The SNP Continues to Flounder with More Uncomfortable Details about Nicola Sturgeon's Leadership.

 The SNP Continues to Flounder with More Uncomfortable Details about Nicola Sturgeon's Leadership of both the SNP and Scotland.

First the real cost of the SNP international junket to the COP27 conference in Egypt last year. At the time some media outlets in Scotland questioned the cost of sending the First Minister and an SNP team to the COP27 climate conference.

Secondly: Now in July 2023 the media are reporting that Lord Foulkes, a Labour peer has asked the Advocate General to investigate SNP directed 'government spending' on wasteful projects and policy initiatives such as IndyRef2. It seems that Humza Yousaf is just as careless as his predecessor when it comes to Scotland's expenditure.

First Minister Humza Yousaf with his team, the recently appointed minister for independence Jamie Hepburn and deputy First Minister Shona Robison,  promoting the SNP push for a referendum on Scottish independence, posing for a press photo-opportunity with suitably expensive glossy brochures and promotional materials. All funded by the Scottish tax-payers.

So bad have things got with the "improper expenditure" by the SNP led administration that Labour peer Lord Foulkes is leading a campaign to force not only an official investigation into SNP government directed spending, but for some kind of official restrictions on what projects can be directly funded from the Holyrood coffers.

It was nae me !

Former First Minister and ex-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon staging a recent press conference on the drive outside her home in Glasgow.

The Police Scotland investigation into the finances of the SNP under Nicola Sturgeon's leadership has not gone away and more questions keep emerging about how she ran the SNP as a political party and what internal tensions and cover ups went on during her tenure.

Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP delegation spent how much at the COP27 Conference in November 2022?

The Scottish government spent £148,000 of tax-payer's money on the SNP delegation to COP27 in Egypt last year. This was the vanity trip staged to present Scotland's First Minister and the SNP on an international stage.

At the time, November 2022, a number of news media outlets questioned the cost of the trip, and the necessity of so many SNP officials travelling with Nicola Sturgeon to Egypt. At the time it was estimated that the travel costs and accommodation alone were about £78,000.

Now the final costs, the true costs of the trip have come out:  £148,000. All taken from the Scottish government budget. The SNP delegation acted as though they were representing an independent nation with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon acting as if she were some actual head of state.

Nicola Sturgeon flew from London directly to Egypt, but at least half the Scottish delegates had a one night stop over in Milan, Italy.  The SNP delegation had a suite of 25 rooms at the Parrotel hotel in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, roughly costing £44,000. The SNP crowd rented office space in the resort, spent thousands of pounds on food, snacks and mobile phones.

Nicola Sturgeon and her team tried to present themselves to the international press as some kind of official diplomatic mission by an independent sovereign state!

The whole junket really went to their heads and First Minister Sturgeon got so carried away that she pledged £5 million from the government of Scotland to the countries of the 'global south' as Scotland's financial contribution towards 'reparations for climate change'!

When did the MSP's at Holyrood get consulted about that Scottish government commitment?

Pictured below: one of Nicola Sturgeon's many photo-opportunities at COP27 in the resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.

Holyrood must have lost the plot - Legalise Drugs in Scotland - Are They for real?

Recent outlandish pronouncements from Holyrood indicate that the SNP and its Green allies want to break with overall UK law and law enforcement by legalising drugs. That is street drugs, currently illegal Class A and Class B narcotics, including heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD and more.

Scotland has the worst figures for drug related deaths; not just in the United Kingdom but across Western Europe. Needless to say the MSP 's at Holyrood claim to know better than the UK national government at Westminster and want to completely re-write Scotland's laws on drugs, drug possession and drug dealing. If this goes through then we can expect every junkie in England, Wales and Northern Ireland turning up in Scotland to take advantage.

And now Glasgow is set to lose the Night Bus !

Only a couple of months ago BM Scotland reported on the latest SNP/Green plans to turn Glasgow into a LEZ (Low Emissions Zone) which would deter the drivers of petrol and diesel vehicle drivers from entering the Glasgow restricted vehicle zones and impose a financial penalty on those driving into the city. Supporters of this 'Green- Environmental' agenda said that public transport would take care of their travel needs. Oh Yeah?

So First Bus Scotland are now telling the folk in 'Greater Glasgow' that the only late night bus service available is going to end this Summer. In fact First Glasgow plan to cancel all weekend late night bus services in Glasgow from the end of July, thus abandoning all late night bus users in Scotland's biggest city. So much for public transport replacing private cars; what does this do to both workers and customers of the Night Time Industries?

