Well you’ll be pleased to know that thanks to Elon Musk and others highlighting the Scottish Police arresting the Lass from Lochee, Scottish politicians are not happy and say that Mr Musk and everyone else is spreading “misinformation”.
Scotland’s First Minister has accused Elon Musk of spreading “misinformation” following an incident in Dundee where a girl was charged for alleged possession of offensive weapons.
John Swinney said the world’s richest man was trying to “undermine” the social “cohesion” in Scottish communities, which he said was “totally and utterly unacceptable”.
Which is fine, if true, although a skeptic might question the existing cohesion of “Scottish communities”. But then Mr Swinney doubles down:
“But what is very important,” he said, “is that Police Scotland have issued a warning about deliberate misinformation that is being used to stoke up fear and alarm in our communities.
“I am concerned about that and everybody should be concerned about that because we live in a fundamentally safer country today than we did 40 years ago.
“That’s what all the recorded data told us earlier on this week – we’re living in a safer country than we did 40 years ago.
And that statement, Mr First Minister, is what a Tory politician once described as being “economical with the actualité”. Indeed it shows the First Minister’s Scottish heritage by being so parsimonious with the facts that one would think they were being saved up to feed starving migrants from Africa. You see there was also this recent report (archive):
Sex crimes including rapes have surged to record levels in Scotland over the past year, according to official figures that prompted claims the SNP’s criminal justice system is failing women.
Scottish government statistics showed the number of rapes and attempted rapes reported in the year to June jumped by 15 per cent, from 2,609 to 3,004.
Overall, the number of sex offences rose by five per cent to 15,129, including a 27 per cent rise in the number of cases involving indecent photographs of children (898).
Domestic abuse crimes rose by 26 per cent over the year, and by 63 per cent compared to the year ending June 2021.
The figures also showed that overall crime levels rose by 1 per cent, while the number of less serious “offences” increased by 4 per cent.
Non-sexual violent crime has risen by 1 per cent over the last year and by 12 per cent since 2021.
It even has a helpful graph
And you have to wonder how a country which has seen more than a doubling of sex crimes since 1985 is one where the inhabitants are “living in a safer country than we did 40 years ago”?
It certainly seems to me that the women and children of Scotland - the overwhelming majority of the victims of sex crimes are female and/or children - are anything but safer than 40 years ago.
Someone might want to ask the First Minister whether a girl might feel justified in being armed for self defense.
We should also note that the First Minister is not the only person rationing facts:
Chief superintendent Nicola Russell, who is responsible for Police Scotland’s Tayside division, issued a statement on Wednesday.
She said: “We are aware of misinformation being shared on social media in relation to an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths in St Ann Lane, Dundee, on Saturday 23 August 2025.
“A 12-year-old girl has been charged with being in possession of offensive weapons. She will be referred to the relevant authorities and our inquiries are ongoing.
The statement “a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths” is in fact clearly disproven by the actual video. The “Bulgarian couple”, from their own video, first go towards the girls and only back up when the older girl threatens them. In fact it looks to me that the “Bulgarian couple” are deliberately trying to provoke the girls so as to get them in trouble, as witness comments in the video about wanting to show the knife too.
Moreover the media and politicians have made a big thing about the fact that the couple have legally migrated from Bulgaria. So it’s true they aren’t illegal immigrants or asylum seekers, but, as many have noted1, the British are not happy with overall migration levels so this is also a deliberate deflection that totally misses the point.
Moreover, it turns out the “Bulgarian couple” is this man and his wife
This is the man accused of harassing children & was threatened by the 14-year-old girl in Scotland. Fatos Ali Dumana a self-described ‘gypsy gangster man’, who has posted saying he is “waiting for you whores to get in my super car” - is not a model migrant as the media claims.
Clearly such an upstanding gentleman would never dream of harrassing young girls and is obviously a victim of nativist white supremacy and racism.
PS in a curious echo of the DC situtation, the BBC reports that “more than 280,000 crimes unrecorded last year, watchdog finds” and, perhaps more critically, it also has this article “Report finds evidence of misogyny at Police Scotland”. That report is all about a laddish culture in the force, but one cannot help but wonder whether such a culture dissuades women from reporting sex crimes. Especially combined with the support of the Trantifa brigade by Scottish Officialdom, up to and including the Edinburgh rape crisis center headed by a bloke in a dress.
For at least the last decade - and probably more like two - the British public as a whole has been very clear that they do not want lots of non-British people coming to live in the British Isles. Especially not ones who try to enter illegally.
In fairness, I am willing to entertain the possibility that US crime stats are monsterously distorted in significant and important ways. But if someone is telling me that the truth is different from what the stats indicate, then I want to hear a proposal to improve stats accuracy, and an explanation for what use political power and policy is in such a situation. I do not instead want to hear that I need to trust the politician's summary, instead of checking the numbers for myself, and forming my own guesses from those numbers.
