Le proteste dell’hotel asilo si stanno diffondendo. Chi è veramente dietro di loro?
Asylum hotel protests are spreading. Who’s really behind them?
di Electricbell20
Le proteste dell’hotel asilo si stanno diffondendo. Chi è veramente dietro di loro?
Asylum hotel protests are spreading. Who’s really behind them?
di Electricbell20
9 commenti
The one in Epping was organised by a group called Homeland UK, who are pretty openly far right.
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“Two Bell Hotel security guards were attacked at a bus stop and hospitalised for their wounds”
How does that protect women and girls?
A bigger issue is how stand-up to racism protesters keep turning up to these events, fully masked up.
Just noting that this article claims the protests started ‘after an asylum seeker was charged with allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl’.
That’s downplaying what happened. [Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu has denied committing three sexual assaults in two days, also charges of inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity and harassment without violence](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vdeekq031o)
If you want to protest, aim that protest against the government, protest outside Whitehall or spam letters at your MP.
Protest stops when you have rent-a-knob turn up to launch flares at hotels.
Having had one of these in my local area recently the answer is, it’s a mix.
There is a strong groundswell of local opinion against these hotels and there are plenty of ordinary people involved in organising and turning up to protest them.
There are also local politicians (particularly Reform) trying to make some hay by getting involved.
There are also far right organisations who turn up, either because they like feeling like they’re on the popular side for once or to start violence.
The article says “This is not just concerned local mums” and sure, it’s not *just* them. But it certainly is them as well as lots of other people who are in no way far right.
On the other hand there is a very concerted campaign to play these protests off as just racists and just the far right – on the far left as part of their push to invalidate anti-migration arguments and in the centre as a way to allow banning/restricting the protests in the hope troublesome social unrest just disappears.
Probably worth saying, I’m fairly liberal, centre left and from an immigrant background. I am actively concerned about the far right and Reform, but pretending this issue hasn’t spread beyond the fringe groups to the mainstream is not going to make things any better.
Weird, I just searched Big Issues’ website and I can’t see a single article questioning who is behind the Pro Palestine marches 🤔
We need to admit that the asylum system is broken and is being exploited more than ever; we need to admit that housing them in hotels has also failed because of cases like this; the far right need to accept you cannot just expect asylum seekers to disappear by threatening violence against themselves hotels. These people came here and have already faced life and death to do so. While I agree that the asylum system needs significant overhaul, violence and threats are not going to put people off coming here like the political right seem to think it will. I do not claim to know what the answer is, but I do know violence is not the answer. You are far better off protesting at Westminster or outside your local MP’s office than outside hotels. Thuggery is just an easy way for the left to dismiss concerns.