To think a National Emergency should be called by Starmer?

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https://news.sky.com/story/woman-critically-injured-after-being-stabbed-in-neck-in-unprovoked-attack-13466219

Another Stabbing, its daily now.

Country's been allowed to get out of hand.
Should Starmer address it?

So you have no evidence to suggest this, just a feeling from the news. News outlets choose which events to report on - at the moment people are interested in reports on stabbings, so that’s what they feature.

This is the problem. What exactly do you think a National Emergency would achieve? What’s it going to change and how? Or, are you what I expect you are, and someone from Reform HQ trying to stir up a bit of trouble?

Are you answering Musk's call to a civil war? With his mate Tommy Robinson?

I'm not sure I fully believe those stats. I moved to the place I currently live in about 10 years ago. It's not a 'leafy middle-class area', but it used to be peaceful and felt safe nevertheless.

Two days ago a teen girl walking her dogs was approached by a man in his 20s, holding a machete in the park, in broad daylight. Luckily, she ran and escaped, he didn't chase her. But. About half a year ago, there was a man with two machetes, one in each hand, roaming the town centre, also in broad daylight. Haven't harmed anyone, but let's be honest, it's not very normal, right. Nothing much was done. A few days later he was seen again, with machetes. And arrested (finally). There were many more various knife related incidents, also stabbings.

I agree, stabbings obviously always existed. But say what you will, men/boys roaming with massive machetes in the middle of the day no less and hurting or at least threatening unrelated people - that didn't happen. Or men stabbing random people in the streets, completely unprovoked, unrelated to gangs, and not robbing them. Gang violence - sure, muggings - sure, but not like this.

Though I really don't think it's Starmers fault and I'm no fan of his.

Not lies. But the news outlets dont report every thing that happens everywhere. They choose. Currently they are choosng to report on knife crime, which has decreased but is appearing more often in the news.

Stabbings between rival drug gangs is one thing. The random killing of passers by /young girls in a dance class -did not happen in the past

I’d think a lot is going unreported then - the gangs stabbing other gangs, both equally unlawful are unlikely to be running to the police. Statistics can be manipulated to say whatever you like!

I mean, I don't want to start a race to the bottom in terms of taste here, but when I was a teenager at school, stabbings were more or less unheard of, but it was the height of the IRA's mainland bombing campaign.

I'm still a bit nervous around railway station bins and unattended luggage tbh.

Times change. Threats remain.

If you struggle with originality, you can always use chat GPT. No need to embarrass yourself.

You hear alot more now though.

Good news that it has gone down isn't it? At the risk of inviting much NAMALTing I do think if we want to address violent crime it's important for us to recognise that the vast majority of it is carried out by those with a Y chromosome.

No. Trust the stats. People would never lie or mislead you. The stats say crime is down. If you think it isn’t then you have clearly been fed a narrative by Vladimir Putin and his Russian co-conspirators. You need to stop being such a sheep.

Lives not Knives I mean.

OP, regardless of whether you're being deliberately obtuse or are really just that dense, you have been proven wrong so probably time to go and check those flags are still up.

Don't you mean Grok?

But the actual number of knife injuries is dropping. Nobody is claiming that the number is acceptable/not a problem but you are wrongly saying it is increasing. If an increase would require a National Emergency does a decrease suggest some successful strategies that could be built on?

If those figures are right it means knife crime doibled under the Tories and is decreasing under Labour then. So Starmer is already doing the right things and no need for panic.

The way news is reported has changed. News is reported online and the news outlets get advertising revenue based on the number of page clicks and the number of people who interact with the article (eg: commenting and sharing on social media). This means that news outlets are incentivised to keep posting the types of news articles which get the most traction, not necessarilly the articles which are the most newsworthy or would have been deemed most newsworthy 5/10/20 etc years ago. Because of the way algorithms works if you have engaged with articles about knife crime in the past are also likely to have created an echo chamber where you see more and more posts about this over other types of news but again, it doesn’t mean it’s happening more frequently, it just means you’re seeing the reports more frequently than you used to.

Data shows that knife crime is down but if articles about it get the most views, shares and comments they will continue to dominate the headlines and it may look like it is more common now. If you engage with articles and posts about knife crime you will be shown more and more of these. The reason you think knife crime was ‘unheard of’ in past years isn’t because it wasn’t happening, it’s just because it wasn’t being reported as frequently or making national news or because the algorithms weren’t targeting you with this. You can’t form your understanding of what is happening in the world from the news alone because algorithms make it so you can’t trust that you’re being shown a balanced view of what’s happening, the ONS data is far more accurate than the daily Mail!

Any help you can get will be an improvement.

Here they come …..

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‘Brought down’? That sounds a bit violent.
Are you not a fan of democracy? How do you imagine a government could, or should, be brought down? Any government?
In this country we have a system of elections and terms of government.

Elon’s obviously a bit bored atm.

Can you itemise the 'a lot more' school stabbings , OP? Can we stick to stabbings on , or just outside, school premises , involving pupils (or staff) from the school, on a school day- in, say, the last 2 years.

Tractor production is up.