Is this the new wheeze for friends of the Tories: subsidies for asylum-seeker hotels?
Channel migrants: it seems the Tories have found a way to help their friends make a profit from the presence of these vulnerable people.
It’s not so long since we discovered the Tory government was giving contracts to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to their friends via an illegal ‘VIP lane’ – now it turns out they are paying their buddies to run hotels housing asylum-seekers.
Apparently the BBC has been told the government is using 395 hotels to accommodate more than 51,000 people, at a cost of £6 million per day.
Hotel owners are being approached to hand over their properties to outsourced companies, which run the businesses on behalf of the Home Office.
The BBC’s report names the outsourced companies as Serco, Mears Group and Calder Conferences, all of which are enjoying increased profits as a result.
Here’s a bit of info on Serco:
I wish I were shocked…
That Serco got the contract for 109 asylum hotels
That Serco's CEO is the brother of a former Tory MP
That his partner is a Tory Party donor
That Serco's former top spin doctor was the Tory Minister for Health:https://t.co/6VN9L7Xo0f
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) March 20, 2023
But what about this snippet from the social media?
— Sue Lees #EnoughisEnough (@sue_lees) March 20, 2023
Here’s more evidence:
According to Migration Watch (who I do not support) £1.3 billion pound is spent in hotel accommodation for 25 thousand refugees. That’s £142 per night. Only the hotel owners can tell you the profit, but I’m pretty sure they are not staying in golf and spa resort hotels.
— Steve Caiels (@SteveInWembury) March 20, 2023
Sadly, that’s only a little to go on.
But it should be enough to support a demand for the facts from the Tories.
Who is running the hotels that are benefiting from this public money? Are they Conservatives or supporters of Conservatives? Who is responsible for selecting them?
Has someone set up another ‘VIP lane’ for applications?
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