Britain scrambles after shock court ruling in wake of furious protests
The government is racing to find new ways to house thousands of asylum seekers who currently reside in hotels and motels across the UK after the court ruled in favour of a local council that opposed the policy.
The court decision requires the government to move about 140 asylum seekers from the Bell Hotel in Epping, an area north-east of London, where residents have rioted outside the hotel.
With local people increasingly opposed to the asylum seekers in their streets, the Epping Forest Council argued the border control policy breached planning laws because it changed the use of the hotel – and the High Court agreed.
Farage has seized on the decision, urging other councils to use the same arguments to shut down asylum seeker hotels in their areas.
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'Let's hold peaceful protests outside the migrant hotels, and put pressure on local councils to go to court to try and get the illegal immigrants out; we now know that together we can win,' Farage wrote in the UK's Telegraph newspaper.
'No doubt we will be attacked as 'far Right' provocateurs for daring to suggest that people follow the lead of Epping's parents and residents by protesting peacefully.'
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch also asked her party colleagues on local councils to try to shut down asylum hotels, setting up a wave of court cases that could wreck a policy used by previous Conservative governments and inherited by the current Labour government.
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