Why the violence is increasing or is it social media which is showing violence?

@SunshineGirl Are you quite sure the police statistics are reliable? Is it at all possible the police administration might minimize certain reporting in order to appear more effective than might actually be the case? Does it also make sense that from a statistical standpoint, if you happen to be the one of one hundred being stabbed in the tube station, you may care less about said statistic?

@GerOttman I am confident that they are 100% more accurate than vague statements made by Farage & co. Besides, public statistics in the UK are always independently audited.

That is the whole point. Using human tragedy to advance your political opinion is unethical and socially corrosive.

@GerOttman

That is a classic 'dog whistle' question. No evidence offered but a suggestion of a conspiracy. You can't be challenged (although @SunshineGirl has done so impeccably) because you 'only asked a question'. The question is loaded and if you are already worried about the subject, this will help build the worry.


Another nonsensical question. If I'm involved in a car crash of course I don't worry about the stats, but if I know the facts, I wear my seat belt, make sure my vehicle is roadworthy and go about my business driving carefully. I don't cower at home.

Incidentally, your own statistic of 'one hundred being stabbed at the tube station' is, I assume, made up for the purpose of your rhetoric rather than based on evidence?

@FreddieUK I am asking a question. It's a perfectly valid question and one asked by many others. Based only on modern political history of the past two or three centuries as "hard evidence"! Your response has it's own "fear" component. Why are so triggered by a simple question?

If you wish to claim that all government must be trusted without questions... you probably failed history!

@FreddieUK Incidentally, your own statistic of 'one hundred being stabbed at the tube station' is, I assume, made up for the purpose of your rhetoric rather than based on evidence?


any chance you could read that just one more time...? (sigh)

@GerOttman You can ask questions, but I suspect you are not interested in the answers. You are using Nigel Farage's tactic of asking vague, open ended questions in the hope of sowing social unease and reinforcing blind prejudice. I am interested in establishing objective truth. Of course not everything that government says must be accepted uncritically. But based on objective evidence, the current UK administration is a far more credible source than Farage Plc.

@SunshineGirl I don’t know who that is but I don't trust the government when they tell me what I want to hear. I also place little trust in those who blindly accept the "truth" of the day. Funny how whenever something bad happens there's always a statistic to show everything is fine. Well except for the poor unfortunate victim of the day.