The people of Epping have had enough. For months now, week in and week out, residents have been on the streets protesting against the dumping of unvetted asylum seekers into our community.
We have been mocked, smeared and ignored by the political class. We have been called names and smeared by the left-wing press, but we haven’t stopped, and now our relentless stand has forced the hand of Epping Forest District Council.
Make no mistake, the Council can spin it however they like, but this latest High Court injunction against the Somani-run asylum hotels only happened because ordinary people refused to back down and pounded the streets outside The Bell Hotel relentlessly.
Let’s not rewrite history here. These protests have been loud, disruptive, and unapologetic, and they have dragged this issue into the spotlight of the World.
It wasn’t a neat press release or polite letter to Whitehall that made the difference; it was men and women, mums and dads, business owners and pensioners, taking to the High Street every week to say “enough is enough”. We’ve been outside the hotel, we’ve marched, we have chanted, and made the establishment squirm.
The Council had no choice; no matter what the leadership says, no matter what spin they put out in carefully worded statements, they knew full well that if they didn’t act, the protests would only grow.
Raise your glass to the mothers of Epping. They just sealed Labour's fate in less than 24 hours - Adam Brooks
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Epping has become a flashpoint, an epicentre, a symbol of the wider national fury at the asylum hotel scandal. And while the Home Office tried to bully its way through, while Yvette Cooper at the Home Office tried her usual last-minute interventions, the truth is this: the people of Epping forced the Council to take the Home Office to court.
And what did we see in court? We saw the Home Office lawyers with their noses in the air, basically arguing that asylum seekers have priority rights over British residents.
That’s right, they went into a British courtroom and more or less said that these migrants are more important than the lives, safety, and rights of the people who actually pay their taxes and live in this community.
If that doesn’t disgust you, nothing ever will. Ordinary people, who have worked all their lives, who have paid council tax, national insurance, and income tax, are told by their own government that they come second.
Second to men they know nothing about, who turn up in dinghies, no ID, no background checks, and yet are given roofs over their heads, free food, healthcare and more, while locals struggle for housing. What an utter disgrace.
Yvette Cooper tried to throw her weight around, but locals aren’t buying it. They know Labour’s game; they know this government is wedded to open borders, mass immigration, and the destruction of community identity.
They know that Labour ministers will move heaven and earth to prioritise asylum seekers over locals every single time. But Epping has drawn a line in the sand.
And yesterday, Friday 29th of August, at 2pm, the court decided that Epping Forest District Council has no right to throw out these asylum seekers from The Bell hotel. How disgusting.
This isn’t just about one town, one hotel, or one case. This is about the principle of whether local communities matter in modern Britain. Do councils represent the people who elect them, or do they simply roll over to the diktats of the Home Office and a government drunk on mass immigration?
One thing is now clear.
Epping has shown the rest of the country how it’s done. Protest puts the pressure on. The establishment won’t admit it, but the locals forced this issue into the courts. We may have lost this battle, but the ‘war’ isn’t over.
Protests are about to get a lot bigger and a lot noisier. The safety of our women and girls is non-negotiable, and that’s a message for every town across Britain: stand up, because if you ‘fight’ back, if you refuse to be silenced, you can make them listen.
Yesterday was an eye-opener for so many. Our Government is actively working against us, is actively making our communities less safe, and that will never be forgiven.
I think yesterday's ruling has sealed Labour’s fate; they will never get elected again.
They are finished.