It is reported that there are over 30,000 asylum seekers in UK hotels (June 2025). You may wish to know that early this morning a coach arrived at the Manor Hotel in Datchet. A significant number of persons left the hotel and boarded the coach – which then departed towards Slough.
Now here is a thought: Although it appears that the steady stream of people arriving in small boats – and asylum seekers in hotels – are problems, I hold a slightly different view.
In my opinion the small boats and asylum seekers are only two symptoms arising from the far greater problem of governments failing to act on a global scale. The unwillingness (or inability) of national governments – working together – to consider, to agree and to take effective action is a real problem that has not only been evident but also inviting ever-increasing mass migration for decades? Strengthening borders, targeting smugglers and sending people home cannot be sufficient to stem the flow. Surely there is an urgent need to adjust the balance of those forces that drive a person or family to leave their own country – rather than attract them to stay? And that applies as much at home as abroad.
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