Official immigration policySources: Home Office immigration system statistics, year ending March 2026 — asylum support by local authority (Asy_D11). Compiled place profiles: North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire (updated 31 Mar 2026). Local reporting of the same snapshot: Grimsby Live, 28 May 2026. Commons Library: supported asylum seekers are published by local authority only. Town-level FOI breakdowns are withheld under FOIA section 38.
Policy is national. Leaflets, meetings and conversations are local. That is the part you can do this week.