race incidents reporting, there was indeed a spike in reporting and I looked for assertions by the police that it was only an increase in reporting and that actual incidents didn't go up
Leaving aside the fact that these are open cases which the police couldn't simply publicly dismiss how about this:
news.npcc.police.uk/releases/hate-crime-is-unacceptable-in-any-circumstances-say-police
“Police forces are working closely with their communities to maintain unity and tolerance and prevent any hate crime or abuse following the EU referendum. At the national level, the vast majority of people are continuing to go about their lives in safety and security and there have been no major spikes in tensions reported.
“However, we are seeing an increase in reports of hate crime incidents to True Vision, the police online hate crime reporting site. This is similar to the trends following other major national or international events. In previous instances, crime levels returned to normal relatively quickly but we are monitoring the situation closely.
The Daily Mail wrote that some incidents being reported were 2nd hand reports and that they were unverifiable anyway, and they spun it to say the spike in reports was unreliable and therefore the incidents most likely not there
Actually it came from the Chief Constable of Essex Police.
m.echo-news.co.uk/news/14604671.Recorded_hate_crime__down_on_last_year__as_Essex_Police_say_complaint_against_Nigel_Farage_counts_as_one/
“Some members of the public complaining about Nigel Farage, or whatever, that will get recorded as a hate crime no matter what it is. If the person feels it’s a hate crime it will get recorded as a hate crime”, he said.
They later clarified that they had only had one complaint about Nigel Farage, but the general gist of his comment was that the spike was somewhat influenced by frivolous complaints.
So Bill you want us 3.2 m EU citizens to stay and be able to name and shame our employers in the future?
Yes. I would like the EU citizens here to be allowed to stay. I assume that's a pretty common feeling. I think you'd have to be very extreme to want to see people uprooted from their jobs and homes and families just because we've decided to have a reorganisation of the way our countries politics work. I would also be very surprised if they weren't allowed to and I totally expect they will. I think this trope that lots of people are clamouring for them to leave is a myth.
And no, I'm not really in favour of publishing those figures. I think it's an expensive waste of time and won't achieve anything. I would prefer to see the underlying issues that stop British people taking these jobs addressed instead. Which I think are low wages, poor working conditions, insecure contracts and lack of flexibility/accommodation for things like staff with issues like childcare etc. A lot of these jobs have zero security, you don't know if you will be paid from one week to the next and you're expected to work anti social hours at short notice for very low wages. These are jobs that young migrants without dependent and with a fairly transient lifestyle can take but British people who with dependents and a more settled life can't. I think there's a problem there which needs to be addressed.
But equally a university or hospital or pharma co or engineering co might have a similar level of foreign workers because they need people with specific high level skills which can't be found and are so specialised it's not just a matter of training people up. Those figures would be too simplistic and wouldn't really differentiate between the two. I don't think it would serve any useful purpose.