Epping

Alex · August 19, 2025, 10:52:33 PM

This is a big deal apparently, if the hotel in Epping is breaking the law by housing migrants, then every migrant hotel in the country is breaking the law too. Now Broxbourne Borough Council is seeking legal advice on whether it could pursue an injunction against the use of the Delta Marriott Hotel, just six miles from the Bell Hotel in Epping.

I cant get excited I'm afraid as this shower will just move them all next door to us, or just change the law.

Dextrous63 · August 19, 2025, 11:03:41 PM

I guess the circumstances for each hotel may be different. Epping, iirc, has at least one convicted deviant in it, which was a useful starting point.

August 19, 2025, 11:09:34 PM
Don't get me wrong. I feel for hotel owners who are going through a rough patch and who are desperate to increase occupancy. They are trying to survive.

But, if the price of survival is to sell your soul to the devil, I'm afraid that at that point my sympathy wanes somewhat.

On the other hand, the politicians/civil servants etc who think it's appropriate to use desperate businesses who will thus take the flak, are equally as risible.

klondike · August 20, 2025, 06:36:11 AM

Those deals are so lucrative that I suspect the businesses that own these big hotels are jumping at the chance. I also suspect that they will have made sure that the contracts are watertight and this early termination won't be costing them money. It's the taxpayer who will be losing even more money as that accommodation bill will now probably be getting paid twice over because they won't be putting the illegals into tents as they should have from the start.

GrannyMac · August 20, 2025, 07:04:52 AM

The Britannia group is worth a look. Consistently given bad reviews, they have made a buck or two out of the Home Office contracts.

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/02/britannia-hotels-profits-asylum-seekers/

Scrumpy · August 20, 2025, 08:22:42 AM

Perhaps Butlins !!!.. Pontins.!!!!.. Warners!!!!! ... will be the next to welcome them with open arms..
They mostly have little boating lakes... they will feel at home there..

klondike · August 20, 2025, 08:31:21 AM

Are they still running? Too lazy to check.

Scrumpy · August 20, 2025, 08:33:28 AM

I was also too lazy to check..

klondike · August 20, 2025, 08:37:38 AM

If they are I reckon they'd jump at the chance. Stockades could be erected around them.

Dextrous63 · August 20, 2025, 09:52:15 AM

Identifying the people who took part in the anti racism demos, and also those who took part in welcoming/wanting immigration would be useful. Then the government could provide them with bedding and requisition parts of their homes to accommodate asylum seekers.

Seems simple really. As they want them, let them have them.

klondike · August 20, 2025, 10:20:51 AM

I think the police use facial recognition and high quality video cameras of any event such as this. They also have all the bodycam videos even if they didn't have time to set up a camera van.

JBR · August 20, 2025, 10:35:52 AM

Quote from: Scrumpy on August 20, 2025, 08:22:42 AMPerhaps Butlins !!!.. Pontins.!!!!.. Warners!!!!! ... will be the next to welcome them with open arms..
They mostly have little boating lakes... they will feel at home there..

Excellent idea. I think my mother took us kids to one of them, not sure which, a long time ago. What I do seem to remember is a rather small room with no room to swing a cat (though I would never do such a thing).
Even so, it would be a step up from the tents they live in in France.

Dextrous63 · August 20, 2025, 10:57:11 AM

Those who want asylum should be happy they are in a safe land and adopt the beggars nor being choosers mentality. Those who are economic migrants should be made to understand that, like the rest of us, we must fend for ourselves.

Alex · August 20, 2025, 11:59:51 AM

Quote from: Scrumpy on August 20, 2025, 08:22:42 AMPerhaps Butlins !!!.. Pontins.!!!!.. Warners!!!!! ... will be the next to welcome them with open arms..
They mostly have little boating lakes... they will feel at home there..

Someone posted a video on Facebook from Pontins near Southport. It's been closed since last year and is owned by - guess who ? Britannia. There was security on the main gate, foreign of course. It did look empty tbh, so perhaps the video maker is just stirring things up for the good people of Ainsdale ? Watch this space.

klondike · August 20, 2025, 03:00:53 PM

Quote from: Alex on August 20, 2025, 11:59:51 AMstirring things up for the good people of Ainsdale

They'd have no problems at all if the suggestion I made earlier was part of the deal - a stockade round it and guards - preferably at least second generation British and armed. Somebody doling out plane tickets back home for any that were dissatisfied.

JBR · August 20, 2025, 06:10:38 PM

Quote from: Dextrous63 on August 20, 2025, 10:57:11 AMThose who want asylum should be happy they are in a safe land and adopt the beggars nor being choosers mentality. Those who are economic migrants should be made to understand that, like the rest of us, we must fend for ourselves.

If they want asylum, why are they leaving France?
Simple answer: they don't need asylum; they want as many handouts as they can get, and that's in the UK.