Tower Hamlets Labour Councillors compare Epping migrant hotel protesters to Nazis and urge locals to reject ‘right-wing extremists’

A group of Labour councillors have compared migrant hotel protesters to Nazis and urged local residents to reject “right-wing extremists” in a lengthy tirade about demonstrations held 15 miles away in Epping.

Tower Hamlets Labour Group also raised the borough’s history of rejecting Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts at Cable Street and the British National Party in the 1990s.

However, demonstrators have already started gathering in Canary Wharf amid speculation that the local Britannia International Hotel will house small boat migrants.

GB News understands that the four-star hotel has been taken over by the Home Office due to fears of an “overflow” at Manston Airport.

In its statement, Tower Hamlets Labour Group said: “The East End has a long history of providing a safe haven for those fleeing religious and political persecution.

“As Labour councillors, we are proud of that history and believe Tower Hamlets should continue to play its part.

“Those claiming asylum in the UK have a right to have their case properly considered, and they must of course be accommodated while it is being decided.

“Most importantly, they should never be subject to this kind of abuse and threats of violence we have seen on the streets of Epping in the past week.

“We are appalled that some right-wing extremists are seeking to use this moment to stir up racial hatred against refugees and other migrants too, and we stand with the overwhelming majority of decent people here in Tower Hamlets who will reject their divisive politics, just as our borough rejected Mosley’s Black Shirts in the 1930s and the BNP in the 1990s.”

The statement comes after protesters started gathering outside a migrant hotel in a leafy corner of Essex on July 13.

Demonstrators continued to assemble outside the asylum hotel following reports that a man living in the hotel had been charged with sexual assault, harassment and inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.

Hadush Kebatu, 41, from Ethiopia, denied the offences and was remanded in custody following a hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on July 17.

Essex Police has said that 10 people have been arrested in connection with demonstrations outside the Epping hotel.

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