NOVEMBER 11th 2024
REMEMBER SCOTLAND'S FALLEN ON ARMISTICE DAY
THE COMMANDO MONUMENT AT SPAEN BRIDGE
Below: The real message of November 1918.
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BM SCOTLAND: - The Fourteen Words are Just as Important in Scotland as in England, or Wales or Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile in recent weeks.....
Human Trafficking in Scotland?
What is going on? News media reports of Police Scotland raids on premises in Dundee and Paisley involved in human trafficking.
Brothels in Paisley and Dundee where young women have been 'imported' from south-east Asia to work as prostitutes and sex slaves in Scotland. And that is the news that has been allowed to be reported, some sources suggest that this is an even bigger problem in Scotland.
Meanwhile 'Operation Branchform' - the investigation into the financial 'irregularities' in the SNP continues to drag on.
There are reports leaking out that investigators from Police Scotland are becoming increasingly frustrated by the slow pace of the investigation.
**** Alex Salmond Dies - So What Will Happen to the Alba Party?
As this blog goes out - the news comes through of the death of the career Scottish politician and independence obsessed campaigner Alex Salmond.
His legal battles with the Scottish government and with the party hierarchy of the SNP, resulting from his court cases and failed prosecutions around allegations of sexual misconduct were still going through the legal system.
Plus there was still plenty of animosity between Alex Salmond and the leadership of the SNP, both past and present, especially Nicola Sturgeon.
His recent political party the Alba Party has now lost its most experienced and high profile politician. So what now for the Alba Party?
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UNDER THE SUNWHEEL - SEPTEMBER 2024
A Special Edition of the British Movement podcast:
Celebrating the life and legacy of Ian Stuart Donaldson
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BM SCOTLAND SALUTES THE MEMORY OF IAN STUART DONALDSON
Ian Stuart Donaldson - songwriter, musician, British racial Nationalist activist - passed from this world September 24th 1993.
FAREWELL IAN STUART - REMEMBERED IN SEPTEMBER 2024
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GLASGOW - George Square 'Pro-United Kingdom' and Anti-immigration rally - Saturday 7th September. So what went on?
That was almost a couple of weeks ago now, the dust has settled and plenty of video footage from the day is now in public circulation. Glasgow Live even provided a running commentary together with images and video footage.
Prior to the day there was no shortage of mouthing off from Left-wing 'spokespersons' their justification for trying to block the pro-UK rally....
"Talat Ahmed, SUTR Scotland convenor said: "Our rally is about celebrating and defending multiculturalism and diversity and saying loud and clear that refugees are welcome here and aren't to blame for the problems in society. And that the far right, with their toxic politics of hate and division, are not welcome in Scotland."
Linda Somerville, STUC Deputy General Secretary, said: “We have long warned that the far-right poses a dangerous threat in the UK, spreading racist hate amongst communities that are often marginalised and under-resourced. The cruel impacts of austerity, compounded by the drip feed of anti-migrant rhetoric from parts of the media and some politicians have created these conditions.
"Trade unions have a long history of defending our communities against fascists and racists and will proudly join the rally in Glasgow to show racists that they have no place here.”
On the day there was no shortage of wild, slogan shouting from the assembled forces of the militant Left, plenty of speeches filled with wild exaggerations and the usual sessions of infantile chanting by Left wing activists.
There were activists from assorted Marxist organisations, activists from a range of well funded anti-racism and self-styled anti-fascist organisations, mainstream politicians from the SNP, Labour Party and Scottish Greens, Trade Unions, and plenty of social justice activists standing up for Gaza, LGBT rights, pro-asylum-seeker, pro-immigration and all shouting abuse at the loyal, Unionist White British Scots assembled to oppose immigration and support the Union. !
One prominent left wing/anti-sectarian academic from Glasgow University got so carried away in her ranting speech that she was later reported to Police Scotland for 'Hate' speech.
Meanwhile the Scottish mainstream media reported on the day......
Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken told BBC News neither Scotland nor Glasgow were "immune to the far right".
She added: "The turnout of people who are here to resist them and more importantly come with a really positive message about diversity and unity in a city like Glasgow - which is Scotland's most diverse city - is a far bigger number."
Glasgow Live reported on the events of the day and it was clear from their wording where their reporters stood politically:
Hundreds of people descended on Glasgow’s George Square in an anti-racism counter protest amid ‘pro-UK’ demonstrators gathering today.
The September 7 event hit headlines last month when extremist Tommy Robinson promoted it as a ‘pro-UK’ rally, following outbreaks of violence in England, in the wake of the murder of three schoolgirls in Southport, on July 29.
The Daily Record reports several hundred anti-immigration protesters gathering in the city centre today from noon, with hundreds more turning out to support Stand Up to Racism.
