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Scotland on Sunday has the above claim based on this quote from the Scottish Household Survey 2024 findings: neighbourhoods and communities report published on 16 September 2025:
In 2024, the majority of people (78%) said they felt ‘very’ or ‘fairly safe’ walking alone in their neighbourhood after dark, this is a decline from 81% in 2023.
By whom is the SNP record, ‘under-fire?’
Scottish Labour.
Why is that rich?
This:
From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: June 2025:
The SCJS found that three-quarters (75%) of adults said that they felt very or fairly safe walking alone in their neighbourhood after dark in 2023-24. This is an increase from 66% in 2008-09 [under Labour] but has been stable since 2016-17.
and:
In 2023-24, there were 1,691 emergency hospital admissions due to assault, including 438 due to assault with a sharp object. These were, respectively, 33% and 18% lower than in 2014-15.
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Labour in Scotland has, for nearly 20 years operated an uninterrupted lay negative and oppositionist stance to any actions taken by the Scottish Government, whether it is health data, regional development, drugs policy or crime data.
With regard to the latter, it always adopts the mendacious trope of Glasgow as No Mean City, where violence towards others is an hourly occurrence. It is an exact parallel with Farage’s Reform Party’s “Lawless Britain” campaign. This is why Labour is incapable of countering Reform. It is so habituated to the negative that it does not have a constructive narrative to counter Reform’s.
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