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I paid £100 a night for migrant hotel – you won’t believe how nice it is inside | Politics | News


The UK is often accused of rolling out the red carpet for migrants.

The benefits system, NHS privileges and free hotel stays prove that we’re doing nothing to sort out the migrant crisis. In fact, we’re encouraging it, as many of our own struggle to get decent homes, to get a GP appointment or, sadly for many, to even pay their bills.

Now for the latest slap in the face. The International Hotel at Canary Wharf – slap bang in the middle of one of London’s poshest  postcodes – has now reportedly been opened up to asylum seekers.

I was genuinely shocked.

That hotel was a regular stopover during my first year of working in London. I shelled out my own hard-earned cash, at around £100 a night for one of the cheapest rooms each stay. And let’s just say – although I know that people’s standards differ wildly – if I was shacked up in there, cost-free, in one of London’s poshest postcodes, I’d be absolutely delighted. Pinching myself, in fact.

Don’t get me wrong – the hotel is not what it was in its glitzy heyday. But it’s located in one of London’s most impressive business districts, with a grand lobby and gigantic chandeliers. You can see that it was once quite the venue.

Yes, the rooms are definitely dated, but the sheets are brilliant white, the communal areas positively plush and the huge beds are comfy. And what’s more – which I promise is a rare luxury in London – the rooms are bloody huge. 

The last time I stayed, I was put in one room that had had a nice modern makeover and featured a balcony overlooking the water beneath some of the UK’s most impressive skyscrapers. Gosh, if I was an asylum seeker I’d be pretty much thinking that I’d won the lottery!

So it really is no mystery why asylum seekers are passing through multiple safe countries to get here – and risking life and limb on dinghies to do so. The fact that this shambolic Labour government promised to slash asylum seeker hotel bills – and yet seems to be taking on a new venue every other day – is appalling. 

They had a great deterrent in their grasp with Rwanda. Yet they scrapped it to politically point score, only to then unsuccessfully try and cajole other uninterested countries to do almost the same thing. Disgraceful.

Today, protests rage on around migrant hotels across the UK. While I don’t condone any aggression that may result, I can totally understand the anger. The fact that we can’t give the same silver platter treatment to our own people is a national disgrace – and the British people won’t put up with it much longer.

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