A large police presence separated both groups, and kettled a group of men dressed in black as well as a number of anti-racism protesters. Officers also attended on horseback and riot vans have been spotted at the scene.
As of 2pm, reports suggest that pro-UK protesters are beginning to disperse while Stand Up To Racism speakers continue to address the crowds, including Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Greens.
Speaking ahead of today’s events, Harvie said: "There should be no place in Glasgow or Scotland for the toxic mix of fear, hate and division that the far right promotes. The violence and criminality we saw from them across the rest of the UK last month was shameful and must never be allowed to take root here.
"Glasgow’s a multicultural city with a long, proud history of standing up against the far right. We saw it when the English Defence League tried to stir up hate, we saw it when residents stood up to the Home Office at Kenmure Street, and we’re seeing it again here today.
The reference to "men dressed in black" is a watered down account of the arrival of a masked and militant mob of Celtic FC - 'Ultras' and the 'Green Brigade', plus a few additional thugs from AntiFa.
The reference to Kenmure Street was the near riot situation a couple of years ago when in broad day light a large leftist mob together with a large 'ethnic minority' crowd prevented the arrest and detention of two illegal immigrants.
The Home Office team and officers from Police Scotland gave in to the mob pressure and released the two illegal immigrants back into the community and the Left hailed this as a victory. BM Scotland reported on this at the time.
And the speakers at the 'anti-racism' rally should at least get their facts straight - the EDL (English Defence League) folded as an organisation almost ten years ago.
THE REALITY OF SCOTTISH HERITAGE
This is all the 'Diversity' that Scotland needs..
Meanwhile in the same week as the Gorge square rallies:
September 2024
WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON THE DUMBARTON ROAD IN GLASGOW?
Traffic blocked, fireworks going off in the middle of the street, Syrian flags being waved by some drivers, swords being waved about by some drivers and lots of singing and chanting in Arabic!
No mass turnout by Police Scotland even though there is a large operational police station just down the road from where this was happening!
So what was going on?
More 'Diversity' and 'Cultural Enrichment' ?
SCOTLAND NEEDS A RADICAL CHANGE - SUPPORT BNSM SCOTLAND
SUPPORT BRITISH MOVEMENT
THE SNP CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE - Scotland Needs a Radical Political Alternative to the SNP, to the rotating dictatorship of Conservative and Labour Parties, to the Liberal Democrats, to the Scottish Greens and assorted parties of the Left - it needs British National Socialism!
SNP membership is in steady decline, and over the past year the SNP has lost over 10,000 members and since 2019, SNP total membership has halved.
That is a massive decline in support, plus voter support for the SNP has crashed.
Even the SNP leadership are starting to admit what is happening, and a recent statement by the former MP for Glasgow South, Stewart McDonald, " I don't think it is possible to overstate the scale of the challenge we are facing as a party."
Scottish voters look at what years of SNP politics at Holyrood has done (or failed to do) for Scotland. Plus the scandals within the SNP; the Police Scotland investigation into SNP finances continues, the arrest of Peter Murrell, former SNP chief executive, the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, who is still under investigation, the failures of Humza Yousaf, the £11,000 ipad bill for former SNP health secretary Michael Matheson. None of it looks good.
And the ferries scandal, the state of Scottish education, the state of NHS Scotland and the Scottish economy is in crisis as is the Holyrood budget.
SCOTLAND NEEDS A RADICAL POLITICAL CHANGE.
Grangemouth and Falkirk Refineries - Remember what BM Scotland said a couple of months ago?
Now it is being confirmed by both the Scottish government and the Westminster government
At least 400 jobs will be lost possibly more, all sacrificed on the altar of Net-Zero.
This is what the mainstream media have had to say:
"END OF THE LINE
Scotland’s only oil refinery Grangemouth to CLOSE with 400 jobs axed as governments ‘failed to step up to the plate’
SCOTLAND’s only oil refinery will close after months of desperate attempts to try to save it - with 400 jobs set to go at the plant.
The Petroineos plant at Grangemouth, Falkirk, will stop operations next year, the parent company announced today, ending hopes it could continue following government efforts to secure its future.
It follows UK and Scottish ministers spending £1million to fund a study into how to keep it open.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband previously said the UK Government would "leave no stone unturned" to ensure a future for Grangemouth.
But Petroineos said today the oil refinery will become a “finished fuels import terminal” by mid-2025.
Both governments also announced today an extra £20million would be funnelled into the area - alongside £80million previously committed in March - to help boost jobs in the region.
£10million will come from the Scottish Government’s “Greener Grangemouth” programme, while another £10million will help pay for local energy projects with UK Government cash.
And it follows UK and Scottish ministers spending £1.5million to fund a study into how to keep it open.
The Grangemouth complex is Scotland’s biggest industrial site and employs over 2,000 people across oil and petrochemicals work.
It produces 80 per cent of Scotland's fuel, makes up four per cent of our GDP and eight per cent of manufacturing."
