Reform considers legal challenges against asylum hotels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77npgv06xpo
by pajamakitten
Reform considers legal challenges against asylum hotels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77npgv06xpo
by pajamakitten
24 comments
As someone who lives in an area where hotels are used for this purpose, that could be a big vote winner for Reform if they promise it again at the general election. There are definitely issues down by the seafront caused by a small group of immigrants and people’s fear is only going to grow too. Promising an end to that will see them make huge gains here.
Read the article and saw no plans to retool these hotels into housing for homeless veterans, or anything that would help “look after our own”. I’m sure it’s on the way though.
Its about getting rid of them and stopping incentives for them to come.
Given the courts have done everything they can to keep asylum seekers within the country, including ones that have committed crimes, it’s doubtful Reform will get anywhere with this.
In a way that probably suits them anyway, because they can shine a light on the courts as well as the politicians.
We spent over £5 billion on asylum support, accommodation and resettlement in 2023/24.
The farmer and business IHT changes are expected to bring in an additional £520 million by 2029-30.
We do not have the capacity nor funds to be the worlds caretaker for people fleeing war-torn France, nor is it fair on taxpayers. It simply costs too much, and that money could be far better spent elsewhere. On top of the other issues it brings.
The law says that every area has to accept asylum seekers proportionate to the number of locals. The home office has powers to commandeer accommodation and send them there, if councils refuse or don’t have the funds to accommodate them. The councils do have a limited duty to support them though – safeguarding vulnerable people and unaccompanied minors for example. This is performative stuff from Farage, he knows there’s nothing he can do about it. Just picking another fight to keep himself at the centre of the culture war and in the headlines.
Reform have got Labour in a Catch 22 with this issue.
Labour can either: A) let the Reform councils have their way, which is a blow to the governments’ authority, or B) use the Home Office to override the councils, and give Reform some good ammunition to use against the government.
As ever ReformUK are focused on race-baiting instead of actual issues.
Labour are already clearing the asylum backlog created by the Conservative party so eventually this housing won’t be required
Completely outmanoeuvred Labour here. Labour can either fight it tooth and nail so Reform can show all the locals who is responsible or give in so more go to other areas who will equally hate it and wonder why they shouldn’t get the same.
Correct me if im wrong but hasnt labour said they’re going to house the asylum seekers, which will be immensly cheapers, whilst the sort the backlog and problems caused by the tories?
Excellent news. I hope they get these places shut down.
Where else are they doing to keep them while they wait for case workers, process their claims, and arrange deportation?
New prison space is too expensive. Kicking them out on to the street isn’t safe for the locals.
Really?
Would you go and live in a shared room on £5 a day in UK?
They want tent cities instead. Camps as they’re known. They want to concentrate undesirables in camps.
That should definitely make things better.
And this is one way in which Reform will push councils they control into special measures after they go bankrupt
Where will they keep all the migrants instead? What exactly is the plan ?
This should be a wake up call to all Brits. Reform will behave in the same way the Maga cultists have in USA. THEY WILL BEND EVERY RULE and they will not be held back by codes of conduct.
They got two mayors and allready they’re trying to break U.K. employment laws
So a right wing party’s fucked up system that was inherited by a centre left party that has only held power for 9 months causes a massive swing to a far right party…
Please let me the fuck off this absolute shitshow of a knuckle dragging electorate.
Not in a reform area so no chance of this for us but I wish we didn’t have a migrant hotel so close to home! …
The corner shop is regularlying shoplifted (almost daily) and no police involvement due to low value of individual thefts, intimidating large groups of men loitering, mini supermarket worker had a knife pulled on them and a local woman raped in the last couple of years here (a village in the SE)…No it isn’t all of the inhabitants but that doesn’t make the above any more palatable!
No one would be happy with this anywhere near their home…it’s not working and needs to change.
Amazing news this is what the majority have been crying out for we need to get tough on this issue give them tents like france does
Is Reform going to be banned in UK like AfD in Germany or LePen in France?
Please fully read the Reform manifesto before voting on a single issue.
Please take the time to understand what this party actually stands for.
The conservatives put them in there as a racist dog whistle the asylum seekers didn’t fucking ask for it ffs
Under what authority? You can’t just legally challenge something in court by declaring it, you have to believe the law is on your side and not theirs.
Y’know, like the refugee treaties we signed requiring us to accept and process asylum seekers.
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