BBC Scotland visit the centre of the war against English ‘County Lines’ gangs but manage to avoid reference to them

There’s not a mention, in the above by David Cowan, of England nor of the County Lines gangs, all based in English cities, currently completely dominating the drug supply across Scotland and bringing with them surging violence in small-town Scotland (source below).

In the above report, we do see:

Every year the campus has 100 groups and 1,400 individuals under investigation. It says that annually, it dismantles and disrupts a third of those groups. Their activities include drugs, smuggling firearms, human trafficking, child abuse and sexual exploitation, serious fraud, cyber crime and illegal dumping.

Read any report in the tabloids on County Lines gangs and that’s them.

In 2019, Police Scotland estimated specifically County Lines gangs based in Liverpool, Birmingham, Bradford and other locations in England, operating in up to 60 locations across Scotland, from Wick to Dumfries. 100 today, seems plausible.

Police Scotland is not colluding in this BBC media silence to protect the Union from this terrible image damage. Indeed their website, surely bookmarked by all crime reporters, has 6 pages like this one often naming the English city in question:

There is clearly an editorial edict at BBC Scotland – not a word on these English gangs no matter their horrific impact on Scotland.

Evidence of surging violence in small-town Scotland – https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/07/21/county-lines-drug-gangs-from-cities-in-england-fuel-major-surge-in-violent-crime-in-scotlands-smaller-towns/

8 thoughts on “BBC Scotland visit the centre of the war against English ‘County Lines’ gangs but manage to avoid reference to them”

  1. For some years, BBC Scotland has had a negative editorial stance towards Police Scotland with regular cavilling similar to the persisting ‘slamming’ of the QEUH.

    Of course public bodies like Police Scotland should be called to account by the media, but, since devolution and especially since the SNP became the dominant party in Holyrood, the media, with BBC Scotland in the van, has provided continually hostile coverage and largely excluded positive achievements by the Scottish Government, by Scottish councils or, indeed, anything Scottish.

    Often, when something positive is reported it is framed negatively. For example, the disproportionately high achievements of Scottish athletes at the Paris Olympics was headlined “Scottish athletes fail to reach previous best”.

    Alasdair Macdonald

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  2. Well , any sensible person KNOWS that Ferry issues are far more relevant to the public than issues which are not to do with Ferries … or dead pigeons !

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      1. I noticed that and have been watching to see if they did it again but no chance maybe the writer of the article has been sacked more likely for mention the city.

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