Homeless migrants down ‘vodka’ at 7am at makeshift Mayfair camp
Homeless migrants appear to have been drinking cups of vodka at 7am in their makeshift camp blighting London‘s swanky Mayfair district.
The group were pictured at a table outside their tents in the capital’s exclusive Park Lane area, where they appeared to mix vodka with bottles of Coca-Cola.
Beaming a smile, one bearded man was photographed filling a glass with the liquid before dragging on a cigarette – with a large music speaker seen next to him.
The images come as Channel migrants who recently arrived in Britain partied after Labour‘s landslide victory over the Tories – saying Sir Keir Starmer‘s government ‘will be very good for us’.
Labour has already announced plans to release the last two migrants detained as part of the Rwanda scheme after the new Prime Minister declared the Tory policy ‘dead and buried’.
Beaming a smile, one bearded man was photographed filling a glass with the spirit before dragging on a cigarette – with a large music speaker seen next to them
The migrants were spotted drinking at 7am on Monday morning, drinking vodka at their encampment
Their ‘tent city’ was pitched up outside the exclusive Park Lane in London’s Mayfair area
Yvette Cooper, the new Home Secretary, confirmed that two people who had been held pending removal to the African country will be bailed over the coming days.
At least £290million of taxpayers’ cash had already been earmarked for the Rwanda scheme, despite no migrants ever being deported under the proposals.
New PM Sir Keir confirmed the end of the Tories’ flagship scheme to forcibly deport those arriving via small boats in the Channel to Rwanda.
Speaking at his first Downing Street press conference on Saturday, he said: ‘The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started. It’s never been a deterrent.
‘Look at the numbers that have come over in the first six-and-a-bit months of this year, they are record numbers – that is the problem that we are inheriting.’
Sir Keir added: ‘It’s had the complete opposite effect and I’m not prepared to continue with gimmicks that don’t act as a deterrent.’
Just days earlier The Mail spoke to Sudanese national Omer, 23, who is now living at a Home Office hotel in the port city of Hull, east Yorkshire, at the taxpayers; expense.
He travelled with four friends across the Channel to get to the UK illegally. Speaking as millions of Brits went to the polls last Thursday, he said: ‘The Labour government will be very good for us,’
‘I hope the Labour party wins. I am very happy I left France because the far-right party is close to victory.’
A group of people are pictured on board a smuggler’s boat in an attempt to cross the Channel near Dunkirk
The Mail first interviewed Sudanese national Omer, 23, in a Calais camp last month and he is now living at a Home Office hotel in the port city of Hull, east Yorkshire. File photo
Labour has announced plans to release the last two migrants detained as part of the Rwanda scheme after Sir Keir Starmer declared the Tory policy ‘dead and buried’
Yvette Cooper, the new Home Secretary, confirmed that two people who had been held pending removal to the African country will be bailed over the coming days
Images today at Park Lane come as a row continues to rumble over the homeless migrants living in Mayfair.
The asylum seekers have previously been blasted for leaving behind piles of rubbish as they moved their tented village .
The group – which includes around 17 men and women, believed to be from Eastern Europe – recently relocated from the Hyde Park Corner area of Park Lane to land near Marble Arch.
Rubbish including plastic bottles, duvets, shoes and clothes was left behind at the site.
Black plastic bin bags and a sign with the message ‘please, I’m very hungry, help me, God bless’ were also among the items left behind.
Migrants were previously pictured setting up camp outside the Hilton Hotel in Mayfair, just yards away from Hyde Park.
A woman wearing a pink top and green trousers was seen sitting in a tent covering in a blue tarpaulin.
A man with a black hat, trousers and grey jacket was also spotted walking around the camp which was scattered with shopping trolleys, blow-up mattresses and crates.
Residents have reportedly alerted police and authorities about the encampment and rubbish left behind but are frustrated that nothing has been done.
In 2019, a homeless camp mainly made up of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants pitched up in the same area after being moved from Marble Arch by police.
And in July 2020, a group of people believed to be migrants also set up camp outside the Hilton Hotel in Mayfair, just yards away from Hyde Park.
