The Sky News fact-checking team have gone to great lengths to try to undermine Nigel Farage's statement that Afghan men are 22 times more likely to commit a sexual offence than British-born nationals.

Nigel Farage says "an Afghan male has a 22 times more likely chance of being convicted of rape than somebody born in this country". Sky News's data and forensics unit has looked at the data.

The best they can come up with - based on source data that no-one really trusts - is that it's not 22x but 3x.

Then there's the issue of whether any of the data used includes the hundreds, maybe thousands, of unreported or unacknowledged rapes commited by grooming gangs.

But is data-wrangling really the issue here?

The point is that the UK is importing into the country people whose culture has a different attitude towards the sexual treatment of women, and for that matter boys, and so it's hardly surprising that they commit more offences.

The question is not who has used the right data but why are we importing people into the UK who are likely to commit somewhere between 3x and 22x more sexual offences?

Surely this is what matters?