And yet more hand-wringing by the media.....
UNDER THE SUNWHEEL - British Movement Pod Cast - August 2024
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September 7th 2024- Anti-immigration Protests in Glasgow and the Militant Left are Out to Stop Them.
The anti-immigration rally in George Square, Glasgow is drawing the greatest amount of media attention and is the focus for generating hostility from the political Left. Of course some mainstream politicians are jumping on the bandwagon to denounce and smear a rally that seeks to challenge immigration, 'diversity' and multiculturalism.
NOTE: British Movement is not involved in organising these anti-immigration demonstrations but BM Scotland activists may well be present. We might not agree ideologically with those organising the rally, but BM is in agreement with the slogan "Enough is Enough" and BM is totally opposed to immigration and multiculturalism.
Of course newspaper and media headlines like the one below are intended to stir up leftist opposition. Some media outlets are bare faced in their hostility to the rally.
"Far right groups in Scotland using riots to recruit new members"
And this...
"How to join protests against far-right 'pro-UK' George Square rally"
The assorted organisations of the political Left, the anti-racism campaigners, BLM and LGBTQ activists, the self-styled anti-fascists and pro-Irish Republicans in Scotland believe that they now have the political freedom to do whatever they feel is necessary to stop those that they are told are the 'Far-Right'.
They are already making clear their intentions:
"The politics of hate and the far right rioters which we’ve seen mobilising across parts of England and the north of Ireland can never be welcome in Scotland."
Maggie Chapman, Scottish Greens MSP.
Susan Aitken said: “Glasgow City Council has received no notification of any rally but then we know Tommy Robinson and his ilk don’t really care about respecting laws or public places.
“He’s not welcome in Glasgow and neither is anyone who chooses to align with his poisonous rhetoric.”
The Scottish Refugee Council also shared information about the event, saying in a post on Twitter/X: “Join us in George Square, Glasgow, on September 7 to unite against racism and show the world that refugees are welcome here in Scotland.”
"We can stop the far right and the fascists hoping to grow – but only if we break their confidence before they build. This is why we have called rallies against the far right across cities in Scotland this Saturday and a major anti-fascist and anti-racist counter demonstration in Glasgow on 7 September."
Talat Ahmed, convenor of Stand Up To Racism Scotland.
“Glasgow has always been the working class capital of Scotland. We have to be clear that racists are not welcome and are met with a massive response.”
The SUTR counter-protest is backed by the Scottish TUC union federation and the EIS, RMT, PCS, NASUWT, UCU, CWU, FBU, Unite and Unison unions in Scotland.
Of course the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Anas Sarwar is directly opposed to any type of anti-immigration events
"I have no doubt Glasgow will reject extremism at ‘pro-UK’ rally" – Sarwar
"Every single time the far right has tried to do that in Glasgow, Glasgow has overwhelmingly rejected them"
Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour
“I’m a son of Glasgow, I was born in Glasgow – Glasgow is my city,” he said.
“I know as a Glaswegian, that we have always had a view – we can’t be complacent, we can’t pretend that there aren’t issues here – but we’ve always been a city that regardless where you come from, regardless of where you were born, when you come here you’re one of us and we’re one Glasgow."
Meanwhile....
Humza Yousaf is, as expected, desperate to be quoted in the media and keen to be seen as still being politically relevant, so has been making press statements and pushing out messages on X (Twitter) like the one below....
@HumzaYousaf
BUT - his appeal to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is a classic Marxist/Communist tactic to declare your political opponents outlawed and ban them from existence.
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BM SCOTLAND. A Summer of Dis-satisfaction and Discontent for the People of Scotland.
A new Labour government at Westminster but the SNP are still in charge at Holyrood.
And their policies continue to fail the people of Scotland.
Drug Deaths - Scotland has the worst levels in Europe - AGAIN!
Scot Rail - failing again under SNP policy directives.
Another SNP failure - the legacy of last year's SNP alliance with the Scottish Greens saw peak rail fares abolished to encourage Scots to use the trains instead of their cars. Now the Scottish government are going to reintroduce peak rail fares across Scotland.
Add to that this admission that the Scottish transport secretary Fiona Hyslop has admitted that the Scot Rail peak fare cut had cost the Scottish government £40 million but only resulted in less than a 7% increase in rail use. Scottish Labour's Alex Rowley commenting on the SNP transport policies in regard to rail transport said that, "had left Scot Rail services in chaos" with cuts to timetables, shortage of drivers and low uptake of the cut rail fare scheme.
Note: A clear sign of SNP government failure; official UK government data has shown that, "Scotland's climate targets were no longer credible, in part because ministers had failed to prove how they would cut car kilometres by 20% by 2030."
*** Add to that all the crazy policies about ULEZ zones for Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
Shetland - Rocket explosion at the 'UK Space-port'.
