YULETIDE - CHRISTMAS and WINTER SOLSTICE GREETINGS from BM SCOTLAND.
Celebrate this time of year in the traditional way, respect OUR culture, heritage and traditions. Remember OUR ancestors and history.
ALBA DUISG!
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British Movement Scotland - Towards the end of the year and it has been a bad year for the SNP.
2024 was not a good year for the SNP.
In the UK General Election in July 2024 the SNP group in the House of Commons at Westminster was greatly reduced as the resurgent Labour Party took Scottish seats.
Meanwhile as the Labour government is losing ground nationally, in Scotland the SNP now finds itself under pressure from both Labour and Reform UK.
Add to that all the changes of leadership the SNP has suffered across the year and the blocking of SNP reforms pushed forward at Holyrood but blocked by the Westminster government. SNP First Minister John Swinney has been staging damage limitation to the SNP ever since he was elevated to leader.
John Swinney is desperate to salvage some semblance of the SNP as a political force in Scotland to prevent disaster in the Holyrood elections in 2026. Looking at the year the SNP has had in 2024, there is a lot of damage already done.
Turkish Barber Shops
An in depth investigation carried out by a 'Daily Mail' journalist into the rapid expansion of so-called 'Turkish' barber shops across England and Wales has unearthed some worrying facts.
Many of these barber shops, (not all) are operated by criminal syndicates to launder drug money, to operate as cash only outlets to avoid taxes, to employ illegal immigrants, to act as drug couriers, also to people traffic and to act as fronts for prostitution. The list is endless. Also many are not actually Turkish, but can be Kurdish, Syrian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian or even Ethiopian.
According to an interview with the 'Daily Mail' journalist, most of her focus was on towns and cities in England and Wales, but the problem is spreading into Scotland. Most noted were Glasgow and Dundee, but also spreading out into other other towns in the central belt of Scotland and up the east coast into Aberdeen.
As illegal immigration into the UK is driving this expansion it seems that the police nationally are unwilling to look into the networks of barber shops in the same way they are reluctant to start investigating networks of nail bars and hand car wash businesses.
Nicola Sturgeon is still trying to be relevant in Scottish politics.
On Monday December 16th 2024, the former leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon appeared in a flattering interview article in the Guardian newspaper.
The main focus of the article was Nicola Sturgeon's role in Gay and rights gender politics in Scotland. Sturgeon claimed a key role in getting same-sex marriage legalised in Scottish law, which became legal in December 2014, and she continues to push for transgender reforms in Scotland, the failure to get her 'gender recognition rules' into law still irritates her.
Police Scotland Investigation into SNP Funding and Finances.
Not surprisingly, Sturgeon plays down any mention of the still on going Police Scotland investigation into SNP finances and her husband (Peter Murrell) or her part in that. She conveniently fails to mention that Murrell, the former SNP chief executive was charged with embezzlement and the investigation is continuing.
