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British public 'have a right to know' the statistics on foreign criminals, Coulston claims
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Apr 22, 2025
The Labour Government's decision to publish migrant crime "league tables" following pressure from across the political spectrum has been "welcomed" by leader of the Social Democratic Party William Coulston.Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called on officials to release a detailed breakdown of offences committed by foreign criminals living in the UK - whilst awaiting deportation.FULL STORY HERE.
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Something a lot of people have campaigned for
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transparency when it comes to this data. People have filed FOI requests, including GB News as well
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and been told by the Home Office, essentially, take too much resources, too much time to collate all this data
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and put it all together in a box for you. Seems as though it is now happening. Your thoughts
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Well, I welcome it. I've long argued that we need this data
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I'm slightly old-fashioned. I'm an old-fashioned Social Democrat on this. I think the public has a right to know. It's very legitimate that we should know this
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And the second reason why we should know it is that you can't actually make evidence-based policy without the evidence, can you
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So I think from Yvette Cooper's point of view, she needs to know because she can't make policy if she doesn't have the data in front of us
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So I think it's good. I think she has. I think there has been somewhat of a cover up for years on this
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And I think we need to thank certain MPs. And obviously, GB News, you've done your bit
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But Neil O'Brien and Rupert Lowe and Nick Timothy have pressed this again and again
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And Jenrick's pressed it as well. We need to know. I think the public has a right to know
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What do you think could actually change when it comes to migration policy off the back of data like this Say we found out that some country or other had far higher rates of crime
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Should we sanction that country? Should we have a specific ban on visas for citizens of that country
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How should this sort of data inform policy? Well, if you found out, Tom, that a particular population from a particular country was disproportionately criminal, massively so
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then it would be very foolish, wouldn't it, to continue high migration rates from that country
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I think to not do that is just totally irrational. But in fact, what we've had is a situation where we've lost control of the border on the south coast
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the country's economic model has been addicted to very, very high, low wage, low skilled migration
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for years, but we haven't had the data to look at it seriously. So criminality is one aspect
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Another aspect, which I think is absolutely vital that the country open up so the citizen can see
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it is net contributions per migrant population migrant class I think that is another bit of information that you need to have some sort of league table you need to have some handle on what sort of contribution the person is likely to make on the basis of their population level
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And if you don't have that, you can't make good policy. And yes, to answer your question directly
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do I think that we should be more discriminating if we have high criminality amongst certain groups
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Yes, of course we should. It would be crazy not to. people on the left or who are pro immigration will probably say that then you're tarring everyone
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with the same brush so what if it you know one group is overrepresented in a certain crime that
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shouldn't mean that someone else should suffer as a result and that this would take us down a very
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dangerous path where we're just picking and choosing based on the crimes that
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others have committed. What would you say to that, William? Well, we're governed by people that claim to be discriminating anyway. So, you know
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the Tories always went on about we need high skilled migration, we need the skills we need
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Well, that's a form of discrimination, isn't it? You're looking at people that fulfill certain
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criterias that you're looking for. I think there's nothing wrong in a democracy, a social democracy
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doing this I think indeed it rational not to do it And I think that one of the reasons I very keen on particularly the net contribution the net fiscal contribution figures being published
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is that there was a similar report produced, you may know about it, by Jan van der Beek and his
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team at Amsterdam University a couple of years ago, on the net contribution of different migrant
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classes. Now, just to summarize that, you've got some forms of migration into Holland, they've got
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the figures from East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, which were net, made net contributions
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a lifetime net contribution of over 100,000 euros. There are some categories which that team
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estimated sub-Saharan migrant application for, you know, migration, which was down at sort of
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minus 630,000 euros. That's pretty much half a million quid a pop. Now, I've long argued that
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you know, the craziness down at the South Coast, if you have 700 people arriving unsolicited
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undocumented each day sometimes, I think it's not unreasonable to assume that those 700 people will cost your country
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350 million over their lifetimes. And if that's the case, I think the citizens have a right to know
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and then we have a right to challenge the politicians that are in charge of this
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to ask them what the hell they're doing
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