Breaking news Diss hotel refuses to take single men boat people

I suppose some Mums might be sensible, level headed people who have the brains to see past the racist rhetoric.

Or do you speak for all of them?

Sussexborn
I didn’t forget them 😂 I thought I had ranted enough.
I can walk to 3 in just over 5 mins from my home. It’s a running joke where I live.

Oreo
We were gobsmacked watching Starmer say that, and not being able to say where all this vacant housing is! Nobody believes it.

Good point Oreo but in northern towns locally builders suddenly have council permission to build houses on green belt which has angered residents concerned about room for children to play and destroying wildlife habitats. Already lots of new houses are being built and demand seems to be slowing down now. So who will get these thousands of green belt houses? Call me cynical but if hotels are not going to be used alternative accommodation will be found and this could be the govt solution that they’re not mentioning.

growstuff

Allira

5*?

The hotels being used for asylum seekers are hardly five star! For example, if you look up the ratings for the hotel in Epping before it had a contract to take asylum seekers, the average ratings were 2*. There were many comments about how it was dirty and neglected.

Back to the op ... the hotel in Diss has had a contract for some time time to take homeless families. The issue is that the Home Office has hinted that it wants to use the hotel for single asylum seekers (not confirmed). The owners quite rightly make the case that many of the people staying there are single mothers with children and it would be asking for trouble to have single males (of any nationality) on site.

I doubt very much if it has ever been a luxury hotel. Councils don't put homeless people in five star hotels.

Secondly, much of this is rumour. The hotel has a contract with the Home Office for families. If the Home Office wants to break that contract, the hotel could defend itself in court. It doesn't need a load of heavies to protest outside the hotel and potentially spark a riot.

I was merely answering the question about what premier means as I have no idea where this hotel is.

No need to lecture me.

Sorry, I didn't mean to lecture you. The fact is that the hotels being used aren't five star. By no stretch of the imagination could they be described as "premier", despite what the social media propaganda is claiming.

PS. Most of my post wasn't aimed at you. It was a further comment about what's actually been happening in Diss. Maybe I should have started a new post.

petra

Sussexborn
I didn’t forget them 😂 I thought I had ranted enough.
I can walk to 3 in just over 5 mins from my home. It’s a running joke where I live.

Blimey! I suppose I'm lucky that I don't have any run down hotels near where I live.

petra

Sussexborn
I didn’t forget them 😂 I thought I had ranted enough.
I can walk to 3 in just over 5 mins from my home. It’s a running joke where I live.

👍🏻

We had booked a 4* hotel a while ago with a group but were told the week before that the booking was cancelled because the hotel was housing asylum seekers.
That was during the previous Government's term in office.

justwokeup

Oreo
We were gobsmacked watching Starmer say that, and not being able to say where all this vacant housing is! Nobody believes it.

Good point Oreo but in northern towns locally builders suddenly have council permission to build houses on green belt which has angered residents concerned about room for children to play and destroying wildlife habitats. Already lots of new houses are being built and demand seems to be slowing down now. So who will get these thousands of green belt houses? Call me cynical but if hotels are not going to be used alternative accommodation will be found and this could be the govt solution that they’re not mentioning.

I bet you that the new houses will sell. The builders will offer incentives to make sure they do. What will probably happen is that the older and cheaper property will eventually attract those seeking very cheap starter homes and buy-to-lets and there'll be a slippery slope towards creating neglected areas.

Allira

We had booked a 4* hotel a while ago with a group but were told the week before that the booking was cancelled because the hotel was housing asylum seekers.
That was during the previous Government's term in office.

The hotel must have known that it was negotiating a contract which it was likely to win. Quite honestly, it shouldn't have been taking bookings. I know somebody whose job it was to make hotel bookings for groups - it's a bit of a dodgy business. The owners (who are often offshore) don't care much about service or late cancellations, if they have a better offer from another group/organisation. They're more likely to treat individual bookings better because they make more profit per room and it's easier to find an individual room somewhere.

The booking had been made months in advance because it was an old school reunion with members from many places, including overseas!
Very annoying.

RinseAndRepeat

The latest NAO Report dated May 2025:

www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/home-offices-asylum-accommodation-contracts-summary.pdf

These ever increasing costs are frightening given the UK’s present economic position.

Right now - and Britain isnt exactly giving the image of a rich country - when They're talking about putting retirement age up to early 70's!!!!!! In fact in today's paper They're talking about abolishing retirement altogether in effect - by talking about maybe even putting retirement age to 80!!!!!!! Yep....abolishing retirement totally then for the majority of people.

People like Farage are aiming for a summer of disruption. I hope gransnet doesn’t become full of threads attempting to fuel it…

CariadAgain

RinseAndRepeat

The latest NAO Report dated May 2025:

www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/home-offices-asylum-accommodation-contracts-summary.pdf

These ever increasing costs are frightening given the UK’s present economic position.

