Labour have sparked controversy today over plans to expand the number of hotels migrants are housed in at the British Taxpayers’ expense, something the party pledged to stop.
The Home Office are looking to reopen hotels previously used to house migrants or find new ones. Housing migrants currently costs £4 million a day.
The news has drawn criticism from commentators and members of the public alike. A GB News poll that asked: “Has Labour betrayed voters by putting illegal migrants up in hotels?” saw 99 per cent of 650 voters respond ‘agree’.
GB News presenters Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce have been discussing the development.
Andrew said: “It’s another broken promise by the Labour government.
“They said that they would close down all these migrant hotels. The last Tory government actually shut a hundred hotels and now this government are admitting they’d have to open even more.
Bev and Andrew on more hotel spaces for migrants
Andrew continued: “It’s a disgrace. They should have at least tried the Rwanda plan. It was a potential deterrent that they couldn’t bring themselves to support. It’s appalling.
Bev added: “It just kind of proves this soundbite of smashing the gangs was nothing other than just a trite headline statement to make, with nothing really behind it.
“I think the British taxpayer is is fed up of paying for hotels with immigrants in them when money is being taken off pensioners for the winter fuel payment.
“It’s not acceptable and they have to come up with something. It might actually be that Giorgia Meloni in Italy solves it for them, by sending migrants to Albania to process them there.
“That might end up seeing our fingers go through the floor. If it does, then let’s hope that Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t claim credit for that.”