Billions Spent on Migrant Hotels Shows “Ineptitude” of UK Political Class

If Britain’s establishment parties had any sense, they’d spend taxpayer cash on detention centres for illegal migrants, not hotels.

So says borders expert Robert Bates, from the Centre for Migration Control, following the news on Monday that the Home Office has—in the words of the Home Affairs Committee—“squandered” billions of pounds on accommodating thousands upon thousands of migrants.

Bates told europeanconservative.com that this revealed the “sheer ineptitude of our political class,” adding that as a result of their actions,

We now see a feeding frenzy, with immoral corporations clambering over one another to seize lucrative government contracts before blighting towns and villages by housing unwanted interlopers in their communities.

The costs of flawed contracts—signed under the useless watch of the ‘Conservative’ Party, despite all its tough talk about border control—had reportedly tripled to more than £15 billion (that is, around €17.17bn). Reform’s Richard Tice said this proved that the Home Office is “not fit for purpose.”

That the contracts were drawn up before should hardly let Labour off the hook. There are currently more than 32,000 migrants living in around 200 hotels, at a cost of more than £2bn (€2.29bn) a year. Ross Clark also highlights in The Spectator that when the Tories previously ‘attempted’ to house migrants elsewhere, Labour—which claims it will stop using migrant hotels in 2029—“screamed outrage.”

The shocking state of the UK migrant crisis was on full display over the weekend when the renowned sexual predator at Epping’s Bell Hotel was accidentally released from HMP Chelmsford after being wrongly categorised as due to be let out on licence, rather than a foreign offender set for deportation.

“Britain,” said Reform leader Nigel Farage in response to the story, “is broken.”