I am sure it has not escaped anybodies notice that many of the claims made about immigration today echo claims being made back in the days of JTR, even about people from the same areas of Eastern Europe. Fagan, it seems is still alive and well.
Of course, the crime figures are skewed. The attention grabbing headlines are based on flawed data (taking any "non-White" answer as "foreign" for example in one case, and one widely reported comparisson is between a full years data and a partial years data (amazing, more crimes occured in a year than in six months!). The Five Chinese Crackers blog is a great place to start reading up on this area.
The biggest complaints I hear, especially of benefit fraud, can be easily made against an awful lot of Brits. It is not immigration that is the issue, it the system as a whole. Fix holes in the system that allow for increased benefit fraud, violent crime, and so forth, and you will stop the problems over all. Concentrate on immigration too heavily and you will remove the scapegoat then (as history has shown many times over) still been left with the problem.
But I'm a nandy pamby left of centre liberal, so what would I know.
Of course, the crime figures are skewed. The attention grabbing headlines are based on flawed data (taking any "non-White" answer as "foreign" for example in one case, and one widely reported comparisson is between a full years data and a partial years data (amazing, more crimes occured in a year than in six months!). The Five Chinese Crackers blog is a great place to start reading up on this area.
The biggest complaints I hear, especially of benefit fraud, can be easily made against an awful lot of Brits. It is not immigration that is the issue, it the system as a whole. Fix holes in the system that allow for increased benefit fraud, violent crime, and so forth, and you will stop the problems over all. Concentrate on immigration too heavily and you will remove the scapegoat then (as history has shown many times over) still been left with the problem.
But I'm a nandy pamby left of centre liberal, so what would I know.
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