Amid a rising migrant situation, GB News presenter Patrick Christys has shared his thoughts on local residents taking matters into their own hands. The focus is on Stradey Park hotel in Wales, where people are using unconventional methods to express their dissatisfaction.
The recent developments have highlighted the challenges posed by an influx of channel migrants, with Red Alert notices being issued for the upcoming weeks. This could potentially lead to overburdened detention facilities, as seen in the previous year. GB News’ investigation revealed that Raf Wethersfield, intended to accommodate 1700 migrants, currently houses only 80, which is a complex issue to address.
Certain restrictions prevent individuals claiming to be victims of human trafficking or modern slavery from being housed in designated sites, leading to plans for more hotels to be used for this purpose.
This has made the Strati Park Hotel in Clan Athlete, Wales, the center of discontent, as hotel staff were laid off to make room for migrants. In response, local residents initiated a blockade, and an injunction was imposed on the protesting residents, leading to a storming of the hotel by protestors and significant damage.
The situation has prompted questions about the long-term viability of such facilities, and the Welsh community has been deeply affected. As the migrant crisis continues to unfold, it underscores the importance of a comprehensive and empathetic approach to resolving the migrant accommodation predicament.
In His Words:
“It is all action tonight, but I’m starting with this. We are on the brink of eight-channel migrants’ overload. Several Red Alert days have already been issued for the coming weeks, which means that we will see a repeat of overflowing detention centers like we did exactly this time last year.
Earlier, GB News exclusively revealed that just 80 migrants are being housed at Raf Wethersfield, a site that was due to have 1700. Now, part of the problem, just part of it by the way, is that anybody who claims to be a victim of human trafficking or modern slavery apparently can’t be housed at these sites, which is basically everyone, or at least everyone who’s spoken to a lawyer. Anyway, this means that more hotels will be used.
I have been following the events at the Strati Park Hotel in Clan Athlete in Wales over recent months. 95 staff were sacked to make way for migrants at this four-star hotel, but the locals fought back. They decided to blockade the hotel, the road around it, and they’ve received praise from across the UK for that.
But things have been simmering in recent days and quite possibly reaching boiling point right now. The local residents who have been camping outside 24/7 for weeks have been served with an injunction banning them from going onto the actual Hotel Site. Security was positioned there to stop them, but they kicked up so much of a fuss that the security left. Then they decided to storm the hotel and occupy it, and what they saw was devastating. The once beautiful hotel has been completely gutted, trashed, and destroyed – stripped out to make way for the channel migrants’ arrivals.
Well, I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t look to me like it was ever going to be a temporary facility. They are absolutely gutting it, aren’t they? Now, the hotel was at the beating heart of that community, a small local Welsh community. So, when that community saw what had been done to it, they decided that they were going to play a few beats of their own. They went in there, and you can see the police looking at them. Where that torch is showing you is a rooftop party that they decided to host in this hotel, and that supposedly went on into the small hours and may even still be going on now.
Certainly would be a fair I had anything to do with that back in the day, but there is a very serious point here. As we stare down the barrel of a huge month of Channel crossings again, an overflowing migrant accommodation, some people in Wales have now resorted to breaking the law, criminalizing themselves to protect their local towns and villages. That’s certainly how they view it, anyway. And I just think, isn’t it such a shame that it’s all come to this?”
