BREXIT racism ? violent attacks up, in aeroplane rage figures.

They have changed the criteria on what is classed as a hate crime.

Reporting is massively up (blame mobiles and social media)
and the definition of "crimes" (esp so-called hate crimes) has widened to ridiculous proportions.

I'll let you boys know when this all blows over and you can get your heads out from that sand eh?

ahh breitbart.

Porcupine you do realise that all these stories about increases in hate crime and incidents is merely relate to an increase in reports which without an idea of convictions is pretty meaningless?

ps   sorry it is already happening

It is remarkable the head in the sand brigade on here. Regardless of whether Brexit is overall a good thing or not, it's totally obvious that one of the results was going to be a more divisive society in which racist incidents were going to increase. It's happening whether you want to admit it or not.

I've seen it with my own eyes and friends of mine have experienced it. It's been widely reported too.

Anecdotal asparagus. It hasn't been reported. What has been reported is that there has been increase in reports of hate crime to police.

Britain's most senior police officer has alluded to a spike in "hate crime" over the summer of 2016 because of the UK's decision to leave the European Union after the 23 June referendum. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said the majority of those targeted were Eastern Europeans.

According to figures gathered by the mayor's office, there were 2,300 race hate-related incidents in the London in the 38 days following EU Referendum. In the 38 days beforehand, there had been 1,400 incidents. The figures showed that in the 12 months to August 2016, there had been a 16% rise in reported hate crimes.

Speaking at London's City Hall, Hogan-Howe said: "We saw this horrible spike after Brexit. We couldn't say it was absolutely down to Brexit, although there was obviously a spike after it."

Hogan-Howe said it appeared at least some of the hate crime incidents were linked to the EU referendum because alleged assailants referred to the vote.

He added that many of those attacked were of eastern European nationality, with more attacks on Polish people than on all other nationalities put together.

The death of Polish national Arkadiusz Jóźwik on 29 August, two days after being attacked in Harlow, has been widely condemned and is being treated by Essex Police as a hate crime.

Two Polish men were attacked in the town hours after a vigil for the dead man in the town on 3 September. Six people are on bail in connection with the killing and two Polish police officers went to patrol in the town with local police in an effort to reassure the local Polish community.

District commander Chief Inspector Alan Ray said the two Polish officers had "been well received by all members of the community. They are helping us engage in particular with members of the Polish community who do not speak English as their first language."

Since the referendum, there have also been attacks on a Polish community centre in London, while anti-Polish flyers were distributed in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Prime Minister Theresa May told her Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo that "hate crime has no place in UK society." The Home Office is putting in place a new Hate Crime Action Plan to tackle the problem.


Now, you'd have thought the most senior police officer in the country confirming what everyone knows - that racial hate crimes have risen since the referendum - would make the news in some way. Don't worry, I've checked for you. I've looked on the websites of the Telegraph, the Mail and the Express and guess what...not a sausage. Breitbart - bless their racist cotton socks - managed to have an article on their site yesterday still claiming there were no spikes at all.

As an aside, the express does have an article today (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/715612/refugees-hate-crime-africa-race-migrants-immigrants-cambridge-stickers-romsey-recreation) about stickers in Cambridge telling immigrants to go back to Africa.


Thanks for reading, now you can all go back and dig another little hole in the sand just big enough for your heads.

Japan, Indonesia, Iran, Rwanda, China, Russia, France, Argentina??..

Now how civilised are Polish policemen? i don`t know.

Watergate dosn`t bother me Porcupine

Neither does people getting physically abused by the looks of it.

Freedom of expression is the biggest amount of horsesh!t around. It doesn't exist. I can't just call you a racist, a paedophile etc etc. Likewise I can't incite others to do the same. It's against the law. Freedom of expression doesn't trump the law from those expressions being clearly wrong or dangerous.

As for IF there's a spike. Seriously? If? Maybe it was due to the influx of ladybirds round June eh? Jesus, I think your hole needs to be a bit deeper.

I'd agree Donny, I think there was an increase in the build up. Stands to reason, you have so much focus on "how much better would our country be with fewer foreigners" in it and building up to Nige's Breaking Point poster. I do think though there has been a spike since. A sense that suddenly it's become legitimate to use terms and be generally abusive in such a way that wasn't permissible previously.

May says she will get us a good deal before we leave, but that is exactly what she won't get, because the rest of the EU
do not want us to leave.

So what happens if she cannot get us a good deal, will the referendum be honoured, our leaving is already being delayed a year, until late next year?

Apart from y'know the violence - foreigners being killed, young lads being beaten up, my wife being told to go back home when on the train (erm, she was) - then I've got to say it's a really interesting time. The whole fall out from this is fascinating in terms of who will win out and how good a deal we manage to negotiate and what happens next if it looks like we're getting the sh!tty end of the stick. Then, there's what's happening over the pond. It could all end up being catastrophic, but really interesting all the same.