The BBC is absolutely determined to blame all the ills of the world upon the Brexit vote.
Today it descends to the gutter with a highly misleading claim in this report in which even the heading is politicised linking all hate crime to Brexit….
Hate crime ‘still far too high’ post-Brexit – police
The opening paragraph is meant to deceive…
More than 6,000 hate crimes have been reported to police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the wake of the EU referendum, figures show.
So there have been 6,000 hate crimes because of the Brexit referendum then? There’s no other way of reading that opening claim is there?
But it’s just not true…..6,000 is the total but hate crimes are only up 20% on last year…and one week’s worth of the figures was pre-Brexit…the BBC eventually goes on to reveal the truth after its dramatic opening…..
[The] overall level was up 20% on the same period in July 2015.
There were 3,192 alleged hate crimes reported between 16-30 June this year and a further 3,001 reports between 1 and 14 July – equivalent to more than 200 every day, updated figures show.
So 6,193 hate crimes in total, 20% of which is 1238, say 40 a day hate crimes more than in the previous year…and the numbers are now going down…and note that 1700 or so of the crimes were committed pre-Brexit…not ‘in the wake of the EU referendum’.
40 more a day…and of those how many are ‘looks’ in the street, Tweets, other minor abuses, how many are in fact false, made up ones…quite a few I imagine….Was that arson attack on a Halal butchers that the BBC highlights really an attack or an insurance scam? How many of those hate crimes were directed at ‘foreigners’? How may were directed at whites and Jews? Let’s have a breakdown of the figures BBC.
Essentially we have a few more hate crimes of varying levels of seriousness and an unknown number attributable to any post Brexit effect….and how many can be due to, as the police insisted on the Today programme a while back[and determinedly ignored by Mishal Husain], more awareness of the need to report and how to report? How much of the rise is due to Muslim ‘lawfare’ in which Islamist activists try to catch the headlines with tales of Muslims being abused?
The BBC is deliberately misleading us with its interpretation of the figures….of the 6,000 one week’s worth of that figure was from the pre-vote period and the remaining three week’s figures were not all ‘in the wake of’ Brexit…only a 20% rise in the figures might be attributable to a post-Brexit effect…and of that much could be down to a greater willingness to report and some politically motivated, malicious claims who opportunistically jump on the anti-Brexit bandwagon.
Some perspective that might suggest the BBC’s dramatisation of the recent figures is all about manufacturing an anti-Brexit atmosphere…so hate crimes went up 20% post-Brexit…what about this?….explain this away….
From October 2015…..
Hate crimes reported to police up 18% in England and Wales
And this…
Figures reveal a ‘shocking’ rise in homophobic hate crimes
Overall, there was a 15 per cent increase in reports of racially motivated crime, a 43 per cent rise in religious-motivated crime and a 25 per cent increase in hate crime targeting the disabled. Hate crimes involving those with transgender identity went up by 9 per cent.
And did you know that hate crime went up 700% in Cumbria? From 2 to 16 crimes. Statistics eh?
Oh yes…religious hate crime? A mere 6%…and a good part of that [around 1000, over 30%] will be against Jews. So why do we hear so much about Muslims? How many Jews in the UK? 300,000 odd. How many Muslims? Just under 3 million. Even if the remaining 2000 crimes were against Muslims that seems somewhat disproportionate. For every 300 Jews one crime, for every 1500 Muslims one crime. So who is under attack? And of course many ‘Muslim’ hate crimes are in fact intra-Muslim hate crimes….Sunnis, Shias and Ahmadis.