robgmun said:
700 crimes are committed everyday
No, not even Breitbart claims that. They never included a daily figure, since making that up would push even their flimsy editorial policy too far. The overall crime rates, even under the new recording standard, have fallen by 8%!
"REPORT: Over 700 UK Crimes A Week Are Committed By EU Migrants"
"The bulk of the convictions involved Polish and Romanian migrants who accounted for almost 17,000 offences.
Migration restrictions on citizens from Romania and Bulgaria were lifted in 2014. Lithuanians were convicted of 6,249 offences"
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/17/eu-migrant-crime-up-40-per-cent-700-offences-every-week/
Another good reason to leave this **** they call the EU
To add to what Freakbro said (though I think at a glance he may need to double check his multiplication in some places)
, we are still talking about close to the realms of rounding error.
Note the article does not specify two important things: the source of Leave.EU figures and categories of crime; it also commits a typical journo fail of taking a statistic and evenly dividing their headline figure into 52 weeks of the year. Which is of course both misleading and wrong. If they don't have weekly figures at hand, they shouldn't assume them or make them up on the spot. I lol at the link they post to the 'source' which just takes you the Leave.eu landing page -- fail!
Now, taking a look at the ONS data for England & Wales (thus being even more generous by including more population and more crimes) up to June 2015... we find that out of Poles + Romanian migrant population we get a grand stonking ratio of... wait for it... wait for it... 0.57% of
all recorded crime!!! Jesus wept, we're doomed... doomed, I tell you! Send them all back!
Again, if we assume as Breitbart does that all crime distributed uniformly across E&W, say per council region, (which again would be the high tide of incompetency) the ratio basically vanishes. :\
Plus what media hates to account for when they attack whole demographics, is how police counts crimes, and what constitutes an offence serious enough for the Home Office to deport someone.
Serious criminals are prosecuted, and are deported as per our standard protocol. When they flee to or from Europe, we have the European arrest warrant and a continent-wide police service + our resources to track them down, and make their life very difficult indeed.
robgmun said:
Well they're behaving so extremely left wing to the point they're making China look centralist!
Tbf, Rob, under what I gather is your definition of the left, Thatcher would be classed as a Cuban guerilla fighter in the swinging sixties.