Angry
villagers are campaigning to evict some 70 asylum-seekers from a hotel
that has been home to refugees for almost four months at an estimated
cost to the taxpayer of up to £750,000. Asylum-seekers
from Somalia, Syria and Iraq have been at the Britannia Hotel in
Standish, near Wigan, since July while waiting for government officials
to process their applications.
The Facebook
group's founder, Ian Adamczyk, 35, said: 'There are generations who
have used their time to make this village safe and secure for their
children and grandchildren yet no one in authority has consulted them as
to what is going to happen or how they feel about this situation.
'If
people are genuinely fleeing their countries with their family and
children, Britain would hold its hands out to them - but there seems to
be too many people exploiting our country and just coming here for a
better life. Nearly all the people in the hotel are young men.
'I
think there are people in this country that need the help more or at
least just as much. We are never going to be able to help every poor
person in the whole world.'
On Thursday, in the space of two hours, three minibuses dropped off dozens of men at the back entrance to the hotel. "
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