ONE of the most infuriating things in politics is when leaders accuse voters of ‘misinformation’ while simultaneously hiding information from them.
You see it all the time. On mass immigration. On crime. And, as we’ve recently been reminded, on the rape-gangs scandal.
Such is the disdain and contempt with which politicians and civil servants treat ordinary people that rather than be transparent, open, and honest about the information they have, they either conceal it or refuse to collect it.
Some days ago, for example, the Home Office refused to publish information about the number of utterly depraved rape-gang members who have been deported, a policy that was first advocated here.
At the same time, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government have refused to hold a national inquiry into the shocking rape gangs which would yield crucial new information about what is a truly national scandal, especially in areas that have so far escaped scrutiny, no doubt because Labour MPs are terrified about what such an inquiry might find has been going on (is still going on?) in many Labour-held areas.
What all this reflects is a concerted attempt by the elite class, by the British state, to conceal information and data which might challenge or completely undermine what we might call the ‘Officially Approved Narrative’. The narrative which tells you mass immigration is only ever positive, multiculturalism is working just fine, and the people who are imposing these things on everybody else know exactly what they’re doing.
But do they? Do they really? No, suggests a damning new study, the first major investigation of immigration and crime which has tracked down crucial information.
Based on freedom-of-information requests submitted to dozens of police authorities, many of which were sitting on lots of information but refusing to release it, the findings, compiled by the Centre for Migration Control, make grim reading.
Look away now if you are of the ‘diversity is our strength’ mindset. Here are the key findings which underline what is really happening on Britain’s streets:
- Foreign nationals in Britain are more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences as British citizens;
- 9,055 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual offences in the first ten months of last year across England and Wales;
- This works out at a rate of 164.6 per 100,000 of the population, compared with 48 per 100,000 for British people, in other words three and a half times more;
- In London, foreign nationals account for two-thirds(67 per cent) of all sex offence arrests.
- For all crimes, foreign nationals were arrested at twice the rateof Brits;
- Overall, more than 131,000 foreign nationals were arrested in the first ten months of last year;
- While foreigners make up 9 per cent of the population, they account for 16.1 per cent of the total number of arrests;
- Albanians were the most likely to be arrested, followed by Afghans, Iraqis, Algerians and Somalians. There were 48 nationalities with a higher arrest rate per 1,000 of their populations than British suspects;
- Weighted for their respective populations, Albanians had the highest arrest rate at 209.8 arrests per 1,000 of their population followed by Afghans (106.9), Iraqis (92.9), Algerians (72.7), Moroccans (70) and Somalis (64.6). The rate for British suspects was just 12.
What does all this mean? It means that mass immigration isn’t only making you poorer; it’s also making you and your family less safe. That is the key conclusion, even if it does fly in the face of the pro-immigration religion among the elite class.
As many studies in other European nations have similarly found, in Britain immigrants are significantly more likely to be arrested for all crimes and are especially more likely to commit crimes of a sexual nature.
As pointed out in the Telegraph‘s recent crime league tables report, the blunt reality is that last year foreign nationals were arrested at twice the rate of British people, with over 130,000 arrests. That’s quite a number, isn’t it?
While violent crime is by far the most common offence, also noteworthy is the fact that over one quarter of all sexual offence arrests last year were of non-British citizens – and over a third of these were for rape, including victims under the age of 13. Why do we remain such a soft touch on this issue?
Just as astonishing and troubling as the findings is the fact that Britain has not introduced stricter visa protocols on nationalities who are much more likely to engage in crime.
Why is this? If our leaders were serious about keeping the British people safe and secure they would be much tougher when scrutinising applications from the likes of Albania, Afghanistan, and Iraq, compared with those from, say, Western Europe.
Even more remarkable is the utterly depressing fact that Britain does not require every immigrant to show a criminal record certificate, instead relying on a dodgy database shared with other nations. Hundreds of thousands are let into the country without having to submit detailed information about their criminal history. This, too, is utterly bananas.
And then comes the glaring lack of data and information about this issue, which both reflects and reinforces the incompetence of the British state.
As Rob Bates of the Centre for Migration Control rightly notes, if you want information about fashionable topics such as the gender pay gap in public sector institutions, or racial disparities, then you would have endless information at your disposal. Just ask for it and the heavens will open.
But when it comes to more fundamental things, such as how to keep the British people safe and secure in their own country, or how much immigration is costing people through tax, welfare, housing, and more, there is a glaring lack of data. Well, now we know why – because it directly challenges the Officially Approved Narrative.
Put it this way, why is the government not sharing this data and information every six months in a publicly available report? Why is it that Rob Bates has to submit dozens of freedom-of-information requests to police authorities up and down the country? It’s just bonkers, all of it.
Which is why, a few months ago, I launched a national campaign against so-called ‘misinformation’, calling on the government and the state to start collecting and/or releasing information on a range of issues. Since then we’ve undoubtedly had some big successes, with the government and its various departments suddenly releasing all kinds of information – almost as if they know somebody is watching them and campaigning on this issue!
Only a month or so ago we got a load of information about what was going on in prisons and how much all this was costing you, the taxpayer. And now, suddenly, we get all this information about immigration and crime, confirming our suspicions.
Rob Bates tells me that he thinks this campaign and the push for data and information might have encouraged police authorities to play ball. I hope he is right.
Either way, like him we will simply not stop demanding the release of information and data on your behalf and sharing it with the wider British public through our social media channels so that they too can challenge the Officially Approved Narrative. Because you know what? That narrative is increasingly falling apart.
This article was published on Matt Goodwin on January 7, 2024, and is republished by kind permission.
