The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S., page 3

Well actually the poll was incredibly wrong

The rank amateurishness which characterises the modern Conservative Party has been exposed with the embarrassing claim by Tory Home Affairs frontbencher Chris Grayling that Britain has a higher violent crime rate than South Africa and America.

In reality, both South Africa and America have dramatically higher rates of violent crime than Britain. The Tories are simply lying, and have shown the intellectual shallowness of the people who want to make up this country’s next government.

To make matters worse, evidence from the British police shows that immigrants to Britain are responsible for a majority of the reported murders and related violent crime in Britain - making a mockery of the Tory allegations that British people are violent.

The ridiculous claim was contained in a special ‘report’ issued by the Conservative Party yesterday which was parroted by the controlled media as accurate - when, in fact, it was the most weak, pathetic and obviously false piece of ‘research’ seen since the Labour Party’s lies on Iraq’s ‘WMDs.’

According to the amateurish Tory report, Britain has a worse rate for “all types of violence than the US and even South Africa.”

The basis of this claim was in the definition of ‘violent crime’ as reported by the European Union’s central statistical office, Eurostat in Belgium.

Without bothering to check what makes up the definition of a ‘violent crime’ in South Africa, Britain or America, the Tory liars rushed into print the raw statistics.

In South Africa, a violent crime is defined - and records kept - as a contact crime, involving “physical contact between the victims and perpetrators and such contact is usually of a violent nature.”

What are the actual statistics which the shockingly poor Tory ‘research’ missed? A comparison of murder statistics alone shows the miscalculations of Mr Grayling and his rank amateurs.

According to the official South African Police Services (SAPS) statistics, as reported on their website, there were 18,487 murders in South Africa in 2007. According to the recorded crime statistics issued by the Home Office, there were 784 murders in Britain in 2007.

The total number of murders in South Africa from 2001 to 2007 was just under 120,000, according to the SAPS statistics. This is the equivalent to a larger number of people being murdered than the entire population of Salisbury in Wiltshire - yet the laughable Tories actually expect people to believe that Britain has a higher violent crime rate than South Africa.

Put another way: Some 60,000 British civilians were killed during the five year-long Blitz of World War II. This is half the number of people who have been murdered in South Africa in six years.

According to a report issued by the Global Burden of Armed Violence, the homicide rate per 100,000 population for South Africa is 38.6 compared to Britain’s 2.03.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual crime statistics reported that there were 16,929 murders in the United States of America in 2007. The total number of murders from 2001 to 2007 in America numbered 98,703. This figure is less than South Africa even though America has a population at least six times larger.

The homicide rate per 100,000 of the population for America is 5.8, still more than twice the rate for Britain - once again completely contradicting the fake Tory ‘report.’

Even in non-murder statistics, South African and American violent crime statistics are far larger than in Britain, as evidenced by the official reports

A survey for the period 1998-2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita.