The Britannia Hotel complex in Leeds is an ongoing problem, not a recent one.
As the summer months quickly pass, the national mainstream news media is awash with reports about protests and counterprotests outside hotels occupied by illegal immigrants/asylum-seekers/refugees (delete as appropriate).
British Movement Northern region has reported on some of these protests over July and now August that have been taking place across Northern England, together with anti-illegal migration protests. In addition to high-profile protests in Manchester and Liverpool, there have been demonstrations in Hull, in Leeds, in Newcastle upon Tyne, in Altrincham in Cheshire, and in Hoylake on the Wirral.
The focus of this report is the series of protests outside the Britannia Hotel complex in the Leeds district of Seacroft. The housing of migrants at this location is not a recent development, and local residents of Seacroft have been complaining and objecting to the presence of at least 100, possibly more, migrants installed in the Britannia Hotel for at least the past four years.
The presence of groups of unwanted migrant men hanging around local children’s playgrounds and schools, plus groups of these men standing around outside a local supermarket making offensive comments to women and girls entering and leaving the store, created a lot of resentment amongst local people.
British Movement activists, in collaboration with activists from other British Nationalist organisations and concerned local residents, were protesting outside the Britannia Hotel in Seacroft as long ago as 2021. Last year there were a number of headline-grabbing incidents at the Seacroft site, and as is to be expected, the regional mainstream news media outlets were quick to paint the anti-immigration protestors as being the problem.
August 2024.
“Facebook user, 28, first to be jailed for encouraging people to attack Leeds hotel housing asylum seekers”
“The hotel manager put the building into lockdown on Saturday due to the disorder in the city, and at least one window was broken after stones were thrown over the weekend.”
The earlier protests had not attracted as much media attention, but now news media journalists and a good number of YouTube video bloggers are looking towards the Leeds protests with greater interest.
“Leeds Live – August 8th 2025
“Hundreds have gathered outside the hotel. West Yorkshire Police are currently outside Britannia Hotel, in Seacroft, Leeds, as hundreds waving England flags gather outside as part of a planned “public meeting and peaceful protest.
“According to a poster circulating ahead of the gathering, protestors say they are “addressing concerns about illegal immigration in Leeds.
“It is claimed that the Britannia Hotel is where a number of refugees – individuals forced to flee their country due to fear of persecution, war, violence, or conflict – are currently being housed. As well as the anti-immigration protestors, there are also campaigners in support of the refugees on the other side of the hotel.”
Notice that these mainstream journalists cannot help themselves in portraying the hotel occupants in as positive a light as possible, deserving only of sympathy and every level of support and protection, and the anti-immigration protestors as being politically motivated bigots and racists. There is no element of support for local communities being negatively impacted by the migrants and their behaviour.
This is the same kind of ‘progressive’ left-wing thinking that recently motivated a ‘Guardian’ newspaper journalist to describe the Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana as being “a Welsh born, black Briton from a Christian family who had lived in the local area for a number of years.” WE KID YOU NOT!
This mainstream media attitude shows no sign of changing any time soon; consider the headlines from the regional news outlets’ coverage of protests in Seacroft last weekend.
“Seacroft: Far-right protesters clash with anti-racism counter-demonstrators outside migrant hotel in Leeds.”
“Angry anti-immigration protests erupted outside an asylum hotel in Leeds. Police were out in force as crowds waving Union flags and banging instruments converged on the Britannia Hotel in the Seacroft area of the city.”
Of course the attitude of the mainstream media is matched by the attitudes of mainstream politicians, especially Labour MPs and Labour councillors, not to mention the cringeworthy statements by Liberal Democrat and Green Party councillors, always supportive of the “poor refugees” and either hostile or indifferent to the concerns of the local white, working class British population.
It goes without saying that the protests in Leeds will not be the only protests in West Yorkshire over the coming months, and readers can anticipate ever increasing numbers of similar protests across the North.
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