Scottish Government Floundering Along From Crisis To Crisis With SNP Humza Yousaf At The Helm.

 Scottish Government Floundering Along From Crisis To Crisis With SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf At The Helm.

Pictured above:  SNP leader and First Minister Humza Yousaf doing what he does best, staging a 'meaningful photo-opportunity'.  BM Scotland notes the image above resonates with a traditional Scottish theme. (that is BM sarcasm!)

SCOTLAND'S POPULATION IS GROWING AT THE SLOWEST RATE OF ALL                              THE NATIONS OT THE UNITED KINGDOM

This is not an excuse to flood Scotland with immigrants !

NRS - National Records of Scotland -  census was held in 2022, a year later than England and Wales because of Covid lockdowns.

When Nicola Sturgeon was the First Minister of Scotland, she held a number of photo-opportunities with what the SNP termed 'new Scots', at that time mostly Syrian refugees.          The SNP were always keen to make newly arrived non-European migrants not only welcome to settle in Scotland, but were very quick to grant them citizenship.

The latest census figures for Scotland should not be taken as a green light for the Scottish government to allow Cross Channel migrants to flood northwards to colonise Scotland.

Scottish Government Commits £2.3 million to New 'Drug Consumption' Project

This week it was announced that Glasgow will be the testing ground for a new initiative on drugs and drug deaths, linked to the high levels of HIV infection in Scotland due to intravenous drug use.

The Scottish Government is committing a budget of £2.3 million for the first year of the project to establish a 'drug consumption room' in central Glasgow. The facility will be staffed with trained health care staff and according to the SNP minister will, "offer a hygienic environment where people can consume drugs obtained elsewhere."

So the project is going to turn a blind eye to the use of illegal narcotics is it?

We thought that cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin etc. were illegal substances.

The Chaos in Scottish Education - Another Triumph for Humza Yousaf and the SNP

Schools across Scotland are being disrupted by strikes by teachers and support staff. Failure by the Scottish government to settle pay deals or measures to improve conditions in Scotland's schools. And yet £2.3 million per year is granted to the new 'drug consumption project'. 

BRITISH HISTORY IS BEING DISTORTED AND UNDERMINED BY THESE KINDS OF BOOKS

This nonsense claims that there were black Africans serving in the Roman legions that built Hadrian's Wall. It also claims that there was always a black population in Britain across history including in Scotland!

Written by a Nigerian born authoress, 'Brilliant Black British History' is a sinister wedge being driven into British school libraries

Inspired the BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement, this type of false history undermines our traditions, our culture and heritage by claiming, not only that black and other non-white people have lived in Britain for centuries, but also that they made huge contributions to our society and were inventors and helped construct our greatest buildings and art works!

The idea of such books is three fold:- they convince impressionable white children that black people have always lived in Britain; that the White British owe black people a huge debt for their contribution to creating Great Britain; and to convince black children that they belong in Britain and that White people should recognise that and be grateful!

SCOTLAND MUST NOT BECOME A DUMPING GROUND FOR ALL THE THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LANDING ON THE CHANNEL COAST.

SCOTLAND DOES NOT NEED MULTICULTURALISM !

The SNP Fantasy Continues:- Humza Yousaf is Not Just First Minister, He is Now Also 'First Activist!'

 The SNP Fantasy Continues:

Humza Yousaf is Not Just First Minister, He is Now Also the "First Activist".

First Minister for Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party Humza Yousaf, has recently declared himself not only to be the First Minister but also the 'First activist' for the SNP's bid to secure Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, but also the 'first activist' for the SNP in the campaign for the coming by-election in October and for the promised General Election in 2024.

Cue to photo opportunities and much confident posturing in Dundee last week, when Yousaf announced his first programme for government, which according to both political opponents and many media outlets was just, " a rehash of existing commitments" made by 'Useless Yousaf' back in May when he first took over leadership of the SNP.

Humza Yousaf once again gave pledges to fight poverty in Scotland,    but also to "listen and to act as we build a new relationship with business." A desperate claim given the recent publication of the report from the Fraser of Allander Institute which said that the "vast majority of businesses did not believe the Scottish government understood their needs."

