Residents in Islington have expressed their outrage at the Labour Government at the use of a migrant hotel in their area.
Protesting outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel, which is housing asylum seekers, locals told GB News that Sir Keir Starmer is "covering his ears" to the concerns of Britons about the migrant crisis.
Protests against the use of migrant hotels across the country continued to escalate on Saturday, as groups of anti-migrant and anti-racism protesters took to the streets of the capital.
Voicing her concern for the impact of the migrant hotel on her community, protester Toni told GB News host Ben Leo that the migrants are "disrespectful" and "glare" at their children playing in the square.
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|Protesters in Islington have expressed their outrage at the use of a migrant hotel in their community
Toni explained: "I live in the local community and I'm concerned over my children's safety, and I'm concerned about my old age pensioners who can't come into the local square and where we've always communed.
"We have a fish and chip shop here, our George opened a restaurant that's gone completely downhill, because obviously it was a thriving hotel at one stage, and now it's just besieged."
Pointing out that parents no longer take their children into the square to play due to safety concerns, Toni added: "We can't go to the parks anymore. How can you play with your kids with a paddling pool when you've got four or five men that you don't know and glaring at you?
"They're disrespectful, and they've got a different ideology."
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|Groups of anti-migrant and anti-racism protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday
As Ben highlighted the counter protests from Antifa and Stand Up to Racism in the city, Toni defended the concerns of locals and claimed the left-wing protesters are "not local".
Toni stated: "We are a diverse community, so how can they call us racist? I don't like the fact that these people are coming into our community telling us what we've got to put up with, and its our children's safety that's paramount.
"Send them home. If they come here illegally, send them home. There's no women and children. Why have you put 200 odd men on straight top of us who have got no respect for us, they hate democracy which means in turn they hate our country."
She added: "They sent a letter around telling people to stay away from this protest, but why didn't letters go round the local area to let us know that there are undocumented men in there?"
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|The protesters told GB News that they fear for their children's safety in the area
Speaking to another protester in outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel, the man hit out at the Prime Minister and claimed he is "deaf" to the concerns of Britons about migrants.
He fumed: "Why is it Keir Starmer continues to basically close his ears to the working people in this country, who are telling him in no uncertain terms, we do not want these people in and around our children.
"We know the crime statistics, we know what's happening in our country here, what is wrong with them? Why are these politicians deaf and not hearing?"
Accusing the Government of "refusing to accept that the situation is untenable", the man added: "The Government consistently ignored the people telling them that we don't want these guys staying in and around the places that our children and their women are going around. Why is it the Government refuses to accept that this is untenable?"