The Spectator

I’ve had enough of crimewave Britain
✍️ James Snell www.spectator.co.uk/article/ive-had-enough-of-crim…
Knife crime, shoplifting and fraud is on the rise in Britain. Fraud was up by a third in the last year, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which also reveal a 50 per cent increase (to around 483,000 incidents) in theft. Shoplifting offences rose by 20 per cent in 2024 – reaching the highest figure in over 20 years.

What’s shocking about this tidal wave of crime is that it is hardly surprising. Anyone who has lived in England over the last decade or so cannot fail to have noticed that our streets feel more dangerous. Where I live in Essex, there have been more stabbings. Many people I know in London and the Home Counties have been mugged for their phones and wallets.

Take a walk through central London and it won’t be long before you encounter someone zipping about on an illegal electric bike with a balaclava on. We all know what they are up to.

1 day ago | [YT] | 373



@T_e_l_o_s

Mass Deportations

1 day ago | 29

@JckSwan

The Tories completely failed. Then they passed the baton to Labour to see how much worse they could make things.

17 hours ago | 7

@brianwilliams9329

Thank you Theresa May. The worst Home Secretary of modern times

1 day ago | 15

@stephfoxwell4620

The rise in crime mirrors the huge increase in foreign arrivals. 12 million have come here since 2010 . Six million have left. 40% of them native British.

1 day ago (edited) | 10

@greigsanderson

Boat scientists

1 day ago | 22

@benm4290

A lot of the real British have divested in their local communities because they see and feel that they no longer have a stake in what was their country. They have been sold out, betrayed, and so they don't participate, which is a perfectly natural and sane thing to do.

12 hours ago | 3

@ubaldobezoari8652

central London, that's Mayor khan's responsibility- the police report to him.

12 hours ago | 2

@TeemujaToivoRuskeepää

Allahu ackbar

4 hours ago | 0

@briandickie7264

Yup. B Stopped reporting crime too. After police never turned up & they closed the case due to lack of evidence.

1 day ago | 3

@greigsanderson

Peaceful religion

1 day ago | 8

@jmz1892

Liebour started this mess, well done Bliar 👏👏

19 hours ago | 3

@charlesscottkelly

Well done ,labour,torries and the rest

14 hours ago | 0

@PaulB-justme

But we aren't allowed to say anything...

1 day ago | 9

@patrickdempsey4034

Vote labour and it gets better 😂😂

18 hours ago | 0

@dellaanniehughes4533

The Tories massively underfunded the police.

21 hours ago | 3

@thequestioner5916

Increases in prices leads to an increase in shoplifting

1 day ago | 2

@SC-g2b

Police to busy on the internet looking for words like I hate you 😂

18 hours ago | 0

@Soco1066

King broke the world

1 day ago | 0

@charlesscottkelly

U cant blame the 900,000 new visitors every year... surely nothing to do with then

14 hours ago | 0

@richardmurphy4520

" I,m uncomfortable with christianity." PRINCE WILLIAM.

1 day ago | 5