Just tell us what's going on in your part of the world
I'm not sure, to be honest. I think Bournemouth is just steadily, well actually not steadily, rapidly declining
The services are at absolute breaking point. Crime is through the roof
We've now got community schemes patrolling the streets trying to keep people safe
People are worried about going out. Sexual assaults are through the roof
Crime, petty crime in town. There was one this morning, someone with a knife in the sports store in Bournemouth ran out having stolen a load of trainers
I've said it before, it is like the Wild West. And Adam, do you link this to the migration crisis
Because hearing that not one, not two, but three quite historic hotels are now being occupied by the Home Office for asylum seekers
I think you'd be ignorant to say that it is all related to that
but there is a clear correlation when you look at the arrival dates
you look at the crime statistic, the figures, the arrest rates in these hotels
and also when you just walk around town and you speak to the police you speak to the shop owners and you ask them where the perpetrators are from
then you can obviously draw that conclusion that the hotels are a problem
This does seem like it is happening across the country Whenever you plonk in a few hundred undocumented men there does seem to be this correlation that we keep seeing of criminal activity I mean at what point do we decide as a country that
maybe it's not the best thing to plonk in hundreds of people from very different values
systems and cultures and countries that have experienced a lot more violence, that have
different attitudes towards bladed articles and everything else than perhaps people who've grown up
in more gentle parts of the world have experienced. Yeah, I mean, it's totally true, isn't it? I don't
know. It's mind boggling why, who comes up with the policies? I mean, OK, people come to this
country, we have to accept that. But what we can do is we can, obviously, we can cordon where these
people go. We can put them in an area so they can be properly vetted. They can be put on curfews
They can be put on tags and trackers so that we understand that they're released into society once we know they're safe
And when they do get housed in these areas, let's just do a risk assessment and look at it and say, well, is it near a school
Is it near a shopping centre? Is it near vulnerable people? No one's done that yet. Anyone else that has to open a business anywhere with the council, you have to go through all number of loops and have DBS checks
but yet you're an undocumented person from a questionable country, then you're just allowed to be put next to a school
like is the case at the Roundhouse in Bournemouth. And there's been some very serious incidents as a result of that