Revealed: ‘Migrant hotel king’ who cashed in on asylum seeker crisis rakes in £4.8m a DAY and is on course to become first immigration industry billionaire

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14034971/Migrant-hotel-king-cashed-asylum-seeker-crisis-immigration-industry-billionaire.html

by Humbly_Brag

40 comments

  1. Someone should look into whether he has donated any money to the Tories. Won’t be surprised if his “political donations”, aka bribes, are directly responsible for the Tories intentionally trashing our asylum system and pushing for the absurd Rwandan plan.

  2. Aside from anything else this clearly reveals the failure of the “outsourcing” policy imposed on every government department and council since the Thatcher era. Rather than maintaining state-owned facilities to control costs, services are instead outsourced to favored suppliers, often closely connected to those awarding the contracts. Private interests should not be making huge profits from managing prisons, children’s homes, or housing asylum seekers

  3. As far as unofficial titles go, Migrant Hotel King has to be one of the worst.

  4. Only way to stop people from exploiting the situation is to make sure, by any means possible, that the boats don’t reach us.

    We need the UK government to work for the UK people.

  6. To be fair, this guy didn’t invent our insane approach to illegal migration (let everyone who arrives via smuggler stay indefinitely and spend £43k+ each on hotels, free healthcare, catering all provided, sometimes perks like free smartphones and bikes). He is just an entrepreneur who is making money out of an ongoing policy disaster.

    This madness will continue until the UK introduces a zero tolerance approach to economic migrants i.e. everyone who arrives illegally is permanently barred from settling.

    Really, we should only be taking refugees **directly** from warzones, until we introduce a zero tolerance approach the influx of migrants will continue, migrant hotel owners will get fabulously wealthy, and Russia and China will continue enjoying seeing the UK and Europe’s social cohesion be undermined.

  7. I hope he’s paying his tax. If we find out his company is registered off-shore then it’ll be absolutely outrageous.

  8. I think this is a failure of the system rather than anything this guy has done wrong. The government created a demand and he stepped in to fill it.

  9. Assuming he didn’t lobby to make our immigration policy insane, I don’t see why he should get any blame.

  10. People have in the past posted lists of businessmen with ties to MPs & Lords (from both parties) making bank off refugee hotels & related services. I suspect this is the underlying reason successive governments claim they can’t stop people arriving on boats.

  11. You’ve heard of slumlords, now get ready for migrant hotel kings

  12. There is a hotel in my relatives town that had a huge amount of taxpayers money spent on it on the basis it was meant to be an actual hotel upgrade and locals already had suspicions it would soon turn into a migrant hotel, think the upgrade costs millions then of course within a few months the hotel announced it was closing and becoming a hotel to house asylum seekers.

    So the taxpayer spent all that money upgrading the hotel and the company that owned it were a huge chain so got it free at the taxpayers expense and of course the trouble locally started.

    Not saying that asylum seekers are automatically bad people just the ones they took in were like that.

  13. If we didn’t have record breaking levels of illegal immigration then he wouldn’t be making so much money. We are overpaying for housing migrants, but the solution is to prevent them arriving in the first place by making it clear they wont be accepted. Legal migrants aren’t typically being housed in hotels, so the “Boat crossings only make up a small part of migrants!” argument is irrelevant.

  16. asylum seeker crisis? I hadn’t realised there was one

  17. Now you know why there are so many organisations fighting for those immigrants to come!
    It’s an easy and big money!

  19. Migrant Hotel King is the god status all Landchads apsire to ascend to. He must get to raid a ton of fridges!

  21. At almost £5m a day there’s plenty left over after paying the politicians to keep the moronic policies in place.

  22. I find this disgusting! But really he just cashed in on what the government was willing to pay him. A business deal, very lucrative one!!

  23. Fair play to him, helps raise awareness on the colossal waste of money that having no backbone is costing the UK

  24. So accommodation alone is costing us £3bn a year. Factor in benefits, processing, health, education, law and order costs, and it’s not hard to see why we have a deficit of nearly £10bn. It’s easily fixed but we have no one willing to do it.

  25. Why the hate towards Graham? He saw a gap in the market and took it, just like what any other good businessman would do. The government is at fault due to their ridiculous contracts.
    If you can pull a government contract, you’re onto a win, as they’re reckless with money.

  26. This is by design of the Tories.

    A full funded and expedient immigration system has no need for migrant hotels.

  27. I was talking to a plumber on a job. He has an air b n b property. Apparently he gets vouchers to house immigrants. Because it’s short term and multiple occupancy he covers the mortgage by x3 per month.

  28. Maybe people would prefer it if Tony Blair set up a few more PFI schemes to build migrant hotels instead? They’ve be paid off by the time the world is absorbed by the sun.

    I don’t want them here but he’s providing a service for the government. Fair play to him.

  29. The country has been sold off, piece by piece in the last 40 years, for the benefit of the few, at the expense of the many.

    I emigrated from the U.K. in 2015. Good luck.

  30. How can the scheme be so inefficient as to waste so much money on this type of thing?

  31. Of course, it the soon to be billionaire is defended in the comments.

  32. Well there is always money to be made from a crisis.

    It’s like wars ,lots of people are making a killing off the Ukraine war.

  33. Well this is why people are annoyed our homeless aren’t being given the same investment

  34. I expect this is all labour’s fault and nothing to do with Brexit nor the Conservative Government that were in power the whole time?

  35. Had the government actually processed claims in a reasonable time there wouldn’t be the need for hotels to hold lots of people in. And that is how the system worked until the previous government caused the backlog!

  36. “I saw an opportunity and I took it” – intro to this guys Guy Richie film in 10 years. 

  37. Guessing he also has a buisness selling small boats in France. Imagine how many people you can pay of with that kind of money.

  38. NHS crumbling, housing crysis but there are to be migration housing billionaires.

    Europe f*cked so fricking hard with its open borders policy. And no one in power is willing to do what’s necessary.

    Thanks Merkel.

  39. Two things that i can say in my life of 69 years, 1, I lived on the bibby stockholm as a pipefitter in Northern Norway about ten years ago, The cost to my company was around £100 per night all found, Meals, Laundry,internet, 2, The local hotel nearby me in northern england was a rundown shithole with a few rooms converted to bedsits for the homeless , paid for by the council. And staffed by a couple of old men with nowhere else to live on minimum wage , minus rent. Said hotel has now opened every old room and is now getting £25,000 a month to house asylum seekers,With Circo security and home office support. Follow the money.

  40. What? It can’t possibly be! So many commenters here just *knew* there was no money to be made, hotels were actually losing money after being forced to accept asylum seekers!

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