One very telling statement came from an anti-poverty charity, "stopping the night service was completely unjust and will hit Glaswegians on low incomes the hardest - people who work night shifts and early shifts.."    Does anyone inside the Holyrood SNP and Greens 'think tanks' even consider those facts of life?

How many folk from across Scotland travel into Glasgow to see live music entertainment or comedy shows in the city?  What are they supposed to do now because the train and subway networks across the city shut down at midnight?

The SNP government keeps banging on about reducing car miles across Scotland by 20% by the year 2030......but the loss of a night bus service in Glasgow shows the total lack of joined up thinking by the SNP and the Scottish Greens behind these grand schemes.

Looking back at a BM visit to Parkhead a couple of years ago

BM Scotland: The SNP Persists with Indy Ref2 Strategy to Split from Great Britain but Orkney Wants to Split from Scotland!

 The SNP persists with their INDY Ref 2 strategy to split Scotland from Great Britain but now Orkney wants to split from Scotland!

It seems that everything the SNP does or plans to do, turns to chaos in very short time. The SNP has turned Scotland's economy into a failure, NHS Scotland is failing, all social service provision across Scotland is failing, Education in Scotland is failing, the list goes on and on. Even though the Westminster government said 'No' to an Indy Ref Two, the SNP persists in saying that it will use the approaching 2024 General Election as a referendum on Scottish independence!

The SNP itself is failing!

The Police Scotland investigation into the SNP finances and funds continues; the much vaunted female First Minister Nicola Sturgeon 'stepped down'; the SNP chief executive Peter Murrall, (her husband) resigned, so did the SNP chief finance officer; an SNP MP was forced to resign over Covid lockdown breaches and more SNP MP's at Westminster are stepping down.

Now Orkney says that the Orkney isles are so fed up with the way the SNP governs Scotland, especially in regard to Orkney and Shetland, that they want to split from Scottish governance and return to their ancient rule from Norway!

Not a good look is it SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf?

Meanwhile more SNP Members of Parliament at Westminster plan to leave politics before the next  General Election. It was announced many weeks ago that the leader of the SNP at Westminster, Ian Blackford was stepping down as an MP; then SNP MP Angela Crawley said that she was also stepping down; now the deputy SNP leader at Westminster Mhairi Black has announced that she will not stand for election at the next General Election. Although the SNP is keeping it quiet, a total of six SNP MP's at Westminster are stepping down.

This is yet another blow to the SNP as a political party, especially as Mhairi Black was a much vaunted figure in the party, especially when Humza Yousaf described her as "a trail blazer and she had inspired a generation." Really?  Then why is she stepping down as an SNP MP? After all Mhairi Black is only 28 years old, hardly retirement age and she was always held in high regard as the youngest female Scottish MP to be elected to Westminster.

Not a good look is it SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf?

THE SNP WANTS SCOTLAND TO BE AN INDEPENDENT NATION, SPLIT AWAY FROM GREAT BRITAIN - TO BREAK THE UNION.

BUT NOW ORKNEY (and possibly the Shetlands) WANTS TO BREAK AWAY FROM SCOTLAND. AND THAT IS DOWN TO THE SNP!

This week Orkney Council voted to explore legal means to gain greater independence, if not complete independence from the Scottish government at Holyrood. The Orkney council has accused the SNP and Holyrood of "consistently neglecting the islands".

Financially Orkney is faced with crippling financial debts because the SNP ministers at Holyrood had failed to provide sufficient funds needed to run services on Orkney and have refused to provide the £420 million needed to replace the Orkney ferry fleet or to maintain the needed ferry fare subsidies.

The situation is now so bad that Orkney wants to explore closer links to Norway, because up to the year 1472, Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of Norway and Denmark. In fact some local politicians on Orkney point out that the Orkney isles are closer to Bergen in Norway than to Edinburgh.

The SNP urban elite based in Edinburgh and Glasgow regards Orkney and the Shetland Isles as remote outposts. BM Scotland wonders if SNP supremo Humza Yousaf could even find them on a map? But no doubt as the Orkney question raises its head nationally, Humza Yousaf's handlers at Holyrood and SNP head office will rapidly organise a much publicised visit to Orkney and Shetland by the 'concerned' First Minister, with plenty of carefully staged photo-opportunities and press interviews.

