GreekIslandGirl wrote:Cap wrote:miltiades wrote:We must not confuse Romanians with the Romani ethnic group, an unrelated ethnic group scattered throughout Eastern Europe and commonly known as gypsies.
Romanians loath these groups of people because they give Romanians a bad name.
Entry into the EU has meant that these gypsies are free to go anywhere within the EU and do what they do best, what is culturally accepted as normal. The UK has its problem with this group of people, personally I often felt that I should erect a sign at my business banning these people from entering my premises. Luckily my massive dog, a mastiff / rockweiler spots them immediately they step in and growls at them.
Seems like the UK has a massive problem.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -show.html
According to this article, below, the UK's global top ranking for violent crimes is down to
drink!
Experts say there are a number of reasons why violence is soaring in the UK. These include Labour's decision to relax the licensing laws to allow round-the-clock opening, which has led to a rise in the number of serious assaults taking place in the early hours of the morning.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... a-U-S.htmlWhich also supports that other thread where the mayor/coroner on Crete identified British tourists as the worst ones for carrying out crimes because they
drink too much when abroad.
If you read the mail article quite carefully it suggests that whether or not there is like for like recording of what is or is not a violent crime may be one factor behind an apparent difference in violent crime stats in different places.
That said I think there is quite a valid point about the demon drink being a big issue here
See eg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384899/Shocking-footage-shows-brawling-drunks-punch-kick-licensing-hours-extended-pubs-open-longer.html. Mind I am not convinced longer opening hours are to blame. In the early 80's in Sunderland the town centre was notorious for drunkenness and outbreaks violence in the streets at closing time, particularly Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and there the pubs closed at 10.30. Then there was a second spate when the Clubs and discos threw out at about 0200. The practice was to do a pub crawl down Hylton Road, known as the Ski run for all the people falling over and one having to slalom round them and the piles of puke, before hitting the pubs, clubs and discos in the town centre. Newcastle was just as bad with the quay side. All that happened with extended hours was people started and finished drinking at different times and what was happening at say 1100pm is now happening at 0700 am.
I am not anti Alcohol, indeed I enjoy the occasional beer or glass of wine, sometimes a little whiskey ("Bookers" for preference, or Oban) or A Brandy, but getting "mortal palatik" as it was known in Makem land has long since lost any attraction.
