Reader reports on migrants staying at a Great Western hotel free of charge while British guests have to pay!
The report:
Extract from a national newspaper on what our readers think could be possible alternate accomodation:-
Why not make sites like this fit for purpose (using immigrant labour) and as temporary centres until their cases are sorted out - instead of giving them hotel accomodation?
Our reader asks for Christina Rees, our MP, to bring this matter up in parliament and for attention of the Home Secretary. It is likely that these disused sites have not been given thought to solve an offensive problem.
Editorial Note. In 1980 there were 26 Pontin's holiday centres - now in 2015 there are only 6, which have been taken over by Britannia Hotels. The rest were either sold off by the Pontin's MD., Trevor Hemmings (one of the richest men in Britain) for housing sites or boarded up like the ones at Hemsby in Norfolk and Tower Beach at Prestatyn, just to mention two
It certainly makes sense that these disused sites be used on a temporary basis for migrants, instead of hotels used by British holiday makers and commercial travellers.