Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Tory MP Matt Vickers is trying to blame Labour for the Middlesbrough tragedies and Cleveland’s crime crisis. After 14 years in power, is that seriously the argument?Two Cleveland Police officers were killed on the A66. A woman and her 7-year-old niece died in a Grangetown house fire. Extra officers have been drafted into Teesside. And a Conservative MP is pointing at the new government instead of the record that got us here.In this video I break down Matt Vickers’ comments on Cleveland crime, police resources, and why communities say they are living in fear of organised crime. He talks about a force that has churned through chief constables, weak funding growth, and officer numbers that never recovered the way the headlines claimed.
Then I put that against 14 years of Conservative government: police cuts, the collapse of community policing, and austerity that stripped youth services while social care swallowed council budgets.Middlesbrough is being called the UK crime capital outside London. That did not appear overnight. When you cut the services that keep young people occupied and leave neighbourhoods without visible policing, gangs fill the gap. The crimes themselves are never justified — but pretending this started last year is political amnesia.
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Tory MP Matt Vickers is trying to blame Labour for the Middlesbrough tragedies and Cleveland’s crime crisis. After 14 years in power, is that seriously the argument?Two Cleveland Police officers were killed on the A66. A woman and her 7-year-old niece died in a Grangetown house fire. Extra officers have been drafted into Teesside. And a Conservative MP is pointing at the new government instead of the record that got us here.In this video I break down Matt Vickers’ comments on Cleveland crime, police resources, and why communities say they are living in fear of organised crime. He talks about a force that has churned through chief constables, weak funding growth, and officer numbers that never recovered the way the headlines claimed.
Then I put that against 14 years of Conservative government: police cuts, the collapse of community policing, and austerity that stripped youth services while social care swallowed council budgets.Middlesbrough is being called the UK crime capital outside London. That did not appear overnight. When you cut the services that keep young people occupied and leave neighbourhoods without visible policing, gangs fill the gap. The crimes themselves are never justified — but pretending this started last year is political amnesia.
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