One of England’s most prestigious seaside towns is now plagued by astronomical crime rates, spiralling rents, migrant hotels, and rapid, unwanted demographic change
Beautifully written piece. I know Bournemouth well, and you summed it up perfectly at the end - if Bournemouth isn't safe, nowhere is. They want us replaced and erased everywhere we are. It's time to fight back with a vengeance.
Rubbish. Of course you can literally fight. If you don’t, you’ll be walked over and ignored. Your opponents are fleeing much tougher circumstances than you were brought up in.
At 80 years old and none too steady on my feet, no, I can't "literally fight"! But I can vote for those who will, and support them with money and with my writing.
Well you’re the exact demographic these grifters are winding up and fleecing. Good luck with that as the coat of living rises due to Trumps war and the country is realising pensioners are the biggest financial drain on our economy.
I don't believe any of this can be true, because Fraser Nelson said we're living in the best possible time in this country and he's got the statistics to prove it. So there.
Double whammy for seaside towns. First, they get their local economy annihilated. Then the New Britons get to prey upon them. In Rhyl, one of the poorest areas in Wales, four Asian men have once again been caught raping the locals, no doubt taking advantage of the areas poverty.
Brilliant case study. I can remember running up and down the beach safely and freely as a child. Now despite all the police, security guards, council wardens and the new community safety group it is still not safe.
As well as the crime, anti social behaviour abounds - the usual suspects on day trips from London leave huge black bags of rubbish for the council tax payers to clean up, or play large boom boxes of rap and grime, whilst the cafes and bars are only still open because of patronage from the few remaining natives. Unless we reverse this Bournemouth will be a last resort rather than a former holiday resort.
People build civilization, not vice versa. Tabula rasa is a dangerous myth.
Being a Dorset native, I’m very familiar with Bournemouth. It’s been on the way down for a long time. In my childhood, in the 1990s, it was an exciting place. I remember being taken shopping there, or going swimming at the BIC. The 2008 Financial Crisis hit Bournemouth hard. The last time I went shopping here, 2011 I think, the high street was unrecognisable, and a fug of despair had settled over the town.
Reading the article, it complains about the “Borris Wave” starting the flow. Given that a Labour Government was elected a year ago, please explain how it is the left that is punishing Bournemouth
Start by deporting.It can be done if there is a will to do it.Trump has removed 1.6 million illegal migrants in 7 months.Please save yourselves before it is too late.The world needs England and Wales and Scotland for that matter,it does not need another third world country.
Sorry to read that Bournemouth is catching up - has caught up - other towns with the benefit of diversity. It is many years since I was in Bournemouth and its fall is adds to a bleak prognosis for the UK.
I lived in Bournemouth /Poole for nearly 3 years in the mid 1980s. It was a lovely place, and I never felt unsafe, although as a young man maybe that wasn’t surprising. As the author notes there were lovely shops and restaurants. There was a tradition of lighting candles on wooden frames outlining animals etc in the autumn when the beach holidaymakers had gone home.
There was always a seamy side though; I treated two people who were stabbed on the beach (pretty rare in those days) and there was a high level of AIDS.
I considered moving there a few years ago, but my family forbade it; I didn’t notice the decline they could see, perhaps my memories were adding a rose tint to the present reality. Much like life everywhere in the UK now, seemingly relentless decline. The people responsible need to be called to account.
About 25yrs ago I remember seeing the front page of The Sun showing 100,000 people on the beach and it didn’t seem like much fun to me.
Besides, when you plan a British beach holiday with kids, the costs mount up so quickly that you might as well jump on EasyJet to Spain.
£1200 for a week in a mid range caravan in August in Prestatyn.
Southport & Blackpool are our local resorts.
Southport was clearly a grand place once upon a time, but it’s getting that half empty, grubby, rundown look that’s familiar to most of our town centres now. The fairground is overpriced and only appeared to be about a quarter full, if it’s like that on a nice day in high summer, it’s on borrowed time. It was nice to sit by the lake and listen to the pub crooner though, even I started singing along to “brimful of Asha”. The war memorial is huge and a fantastic piece of architecture, however on my visit last week, it was rather spoiled by a group of Africans, with a huge amount of luggage, sitting on it. A perfect visual metaphor for the modern UK.
I haven’t been to Blackpool for a few years. But it’s always been shite and rundown. It always pees down when I go there too. I recently saw a picture of the beach being infested with 3rd worlders. So I doubt I’ll visit again.
Growing up in the north, I went for family holidays to Bournemouth in the 90s and thought it posh. I have a friend who lives there and every visit gets more bleak. Come out the railway station to walk past the roundabout flooded with buddleia as the council can’t be bothered to trim it back, and then walk past the inner city shops of dodgy Deliveroo takeaways and shops selling under the counter Eastern European cigarettes. It’s an absolute dive. Went for quiet midweek drink last month in one pub only to be interrupted by French African woman off her rocker who came in to berate us as ‘men are r4pists’. Poor woman behind the bar didn’t know what to do. You realise how lucky you are to live up north out of the way.
