[Devongone]

It's not that I don't think it is happening. The rise is because we are looking for a rise and reporting a rise. Most of the time most people (including the authorities) don't give a flying fuque about immigrant attacks.

Now it is newsworthy, now we hear, only now does it become real. The referendum just gave a new voice to the attackers, new crap to spout as they kick in your face.

Where I am is lovely, but go to Plymouth - some of it is Heanor on Sea. By the way every taxi in the city is driven by an Eastern European. We have lots of migrant workers.

As for the theory that immigration won the referendum ....... Sunderland has relatively few immigrants or migrants and voted Leave in droves. Certainly immigration had an effect but it wasn't a UKIP result. Remain should have won easily. It ain't Corbyn's fault they didn't. They shouldn't have picked Sterling. Get it?

The truth is that "freedom of movement" and individual nationhood are impossible bedfellows, and the EU will one day have to face that fact. Germany can decide to admit 1,000,000 migrants. A couple of years down the line it grants them citizenship. They are then free to move anywhere within the EU. So Germany is making a unilateral decision on behalf of the other 26 nations. The moment it opens its door it is opening everyone's door. Not to over-door matters, but that is federalism by the back door.

And Dancing, Boris and Nigel is an impossible combination. Nigel isn't in Parliament. To be honest I doubt the Tories will have the sense to make him leader anyway. They never go for the favourite.