UK Protests Gain Steam

Hot Air ^ | 30 Aug, 2025 | David Strom

[MtnClimber]

Anger is boiling over in the UK pressure cooker, and it is hard to see anybody in power finding the courage to use the steam release valve before it explodes. On the issue of immigration, it now boils down to the state vs its citizens.

What began as a flag protest--English people putting up the St George's flag as an act of defiance against government indifference to their anger--has spread to Wales and Scotland. Larger and larger crowds are gathering, and confrontations with police are becoming common.

The latest outrage--a High Court decision ruling that a migrant hotel the Epping Council had planned to close--must remain open because the rights of migrants to housing outweigh the rights of British citizens--has ramped tensions up several notches. Of course it has.

The Epping hotel case was about more than planning law. It was a litmus test for where the loyalties of this Labour government lie.

I went to support the peaceful, patriotic protestors in Epping, because I share their concerns about illegal migrants being housed in communities.

Starmer’s government, on the other hand, has shown itself to be on the side of illegal migrants who have broken into our county.

Yvette Cooper has used taxpayer money – your money – to keep open a hotel housing them. The Government’s lawyers proceeded to argue that accommodating illegal migrants was in the “national interest”.

In court they even argued the right of illegal migrants to free hotels is more important than the rights of the British people, and they won.

The Home Secretary argued an injunction would encourage more protests. The great irony is that this decision – which puts two fingers up to the legitimate anger of the British public – will surely inspire even more.

Councils can and should still act to close hotels. If they don’t, residents will rightly ask, whose side are they on?

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: britain; england; europe; immigration; islam; uk

[fella]

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[suasponte137]

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