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UK wins court ruling to keep asylum seekers in hotel but risks angry response
Reuters ^ | August 29, 202511:03 AM CDT | Sam Tobin and Michael Holden

Posted on 08/29/2025 11:05:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Summary

LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The British government on Friday won a court ruling that means asylum seekers will not have to be evicted from a hotel where a resident was charged with sexual assault, a decision that could ignite more protests and criticism from opponents.

Immigration has now become the dominant political issue in Britain, eclipsing concerns over a faltering economy, as the country faces a record number of asylum claims and arrivals by migrants in small boats across the Channel, including more than 28,000 this year.

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Last week, London's High Court granted an injunction to stop asylum seekers being housed in the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of the capital, which had become a focal point of sometimes violent demonstrations after an Ethiopian asylum seeker living there was charged with sexual offences.

But on Friday, the Court of Appeal upheld the government's appeal against that ruling, which had been made on planning grounds, and lifted the temporary injunction which would have led to the asylum seekers being evicted.

While the court victory will ease the headache of immediate, widespread hotel closures, it opens up the Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his ministers to accusations from his main political opponents that he is siding with asylum seekers over the fears of local people.

"Keir Starmer has shown that he puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people who just want to feel safe in their towns and communities," Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the main...

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1 posted on 08/29/2025 11:05:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pyrrhic victory


2 posted on 08/29/2025 11:07:51 AM PDT by Savage Beast (NOTHING enkindles anger, hate, violence, and murderous fury like Truth threatening guarded delusion.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Taxpayer loses big time , free hotel , free money and they don’t have to do a thing didn’t even pay taxes , leeches


3 posted on 08/29/2025 11:10:29 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
More like Labour Party loses the next elections looks like.
4 posted on 08/29/2025 11:12:29 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (Nope.)
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To: butlerweave
They rape under age white girls at will without consequences and get paid by the Starmer government for it.
5 posted on 08/29/2025 11:14:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (Nope.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

what are conditions required for a no confidence vote to be called?


6 posted on 08/29/2025 11:14:26 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: SmokingJoe
More like Labour Party loses the next elections looks like.

I don't think they're planning on losing.

Nicolás Maduro is unpopular in Venezuela yet somehow he won his reelection.

7 posted on 08/29/2025 11:14:55 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: joshua c

King cuck could call a snap election but he won’t.


8 posted on 08/29/2025 11:16:34 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: MinorityRepublican
1. Maduro LOST the last elections but stole it anyway.
2. Nobody ever plans on losing elections but they do anyway. Ask Harris.
9 posted on 08/29/2025 11:17:30 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (Nope.)
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To: SmokingJoe
Maduro LOST the last elections but stole it anyway.

Which is my point. I predict Labour will do the same.

Nobody ever plans on losing elections but they do anyway. Ask Harris.

Biden got away with it in 2020.

10 posted on 08/29/2025 11:18:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

to call for a no confidence vote

a motion by the opposition

which is given priority for debate and vote

passes by simple majority

if successful, pm may resign or call for general election


11 posted on 08/29/2025 11:19:07 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Kings Court says that the King can do whatever he wants to for those the King favors.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 11:22:56 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

asylum seekers are world biggest criminals


13 posted on 08/29/2025 11:25:26 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: MinorityRepublican
“Which is my point. I predict Labour will do the same.”

Stealing is not the same as winning.
Most countries in the West including even the corrupt Biden regime refused to recognize that Maduro won that election.
As we speak, Trump has a massive naval amarda off the coasts of Venezuela and Trump has put a price on the delivery of Maduro.
Second, the UK is not Venezuela.
You should know that. Starmer can't steal elections there.

14 posted on 08/29/2025 11:28:29 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (Nope.)
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To: SmokingJoe
Starmer can't steal elections there.

We'll see what happens in four years from now.

15 posted on 08/29/2025 11:29:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
“Biden got away with it in 2020.”

And got the nomination stolen from him in 2024 after he'd won it.

16 posted on 08/29/2025 11:30:18 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (Nope.)
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To: SmokingJoe
And got the nomination stolen from him in 2024 after he'd won it.

It wasn't illegal. It just made them look bad because they claimed to be for "democracy".

17 posted on 08/29/2025 11:33:26 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The government has spoken: “This isn’t going away.” And the people will reply: “You’re right. This isn’t going away.”


18 posted on 08/29/2025 11:38:42 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MinorityRepublican
Only because Biden supposedly “withdrew” and handed it over to Harris.
In real life, you can't take a nomination from someone after they've gone through primaries and won it.
Never happened before.
19 posted on 08/29/2025 11:40:53 AM PDT by SmokingJoe (Nope.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Meanwhile, not only will the UK lock you up for mean tweets, it will lock you up just for retweeting mean tweets.

From the horse’s...mouth.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1961489195782025702


20 posted on 08/29/2025 11:41:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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