I don’t know if the above fake image is any better or worse than the one Princess Kate did of her own family but Nicola in a polis car clearly floats a few boats.
Just last week, Police Scotland responded to this daftie:
Your recent request for information is replicated below, together with our response.
Under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act, I am interested to know if it was a Police Car that was used to take Nicola Sturgeon to the Covid Enquiry in Edinburgh this morning. If so, why was this and also what was the cost involved and who paid for it.
I am refusing to confirm or deny whether the information sought exists or is held by Police Scotland in terms of section 18 of the Act.
Section 18 applies where the following two conditions are met:
- It would be contrary to the public interest to reveal whether the information is held
Whilst we accept that there is a public interest in better informing the public as to the security arrangements in place for public figures, particularly where public costs are involved, it cannot be in the public interest to reveal whether any individual is subject to police protective measures.
- If the information was held, it would be exempt from disclosure in terms of one or more of the exemptions set out in sections 28 to 35, 38, 39(1) or 41 of the Act.
If held the following exemptions would be considered relevant:
Section 31(1) – National Security
Section 35(1)(a) & (b) – Law Enforcement
Section 38(1)(b) – Personal Information
Section 39(1) – Health and Safety
Disclosure would undermine the integrity of the police protective measures process and ultimately therefore put protected individuals and police officers at increased risk of criminality and harm.
Where individuals are high profile/ political figures, there are also national security considerations in terms of disclosing information which would be of intelligence value to criminals and terrorists.
Whilst we accept that there is a public interest in better informing the public as to the security arrangements in place for public figures, particularly where public costs are involved, it cannot be in the public interest to reveal whether any individual is subject to police protective measures.
Furthermore, the information sought, if held, is the personal information of the individual named.
What’s that phrase? Get a something?
I’m not happy. I want to know if the car was armoured and properly escorted, like the PM last year when some chubby bobbies had to run alongside his car, too puffed to do anything if there had been trouble.
Or like Kim Jong-Un
Kim Jong-un, below, left I think.
To continue happily off this tangent. Don’t you just miss Ruth?
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I spotted this article on the BBC’s Scotland website earlier in the day –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj7vz8vjgrno
“The financial burden of tackling climate change will fall disproportionately on Scotland, the financial watchdog has warned.
The Scottish Fiscal Commission (SFC) said it would cost the public sector £1.1bn a year – 18% of the Scottish government’s capital budget.”
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“The £1.1bn bill relates to the commitment to reach “net-zero” in Scotland by 2045 and for the UK as a whole by 2050.”
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“SFC said the financial burden may fall disproportionately on the Scottish government because a greater share of the UK’s overall commitments fall to tree planting in Scotland.
That equates to £207 per person in Scotland compared with £149 in the rest of the UK.”
Following on from the Chancellor’s Budget last week which saw the whole of Scotland receive just £300 million while Canary Wharf received £242 million, the Scottish government should take the opportunity to recover money by ending the tree planting ‘subsidy’ to the rest of the UK.
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Planting trees is not a subsidy. It is an investment. They grow and produce timber. Valuable timber that has many uses. Sold. Land is exempt from tax to keep farms together.
Timber industry produced valuable stock, corporation tax and finances. Jobs and home security. Not relying so much on imports but exporting for profit. Long term view. The Scottish Gov has funded land buy outs. Land has been taken back for public use of the community. ‘Right to roam’ means everyone can go there, unless there is dangerous activities cutting trees.
Stop Westminster stealing Scottish assets. Trying to keep it secret under the Official Secrets Act. Vote for Independence. Scotland 25% in surplus in fuel and energy but pays more. Under UK Gov regime. A tax burden on the whole economy.
Westminster spends £Billions on illegal wars. Financial fraud and tax evasion loses even more. Westminster spends £Billion on Trident and redundant weaponry. Westminster spends £13Billion decommissioning Nuclear over 10 years. £130Billion, always increasing. That’s a lot of £Billions Scotland could use to plant trees and invest in renewables. Scotland used to get £Billions from EU loans, investments in renewables. Stopped because of imposed Brexit, for which, Scotland did not vote. Undemocratic and unfair.
Scottish investment in renewables are taken over by Westminster lies. To try and add the figures as though they were contributing to any increase. Westminster lies. Liars always get found out. Not much land at Canary Wharf for planting trees. London S/E congestion slowing the economy. The Oil and gas revenues taken illegally by Thatcher to build up Canary Wharf, bankers who fund the Tory Part.
Thatcher lied and left Scotland in poverty and political strife. Poll tax and the miners strike. Acted illegally and tried to keep it secret under the Official Secrets Act. M15 helped find the Trade Union’s money. Confiscated by the UK Gov illegally to try and stop the strike. Now coming out in the Press. Still trying to keep it secret and hide the facts. Dedacted to be unreadable.
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Would Nicola willingly go in a police car? After all the never ending fuss. Better to take a taxi or Gov car. Maybe not a subsidised tram or bus. Too many people with a quest for trouble. Or biased Unionists? They do not like to be found out.
Photoshopped. Someone should email to find out. Email the Scottish Gov press office. Or SNP headquarters. They might not be so caution as to hide the facts from the public.
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The days when disinformation was an occasional dodgy wheeze cooked up in a quiet back office are gone.
It’s hard to to distinguish now between the bored geek on Photoshop and industrial types such as Cambridge Analytica or the direct governmental side of it with the ‘Nudge Unit’ ( and let’s not discuss BBC Scotland ), but all of it it is geared to cause maximum confusion with the public, yet from which profit or power may be secured at public expense…..
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It looks doctored for sure, an old fashioned word for fake. Did the real police really quite a few clauses to avoid telling you either way whether this was a fake photo…blimey, the transparency of public bodies seems to have gone oot the window. It’s all a massive con to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. All part of the propaganda deployed against the SNP and the people of Scotland. Disgraceful.
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Quote not quite.
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Oh and why didn’t the cops running to keep up with their master’s car not try using bicycles, be easier. That photo of Putin, yuuuukk. Poor horse. UntRuth fancied herself as well, I wonder what she spends that £300++ a day on, that she takes from the public purse for her anti Scottish independence services to the BritNat state. Bet she can afford to put the heating on.
Brrr.
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