A little over a week ago, after tens of thousands of ladies in pink and hordes of grandparents carrying flags had descended upon the sidewalks and curbs of the streets outside of the so-called ‘migrant hotels’ in their communities into which Keir Starmer had dropped his ever increasingly boatloads of illegal immigrants for shelter, there had been a heartening breakthrough.
Through some clever civic contract scrutiny, the village of Epping Forest had declared that the hotel housing the ‘asylum seekers’ in their town had breached its licensing agreement with the city by doing so. The Epping Forest City Council filed both a lawsuit and a request for an immediate injunction to force a shutdown of the operation.
To everyone’s immense surprise and gratification, the injunction was approved by the High Court.
There was much rejoicing, as well as the beginning of planning by other city councils to use the same strategy to go after and rid their communities of the government’s illegal migrant housing scheme.
The country, as person after person attested, was past the breaking point.
Congratulations to the people of Epping!
They protested. They were smeared. But they have won.
The solution, however, cannot be to move the illegal migrants and force them on another community.
This has gone on far too long. The country is well past breaking point. The last… pic.twitter.com/J8vbP2W2Hw
— Robert Jenrick (@RobertJenrick) August 19, 2025
…This has gone on far too long. The country is well past breaking point. The last Government didn’t listen and failed. Starmer’s making it even worse.
Change the laws. Get third country deals. Deport everyone who’s come here illegally. End this.
Three judges heard the government’s appeal of the injunction today and ruled in Labour’s favor against the Epping Forest citizens, vacating the injunction.
Asylum seekers can continue to be housed in a hotel in Epping following a legal victory for the Home Office.
Earlier this month, council leaders won a temporary injunction to close the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, after it became a focus for anti-immigration protests. All asylum seekers faced having to leave the hotel by Sept 12.
The Home Office and owners Somani Hotels Ltd appealed the decision.
At the Court of Appeal on Friday, Lord Justice Bean, Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lord Justice Cobb ruled in their favour and ordered the interim-injunction to be overturned.
Keir Starmer’s Home Office lawyers basically argued that the rights of illegal migrants were more important than the rights of the British, no matter what chaos and crimes those asylum seekers bring to a community.
…It comes after Home Office lawyers argued on Thursday that asylum seekers’ rights are more important than the concerns of the people of Epping.
They said that Yvette Cooper had a duty as Home Secretary to prevent asylum seekers from being made destitute under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and so they should continue to live at the Bell Hotel.
They claimed this responsibility trumped the council’s powers to close the hotel, which has been at the centre of protests in recent weeks after an asylum seeker living there was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl.
The ruling prevents the Government’s asylum policy from being plunged into chaos and could prevent other councils moving to close down asylum hotels in their areas.
They want a violent reaction.
— Residual Meat (@Massivelag) August 29, 2025
What the judges had to say in removing the injunction was even more insulting and so obviously inflammatory, it almost makes you wonder if they’re not helping Starmer set a trap. He needs really violent protests to match the hate rhetoric he was throwing at the peaceful protestors across the country who sang, held hands, and ran baby strollers up and down the street in front of these abominations. And he never got them.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has used the courts to overturn the ban on the Epping migrant hotel, allowing the hotel to reopen.
The local govt and people didn’t want 3rd world migrants in their city.
The radical left wing govt of the UK is replacing the native population pic.twitter.com/FXBgHpBdc1
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 29, 2025
Lord Justice Bean said that approving the injunction ran the danger of incentivising the protests, rewarding them for their unseemly public displays, and their lordships certainly couldn’t countenance any more of that happening.
Who cares what the rabble wants when the government has needs?
STAY IN YOUR LANE PUNY PEASANTS
The judge ruled that illegal immigrants must remain in the Bell Hotel in Epping because removing them would reward parents for protesting.
