Illegal migrants are ferried by coach to one of the hundreds of hotels where they will be housed and fed at taxpayers expense
Rajeev Syal – The Guardian Aug 3, 2025
One of the rooms inside the Britannia International Hotel used to accommodate illegal migrants
Ministers will spend an extra £100m on measures to deter Channel crossings, including on the planned “one in, one out” returns agreement with France, the Home Office has said.
In a third immigration policy pledge within 24 hours, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, said the money would pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers, as well as new technology and equipment to step up intelligence-gathering on people-smuggling gangs.
For seven years, successive governments have tried and failed to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats. Figures released last week showed more than 25,000 people had arrived in the UK via small boats in 2025 so far, a record for this point in the year.
Protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers spread this weekend. Nine people were arrested on Saturday in Islington, north London, after brief clashes between protesters and counter-protesters outside the Thistle City Barbican hotel.
On Sunday afternoon, more than 100 people, many of them women wearing pink T-shirts, gathered outside the Britannia International hotel in Canary Wharf after reports that asylum seekers had been bussed in under the cover of darkness. Grainy footage on social media appeared to show men getting off a coach and being escorted into the hotel in the early hours.
A group of men wearing face masks were also seen outside the Britannia hotel later in the afternoon. Chants of “send them home” broke out.
Protesters jeered at people going in and out of the hotel, and officers were forced to step in after flares were let off in the crowd, the Metropolitan police said.
A group of people were “harassing occupants and staff” and trying to prevent deliveries being made, the force added. They were also trying to “breach the fencing and access the hotel”.
One man had been arrested in Canary Wharf “on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker” after an officer was pushed, police said.
Fresh protests had erupted on Thursday outside a hotel in Epping, Essex – the latest in a series of demonstrations after an Ethiopian asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault against a local girl.
The “one in, one out” deal agreed with France last month means the government will for the first time be able to send people back there in exchange for asylum seekers with links to Britain.
The scheme is uncertain in scale and timing – critics have claimed it will not be a deterrent because it will only result in the exchange of up to 50 people each week.
In a statement, Cooper said the additional funding would “turbo-charge the ability of our law enforcement agencies to track the gangs and bring them down, working with our partners overseas, and using state-of-the-art technology and equipment.
“Alongside our new agreements with France, this will help us drive forward our plan for change commitments to protect the UK’s border security and restore order to our immigration system.”
In a separate development, academics at the University of Oxford have concluded that £20bn has been spent on “migrant-welcoming schemes”, including asylum accommodation, over 10 years, but with little focus on integration and community cohesion.
A team from the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas) said the money from 26 different spending streams over the decade to April 2024 included a £10bn overspend on asylum accommodation, while only “small amounts of money” had been spent on long-term goals such as community consent.
Jacqueline Broadhead, a senior researcher at Compas, said the government had an opportunity to redress the balance.
“While there have been very high levels of overspend on asylum hotels, there has not been equivalent investment on cohesion and integration, which could help mitigate some of the pressures on local communities,” she said.
On Saturday, the government released plans to introduce a new offence for advertising irregular small boat crossings under the border security, asylum and immigration bill going through parliament.
Assisting illegal immigration to the UK is already a crime. Officials believe the offence would give police and other agencies more power to disrupt criminal gangs.
And in yet another announcement on Saturday, Cooper said she planned to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog, with the aim of turning around decisions within weeks.
There are tens of thousands of refugees who have been waiting for longer than a year for an initial decision on their applications for asylum. More than seven in 10 are eventually granted permission to stay in the UK.
The Conservatives criticised Cooper’s funding announcement as a “desperate grab for headlines, which will make no real difference”.
Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the opposition, told Trevor Phillips on Sky News that Labour should revive Boris Johnson’s ditched £700m plan to send people to Rwanda, and should close the hotel in Epping.
“What we need is a third-country deterrent so that people can be processed elsewhere,” she said.
“spend” a hundred million pounds, because it looks like a hundred million actions, but it is a transfer of cash, and the real action would cost nothing. White Men would volunteer to do the job
At least France can use the excuse they can’t keep all of Europe’s borders closed but our politicians can’t say that about Britain’s borders. We’re an island. They manage well enough to keep “contraband” like drugs, weapons and duty-free tobacco and booze from entering illegally so they can apply customs duty to every single item that generates this import tax. What is that if not being fully in control of the borders?
