Two things which should be considered (which I doubt have been).Murder rate 1948 0.47/100,000
Murder rate 2010 1.23/100,000
(Wiki)
Bear in mind today's trauma care is very much better than it was in 1948! IE the "Effective" murder rate by 1948 standards is actually very much higher than 1.23! possibly by as much as an order of magnitude more (I wonder if anybody has actually done a study?? It would be most interesting)
Oh, and every schoolboy had a knife (And a fair few school girls too! My Mother had a great sheath knife which she was very good at throwing!) Nobody got stabbed! just do a web search for "Playground knife games" (Many were popular even in the 70's-before the rot set in!)
It was pretty idylic wasn't it! Despite the levels of poverty that modern crime apologists couldn't even conceive of! :/
1. Vastly different methods of detection & ease of reporting.
2. The changing definition of what constitutes murder.
Simply put, comparing historical crime in which detection rates differed significantly from today's standards provides a meaningless statistic.
Utter rubbish."Facist" is like "Racist"! It is an "Alice in Wonderland" word that means whatever the person using it wants it to mean and is simply a generic tool used by the left for attempting to intimidate its opposition into silence.
It is actually a very dirty tactic and relies on exploiting the fact that the people it is used against are actually somewhat "Nicer" than the people using it!
(The other one is <Stuff>Phobia. Again by using a pseudo-medical expression the idea is to imply that people who do not share the Lefts world view are in fact suffering from some sort of mental illness. Similar to the old Soviet strategy whereby dissenters would be put in lunatic asylums!)
For two key reasons.
1. A large number of people on here who are criticising UKIP actually vote Conservative (Who are not left wing).
2. The people who are on the political left don't have the same objections to other right wing political parties (IE, the Conseravatives).
These two things somewhat undermine your premise that the only reason UKIP are being attacked is because of some left-wing conspiracy. The reason UKIP are being attacked so viciously is because a notable population of it's voters & councillors keep saying racist, sexist, anti-disabled & homophobic things.
I disagree with a large number of right-wing voters on this forum on numerous issues & have never implied or thought they were racist.
Ironically, the very users on here who do have a history of making stupid, offensive, homophobic or racist comments are out in force declaring support for UKIP.
This leads back to what I said beforehand, while UKIP may not it'self be racist, it appeals to them (which the rest of the population is rightfully sceptical as to why that is).
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