BM SCOTLAND BELIEVES THAT SCOTLAND SHOULD REMAIN AS PART OF THE UNION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE ORKNEY ISLES AND SHETLAND ISLES SHOULD REMAIN PART OF SCOTLAND AND GREAT BRITAIN.

BM Scotland: Scots Need to be Careful What They Wish For - the SNP is in decline but Scottish Labour is on a come-back.

 Scots Need to be Careful What They Wish For - the SNP is in decline but Scottish Labour is on a come-back.

It would be a huge mistake to swap the Labour Party for the SNP, to replace Humza Yousaf with Anas Sarwar as First Minister. As soon as the official survey results showed that support for the SNP was fading away, Sir Keir Starmer arrived in Scotland to gleefully support Anas Sarwar and to pose for the press, announcing to anyone who would listen, that the Labour Party is staging a big comeback in Scotland and will not only flood Holyrood with new Labour MSP's, but will capture enough seats in Scotland at the General Election to hold the balance of power at Westminster.

That outlook should make any true Scot groan in despair.

IS THIS REALLY THE FACE OF SCOTLAND'S FUTURE?

Not so popular these days - 'Useless' Humza Yousaf - are his days as Scotland's First Minister draining away as support for the SNP declines?

SNP popularity ratings are in free fall

Latest poll rating - Nicola Sturgeon approval ratings have dropped below zero into minus points - last count she was at minus 18.  On Monday June 19th Sturgeon returned to her home address in Glasgow after hiding away for a week after being arrested and questioned by police for hours. Nicola Sturgeon posed on her driveway for the press and answered easy questions from the assembled journalists to repeat her mantra, "I have done nothing wrong".  Time will tell.

Meanwhile back at Bute House and at SNP head office in Edinburgh

Poor old Humza 'Useless' Yousaf is not doing much better as his ratings are in the minus rankings too. So it is away to Dundee to convince the SNP faithful and any sympathetic journalists in attendance that he is the one to set out the SNP formula for achieving the second independence referendum that Nicola Sturgeon singularly failed to achieve.

DUNDEE SNP CONFERENCE

Still chasing the fantasy of Scottish independence.

The SNP campaign for Scottish independence and breaking up the Union of Great Britain is still lingering around. Too many years of SNP propaganda still has too many Scots thinking that Scotland could go it alone and survive as an 'independent nation' back in the European Union.

Now Humza Yousaf will make his play and try to convince those SNP die-hards that it can be done, ignoring all the past failures to achieve the fantasy.

This blogger is old enough to remember the SNP campaign literature of the 1970's and 1980's claiming that, "It's Scotland's Oil!"   But Humza Yousaf has now turned his back on all that because the SNP now believes that oil is bad !  And the SNP needs to keep the Scottish Greens as allies in Holyrood, so oil and gas exploration and related jobs are out.  Wonder how those ideas sell in Aberdeen and on Shetland?

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Neither Humza Yousaf nor Anas Sarwar can claim to represent the values below for Scotland.

BM Scotland - Can't Stop Laughing - Nicola Sturgeon Arrested is There More to Follow?

 BM SCOTLAND: Can't Stop Laughing as Nicola Sturgeon is Arrested is There More to Follow?

Howled laughing when I got the message that "Nicola Sturgeon has been lifted by the Polis "

Sunday June 11th 2023 - First Minister of Scotland Mr Humza Yousaf was giving an interview, in this interview he gave this glowing tribute to his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon,

" one of the most impressive politicians Europe has seen over the last couple of decades."

Wow ! That was some tribute from the guy that described himself as the 'continuity candidate' during the SNP leadership elections, Humza Yousaf intends to continue where Nicola Sturgeon left off when she stepped down.

But then - at 10.09am on the same day, Police Scotland arrested Nicola Sturgeon and drove her off in a marked police car, she was questioned by detectives for more than seven hours before being released without charges but still under investigation.

For some reason Sturgeon did not return to her home in Uddingston, Glasgow after being released but was driven to what the media described as "an undisclosed address."

The Missing £600,000 from SNP donation funds....

A wee recap :  So far the SNP has seen its former executive Peter Murrell was arrested in early April and questioned, then released without charges but still under investigation; Peter Murrell resigned his post in the SNP executive;  in mid April the SNP party treasurer Colin Beattie MSP, was arrested and questioned, again released without charges but still under investigation; the SNP head quarters in Edinburgh were entered under a search warrant by police and documents and computers removed. When Peter Murrell was arrested, the house and grounds were searched and documents and other items removed as possible evidence.