In the much publicised meetings and press appearances at Dundee, Yousaf promised to expand the planned policies to counter poverty put forward originally by Nicola Sturgeon, and to offer to Scotland, "the most generous child care offer in the UK," 

This drew more political criticism not only from political opponents but also from Scottish anti-poverty charities and child-care leaders. Most telling came from the Director of the Poverty Alliance, "the actions don't yet match the ambition of government rhetoric."

Once again Humza Yousaf is called out for being all talk and promises but fails to deliver.

In fact Humza Yousaf was recently described by the leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross as being merely a "Nicola Sturgeon tribute act"!

Humza Yousaf still cannot seem to get it right, for all his posturing at staged photo-opportunities in schools and child-care nurseries, he is proving to be just as incompetent as First Minister as he was in the three previous ministerial posts he held before becoming leader of the SNP.

And Regarding Nicola Sturgeon

Last week Nicola Sturgeon returned to Holyrood and spoke in the Scottish parliament for the first time since her arrest earlier this year.

Some media commentators remarked that Ms Sturgeon spoke as if she was still in charge there and seemed to have forgotten that she was no longer the First Minister.

The Police Scotland scrutiny of Nicola Sturgeon and her previous activities as First Minister for Scotland and leader of the SNP has not gone away. Recent media reports suggest that more details are emerging about Sturgeon's statements and directions given in internal SNP meetings.

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BM Scotland: - It Might Be Summer But The SNP Continue To Flounder.

 

It Might Be Summer But The SNP Continue To Flounder

Pollsters show that support for the SNP amongst Scottish voters is falling.

The latest expert opinions state that the SNP is losing ground to the Labour Party.

The poll figures suggest that Labour could take as many as 24 seats in Scotland at a General election, taking control away from the SNP and Scottish Green alliance at Holyrood and putting Keir Starmer in government as Prime Minister at Westminster.

As BM Scotland has said before, Scottish voters need to be careful what they wish for. If Scottish Labour take control at Holyrood, Scots might find themselves swapping one bunch of woke, leftist incompetents for another.

'Ageist' Remarks and 'Ageism' to Become a 'Hate Crime' in Scotland.

Humza Yousaf is actually pushing to make 'ageism' a 'Hate crime' under the Hate Crime and Public Order act (Scotland), 20021. In addition Yousaf wants to make 'misogyny' and what the liberal left call "toxic masculinity" another target for social policy and education in Scotland.

But it is Humza Yousaf's latest sound bites about "age related" insults, age related discrimination, and ageist 'hate speech' that has set non-woke commentators mocking the First Minister.  Saying "silly wee girl" or "grumpy old man" will now be a 'Hate crime'.

Even some mainstream media journalists have noted that half the jokes in TV situation comedies like "Still Game" will become offences under the law.

When Humza Yousaf was Justice Minister it was generally recognised that he failed miserably in that post, but still forged ahead with a left-wing agenda to make 'Hate crimes' a central feature of Scottish government policy. Add to that the fact that recently Humza Yousaf wrote an opinion piece article in the 'Guardian' the liberal left's preferred national newspaper condemning "toxic masculinity" and macho- culture amongst young men.

Strange where the First Minister's priorities lie, after all Scotland has major problems with drug related deaths, Scotland's drug deaths are three times higher than the rest of the UK, there are major problems in NHS Scotland, the education system in Scotland is chaotic, but Humza Yousaf wants to put his focus on 'ageism', hate crimes and toxic masculinity!

Humza Yousaf might find his position as SNP leader and First Minister under challenge from an old rival.

Kate Forbes MSP is said to be limbering up to stage a leadership challenge in the SNP.

'Useless Yousaf' is facing a growing rebellion within the SNP against his leadership.  A sure sign that Humza Yousaf is floundering comes in his recent statement that, "people need to have a reason to vote for us". That is the SNP.

Assorted national media commentators claim that internally the SNP is going into melt-down.

Kate Forbes has publicly stated that, "Scotland needs a Highlander at the helm", meaning herself. Perhaps Humza Yousaf will consider that statement to be "racist".

