UKIP and crime

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has spoken out about biased press coverage.  He gives the example of the LibDem councillor whose conviction for racially aggravated assault was reported in the local press.  Farage quite reasonably comments that:

If this had been a UKIP councillor, or even a far removed ex member of UKIP, it would have been splashed across the pages of all the national newspapers and covered by all the main broadcasters.

I was surprised to read Farage say that his party does not allow membership to people linked with the communist terror group Unite Against Fascism, but it is well known that his party also does not allow membership to former members of the British National Party.  Some years back a BNP member was convicted of a racially aggravated assault (which he denied, and which was based on no firm evidence).  He was jailed, and an appeal resulted only in a reduction of sentence.  Compare this with the fine handed down to the LibDem councillor.

It is interesting to note also that the communist thug who recently hit Nigel Farage has been convicted of common assault.  By contrast, not one of the communist thugs who attacked Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons on College Green in 2009 were prosecuted.  In fact I'm not sure if any of them were even arrested.  It is of course normal for people who attack members of the British National Party to escape arrest, but I do not hear Nigel Farage complaining about that.

Then again, I don't hear many ordinary people complaining about it either.  In fact I don't hear many people complaining about the fact that street crime is on the increase, which is not surprising given that far too many of our police forces are run by communists who care more about their fat cat salaries and pensions than they do about serving the public.

If you want the police to spend more time on actually preventing crime, then maybe you should join a political party which has sensible policies for crime reduction - but will you?

Related previous posts include:
Demon words aimed at UKIP
Another attempt to smear UKIP
Our fellow-travelling national press
Police priorities