[Andy McDandy]

For years - decades - seaside towns have been dying a death due to cheap flights and relaxed customs rules. Hotels have been turned into hostels for people who are on the skids. Some of the most deprived and neglected people in the country, many with addictions and other problems, and in all that time the national media hasn't given a shit, unless through a nostalgia/whitewashing filter of saucy postcards and whatever happened to the badly remembered past pieces.

These places are taking whatever they can to stay afloat, and that money isn't going to the residents.

[davidjay]

In a similar vein many papers keep banging on about asylum seekers being housed in 4 Star hotels living the life of Riley.

The definition of a 4 Star hotel according to Google:

A four-star hotel in the UK typically requires a high level of service, well-maintained facilities, and a focus on guest comfort and convenience. This includes spacious rooms with en-suite bathrooms, high-quality furnishings, and amenities like Wi-Fi and 24-hour reception. Expect attentive staff, room service, and a restaurant or dining options

Given that when a hotel is used to house asylum seekers the regular staff are replaced by security guards most of the above facilities are not on offer.

The Mirror did a piece today about a bloke and his elderly mother who are now living in a Trave Lodge after being made homeless. The article was pretty grim, being a Travel Lodge their is no restaurant or cooking facilities so they are living on Pot Noodles. The son and mother were having mental health issues as a result of being stuck in the hotel for so long. This is probably the reality of having to live in a hotel room for months upon end unlike the picture the right wing tabloids and right wing politicians like to paint.

And that's how almost all asylum seekers are being housed. Not in luxury, but Travelodge, Holiday Inn Express or, if they're really unlucky, Britannia.

[Samanfur]

For years - decades - seaside towns have been dying a death due to cheap flights and relaxed customs rules. Hotels have been turned into hostels for people who are on the skids.

In the south east and I don't doubt a few other places, it's just somewhere to stay that's cheaper than renting.

Within the last few years, I've stayed in a few hotels around London and Brighton that had working people permanently settled in the dorms for £10-£20 per night.

[Tubby Isaacs]

For years - decades - seaside towns have been dying a death due to cheap flights and relaxed customs rules. Hotels have been turned into hostels for people who are on the skids. Some of the most deprived and neglected people in the country, many with addictions and other problems, and in all that time the national media hasn't given a shit, unless through a nostalgia/whitewashing filter of saucy postcards and whatever happened to the badly remembered past pieces.

These places are taking whatever they can to stay afloat, and that money isn't going to the residents.

Yep. Friend of mine spent sometime as a kid in Hastings, and noticed then that struggling people had moved/been moved from other parts of the country. It didn't really get remarked upon much, and when Labour gained Hastings and Rye in the 1997 Election, nobody much had seen it coming.

[The Weeping Angel]

Normal response from the Daily Express's correspondent.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

They are lost in their own fever dreams, the cunts.