The protestors. I see one woman talking on a free cell phone and the rest work-age, meaning military-age, young men. Apparently in the UK right now, beggars are choosers.
Posted on 06/06/2023 8:46:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
The group of 40 migrants are threatening to sleep rough outside the hotel until the U.K. Home Office agrees to its demands.......
Better Wi-Fi, more financial assistance, and private rooms were just some of the demands made by migrants who demonstrated outside the doors of their new hotel accommodation in an upscale residential area of central London on Thursday.
The group of adult men, many of whom arrived in Britain illegally in small boats via the English Channel with a view to claiming asylum, used their suitcases to barricade the front doors to the Pimlico Comfort Inn and staged a pavement protest against what they consider to be offensive living standards afforded to them by the British government.
The group was recently transferred from a hotel in Ilford, Essex, but told reporters that their new accommodation was not to their taste and refused to return to their rooms until they are each provided with private accommodation.
“They said we’re going to move you to another, better place. They gave us this postcode. When we checked on Google Maps, we said, oh this is very nice. But when you get in, it’s like a jail. And they treat you very, very bad. They treat you like an animal,” a 21-year-old Iranian national who arrived in Britain via small boat told The Telegraph newspaper.
Some complained that they had previously been assigned two people to a room, but were now expected to share an en-suite room with three others. The group also bemoaned the smell from the toilet and poor internet access.
“We are not kids, everybody had a private room. We need a private room. How do you live with four men?” asked a 26-year-old African male.
A local resident who lives close to the hotel told Remix: “I live very close to this hotel (3 or 4 mins away) in London, and the scene yesterday really was bizarre. Lots of migrants sitting on the street outside the hotel said they would not go back in, as the taxpayer-funded accommodation was substandard.
“When I asked one of them, they went into a long rant about the bathrooms being dirty. Frankly, it does look like a terrible hotel, but tourists used to pay £100 plus to stay there.”
Richard Tice, the leader of the Reform Party founded by Nigel Farage, filmed an exchange with an Iraqi national named Dia, one of the migrants objecting to the living conditions.
“These people come from another hotel and this hotel is not good,” Dia told the politician.
He explained that the migrants had come from a hotel with big, nice rooms where he had been living for two years, but considered their new accommodation to be “very small” and the Wi-Fi “too weak.”
He added that he “can do nothing” with the government allowance of £8 per week, as London is “too expensive,” although he noted that his hotel accommodation and food — which he said is reasonable — are paid for on top of this.
Tice wryly apologized on behalf of the British taxpayer for the poor accommodation and offered to go and talk to the manager on the migrants’ behalf.
Commenting on the stunt, backbench Conservative MP Lee Anderson tweeted: “The bare-faced cheek. If you don’t like our tax payer funded rooms then there is your old tent waiting back in France. You know where France is? It’s that safe country you left where they will accept an asylum claim.”
The Home Office has sought to alleviate the financial burden on the U.K. taxpayer to accommodate the large influx of migrants seeking asylum in Britain in recent months, with the current bill estimated to be approximately £6 million (€7 million) per day.
Efforts have been made to relocate existing migrants to more cost-effective accommodation, for example by doubling room capacity. The governing Conservative party has also announced plans to house new arrivals on floating barges and in disused military bases in rural locations, despite widespread public criticism from local residents concerned about the social ramifications arising from such a proposal.
“We are trying to drive down the costs and number of hotels by various mechanisms,” a government source told The Telegraph. “You see on TikTok, you get the people smugglers saying you will get your own hotel place.
“We are trying to cut down on the costs. If they say they don’t want to go to the accommodation that they are offered, we can withdraw support.”
Commenting on the pavement protest, a Home Office spokesman insisted the accommodation offered to the migrants in question is “of a decent standard and meets all legal and contractual requirements.”
Madness.
Probably demanding better room service too!
Apparently, 4K HDR porn needs bandwidth.
Don’t tell them about Apple’s $3,500 VR goggles.
The protestors. I see one woman talking on a free cell phone and the rest work-age, meaning military-age, young men. Apparently in the UK right now, beggars are choosers.
And where’s the gold foil wrapped Godiva chocolate on my pillow in the morning? Hmmmmmm?
maybe..
IF the Gov. stopped putting these people up in 4 star hotels, paying for all of their needs.. THEN giving them spending money on top of it. They’d stop coming?
Come on, Charlie. What do you say? You’re always yapping on about social justice.
Now’s the time to take some real action.
Oh, and tear down that exterior fence, Charlie. Fences and walls are bad.
The room service in the United States hotel setups brought narcotics and syringes to the rooms.
Reason?
Getting sidewalk illegals, derelicts and addicts away from tourists and restaurant and retail store customers could not allow the residents of the hotel to come down to look for drug dealers every day. So, deliveries kept them in their rooms.
“...The migrants had come from a hotel with big, nice rooms where he had been living for two years.”
Two years of free accommodations and free spending money... And likely working under the table at a carwash or restaurant nearby. It’s no wonder that a recent poll indicated that most Albanian’s in Albania want to move to the UK.
Who couldn’t see that one coming.
Deport them ALL.
Photo caption of woman on cell phone:
“I told you to dump Kenny. Don’t matter if he’s got a Benz and wears a lot of gold bling. He’s been arrested 10 times last year and four this one. Sooner or later they’ll keep him in jail for more than a day and then where will you be? Alone. Dump him.”
Cave Dwellers want private caves with wi-fi ,LOL
“”They treat you like an animal,” a 21-year-old Iranian national””
My experience with Iranians who came to this country years ago love to complain about the US...everything was better in Iran!!! Go back? Never!
LOL
Only the best for the George Soros teams to take down Western civilization...
Obviously these are unfortunate refugees who have been through hell. Not.
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Have they tried the comfy chair?
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