The Home Office’s summer bombshell— evicting integrated asylum-seeking families from Hoylake’s Kings Gap Hotel to bring in single male asylum seekers without a shred of consultation. This flagrant disregard for local concerns, legal frameworks, and planning laws has left residents understandably demanding accountability in a system that treats seaside towns like pawns in Whitehall’s chaotic game. Local Conservative Councillors, Max, Tony and Andrew ramped up the pressure through meetings with our local MP, Wirral Council leader, Merseyside Police, and key Council officials, mapping out a robust response to reclaim the hotel for its rightful commercial purpose.
Our latest breakthrough? Winning a Conservative motion at full council to see council use all available powers to block asylum hotels. as well as this, The King’s Counsel at Wirral Council is in deep dialogue with legal officials from Epping Forest District Council, dissecting the fallout from their High Court injunction saga at The Bell Hotel—where asylum seekers were ordered out for breaching planning rules, only for the Court of Appeal to yank it back on a technicality.
Despite the setback, Wirral's continuing to assess legal and planning grounds and we thank the leader of the council for her ongoing support, Yet, amid this progress, the Green Party couldn’t resist trying to steal the spotlight, politicising the summer’s raw protests with virtue-signalling that inflamed tensions and distressed vulnerable families already caught in the protest crossfire. Enough of the grandstanding—Wirral demands solutions, not selfies. Max, Tony and Andrew continue to hold officers to account and push for solutions.
