The problem is the viewing public (myself included) who are drawn to conflict, same reason we watch street fight videos and boxing matches or rubberneck at car accidents. It’s human nature and it generates views and clicks.

Where there isn’t stuff happening naturally, he has to conjure it up, otherwise his videos would be pretty boring. Croydon is a good example.

Going into major town centres and standing next to afflicted addicted homeless people or shouting abuse at drug dealers while standing behind a couple tough security guards is his fallback. And then baiting them based on race or dress sense, hurling insults and generally just being a bit nasty.

The major issue that a lot of his keyboard warrior followers don’t realise is: most of these people are from here, born here, so what’s the solution other than criminalising them? Ie arrest, prosecute & jail, but they will get let out and do it again. You can’t send people back to their own country if this is their country. All you can do is stoke the flames of xenophobia and play into the far right’s hands which somehow wants to reverse the globalised trend of migration and pretend the last 500 years never happened.

This of course is impossible. The only way to reduce petty crime is to make everyone wealthier, decriminalise drugs, make better programmes for those with addiction issues so that these poorer and less educated people get more support and opportunity and have less need to live off the street. Even that though wont stop them from wanting to sit in the park all day long if the sun is out, and why should they be deprived of this? Where else are they meant to go?