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Nigel Farage: An Afghan male has 22 times more likely chance of being convicted of rape than somebody born in this country.” Ian Boakes I have a degree in Statistics and I'm well aware of how data can be represented in misleading ways. However, I just don't  believe that young men who enter the UK, uninvited and unauthorised (e.g. across the Channel with no documentation), are less likely to commit crime. The opposite is more likely to be true, whatever the stats might suggest as they just aren't a representative sample of the populations they come from because they went by illegal and perilous routes to get here. That said and done, obviously, lots of them pose no threat but why willingly import the risk when we have enough of our own bad eggs to deal with? Andrew Grainger Ian Boakes well, it just goes to show a degree doesn't always guarantee good judgement. You have literally no data, you make  an assumption and "believe" this is more likely to be the oppos...

The overlap shows that hostility to asylum seekers is not only about domestic pressures , but also about wider ideological battles that extend far beyond Britain’s borders.

  George Young And the English people wouldn't listen to Enoch [Powell] . Ned Ma George Young “Some 74 percent of Britons in the aftermath of Powell’s rhetoric agreed with him – that black immigration was likely to cause violence on our streets in the not too distant future, or as he put it – “In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.” A few days later, a group of white youths descended on the christening party of a Caribbean family, slashing the face of the baby’s grandfather. They chanted “Powell” and “Why don’t you go back to your own country! Fifty years later, the UK finds itself amid another immigration scandal in which the children of Caribbean labourers invited to help rebuild the British economy after World War II are threatened with deportation. Has Britain really changed in this half a century? MI5 later investigated a march of 500 dockers supporting Powell through London and discovered that it too had been orchestr...