BM Scotland likes the idea of the SNP going into 'melt down'.

SNP 'Woke' Stance Backfires on Some More Traditional Thinking SNP Politicians

At the Edinburgh Fringe the SNP Member of Parliament Joanna Cherry was booked to appear at an "in conversation" event, but was forced to arrange for "tight security" at the venue because of threats against her by 'radical elements' from the pro-Trans lobby. Joanna Cherry was booked to appear at the Strand, but then had her booking rejected because staff at the Strand objected to her "gender critical views". Then after a threat of legal action against the Strand, the venue agreed to host her event but she needed the extra security because of fears of disruption or worse from the 'Woke' and radical leftist fellow travellers.

Unfortunately for Joanna Cherry there are those 'activists' within the ranks of the SNP and their allies in the Scottish Greens who totally support 'Trans rights' and the whole 'Woke' pro-trans and gender fluid ideas that are being pushed into Scottish government policies.

Remember not too many months ago that Nicola Sturgeon, while she was still First Minister and leader of the SNP was supportive of 'trans-women' being sent to serve time in women's prisons.  Plus Humza Yousaf has ducked and dived around the subject and has carefully avoided voting in support of gender-identification legislation (in case it offends fellow Muslims?) but has gone along with Scottish government policies on gender identity that are not acceptable in the rest of the United Kingdom. 

An SNP related footnote:

Care homes staff in Glasgow vote to go on strike.

It seems that 98% of care home staff working for private sector provider Minster Care Group have voted to walk out, creating a serious problem in the care for the elderly sector in Glasgow.

Up to 200 care workers are due to go on strike.

First Minister Humza Yousaf has declared his intention to become personally involved in resolving the situation and has stated that he is personally writing to the chief executive of the Minster Care Group company in order to achieve this. 

The chief executive of Minster Care Group is Mr Mahesh Patel.

Does anyone reading this article note the obvious point here about a company proving private sector care in a major Scottish city?

By-Election Problems for SNP and on the Multicultural Scene - Comedian/Broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli is Arrested.

 

By Election Problems for the SNP and on the Multicultural Scene - Comedian/Broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli is Arrested.

Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election 

What excuses will the SNP trot out ?

Margaret Ferrier was an SNP Member of Parliament at Westminster until she was dropped from the party after the enquiry into her breaching of numerous travel restrictions during the Covid lockdowns. Ferrier stayed on at Westminster as an 'independent' MP but has now been forced to stand down after a petition to depose her as a Member of Parliament by more than the required 10% of voters in the constituency. (We can't help but think that Scottish Labour activists in the Glasgow region might have been involved in that.)

So a parliamentary by election to elect a new MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West will probably get underway in the early autumn.

No doubt the SNP will focus on the very recent past, and will insist that Ferrier was an 'Independent' MP after the SNP eventually kicked her out for her flagrant flouting of Covid lockdown rules.  The SNP seem keen to pretend that Margaret Ferrier was not really in the SNP

Scottish Labour are desperate to take this Westminster seat and will no doubt pull out all the stops to campaign there. But as is to be expected, the SNP are already making their moves.

Humza Yousaf says "Every Labour candidate standing in Scotland, including here in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, does so standing on a regressive platform of maintaining among the very worst of Tory policies."

The SNP are claiming that the Labour Party in Scotland are not 'progressive' enough, meaning not Left-wing enough compared to the SNP. So that shows just how not nationalist the SNP core ideology really is.

A Symbol of Multicultural Scotland Falls Foul of the Law

Hardeep Singh Kohli

BM Scotland has never found Hardeep Singh Kohli funny, even though he has been pushed forward by liberal media types as the "authentic voice of Punjabi-Scottish humour". He has appeared on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Although he was born in London and did not move to live in Scotland until he was four years old, he grew up in Glasgow where his father operated a property business, eventually establishing a rental property empire across the city, especially in the student accommodation market in the west end of Glasgow.