The purpose of the law in Britain is to force you to battery-farm foreign criminals at your expense, and to criminalise any complaints about… https://t.co/Mm02XQsitQ pic.twitter.com/wBwnXUp81R
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) August 29, 2025
…The purpose of the law in Britain is to force you to battery-farm foreign criminals at your expense, and to criminalise any complaints about it.
If the law will not remove these foreign criminals, the people will get desperate and break the law to remove them.
Then, of course, the law will be used against the native population who are trying to protect their children from foreign sex offenders.
The British state wants to house these strange foreign men near schools. It is doing all it can to ensure that happens.
Mothers in Epping, where school starts in a week or so, are sick with worry. They’d been warned this past winter about keeping their daughters safe as they walked to and from school, but away from the leering migrants, even before the attack on the 14-year-old happened.
Whose town is it anyway? Who do those streets in Epping Forest belong to?
‘Is that what we’ve come to? That we can’t keep our children safe coming home from school in broad daylight?’
Epping Mum Lindsey Thompson voices concern for her daughter’s safety after today’s ruling that asylum seekers can stay in the hotel they are currently housed in. pic.twitter.com/UZNdFtN7CY
— GB News (@GBNEWS) August 29, 2025
This ill-considered, elitist judgment is a national horror.
I’m sat in a Wetherspoons in a small town in Cheshire, population ~300K.
All people are taking about is Epping. I have a large crowd around me as we keep up to date with my spamming of my OSINT scripts.
We’re 201 miles from Epping yet it’s all people are discussing. pic.twitter.com/3NQ6IAjkHE
— Patriots Against Censorship (@DigitalVagrant) August 29, 2025
HOLY SMOKES
The government has overruled the democratically expressed wishes of the people of Epping to not have an illegal migrant hotel in their community. It has sided with foreigners against British people.
The govt is very stupid. It is forcing locals into a position where direct… pic.twitter.com/OPg3MUGQO9
— Leo Kearse – on YouTube & GB News (@LeoKearse) August 29, 2025
…The govt is very stupid. It is forcing locals into a position where direct action is their only option. As we saw in Ballymena, direct action is ugly, dangerous – but undeniably effective.
This is so damaging to democracy and the legitimacy of the government. Democracy means listening to the people and doing what they want. The government is thumbing its nose at democracy – and putting migrants, locals, the whole country in danger.
And this is Friday. What a weekend could be ahead.
Isabel Oakeshott says the Court of Appeal overturning the Epping asylum hotel injunction is a “political disaster” for the Government.
“Governments that go against the people – there’s only ever one winner! There will be hell to pay!”@petercardwell | @IsabelOakeshott pic.twitter.com/VXwkWh2LXD
— Talk (@TalkTV) August 29, 2025
‘…While it sounds like it may be a victory for this government, I actually think it’s a political disaster for them. They have pitted themselves against the People and they have, at least in the short term, won. But in a democracy, if a government or a political party pits themselves against the People, there’s only ever one winner. And it may take time.
But, my God, there’s going to be hell to pay for this outcome…’
I was concerned just a few days ago, in my post about the British campaign to #RaiseTheColours. A patriotic, Union Jack and St. George’s revolution is taking over flagpoles, sheep, manhole covers, apartment buildings, garage doors, and more, everywhere in the United Kingdom. Regular folks defying Labour’s repressive authoritarianism by proudly and openly flying the national colors that Labour’s thuggery has worked so hard to suppress.
The scale at which the flags have exploded and the support they have is directly proportional to the weight of Labour’s oppression and the people’s tolerance for it.
…They have no clue how lucky they are that it’s only flags.
So far.
To the good people of Epping,
Today is a bad day. This vile Labour gov’t has declared war on the British people.
But know this… The country is on your side and your peaceful protests at the Bell Hotel have inspired the nation.
You will win.
It’s just a matter of time. pic.twitter.com/9C9nQkBYf3— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) August 29, 2025
Tomorrow and ‘so far‘ may have just come.
And it was the government that fired the first shots at the Battle of Epping Forest.
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