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Today, pollster Ipsos are reporting that across Europe, people worry more about crime and violence than anything else, climbing above other concerns from early 2025. Here’s the trend.
It may be that for some of the above 30 countries crime and violence is not the number one concern but I can see no data to explore, for that.
In Ipsos Scotland‘s most recent poll, December 2025, Crime and anti-social behaviour/law and order was eighth, at 20% and had been at that level for years.
Sir Prof John Curtice confirms the above, today, in:
Yet, only 20 years ago:
It was Europe’s murder capital. Then Glasgow stopped excluding kids from school. The question of how to solve what seems like a knife-crime epidemic is one that many of us are currently asking. And any search for how to “do better”; for innovative solutions to knife crime leads straight to Scotland and the work of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU), which was founded in 2005 after WHO had dubbed Glasgow ‘the murder capital of Europe’.
“Scotland was one of the most unsafe countries to live in,” says SVRU Head, Jimmy Paul. In 2005, there were 152 homicides in Scotland. There were 170 street gangs across Glasgow, with as many as 3,500 members aged between 11 and 23. Someone was given the ‘Glasgow Smile’ on its city streets every six hours, a horrific, life-altering facial wound: a cut from the corners of the mouth right up to the ears.
Now, knife possession has halved, the murder rate is barely a third, murder by children is so low that the media must milk a single case for weeks.
Imagine this trend had gone the other way, who’d be to blame? The Scottish Government, the SNP.
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What have they done? Two things are obvious:
1. School exclusions:
2. Police Staffing:
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“Only 20 years after ‘Scotland was one of the most unsafe countries to live in’, polls reveal Scots worry less about crime than in any other part of Europe”
See also “Safe” as in the sense of our so called (UK) ‘National security‘.
National as in the UK State……
Posts today, 2 March, by X account of Saul Staniforth
“Yvette Cooper condemns Iran for behaving recklessly”!
“Also the same foreign secretary condemning “the scale of the Iranian attacks over the weekend” and the fact that airspace is closed because of those attacks. Brazen”.
“Yvette Cooper says its appalling that ‘Iran has retaliated‘ to being attacked and she calls on them to stop retaliating. Yes, really”.
(As did Starmer BTW in his wee speech at the weekend)
“Yvette Cooper (who backed the Iraq War) is asked what lessons we’ve learnt from Iraq
Cooper:”.. this threat from Iranian nuclear weapons”
Among other things Chilcot found the govt deliberately exaggerated the threat as a pretext for war The (this) govt are doing it all over again”.
So we now have neither Cooper nor Starmer condemning Israel or America for their military aggression against Iran in a illegal war.
#AnotherOne
They never do, as in condemn Israel, yet once again Israel are clearly the aggressors whose reaction is always excessive and relentless, to the extent that only complete obliteration seems to satisfy them and so be their ultimate goal…………as their objective is what ?
A Muslim free Middle east……..controlled by Israel ?
For some reason both America & the UK , irrespective of who is in charge in either of these (now) rogue states , seems to always comply with , support and so then enable Israel to keep behaving as they do……..with no consequences as in punishment.
In the UK just now we have to listen to the supreme hypocrite that we know as Keir Starmer speak of how cruel and ruthless…….and murderous…..those whom Israel are , checks bloody notes, attacking while the lack of condemnation on how cruel, ruthless and murderous Israel are is being disregarded as in being ignored.
How compromised must political leaders in both America and the UK be, to then be so blatantly complicit and so aligned with Israel…..or are they both so financially reliant upon money sourced from various Israeli sources for their respective political campaigns that then sees them adopt…….always………a pro Israel position.
Much of the American and UK media are also as guilty of doing the same….as in turning a blind eye to atrocities committed by Israel…..and so then taking their side…always.
Israel being their nominated victim.
Starmer has form in telling a country not to retaliate against attacks by Israel as he did the same when Israel , in the past, also attacked Lebanon.
Well here is a reasonable Q for him………..
Why is the UK increasing it’s expenditure on Defence in the supposed possibility of Russian aggression in the future….when Starmer’s position seems to be one where if a country is being attacked ….then , according to him, that country being attacked should not retaliate….
Or is it always a case of that being only applicable when it is Israel who is the aggressor and so if the country(s) that they , Israel, attack are Muslim countries , then and then only, should those (Muslim) country(s) allow themselves to be attacked aka decimated by Israel and so then not respond.
Muslim countries have thousands dead (because of Israel aggression) but then they should ensure that they do not retaliate so that Israel then has no casualties…………
Also these invasions by Israel are what creates Refugees seeking asylum to places like the UK, but the UK does not want to help them, but it does want to help Israel create refugees from all of these (Muslim) countries that they are bombarding with missiles that are then destroying everything within those countries…
Also in supporting Israel does that then make America and the UK more safe or less safe from future terrorist attacks ?
So there is more than just “being and feeling safe” via domestic crime perspective , as there is also needing to feel “safe” in what is an increasing unstable and so unsafe world , where we now see some countries being run by unstable warmonger leaders…….whose sole motivation for war is to try to distract their own citizens from other homegrown (domestic) problems involving them as leaders.
Where no one is safe…..
(Of course also , another factor , is that we also have rich Israeli individuals and rich Israeli organisations funding the campaigns of both American and UK leaders political parties……follow the money yet again).
Liz S
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