'Labour's throwing law-abiding Britons to the back of the line - all because they don't have the gall to deport queue-jumping migrants,' Alex Armstrong blasts

To put this in perspective, Hackney has over 8,500 households on the waiting list for council housing, with some of it stretching to 15 years for a two-bedroom, 17 years for a three-bed and up to 32 years for larger family properties.

Yet they have signed up to this pilot scheme, so without a shadow of a doubt, illegal migrants will jump the queue and be put before British people.

It's not even arguable at this point. It's policy.

This entire scheme is costing the taxpayer, you at home, £500million of your money into a pilot scheme has got around now 200 councils sniffing around for a bit of extra cash.

This isn't going to end, is it?

This is an incentive because the small boats will keep on coming when they hear news like this.

Some 194,000 illegal crossings under Starmer's Government alone.

The bill for hotels has already blown up to 2.1 billion in a single year.

And it's going to get worse and worse and worse and ministers squirm and say new council homes won't be used for asylum seekers.

But this scheme's own purpose is to close hotels by moving them in to refurbished stock, funded by the Home Office. So it's true, isn't it?

It's literally there in black and white. It's not compassionate.

It's betrayal of the British people. It's telling law-abiding British citizens that you are not our priority, all because they haven't got the gall - successive Governments, by the way - to deport people who have illegally broken into our country.

And now you're at the back of the line.

Frankly, it's a disgrace at the bare minimum.