Luxury Hotels are Just Not Good Enough for Asylum Seekers! By Richard Miller (London)
You must feel sorry for the asylum seekers. They come here with just the designer clothes on their backs, iPhones in their back pockets, and expensive jogging shoes. Most are young males, who usually claim that they face persecution as if they stay in their homelands … well … maybe they would face the same fate as their women folk, mothers and sisters left behind. To make miseries for them even greater, the luxury hotels that they are being put up in are regarded by them as sub-standard. They want proper homes, and no doubt the establishment, not wanting to create “racism,” will give it to them.
And, we are supposed to have faith in the system?
“The number of hotels being used to house asylum seekers in the UK is about to reach 400 as migrants continue to cross the Channel in small boats, MailOnline can reveal.
The milestone figure for Home Office contractors taking over hotels is likely to be reached imminently as efforts to convert redundant military bases into alternative accommodation centres.
Currently 395 hotels in the UK are understood to be being used to accommodate more than 51,000 people at a reported cost of £6.8million a day - but the number is constantly increasing as the Government battles to start moving some asylum seekers to Rwanda while their applications to stay in the UK are processed.
The use of hotels continues to create controversy with residents of cities, towns and villages upset about local beds being turned over to refugees instead of paying guests.
And asylum seekers themselves are also frequently unhappy about languishing in sometimes isolated hotels, and unable to work due to strict rules, a MailOnline investigation has found.
Typical were asylum seekers staying at the three-star Grosvenor Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who told of their unhappiness about their living arrangements.
Iraqi mother Neshteman Tahir, 37, said: 'It's awful here and there are too many problems. We don't want to be living all together in a hotel, we want a house so we can be independent.'
Speaking in the grounds of the hotel which had a multi-million-pound refurbishment before closing to paying guests five months ago, she moaned: 'No one likes living here.
'We all hate it and we are shut in our rooms all day with nothing to do. The hotel is very, very bad. We want a proper home.'
Her eight-year-old son told how he went to a local school for five hours a day but had been unable to make friends.
He added: 'I want a big house with a swing and trampoline in the garden and want to make friends. It is really boring here! Me and my mum need our own home.'
We also found refugees kicking their heels this week in the four star Great Hallingbury Manor Hotel near Takeley, Essex, with little to do apart from walking half a mile to buy snacks and drinks at a nearby Esso garage.”
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