Andy Burnham confronted live on @LBC by an angry local over the plan to house over 1,200 young migrant men at the barracks near Piddington. Ex-forces Steve from Upper Arncott told him his kids are worried, and so are plenty of other children, about whether they can still walk to the park. Women and young girls are worried about walking around at all. “Why are you not listening to the villagers? And also why are you allowing 1,200 single males to wander around, unsupervised and not monitored?” “They should be confined to the barracks. Why are they not going to be?” Burnham said he has to do it to get people out of hotels, and that he does listen: “I do listen and I have been asking questions of the Home Office about the precise arrangements related this particular location.” He said he has to deal with it in a way that’s “fair to everywhere”. Then the usual: crossings are down, returns are up. Then the answer that actually matters. He won’t do anything: “I am looking at those issues but I wouldn’t want to give you the impression today that it can simply be cancelled because we’re not in that position.” So despite the lip service to local concerns, he won’t take any action. At a minimum he could make sure they are monitored and confined to the barracks, exactly as Steve said. He could do that. He’s CHOOSING not to. What country have we become where young children can’t go to the park because the government is deliberately dumping 1,200 strangers right there? It’s scandalous.