'Faceless, money-grabbing' bosses axe 95 workers as lodge turns into migrant house

Bosses of a luxurious spa lodge that can be used to accommodate asylum seekers have been branded “faceless money-grabbers” after axing 95 workers.

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The house owners will now shut Stradey Park Hotel and make the 50 full-time and 45 part-time workers redundant.

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The lack of the four-star lodge, which is a well-liked marriage ceremony venue in Llanelli, west Wales, is taken into account a significant blow for the city’s tourism ambitions.

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There can also be anger on the lack of knowledge from the Home Office, the lodge house owners and housing contractor Clearsprings.

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Dame Nia Griffith, the Labour MP for Llanelli, mentioned: “It is absolutely shocking the way that the staff have been treated from the beginning, just kept in the dark with no information. It is a disgraceful and degrading way to treat the workers.

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“The hotel owners, Clearsprings and Tory ministers in the Home Office should hang their heads in shame.”

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Following weeks of hypothesis, staff have been instructed on Tuesday that weddings and all occasions after July 10 have been cancelled and it is going to be the workers’s final day.

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Lee Waters, Llanelli’s Labour member of the Welsh Parliament, mentioned: “Faceless money-grabbing owners are sacrificing staff who have kept the business running through really testing times. At every stage the Home Office is mishandling this.”

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According to the Home Office, there are actually “more than 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels costing the UK taxpayer £6million a day”.

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A spokesman mentioned: “We have been clear that the use of hotels to house asylum seekers is unacceptable.”

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A spokesman for the Refugee Council mentioned: “Hotels are not the right places for men, women and children fleeing unimaginable terror. It’s not right for them, and it’s not right for communities.

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“Instead the Government should reduce the backlog of cases, remove the need for hotels and introduce safe routes so that Britain can do what most Sunday Express readers want, and provide safety without the need for people to take dangerous Channel crossings.”

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