Labour councils consider asylum hotel legal challenges
More than half a dozen councils, including some run by Labour, are assessing their options after Epping ruling.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is encouraging Tory-controlled councils to consider launching legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers in their areas.
Badenoch said Epping Forest District Council had achieved "a victory for local people", after a High Court ruling blocked a hotel from housing asylum seekers.
In a letter to Conservative council leaders, Badenoch wrote "we back you to take similar action to protect your community... if your legal advice supports it".
A Labour spokesperson said Badenoch's letter was "desperate and hypocritical nonsense from the architects of the broken asylum system".
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I was listening to this on the radio driving home. What it is, the government are using hotels up and down the country to house asylum seekers whilst their cases are due to be heard, obviously at the taxpayers expense.
But Epping Forest District Council took the government to court and the council won. The council argued that the hotel is not being run as a hotel, and therefore it requires a change of use under planning law. But the hotel had attracted protests with violence in the past which is a danger to the public. The judge agreed and the government has until the 12th of September to remove the refugees.
Now, lying Labour claim they will have stopped using hotels by 2029, but we all know that's a pile of donkey poo, and does that tie in with a general election
So the Tories want Tory councils up and down the country to do the same. That will put the Labours liars in a right pickle, lol.
