Taxpayer-funded luxury accommodations for migrants have faced scrutiny and protests.
Britain’s use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers has come under renewed criticism after migrants housed at a historic four-star property were filmed relaxing in massage chairs.
The footage circulating online was reportedly filmed at the luxury Ramada Hotel in Solihull, near Birmingham – a 16th-century former coaching inn currently used under the British Home Office’s asylum housing scheme.
The 145-room hotel also includes a gym and en-suite rooms, according to the Daily Mail, which cited a source as saying the massage chairs had not been operational since the migrants moved into the building. The grounds include what is believed to be England’s oldest crown bowling green.
The footage drew criticism on social media, with one X user writing: “All on the taxpayer… We are paying for the comfort of people who simply don’t deserve it.” Another questioned government spending priorities, citing the growing number of Britons relying on food banks.
@dpaudits The oldest bowling green in the uk abandoned #immigration #solihull #ramada ♬ original sound – dpaudits
The debate comes amid growing concern over the cost of Britain’s asylum accommodation programme. An October 2025 parliamentary report said the projected cost of housing asylum seekers has more than tripled to £15.3 billion ($21 billion), while accusing the Home Office of failing to recover tens of millions of pounds in excess profits from private contractors.
4-star hotel where illegal migrants sit back in expensive massage chairs.
Grade II listed Ramada Hotel in Solihull houses male ‘guests’ reclining in the chairs, which are worth thousands of pounds each.
Photos on the hotel’s website also show a well-stocked gym and rooms… pic.twitter.com/ScdscoBw1U
— Sedd (@SeddSezz) June 1, 2026
The UK is reportedly expected to spend around £2.1 billion on asylum accommodation and support this financial year, with hotel housing alone estimated to cost taxpayers roughly £5.5 million per day.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has faced mounting criticism despite pledging to end the use of asylum hotels by 2029 and blaming the Conservatives for what it described as a “huge mess.” However, plans to relocate asylum seekers to other facilities, including former military sites, have also been met with resistance.
Numerous protests have been held across Britain in recent years over asylum hotels, including demonstrations at the Ramada. Immigration ranked among the public’s top concerns in 2025, with one in five Britons naming it as the country’s most pressing issue in a Gallup survey. Government figures show that more than 200,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since 2018.
Meanwhile, the ‘ceremonial dagger’ is given a hall pass, as in https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15865655/Shocking-police-body-cam-footage-shows-moment-murdered-student-Henry-Nowak-screams-breathe-police-arrest-outside-Sikh-mans-house-knife-obsessed-killer-lied-claimed-teen-racially-abused-him.html
This woke ‘diversity’ agenda allows psychopaths to make a mockery of the so called ‘chistian’ kindness while murdering the next generation of their kind hosts. Religion be damned, our Prime Minister has put his hands together for the wrong deal.
…and turbans!
Well that’s going to go down like a ‘cup of sick’. Almost like the church government wants to ignite civil unrest. Surely not.
Vote for clowns, get clowns…no better here………..
I would have thought that owners of all the hotels that are accommodating these illegal migrants could refuse to house them in the interest of protecting their commercial reputation as well as preserving the lifestyle of citizens living in the neighbourhood.
Clearly the hotel owners would rather scam the government and taxpayers by no doubt charging an arm and a leg to accommodate these aliens from the Third world.
The UK government should make use of the Falkland Islands considering how much they spent to kick the Argentinians out in 1982. Start shipping these illegal aliens to the Falklands. They will soon get the message not to illegally enter the UK.
Not the Falklands! They were protected from invasion! It’s Stamerites who stopped a very good deal between GB and Rwanda.
“Legal” immigrants were living there in the early 80s because there wasn’t enough housing, and locals waiting for housing were pushed down the list (40 in years in a case that I know of).
Coming to New Zealand soon, no doubt with National and co’s “new” immigration rules. You will, I’m guessing be waiting hours, if not days, for healthcare and other social services. Then there’s issues of the kind of crimes seen in places like India.