johnnybangkok

If you'd bothered to read the thread properly, you will see I have already addressed this. The information you are looking for is on page 38 https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/02/Trends-in-Offical-Data-2022-23-FINAL.pdf Caveat - 'This overrepresentation is likely to be related to the overall under-identification of child sexual abuse in minority ethnic communities.' Something I think we are seeing a lot more of which in turn is fuelling the conversation. However you yourself are attempting to 'distort the data for the purpose of deflecting criticism of the number of per capita rapes committed by certain immigrant groups,' to highlight your own bias that this is higher in ethnic groups, which (so far) the numbers do not corroborate.

What part of 'in certain parts of most cities' don't you understand? You are again arguing for the sake of arguing and I will stick to what I am saying - SOME (but thankfully very few) parts of London are a bit rough and I wouldn't recommend walking through them with thousands of pounds worth of watch on my wrist. And it's just sensible in all parts of the world to keep your phone safe - none of this is rocket science though but you just go ahead with your false equivalents and pearl clutching in an attempt to score points - 'how about we tackle crime instead or changing our lives to cope with the level of criminality' - fantastic suggestion - not sure why you're not heading up the Met with such profound insights.

I can't believe I'm having to justify this but since you have made a point of it, noone is 'victim blaming'. I think the VAST majority of people (and certainly law enforcement) would agree that walking around with anything expensive in certain parts of most cities is just inviting attention and by extension, potential trouble. It's not a particulalrly sensible thing to do but why don't you give it a bash and see how you get on? If you get mugged, I'll try my best to not blame you after.

Firstly, it's Person of The Year but more importantly, you do realise it's not awarded as some some sort of fanboy accolade? As the Times itself states, 'Editors are asked to choose the person or thing that had the greatest impact on the news, for good or ill — guidelines that leave them no choice but to select a newsworthy — not necessarily praiseworthy — cover subject.' https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2019712_2019694_2019586,00.html This is why they have also awarded this to Adolf Hitler (1938); Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942); Nikita Khrushchev (1957); and Ayatollah Khomeini (1979).

Ahh I see. So you have never set foot in London but feel you can comment on what London is all about because you watched a couple of YouTube videos? By that definition I'm an expert in New York because I watched Friends. Again, I'm not saying there isn't knife crime or crime in general in London, but you would be very unlucky to ever see any never mind experience it. And yes, I wouldn't recommend brandishing a luxury watch in CERTAIN parts of London but then again I wouldn't be stupid enough to wear a luxury watch walking through Brookly or South LA either. It's called common sense.

I see sarcasm isn't your strong point.

Ive always wondered, is it easy to see out of those white hoods?

I am truly sorry for your life threatening incident. Thoughts and prayers.

One more time for the hard of comprehension - I'm not saying there is no crime in london - that would be ridiculous. All I'm saying is it's not the 'wild west' that another poster pointed out. You are arguing just for the sake of it (pretty typical with you) and are doing exactly what you accused me of - providing anecdotal scenerios that you personally (or at least your unfortunate friend) have experienced. So let's just agree to disagree - you think London is some sort of war zone - I don't think it is and so do those that take the time to look at these things, ranking London as the 14th safest city in the world https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-city-rankings/safest-cities-in-the-world

Lighten up Jonny. Your post talked positively about the 'diversity of London'. I wasn't 'deliberately misinterpret a post' - rather I was congratulating you on being positive about London diversity - something you rarely talk positively about.

Weird thing to say. It's you who gave the example and it was about a plain clothes copper giving you the heads up about keeping your phone safe - 'how do you know how it would have gone down' - well you might have had your phone stolen. That's it.

I had this problem with Grab for about 3 days at the beginning of this week (had to use a credit card) but it seems to have resolved itself now so maybe give it a couple of days as I'm sure Grab and the liked can't afford to not accept BB debit.

You talked about a plain clothes officer telling you to watch out for your phone! Hardly a life threatening incident I hope you agree.

Not like you Jonny to be championing diversity in the UK. New Years resolution?

