Heartfelt appeal for a return to the old values

Ray Illingworth, former cricketer and ex-chairman of England selectors, Nancy Sinatra, singer

Colin Baker, actor, Julie Driscoll, singer, Mick Hucknall, singer, Nick Rhodes, musician, Julianna Margulies, actress, Kanye West, US rapper I BELIEVE they should bring national service back and get all those yobs off the street.

Also the government should bring hanging back because those who kill should not be allowed to live - jail is too good for them. The same is true for the man who targeted lovely Prince George.

You are not even safe on the streets or even in your own home. Those good-for-nothing idiots who think it is right to throw abuse in people’s faces should have it done to them and see how they like it.

Those people who think it is all right to break into people’s houses haven’t the brain they were born with.

Don’t they realise people have worked all their lives to make a nice home and then see it all ruined by some brainless idiot?

My sister has been broken into twice. The yobs don’t realise what it does to the people they have robbed.

In the olden days you could leave your door unlocked.

I remember seeing a man being interviewed on the television who used to break into people’s houses.

He was asked if he would like someone to break into his house. No, he said, I wouldn’t. I would kill them.

I also would like to say that nearly all the roads today are treated like the Formula One racing track. Coppice Drive at Netherton is used as a rat run

It’s awful, they don’t realise speeding kills.

And we still see drivers on their mobiles. OVER the last 10 years we have seen a vast influx of immigrants predominantly from the EU.

We have to be open and discuss this fact with regard to the pressures put on every system within government and nationally within the UK.

I shall not go into the aspect of the so-called unemployment rate which officially stands currently at 4.4%, but just to say that if people analysed the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures they would see another story, where the true figure in reality is about 21.5% of all working age people (defined as ages 16 to 64) without jobs, or 8.83 million people, (cited from Business Insider UK, 2018).

But what is the most worrying fact is the rise in crime over the last decade which has increased significantly.

In the last three years alone of recorded crime figures (but where the true rate will be a lot higher than even these figures, as all crimes are not now even recorded) the rise was 6% (2015), 8% (2016) and 14% (2017) according to the ONS.

Added to these figures, in the last reported year knife crime had gone up 21%, gun crime 20%, rape 20%, domestic burglaries 32% and murders 8%.

Therefore, has the influx of immigration on an unprecedented scale over the last decade had anything to do with this?

Unfortunately, this cannot be answered presently as crime is not divulged on the national origin of the perpetrators.

Therefore, I am of the opinion that government should start releasing these figures, but they probably will not, I am afraid, due to the sensitivity surround ing the EU and BREXIT.

But the people need to know for their own long-term wellbeing, even if some will think that these recorded figures are alarmist.