2025-07-19
The Bell Hotel - what hotel name could be more quintessentially English?
It should serenely survey a scene of bucolic peace and tranquillity.
But not on Thursday.
''Last night’s violence around the Bell Hotel in Epping Forest saw Metropolitan and British Transport police deployed alongside Essex constabulary"
Not one, not two, but three police forces in attendance? Was trouble expected?
" ... this violence has not appeared by chance. The most recent trigger was the arrest on July 8th of ... a 38 year-old man who’d arrived in the country ... via a small boat on June 29th, claimed asylum, and then been housed at the Bell Hotel"
At a time when governments of all stripes have been elected on promises to get immigration under control, but have continued to facilitate it, "maybe" it's high time to recognise that government is now rogue, and intends to respect neither the norms of democratic government nor the clearly expressed wishes of the population.
It's time to put them in their place.
