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Asylum Hotel Fires Blamed on Migrant Couriers’ E-bikes

by Richard Eldred
18 May 2025 11:00 AM

A string of fires at a London asylum hotel has been linked to lithium batteries used by migrant couriers. The Telegraph has the story.

The Telegraph has established that the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has been called six times to a single hotel housing hundreds of male migrants since 2023.

One of those blazes was caused by a lithium battery bursting into flames while charging in an asylum seeker’s room. The battery pack was believed to have been used to power a migrant’s e-bike used to deliver fast food and groceries ordered through app companies, including Deliveroo and Just Eat.

It has now emerged that migrants in Home Office hotels found with “dangerous” e-bike batteries indoors can have the devices confiscated.

The increasing popularity of e-bikes amongst asylum seekers working for courier delivery companies has raised the prospect their batteries pose an increasing and serious fire risk.

It was recently revealed how some asylum seekers are paying off people smuggler debts by illegally working as bike couriers and making up to £500 a month.

Video footage from the London hotel showed couriers going to and from the premises fitting and removing battery packs on their e-bikes.

A source has now shared evidence which shows electrical fittings, including plug sockets and concealed wiring in the walls, have been scorched in blazes at the hotel, suggesting faulty electrical equipment was responsible.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Electric scootersFire riskHome OfficeLithiumLondon Fire Brigade (LFB)

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
9 months ago

‘Saoirse (pronounced “Sur-sha”)’

Saoirse is pronounced “Seer-sha”.

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Monro
Monro
9 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

In case anyone meets her, Saoirse Ronan apparently pronounces her name SUR-sha. She says herself Seer-sha is also another, very common pronunciation.

It’s a bit of a minefield. I think this may be where the problems started:

‘The earliest written records of Gaelic are in Ogham, a script used in early medieval Ireland. Ogham is sometimes called the “Celtic tree alphabet” because each letter is associated with an Irish tree name’

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
9 months ago
Reply to  Monro

I know a few women called Saoirse, I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it ‘Sur-sha’, not even people on TV or radio referring to Saoirse Ronan. It’s a bit odd, it’s like someone called Vera wanting it to be pronounced ‘Vura’.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
9 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

There’s an MP from Northern Ireland called Sorcha Eastwood, but it’s spelt Sorcha, not Saoirse.

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RTSC
RTSC
9 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Are you sure it’s not pronounced “id-i-ot?”

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Monro
Monro
9 months ago

Courts have to start handing out exemplary punishment for this offence.

In cases with rock solid DNA evidence for murder, I, personally, would have at least one perpetrator every year shot.

This would provide both useful live firing practice for our young soldiers, who would queue round the block to participate, and a stark deterrent to potential offenders.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
9 months ago

Anybody who appoints themselves as a spokesperson for victims of rape and sexual assault, whilst simultaneously being of the “Refugees welcome”/”Women can have penises and enter female spaces and sports” is an idiotic, deluded, hypocritical traitor.
You cannot be both concerned about women’s personal safety and be a woketard, it’s not possible. These people are frauds and traitors to their own sex.
There would be altogether less sex crimes if there were less people in society who belonged to these two misogynist cults. Less stabbings and mutilation of kids/young people also.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
9 months ago
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This from Germany illustrates my point about who the actual perpetrators of the majority of sexual assaults and stabbings are, and ignoring this by potentially introducing female-only carriages on trains is hardly getting to the root cause of the problem. Especially considering you can now change your gender in Germany from the age of 14yrs, this idea seems even more pointless;

”Antje Kapek, the transport policy speaker for the Green Party in Berlin, has called for the introduction of train carriages for exclusive use by female passengers. This follows a shocking upsurge in serious sex crimes on trains and buses, with Berlin alone experiencing the equivalent of more than one such assault every day. Frankfurt is heading in a similar direction.
Transport hubs across Germany are becoming less safe. Federal Police recorded 13,543 violent crimes at train stations in the first half of 2024. 

Critics point out that such changes to ticketing and rolling stock would leave the basic problem intact, that of sexual aggression from men. For the German Greens, this points to a separate issue they would rather not discuss: the actual men being arrested for these offences. When news outlet NiUS analysed a list of the names of suspected rapists from North Rhine-Westphalia, it concluded that 55.8 percent of the perpetrators were either not German or from a migrant background.

The Greens—who fully supported the opening of Germany’s borders in 2015—would sooner not address the fact that men from specific communities are disproportionately represented in the crime statistics compared to their numbers within the overall population. Women-only train carriages would respond to a symptom of the problem, in the deflection-oriented style preferred by the collapsed traffic light coalition government.

Other examples of this approach involve telling railway staff in Thuringia that ticket inspection is now discretionary and that conductors can opt out of checking the credentials of passengers who appear to be foreign, due to the threat of assault. Nationally, faced with a wave of stabbing, the authorities are considering a ban on knives in public with blades over 6 cm in length. This focus by the government on objects rather than perpetrators helps explain why German voters are growing bemused and angry with the official failure to grasp the nettle of violent crime.”

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-greens-advocate-women-only-train-carriages/

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sskinner
sskinner
9 months ago

The 3 photos of men in blackface are definitely Welsh miners. This is why the Welsh Labour party needs to destroy white culture.
https://x.com/Basil_TGMD/status/1857100800054468634

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RTSC
RTSC
9 months ago

It isn’t just rape and murder of white women though is it. Today’s papers report the murder of a 24 yr old woman found in the boot of a car in Ilford, East London. Her name was Harshita Brella (Harshita is an Indian name) and the police believe she was murdered by someone known to her. (In other words, they suspect it could be an “honour” killing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39nwjygjgro

We have imported millions of men from a cultural and religious background who believe women and girls are their property to be disposed of – literally – however they wish. If they have no care or respect for the individuality and rights of their own women/girls, why should they have any for white girls who they consider to be slags and “easy meat?”

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Steven Robinson
Steven Robinson
9 months ago

Prophesied in the book of Revelation:
And he cried with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become an abode of demons, and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hated bird. For all the nations have drunk from the wine of her raging fornication, and the kings of the earth have fornicated with her.”
Babylon the Great stands for western civilisation, standing on the foundations of the first civilisation that rose up in Uruk Mesopotamia and now sexualised to the point of being depicted as a prostitute. The nations, symbolised as birds (Daniel 4:14), have introduced unclean religions into the city. Thus the largest mosque in the western world by land area is the Mosque of Rome, with Strasbourg’s not far behind. Demons have returned to the house that was swept clean of them and brought with them spirits more evil than themselves. The sense is not that they are captives, rather they hold the city captive.

More on this in When the Towers Fall: A Prophecy of What Must Happen Soon.

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sskinner
sskinner
9 months ago

This was 5 years ago but is about pathological altruism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o40yZO2QPc
It happened again.

And an update 1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzWVkHlAXhQ&t=183s
It happened again.

These are very much related.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
9 months ago

Ah, the acting profession where they are at their best when somebody else tells them what to do and what to say. They should stick to that.

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Twm Morgan
Twm Morgan
9 months ago

Never heard of this Ronan nonentity and I’m quite pleased about that. What a waste of space!

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