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Clarity in Covering Migrant Crimes Key to Avoid Racial Tension - UKIP

© AFP 2023 / Adrian DennisArmed British police officers stand on duty in front of the Elzabeth Tower, better known as "Big Ben", outside the vehicle entrance to the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 22, 2016.
Armed British police officers stand on duty in front of the Elzabeth Tower, better known as Big Ben, outside the vehicle entrance to the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 22, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Clarity is needed to avoid racial tension and distrust in the issues related to migration, a UKIP member of the European Parliament told Sputnik Wednesday, commenting on the recent poll revealing a half of Britons believed their media and governments provide biased information about migrant crime.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, Sputnik published a poll which found that 46 percent of the Brits, as well as over two-thirds of French and German residents believe that the information they receive about crimes that may be committed by migrants from mainstream media and their respective governments was subjective.

"What is necessary to the public across the European Union, is clarity. Because if there is no clarity there is distrust, so if the public are genuinely questioning such figures that doesn’t actually bode well and it is a responsibility of the government," James Carver said.

Carver warned that "if there is a breakdown in communication, I fear that would only lead to bigger concerns," such as "more racial tension, and more mistrust."

He also stressed that the issue of immigration is high on the agenda in the United Kingdom and is no doubt "one of the big keys of this referendum debate."

"The fact that we as a so-called sovereign country don’t have the control of our own borders actually is very worrying," Carver said. "We don’t have the capacity unfortunately to actually cope with such large increases, it actually goes far further than the migration debate itself, it leads to whether our government, and previous government are actually looking at a bigger picture as our population increases."

The survey was conducted in Britain and Germany by Populus Ltd., a leading British polling company, on February 3 and 4, 2016. The survey involved 3,556 respondents (1,047 in Britain and 1,010 in Germany). In France, the survey was held by IFop, a leading French polling company, from February 3 through 5, 2016 and involved 1,499 respondents. The sample is representative of the country’s population with respect to gender, age, geography and occupation.

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