I used to spend weekends in Bournemouth with family, and my grandparents moved there for several years. The Boriswave is well and truly taking hold beyond the confines of the northern ghettoes to which migrants were previously confined. This dire state of affairs should be seen as an opportunity for the British right, with even the Britpoppers who fled London in the 80s now subject to the full force of diversity.
I was in Yeovil, Somerset a fortnight ago. I imagined it would be a nice little bit of "middle England" but it was as highly populated with non-whites and non-British people as Medway in Kent, which really surprised me. And I'm not Xenophobic - my ex wife was Spanish and my current wife is Thai.
There was one aspect that was even worse than Medway (the conurbation of Strood, Rochester, Chatham & Gillingham)... there was only one pub apart from the ubiquitous Wetherspoons in the town centre and that was closed on a Wednesday at 22:20, presumably due to lack of customers.
I'm not English. But I've seen how all English far-right people always say 'but I've got black friends', 'I'm married to an Asian' etc etc. This is why you're destined to become a minority in your own country.
The Fabian Society, while broadly socialist in its aims, doesn't explicitly advocate for international socialism in the traditional sense. They are more focused on democratic socialism and reforming existing institutions through gradual, practical means. While they champion international cooperation and institutions for global peace and sustainable development, their primary focus remains on domestic policy and social justice within the UK
That's the official story for those sucking at the teat of the Overton window. But what is it about the wolf in sheep's clothing that you don't understand?
I doubt if any of this is accidental - our civilisation's demolition is by design.
What a pity the majority have no one to represent their interests. Nevertheless, I do hope few will fall for the panacea of 15-minute cities and intrusive surveillance to 'keep us safe.'
I visited a nicer Bournemouth several times, as I have English friends living nearby. By the way, I especially love the superb Russell-Coates gallery. Last time was back in April and, yes, I was saddened by the visible decay. What is to be done? God knows but I recall a saying by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: Panta rei. All things change. 😉
I think that the Major Government's decision to give the polytechnics, and larger institutes of higher education, university status back in the early 1990s was a terrible mistake. I did my first degree at the then Dorset Institute of Higher Education (DIHE) - now Bournemouth University! Back then, they reckoned that the cost of delivering an an undergraduate degree was about 1/3 of that at an Oxbridge College. They had very light administrative overheads. No Professorial Chairs or 'Readers', just Lecturers, Senior Lecturers and heads of departments for the various academic and vocational disciplines. There was only a handful of foreign students back then. The degree programmes were mostly vocational, but there were also a couple of more academically based degrees, that tended to attract local mature students who'd missed out on University when they were young, as well as 18 year olds who'd failed to find a university place through clearing. OK, it was no 'dreaming spires' but I think that the education that I got there was probably superior to that supplied, even by Russell Group universities today (I know this from subsequent attendance at Russell Group universities and my son's recent experience of the same). However, the real strength of DIHE was that it served the local economy and community. The vast majority of students were part time, studying for various professional and vocational qualifications (HNCs etc.), on day release from their employers or in their own time in the evenings. Who does it serve now? I think we know the answer to that from the insightful article that we have been drawn to comment on.
The enabling legislation was enacted in 1992, so a good couple of years after she left office. I suppose that some of the ground work could have been done in the latter days her administration, but I don't know for sure 🤷♂️. Someone’s probably done a deep dive on it, somewhere!
It began as a Technical College which I attended in 1961/2. A different world.
Yesterday I ate in the Harvaster at Boscombe Chine. The food was good, the service was good, but the customers!!! Feeding time at the zoo was classy by comparison.
Beautifully written piece. I know Bournemouth well, and you summed it up perfectly at the end - if Bournemouth isn't safe, nowhere is. They want us replaced and erased everywhere we are. It's time to fight back with a vengeance.
What bewilders me is WHY do they want to do this to us?
That's the question I keep asking myself.
White genocide
Solution ?
We can't literally fight of course, but we can vote for those who will .
Rubbish. Of course you can literally fight. If you don’t, you’ll be walked over and ignored. Your opponents are fleeing much tougher circumstances than you were brought up in.
At 80 years old and none too steady on my feet, no, I can't "literally fight"! But I can vote for those who will, and support them with money and with my writing.
Well you’re the exact demographic these grifters are winding up and fleecing. Good luck with that as the coat of living rises due to Trumps war and the country is realising pensioners are the biggest financial drain on our economy.
What does fight back with a vengeance mean, exactly?
