Quote Originally Posted by ninian opinian View Post
Thanhs for posting the links. Good articles.

Here’s another interesting article from Fraser Nelson.

https://frasernelson.substack.com/p/...ing-of-britain

Even he has a go at the populist right (freaky Feedy won’t like that).

Interesting stats on how despite immigration increasing violent crime is down, though you’d never think so based on some of the comments on this thread by the usual suspects.
there is a lot to take in there, and caution should be given when reviewing the data as there are lots of gaps. However, saying that, assuming the underlying data is correct, its pretty compelling and points to a society that is getting better overall (under both Labour, then Tory then Labour again), although I'm not sure what happened between Oct 1999 and Oct 2005 in respect of murders, but there was a serious spike.

Given the evidence I can't see how Farage and the rest of Reform could put together a case that (non-white) immigration is coterminous with increases in crime (an lets face it it is about non-white immigration, not immigration per se).

JD Vance is just an agent provocateur and can be ignored.

Its a sorry episode really, and making political capital out of this young lads death is Farage stirring the pot and nothing more. I'm hopeful that many of his Reform supporters will see jus how dangerous this party is, and we'll see soon enough in the Makerfield by election if this politicking has any effect on popular support.