Anger over Donald Trump's UK crime tweet

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Donald Trump has been accused of fuelling hate crime with a tweet erroneously linking a rise in the UK crime rate to "radical Islamic terror".
He said crime in the UK had risen by 13% amid the "spread" of Islamist terror - despite the figure referring to all crimes, not just terrorism.
The Labour MP, Yvette Cooper, said the statement was "inflammatory and ignorant", while ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband said Mr Trump was "a moron".
The Home Office declined to comment.

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Just out report: "United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror." Not good, we must keep America safe!
5:31 AM - Oct 20, 2017

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Mr Trump's tweet used data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)'s latest crime update, which reported a 13% increase across all offences in the 12 months to June.
It covered England and Wales, not the whole of the UK.
Police recorded 5.2m offences in the last year, the bulk of which were not associated with terrorism.
Rises were recorded in crime public order offences, stalking and harassment, possession of weapons and robbery.

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Is there any call for this stupid shit? I mean, for real. Somebody needs to take away his phone and stuff a sock in his mouth. What a dumbass thing to do. He doesn't have enough problems to deal with here, right? Let's just insult one of our staunchest allies because we can't keep our big trap shut.