Asylum hotel group awarded £2.5billion taxpayer deal faces claims secret Deliveroo and Uber Eats takeaway kitchen was being run from inside one of its branches

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2. It very much wasn’t a secret, this is a non story, literally Facebook rumours.

3. I seen the video and what I can’t understand is them cars just sat in the car park with no plates on.

4. Every migrant involved needs to be deported, no chance of appeals, straight to deportation.

5. Cedar Court run Absurd Stacks out of their Wakefield, Huddersfield and Bradford locations for online food deliveries. The guys in the video are frothing at the bit to find anything negative about Asylum Hotels but all they find is a kitchen. No residents working, non making deliveries they just assume they are.

   The kitchen at the Wakefield location is used for the residents and anyone visiting the leisure facilities. If the kitchen (5 star hygiene rating as of Sept 24) can run as a ghost kitchen for a food delivery business then why not?

   Now if residents are working the kitchen and making deliveries then we have a problem as they’re unlikely to be working legally and paying tax. But the video doesn’t show that.

   It’s also very hard to find anything about ‘Big Boi Burger’. If they are or were running a food delivery service they either did a very bad job of promoting it or wiped it off the face of the earth.

6. £2.5 B…..um? Half of the proposed Welfare Reform bill.

   Labour, UK….wake up!!

7. Since when has running a dark kitchen been national news?

8. Plenty of those videos online showing uber eats etc bikes coming and going from the hotels. Look at those auditor videos

9. I watched a video on YouTube yesterday where a couple of guys went to a migrant hotel and there was a kitchen being run from there with pickup point for Deliveroo and Uber eats. The staff confirmed to the police that there was a delivery service being run from there.
   The takeaway was called Big Boy Burgers if I remember right.

10. I’ve never rented commercial property, so not sure exactly how these things work but would the wording of the contract between government / accomodation middleman company and owner not show who is profiting from this and if they’re doing something shady or illegal ?

    Either the hotel was leased to the accomodation middleman company excluding the kitchens, and the owner is leasing them to whoever is running the takeaway OR the middleman accomodation company leased the whole property including the kitchens on taxpayer money and is now getting a bonus by subletting the kitchens.

11. I’m shocked…

    Nah just kidding.. it’s already common knowledge that a large % of legal/illegal migrants work illegally.

    However i would be astounded if the government actually did something to address it, now that would leave me flabbergasted.

12. I saw this video the other day. There was zero proof that any asylum seeker was working in the kitchen.

    They basically just wandered in, filmed an empty kitchen for 1 minute and were then escorted back out by security.

    How that is a story is beyond me.

13. Go to some of these hotels. You will see e-bikes chained to lampposts and I don’t mean one or two, I mean 3 to a lamppost on multiple lampposts all within walking distance of the hotel.

    If you manage to sweet talk your way past security you will also see posters for these food delivery apps plastered in the lobby and common room, along with their football tables and ping pong tables.

14. People seriously need to stop using companies like just eat.

15. Sounds like they are contributing to the local community

16. Approved by the local council. People knew. It wasn’t a secret.

17. £2.5bn?

    And they couldn’t have used that money to build more immigration centres, hire staff home office staff, or fund social housing with money to build it quick?

    Someone connected to a politician made bunts off this surely. Something stinks

18. I really don’t like people who vote reform but this is why they vote reform.

19. This is why my partner and I only get takeaway from the local curry place who hire someone for deliveries OR the chinese that is the same.

    It’s not a stance against immigration and more I worry about ghost ktichens and stuff like this. Maybe im just old, but If I got to a restaurant and there’s a constant stream of takeaway business it makes me less inclined to eat there. The only place we will go to is the local turkish place and that’s because its BYOB and cheap.

20. The hotel group broke the law surely they should be fined at least.

21. The way immigration and asylum is handled in the UK is a joke.

22. People are starting to realise we are not facing a humanitarian crisis but a multi-billion industry. The sooner this lunacy ends, the better.

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