A hotel owner who rejected eye-watering money to house asylum seekers in his establishment has lamented the trend in an explosive rant on GB News.

New data shows an increase in the number of asylum seekers living in hotels since July 2024 despite Labour’s pledge to end their use entirely.

John Mappin, who runs the Camelot Castle hotel in Cornwall, said in 2022 he was offered £1 million to use it for asylum seekers.

In a show of defiance, he rejected the offer but the number of hoteliers across Britain not following suit has shocked him.

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He said on GB News: “This is a state sponsored invasion. The Government is actively facilitating illegal migration and we are funding our own cultural erasure.

“This is not mismanagement. It’s betrayal. I just got back from Europe and I went for a dinner with German and French financiers. After dinner, they were joking and laughing about the situation.

“This is a European plan. A Brexit revenge. It’s a national sabotage. £9million a day to house strangers when our veterans are sleeping on the streets.

“It’s like a systematic demoralisation of the British people. Veterans, elderly and our own working people are being sacrificed for German, French and European financiers to have a laugh.

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“These individuals were telling me, quite frankly, how they were lining their own pockets in relation to this.”

GB News star Martin Daubney said hotels are the “tip of the iceberg” with many migrants in houses of multiple occupancy as the Government desperately looks for ways to house those making their way into Britain illegally.

“Our towns are being filled with unvetted people, in some cases, highly dangerous and zero loyalty to Britain”, said Mappin.

“The Home Office has been hijacked. Our institutions are no longer working for the British people, they are working against them.”

Mappin called for every Briton who loves their country to “make their voice peacefully, sanely and rationally heard”.

He continued: “I think it’s important people do get politically involved. We have allowed people to enter Government who, frankly, do not have the British people’s best interests at heart.”

A Home Office spokesman told GB News: “Since taking office, we have taken immediate action to fix the asylum system and have started closing down hotels and returning more than 35,000 people with no right to be here.

“From over 400 asylum hotels open in summer 2023, costing almost £9million a day, there are now less than 210, and we want them closed by the end of this Parliament.”

Stand for our Sovereignty / Facts4EU.org | Migrant hotel data has shown that there has been an increase in the amount of asylum seekers in hotels since Starmer came into power

One way the Government is seeking to tackle the migrant crisis is agreeing to a ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France.

Border officials detained the initial group of migrants arriving illegally by small boat on Wednesday afternoon, which marked the first day of the pilot scheme.

The individuals reached Dover and were immediately taken to immigration removal centres, where they await deportation across the Channel.

The detentions occurred at Western Jet Foil as the pilot programme commenced, with authorities confirming these migrants would be sent back to France under the newly implemented bilateral arrangement.

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Protests are being arranged across the country to stand against the use of asylum hotels

The scheme represents the first such returns deal between the two nations, following its announcement by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron last month.

The programme operates through an exchange system where Britain returns migrants who arrive illegally whilst accepting an equivalent number of asylum seekers from France who possess British family connections.

Those accepted must satisfy security requirements and cannot have previously attempted illegal Channel crossings.

Government sources initially indicated the arrangement would involve approximately 50 returns weekly, totalling 2,600 annually.

However, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper clarified on Tuesday that no fixed limits exist for the number of exchanges under the bilateral agreement.

Cooper described the initiative as a pilot programme intended to expand gradually. "We want to build it and we want to test it," she said, explaining that processes require testing since such an arrangement has never been implemented before.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared: "We have detained the first illegal migrants under our new deal before returning them to France.

“If you break the law to enter this country, you will face being sent back. When I say I will stop at nothing to secure our borders, I mean it."