Britannia Hotel Canary Wharf

[anonymous-user]

No shortage of irony with this one, and won't be rubbing anyone's noses in it.
Is Starmer on Ket ?

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/police-attend-protest-o...

[119]

Isn’t that where the Epping ‘residents’ are going as well?

[anonymous-user]

There's also at least a dozen schools within 1 mile of the Britannia Hotel.

The strategy meeting must've been thorough on this one

[omniflow]

I presume the protests are by the Asylum Seekers themselves or their supporters.

Putting people in the Britannia is a cruel and unusual punishment and should be outlawed.

[Ganglandboss]

I call bullsh*t on this.

No way is a Britannia hotel four star.

[Harpoon]

Indeed. I got stuck in there once for work a few years ago. I must have really upset somebody to deserve that punishment.

[BikeBikeBIke]

"In Poplar and Limehouse, we are clear: refugees are welcome here." --- Fantastic, so local tax payers can pay for it, and we can house, many, many more here.

It would go a long way to making this more palletable if places that want refugees took them and funded them and places that don't don't have to. Keeps everyone happy.

[rscott]

BikeBikeBIke said:

"In Poplar and Limehouse, we are clear: refugees are welcome here." --- Fantastic, so local tax payers can pay for it, and we can house, many, many more here.

It would go a long way to making this more palletable if places that want refugees took them and funded them and places that don't don't have to. Keeps everyone happy.

Asylum seeker costs are borne by central government, not local. So where they're located doesn't have any cost implications for local councils.

Except for the extra policing costs to deal with the protests (£100k in Epping, mainly because of the violence from anti-migrant protestors).

[s1962a]

rscott said:

BikeBikeBIke said:

"In Poplar and Limehouse, we are clear: refugees are welcome here." --- Fantastic, so local tax payers can pay for it, and we can house, many, many more here.

It would go a long way to making this more palletable if places that want refugees took them and funded them and places that don't don't have to. Keeps everyone happy.

Asylum seeker costs are borne by central government, not local. So where they're located doesn't have any cost implications for local councils.

Except for the extra policing costs to deal with the protests (£100k in Epping, mainly because of the violence from anti-migrant protestors).

London pays something like 15-18% of the TOTAL tax take of the UK. Let us keep it and we'll sort out our own problems like this.

[essayer]

that hotel feels like the only thing in Canary Wharf that's remained unchanged since 1980

[rscott]

essayer said:

that hotel feels like the only thing in Canary Wharf that's remained unchanged since 1980

To be fair, it is an award winning hotel. Won worst hotel in London for at least 10 years in a row in a Which survey.

[Spare tyre]

I get that they need to use hotels short term

But why central London

Surely there are cheaper hotels, or is this hotelier heading towards a refit and kicking the can down the road a bit with full occupancy

Very strange times

[rpguk]

It's not exactly central London and it's only fair that the migrants are spread around - that includes London. People would be angry if they were only dumped in poor towns.

This hotel is a dump, it has a rating of 6.4 on booking.com (which any users of the site knows is about as bad as it gets in real terms). Don't be fooled by the '4 star' claims.

[Spare tyre]

rpguk said:

It's not exactly central London and it's only fair that the migrants are spread around - that includes London. People would be angry if they were only dumped in poor towns.

This hotel is a dump, it has a rating of 6.4 on booking.com (which any users of the site knows is about as bad as it gets in real terms). Don't be fooled by the '4 star' claims.

I possibly wrongly assumed providing the services that they need would cost more in London. Of course it could cost less

[rpguk]

Probably, but then if you stuck them all in Blackpool people would be complaining that Londoners don't have to deal with it so damned if they do, damned if they don't.

I think it's fair to spread the load and this seems a pragmatic solution.

[Chrisgr31]

rscott said:

To be fair, it is an award winning hotel. Won worst hotel in London for at least 10 years in a row in a Which survey.

Britannia is I believe the largest privately owned chain of hotels in the UK. A number feature in worst hotel reports. They suffer from being old but the stay cost is invariably cheap and I’d say it proves the old adage of you get what you pay for. Not sure when he booked but didn’t he say it was £67 for the night? Surely that’s a bargain?

I have stayed in a number, but not for a few years, but for the price they were good value for money.

[Spare tyre]

rpguk said:

Probably, but then if you stuck them all in Blackpool people would be complaining that Londoners don't have to deal with it so damned if they do, damned if they don't.

I think it's fair to spread the load and this seems a pragmatic solution.

Yup, you are right

If this is is the new norm I’m guessing we need to build some sort of official centres for the residents

We’ve had numerous issues with hotel guests hanging around the infant / junior school here, which while is not illegal in its self, I just feel that unknown people who have entered the country illegally should not be given the benefit of the doubt

[eldar]

Bo_apex said:

No shortage of irony with this one, and won't be rubbing anyone's noses in it.
Is Starmer on Ket ?

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/police-attend-protest-o...

Didn't realise AOL was still alive.

[anonymous-user]

rpguk said:

It's not exactly central London and it's only fair that the migrants are spread around - that includes London. People would be angry if they were only dumped in poor towns.

This hotel is a dump, it has a rating of 6.4 on booking.com (which any users of the site knows is about as bad as it gets in real terms). Don't be fooled by the '4 star' claims.

6.4 ?

Calais is jealous

[rpguk]

Spare tyre said:

Yup, you are right

If this is is the new norm I m guessing we need to build some sort of official centres for the residents

We ve had numerous issues with hotel guests hanging around the infant / junior school here, which while is not illegal in its self, I just feel that unknown people who have entered the country illegally should not be given the benefit of the doubt

Maybe, I'm not sure Capita would deliver the centres any cheaper and you're still going to have local objectors regardless + now they'll be moaning about the headline cost to build + staff these new centres.

Not fashionable but it seems current gov have already brought spendng on these hotels down 30% yoy (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeqwv98d55o) so moving in the right direction but this whole thing is a good marketing campign for Reform so expect to hear lots more rage baiting.