A couple told of their devastation after their wedding in a luxury hotel 300 miles away from the English Channel was cancelled due to the venue being secured by officials to accommodate asylum seekers.
Simon Pritchard and Lucy Campbell, 28, were just five weeks away from tying the knot at the four-star Hilton Garden Inn in Snowdonia before being notified via Zoom the event had been called off.
Reacting to the news, Lucy Campbell said that when they were told the venue was being cancelled, they were both completely gobsmacked, and that they’d been counting down the days for the wedding to happen, and that when they told them they just couldn’t believe it, especially the reason they gave them.
A string of local councils is now taking legal action against the Home Office to prevent the Government from using hotels in their area.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said this was only a temporary measure and officials were urgently looking for more basic accommodation.
He said the hotels were not a sustainable solution and that they want to ensure they leave the hotels as quickly as possible and to do that they would need to disperse individuals to other forms of accommodation.
He said they may need to take some larger sites to provide decent but basic accommodation and of course, they will need to get through a backlog so that they can get more people out of the system.
According to a newspaper outlet, using campsites is one of the alternatives being considered.
Mr Pritchard and Ms Campbell, from Towyn, Conwy, were expected to marry in front of their three children on December 10.
They’d made the booking a year ago, but were told it had been cancelled.
Ms Campbell said that she didn’t blame the staff, the people who had to tell her because it was out of their hands, but she wasn’t sure how to take the claim that the hotel had no choice in the matter, the Home Office just demanded it.
Local Conservative MP Robin Millar has criticised the use of the £146 to £300 a night to house asylum seekers and pledged to raise the problem with Home Office ministers.
He said that he would be clear because he was concerned about the practicality of the property, in its location for the purpose it will be used, and that the hotel wasn’t a detention centre, and that it was remote and unsupported by the appropriate services.
Venues that profit from illegals at the expense of our own citizens should be boycotted permanently, but there isn’t much this couple can do about it, not really if the Home Office has commandeered the hotel, although it’s extremely unfortunate for the wedding couple.
It’s also extremely sad for the hotel because rooms will be destroyed, and then the hotel will have to clean up after these migrants who won’t care how they leave it after they’ve left, and the only people who can take them to court is the hotel proprietors themselves, but you can bet they’ve been paid very charitably for their services.
It’s time councils, particularly in London objected to housing the raft brigade. There are literally thousands, standing outside nice warm hotels, in Primark tracksuits, all smoking, laughing and having a fantastic time, it’s an absolute disgrace.
They should be prevented from accessing benefits, health care, and free housing. If that stopped I wonder how many would come over then? And in the meantime, British people can’t afford to put their central heating on – you couldn’t make this up if you tried!
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