Posted on 08/20/2025 3:13:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Keir Starmer was facing a Labour revolt on Wednesday night as councils prepared to battle the Home Office over migrant hotels.
Town hall leaders across the country said they are already looking to follow Epping Forest District Council and take legal action to prevent small boat arrivals being placed in local hotels.
At least four Labour-run authorities were understood to be studying the ruling and considering their own course, posing a new headache for the Prime Minister.
Kemi Badenoch wrote to all leaders of Tory-led parties on Wednesday night, pledging her support for any legal action they take, while Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was under pressure to rule out using private rental housing as an alternative to hotels.
Home Office minister Dan Jarvis admitted on Wednesday he could not say where displaced migrants will end up following Tuesday's landmark High Court ruling, which ordered the Bell Hotel in Epping to be closed within weeks.
In a letter to Ms Cooper, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: 'Up and down the country people are furious about the number of illegal migrants being housed in hotels - which rose in the nine months following the election under Labour.
'People are also concerned that you are now moving people from hotels into apartments and other accommodation which is sorely needed by young people here who are struggling under this Labour Government.'
Around 32,000 migrants are currently placed in 210 hotels around the country, at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly £6m a day, with others in the private rental sector including HMOs (house of multiple occupation), which are often used by students and young people.
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Tent cities are good enough for them surrounded by barbed wire
The god of such liberals is not the biblical God.
Around 32,000 migrants are currently placed in 210 hotels“
Gasp
Back in the USA, I have to wonder if any hotel room in this country can be declared illegal-alien-cootie free. Maybe on Martha’s Vineyard.
They're fully occupied so I guess we can't visit England right now.
Tent cities? How about the NEXT FLIGHT OUT?
Why are they letting these people invade their nation? WHY?
“It’s the battle of Epping Forest,
The battle of Epping Forest,
Right outside your door…”—Genesis, circa 1972
“Why are they letting these people invade their nation? WHY?”
That’s a great question! I wonder the same thing, but I think the answer is “They’ve been TOLD to” by someone who can’t be disobeyed.
The coming Civil War in the UK...
https://x.com/amuse/status/1959189536959037843
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