Crime: A Rising Problem in UK

Fire of Liberty

While a large percentage of the media in the UK is on the side of Tony Blair and are already pronouncing his third victory some two weeks prior to the election, the people of the UK are being presented with a some of the Prime Minister's failures on issues like crime and immigration. Though try as they might, Blair and his fellow Labourites have put on a bright face and note that the overall crime rates in the UK have gone down since 1997, they have failed to convince the people of England that this is true with the rash of criminal activity throughout the countryside. Just look at the recent attack on Abigail Witchalls. During her usual afternoon stroll with her 21 month old son in the low-crime village of Surrey, Abigail was violently stabbed in the neck by an mugger because she refused to hand him money. As of last night, Abigail was on a respirator and had suffered some spinal injuries as well. Along with Abigail you also have various people being stabbed, shot or attacked by all the dregs of society who are unafraid by the police because they know all the bobbies are allowed to do is to assess the situation to see if its safe for them to respond or offer the robber counseling for his "antisocial behavior."

What this clearly demonstrates is that the Labour party has lost its ability to effectively control crime. Blair can gloss this over by offering select statistics but the simple fact is that the crime rate is going up. See what The Times has to say about this occurance:

According to police in England and Wales, violent crime jumped by 9 per cent in the final three months of last year, including a 10 per cent increase in gun offences.

The number of violent offences reached almost 300,000 in the last quarter, many fuelled by drunkenness, new sex crimes and changes to counting methods. Overall crimes fell by 5 per cent compared with the same period last year.

In the last three months of 2004 there were 11,000 serious violent offences, including murders and serious woundings, a 4 per cent increase on the same period the previous year. Ms Witchalls was attacked as she pushed her child through the spring sunshine on Wednesday. As she lay on the ground, Ms Witchalls managed to whisper a brief description of her attacker and said that he had driven up the footpath, a well-used walk leading to nearby woods, in a blue car.

This just demonstrates that as long as you are weak on various issues like crime and immigration you place a crack in the law and order dam which eventually breaks allowing a massive cavalcade of chaos into the society. One only has to look all of the years that New York City was slack on crime and how the city became a criminal hell-hole with massive crime. As with New York City, the UK will be stuck in this mire of crime until they change the way of doing things or hire a new sheriff like Michael Howard (UK's Rudy). If not, they will continue to live in a nation like the one described in this leader in The Daily Mail. Howard is the way forward, not Blair. Keep it up Mike, the people will support you on this because they hate this new wave of crime that Labour has failed to address.