The Saxa Vord spaceport on Shetland on Monday August 19th 2024 saw a major technical failure when the site's first rocket test resulted in a huge explosion and fireball on the launch pad. The Saxa Vord facility is a new UK venture in space technology and the launch site on the island of Unst was licenced and cleared to become operational in December 2023. The authorisation to launch rockets and satellites was granted as recently as April 2024.
A major advance for British technology and Scottish innovation? Hardly, because the rocket being tested on Monday was built and produced by a German company RFA based at the Rocket Factory Augsburg.
Afghan Student Doctors.
The NHS in Scotland might be in chaos and hospital waiting lists well behind targets and a general shortage of doctors in NHS Scotland but don't worry, the Scottish government in collaboration with the UK government and the government of Pakistan has worked with the charity The Linda Norgrove Foundation to bring 19 women medical students to Scotland from Afghanistan to complete training as doctors. The charity contributed £60,000 towards the cost of bringing the Afghan student doctors to the UK, welcoming them this week as they flew into Edinburgh from Pakistan. The Afghan women have been granted places at four Scottish medical schools, and Scottish ministers changed the law so that these Afghan young women could be treated as Scottish citizens and so eligible for free tuition in Scotland.
The trial of the Palestine Action Scotland for the protest and break in at Thales, Govan in June 2022.
Reported in the Scottish news media but largely ignored in the UK wide media.
"Five pro-Palestine activists who occupied the roof of a factory in Glasgow which supplies the defence industry have been jailed. Stuart Bretherton, Eva Simmons and Calum Lacy, along with Erica Hygate and Sumaya Javaid, all scaled a fence at the Thales plant in Govan and staged a demonstration on its roof. Hygate and Javaid also broke into the factory, damaged equipment meant for submarines and threw smoke bombs into an area used by hundreds of workers, causing it to be evacuated. More than £1m damage was estimated to have been caused at the plant. All were handed sentences ranging between 12-14 months after pleading guilty to breach of the peace. Hygate and Javaid also admitted damaging property. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that the group had gathered outside the plant early on the morning of 2 June, 2022, dressed in orange overalls and balaclavas. Hygate and Javaid then climbed through a door on the roof and got inside the factory, setting off an internal fire alarm which sparked an evacuation of the premises and confusion and panic among staff. While that evacuation was taking place the pair set off pyrotechnics including smoke bombs. Some were thrown into the area from where the staff were evacuating, causing smoke to pool dangerously close to staff members. Bretherton, Simmons and Lacy remained on the roof, which was surrounded by a number of police officers, until finally coming down at 7:45pm, when they were arrested. Hygate and Javaid remained above through the night, and glued their hands to the rooftop. They were finally removed the following morning by police. Javaid, who continued to be obstructive, was removed in leg restraints. Sheriff John N. McCormick sentenced Bretherton, Simmons and Lacy to 12 months' imprisonment after they each pled guilty to a breach of the peace. Erica Hygate was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment after she pled guilty to a breach of the peace and damaging property. Sumaya Javaid was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment after she pled guilty to a breach of the peace, damaging property and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner."
REMEMBER: This protest and damage took place more than a year before the Hamas attacks of October 2023. So was not part of the current Gaza crisis protests.
*** Note that Glasgow City Council has announced this week that it will donate £20,000 to a charity operating in Gaza on behalf of Palestinians. More Scottish tax-payers money being spent outside Scotland instead of improving services in Glasgow.
SCOTLAND DOES NOT NEED IMPORTED DIVERSITY !
THE SOUTHPORT ATROCITY MATTERS IN SCOTLAND
"And the First Minister attempted to reassure Scotland’s Muslim communities, visiting Edinburgh Central Mosque alongside justice secretary Angela Constance.
There he met with Imam Habib Rauf, representatives of the Scottish Refugee Council, the Muslim Council of Scotland and members of the wider Muslim community."
No surprises to hear this from the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Anas Sarwar;
"Mr Sarwar called on social media companies to crack down on the spread of misinformation and "allowing the far right to organise, to recruit, to amplify and in some cases to fundraise."
Asked whether this would infringe on the right to freedom of speech, he said: "I’m all for freedom of speech but there is a responsibility that comes on these platforms too and allowing known mistruths to be spread is not freedom of speech."
Mr Sarwar said Scotland could not be complacent and must send the far right a "strong message to say they are not welcome here".
Police Scotland Are Being Deployed In Belfast.
Meanwhile Police Scotland are preparing to send trained riot police across to Northern Ireland as re-enforcements to PSNI to help control the riots and disorder in Belfast. The first contingent of 120 Police Scotland officers are on their way, others may be sent soon.
If the Holyrood parliament feel that it is OK to send so many Police Scotland officers to Ulster, they must think that there are no crimes to police in Scotland!
