In Skegness, five hotels have closed their doors to the public and accepted lucrative deals to house illegal migrants. The influx of young Muslim migrant men along the Skegness seafront has alarmed many local residents who believe these ‘migrant hotels’ will damage the tourist industry and put the safety of the inhabitants, especially young women, at risk.
UK Sun Outside Skegness Ex-Service Club, a homeless man who called himself Steve sits huddled on the pavement, a plastic jar in front of him containing a few coins and the odd note.
It’s a bitter evening on the seafront famous for its bracing North Sea winds, and Steve pulls his sleeping bag close, preparing for another chilly night on the streets. Meanwhile, 200 metres away, asylum seekers are bussed in to stay in hotels – six at the last count, with the number steadily rising.
One of the facilities taking in asylum seekers on North Parade has a ‘no vacancies’ sign hanging beside a message on the door welcoming guests.
But there was no warm welcome when we knocked – instead we were met by a hostile security guard from Securitas, who ushered us off “private property”. A few doors down the reception was the same; we were told no-one was available to speak. At least five hotels in Skegness are currently occupied by asylum seekers and mostly Muslim male illegal migrants.
UK taxpayers are being stung for nearly £6m a day – roughly £2billion a year – to keep more than 37,000 illegal aliens awaiting deportation in UK hotels. Skegness is a town with a population of just under 20,000 people, according to a recent Census survey.
Three hotels in Skegness are thought to have been housing asylum seekers for around 10 months and some residents are becoming worried as more of them continue to “flood” their community.
The three hotels include The Leisure Hotel on Drummond Road, The Sun Hotel on the seafront and Chatsworth Hotel on the seafront, according to a local councillor. County Hotel on North Parade has recently been confirmed to the councillor as the fourth hotel in Skegness to be taking in asylum seekers and a fifth (The Grand Hotel) is now believed to be doing the same.
Daily MailOne hotel owner who refuses to house asylum seekers is Dee Allen, 35, of the Hatters Hotel, which she runs with her husband Gary. “It has become a big issue,” she tells us. The couple turned down — on a ‘point of principle,’ as they put it — nearly £550,000, which would have been a godsend for them and their three daughters, aged from six to 18.
In exchange for that money from taxpayers, the Government had asked the Allens to close their doors to guests and hand over the keys of their 21-bed hotel for the next year to provide housing for young male migrants, mostly from the Middle East. ‘We could have shut up shop and gone away. Just banked the money of £10,000-plus a week,’ says Dee.
Gary adds: ‘The neighbours would have hated us for it. The agent from the Home Office said all but one of the 15 full and part-time staff would have to be sacked. Where would they get work in a seaside resort out of season? How would we have lived with ourselves?
‘We couldn’t do it. The locals love coming here. We sold everything in Nottingham to buy this hotel. It was like ‘God’s waiting room’ when we came here last year. The old carpets were held together with sticky tape. In the bar and restaurant area, there were only five single electric sockets.
‘Yet the Home Office agent said they would take it like that. We would still get £136,000 every 13 weeks to stop our guest bookings for a year and give over the bedrooms to these foreign men.’
“We have nearly 30,000 of our own people homeless on the streets. There are people dying on NHS waiting lists. “It’s shocking. So, what does the Government do? Bring in a load of other people from other countries. “It’s going to ruin this hotel resort – and it’s going to get a whole lot worse.”
There is talk of the Government taking over more properties, including a care home housing elderly dementia patients, which is permanently shutting its business five days before Christmas. This has made locals twitchy. As Gary says: ‘Skegness is a favourite for children who love the donkey rides, sandcastles and candy floss. It has always been a safe place to come on holiday.’
Ten days ago, 400 Skegness residents called a high-decibel emergency public meeting in a centre near the seafront. There were screams of protest from some who begged local councillors and the area’s Conservative MP Matt Warman to stop its hotels being turned over to migrants.
Tempers boiled over during the three-hour gathering as residents said the resort could be ‘permanently damaged’ if the trend was to continue. ‘We don’t know where they come from or why they want to be here,’ was a common theme. Hoteliers claimed bookings are already being cancelled for next year, because Skegness’s image is being tarnished by the influx of young Muslim men wandering the seafront and going into the town centre.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
This tells me one thing. The story is reaching its end and it wont be a happy end either. This tells us all that the hotels are full and now they start to take the highclass hotels and the ones were the rich stay. This all will soon end then how many hotels do we have left and what do we do after the hotels and hauses run out. This we see soon then the migrationpackts (that all sighned) wont let them turn them down and they have to give a hause and money that we soon wont have anymore. People this is exactly what i say by the hour of power is comming to shine on all of us then the hour of power is the time were their system falls and then our time has come, Amen.
Martelson says
God bless the Allen’s and others like them that don’t take the traitor coin to let this invasion be housed.
But, the thing is – can’t people record lists of who is taking the money for this, and a list of those who refuse to sell out their nation and people for a quick profit? These actions now need to remembered and rewarded forever by people who know right from wrong. And this in every nation. This with every religious organization. This with every individual. Such do not deserve the reward of your money.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
That we do here in germany. We collect facts and the news of the deeds they do and yes we will use it in the hour of power in order to find and judge them for what they do and have done. We the few fighters are ready and waiting and yes they will pay for their sinns against humanity and the many nations.