By Liz S

Much of the UK media seem to be revelling in what they say is the rise in popularity of the Reform UK party.

However in Scotland , for many voters, it is still unclear to some voters what Reform UK’s true intentions are if any are elected as MSP’s for our parliament in the Scottish elections in 2026.

However one clue is that in a speech made by one of their MP’s , Rupert Lowe, he made it clear that he seeks an end to devolution and that going forward he wants WM to “take back total control” of all nations within his UK.

Now either he was going rogue or he was articulating Reform UK’s party policy on devolution, and if that is the case, well then people in Scotland need to be made fully aware of that.

So if any candidate from that party is elected in 2026 then their true purpose in being elected is apparently to try to destroy devolution so that WM can eventually “take back total control” of Scotland via a London, as in English, based centralised government, and so they , as Reform UK party MSP’s, will act against the Scottish parliament from within.

The SNP need to get a copy of Rupert Lowe’s speech that he made last year, which is online and on YouTube, and then communicate to voters in Scotland what their intention is for Scotland as a party , according to one of their MP’s elected in England in the 2024 GE.

I am sure that there are some voters in Scotland who would welcome the end of devolution but fortunately they would not be in the majority .

However the SNP need to make the majority of voters within Scotland aware of what benefits they have had in Scotland via an SNP Scottish government and that a party like the Reform UK party seeks to end those benefits for people in Scotland, but also that they, Reform UK, will not , as a party, seek to end taking advantage of Scotland’s many rich resources and the revenue gained for their UK , or rather English, Treasury from Scotland’s quality food and drink exports, as has been happening with other UK parties as the various UK governments.

If Rupert Lowe , a English MP for the Reform UK party , thinks devolution is a “Scam” , which is what he said in his speech last year, then surely his party fielding candidates in the 2026 Scottish elections for the Scottish devolved parliament is nothing more than a “scam” .

Some voters in Scotland made a huge mistake in voting in 37 Labour MP’s last year in the General Election , in the hope that Labour as the new UK government would be far better than the Tories as a UK government and also that they would be better for Scotland, however neither has been the case.

However an even bigger mistake and a bigger waste of vote would be anyone voting for the Reform UK party in 2026.

The clue is that they are very much a English Nationalist party and so they seek to pretend to pander to those voters in England who are gullible and who also, like the Reform UK party, think that England gets nothing while Scotland gets subsidised by England.

The BBC in various political programmes platform members of the Reform UK party thus enabling the radicalisation of some people in various parts of the UK to think that they are , as a party , legitimate and so worth listening to and also then worth voting for in elections.

It would be to Scotland’s shame if any of these rogues from that party got into our Scottish parliament and we all know the low standard of candidates they have had in some past elections, with their historic, and in some cases current, online activity being exposed, which has then revealed their racism and bigotry, and only when that is exposed does the Reform UK party, via media and also via public pressure, then have to deselect that undesirable as their party candidate.

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