GB News halts for migrant hotel update as Yvette Cooper is brutally humiliated

GB News presenter Patrick Christys has criticised Labour and the Government over Britain’s migrant hotel crisis – describing it as “ludicrous” and accusing ministers of trying to fight the public rather than solving the issue. The conflict has escalated in Epping, Essex, where angry residents demanded an end to migrants being housed in the former Bell Hotel.

Locals have been in uproar for the past month, organising multiple protests outside the hotel and clashing with police during tense confrontations. Christys did not hold back. On his primetime show, he declared: "Councils up and down the country are now taking the government to court to get their migrant hotels closed. And the government, as far as I can see it, basically had four options."

Christys continued: "Option number one, mass deportations. Option number two, admit they were wrong about Rwanda, which, by the way, several Labour MPs have now done, and they are comically calling for a Rwanda-style scheme. Option number three: move them into HMOs. Option number four, fight the public. And they chose option number four. It’s just ludicrous. They chose to fight the public. Bad move.”

The outspoken host demanded to know where Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was while towns like Epping are left to pick up the pieces.

He said: “This is the kind of thing where you’d want to see your Home Secretary come out, front up to it, maybe put a plinth outside Downing Street, sell it to us. Come on, Yvette, sell it to us." The host fumed that Cooper had not addressed the situation personally, opting instead to go on holiday.

Christys continued: "Where is she? Yes, she’s reportedly gone interrailing around Europe with her husband, Ed Balls. So I’m sorry, but at this particular moment in time, she’s essentially fled the country. Whilst we’ve got all of this going on, I think that’s pretty pathetic.”

The home secretary has said the government’s action to tackle the number of asylum seekers coming to the UK had been an important step to “restoring order”. Responding to new immigration statistics, Cooper said Labour had overseen increased numbers of returns of asylum seekers not granted asylum and pointed to the reduced spending on asylum.

According to the PA news agency, Cooper said: "We inherited a broken immigration and asylum system that the previous government left in chaos. Since coming to office we have strengthened Britain’s visa and immigration controls, cut asylum costs and sharply increased enforcement.

"The action we have taken in the last 12 months – increasing returns of failed asylum seekers by over 30%, cutting asylum costs by 11%, reducing the backlog by 18% and our forthcoming plans to overhaul the failing asylum appeal system – are crucial steps to restoring order and putting an end to the chaotic use of asylum hotels that we inherited from the previous government."