Election Year or Fear!

[swaledale]

Out of interest, not antagonism, what are you suggesting ‘people with an entrenched view’ regard as the ‘bigger problem’?

Ah now your asking a question which is multi faceted RA! if one breaks it down a little, then broadly speaking there are those who are for whatever reason, basically xenophobic, racist and to judge from recent research misogynistic and prone to abusing women and children, who see the problem as immigration end of.

There are those who feel let down, fed up with their circumstances in life, feel mistreated by governments over lack of services and look for a simple answer or scapegoat for their troubles and happen upon immigration as a handy reason. The so called "red wall" areas are a case in point, in many the proportion of the population that are not white British is 1% or less, yet still they claim lack of access to health, dentists, housing etc. etc. is down to immigration. Clacton being a prima facia example of this.

Then you have the "respectable middle class" generally over 50 age group who aren't necessarily racist or xenophobic in nature, but feel uncomfortable with the changes in society (often not actually directly affecting them), have a rose tinted view of what life was life back in those "good old" days and somehow ascribe immigration as one of the main reasons for this, rather than the inevitable evolution of change that happens and always has done, albeit such change seems to happen at a faster pace these days.

Add into the mix a 24hr news cycle with an over emphasis on the ethnicity of perpetrators of crimes, a constant drip feed of misinformation and falsehoods and really very little attempt to present a realistic balanced view of the issue and an agenda is being pushed for personal and political reasons.

As an example of the latter, a child abuse grooming gang in Rotherham was recently tried and sentenced, yet there were no headlines in the Daily fail, or GBeebies about it. Why? Because the members were all white British! It merited a footnote if it was reported at all.

[Andy_Faber]

As an example of the latter, a child abuse grooming gang in Rotherham was recently tried and sentenced, yet there were no headlines in the Daily fail, or GBeebies about it. Why? Because the members were all white British! It merited a footnote if it was reported at all.

I'm struggling to find evidence of that Swale, there are two isolated 'lone wolf' cases, but nothing coming up regarding a 'white British' gang. Provide a link if you would