It is not looking good for the SNP, is Humza Yousaf still hoping to continue Nicola Sturgeon's agenda?  If so does he intend to be arrested?

Humza told a BBC interview that he could not get involved or comment because as leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland, "I've got a really important duty not to be seen to prejudice or interfere in a live police investigation."

Not looking good for the SNP - someone ask Humza Yousaf - 'Where is that £600,000 ?'

Meanwhile support for the SNP across Scotland continues to fall and there is a by election coming up in Rutherglen and Hamilton West following the disgrace of an SNP MP.

Are the wheels coming off the SNP band wagon?

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SCOTLAND AWAKE !

Edinburgh - Gordon Brown Leads A Conference of Leftists and Globalists Undermining the United Kingdom by Stealth

 Edinburgh - Gordon Brown leads a conference of Leftists and Globalists undermining the United Kingdom by stealth.

Gordon Brown was the driving force behind the Edinburgh conference on June 1st 2023, with a series of strategies and policies developed by the so-called think tank 'Our Scottish Future'.

Of course Gordon Brown will not stray from the policies and strategies agreed at Davos with his friends and allies at the WEF. All the proposals for a future Britain put forward at Edinburgh are dependent on a Labour Party victory in the 2024 General Election.

The gathered great and good at the conference described themselves as 'the Alliance for Radical Democratic Change' and propose a future restructuring of the United Kingdom built around the devolved system of government currently operating in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some speakers suggested that Northern Ireland should be given the opportunity to follow Sinn Fein into a future united Ireland, severing Ulster from the United Kingdom.

Other than Gordon Brown, the key names present at this conference reads like a 'Who's Who' list of politicians and opinion makers and influencers that BM Scotland would not trust under any circumstances.

Key players at the 'Alliance for Radical Democratic Change' conference were;

     Anas Sarwar - Scottish Labour Party - speaking with the approval of Keir Starmer.            Gordon Brown actually went so far as to call Anas Sarwar "the future First Minister of Scotland".

Mark Drakeford - Welsh Labour Party and First Minister of Wales, leader of the devolved government of Wales.

Andy Burnham, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, former Labour MP and the poster boy for the 'progressive' face of Labour local government.

Steve Rotheram - Labour Mayor of Liverpool City region.

Tracey Brabin, Labour Mayor of west Yorkshire, former Labour MP for Batley, West Yorkshire, former TV soap actress, and never shy to remind journalists that she was a close friend of the late Jo Cox MP.

The high profile list of 'progressive' speakers together with a mixture of left-wing academics and self-styled 'democratic socialists' should stand as a warning not just to the people of Scotland, but to all the British folk of Wales, England and Northern Ireland, as to what these political movers and shakers have in mind for the future of Great Britain.

Tensions are Growing at Holyrood between the SNP and the Scottish Greens

All is not going smoothly at Holyrood between the SNP and their allies in the Scottish Greens, the much trumpeted Bute House agreement which was stitched together by Nicola Sturgeon in 2021, is starting to splinter. The Greens were brought into government to bolster the SNP administration after the last elections where the SNP failed to achieve a controlling majority. This manoeuvre of course gave the Scottish Greens a level of political influence far beyond their actual level of support amongst Scottish voters. The cost to the SNP was the inclusion of Green policies in legislation and the introduction of a number of 'eco-green' measures that had little actual support amongst ordinary Scots.

Now, these 'eco' policies are causing rifts between some SNP MSPs and the Greens, both in the background and in the chamber at Holyrood. The SNP rural affairs secretary Mairi Gougeon is outspoken in her opposition to some of the environmental controls being proposed by the Greens, MSP Kate Forbes has declared that she wants to scrap some of the plans for fishing and coastal controls being pushed through, and SNP MSP Fergus Ewing actually stood up in the chamber at Holyrood during discussions and ripped up a Green proposed consultation document.

It seems that some of the legislation being launched by the Scottish Greens and supported by urban based 'progressive' SNP MSPs is being directly challenged by the island and coastal populations most affected. there are accusations that Edinburgh based politicians and academics are totally out of touch with the lives, traditions and livelihoods of the communities they are imposing their 'eco' policies on.

Operation  Branchform   - the Police Scotland investigation into the SNP finances and spending has not gone away.

The Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Sir Iain Livingstone has given press statement to national newspapers justifying the methods and tactics used so far to investigate the SNP finances and those involved in directing and spending the £600,000 of donations from SNP independence supporters that are under scrutiny.

