This time in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and once again in Altrincham, Cheshire, and in Stockport
Only days since the Leeds protests were reported on British Movement Northern region website, there has been another long weekend of protests outside migrant occupied hotels across the North.
This report has its focus on protests outside hotels in Wakefield, Altrincham and Stockport, although there were also Stand Up To Racism mobilisations to ‘Defend Refugees’ etc against patriotic protests outside migrant hotels in Hull. Hoylake on the Wirral and Didsbury, Manchester, on the same weekend.
WAKEFIELD. The Cedar Court Hotel
Located just off the M1 motorway at Cedar Grove, this migrant occupied hotel complex has been the subject of local concerns and protests for the past couple of years. The anti-immigration protests on August 16th 2025 are not a new situation. Back in summer 2023 this was the local news coverage: “Number of asylum seekers staying at Wakefield’s Cedar Court Hotel ‘to double’ as MP voices ‘strong’ opposition.”
“Hotels are not suitable accommodation for vulnerable people who have undergone extremely traumatic experiences”
“Wakefield MP Simon Lightwood has written to the Home Secretary to voice his opposition to plans that would see asylum accommodation increased in local hotels. Mr Lightwood said he has been informed by the Home Office that Cedar Court Hotel, in Calder Grove, is to have its occupancy doubled from 148 asylum seekers to 306. He said this comes on top of another hotel in the region taking on a new asylum accommodation contract.
“The Best Western St Pierre Hotel in Newmillerdam is the third hotel in the area to accept a government contract to house asylum seekers. Mr Lightwood said he opposed the plans “in the strongest possible terms” adding that the decision had been “forced on Wakefield, by Westminster.”
In his letter to Suella Braverman, Mr Lightwood wrote, “We were informed by the Home Office that the Cedar Court Hotel in the Calder Grove area of Wakefield, which is currently being used as asylum accommodation, will be increasing their capacity from 148 to 306 occupants.
“This comes alongside the recent news that a third hotel in the Wakefield Constituency – the Hotel St Pierre in Newmillerdam – will also be used as contingency asylum accommodation once again. Both myself as Wakefield’s MP and Wakefield’s Labour Council have opposed this in the strongest possible terms, but with no response to our concerns from the Home Office.”
Remember that was in the days of a Conservative government, and as is shown above, back then Wakefield’s Labour-run council was opposed to ‘asylum-seekers’ being housed in the Cedar Court hotel, but now there is a Labour government, and they seem to have quietened down about it.
That was then, but this is now in summer 2025, and in keeping with locally organised protests, Saturday, August 16th 2025, saw concerned locals, mostly from Wakefield, and also from the ‘Five Towns’ (Normanton, Castleford, Pontefract, Featherstone and Knottingley).
The Yorkshire Evening Post gave a clear example of where its journalists stood politically in regard to the patriotic protest at the Cedar Court Hotel; “Anti-fascist protestors turn out in force for peaceful demonstration outside Wakefield hotel.”
“Around 150 people attended the Cedar Court Hotel in Calder Grove – where asylum seekers are known to reside – on Saturday. No other groups attended, and the event passed off peacefully. West Yorkshire Police were in attendance as part of a “significant operation” to combat further disorder.” The Stand Up To Racism crowd had responded to one of their regional calls for a “mobilisation”, which clearly met with the approval of the journalists at the YEP.
“Wakefield – 11.30am, Cedar Court Hotel WF4 3QZ
Fascists not welcome in Wakefield Saturday 16th August.”
No such positive press coverage for the protests by local patriots and ordinary, concerned Yorkshire folk. It goes without saying that these latest protests in Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Cheshire will not be the only such events over the coming months, and our readers can anticipate more protests across the North, both small-scale and much larger mobilisations.
As with the situation in Wakefield at the Cedar Court Hotel, the protests outside the migrant occupied hotels on the other side of the Pennines are nothing new.
Stockport – 11 Aug 2025
“Stockport hotel set to be used to house asylum seekers next week.”
“The council says it was only informed of the move by the government with four days’ notice. The hotel, which the Manchester Evening News is choosing not to name, will house asylum seekers ‘from next week’, a spokesperson for Stockport council has confirmed.”
Notice that in the report just two years ago, the MEN refused to name the hotel premises about to be taken over by migrants, but it turned out to be the Stockport Britannia Hotel. From watching various video reports on YouTube posted by citizen journalists, the Stockport protest on Saturday August 16th 2025, was well attended by patriotic locals of all ages, clearly upset by the use of a neighbourhood hotel to house illegal immigrants.
The gathered patriots appeared to be intent on protesting peacefully but vocally. It should come as no surprise that the usual mixture of Reds – SUTR and assorted trade unionists and a leftist ‘rent-a-mob’ were outside the hotel buildings in opposition over the weekend.
Stockport – Friday August 15th
“Defend refugees, stop the far right. 5:00pm Stockport Britannia Hotel, Dialstone Lane, SK26AG.”
And a typical mainstream news media response after the protest. “Tensions erupted in Stockport as protests broke out outside a migrant hotel.”
Altrincham
The Altrincham protests, just like the Wakefield protests are part of an ongoing situation, there were earlier protests outside the Cresta Court Hotel last month.
“Huge police presence as protestors clash outside Altrincham hotel housing asylum seekers 27 Jul 2025”
“Police scuffle with an anti-immigration demonstrator outside the Cresta Court hotel in Altrincham.”
“In Altrincham, hundreds of people gathered outside Cresta Court hotel, where some demonstrators were seen in a scuffle with police officers and others were holding placards which read ‘enough is enough’ against a Union Jack.
“Counter protestors were also in attendance, holding signs that said ‘refugees welcome’ and ‘stop the far right’. They took part in the ‘Defend Refugees, Stand Up To Fascism’ rally, organised by Stand Up to Racism, near the hotel in Altrincham, Cheshire.”
Followed by regular turnouts by local patriots and concerned local residents across the road from the Cresta Court Hotel on most weekends, including on Saturday, August 16th.
British Movement Northern region would like to receive reports and images from any of the above protests and notices that the video blogs and reports from citizen journalists often give a far more honest account of what is taking place than the left-wing and ‘woke’ flavoured reporting by mainstream news media outlets.
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