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Poppy Coburn has called for "all migrant hotels to be closed" following mass protest from the community in Epping.Speaking to GB News, the Assistant Comment Editor at The Daily Telegraph declared tensions have been "growing for years" between Britons and the Government over the migrant crisis.FULL STORY HERE.
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Poppy, should we be expecting more scenes
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like the ones we saw in Epping last night? Yeah, I mean, I just can't see how you're not going to see
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more scenes like this. When you take away the democratic lever, when people say, I don't want this to happen in my community
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and you ignore them for years, because this is how long this hotel has been operating for
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there have been tensions growing for years, and it feels quite personal to me, because I'm from Essex
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I was born in Southend, I grew up between Braintree and Maldon
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I've been to Epping before, it's a really lovely town, and I know the people from Essex are very generous people
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and they have a big heart, but this is unbelievable. You know, the fact that they're expected to put up
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with one of their hotels right near a school, right near the centre of town, being flooded with single men
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who they don't know who they are from all over the world and they've been ignored by their local politicians for so long
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I mean, I'm speechless. It is disgusting. And it's also, Matthew Torbett
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it's collided with this Afghan story this week where you've got this sort of potent cocktail
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of open borders, small boat crisis, one-in-one-out deal, which has gone down like a lead balloon
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and now we've got what is one of the biggest state cover-ups in the history of the UK state
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where we learn that politicians have been importing thousands of Afghans into the country
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with no democratic scrutiny no oversight misinforming the British people while accusing the British people of being misinformed when they ask questions about who on earth is coming into my community Yeah I think the thing with the Afghan thing is
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governments will always lie. You can bake that in for a start. The bigger question for me on that
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is why nobody has faced any disciplinary action or lost their job. It's cost all of us collectively as taxpayers £850 million extra
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Goes towards all three schemes, £7 billion. It's a lot of money that could be put towards things
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like offshore processing centres. However, I've been banging my head for a long time in the Labour Party
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talking about offshore processing. Right back to 2021, when it was offered to Boris Johnson
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by Emmanuel Macron's interior minister, they even said, we will pay for it
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where you can put your Home Office officials in, because it benefits neither side politically
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because Macron's getting it at his side, because Calais is essentially a jungle of vulnerable people
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and people with potentially nefarious aims. And for us, you've got the moral issue of people potentially drowning
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but also filling up a country that is fit to burst in many cases
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when it comes to public services. Poppy Coburn, I don't see where the end point is in all of this
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because we have a few more years of a Labour government. As we've seen also this week from the OBR and elsewhere
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the economy is basically now steadily declining, managed decline, cost of borrowing going up, taxes will go up this winter
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We don't have a solution to the small boat crisis and we not going to get one with this one deal It very unlikely to make any difference And then you got a Labour leadership on top of this that doesn seem to come close to understanding the mood in the country
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So where does this go? I mean, what's the end point of this
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Two, three more years of long, hot summers and frustration boiling over
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I mean, I think, unfortunately, that is the future. You know, I'd point out that at Epping, with these protests that have been going on for several days
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They started out as local families coming up and saying, protect our kids
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I understand at the end it did devolve into more of a violent protest
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but at the beginning it's just people who are so fed up. They've been asking the legitimate way for so long
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and they've been ignored. And so you look at it and you look at Westminster and you go
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you are putting people's lives at risk and you don't seem to care
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It's not good enough to say we've shut down 70 hotels. There are thousands of hotels operating across the country
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Every single one must be shut. That's simple as that. Matthew Torbett, you know the Labour Party better than most
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Do you actually think Starmer's going to survive the next few years? Because if we're going to have more of these protests going on
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we've got obviously the markets are beginning to wobble. They're looking at Labour's economic policy
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The cost of borrowing is starting to go up. A lot of people are starting to think actually it not completely outside the realm of possibility that we get some kind of external intervention in the coming years the IMF or some kind of market meltdown We already seeing signs that the social contract is starting
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to really be stretched in places like Epping. Of course, we had the protests last summer
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I mean, do you actually think Starmer's going to be able to contain all of this? No. I think the social contract isn't just fraying. It's broke
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for anyone in this country trying to get on in life, regardless of even immigration
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the idea that you're going to buy a house if you're a millennial or older
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I've always thought 2026 was the big year. We will lose Wales and Scotland
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You asked earlier, Poppy, about an end point. It will be a reformed government. That's where this is heading
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I don't see any way out of this, personally. And I think the pressure will become insurmountable
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when you've got a lot of Labour MPs with sort of small but also medium-sized majorities going
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if we're losing in Wales and Scotland, probably to reform, I'm out as well and the pressure will come
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We don't tend to get rid of leaders, but I think whether that opens a Joe Biden-like conversation of like
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look here, thanks, you got us back into government, we thought we were dead in 2019, but we ain't going to win with you here
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And I think go and preserve your legacy as a man that got us back in it after an awful result in 2019 and it'll be West Street and our Angela Rayner
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I think it would go to the members, which I think the rule book says it would be Angela Rayner
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