Enough of the pearl clutching...........I can only recount mine and my many friends experiences over 25 years in London and in the vast majority of cases it's very positive. I feel safe walking around most places in London to include the East End and South London where I also lived for about 5 years. Again, no one is minimising the very real issues of crime in London, but this was all started by one poster calling London the 'wild West' which it certainly isn't.

Never said there wasn't crime in London (it's a big place so obviosly) but the trend over the last 30 years has been massively downwards and is nothing in comparison to other major cities (have a look at New York figures for a good comparison). I'm not minimising the very real issues of knife crime in London as it has certainly been a issue for many years but in general London is a very safe place certainly in the main, central areas. Like everywhere though, if you wander into some of the less 'touristy' areas then you have to keep your wits about you. But isn't that the same in most major cities?

A BIG point. Although knife crime in the UK is certainly of concern it's thankfully absolutely nothing compared to gun crime in the US. All these incidents would be made 300% worse if they had such easy access to guns as it seems everyone has in the States.

You're trying to gain brownie points by quoting a character from 130 years ago? As my dear mum would always say, 'if you can't contribute anything constructive, best not to say anything.'

Well I've worn a real Tag Heuer for about 30 years and I've never had as much as a second look whilst wearing it in London so yet again, sensationalist nonsense posted to fit your warped narrative. Crime in London and steadily decreased over the last 30 years and although I'm not saying it's not nothing, it's nowhere near as bad as you are trying to make out - https://theconversation.com/most-crime-has-fallen-by-90-in-30-years-so-why-does-the-public-think-its-increased-228797 So I'll repeat my question which you so conveniently ignored the first time of me asking, when was the last time you went to London and more importantly, where in London did you go to see so much violence? I'm guessing never or certainly not recently.

All these experts proclaiming 'London has become the wild west' when it most certainly isn't. I lived there for 25 years and still have a place in Whitechapel. I head back there usually about twice a year and unless I am walking through a council estate in Stratford, my chances of seeing anything like this is next to zero. But obviously you are an expert so when was the last time you went to London and more importantly, where in London did you go to see so much violence that merits the 'wild west' moniker?

Another poster ignoring facts to push his own agenda.

So in other words you're just speculating to fit your narrative. You don't know any of what you are saying for sure but you are quite happy to throw in 'Albanian or Romanian' 'illegals or 2nd generation dole claimants and drug dealers' when the VERY obvious answer is probably 2nd/3rd generation BRITISH citizens of black desent of which there are plenty of in Stratford. 4 youths of 16 and 17 years of age were arrested which again leads to a logical conclusion of youth on youth gang violence which can be seen across all deprived areas of the UK. The only diffence is location which determines whether these youths are black or white. Again for the hard of comprehension; the colour of the skin is irrelevant - the social status i.e coming from working class, poorer neighborhoods is.

No but they are more than likely to be 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants (probably Caribean or African although I noticed a couple of white faces in there) who are BRITISH CITIZENS. Chomper was correcting another poster who was immediately playing the 'they must be illegal immigrants' card without a single shred of evidence. I used to live in Stratford where this all happened and it's a rough place to say the least. Rival guys squaring up to each other was a common theme but I also saw simliar scenes back home in the council tenaments of Glasgow and guess what, they were all white. This continual desperation to depict all of this as some sort of race matter or immigrant matter completely misses the point that it has very little to do with skin colour and everything to do with social class; it's black people in Stratford - it's white people in Govan - common denominator? They're all poor

First of all well done for admitting you were wrong. You don't see it often on this forum so it should be applauded. However, how you didn't see this coming is also a concern. Musk (like most billionaires) is self-serving, egotistical and has a warped view of his own self-importance - a messiah complex if you will. Characters like him see themselves as above everyone else in both intelligence and status, imagining they are playing 3D chess whilst the rest of us are still playing checkers, even though the game is backgammon. This annoying trait has been massively applified by his purchase of X where he now has the whole world listening to his ill-informed rants and politicians toddying to him constantly. This inflated self-importance makes for an uneasy bedfellow as ol' farage has now found to his detriment as you cannot control a person like Musk who can out-money you and out-shout you on his platform. Trump will be next. Mark my words.

Your arithmatic is a bit off. GBP 38 billion divided by 35 million is approx. GBP 1,000.