Meanwhile Nicola Sturgeon is whining that the continuing Police Scotland investigation into her activities and spending of funds in the SNP and her leadership of the SNP is down to 'sexism' and 'misogyny'.

Really ?   What about the arrest of her husband and other former senior SNP executives who are all  male and she has not been arrested (yet). How is 'sexism' and 'misogyny' influencing that?

Best strategy of defence - play the victim.

Police Scotland have recently stated that the investigation into Peter Murrell (Sturgeon's husband) is still open and on-going and that Nicola Sturgeon is still being investigated and at some point in the future she could be arrested and brought in for questioning.

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BM Scotland - Beware of the new LEZ Glasgow regulations - Highway Robbery by Stealth plus the toxic presence of illegal drugs across Scotland.

BM Scotland:  Beware of the new Low Emission Zone regulations- it is Highway Robbery by stealth- coming to Glasgow this week.

Plus the toxic presence of illegal drugs across Scotland, poisoning the nation.

This image was taken in a village on the Black Isle in Ross and Cromarty  - not in the housing schemes of Glasgow, not in the centre of Aberdeen or Dundee, not in a street in a town like Motherwell, Airdrie or Cumbernauld. this was in a small, Highland coastal village.

Is Scotland's drug problem now so bad ?  So wide spread?

How is it possible that a drug that is produced and refined in South America, is trafficked and imported by criminals linked to the Colombian cartels, is now a problem in the Highlands of Scotland?

Has it got so bad ?    Scotland has the highest level of drug related deaths in Western Europe.    The Scottish government tries to play this down by claiming that the figures for drug related deaths in Scotland actually fell in 2022, but the numbers are still too high.

Forget about movies like 'Trainspotting' - this toxic presence in the veins of Alba is a dagger at the heart of the nation. Not just cocaine or crack, all illegal narcotics create misery and crime, divert hard earned cash away from the family table and into the pockets of criminals.

Poverty in Scotland is bad enough without adding to the burden.

Just look where these poisons are created and brought into Scotland; cocaine from South America, heroin from Afghanistan or Pakistan, MDMA and synthetic opiates from China. 

Money pours out of the pockets of Scots through the hands of low level criminals and makes millions for the cartels and foreign gangsters.

Police Scotland, NHS Scotland, RADAR and other agencies cannot solve this problem. 

Only the people of Scotland can rid our communities of this pestilence.

BRITISH MOVEMENT HAS OPPOSED ILLEGAL NARCOTICS FOR YEARS AND BM SCOTLAND STANDS BY THE LONGSTANDING BM SLOGAN

 Drugs Are For Mugs

LEZ GLASGOW - Is it Highway Robbery?

It Starts Next Month - So Beware

The SNP has been looking enviously at the earning taxation potential of the ULEZ 'Ultra Low Emission Zones' being created across Greater London by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Of course, Khan is a Labour Party operative, but is ideologically well to the Left. The London ULEZ system has allowed the local government authorities to divide up the Greater London area into specific traffic zones with road side cameras to record all licence plates and to issue immediate fines on all motorists who fail to comply with the new regulations.

The SNP does not want to miss out on such earning opportunities and sees the average Scottish motorist or van driver as a means of generating revenue by imposing new 'Eco-regulations'. This also keeps the Scottish Greens on board as allies of the SNP and will appeal to the left-wing of the Labour party because it is a strategy copied from the Labour mayor of London's playbook.

In late 2021 the Scottish government announced its intentions to launch LEZ - Low Emission Zone projects in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow.  there has been much publicity and forewarning of the changes to come and the new LEZ system for Glasgow is set to begin on the 1st of June 2023.

Of course Edinburgh led the way and began its LEZ 'experiment' last year and is reaping the financial rewards; Aberdeen is waiting until June 2024 and Dundee until May 2024 before those authorities begin legalised 'highway robbery'.

All the on-line advice is set out to appear helpful and "user-friendly", but just check your car or van registration number with the system and you will find that only electric vehicles can avoid some kind of penalties, just for driving to work in the inner city districts.

The Scottish government has watched how the Labour dominated, devolved government in Wales is pushing the anti-motorist agenda, looking to create 'maximum 20 mile per hour' controlled traffic roads across Wales as well as introducing Low Emission Zones with the financial rewards of fining motorists who fail to comply.

And waiting in the wings are other Scottish cities and larger towns, the councils are watching to see how these new traffic regulations and 'pay to drive' zones generate extra income for local authorities. Unless this LEZ agenda is challenged on a large scale, it will be coming to your town soon.

