A two-and-a-half minute social media rant about a seaside town has upset residents.

TikTok contributor Phil Carr posted his views about Sheerness on the channel last week and within two days it had been seen 100,000 times and had notched up 12,000 likes.

The 38-year-old dad-of-one who had previously called-out the whole of Kent for "mutating Covid" and "ruining Christmas for the entire country" has now turned his attention to the Isle of Sheppey.

In a tongue-in-cheek post, the angry commentator promises: "Today, I am ready to fix bayonets and go over the top."

He describes Sheerness as "probably the most dangerous place in the whole of the south east" after flashing up crime statistics and goes on: "Everyone knows that Kent is the most dangerous home county but Sheerness seems to be the most dangerous actual town."

He illustrates this with a photograph of the M&A Bait and Tackle fishing shop, which has rifles for sale in its window, and cuts to a shot of the "moody mermaid mural" in Beachfields who has her hand on a plunger ready to blow up the wreck of the American bomb ship SS Richard Montgomery.

He then turns his attention to Sheerness holiday park.

"Who stays here? I don't know. I assume either UFC fighters in training or gangsters from London who have come down here to lie low," he muses.

He also singles out the docks.

"Of course it's got docks. All crime capitals have docks. Just look at any Mafia film," he says. As the camera pans to a cargo ship, he adds: "I don't know what's on that ship. I'm guessing drugs."

Showing photographs of a deserted High Street he insists: "It is clear this is a town rife with lawlessness.

"The lawlessness continues at the seafront where there are even rules for collecting shellfish. You can't take more than 5kg, you can only collect certain types and you can't exchange them for money, products or services. That sounds a little bit seedy."

In his most withering comment, he adds: "Most people think the Isle of Sheppey is a prison colony. But it's far worse than that."

However, at the end of the video, he stumbles across Whelan's garden gnome factory in Blue Town.

"Does Sheerness have any redeeming features?" he asks and replies: "Well, yes, this concrete garden ornament store. I quite like it. It's impressive. Yes, it reminds me of a scene from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe but it's mesmerising.

"I think we have finally found something that Kent is good at - concrete garden ornaments. Well done Kent, keep going with it."

Andre Whelan, who runs the ornament factory, admitted: "I've had 20 to 30 calls as a result of the video claiming we have saved the Island and asking if we are still open and where we are."

But he added: "I may have liked the end bit but I was not at all pleased with the rest of what he said. He's not a nice man. The Island means the world to me. We get enough bad comments without people like him."

Phil Crowder, who chairs the Sheerness Town Team, whose volunteers battle to improve the town's image, refused to comment.

He said: "The best thing is to ignore people like this. I don't want to give him the oxygen of publicity. It's exactly the sort of publicity we can do without. The people who live here know the truth."

Mr Carr, who lives near Epsom in Surrey and began his TikTok rants during the first Covid-19 lockdown, said: "I post about towns everywhere.

"I've been to Sheppey twice before, once for work and once for a wedding.

"It just happened that it was the turn of Sheerness. All my posts come from a place of comedy and love. Some people just can't deal with jokes."

He admitted: "I did a little research using Wikipedia but to be fair, Sheerness surprised me. It was all right and in a much better state than Chatham town centre which is very stressed and looking like the last days of Rome."

He has previously accused Canterbury of building its cathedral 40 years ago to cash in on tourists.