The arrival of a migrant hotel in Canary Wharf in East London has sparked protests. Following similar demonstrations in Essex, Manchester, Norfolk and Nottinghamshire, mainstream-media outlets have been quick to brand the protesters as ‘racist’ or ‘far right’ for opposing hotels being used to house asylum seekers and illegal migrants. spiked went down to a demo outside of Canary Wharf’s Britannia International Hotel on Sunday, to find concerned locals, parents and even legal migrants who defy the lazy caricatures.
‘We’re not racist. This is about our kids’
spiked reports from the Canary Wharf migrant-hotel protest.
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