The international drugs cartel made at home in Dubai.
Professor John Robertson OBA
From BBC Politics, two days ago:
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has said the UK could learn from Dubai’s national pride and low crime levels. In a BBC interview, he said the UK should “aspire to” the kind of safety seen in the Emirati city – where he claimed people leave belongings unattended and return to find them untouched.
Tice splits his time between Westminster, his Skegness constituency and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which he said he visits “once every six to eight weeks” to spend time with his partner, journalist Isabel Oakeshott. Speaking on Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, Tice said Dubai was not “perfect”, but argued politicians are ignoring lessons from countries “getting it right”.
Typically Reform UK hope for a degree of influence in Scotland next year but, like Labour and Cons before them, can’t be bothered to learn about it.
Here’s a short introduction:
From Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending December 2024 published on 25 February 2025 with the irrelevant pandemic period data removed:
- The police in Scotland recorded 298,308 crimes in the year ending December 2024. This was 1% lower than the 302,076 crimes recorded in the year ending December 2023
- Non-sexual crimes of violence were 2% lower compared to the year ending December 2023 (decreasing from 71,900 to 70,637 crimes).
- Sexual crimes were 2% lower compared to the year ending December 2023 (decreasing from 14,894 to 14,539 crimes).
- Crimes of dishonesty were <1% lower compared to the year ending December 2023 (decreasing from 111,682 to 111,265 crimes).
- Damage and reckless behaviour was 7% lower compared to the year ending December 2023 (decreasing from 42,124 to 39,249 crimes).
- Crimes against society were 2% higher compared to the year ending December 2023 (increasing from 61,476 to 62,618 crimes).
- Antisocial offences were 1% higher compared to the year ending December 2023 (increasing from 47,941 to 48,322 offences).
- Miscellaneous offences were 1% higher compared to the year ending December 2023 (increasing from 13,631 to 13,821 offences).
- Road traffic offences were 3% lower compared to the year ending December 2023 (decreasing from 118,044 to 115,029 offences).
With 11 times the population, England and Wales might have been expected to have around 3 million crimes in the same period.
They had 9.5 million, more than THREE times as many!
Note, the huge increase in violence compared to the fall of 2%, in Scotland.
Crimes of violence at 1.14 million compared to 70.637 in Scotland (pro rata 706 370) are around 60% more common.
Also:
After peaking horribly in 2004/2005, when Scotland and in particular Glasgow, was the ‘Murder Capital of Europe’, homicide has fallen steadily, under Labour and SNP devolved governments, to plateau at around 60 per year from 2012/2013 until, under the SNP, fall again to 49 last year and and an average of 54 over the last 5 years.
Scotland’s media have never reported this trend, preferring to ‘cherry pick’ any one year increases.
In the latest figures we can also see, but unlikely to be reported, Housebreaking down 30%, theft from a motor vehicle down 24%, fire down 4%, vandalism down 13%, drug supply down 6% and drug possession down 32%, in the last 5 years.
Getting back to murder, what’s the clear-up rate?
100%
Source:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Dubai ?
Question – When is it okay to be a migrant ?
Answer – when you are Richard Tice’s girlfriend Isabel Oakeshott , who has now moved from the UK to Dubai , reason being that she claimed the move was prompted by the introduction of VAT on private school fees by the Labour government.
(Oakeshott now works in Dubai as the international editor for Rupert Murdoch’s Talk TV and she is also still a columnist for the Daily Telegraph aka The Torygraph).
#WeakExcuse – Leaving her beloved Brexit UK supposdley because of “VAT introduction on private school fees” is similar, as a weak excuse , to “the dog ate my homework”.
Question – When is it okay to leave Brexit UK for another country and so then not be one of those whom Richard Tice accuses of not believing enough in his Brexit Britain or supporting his UK enough or rather his Brexit UK enough ?
Answer – When you are Richard Tice’s girlfriend , and where he , Tice, is now splitting his time between the UK and Dubai. (as we all do as ‘working people’, Not).
Rhetorical Question – When is it okay , if you are Richard Tice , to warn that the UK is heading for Sharia law and where you , as Richard Tice, want it to be made illegal in the UK, yet your own girlfriend, if you are Richard Tice, now lives in a country, Dubai, that applies Sharia Law. (Do Dubai know who her boyfriend is, do they care, as it is a case of……..Do you have money ? Then come to live and work in Dubai).
I think the only thing that needs reforming and changed in their UK is the formation of more independent media and less of the various client media for the various pro UK political parties that , as a media, are owned by the likes of Rupert Murdoch.
However it’s not really the future of the UK’s media that I care about as obviously the more pressing issue that needs reformed and changed in their UK has to be an eventual UK that is minus Scotland. Now for Scotland that would be a “Change” for the better and also a “Reform” that would be for the better for Scotland too.
Vote SNP in 2026 via a majority to start that process for real change and real reform for Scotland. As we will never ever get any real change that we either want or need within Scotland with the Labour party or indeed any real reforms that we either want or need in Scotland from the Reform UK party.
Liz S
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They are now immigrants. Hypocrites.
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