Lots of readers have been having their say this week on asylum seekers moving into the Fir Grove Hotel in Grappenhall

An unwelcome early Christmas present for South Warrington from Andy Carter MP and his party colleagues in Westminster.

After hearing promises to take back control of our borders, voters in Grappenhall, Latchford, Appleton, Stretton and Stockton Heath helped give Andy Carter victory at the last parliamentary election.

Since 2019, however, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have entered the UK.

Our representative has sat in Westminster and followed the party line of not mentioning immigration while quietly encouraging it (by massive expansion of visas, and an abject, hand-wringing failure to stop illegal entry).

Now, with the take over by the Home Office of the Fir Grove for hundreds of illegal immigrants, we are seeing the local results of Tory broken promises and deliberate actions against the electorates’ expressed wish.

No doubt Mr Carter will now play to the gallery by stating his opposition to the takeover of the Fir Grove but really all Tory MPs have been complicit in breaking an election pledge. It is Home Office and therefore Government policy.

These immigrants (‘migrants’ are people whp move regularly for work) are largely young men aged between 18 and 25 with time on their hands. (Many claim to be 17 and will be placed in schools with obvious dangers for safeguarding). They came to the UK lured by false promises that our streets are paved with gold.

At first that will seem to be the case: they receive four-star accommodation, all meals and £40 per-week spending money. (In three months they have more spent on them than our state pensioners receive in one year.) But soon they will become bored and frustrated.

It will lead to great social friction. People living near the Fir Grove will now find it difficult to sell their properties.

South Warrington has just become a less desirable place to live.

This is Mr Carter’s Christmas present to his constituents for 2022.

STEPHEN CONNOR

Warrington

I THINK it is about time we looked after the staff at the Fir Grove.

Most of them are now without jobs or have very little pay but the asylum seekers have a bedroom and three meals a day with no worries and warm environment.

I wonder how many staff now unemployed will afford to put the heating on?

Well thanks have a lovely Christmas.

So many staff were on zero hours contracts so have just been finished.

NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED

I READ with shock that the Home Office intends to use the Fir Grove Hotel to accommodate asylum seekers.

We already have the Lord Daresbury Hotel and Paddington House accommodating asylum seekers.

Do we really need these people roaming our streets.

It is estimated it costs the UK tax payer £7 million a day to accommodate asylum seekers in hotels.

This is £7 million that could be spent elsewhere like on our struggling NHS.

The asylum seekers should be returned back to Europe within 24 hours of them arriving in the UK.

Enough is enough.

GARY BEBBINGTON

Grappenhall