This was the 'offending' comment from Rhiannon, in full:
'Or in my neck of the woods, the head of Cambs police is on television giving an interview saying that she can't police the county effectively due to Eastern European migrants feuding. They don't bother the locals, just bring over ancient disagreements from their homelands and stab each other, and as she pointed out, that needs policing in a county where the village bobby on a bike is still a thing.'
Can you explain to me how that is consistent with what was 'officially' reported in the BBC article. For example where on earth do the details about stabbing each other come from, or ancient disagreements. None of that is in the article. It simply isn't there.
In fact a little idle googling of Lithuanian murders in Cambridgeshire in the couple of years prior to the article in 2007 pulls up only one case - and that involved a man dying when his van was set on fire in Wisbech, was ultimately determined to be manslaughter not murder and no-one was ever convicted so we have no idea whether or not it was perpetrated by another Lithuanian let alone whether it was part of an ongoing feud.
That's not the comment in full at all, is it?
Which was:
'Do you have the stats for that?
I've mentioned my mate in Grimsby before. He works as a long haul driver for an agency. One day they are all told that a group of Polish drivers have arrived looking for work, they will do it for less so everyone has to take a wage cut or they won't get work. Not long after, both Brits and Poles are told to take another wage cut because the Romanian drivers have arrived. And the likelihood of this being a rogue employer is what, exactly?
Or in my neck of the woods, the head of Cambs police is on television giving an interview saying that she can't police the county effectively due to Eastern European migrants feuding. They don't bother the locals, just bring over ancient disagreements from their homelands and stab each other, and as she pointed out, that needs policing in a county where the village bobby on a bike is still a thing. So the character of a place changes.
I love the fact that I can find Polish branded food in my local supermarket. We like to try some of it. But to others that will be a change too. Are we 'overrun'? No, but this is new and there will be people who don't like it, just as much as I think it is something to enjoy.'
Which you portrayed incorrectly as being represented by the bit in double quotes here
'Rhiannon - read back what you have just written and think very, very carefully, about how that comes across. I don't believe you are the kind of person who succumbs to the "my mate knows a bloke who had a chat in the pub who told me that all those foreigners are raping our women', but you have to be very, very careful about what you post and how it comes across.'
Which is a misrepresentation for which you should apologise.
