Britain, as we know, is a country where sex offences are on the rise because toxic males are having their minds poisoned by internet porn, and are picking up bad attitudes towards women from the likes of Andrew Tate. We know this because liberal-minded folk keep telling us so. What the liberals don’t like to tell us is that sex offences are, to some extent, an imported problem.
We have learned today that foreign nationals living in Britain are three times more likely to be arrested for sex offences relative to UK citizens – but only because the Centre for Migration Control has spent months teasing out the information via Freedom of Information requests. Governments of both colours have repeatedly refused to publish such information – yet they seem to have no problem in publishing statistics that show where migrants have been coming off badly, such as on health or housing.
Obviously, publishing statistics broken down by ethnic group and nationality is extremely sensitive. There are people who would happily leap on it for their own racist or xenophobic purposes. The fact that Albanians, for example, have the highest arrest rate for sex offences does not, of course, mean all Albanians are rapists – and that always needs to be made clear. In spite of elevated rates of arrest among some migrant groups, British citizens still make up the majority of people arrested for sex offences – just under three quarters.
Nevertheless, the statistics can’t be ignored. Among UK citizens, the arrest rate for sex offences is 48 per 100,000. Among foreign nationals, it is 164.5. The revelation demands answers as to who we are letting into the country – and who we are failing to deport. In particular, the statistics beg the question: why are we still accepting Albanian asylum-seekers when it is plain that criminals from that country are abusing the asylum system in order to enter Britain?
The overall arrest rate for Albanians in Britain is astonishing. In the first ten months of last year alone, 210 out of every 1,000 Albanians were arrested on suspicion of a crime (this statistic relates to crime in general, not just sex offences). That is nearly twice as high as the next group (migrants from Afghanistan, on 107 per 1,000). Not only are Albanians especially likely to be arrested for committing crimes, but it seems almost impossible to deport them when they have served jail sentences – to judge by a litany of cases where criminals have succeeded in staying in Britain by claiming that to deport them would breach their right to a family life.
The Prime Minister this morning has accused people calling for a public inquiry into the grooming scandal of ‘playing into the hands of the far right’. He is absolutely wrong. What encourages the far right is when information is withheld from the public, and the government turns a blind eye to problems which the public know full well exist.
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