Migrant hotel protests spread nationwide

We will start with the Telegraph 

Migrant hotel protests spread across Britain on Saturday as public anger grew over illegal immigration. In Norwich, hundreds of Union Flag-waving locals gathered outside the Brook Hotel to demand its closure.

There were also protests in Leeds, Southampton and Nottinghamshire, with more planned for Sunday.

The Nottinghamshire protest was mostly peaceful although there was a brief confrontation involving pro-migrant counter-demonstrators. Masked counter-protesters broke away from the main group – some of whom carried Stand Up to Racism placards – and walked into the middle of the crowd before being escorted away by police.

Female protesters in Norwich told The Telegraph that the migrant hotel made them fear for their safety because two former residents had been jailed for sex offences in the past three months.

Protests also took place in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on Saturday as demonstrators shouted “back in your rubber dinghies” to asylum seekers in the Britannia Hotel.

Angry protests erupted outside a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel in Leeds today, with demonstrators shouting ‘back in your rubber dinghies’ to those inside.

Police were out in force as crowds waving Union flags and banging instruments converged on the Britannia Hotel in the Seacroft area of the city.

Today, protesters – some of them masked – were seen shouting ‘get them out, get them out’ in the faces of police, who refused to let them through.  One man screamed ‘back in your rubber dinghies’, while another said: ‘Not only have they got a free hotel they have extra bobbies looking after them’.

There were also screams of ‘paedo’ by protesters who accused one migrant of taking pictures of a young girl at the nearby Tesco. Demonstrations were also held outside the hotel on Friday night.

In addition to the protests in Bournemouth, Southampton and Sutton-in-Ashfield, demonstrations are also planned on Sunday in Epping in Essex, Wolverhampton and Altrincham in Cheshire.  I have also heard of plans for Waterlooville in Hampshire and I suspect more not being widely shouted about. 

Protests also took place this week outside the four-star Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, to which the Home Office plans to send asylum seekers.

Sky News says ” There seems no end in sight to asylum hotel protests” like it was a bad thing. I suppose to pro-immigration, pro-government policy upholders grass roots protest is a Bad Thing. 

Witnesses say one of the pro-immigration protesters near the Brook Hotel (Norwich) had approached the much larger group wearing a balaclava – in seconds, the pent-up fury spilt over as an angry crowd surged towards the police…

Trying to find anyone willing to speak was almost impossible: “We don’t talk to the mainstream media,” a common phrase.

There have been protests in nearby Diss too this week. The Park Hotel in the town has now informed the Home Office that it will close altogether if it is ever made to house single men rather than families at the location.

The Park Hotel, on Denmark Street, close to the Mere and the town centre, has been used for asylum seeker families, including women and children, since 2023.

The Home Office had told South Norfolk Council that it would be removing them and replacing them with men from Monday (July 21) this week. But the hotel said it wanted to remain as a home for migrant families and if not able to do so would close its doors, according to the Diss Mercury. I read that the several dozen children have settled into the area and they and their mothers are no trouble; young single men however… I know it is the school holidays but those children will be registered at a school and starting to learn English and our ways – disrupting that will not be good for their welfare.   The ‘Refugees welcome’ is proving hollow if the welfare of genuine innocent small children is so casually disregarded.