This man was attacked in his own home by burglars:
The burglars were caught and charged. They were in court today and were found guilty. They are going to jail. It was made known afterwards - that's the law - you're innocent till proven guilty - that three of the four were habitual criminals with a string of arrests for similar crimes.
There's nothing unusual about this crime. It has happened often and never made it to the front pages of UK newspapers and news websites. So why did this crime become such a talking point? The convicted burglars are Polish.
Their nationality has certainly caught the attention of newspapers like the Daily Mail and websites such as ITN/ITV news.
Of course, it's a well-known fact that all UK citizens are honest and we never, ever export baddies - for example, British gangsters to the Costa del Crime, drug smugglers to Thailand and Venezuela. So when 'foreigners' come here and commit crimes, the right wing media are outraged. Or could it be they are looking for a scapegoat?
The media seem to have a quite clear hierarchy when it comes to filling their front pages: first on their shame list: people in receipt of benefits, especially the unemployed - scroungers the lot of them - and immigrants. Anyone who is foreign is here to steal our jobs. Asylum seekers get handouts of £65,000 a year and houses and send their benefits back home to support families of 10. It's all lies and, of course, it ramps up the temperature in a country that seems obsessed at the moment, not with the real issues like low pay, zero hour contracts - that is social justice and equality - but with finding someone to blame for the state the UK economy is in. And whatever the Tories want to tell us, it's in some state.
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