The Home Office began housing asylum seekers in hotels in Brighton and Hove in July 2021 giving the local council just 24 hours’ notice.

One hotel is currently housing unaccompanied teenage boys 16 -17 years of age, 1,600 minors have moved through the hotel over the last 18months, with around thirty currently living there.



Today I observed the three hotels known to be used to house “asylum seekers”, from the array of bikes outside one of them and sighting two young people sitting on the wall having a smoke, I believe I have identified which one is being used to house minors.

It is reported that 137 minors have disappeared from the Hove Hotel with 76 still missing, most likely they have been kidnapped or coerced into crime, evidenced by the arrest of two of them on suspicion of possession with intent to supply drugs in Cambridgeshire and Gloucestershire and a third being arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis in Tottenham.

A hotel is no place for “vulnerable children” if that is what the absent were/are, it is suspicious that original hotel staff were sacked, what were they not meant to see?

A hotel is no place for those arriving in dinghies or discovered in backs of commercial vehicles or picked up in the Channel Tunnel with no checks in place, to identify any criminal element or disease.

In 2006 the British Home Secretary John Reid serving under Tony Blair described the Immigration and Nationality Directorate system as “ not fit for purpose”.

Now, years on, this conservative government is proving they cannot control immigration either.

Spouting that the asylum system is facing “unprecedented pressures” does not solve the problem.

They took their eye off the ball and left the issue to fester for years and years.

Only the UK Independence Party has an immigration policy that can work. Our plans include a fast and efficient processing system, a plan to deal with women and children and those unaccompanied under 16 years of age and a plan to deal with any identified wanted criminal in the fastest possible time.

It is crucially important in order to stem the flow of illegals to totally change their expectations of how they will be treated when they arrive in the UK.

Our plans do not include a reservation in a 3-star hotel with freedom to come and go. We will not advertise or allow “all expenses paid holidays”.

Patricia Mountain

UK Independence Party – Immigration Spokesman