Let's just wait until the end of bojos premiership and see what they become from that

i'm not sure he's properly researched his destination

It’s worse seeing your home degrade

For example, I will most likely move to Singapore in the next 5 years. I know socially they are worse than the UK

But the UK changing affects me more personally

that guy on the radio has swallowed that "spike in hate crime" bullshit

Why is it bullshit?

have you given even a cursory glance at what passes as hate crime these days?

They have increased under broadly the same definitions

the guy is Irish, do you buy the notion that he is at risk of so much hate that he ought to leave the country?

here let me share an example. in cambridge after a FOI request, we found that a parking dispute had been registered as a hate incident.

Crafty read what I put

I’m not at risk, but I’m dissappointed in the UK

the bar has been lowered to the point where hate crime is 1) purely based on perception, and 2) the police solicit it and actually prompt people to ask if something is

yeah ok so you have your own reasons. so far as the guy on LBC i am not buying it

It has increased year on year

The definitions don’t change much year on year

And they increased at a steady rate

i experienced that myself, when my bike was stolen they asked if it was potentially a hate incident based on my sexuality or race

Why can’t you post fucking pictures

In this stupid channel

it was stolen from a train station while i was 70 miles away working, theres not even any vague potential for that to have been a hate crime, but they asked anyway - and people have been trained to understand it's easy victim points and will get treated more seriously

Yes yes your anecdotes and theory are relevant I’m sure

But the stats show a steady increase over the past 5 years

thats an actual experience as opposed to your bias against brexit voters

As opposed to me looking real figures

At real*

you assume that hate incidents have increased in real terms despite the bar being lowered to the lowest possible point

Smh

If the bar had been lowered to lowest possible level

which it has, it's perception based

There wouldn’t be a steady increase without an actual increase in hate crimes

So either way I’m right

Bit circular that

Well it’s common sense

1) make it very easy, 2) encourage people to use it. that will obviously raise figures despite not being representative of the country becoming more 'hateful'

If the bar is already at its lowest and their is no increase in crimes then it should be flat

But it’s not flat

Urgo, obviously there are more hate crimes...

PEP moving away? Fantastic! Another traitor gone <:hypersmugon:544638648721604608>

you're missing the point that people are being encouraged to report things as hate incidents