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ER Editor: A reminder that the High Court has maintained the UK government’s position on using hotels to house migrants within local communities. The story below is the fight-back from a total (so far) of 19 local councils, which are forced to house migrants in this type of accommodation under government edict.
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A reminder that we published a useful piece from a legal scholar yesterday, Dr. David Grogan, indicating that this is all a positive move insofar as the courts are actually not letting the government off the hook for its plainly disastrous migrant policies. See —
UK Asylum Disaster Worsens With New Court Ruling – And Maybe That’s a Good Thing
… it puts the Government squarely on the hook for its failed asylum policy and its weakness and pusillanimity in that regard. The judiciary, it seems likely, is not going to let politicians off the hook by ordering asylum hotels to close. These facilities are going to remain as visible testimonies to the utter failure of the political system to get to grips with the crisis at the borders. And this is as it should be: this is a political problem, caused by failures of politicians, and it requires political solutions. It is not a matter to be settled in courtrooms.
Let the games begin.
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Migrant hotels fightback grows: Now 19 councils vow to take legal action to kick asylum seekers out of accommodation as furious protests spread across country
OLIVIA CHRISTIE and JOSE RAMOS for DAILY MAIL
The number of councils vowing to take legal action to kick asylum seekers out of hotels has grown to at least 19 as mass unrest continues to spread across the UK today. (ER: Saturday)
Furious protesters have gathered outside migrant hotels in towns and cities such as Newcastle, Swindon and Falkirk after the Court of Appeal yesterday overturned an injunction ordering the removal of 138 migrants from an accommodation in Essex.
It comes as the Labour government was last night facing accusations from senior Tories that it is ‘taking the side of migrants over Britons’. (ER: The Conservatives are actually defending ordinary people? Gasp.)
On Saturday, more and more councils promised to fight back against asylum hotels in light of the Court of Appeal’s decision on The Bell Hotel in Epping.
Reform UK has said that all 12 councils it controls should be exploring legal options to stop asylum seekers being housed in local hotels.
The leader of West Northamptonshire council Mark Arnull said Friday’s ruling had made no impact on his plans to try and shut asylum seeker accommodation in the area down.
He told the BBC: ‘It also doesn’t change our view that the use and locations of the three hotels have never been suitable for asylum accommodation and place unreasonable and unsustainable strain on local services.’
The other Reform-controlled councils include Durham, North Northamptonshire, Doncaster, Derbyshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire.
And at least four Labour-run authorities – Wirral Council, Stevenage Borough Council, Tamworth Borough Council and Rushmoor Borough Council – have also vowed to take action.
Meanwhile Kemi Badenoch on Friday urged Conservative-run councils looking to shut down migrant hotels to ‘keep going’.
Both Broxbourne Council in Hertfordshire and Spelthorne Council in Surrey have said there have been ‘no changes’ in their plans to fight back against the Labour government’s policies.
And when Epping Council is also considered, that brings the total number of local authorities vowing to take action against asylum hotels to at least 19.
Photos from today show campaigners outside hotels across the UK holding England flags and placards calling for migrants to go home.
Counter demonstrations are also underway – with the group Stand Up To Racism calling on its supporters to rally a
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Featured images source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15049887/Migrant-hotels-fightback-grows-19-councils.html
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