Hate Crime Reports Up 57% In Brexit Aftermath

[lego 44,165]

The number of alleged hate crimes reported to a police website have risen by 57% after the UK voted to leave the European Union.

The 85 reports to True Vision between Thursday and Sunday came as the Prime Minister called for racially-motivated attacks in the wake of the vote must be "stamped out".

Gwent Police confirmed it is investigating an incident directly linked with the referendum result and police in Wiltshire said they are investigating a potentially racist attack on a Polish woman in Salisbury on Friday.

As part of a wide-ranging speech to Parliament on Monday afternoon, David Cameron said: "In the past few days, we have seen despicable graffiti smeared on a Polish community centre and heard verbal abuse shouted at individuals who are members of ethnic minorities.

"Let's remember that these people have come here and made a wonderful contribution to our country.

"We will not stand for hate crime or these kind of attacks, they must be stamped out."

On Sunday, Former Conservative chairwoman Baroness Warsi told Sky News that race hate crime organisations were reporting some "disturbing early results".

There were reports of hate notes being posted through the doors of Polish residents in Cambridgeshire and scores of accounts of post-Brexit racism posted on social media.

Joanna Mludzinska, the chairwoman of the Polish community centre in Hammersmith, West London, that was daubed with graffiti, said: "It was very unpleasant. We removed the graffiti immediately but people have been very very shocked by it.

"We are an institution so it doesn't affect us personally but we have heard about incidents of people being targeted individually."

The incidents were not confined to people from the EU, with people from other minorities, receiving direct abuse including steelworker's son Ali Ahmad who said he was told: "We voted leave - when are you going to?"

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1718374/hate-crime-reports-up-57-percent-in-brexit-aftermath

 

[ryanripley 86,575]

people usually pin the racist stereotype on americans but honeslty, i think british people are a lot worse  

but when they realise nobody is actually gunna get deported...  

[Teri Hatcher 2,053]

talent always wins 

[RAMROD 117,103]

I always heard Polish being beaten down even when UK was in EU. There's certain sentiments there towards Polish for sure.

[lego 44,165]

25 minutes ago, ryanripley said:

i think british people are a lot worse

 

 

 

 

[lego 44,165]

5 minutes ago, Teri Hatcher said:

talent always wins 

 

 

[Katharine Hepburn 4,607]

32 minutes ago, ryanripley said:

people usually pin the racist stereotype on americans but honeslty, i think british people are a lot worse  

Odds on this person never stepping foot outside America 

[lego 44,165]

Just now, CustomGueseppi said:

Odds on this person never stepping foot outside America 

 

He's British tho. 

[Dominic 11,922]

When the leave campaign was pioneered by UKIP what else do you expect. 

[ryanripley 86,575]

28 minutes ago, CustomGueseppi said:

Odds on this person never stepping foot outside America 

 

27 minutes ago, YourSweet666 said:

 

He's British tho. 

 

and i've also been to america twice

 

[Morphine Prince 109,683]

45 minutes ago, CustomGueseppi said:

Odds on this person never stepping foot outside America 

Love how your own prejudice was exposed  

That user is British. 

[SamJ 8,008]

I haven't noticed any difference this week to a normal week I think things just seem back to normal, we just all need to stick together and get on with our lives, there's always going to be some idiots who are offensive to people from different backgrounds etc but they are the very little minority and we must continue to rise above it.

[SamJ 8,008]

1 hour ago, Dominic Marc said:

When the leave campaign was pioneered by UKIP what else do you expect. 

I think Andrea Leadsom, Boris Johnson and Gisela Stuart did most of the pioneering and none of them are for UKIP, okay farage did get a little tv coverage but i think a lot of people were persuaded to vote leave by the other campaigners.

[hmm 979]

1 hour ago, UK Monster said:

I think Andrea Leadsom, Boris Johnson and Gisela Stuart did most of the pioneering and none of them are for UKIP, okay farage did get a little tv coverage but i think a lot of people were persuaded to vote leave by the other campaigners.

Boris is nothing but a careerist, lets not pretend he has any real interest in anything other than becoming PM.

The three names you used were those that partook in the BBC/ITV debate (there were plenty of other front campaigners like Gove), but regardless - the user you quoted used the word 'pioneered', as in - they (UKIP - or Cameron's fear of them I guess) were the reason the Tory manifesto even included the referendum in the first place. 

Aside, Leadsom also abstained from voting for same-sex marriage on some historic ground so she's not exactly a poster-girl for a forward thinking leave campaigner

[SamJ 8,008]

34 minutes ago, hmm said:

Boris is nothing but a careerist, lets not pretend he has any real interest in anything other than becoming PM.

The three names you used were those that partook in the BBC/ITV debate (there were plenty of other front campaigners like Gove), but regardless - the user you quoted used the word 'pioneered', as in - they (UKIP - or Cameron's fear of them I guess) were the reason the Tory manifesto even included the referendum in the first place. 

Aside, Leadsom also abstained from voting for same-sex marriage on some historic ground so she's not exactly a poster-girl for a forward thinking leave campaigner

Oh yeah gove was good too in explaining the situation in a relatable way