A hotel boss says she has twice been offered an "obscene amount of money" to close her business to guests and instead accommodate asylum seekers. Dee Allen said the offers have been coming in since September 2021.
Mrs Allen, who runs the Hatters Hotel in Drummond Road, Skegness, with her husband, said she was offered £10,000 a week to house 52 refugees for at least three months. But she rejected the offer, saying it would have had a "negative" impact on the coastal town.
She told LincolnshireLive that she rejected the same "obscene" offer last month too. "We said at the time that we would never, ever do that to the community," she said. "They were also saying to us that it would be for an indefinite amount of time — not for just three months. They came back to us about four weeks ago and made us the same offer but we said no because our morals just wouldn't allow it."
