Having voted for Britain to leave the EU, I was naturally pleased that the outcome of the referendum was a majority leave vote. I was confident that the EU would collapse in due course, and that the referendum vote would therefore serve either to accelerate or to delay an inevitable process.
Nevertheless I am not optimistic. Freed from its European shackles, the United Kingdom can now restrict immigration from other European countries. Unfortunately we cannot expect a government led by Theresa May to take immigration seriously.
Theresa May served as Home Secretary for the whole of the six years that David Cameron was Prime Minister. As such she was accountable for government policy on both crime and immigration. A pledge to cut immigration to just tens of thousands each year never came close to being realised, but police budgets were cut, and criminals are the winners - notably fraudsters. Frauds reported to the police very rarely result in a prosecution, even where substantial evidence is provided.
It is also inconceivable that Theresa May had no input into the faked murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
As I write, a young woman has recently been murdered in Sheffield, which I'm sorry to say does not surprise me one bit. Given that the worst Home Secretary in British history is now our Prime Minister, we must not expect the homicide rate to fall any time soon.
Related previous posts include:
A sense of the inevitable
Who murdered Jo Cox?
Tories pretend to be tough on crime ... again
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