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THE decision to ban migrants from The Bell Hotel in Epping is a massive victory for the ordinary mums and dads who stood up to protect their kids.
Their objections were never about race.
A council launched a bid to block the Bell Hotel in Epping from letting migrants in[/caption]
People outside the hotel in Epping tonight celebrated the ruling[/caption]
Instead, it was about safety and the suitability of housing dozens of young men — two of whom have since been charged with sex offences — in the small Essex town.
The High Court injunction in the local council’s favour — even if only temporary — should leave the Government’s asylum hotel policy in tatters.
It’s a measure of the Home Office’s desperation — and its callous disregard for the concerns of locals — that it attempted to hijack the case at the last minute.
Ludicrously, Government lawyers tried to argue that closing The Bell would spark violence across the country.
Yet the Epping protest has been largely peaceful.
It was only Essex Police’s abject handling of the initial demonstrations — and the decision to escort far-Left masked Antifa thugs into the melee — that sparked trouble.
The Government must now quickly find a viable alternative to the hotels.
Dumping large groups of illegal migrants in flats among families is another recipe for disaster. Instead they should be housed in temporary secure detention camps.
None of this would be necessary, of course, if Labour ever got close to making good on its promise to smash the people-smuggling gangs.
That seems further away than ever.
Gloom loop
WHEN will this Government start talking about actually SAVING some money instead of constantly coming up with ideas to take it away from us?
In desperation to fill a £50billion black hole, the Chancellor is preparing raids on pensions and even modest savings as well as other massive tax rises.
Now she is looking at whacking families with property taxes, too.
Yet Labour are still bent on ending the two-child benefit cap which will hand an extra £20,000 to workless families for having more children they cannot afford.
And there still remains no new plan to cut welfare spending set to hit £100BILLION a year.
Worryingly, the markets are now reacting to this never-ending cycle of tax and spend.
Yields on Government debt are at much higher rates than even during the Liz Truss debacle.
It’s time the Chancellor started getting tough on spending cuts — rather than dreaming up yet more ways to pickpocket the voters.