Express assistant news editor and Conservative councillor Mieka Smiles was a regular guest at a hotel in a posh London postcode now used for migrants.
Express journalist Mieka Smiles regularly stayed at the International Hotel (Image: Mieka Smiles)
The UK is often accused of rolling out the red carpet for migrants.
The benefits system, NHS privileges and free hotel stays prove that we’re doing nothing to sort out the migrant crisis. In fact, we’re encouraging it, as many of our own struggle to get decent homes, to get a GP appointment or, sadly for many, to even pay their bills.
Now for the latest slap in the face. The International Hotel at Canary Wharf – slap bang in the middle of one of London’s poshest postcodes – has now reportedly been opened up to asylum seekers.
I was genuinely shocked.
That hotel was a regular stopover during my first year of working in London. I shelled out my own hard-earned cash, at around £100 a night for one of the cheapest rooms each stay. And let’s just say – although I know that people’s standards differ wildly – if I was shacked up in there, cost-free, in one of London’s poshest postcodes, I’d be absolutely delighted. Pinching myself, in fact.
