Council wins bid to stop hotel housing asylum seekers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy98gdnrl7lo

Posted by homeinthecity

22 comments

  1. So just to ask (assuming there is not something specific about this hotel).

    If we stop housing asylum seekers in hotels currently, where are they going to go?

    edit: So just as I thought, nobody has any workable idea then. Its all very well saying “not here” etc… but it does not solve the issue and could potentially lead to a bad situation.

  2. How and why the fuck does the government have the will or the power to legally contest council decisions like this? 

    Fascistic overreach. 

  4. How and why does a council have the authority to tell a hotel who can stay there?

  6. This could cause the government real trouble. The arguments that is in unlawful to use the hotel in Epping Forest for migrants is that the hotel needs planning permission for a change of use.

    This applies to any hotel being used for migrants anywhere.

  7. Stop giving these gimmigrants a reason to come here, and they’ll stop coming here

    Stop pampering them with free hotels and other luxuries and they’ll soon fuck off back to whatever shit hole they came from

    The UK isn’t father christmas and it isn’t the UK’s responsibility to look after every Harry Hardluck and Sally Sobstory (which is laughable when these dinghy dwellers are predominantly young men of war-fighting age) that arrives on our shores

  8. Brilliant yeah just disperse them to some run down northern town, problem solved! Magically they won’t be a danger to the British public up there (or at least, we won’t hear about it if they are)

  9. I am fearful this is just going to speed up the process of the government paying Serco to house asylum seekers in HMOs/the private rental sector which is going to be awful for loacal communities that get dumped with them.

  10. Hopefully this spawn even the Tory and Reform led councils to start doing this however unlikely it could be.

  11. It’s only because of the last governments incompetence that hotels are being used anyway.

    Make safe routes and allow them to work, and process the applications speedily and there won’t be a problem.

  14. Be careful for what you wish for. This will end up back in HMOs and terraced working class housing in the north.

  16. Let’s pray this is the beginning of the end. Councils nationwide need to urgently follow suit.

  17. Congrats, but mark my words this will just make putting them into social housing more higher up on the priority list now.

    This injunction was won on a technicality, not some political reason.

  18. Changes to law rooted firmly in parliamentary (or government, depending on how you want to put it) supremacy will need to happen instead of ad hoc accommodations such as this. First step: recognition of the emptiness of ‘universal human rights’ to be replaced by contingent ‘civil rights’, voted by democratic and sovereign states/communities/peoples.

  19. They need to speed up processing asylum applications and either get them deported or allowed to stay with all the support to
    Integrate and work and contribute to society.

    Of course there is resentment whilst they are being holed up in hotels on the back of the tax payer. We need the home office to step up with more staff to deal with them. This has been happening since we left the EU officially in 2021 and that was 4 years ago! (greater if you couldn’t the actual referendum in 2016 when France gave up and just allowed people to get into dinghies since we were leaving anyway.
    So this was so predictable why weren’t more staff being trained. This is fuel for racists and to cause unrest in my opinion.

  20. The madness can only continue for so long… I hope we can sort this situation lawfully and make it fair, because the British public (no not the bigots @guardian) are kind of concerned and rightly so. Let’s make this fair for everyone. Let’s find a solution that works for both the migrants and the people of this country.

  22. From what has been going on the last few weeks across the UK (and its already happening in Europe)….people’s patience has gone. I’ve said since the beginning this is unsustainable and if things are not changed/reversed, then events ARE going to spiral down a dark path.

    People will be ignored for only so long and its clear the situation is fast approaching critical mass.

    Hopefully this ruling is a step in the right direction. If only those being housed there could be deported, then that would be even better.

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