Election Year or Fear!

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

I identify as a female water buffalo, so don't drag me into your poorly reflected group

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I self identify as a billionaire. An angry one, at that. The damned bank won't give me my money. ;)

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Originally Posted by ramAnag

Tricky, I don’t ‘bash Tories’…I may often disagree with the decent ones but in a constructive way. For the record, I do dislike what the Tory Party has become over recent times and I do detest the extreme Right.

What Swale ‘calls’ you has got absolutely nothing to do with me. He has his ways, I have mine…we often agree politically…we sometimes engage in unnecessarily angry disagreement about DCFC…end of.

You seem to have a sudden liking for figures so here’s some which I hope will provide a perspective for you.

At the moment an estimated 6.5% of the population are Muslim which of course means that 93.5% are not. I know it seems different in places like Tower Hamlets and Bradford because of the inclination for cultural communities (Chinese, Jewish, British ex pats abroad and Muslims etc) to group together…but the fact is, just 6.5% of the UK’s population is Muslim.

In 2020 the Centre of Expertise on Child S@xual Abuse reported that 89% of offenders are White, 6% are Asian and 3% are Black.

You may not like the figures above but feel free to have them fact checked.

Btw…statistics also show that 99% of child abusers are male. By your recent logic that doesn’t reflect too well on you, me or the rest of this forum does it?

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Sorry RA, but is seems that what Andy was trying to point out to you earlier, you choose to ignore.
If I was to take your figures of 89% white offenders, then I can well believe it, though the figures I have seen banded about are 10 years + out of date . But if you apply the demographics of population/per crime, then it falls down.
Do the figures collate that way in London/Birmigham/Leicester/Bradford/Oldham/Rotherham? No they don't.
If you want, perhaps you'd like to apply that, to the rape figures across the whole country?

As of 2024- According to Office for National Statistics, the makeup of ethnic groups are: 87.1% White, 7.0% Asian, 3.0% Black, 2.0% Mixed and 0.9% others.

White & Black African. White & Asian. Currently, there are 8,106 male *** offenders in the prisons of England and Wales6. Of this group, 81.9% are White; 9.9% are Black/Black British; 5.6% are Asian/Asian British; and 2.2 are Other/mixed (the ethnicity of 0.4% is not recorded).

What you are avoiding is-
1. how many of these rapists/*** offenders have we imported?
2. How many targetted specific groups of ethnicity for victims?

It doesn't make good reading, where mass immigration concerned and the electorate know it.

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Originally Posted by ramAnag

‘How can you judge anything that you don’t even watch/read?’ - followed five lines later by - ‘I stopped watching Question Time, because of their panel bias leaning.’ Classic. :D

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Errrrm, no it isn't. It is perfectly relevent. If it is so biased, why watch it?
Here, 4 against 1 and he wasn't wrong was he in what he said, before Brexit.
But the left/ leberals couldn't have dreamed of how right 1 man was, on such a biased panel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-3...l=Libertymedia

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Originally Posted by Trickytreesreds

Sorry RA, but is seems that what Andy was trying to point out to you earlier, you choose to ignore.
If I was to take your figures of 89% white offenders, then I can well believe it, though the figures I have seen banded about are 10 years + out of date . But if you apply the demographics of population/per crime, then it falls down.
Do the figures collate that way in London/Birmigham/Leicester/Bradford/Oldham/Rotherham? No they don't.
If you want, perhaps you'd like to apply that, to the rape figures across the whole country?

As of 2024- According to Office for National Statistics, the makeup of ethnic groups are: 87.1% White, 7.0% Asian, 3.0% Black, 2.0% Mixed and 0.9% others.

White & Black African. White & Asian. Currently, there are 8,106 male *** offenders in the prisons of England and Wales6. Of this group, 81.9% are White; 9.9% are Black/Black British; 5.6% are Asian/Asian British; and 2.2 are Other/mixed (the ethnicity of 0.4% is not recorded).

What you are avoiding is-
1. how many of these rapists/*** offenders have we imported?
2. How many targetted specific groups of ethnicity for victims?

It doesn't make good reading, where mass immigration concerned and the electorate know it.

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Not ‘my’ figures, Tricky…as I made perfectly clear…and ‘your’ ONS figures for four years later are very similar.

I’m not avoiding anything, I don’t know the answers to what you’re asking…and neither do you.

Neither did I ‘choose to ignore’ Andy…my initial point was that I do ‘choose to ignore GBNews’ because, by looking at the contributors and the rationale behind it I know exactly what their agenda is.

So if you don't like the expected answer, you don't ask the question? How very regressive. That suggests you only want to hear thoughts that endorse your own. Happy to sit in your own circle of mutual admiration?

Sorry to say but that degree of narrow mindedness doesn't seem to accord with being a teacher.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

So if you don't like the expected answer, you don't ask the question? How very regressive. That suggests you only want to hear thoughts that endorse your own. Happy to sit in your own circle of mutual admiration?

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Yup, to have a balanced view you HAVE to listen to folks you don’t agree with (or even understand). Woman’s hour a great example, gives me a better perspective on things albeit some of the stuff they discuss is beyond bonkers

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

So if you don't like the expected answer, you don't ask the question? How very regressive. That suggests you only want to hear thoughts that endorse your own. Happy to sit in your own circle of mutual admiration?

Sorry to say but that degree of narrow mindedness doesn't seem to accord with being a teacher.

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Oh not the ‘kin teacher thing again…please!

‘Narrow minded’, ‘circle of mutual admiration’…no idea how you reach those conclusions. I choose not to watch GB News or read ‘The Sun’ because I trust neither of them. Perhaps you do…that’s your choice.

I don’t read books by authors I don’t like either…or listen to music by bands I don’t enjoy. Is that so strange? Guilty as charged.

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Originally Posted by ramAnag

I don’t listen to music by bands I don’t enjoy. Is that so strange? Guilty as charged.

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But that’s a false analogy, you’re analogising deciding you don’t like a band because you don’t like the look of them and then telling folk how bad they are without ever visiting their catalogue

I trust no media, but tend to absorb all points of view and then draw my own conclusions.

"I don’t read books by authors I don’t like either…or listen to music by bands I don’t enjoy."

Nor do I, necessarily, but I don't stand up on my back legs and tell people that the books I haven't read or music I haven't listened to is ****.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

I trust no media, but tend to absorb all points of view and then draw my own conclusions.

"I don’t read books by authors I don’t like either…or listen to music by bands I don’t enjoy."

Nor do I, necessarily, but I don't stand up on my back legs and tell people that the books I haven't read or music I haven't listened to is ****.

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Neither do I…but I find I’m able to ‘absorb all points of view and then draw my own conclusions’ without subscribing to either of the two media outlets mentioned. My choice.