It is a grift to tax working people and force ordinary Scots to give up private ownership of cars, vans and motorbikes. It will work towards the WEF concept of '15 minute cities'. It will force working folk to give up the freedom of private travel, it will force small businesses out of existence. Everyone will be forced to use public transport, buses and trains at fares set by the government. Notice already on STV and BBC Scotland the ads promoting the idea of catching a bus.

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British Movement Scotland looks over the crumbling edifice of the SNP. Is this the beginning of the end of the road for the SNP?

 British Movement Scotland looks over the crumbling edifice of the SNP. Is this the beginning of the end of the road for the SNP?

First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf making his usual excuses at a press conference in Aberdeen.

Consider recent events.....

SNP accountants and auditors have been appointed but why not a firm of Scottish accountants ?

Last week, the SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf confirmed that finally the SNP have found a new firm of accountants to audit the SNP finances and accounts. The new crew are Signature Tax, part of the AMS Accountants Group, unfortunately this firm is based in Manchester, was there no suitable accountants firm in Scotland prepared to take on the challenge?

The previous SNP auditors were the Scottish company Johnston Carmichael, but they quit the job in September 2022.

SNP determination to push again for an Independence referendum is grinding to a halt and as more pressing issues such as the cost of living crisis, fuel poverty, the dire state of NHS Scotland, and the SNP has no solutions only to talk (again) about Scottish independence.

Such a wee shame, already political pundits and media commentators are taking bets that First Minister Humza Yousaf will not be in post very long, rumours are circulating that he will be gone by the end of the summer.

Meanwhile on the financial front, the Police Scotland investigation into SNP finances continues and the latest word is that now the police are investigating thousands of purchases made on Amazon by SNP purchasers.

The Daily Record claims that "detectives are focussing on an Amazon account used to buy everyday items which could be linked to party funds."

Remember that motorhome which Police Scotland removed from the driveway of Peter Murrell's mother's driveway?

Check out this quote from the Sunday Mail.....

 "the £110,000 motorhome seized by police from the driveway of former First Minister’s Nicola Sturgeon’s mother-in-law was purchased from the Erwin Hymer Centre Travelworld near Birmingham before being driven 300 miles to Dunfermline by two men in early 2020."

So the SNP couldn't find a dealership in Scotland ?  So the SNP bought the vehicle from a dealership in the middle of England?  Some Scottish Nationalists they are !

Now after local election success across England, the Labour Party is looking North of the Border, and claims that the shambles created by the SNP means that the Labour Party can stage a comeback in Scotland and take seats off the SNP. Does that mean that instead of Humza Yousaf , it would be Anas Sarwar as First Minister of Scotland?  Diversity in action or more of the same.

Much as we enjoy slagging off the SNP, there are many other subjects we need to focus on....

Forget about Law and Order or tackling crime in Scotland - this is more important...

Police Scotland - Over the last week or so orders were issued to 'Shave off beards and moustaches', an disciplinary measure for all uniformed male police officers. Obviously nothing better to focus on......but certain officers will be excused for 'religious or cultural' reasons.        That means White Scottish/British police officers will have to be clean-shaven but any ethnic or religious minority officers will not. Isn't that discrimination?

On the subject of Law and Order - Where was a sense of Justice at the High Court of Glasgow?

A 21 year old man was sentenced to 270 hours of 'Community Service' and 3 years on the sex offenders register for a series of rapes he committed against a 13 year old girl when he was         17 years old!

How is that justice?

Sean Hogg from Hamilton, was 17 years old when between March and June 2013, he raped a 13 year old girl in Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian. The court was told how he gripped the girl by the wrist while he forced her into sexual acts. But because he is under 25 years old, the court will not sentence him as an adult - if he was over 25 he could expect at least 5 years in prison for those crimes. But the sentencing laws in Scotland for under 25's will not allow this.

And this was not just multiple offences against the girl in the park.

In addition Hogg, 21, is charged sexually assaulting another under-age girl at an address in Penicuik, Midlothian, by touching her buttocks, thigh and breasts and attempting to touch her vagina on various occasions between 1 October and 30 November 2017.

And this guy will be out on the streets doing 'community service'.  The Scottish Sentencing Council needs a major overhaul - this was not justice.

What are the Rail Unions doing?

And the Rail/train strikes continue - just in time for the beginning of the lucrative tourist season. How many jobs across Scotland depend on tourists arriving by train?

And contrary to what the Daily Record might say, BM Scotland does not just operate on-line.