Nigel Farage is jubilant after migrant hotels win - but he's not being honest on 1 thing

Nigel Farage is glowing today after it was announced that asylum seekers will be removed from a hotel in Epping after a huge court ruling. And while I can absolutely understand the jubilation of local activists, who were petrified after the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, I think Nigel's joy is vastly premature as it now means he has an even bigger battle on his hands.

Labour ministers are bracing themselves for dozens of legal challenges from other council leaders after the ruling, as Home Office lawyers warned the court that the decision could "substantially impact" the government's ability to house asylum seekers in hotels across the UK.

So I'll cut straight to the elephant in the room, shall I? Where on earth are the hotel-housed asylum seekers going to go now?

Well, I'll tell you where. They'll be unceremoniously plonked en masse in the cheapest parts of the country for housing, like my town of Middlesbrough, as they have been for years. Labour has already essentially confirmed this. Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle told a committee of MPs recently that the government was looking to buy tower blocks and former student accommodation to house migrants as an alternative to asylum hotels.

It's not that our town is unwelcoming to international arrivals - in fact, quite the opposite. It's simply the vast proportions and the resulting pressure that causes the problem. My town has one of the highest levels of migrants - which includes asylum seekers - in terms of population size in the entire country.

I have spoken out about the impact this causes previously. One stark example is that schools in the town centre have children speaking more than 40 languages. How teachers can cope with this whilst making sure the children learn effectively is totally beyond me. The pressure on NHS services is also well known, with GP appointments like gold dust.

Then there's the pressure cooker conditions it inflicts on councils. In fact, there are whole teams of council officers funded by the Government dedicated to helping asylum seekers 'settle', when local authority spending in Middlesbrough is stretched beyond belief. Believe me, we have higher priorities here.

There's also the disaster of the constant churn of residents where the asylum seekers are placed. Once they are given leave to remain in the country, most of the town's new residents are off in a flash to areas where other friends and family live. This leaves communities reeling as they try to cope with an incessant turnover of temporary residents.

Given Nigel Farage now controls a huge number of councils across the country, he better have a plan to prevent this happening in his areas too.

The latest from the Home Office, reported by the BBC, is that there's a 'pause' in buying up the cheapest property in the North-East. However, given they have said that, rightly, value for money is part of the decision-making process, it's unlikely the Government will lurch from placing asylum seekers in hotels to high-cost accommodation in posher areas of the country.

As it stands there are 32,000 asylum seekers living in 210 hotels across the UK. So yes, it's a great win for Epping. But unless Labour can spell out a real plan then the problem will not go away. It'll simply be dumped on areas just like mine.