Rights of asylum seekers trump the people of Epping, Home Office argues

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/28/home-office-appeal-migrant-hotel-court-ruling-epping/

Posted by hoovesfortoes

22 comments

  1. What a fucking shitshow of an incendiary headline 🤢🤢🤢

  2. Whoops, looks like greedy hotel landlords are now the vetting process for new influx locations of undocumented migrants.

    There’s no way they reverse this appeal on a Friday afternoon. There’s gunna be hell on. 

    They can’t read a room and it’s so cringeworthy to watch the party of working people fight tooth and nail against working class people. 

  4. Absolutely vile and dishonest headline reporting from the Daily Telegraph

  6. > *“Epping’s interest in enforcement of planning control is important and in the public interest.*

    >*“However, the [Home Secretary’s] statutory duty is a manifestation of the United Kingdom’s obligations under Article 3 ECHR [European Convention on Human Rights], which establishes non derogable fundamental human rights.”*

    >*On Thursday, lawyers also argued that arrests of asylum seekers were not a reason to close migrant hotels.*

    That’s not *quite* the same vibe as “Rights of asylum seekers Trump the people of Epping”.

  7. It’s crazy that that headline was drawn out of then saying

    – local planning permission laws are not as relevant as literally international law.

    Which is true, like there is no contesting that surely?

  8. Please dont fall for this bollocks twisted headline.

  11. Oh wow looks at the telegraph making up a quote to make people angry.

    What the hone office *actually* argued is that under the European Convention of Human Rights asylum seekers need to be provided with accommodation by the state until their claim has been processed, and avoiding human rights violations is more important than the wants of Epping council.

  12. Is there a direct quote from the Home Office saying that? Or is this a paper doing clickbait?

  13. When we sign up to these international agreements this is whT we are agreeing to often

  14. More divisional spin from the traitorgraph. Obviously that is not what was said and only a moron or a nefarious actor would interpret it that way.

  18. Maybe they should rename The Home Office to The Foreign Office!

  19. So what are the options then? To leave the ECHR? Hypothetically if the UK left would that mean changes to the asylum system?
    Clearly things are not working well whichever political party you align with.

  20. If the home office wins we’ll shortly have a whole load of cases of someone who wants to build an extension so their elderly parents can move in V the local council planning department arguing that them being denied planning permission is a violation of their right to family life.

  21. The issue here, isn’t just migrants, if the change to planning law ruling remains, it doesn’t just affect migrants, and this is what the Government should be saying, go to a number of hotels especially in London and see how many of their rooms are used to house families long term, because councils can’t get them into rental properties. And before people say they shouldn’t come, these are British families mainly women with their kids either escaping domestic violence or forced out of accommodation by landlords evicting to increase rents, which would mean they can’t be housed in hotels either, because they live there for months on end, and there are multiple families in some hotels.

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