UK: 30,000 migrants to continue living in hotels at cost of $5,800,000 per day for 3 more years

It would be unbelievably foolish for any British citizen actually to believe that a far-left government such as that of Prime Minister Keir Starmer would abide by his election promise to curb Britain’s ongoing illegal migrant problem.

The latest news brings a sense of déjà vu, that tens of thousands of illegal migrants are being housed in hotels, paid for by taxpayers, while so many British citizens can barely make ends meet. Yet in a predictable leftist spin, illegals are made out to be the suffering parties “stuck in hotels for three years…” How many British citizens could afford to be “stuck” in a hotel for three years? Yet they’re paying for illegals to be housed there. The UK government has dismissed the plight of its own taxpayers,  economically as well as in terms of national security.

Nothing has significantly changed since we reported this last year on Jihad Watch:

It keeps getting worse by the day as more illegals flow into Britain via the English Channel. While many UK military families have no heat or hot water, the government continues to host illegal migrants in plush hotels, at the cost to taxpayers of $8.5 million USD a day and rising. And now, homelessness is up over 25% in Britain. So while illegal, mostly Muslim migrants from the Middle East and Africa, are royally served in plush hotels, poverty stricken Britons are shivering on the streets.

Note that the reported cost last year was $8,500,000 USD, while it is now being reported in the Times of London at $5,800,000 USD. According to the UK government’s website:

There were more than 46,000 asylum seekers in hotels as of the end of December 2023, costing £8 million a day.

£8 is $10,600,000 USD.

When British citizens were protesting in the streets over illegal migration, the Starmer government and the media made them out to be “far right,” “violent” thugs.

The Labour government has no intention of stopping illegals, as it strings along British citizens with promises to the contrary. The general policy of the British government is the same as that of leftist governments everywhere: putting British citizens last in a slow, agonizing process of a great global reset that rejects Judeo-Christian values, traditions and rule of law.

“Migrants will be stuck in hotels for three years because of asylum backlog,” by Matt Dathan and Steven Swinford, The Times of London, September 30, 2024:

Migrants will continue to be housed in hotels for up to three years because the asylum backlog will take significantly longer to clear than Labour expected, The Times has been told.

There are nearly 30,000 migrants living in more than 250 hotels at a cost of £4.2 million per day.

Sir Keir Starmer pledged in Labour’s election manifesto to “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”. The party did not set a timeframe on closing hotels but Home Office officials had been expected to close the last hotel within a year.

However, since entering power, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, and other ministers have privately conceded that it will take significantly longer to clear the overall asylum backlog than they had hoped….