Illegal migrants are being given private healthcare while being put up in a Greater Manchester hotel despite Labour’s pledge to stop using hotels and a local NHS walk-in centre being shut down. The Telegraph‘s Dia Chakravarty has more.
Four months after [Yvette] Cooper took over at the Home Office, her department received “ministerial approval” to move asylum seekers into a hotel in a Greater Manchester town which had just elected its first ever Labour MP in July.
It was the week of Halloween when the Group Leader of the eight Conservative members at Trafford Council received a phone call from a friend. What was going on at the Best Western Cresta Court Hotel in Altrincham, the friend asked.
The respectable hotel which would host AGMs and formal dinners appeared to be cancelling all bookings – including weddings – for the year ahead.
“I found out by accident,” Councillor Nathan Evans told me, that nearly 300 asylum seekers – reportedly all young men – were to be housed at the hotel which ordinarily charges £171 for a family room per night according to its Tripadvisor reviews.
It was only at this point that the residents discovered that, without consulting with them, the Home Office had made the decision to place 296 individuals in the market town, which their council had accepted without providing the local population with a hint of a notice. The Cresta Court Hotel had been shut down for 12 months with immediate effect to house asylum seekers. …
In a Town Hall meeting last week – a clip of which has now become viral on social media – incredulous local residents discovered that their new neighbours at the Cresta Court Hotel would be provided with access to private healthcare at taxpayers’ expense.
It would be a bitter pill to swallow for most communities across the country. Struggling to access NHS services is possibly the only experience which every British subject has in common these days. But for the people of Altrincham, it is inexcusable.
Oliver Carrol, the Conservative Parliamentary candidate defeated in July, explains why.
“Local people in Altrincham are outraged that Labour recently decided to shut down Altrincham Hospital’s walk-in centre – built at a cost of millions in 2015 – only to fork out for private healthcare for migrants staying in the town’s only major hotel. It is as tin-eared as it is profligate.”
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If this is all designed to stir up anger, it’s working pretty fecking well….
Andrew Neather, a previously unheard-of speechwriter for Blair, Straw and Blunkett, popped up with an article in the Evening Standard in October 2009 which gave the game away.
Immigration, he wrote, ‘didn’t just happen; the deliberate policy of Ministers from late 2000…was to open up the UK to mass immigration’.
He was at the heart of policy in September 2001, drafting the landmark speech by the then Immigration Minister Barbara Roche, and he reported ‘coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn’t its main purpose – to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date’.
How much more proof is needed that the government prioritizes the needs and favours migrants over British citizens who’ve paid into the system for all their working lives?
”40% of immigrants who arrived in 2022-23 are on benefits
Meanwhile, British pensioners have their winter fuel allowance removed
Let that sink in
Benefits must be restricted to British citizens only
Deportation for any immigrant who cannot support themselves or speak English.”
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”40% of immigrants on benefits while pensioners shiver through winter? If that doesn’t show you how twisted our priorities have become, nothing will.
Here’s the reality: The British taxpayer is being squeezed to the bone to fund benefits for people who, in many cases, haven’t contributed a single penny into the system. Meanwhile, our own pensioners—the ones who actually built this country—are being left out in the cold, literally.
Let’s spell it out, plain and simple:
Benefits for British citizens ONLY—if you’re coming here to leech off our welfare system, don’t bother showing up.
Can’t speak English? Can’t support yourself? Pack your bags. We’re done playing nanny state to every freeloader who hops off a boat demanding handouts.
Britain is not a social services buffet for the world. We need to take care of our own FIRST. Charity begins at home, and it’s about time we put our people first.”
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You speak truth but if public voices are raised in protest they are either jailed or at best, this Muppet Show give you a look that says ‘so what? We’re in now and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.’
That’s what every Labour speaker implies and what Sadiq Khan’s ugly complacent smile conveys.
I totally agree with a comment on another site that all migrant costs, whether they are legal or illegal, should be like student loans. The migrant will be billed for all support they receive and, once they have leave to remain, any income above minimum wage will be withheld until such time as the loan is repaid. See how many will be lining up on the French coast then.
No.
This would be like billing the immies who hop on a plane to take free NHS health care and then F. off back to wherever they came from with the bill left foreever unpaid.
We need a Donald who is promising the biggest deportation exercise the world has seen.
If we do not deport in millions our nations are finished and pretty damned quickly.
I totally agree with you in the perfect world, we will kick them out, but sadly I just don’t see how we are ever going to achieve this when we are in the situation we are currently in. Somehow we have got to turn the tap off to stop the bath overflowing because the plug hole is too small. If they think they are going to lose most of the money they think they are going to make, they will go to other countries, that turns the tap off. Then I think we should reinstate the army camps in some of our remote locations, such as Salisbury Plain, the various moorlands around the country and those already here should be housed in wooden huts, with old style metal beds and straw mattresses and basic diet. The camp should be secure until such time as they choose to leave the country and return to their homeland or they are deported. That opens the plug hole.
My understanding is that we don’t have agreements with a lot of countries to return their citizens that come here illegally. Therefore you’re correct that we have to stop people coming here in the first place by making conditions tough for them and making it clear that only people from a, very small, number of genuinely unsafe countries will be considered for asylum. If this doesn’t work and the French refuse to stop the boats departing e.g. by deploying their army on the beaches around Calais then we make it clear we’ll send in (what’s left of) the British army to do the job. All our troops would need to do is intercept the boats before they launch and disable the engine or the whole boat.
Well done on electing your first Labour MP, Altrincham! Big congrats all round.
No more proof is needed that this is a planned well run managed Invasion , carried out by HMG under influence from outside forces .
Language has changed in the last few months. ‘We have no plans.’ actually means ‘of course we are going to do it’. ‘Let me be really clear’ means ‘I am going to completely waffle away in a word salad Cackles Harris would approve of.’ ‘Labour Party election manifesto’ means ‘an irrelevant document produced to con people into voting Labour’.