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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.'
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 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.
DECADES AGO Mark Steyn, in multiple books, essays, and speeches, told the English EXACTLY what would happen if they continued importing unassimilable 3rd world Mohammadans. You didn’t listen. And now you have lost your civilization.
A fool and his lovely high trust society are soon parted.
How’s that “refugees welcome” virtue signaling going?
you’ve lost your civilization, and it was a deliberate choice. That is, except for the British children whose civilizational inheritance was thrown away without their consent.
Great read. I would be tempted to write a similar article for Aberdeen, Scotland. But not sure you want too much despair in your paper.
Its everywhere. Same agenda, same destruction and theft, same ugliness.
Its not a coincidence. Its a war.
That bad?
It’s like Bornemouth in that it was 95% White until the Boriswave, and because it has two unis the city centre is less than 60% White British.
Then also add to the disastrous green policies destroying its oil industry. It’s a neat encapsulation of everything gone wrong in Britain.
I left in 2011. I won't be back but it saddens me to read that.
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.
We can't literally fight of course, but we can vote for those who will .
Solution ?
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.
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.
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 think you mean the ‘disbenefit’ .
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.
We can’t even retire in peace.
An entirely predictable consequence of importing 3rd world savages.
I lived here and Poole for nearly 40 years. This article is spot on. Bournemouth has been punished by the left.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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 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 ?
DECADES AGO Mark Steyn, in multiple books, essays, and speeches, told the English EXACTLY what would happen if they continued importing unassimilable 3rd world Mohammadans. You didn’t listen. And now you have lost your civilization.
A fool and his lovely high trust society are soon parted.
How’s that “refugees welcome” virtue signaling going?
The problem isn’t Muslims, it’s third world migrants of any faith, whether Christian, Muslim, or Hindu.
I’ll tell the underage girls of Rotherham, they’ll be relieved to know they only imagined the Muslims raping them.
That’s far from the only significant problem we face because of our current & past policy choices
you’ve lost your civilization, and it was a deliberate choice. That is, except for the British children whose civilizational inheritance was thrown away without their consent.
Yes, and migration of all sorts, whether Indian or Nigerian, is part of that process you’re rightly criticising
You are correct Dr.
I had this article written when I read your excellent analysis. It was stacked for publication this morning. https://ericsandelands.substack.com/p/safeguarding-bournemouth