I feel that Enoch Powell's Birmingham/Rivers of Blood speech may have in its favor the interpretation that he was picking up on the insanity of UK elites, Labour, and etc. On the other hand, he was speaking thirty years or so prior to the lunatics doing the early cover ups. Keir Starmer got his degrees during the eighties, and Enoch Powell perhaps could not have foreseen that or the results, unless the elite behavior patterns are genuinely persistent.
Almost sixty years later, and from a US and more academic dumbass perspective, it seems likely that the core problem is not the immigrants, but the judges, administrators, etc., trained in universities, seeing through the lens of theory, pushing policy effectively blindly, and being blithely unconcerned about the real consequences of what is actually happening. These politicians do not feel like they are observant, thoughtful, and honest.
There are two sets of stats important for these comparisons, and I would have questions about apples/apples and apples/oranges for any numbers for both over the full period of importance, which I estimate at 1940s to 2020s. I'm not sure that customs of sexual behavior were so stable, that reports of sex abuse would have had the same methodology over that time. The comparison numbers, number of other culture immigrants in UK, I would expect to maybe have better quality for 1940s to 1960s. (Though, I suspect that there were possibly some incentives to suppress reporting about acts of sex abuse by US servicemen during WWII.) Other culture person numbers are probably not wholely reliable for that 1970s to 2010, and especially the 2010 to mid 2020s time frames.
I think the academics buying into critical theory inspired behavior models, and into depolicing policies are a more likely driver than mere presence of the sorts of evil men born into every population. Culture is real, is important, and does matter. I am unsure whether the culture of the elites has mutated away from where it was, very recently, due to the universities.
For me, this is an intelligence analysis problem, and not one where I care to try to do a really awesome job, or to put work in on collection. I already had my guesses and preferences formed when I first heard about some of the cover up allegations around twenty years ago. The new information could be relevant to preference cascades, sure. It would be a very unwise UK national who resolves such a critical matter by relying only on what an American rando like me thinks.
It does look bad to me. I may be over relying on my own parallel concerns about whether American elite-identifying university trained persons are blithely indifferent to crimes committed against persons inside the USA when those crimes are against poor and uneducated persons. Quite a lot of people seem to have been trafficked across the US borders as de facto slaves, which may have had broadly negative effects for almost everyone here.
“Historian” Tom Holland: “The true nightmare of #Rotherham is that the motives of those who turned a blind eye, however monstrous the consequences, were indeed noble.” “Historian” noble.
In fairness, I am willing to entertain the possibility that US crime stats are monsterously distorted in significant and important ways. But if someone is telling me that the truth is different from what the stats indicate, then I want to hear a proposal to improve stats accuracy, and an explanation for what use political power and policy is in such a situation. I do not instead want to hear that I need to trust the politician's summary, instead of checking the numbers for myself, and forming my own guesses from those numbers.
I feel that Enoch Powell's Birmingham/Rivers of Blood speech may have in its favor the interpretation that he was picking up on the insanity of UK elites, Labour, and etc. On the other hand, he was speaking thirty years or so prior to the lunatics doing the early cover ups. Keir Starmer got his degrees during the eighties, and Enoch Powell perhaps could not have foreseen that or the results, unless the elite behavior patterns are genuinely persistent.
Almost sixty years later, and from a US and more academic dumbass perspective, it seems likely that the core problem is not the immigrants, but the judges, administrators, etc., trained in universities, seeing through the lens of theory, pushing policy effectively blindly, and being blithely unconcerned about the real consequences of what is actually happening. These politicians do not feel like they are observant, thoughtful, and honest.
There are two sets of stats important for these comparisons, and I would have questions about apples/apples and apples/oranges for any numbers for both over the full period of importance, which I estimate at 1940s to 2020s. I'm not sure that customs of sexual behavior were so stable, that reports of sex abuse would have had the same methodology over that time. The comparison numbers, number of other culture immigrants in UK, I would expect to maybe have better quality for 1940s to 1960s. (Though, I suspect that there were possibly some incentives to suppress reporting about acts of sex abuse by US servicemen during WWII.) Other culture person numbers are probably not wholely reliable for that 1970s to 2010, and especially the 2010 to mid 2020s time frames.
I think the academics buying into critical theory inspired behavior models, and into depolicing policies are a more likely driver than mere presence of the sorts of evil men born into every population. Culture is real, is important, and does matter. I am unsure whether the culture of the elites has mutated away from where it was, very recently, due to the universities.
For me, this is an intelligence analysis problem, and not one where I care to try to do a really awesome job, or to put work in on collection. I already had my guesses and preferences formed when I first heard about some of the cover up allegations around twenty years ago. The new information could be relevant to preference cascades, sure. It would be a very unwise UK national who resolves such a critical matter by relying only on what an American rando like me thinks.
It does look bad to me. I may be over relying on my own parallel concerns about whether American elite-identifying university trained persons are blithely indifferent to crimes committed against persons inside the USA when those crimes are against poor and uneducated persons. Quite a lot of people seem to have been trafficked across the US borders as de facto slaves, which may have had broadly negative effects for almost everyone here.
“Historian” Tom Holland: “The true nightmare of #Rotherham is that the motives of those who turned a blind eye, however monstrous the consequences, were indeed noble.” “Historian” noble.