Another day, another rant by lefty loudmouth James O’Brien. Today LBC’s eviscerator-in-chief has decided to take issue with Labour’s decision to publish migrant crime league tables, fuming that ‘I don’t know what else this is designed to do but to feed hatred’ before demanding: ‘Are they going to publish the fact that the massive majority of crimes in this country are committed by non-foreigners?’ Talk about missing the point…
Home Office Yvette Cooper has instructed government officials to publish the first detailed breakdown of offences committed by foreign criminals in the UK while they await deportation. The upcoming data dump will help shed light on some of the worst foreign offenders for crimes like violence, robbery and drug dealing – and the figures will reveal which nationalities are overrepresented in the crime stats. Digging by the Ministry of Justice has suggested that Afghans and Eritreans were over 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens and as
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