Right now - and Britain isnt exactly giving the image of a rich country - when They're talking about putting retirement age up to early 70's!!!!!! In fact in today's paper They're talking about abolishing retirement altogether in effect - by talking about maybe even putting retirement age to 80!!!!!!! Yep....abolishing retirement totally then for the majority of people.

Who's "they"? Stop scaremongering!

MayBee70

People like Farage are aiming for a summer of disruption. I hope gransnet doesn’t become full of threads attempting to fuel it…

I hope it does!

Allira

The booking had been made months in advance because it was an old school reunion with members from many places, including overseas!
Very annoying.

I agree. I know somebody who had her small wedding cancelled at quite short notice because the hotel was asked for a booking from a larger wedding party, which would have filled more rooms. That had nothing to do with asylum seekers - it's the way some hotels operate.

Teazel2

MayBee70

People like Farage are aiming for a summer of disruption. I hope gransnet doesn’t become full of threads attempting to fuel it…

I hope it does!

Does discord and disruption float your boat?

Personally, I'd rather have a summer full of sunny, warm days and lots of opportunities to drink tea in the garden.

Go to any town in uk and try and rent a property, young people cannot find anywhere, if they did they couldn't save for a deposit to ever buy a home. Somehow the government have no problem funding million for migrants. People wonder why there is trouble from their comfortable homes, many people I know whose adult child's relationship has broken down have a thirty or forty year old back home.

growstuff

Teazel2

MayBee70

People like Farage are aiming for a summer of disruption. I hope gransnet doesn’t become full of threads attempting to fuel it…

I hope it does!

Does discord and disruption float your boat?

Personally, I'd rather have a summer full of sunny, warm days and lots of opportunities to drink tea in the garden.

I want that too but am so worried about the numbers of irregular immigrants coming into the country. Reform needs to keep up the highlighting of this issue and I hope they do. Every single one of my friends feels like I do and plenty on this forum too going by the threads on here.

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Strength in numbers, eh? Teazel

You have some delightful (?) people on your side.

Here are some comments from just on X (Twitter) thread:

Hope the protests are outside every hotel in every town in every county all at the same time! Overwhelm the police resources!!! Let the UK start fighting back.

This is the last thread of playing nice. Foreigners should exit while they have the opportunity.

It’s about time! Clean Western Civilization up!!!

Stop the Islamization of Europe!

Well let's hope it's a fire that will catch and grow. I pray for the UK

Bring your pigs with you. They believe that if one drop of pig blood touch them they will not going to paradise.

You know what to do if they don’t listen patriots. Light a match.

Start wrecking shit that support the invasion and the people who gaslight everyone. Get results this go round. It's past time.

We don’t want these unvetted sex pests in our communities, it’s not fair for our women and children. WHO AGREES? RETWEET ON X AN SICIAL MEDIA

The revolution has begun. It hasn't started until I see a British version of the SturmAbteilung marching through major occupied cities.

FANTASTIC PEOPLE DONT LET STARMER AND LEFTY ADJITATORS STOP YOU .

I know you guys don’t have firearms, but maybe show up with at least pitchforks and torches.

Bring your dogs and let them loose

Teazel2

growstuff

Teazel2

MayBee70

People like Farage are aiming for a summer of disruption. I hope gransnet doesn’t become full of threads attempting to fuel it…

I hope it does!

Does discord and disruption float your boat?

Personally, I'd rather have a summer full of sunny, warm days and lots of opportunities to drink tea in the garden.

I want that too but am so worried about the numbers of irregular immigrants coming into the country. Reform needs to keep up the highlighting of this issue and I hope they do. Every single one of my friends feels like I do and plenty on this forum too going by the threads on here.

Do you honestly think they're going to arrive in their millions and overwhelm you?

Teazel2

growstuff

Teazel2

MayBee70

People like Farage are aiming for a summer of disruption. I hope gransnet doesn’t become full of threads attempting to fuel it…

I hope it does!

Does discord and disruption float your boat?

Personally, I'd rather have a summer full of sunny, warm days and lots of opportunities to drink tea in the garden.

I want that too but am so worried about the numbers of irregular immigrants coming into the country. Reform needs to keep up the highlighting of this issue and I hope they do. Every single one of my friends feels like I do and plenty on this forum too going by the threads on here.

Do you think it is acceptable for Farage to blatantly lie to incite people to turn against the police who are trying to maintain the peace Teazel2?

Allsorts

Go to any town in uk and try and rent a property, young people cannot find anywhere, if they did they couldn't save for a deposit to ever buy a home. Somehow the government have no problem funding million for migrants. People wonder why there is trouble from their comfortable homes, many people I know whose adult child's relationship has broken down have a thirty or forty year old back home.

Allsorts I live in a rented home. The price and availability of property in the UK has very little to do with immigrants - whether here with a visa or without. It's to do with asset owners pushing up the price of property - you need to do some homework.

(PS. Somebody posted a link to a GarysEconomics video - you could start with that. If you want to splash out, try Liam Halligan's "Home Truths".)

Casdon Overwhelming the police seems to be part of the plan. The theory seems to be that there aren't enough police to go round, if enough hotels are attacked.