Another Ticking Time Bomb

Buckinghamshire residents are complaining about asylum seekers watching their children - and the police response is not reassuring.

A police car near Deanshanger Primary School last December.

Yesterday I posted a note about the situation in Deanshanger, a village of 3,817 people on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. Parents there are concerned that asylum seekers living in a local hotel have taken to loitering outside the village primary school, and allegedly filming the school and its pupils on their phones. Given that the headlines are currently dominated by the Southport atrocity and the ongoing rape gang scandal, it’s easy to see why people are worried at having their children stalked by men about whom we know next to nothing.

Northamptonshire Police have swung into action, promising to “deliver some work” and make the denizens of the hotel aware of “different cultural expectations” in this country. However, it’s clear they’re not taking it too seriously. Sergeant Lorna Clarke says she’s spoken to local residents and sent officers to the hotel, but hasn’t found any evidence that offences have taken place or identified a risk to anyone. Another spokesman for the force said that because none of the asylum seekers has been identified as having committed an offence, none of them have been questioned. They also said “community rumours” about the migrants filming at the school haven’t been confirmed.

Locals Are Worried

This is obviously completely unsatisfactory. I spent an hour doing some open source research this afternoon and I’ve identified the hotel the migrants are staying in; it’s the MK Hotel on Buckingham Road, and it’s a half-mile walk from the school. Locals say men from the hotel have been loitering outside the school at drop-off and pick-up time every day since September. Something is motivating these men to walk a mile to the school and back, every day, all through autumn and winter. Why are they willing to brave cold winds and rain to stand outside a school and film other people’s children? No legitimate answer springs to mind - and that in itself means it’s at least a possibility that the migrants do pose a risk.

As for the “community rumours” about filming not having been confirmed, have the police actually tried to confirm them? Have they identified the men alleged to have been loitering at the school and checked their phones for suspicious footage? As they admit they haven’t even questioned anyone, I somehow doubt it.

It’s possible Northamptonshire Police actually do realise the behaviour of these illegal immigrants - and that’s what they are; all those housed at the MK Hotel entered Britain illegally on small boats - is a threat. They say they’ve had “an enhanced patrol pattern” in the village for the last three months, and will be posting officers outside the school “at key times”. Why do that if there’s no danger?

Local people firmly believe there is a danger. Deanshanger Primary School is keeping children away from the field that separates the school from the hotel, and has also told parents to be on their guard. Some parents have taken their children out of school. Other locals are avoiding the park opposite the school, which has become a popular hangout for the migrants. One woman apologetically said “It’s not nice to not trust them”, but then admitted she doesn’t feel safe around them.

The behaviour of these illegal immigrants, and Northamptonshire Police’s bland denials that there’s a problem, should set alarm bells ringing. This is exactly the same culture of official complacency that let Axel Rudakubana slaughter three young girls. It’s exactly the same refusal to confront the threat of “different cultural expectations” which allowed Pakistani rape gangs to brutalise and exploit thousands of British girls. And if a girl from Deanshanger Primary School is found being abused in a room at the MK Hotel - or dead under one of the bushes that line the migrants’ route to the school - we’ll see exactly the same refusal to accept responsibility for what this terrifying indifference to the dangers of multiculturalism has done.

The immediate priority here, obviously, is to protect the children of Deanshanger from the potential risk posed by these stalky newcomers. However, that shouldn’t obscure the need to protect all our villages against the consequences of illegal immigration. I’m not sure how many migrants are housed at the MK Hotel; its website doesn’t say how many rooms it has, and repeated attempts to phone them were met with a recorded message that says “The number you are calling is not being answered”. However, photos of the hotel suggest it has 48 rooms, give or take a couple. Assuming two to a room that makes just short of a hundred people being accommodated there.

Deanshanger isn’t a big place and it doesn’t have a lot of amenities. Adding a hundred young men with “different cultural expectations” was always going to be massively disruptive for the community. There’s nothing in the village for these men, and they bring nothing to the village that it wants. This isn’t an isolated case of migrants being dumped on a small village, either. In fact it isn’t even the worst. Standish, a town of 13,000 near Wigan, was plagued by 270 migrants in a local hotel who quickly became notorious for following women along its streets while clutching at their own genitals. When residents dared to complain about this, the Home Office punished them by taking over another local hotel and filling it with hundreds more asylum seekers. Officials tried to put 400 illegal immigrants in a Welsh village of 1,500 people which has one shop and no GP, although furious locals managed to force the council to reject the plan. In 2022 the Home Office wanted to swamp Linton-On-Ouse, a tiny Yorkshire community of just 700 people, with fifteen hundred illegals, who would have outnumbered residents by more than two to one. Luckily that plan, too, was fought off by locals.

We Must End Asylum Hotels

I have no idea why the Home Office is so obsessed with flooding small, often isolated villages with young men who don’t have anything constructive to do and suffer from “different cultural expectations”. Perhaps they want to force rural people to experience the wonders of diversity and multiculturalism, whether they want to or not. Quite frankly, though, it’s madness. Keeping asylum seekers in hotels is insane anyway - and as it’s costing us £5.4 million a day it’s a very expensive piece of insanity - but imposing them on small towns and villages just makes it even worse.

If people enter this country illegally, they should not be allowed to roam around freely until they have been thoroughly vetted and their own countries have proved they don’t have a criminal record. Hotels are not an adequate solution to this. We have military engineers who are perfectly capable of quickly building facilities to detain these people. It would take a matter of days for an engineer regiment to knock up a centre that could hold a thousand or so people in warm, safe huts, with on-site catering and other facilities - and surrounded by a nice secure fence. And there’s no need for it to be anywhere near a town, let alone a primary school.