Reform’s Scottish leader may or may not be racist but he’s definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland

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From BBC Scotland yesterday, the above and:

The leader of Reform UK in Scotland has denied fuelling racial tensions with comments he made following a stabbing in Edinburgh. Malcom Offord has been criticised by both Scottish Labour and the Scottish Greens for linking the incident in the Calders area on Monday to a “massive insurge of immigrants”., external Lord Offord said he based his comments on photographs he had seen and claimed statistics showed a rise in crime by people “from foreign lands”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78jrn8v8yjo

Puzzling, perhaps not, BBC Scotland fails to offer readers any facts on stabbing and knife crime.

Here they are:

Knife-enabled crime falls in England and Wales but to still TWO to THREE times higher than in Scotland
As BBC Scotland pounce on one ‘alleged’ stabbing what they don’t want you to know – murder by knife and possession of knives have plummeted but only in Scotland
As UK Labour begin to claim falling knife crime in England & Wales, why their headlines and their figures are less reliable than those in Scotland which are – ‘being on firmer ground in terms of official trustworthiness’
33% fall in emergency hospital admissions due to assault with a knife since 2015-16

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4 thoughts on “Reform’s Scottish leader may or may not be racist but he’s definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland”

  1. Knife homicides in London increased by 200 a year because of austerity. Tory (Reform) policies. UK homicides increased from 500 to 700. Austerity.

    Offord is a complete liar and always quotes the wrong figures. So ignorant it is beyond belief. Milking public funds to lie, lie and lie again. Typical racist unionist. Lies to waste public money. A fraud. 2% of the population in Scotland is black.2% is Muslim.

    Scotland’s population has remained 5million from 1900 and before. It dipped in the 1950’s, because of the war? The population only increased to 5.4million, after 2000 Devolution. Scotland needs people. The least densely populated country because of Westminster policies. The illegal Union. Scotland was not treated equally. Migration all over the world. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and America. Scots went all over the world,

    The Clearances, higher unemployment. People had to emigrate to find prosperity. Westminster lies kept secret under the Official Secrets Act. The McCrone Report. Thatcher took all the Oil & Gas revenues. Left Scotland in poverty. The Sermon on the Mound. Thatcher lied and lied again.

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  2. I saw online a clip of Offord answering a Q on last week’s Debate night and he seemed quite out of his depth, that is as far answering the Q, indeed it was very uncomfortable viewing.

    He said “America’s our biggest ally and America’s the way we stay safe” .

    A warped take surely, as most sane people think the opposite is the case, what with a President like Trump, who apparently is so intent on trying to defect attention away from the Epstein files (and him being mentioned in them a lot) that he now has chosen to get his country involved in an illegal war against Iran, together with Israel.

    BBC Debate Night posted this about Offord when on their programme last week:

    “Reform UK Scotland’s Malcolm Offord says we should “always” support the US “within the realms of legality”, and the UK will be drawn into the US-Israel war with Iran whether “we like it or not”.

    (“within the realms of legality” and also “the UK will be drawn into the US-Israel war with Iran whether “we like it or not”, is that not a contradiction as has this so called ‘war’ that he referred to not be noted by many as being one that is deemed to be illegal) ?

    Reform UK are big Trump fans, that in itself should make them the kind of (pretend) party no one should vote for anywhere within the UK, never mind just in Scotland.

    I suspect for Offord, but also for the real leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage, it is very hard for them both to sound convincing and so then appear honest as (pretend) politicians when they know , as do many of us listening to them also know, that they are (always) lying as pretend politicians.

    Has he, Offord, stated yet which constituency in May’s elections that he will stand in as a candidate ?

    Indeed have Reform UK announced all of their candidates for the May elections in Scotland ?

    I believe there is a deadline for the delivery of nomination papers which is April 1st, somehow that seems apt , as a cut off date for Reform UK candidates.

    Liz S

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  4. Here’s something that is worth looking at as a very much hoped for future trend with Reform UK. (also see Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay whittle win a Senedd seat in Caerphilly in 2025 and Green’s win in the Gorton & Denton by-election in Feb 2026 for UK parliament).

    Reform UK lose their first by-election defence in Durham.

    Reform UK’s Councillor David Cumming quit in December due to overseas work.

    Labour have now gained this seat from Reform UK.

    (Seems to be that just as in the 2024 UK GE people tactically voted for Labour to stop the Tories, now it seems that some voters are doing the same in some council by-elections to stop Reform UK winning or to stop them retaining the seat).

    Reform UK won Durham Council in the local English elections and the Deputy Council leader for Reform UK in Durham is Darren Grimes, the ex GB News presenter. (also in 2025 Darren’s mother and brother also became Councillors too in Durham in the 2025 local elections in England).

    Parody Nigel Farage Blue Sky accounted posted this on the result:

    “Why would the people of Durham not vote Reform – what’s not to like about increasing council tax, cutting £12.9m from services, having a Deputy Leader who posts AI lies or a Leader who ran two companies that went bust owing more than £500k in tax”?

    Darren Grimes admitted to using an AI-generated photo in a post about other local authorities “shipping” families to the region.

    He wrote that “southern councils were moving “problem tenants, recent refugees and homeless families” to the region.” “He linked the issue to Durham’s social housing waiting list”.

    “Grimes used a photo of a group of South Asian men in tracksuits next to a coach in a housing estate”.

    It seems that for some voters in Durham that with Reform UK in charge they have seen first hand just how incompetent they are when in charge, but also it has been reported that in Durham “there will be changes to the Council Tax Reduction Scheme – meaning people on low incomes would lose their previous exemption and most residents will have to pay at least 10% of their tax bills”.

    Remember Reform UK campaigned in the 2025 local elections in England that they would not increase council tax , but in many councils that they now control (won) in England since 2025, they intend to do that very thing that they said they would not do.

    So it seems that broken pledges are their thing too, and many people thought it was just Labour who specialised in broken pledges.

    Hopefully we will see a similar (downward) trend in May in the Scottish elections with Reform UK not being as successful as they assume that they will be , but TBH it seems that the media in Scotland also hopes that they , Reform UK, will find some success in our elections in May too !

    Liz S

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