Kohli has also presented as a broadcaster, a documentary presenter, a reality show contestant, appeared as a celebrity contestant in Master chef and Big Brother. Liberal mass media pushed him forward as a BBC radio presenter and the friendly face of modern multicultural Scotland and he frequently appeared in that role when interviewed on chat shows.   He fronted a documentary type TV show "In Search of the Tartan Turban" which attempted to play on his claim to be a Glaswegian-Sikh and he has allegedly supported the SNP. (Yet another problem for the SNP!)

His brother Sanjeev also works in TV and radio both as an actor and a script writer and was behind the unfunny and short-lived 'comedy' series "Meet the Magoons", about an Asian family in Glasgow running a curry house, which also provided an acting role for Hardeep Singh Kohli. The show ran for six episodes on Channel Four in 2005.  Fortunately it did not become a regular series.

NOT LAUGHING NOW !

Hardeep Singh Kohli - Police Scotland have charged him with "not recent sexual offences". That translates as 'historic sexual offences', but are still subject to criminal charges.

MACBETH - THE SCOTTISH PLAY ?

By William Shakespeare.

Appearing at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon, England

August 19th to October 14th 2023

       So much for the 'Scottish Play' - the title role of Macbeth is being played by black actor Reuben Joseph, the role of Angus is being played by another black actor Benjamin Osugo, and one of the witches is being played by a black actress.  How very 'Woke' - colour blind casting - what would the Bard himself think of it?

Does it never occur to these leftist arty types that this kind of 'cultural appropriation' is actually offensive to those Scots who value their White British culture?

Alba Duisg !   Scotland Wake!

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A Perverts Charter - Why is this being considered for use in Scottish Education?

 

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION - WHO - IS ACTUALLY PUSHING FORWARD AN AGENDA FOR GLOBAL CHILD SEX EDUCATION WHICH INCLUDES SEXUAL ACTIVITY BETWEEN VERY YOUNG CHILDREN  AND IS AN OPEN DOOR TO PAEDOPHILES.

IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT IS ACTUALLY STUDYING THE CONCEPT AND THE FUTURE USE OF THIS MATERIAL IN SCHOOLS AND PRE-SCHOOLS.

Why is this even being considered for introduction into the Scottish Education System and Who is Behind it?

An extract from a warning article in 'The Herald' pictured below 

Below: A timely warning from the internationally active organisation Stop World Control.

This is not some fringe conspiracy theory, this is actually happening.

Some of the detailed analysis of the English language material and publications is stomach turning for any normal adult - only a pervert could actually regard these documents as acceptable.

From the Netherlands

Much of the material being 'studied' by those government insiders who are actually in favour of introducing this kind of deviant activity into Scottish schools and even pre-schools, is produced in the Netherlands, and illustrated below is an English version of one of their promotional posters.

   This is one of the less disturbing, and in some cases downright disgusting 'educational' posters, some of the other posters, booklets and leaflets are too extreme to reproduce here, and are little better than child pornography..

Worst off all !

Pictured below is an actual manual which was printed and published in the Netherlands to 'assist' paedophiles in their activities, providing legal advice and network contacts and details of organisations and publications that would meet their 'special interests'.

What the Hell are the Scottish government thinking ?

How could any rational person contemplate introducing any of the WHO material into the Scottish education system?

Police Scotland need to place any Holyrood official involved in promoting this perversity under immediate investigation for potential sexual offences against children.

GLASGOW POLLUTED BY PRO-IRA RALLY

Irish Republicans parade through the city centre July 23rd 2023.

Police Scotland actually granted permission for this parade to take place even though organisations taking part are connected to Irish Republican terrorism.

      *** BM Scotland is waiting for report updates and images from the BM members and                                   supporters who were present in the counter protest in central Glasgow.

Meanwhile on the Environmental front

Over recent years the SNP policy has been to cut down 15.7 million trees across Scotland to make space for wind farms !

So in the interests of green energy the Scottish government has cleared many acres of  actual established forest in the pursuit of a 'Green Energy' policy ( over 15.7 million mature trees lost) 

How 'Green' is that ?

That is more than 1,000 trees per day being felled to create room to build concrete bases for the turbines and support buildings for wind farms and the access roads to the sites.

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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.

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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.