The Conservatives spent 14 years promising to get a grip on crime, borders and the high street, then watched shoplifting, fare-dodging and disorder climb while the people responsible moved on to the next job.
Soft charging thresholds, early releases, and a policing model that treated low-level theft as not worth the paperwork all had predictable results.
Jenrick (Career Politician) was part of the problem.
@PolitlcsUK Robert Jenrick going after people who nicked a 2 quid bottle of coke while his government handed out contracts equaling billions of pounds to their mates during covid.
@RobertJenrick How many pasties and sausage rolls would £45m buy? You could have fed the adult population of the UK for a day.
Get back under your stone of shame.
@RobertJenrick What are your thoughts on a racist group of thugs harassing an innocent man sat on a bench minding his own business? Maybe you should start there....
@RobertJenrick F*ck right off Jenrick with your performative drivel
You were in power for years and years and years and all you did was make the nation worse
You and reform can both rot in hell
Hey Bobbie, you should know better.
The latest MoJ data shows that, where ethnicity was known, 90.5% of people prosecuted for shop theft were White.
Only 3.5% were Black and 2.4% Asian.
And 69.1% were aged 30–49; just 5.6% were under 21.
These aren't the demographics suggested by the inflammatory “feral” rhetoric.
You were a Home Office minister responsible for Immigration Enforcement under the last Tory government and really ought to know the difference between evidence and political theatre.
@RobertJenrick Is it a bird. Is it a plane? No, it's Super Rob. Such a "brave" soul, saving Britain from shoplifters - camera crew in tow. Pity you don't go after the corporate thieves, committing financial fraud without consequence. You know the ones posing on yachts & laughing at us all.
You sad opportunistic bastard. The #FarageRiots were in England in 2024. They were fucking horrifying.
Two hotels housing asylum seekers were set on fire while occupied. More than 360 police officers were injured, plus police dogs and a horse. Mosques were attacked (including a petrol bomb that failed to ignite). A Library was burned. A Citizens Advice bureau was set on fire. Immigrant-owned businesses were burnt out. There were racist beatings of non-white individuals, and mob attacks on non-white people in cars. Homes and cars were attacked in residential streets. Shops were looted. Police vehicles were set alight. Muslim graves were vandalised. Immigration lawyers and asylum charities were named on a target list. There were 1,840 arrests and 1,103 charges. Didn't see Jenrick confronting any far-right thugs.
@RobertJenrick Robert Jenrick takes issue with a black man stealing a bottle of drink, but thinks the old white guy who assaulted a young woman with his crutch “deserves a medal.”
Rob’s a hypocrite. You can’t pick and choose which crimes bother you depending on who commits them.