A MUM-of-two has been waiting a year to get out of her tiny council flat - while Bibby migrants are being put into hotels. Hayley is finding it difficult to cope in her cramped two-bed council flat in the centre of Wolverhampton . Cradling her three month old daughter, Hayley, 27, looks up at the nearby Britannia hotel – currently providing emergency accommodation for up to 150 migrants – and shakes her head.
She said: “I’ve been waiting all this time for the council to treat me with some degree of humanity, then hey presto, the state is suddenly able to find luxury accommodation for all these asylum seekers. “It is just so unfair. I worked as a hairdresser since leaving school and I paid my taxes but now I can’t work because I’ve got young children and then when I need to lean on the state for a while, its ears are deaf to me.
“It just makes no sense that they have to take all these people off the Bibby Stockholm and spend a fortune of taxpayers money putting them up in a huge hotel in the city centre. It is utter madness. read more on migrant crisis “I’m not the only one this is happening too.
I know at least half a dozen other people who have been waiting months and months for council accommodation and nothing is happening for them. "Maybe if they turned up on the south coast in a boat and claimed asylum, the state could put us all up at this nice hotel too.” Retired supermarket worker Nigel, 68, shared Hayley’s despair as he enjoyed a quiet pint ac.