3 thoughts on “Media matters – The highest drug abuse in the UK or the highest knife violence in the UK?”

1. “BBC Scotland will miss no opportunity to remind us that we have the highest drug deaths in the UK but neither they nor any other media will ever suggest England & Wales has such a shockingly higher death-by-stabbing rate than Scotland”

   Exactly .

   In fact we in Scotland , and everyone else in the UK too, are also reminded that “Scotland has the highest drug deaths in Europe“.

   So then we , Scotland, are (for once) being acknowledged under our own country’s name but not for a positive reason. (as everything is politicised in Scotland).

   Indeed reports yesterday on the tragic death of the 19 year old killed by two very young boys, now both 13 years old, was promoted and quoted by much of the TV media as both of these young boys being the youngest killers within the UK and some TV media also stated within Britain since ” Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, murdered two-year-old James Bulger”.

   However if anyone should highlight this constant media behaviour of Scotland always being identified by it’s country’s name as having the highest drug deaths in both the UK and Europe it would be promoted as us being crass and insensitive.

   However it is, as an occurrence, very much true as it always reported and referred to in this way.

   Which then begs the Q ‘why then is the other country within the UK, as in England, who have the highest knife crime rate in the UK not then also only identified by it’s own country’s name.

   Instead of much of the media and others, often referring to it and attributing it to being a Knife crime problem, within Britain or some say within the UK .

   (In fact only when the details are discussed as in , the ‘Where‘ this is actually mostly happening , must they then eventually concede it is , as a bigger problem, happening mainly in England while they also ignore , as in fail to acknowledge or praise, what Scotland has done to reduce Knife crime here).

   Of course in myself and others highlighting this as both a repeated and obvious deliberate discrepancy in how negative things are being reported by the media ,when they happen within either England or Wales compared to Scotland, it would be considered by that same media (and others) as us being yet again terribly crass and insensitive. (as we are apparently “Nasty Nats” and “Separatists” so therefore collectively we are then also just as #BAD as Scotland is as a country).

   But then is it not crass and insensitive for people like Anas Sarwar to exploit the relatives of those , who are either sick or who have died , where he publicly names them and discusses their personal cases within the televised debating chamber within Holyrood, in order to try and weaponise a point that he tries (badly) to use against the Scottish government ?

   Where he Sarwar, as a Pro UK politician, often politicises something that is often outwith the control or the fault of the Scottish government or the respective government minister within the Scottish government.

   (As in another anomaly we often see in the UK where any tragic event in the English NHS is never politically weaponised against the English Health Secretary, the UK PM or the UK government but instead it is attributed to being either an individuals fault (Doctor or Nurse), or the individual hospital or the NHS Trust that oversees that respective area where the tragedy occurred).

   Negative and tragic occurrences happening in England equates to it being promoted as incidents within the UK .

   However when any negative or tragic occurrences happen within Scotland then that involves Scotland taking full responsibility, via our country being promoted as #BAD and also named. But it is never ever , as a negative or tragic incident, identified or promoted as it being an incident or an occurrence within the UK .

   They only want Scotland to be together with the rest of their UK in order for them, as the UK, to take ownership of (Plunder) our resources and so to profit from those resources which are sourced from Scotland, which then benefits both the rest of the UK and also very much benefits the coffers of the UK government’s Treasury department.

   So they are quite happy for us, Scotland, to take full ownership of all and any #’BAD news that promotes Scotland in a negative light while the rest of the UK is distanced from that negative light. (with the opposite being the case when it is England #BAD news).

   So much for the slogan #BetterTogether as it seems that is only applied by them when it suits them. (and when it doesn’t suit them we are then on our own).

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2. Knife crime in London increased 200 killed a year, because of Austerity. It has reduced.

   Drug deaths are calculated differently. In Scotland as a total. In other places in different categories. In the South. Death by poison, death by heroin and accidental death. It makes Scotland’s total appear higher.

   Suicide can be linked to alcohol & drugs abuse. Under the influence.

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3. Albanians are growing cannabis all over the UK. Skunk. It damages people. Psycotic.

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