LOL…
The pirate rock regime has decided to hand out a hundred million of your cash, of course, borrowed at very high interest from the usual suspects…
.. to itself…
..the house of con-men will be registering hundreds of shell companies as we speak to siphon it all into their bank accounts..
every one of them will now be offering very expensive ‘migrant mitigation consultation’…
to themselves..
LOL..
‘the one in one out’ deal…which means of course absolutely fuck all and sounds like the the work of the office of statistics…which of course means whatever you want it to..
It’s the sort of nonsense you read all the time in toilet paper like the fraudian, for example when the femenists and jewes that staff the shithole want to dump on men..they come up with a statistic..
‘men on average have 8.6 more sexual partners than females’…which of course is utter guff because every one of those sexual partners would by necessity have to be a woman..
wouldn’t they?.. it’s amazing what an fraudian imbecile can fudge with meaningless stats…they’ve actually built a regime on them..
Would it not be better to become the 51st State of the USA with Constitutional Rights of gun ownership and Free Speech rights?
Just where can one find our own Rights under this nebulous UK Constitution which supposedly supports our Rights? Nobody i know has ever seen this pretend British Constitution as it is certainly never popularised.
As for the Magna Carta – from just where can a full copy be downloaded? It must be difficult as again – has anybody seen a full copy?
There is no attempt to make the public aware, but the English should wake up fast before they start adding minarets to Salisbury Cathedral where it was last kept!
Best to partly provide the kind of accommodation experienced by millions of German POWS in the Rhine Meadows camps after the end of WWII. It can be made ‘luxury’ by providing tents and spades in order to dig holes to shit in.
Welcome to Whiteocide. Time to start revolting white man & implode the whole system– instead of staring at your Smershphones, nig wog sports teams, porn sites and smoking your weed all day.
Cooper – perhaps this will all disappear if you stop and deport ALL illegal immigrants without passports etc (and let them apply at the Uk embassy in their country) and arrest and deport ALL grooming gangs, No need for this diktat as it smacks of woke and censorship. Wo8uld the police and army be able to contain and stop 30m brits should they decide to rise up and take the law into their hands because successive gov are not listening and neither have they bitten the bullet..
and this is what you defeated Hitler for
why you british voted for the pervert gay
traitot politicians since worldwar 2nd ?
our german politicians are kept by jews by
holocaust guild . only last time blackmailed
(sachsensumpf, saxonswamp)
for whatever reason the zio-government want them here
think on this
“One in one out…” Who do they think they are kidding? Kick an illegal immigrant out, and in return get legal immigrants and their families in. Nice one, Starmer!😢
“One in one out…” Who do they think they are kidding? Kick an illegal immigrant out, and in return get legal immigrants and their families in.
Nice one, Starmer!😢
Comments are always fantasising about what we “should” do, when White people have got no political power and never even dreamed of trying to get any. Whites are content to be individual paid servants of Yid-face
lewis
whites wont do anything as long as they remain followers of rabbi Jesus & rabbi Marx
thus the mission of the great one to provide them with new religion/god of power, supremacy and conquest.
A.A.
@ mick..
What a great idea mick..
..pirate rock should get a full time bed in the yankee asylum.. rather than a corner on the floor in the corridor..so all the limeys can sit on their fat arses polishing their guns watching teevee.. along with all the yankee inmates…sat on their fat arses polishing their guns watching teevee..
whilst the country goes down the shitter on a log raft…and the current wall street stooge, resident in the shitehouse commandeers the bumpstocks and soft tip ammo, you hoard in the ‘den in a tin box from wally mart… and sends them over to isreal.. to shoot toddlers in food queues.
yup.. what a good idea..
@ MM
I remember england had always avery effective
bordercontrol + even westgermany had border patroulies
before EU membership . swizerland +all southeuropean
countries too . the wages for them goes now to the
massinvaders .
Nico X member–they had to get Jesus-reverence out of the way to make Whites into devotees of Mammon
Aiwaz Army
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