I don't believe any of this can be true, because Fraser Nelson said we're living in the best possible time in this country and he's got the statistics to prove it. So there.
Lies, damn lies and statistics .
Double whammy for seaside towns. First, they get their local economy annihilated. Then the New Britons get to prey upon them. In Rhyl, one of the poorest areas in Wales, four Asian men have once again been caught raping the locals, no doubt taking advantage of the areas poverty.
Brilliant case study. I can remember running up and down the beach safely and freely as a child. Now despite all the police, security guards, council wardens and the new community safety group it is still not safe.
As well as the crime, anti social behaviour abounds - the usual suspects on day trips from London leave huge black bags of rubbish for the council tax payers to clean up, or play large boom boxes of rap and grime, whilst the cafes and bars are only still open because of patronage from the few remaining natives. Unless we reverse this Bournemouth will be a last resort rather than a former holiday resort.
People build civilization, not vice versa. Tabula rasa is a dangerous myth.
Being a Dorset native, I’m very familiar with Bournemouth. It’s been on the way down for a long time. In my childhood, in the 1990s, it was an exciting place. I remember being taken shopping there, or going swimming at the BIC. The 2008 Financial Crisis hit Bournemouth hard. The last time I went shopping here, 2011 I think, the high street was unrecognisable, and a fug of despair had settled over the town.
I lived here and Poole for nearly 40 years. This article is spot on. Bournemouth has been punished by the left.
Reading the article, it complains about the “Borris Wave” starting the flow. Given that a Labour Government was elected a year ago, please explain how it is the left that is punishing Bournemouth
I said the left. Boring and Sunak were left, Starmer is a full on Communist.
The Tories stopped being conservative a long time ago.
Start by deporting.It can be done if there is a will to do it.Trump has removed 1.6 million illegal migrants in 7 months.Please save yourselves before it is too late.The world needs England and Wales and Scotland for that matter,it does not need another third world country.
Great article.
Another factor in Bournemouth's decline is that in the 90s, the council allowed former hotels and bedsits to become drug rehabs.
This attracted junkies from all over Britain to settle in the area and spawn prodigiously.
Ever since, Bomo has had a booming and vibrant drug economy.
That's why the high street is now 50% ethnic money laundering fronts.
Sorry to read that Bournemouth is catching up - has caught up - other towns with the benefit of diversity. It is many years since I was in Bournemouth and its fall is adds to a bleak prognosis for the UK.
I lived in Bournemouth /Poole for nearly 3 years in the mid 1980s. It was a lovely place, and I never felt unsafe, although as a young man maybe that wasn’t surprising. As the author notes there were lovely shops and restaurants. There was a tradition of lighting candles on wooden frames outlining animals etc in the autumn when the beach holidaymakers had gone home.
There was always a seamy side though; I treated two people who were stabbed on the beach (pretty rare in those days) and there was a high level of AIDS.
I considered moving there a few years ago, but my family forbade it; I didn’t notice the decline they could see, perhaps my memories were adding a rose tint to the present reality. Much like life everywhere in the UK now, seemingly relentless decline. The people responsible need to be called to account.
Great read, thank you.
I’ve never been to Bournemouth.
About 25yrs ago I remember seeing the front page of The Sun showing 100,000 people on the beach and it didn’t seem like much fun to me.
Besides, when you plan a British beach holiday with kids, the costs mount up so quickly that you might as well jump on EasyJet to Spain.
£1200 for a week in a mid range caravan in August in Prestatyn.
Southport & Blackpool are our local resorts.
Southport was clearly a grand place once upon a time, but it’s getting that half empty, grubby, rundown look that’s familiar to most of our town centres now. The fairground is overpriced and only appeared to be about a quarter full, if it’s like that on a nice day in high summer, it’s on borrowed time. It was nice to sit by the lake and listen to the pub crooner though, even I started singing along to “brimful of Asha”. The war memorial is huge and a fantastic piece of architecture, however on my visit last week, it was rather spoiled by a group of Africans, with a huge amount of luggage, sitting on it. A perfect visual metaphor for the modern UK.
I haven’t been to Blackpool for a few years. But it’s always been shite and rundown. It always pees down when I go there too. I recently saw a picture of the beach being infested with 3rd worlders. So I doubt I’ll visit again.
Growing up in the north, I went for family holidays to Bournemouth in the 90s and thought it posh. I have a friend who lives there and every visit gets more bleak. Come out the railway station to walk past the roundabout flooded with buddleia as the council can’t be bothered to trim it back, and then walk past the inner city shops of dodgy Deliveroo takeaways and shops selling under the counter Eastern European cigarettes. It’s an absolute dive. Went for quiet midweek drink last month in one pub only to be interrupted by French African woman off her rocker who came in to berate us as ‘men are r4pists’. Poor woman behind the bar didn’t know what to do. You realise how lucky you are to live up north out of the way.
