sadoldgit

From Putin’s own library?

Why did the USA get involved in North Korea and Vietnam? Why did the USA (once upon a time, not now of course) take such a strong stand about the spread of Communism? Why are they still supporting Israel so staunchly if they are getting fed up with our part of the world?

Are you nic? They are “reported” which means they are “reported” to the police. The CPS said there was an 86% success rate in these prosecutions. What interests me is why you are only bothered about stats but don’t seem remotely concerned by personal experiences.

As it says clearly. These are reported crimes and is not a “potential” increase. It is an actual increase. These are only the crimes that are reported. As I am sure you understand, many more go unreported.

In the year up to March 2025 there was a 6% increase in race hate crimes. During the same period religious hate crimes increased by 3%. Muslim hate crime in particular increased by 19%. I gave you a ten year figure earlier of an increase of 190%. You could also try listening to people’s personal experiences if you want to know how it affects them. It lands for more powerfully than looking at a bunch of figures.

Left leaning? What has that got to do with anything? Who do I listen to? A random bloke on the internet who bases his opinions on perceived left/right bias or members of racial and religious minorities who are sharing their experiences about what is happening to them? I can provide plenty of evidence that actual race crimes are increasing if you really aren’t bothered about these people’s every day experiences. I guess you only believe woman when they say they have been sexually assaulted too if there is a legal conviction to back up the claim?

https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/politically-acceptable-uk-racism-is-on-the-rise-and-worse-this-is-under-progressive-labour-rule You can put your head in the sand, but you really need to try and find reasons not to disbelieve what people tell you.

https://theconversation.com/is-racism-becoming-more-acceptable-in-the-uk-269838 https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2025/7/29/the-uk-is-slipping-into-racist-dystopia

Evidence? Between 2013 and 2023 there was a 190% increase in reported race hate crimes. Reported. Makes you wonder about how many were not reported and what the true figure is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjyqz1xp9zo.amp

Ask people with brown skin, black skin, Muslims, Jews about their daily experiences, the vast majority of which are not recorded or make the news. Ask the people who fronted the Black Lives Matter campaign or the take the knee protests. Read the reports about institutional racism in police forces. If you are standing in a queue in a supermarket and someone walks past you and tells you to go back to your own country, do you think that a league table will make any difference to how you feel?

But we didn’t finish with 46 points in a vacuum did we? The point you seem to ignore is that we were the 8th best team in the EPL that season. We weren’t well beaten. We had a perfectly good goal ruled out. I watched the game with a friend of mine who is a United supporter and he said that we were the better team and they were lucky to win. We probably would have beaten them if VVD had been playing. As for the playing style. Win first, entertain second.

Call me old fashioned but if SR could deliver a manager who could provide beating Liverpool in the semis, more than matching Manchester United in a cup final and finishing 8th in the EPL I would bite their hands off.

See the post above. See the grey out section which would normally contain the posters post. If you click on the options it gives you an option to read the post if you want to. Do you get it yet?

I skim read SOME your posts. Some I read. Some I ignore completely. Do you understand yet?