Britain First just tried to invade a treehouse. We're not even joking

Britain First took themselves to Sherwood Forest this week to warn people about knife-wielding migrants living in the woods.

There was a problem, though, which might not surprise you: this dangerous migrant camp didn't exist.

Deputy leader of the far-right group Jayda Fransen and her band of merry henchmen were filmed knocking on doors to distribute leaflets raising awareness of the dangers supposedly lurking nearby.

Within Sherwood Forest migrants have set up an illegal camp, and in this camp they have been causing a huge amount of destruction. There's disturbance, there's litter everywhere, they've been cutting, hacking at trees... they've got knives, we're told, and locals have been threatened.

"So far nothing has been done", Fransen tells her audience.

That's, umm, probably because the 'migrant camp', singular, is actually just some treehouses and hammocks put up by bored teenagers during the summer holidays a few years ago.

As one of the creators, Brad Drury from Mansfield, told indy100, in 2010 he and some friends spent a few weekends creating the structure to have fun in as a send off for a friend joining the army.

We found the site and spotted a big pile of trees that had been cut down so we used them to make the structure.

We decided we weren't going to take it down just because it took us so long to build. The camp itself is quite a way from any of the footpaths around the area which makes it hard to believe that any dog walkers or hikers would have even spotted it to have seen these so called 'immigrants'.

It's been used by local kids as a hangout since, he said, but no one has ever made their home there.

Drury said he got in touch with local media to clarify the purpose of the treehouse when reports started circulating it was home to Eastern European workers.

[A friend] even told the gentleman whilst on site that he had proof that it was a group of teens that built the structure to which he replied, 'Oh are they Polish?' It was all one big racist story that we cleared up.

He and his friends were "disgusted" that Britain First had picked up a story "as real as the tooth fairy." He said he's tried to contact the far-right group to get them to correct the mistake, but no one has responded to him yet.

As he said his girlfriend commented:

Don't have fun kids, because years down the line people will use your fun as an excuse to be racist!

Despite the leafletting and a new petition gathering signatures to make a complaint to Nottinghamshire Council, Britain First's video manages to produce precisely zero evidence anyone is living in Sherwood Forest.

In the three-minute vid, they don't even visit the supposed camp site, instead sticking to a walk around the forest car park.

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