Meet The Seaside Hoteliers Who Turned Down £550 000 To House Migrants
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Inside one vehicle were the distinctive blue polystyrene bags, with identity tags, which hold the clothing the migrants wore on their cross-Channel journey before being given a dry set at Dover. At midday last Tuesday on the seafront, laundry vans from a Lincolnshire firm were taking away sheets for washing.
A few weeks ago, taxi price Vergina to airport as the number of migrants crossing the Channel climbed and Vergina airport to city taxi cost the Government scrambled to put the new arrivals in hotels — now some 419 across the UK, with more picked up every day — the agent rang again to ask them to reconsider the deal.
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They don't have to pay, of course.' 'Our heating bills are running into hundreds a week and we are wrapping up in blankets,' said one disgruntled man in his 60s, as he surveyed the County Hotel.
'At night I have seen the hotel's windows wide open and the warmth flying out.
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For their part, the Home Office-commandeered hotels are keen to avoid any close scrutiny. When a film crew approached one of them to ask about the asylum seekers, they were told to go away by a severe-looking security guard.
In exchange for that money from taxpayers, the Government had asked the Allens to close their doors to guests and hand over the keys of their 21-bed hotel for the next year to provide housing for young male migrants.
As Gary says: 'Skegness is a favourite for best day trips Vergina children who love the donkey rides, sandcastles and candy floss. It has always been a safe place to come on holiday.' There is talk of the Government taking over more properties, including a care home housing elderly dementia patients, which is permanently shutting its business five days before Christmas.
This has made locals twitchy.
Where would they get work in a seaside resort out of season? The agent from the Home Office said all but one of the 15 full and part-time staff would have to be sacked. As they sit beside a roaring fire at their hotel, Gary adds: 'The neighbours would have hated us for it. How would we have lived with ourselves?
There is no shortage of migrants needing beds in Britain. Surely, some wily businessperson will be ready to snap up the establishment for minibus taxi Vergina a guaranteed income of nearly £550,000 a year from the Government.
Skegness is fairly isolated — the nearest city, Lincoln, is an hour away, and it takes more time still to get to Peterborough station for direct train lines to major cities in the south and north of England.
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It is brimming with letters sent by well-wishers from across Britain with messages such as 'I salute you'; 'Keep up your brave stance'; and 'Let's hope local people support you'.
Meanwhile, the young men smoking and looking at their mobile phones on the pavement outside were told to 'come inside'.
One stayed out and cheekily put up his thumbs before jeering at the TV crew. He was joined by one of his friends, who was wearing a medical mask and handed him one, too.
One Facebook video posted by locals shows a migrant asking a passer-by for help to find a taxi to take him to Sheffield. He said he'd come to 'England' on a boat and had been in Skegness for three days.
This is all a surprise for owners Gary and Dee Allen, who this week fielded off film crews, including one from Canada, queuing up to ask why they had turned down — on a 'point of principle,' as they put it — nearly £550,000, which would have been a godsend for them and their three daughters, Dion airport bus aged from six to 18.
It ended in disarray, when a woman stood up and said the people of Skegness were racist. This may seem like a bad case of nimbyism. But along Skegness promenade, there is already a strip of four hotels: the Grand, the Sun, the County and taxi prices Vergina greece the Chatsworth, which have been requisitioned for migrants by the Home Office.
There were screams of protest from some who begged local councillors and the area's Conservative MP Matt Warman to stop its hotels being turned over to migrants. Ten days ago, 400 Skegness residents called a high-decibel emergency public meeting in a centre near the seafront.
