RACISM IN WALES

Motion Text

leave out from 'House' to end and add 'notes that increases recorded in racial crime in London and in England generally from 1996-1997 to 1999-2000 were larger than the comparative figure for Gwent: congratulates Heddlu Police Gwent on the recent reduction of racialist crime; notes with pleasure Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's confirmation that the current Gwent total has dropped from 267 racial crimes in 2000 to 186 in 2001: believes that misleading scare mongering can be alarmist and self-fulfilling; and recalls that the BNP's only candidate in Wales in 2001 General election amassed only 0.8 per cent of the vote.'.