‘We’re Seeing Change’: Farage Victory Lap After Embarrassed Home Office Shuts Down Migrant Hotel
Nigel Farage has thanked his followers for
supporting his journalistic endeavours after an embarrassed Home Office
announced a review in reaction to the Brexit Party leader revealing that
an entire hotel in the Home Secretary’s own constituency was taken over
to house illegal aliens.
In the latest episode of Farage Investigates, the politician-turned-investigative-journalist followed a lead from a member of the public that a hotel in Witham in Essex was being used to house recently-arrived Channel migrants. The constituency belongs to Priti Patel, the head of the government department in charge of protecting Britain’s borders, and who has been the most outspoken about the rise in illegal crossings.
“I started going out around the country,” Mr Farage said in a video released on Tuesday night, detailing how he broke ground covering the migrant hotels and that illegals had been taken on VIP tours of Anfield Stadium, home of the world-famous Liverpool football team.
The footage released on Sunday represented a major embarrassment for the Home Office and its chief, with the phenomenon of tax payer-funded migrant hotels landing on Patel’s own doorstep — and significantly, on that of her constituents. The scale of the story finally forced the mainstream media to report on Mr Farage’s investigation.
“That has attracted huge coverage,” Mr Farage said last night. “We’re beginning to get — just as with the migrant crossings over the Channel — the mainstream media finally waking up to the story, waking up to the projected cost of £4 billion to house these people.”
We are not just getting millions of views, we are now getting big results. A huge thank you from me. pic.twitter.com/Vc3emmkiwc— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) August 18, 2020
They said an error has been made, people should not have been placed in that hotel in rural Essex, and that they would now be rehoused because their policy is only to put illegal migrants who put in asylum claims into major conurbations [extended urban areas],” Mr Farage said. The Home Office said in a statement to The Times, which covered Farage’s investigation, on Monday that “a full review of this operation is now being conducted” after migrants were housed in Witham and said that the illegals would be moved to another location. “The Home Office has a statutory obligation to provide asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with accommodation, but they should be placed in major conurbations wherever possible so that appropriate support and services can be more readily provided. As this is not the case in this instance, alternative accommodation provision has since been sought in accordance with the Immigration Asylum Act 1999 and the Asylum Support Regulations 2000,” the spokesman said.
UK Council at Capacity in Ability to Care for Alleged ‘Child Migrants’ https://t.co/Bf7hfTUoli— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 19, 2020
Senior MP Says Illegal Migrants Should Be Quarantined on Army Bases and Cruise Ships https://t.co/d7O1PMq1WE— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 19, 2020