Rupert Lowe has written to Yvette Cooper following the recent High Court ruling in favour of Epping Forest District Council.
Rupert Lowe's letter in full:
Rupert Lowe MP
HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SW1A OAA
Dear Home Secretary,
I hope you will join me in congratulating the good people of Epping, who have peacefully and successfully driven one of your rotten migrant hotels to closure.
Local councils now know they can block hotel use through injunctions. Communities will not tolerate being treated as dumping grounds, nor should they. The public backlash is only going to grow, and every new hotel scheme risks more protests, more policing costs, and more division.
As we have made abundantly clear in Great Yarmouth, illegal migrants are NOT welcome.
Hotels were never a sustainable solution. They are unsafe, unsuited to long-term accommodation, and cost the taxpayer billions. They have become flashpoints of migrant disorder, hostility, and, in some cases, serious criminal allegations. It is pure chaos.
Equally, the idea that we can shift the problem into HMOs is just as flawed. Packing migrants into residential neighbourhoods evidently only magnifies community tensions, overwhelms local services, and places unacceptable/unsafe burdens on communities. It has all been a total disaster.
The only credible way forward is this:
-End all hotel/HMO use immediately.
- Detain all illegal arrivals upon entry and those currently in accommodation/communities. Use offshore tented camps, not hotels.
- Remove swiftly and consistently. Those with no legal right to remain must be deported without delay, either to their home country or to a safe third country.
- Restore deterrence. Unless illegal entry results in detention and removal, the boats will keep coming and Britain will remain a magnet to the third world.
In short - DETAIN, DEPORT. That, is how we stop the boats.
It is your duty to restore border integrity, defend local communities, and prove that the rule of law still means something in this country.
The Epping ruling has given you the opportunity, and the moral obligation, to change course.
Now is the time for mass deportations.
Yours sincerely,
Rupert Lowe MP
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