I used to spend weekends in Bournemouth with family, and my grandparents moved there for several years. The Boriswave is well and truly taking hold beyond the confines of the northern ghettoes to which migrants were previously confined. This dire state of affairs should be seen as an opportunity for the British right, with even the Britpoppers who fled London in the 80s now subject to the full force of diversity.
So what’s the solution ?
I was in Yeovil, Somerset a fortnight ago. I imagined it would be a nice little bit of "middle England" but it was as highly populated with non-whites and non-British people as Medway in Kent, which really surprised me. And I'm not Xenophobic - my ex wife was Spanish and my current wife is Thai.
There was one aspect that was even worse than Medway (the conurbation of Strood, Rochester, Chatham & Gillingham)... there was only one pub apart from the ubiquitous Wetherspoons in the town centre and that was closed on a Wednesday at 22:20, presumably due to lack of customers.
It's grim everywhere right now. Managed decline.
Why shouldn't you be Xenophobic? Why should you apologise for being Xenophobic? You guys are too apologetic and hence why you will lose.
When Russians, Chinese, Indians, Japanese get accused of xenophobia, they let out a big yawn and brush it aside.
An explanation is not an apology, old chap!
I'm not English. But I've seen how all English far-right people always say 'but I've got black friends', 'I'm married to an Asian' etc etc. This is why you're destined to become a minority in your own country.
I'm not far right.
Very few people are. It's a trope foisted by the left, who are all far left these days… i.e. Accuse others of what you're being yourself.
Most so-called far right beliefs are just the same as what was the average mindset of the centre right a few short years ago.
Solution ?
Possibly too late already.
But, for a start, we need politicians who will work for the people of the UK and are not beholden to supra-national organisations.
Voting for the same parties over and over again and expecting a different result, is surely madness?
Loads of MP on both sides of the house are members of The Fabian Society, thus committed to world communism. Yet people vote for them.
The Fabian Society, while broadly socialist in its aims, doesn't explicitly advocate for international socialism in the traditional sense. They are more focused on democratic socialism and reforming existing institutions through gradual, practical means. While they champion international cooperation and institutions for global peace and sustainable development, their primary focus remains on domestic policy and social justice within the UK
That's the official story for those sucking at the teat of the Overton window. But what is it about the wolf in sheep's clothing that you don't understand?
Thank you for your report.
I doubt if any of this is accidental - our civilisation's demolition is by design.
What a pity the majority have no one to represent their interests. Nevertheless, I do hope few will fall for the panacea of 15-minute cities and intrusive surveillance to 'keep us safe.'
I visited a nicer Bournemouth several times, as I have English friends living nearby. By the way, I especially love the superb Russell-Coates gallery. Last time was back in April and, yes, I was saddened by the visible decay. What is to be done? God knows but I recall a saying by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: Panta rei. All things change. 😉
I think that the Major Government's decision to give the polytechnics, and larger institutes of higher education, university status back in the early 1990s was a terrible mistake. I did my first degree at the then Dorset Institute of Higher Education (DIHE) - now Bournemouth University! Back then, they reckoned that the cost of delivering an an undergraduate degree was about 1/3 of that at an Oxbridge College. They had very light administrative overheads. No Professorial Chairs or 'Readers', just Lecturers, Senior Lecturers and heads of departments for the various academic and vocational disciplines. There was only a handful of foreign students back then. The degree programmes were mostly vocational, but there were also a couple of more academically based degrees, that tended to attract local mature students who'd missed out on University when they were young, as well as 18 year olds who'd failed to find a university place through clearing. OK, it was no 'dreaming spires' but I think that the education that I got there was probably superior to that supplied, even by Russell Group universities today (I know this from subsequent attendance at Russell Group universities and my son's recent experience of the same). However, the real strength of DIHE was that it served the local economy and community. The vast majority of students were part time, studying for various professional and vocational qualifications (HNCs etc.), on day release from their employers or in their own time in the evenings. Who does it serve now? I think we know the answer to that from the insightful article that we have been drawn to comment on.
Agreed but I thought it was Maggie Thatcher who decided to give Polys the name of Unis...
The enabling legislation was enacted in 1992, so a good couple of years after she left office. I suppose that some of the ground work could have been done in the latter days her administration, but I don't know for sure 🤷♂️. Someone’s probably done a deep dive on it, somewhere!
It began as a Technical College which I attended in 1961/2. A different world.
Yesterday I ate in the Harvaster at Boscombe Chine. The food was good, the service was good, but the customers!!! Feeding time at the zoo was classy by comparison.
Perhaps...Ex-girl friend of a young friend of mine is a student there.. And she is from Bolivia!