GB News halts for breaking migrant alert as viewers blast
GB News viewers issued a similar complaint following the latest update amid the ongoing migrant crisis. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was forced to announce no further new homes will be used for migrant housing after it revealed one street had become Home Office accommodation. Residents in Stoke Heath, Shropshire, are said be living in fear over the housing estate housing up to 83 asylum seekers on what has been dubbed "Migrant Street" by locals.
Speaking on Thursday's edition of GB News Breakfast with Ellie Costello and Will Godley they discussed local outrage with parish councillor Mark Gilbert as village residents fight asylum home plans on a new-build estate.
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Will said: "Residents told us they are feeling scared. They are feeling fearful. But as far as I'm aware one household is housing asylum seekers so far. What kind of impact is this going to have?"
"It's going to have a huge impact," Gilbert replied, "It's a rural location. Buses, services. There is no infrastructure there. They all have cars."
He continued: "It is the most ridiculous location to put people, who don't have the ability to get out and about, and depend on local transport. It's totally the wrong area."
Local Tory MP Mark Pritchard has said the village is a "completely inappropriate location" to house asylum seekers ahead of town council meeting being held this evening.
"Two weeks ago, Mark Pritchard sent me an email," Gilbert, "and I watched it on PMQs again and that was the first I knew about it as a parish council."
'PMQs was the first time anyone on the Parish council knew about it'
Mark Gilbert discusses local outrage over newbuild homes being handed to migrants in a rural village. pic.twitter.com/oPnnIDOBHi
He claimed the proposal was put in place without any consultation with local councillors.
Viewers issued a similar complaint as one fumed: "I am outraged and its not even my town/village. Legally fight the decision."
Another echoed: "I would be outraged too."
"The problem here is that Parish Councillors are the front line and are often blamed for decisions made at council and even government level," a third argued.