Earlier, I spoke to two women outside the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, who were...

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00:00Thank you. So why are you ladies here today outside of the Tanya Hotel?

00:04I'm here today because I've been waiting nearly 19 years. I'm homeless with four children

00:10and I've been up the housing several times for many years and they took me out and said

00:16they've got no properties, they've got no room for me. They shipped me out to Ilford

00:20about five months ago to talk me out of my support network. They took my children away

00:25from their schools. The children have failed all their exams and one of my children got

00:33sexually assaulted on the Lizbeth line and now she won't come out of her bedroom. My kids

00:38are isolated and they've just ruined my life. And to feel like this, they can put me in this

00:45hotel, do you know what I mean, with my kids and let them live a little bit but oh no, they've

00:49got nothing for me and I'm born and bred here. I've worked here all my life. You know, I've

00:5546, they took me away from this. They took me away from my support network. I've got nobody.

01:00Why do you think the government seems to prioritise, you know, foreign men who've

01:04just come over here on boats straight away?

01:07My daughter suffers with severe anxiety, dyslexia and everything. She's worked from the

01:12age of 16. She's 28 now, had her first child and that's a private rent out of London because

01:17they will not have her here. So she's got a baby now, on her own, with none of her family

01:21around her. Stuck out of London because they will not, they will not house her here.

01:26Did you guys know that just under 50% of social housing in London is headed by, the head of

01:32the household is foreign born? Did you guys know that fact?

01:35Not really, no. We never know. We don't know no facts, do we? We just know.

01:38We just know, like I said, my daughter's work from the minute she's left school.

01:42She's got no chance. They've got no future. They've got nothing, absolutely nothing.

01:47If I'm 46 and I haven't got a permanent property and not a roof over my head, my kids

01:52are 17, 10 and 19, they have got no chance in this world or so ever.

01:56What would you say to Keir Starmer and others who are spending billions of pounds on this

02:00rather than housing, you know, English people?

02:02Can't speak about the man. Can't speak about him. It's a disgrace. Absolute disgrace.