Protests and counter protests to be held outside asylum hotels across UK
A number of protests and counter protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, including one in Flintshire, will take place across the UK on Saturday.
Demonstrations under the Abolish Asylum System slogan will be held in major towns and cities around England, including Bristol, Exeter, Tamworth, Cannock, Nuneaton, Liverpool, Wakefield, Newcastle, Horley in Surrey and Canary Wharf in central London.
Aberdeen and Perth in Scotland and Mold in Flintshire, Wales, will also hold their own protests.
A separate batch of protests organised by Stand Up to Racism will be held in Bristol, Cannock, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wakefield, Horley and Long Eaton in Derbyshire.
‘Get them out’
Several similar protests were held on Friday, including outside an asylum hotel in south east London.
Dozens of protesters could be heard shouting “Get them out” and “Save our children” while others held Union and England flags beside the TLK hotel in Orpington, while counter protesters, who had marched to the hotel, could be seen holding banners and Stand Up To Racism placards which read ‘Refugees welcome, Stop the far right’.
A large police cordon was formed in between the two groups and the hotel. The Metropolitan Police later confirmed that no arrests were made.
It comes after tensions around the use of the hotels for asylum seekers spiked earlier this week.
Temporary injunction
On Tuesday, the High Court granted Epping Forest District Council the temporary injunction to remove asylum seekers from the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, from September 12.
Regular protests had been held outside the hotel in recent weeks after an asylum seeker was charged with trying to kiss a 14-year-old girl, which he denies.
The Government then announced plans on Friday to appeal against the High Court’s refusal to allow it to intervene in the case, and to then further appeal against the temporary injunction.
A group of other local councils also publicly announced their intentions to seek legal advice as to whether they could achieve a similar injunction for their hotels.
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Disgusting. Farage, usual suspect press and co need taking to task. They stoke the fires of hate and and hope there is violence. They will not care if anyone is harmed or worse this weekend. farage will call it a win. Quietly though, because that is what he is.
I hate racists. These folks are running away from war. These protest won’t bother them. These protests are not about them. These protests are about people like me. Welsh people of colour. These racist bullies want to intimidate people like me. Nasty people.
Yes, but dangerous too. If it wasn’t asylum seekers today, who would they be coming for tomorrow?
I highly recommend this as a read:
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/04/15/the-deep-roots-of-fascist-thought/
We didn’t need hotels before Nigel’s Brexit.
Farage is loving it. He doesn’t want to “Stop the Boats”.
He’s making too much political capital from a situation he created in the first place.
I genuinely believe that dodgy nige is making some serious cash out of them.
Time perhaps to investigate where these far right groups are getting their money from? Engaging against their devisive tactics is just playing into their agenda of ‘us and them’. The media needs to give them the cold shoulder instead, because they thrive on publicity. Follow the money.
You don’t need to look far, there’s a bottomless pot of gold flooding in from America, Musk was going to lob cash at Reform until he lost interest in Farage.
Then there are the mugs who fill Yaxley-Lennon’s begging bowl whenever he needs to fund another luxury foreign holiday.
When Farage mob wave the hated union flag and the English flag its called Patriotism when Welsh People wave Welsh flags about the invasion English people its called RACIST by the Welsh hating right wing Media especially the Daily Mail
I was speaking to an ex counter terrorism officer the other day and he told me nearly 90% of cases they had to investigate over the last 10 years were far right, home grown terrorists. I wonder why successive governments haven’t been prioritising that fact to the public. Instead of stoking the vitriol against asylum seekers.
I just hope they’re investigating Farage and his inflammatory language. What aren’t we being told?
Why would any mother who turns up at these demos waving a “Protect our Kids” placard bring along their young child and expose them to far right morons shouting racist abuse at asylum seekers? Where are Social Services?
Interesting dynamic. But I expect the kids are props for the “concerned”. It is rather clever, blokes told to stay away until they want the riot to start.
If they’re exposing their child to that filth, they should have them removed from their care. Completely disgusting.
‘Save our children’ again. It should be ‘Save ALL children’. I wonder how many individuals in any illegal racist hate crime mob gathering which falsely accuses people inside a hotel of child abuse will go back to their homes and beat up the mothers of their own children because taking the percentage figure following the Farij riots last year, the chances are very high. There may.be some brilliant surgeons in these hotels who could save our children on an operating table but these brain donors do not possess the cognitive ability to consider that.