{"id":15290,"date":"2016-06-27T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T10:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=15290"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T10:24:57","slug":"post-brexit-race-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/27\/post-brexit-race-hate-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Brexit Race Hate Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants are being told to go home, rather forcefully with hate mail being sent as evidence stands that post-Brexit racism has spread across the streets of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Former Conservative Chairwoman Baroness Warsi said that: \u201cRace hate crime organisations have reported some disturbing early results.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15297\" style=\"width: 2060px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15297 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi.jpg\" alt=\"Sayeeda Warsi\" width=\"2060\" height=\"1236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi.jpg 2060w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi-696x418.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi-1068x641.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lady-Warsi-700x420.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2060px) 100vw, 2060px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sayeeda Warsi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She blamed the &#8220;divisive and xenophobic&#8221; leave campaigning in the EU referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson, the chief figure of the Leave campaign, addressed EU migrants&#8217; qualms and concerns.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;There has been a lot of confusion over the weekend &#8211; the status of people living in this country. It is absolutely clear that people from other European countries who are living here, have their rights protected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that people want to see is a system that&#8217;s fair, impartial and humane to all people coming from around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, police are currently investigating a statement of an \u201calleged racially-motivated\u201d attack on a Polish community building in London in addition to hate notes being posted through the doors of Polish residents in Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15298\" style=\"width: 2592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15298 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association.jpg\" alt=\"Polish social and cultural association\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Polish-social-and-cultural-association-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polish social and cultural association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Post-Brexit racism has also been posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>One women tweeted that her daughter saw a Muslim women fenced in by a gang of men in Birmingham who were telling her to \u201cget out, we voted leave\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Warsi said she wanted leave campaigners to: \u201cCome out and say that the campaigning was divisive and was xenophobic and give a commitment that future campaigning and the way that they intend to run this country will be united, will make people from all backgrounds feel like they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent most of the weekend talking to organisations, individuals and activists who work in the area of race hate crime, who monitor hate crime, and they have shown some really disturbing early results from people being stopped in the street and saying look, we voted Leave, it&#8217;s time for you to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And they are saying this to individuals and families who have been here for three, four, five generations. The atmosphere on the street is not good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that graffiti had been sprayed on the doors of the Polish Social and Cultural Association in Hammersmith, West London.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said: &#8220;We were informed of an incident of alleged racially-motivated criminal damage to a building in King Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers attended and enquiries are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cambridgeshire Police are inspecting the laminated cards that were being sent through doors in Huntingdon carrying the message: &#8220;Leave the EU\u00a0&#8211; no more Polish vermin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage was severely attacked for his \u201cBreaking Point\u201d poster during the campaigning, which showed a queue of refugees in Europe, saying the UK needed to take control of its borders.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reason why Lady Warsi proclaimed her support for the Remain campaign, rather than backing Leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigrants are being told to go home, rather forcefully with hate mail being sent as evidence stands that post-Brexit racism has spread across the streets of the UK. Former Conservative Chairwoman Baroness Warsi said that: \u201cRace hate crime organisations have reported some disturbing early results.\u201d She blamed the &#8220;divisive and xenophobic&#8221; leave campaigning in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}