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Liz S

Today’s Daily Record:

“How many more kids have to die”

Teenage Knife crime epidemic“

This is now apparently something the Daily Record (Paul Hutcheon) have taken up and they say that “John Swinney has pledged to act on youth violence in response to the Daily Record’s plea“. So basically someone, checks notes, Paul Hutcheon has ambushed the FM, after FMQ’s, and asked him what he is going to do about this and obviously he has responded in a positive manner.

The Daily Record now see this as a political weapon to help Sarwar next year and so it is likely this will not be dropped any time soon, indeed other papers have picked this story up also , that is to temporarily replace the Ferry stories, which as a Ferry story they labelled as being a “fiasco” and a “scandal” , while ignoring the many many fiascos and scandals connected to HQ political parties and so they as a media, never constantly also doorstepped the various branch office managers in Scotland upon these respective HQ’s “fiasco’s” and “scandals”.

#BranchOfficeSamePartyAsTheirHQ’s

The Scotsman:

“Swinney told to be tougher over youth knife crime”

Apparently Tory Russell Findlay was lecturing Mr Swinney on this yesterday at FMQ’s, when his own Tory HQ party , as the previous UK government, could not get a grasp on how to reduce knife crime in England and also reduce or eliminate serious assaults via knife and gun crime in England when they were in power prior to the Labour party.

However Mr Findlay does not want anyone, including himself, to recognise the blatant hypocrisy in him lecturing anyone , especially our FM, on what he says is an increase in serious assaults in Scotland while ‘serious assaults’ and knife crime which have tragically led to far far more young people’s deaths in England were all on the Tory HQ’s watch (his party) as the former UK government.

The Daily Express:

“Violent Youth crime up 600% on the SNP’s watch”

(That BTW was a Russell Findlay quote at yesterday’s FMQ’s).

The Express added in the text of the article that “thousands of parents are now terrified every time their child leaves home”.

“thousands” ?

When was this survey conducted on “thousands of parents” who all said they were “terrified every time their child leaves home” ?

We need to know, as should the SNP be aware of when this survey was conducted on “thousands of parents” , as that really would mean this, as a serious problem, would indeed be of epidemic proportions, which I am not aware that it is at that stage yet.

Of course any political attack against the SNP is never complete unless BBC Scotland also take up the cause and so make it their top story on their BBC Scottish Politics page:

“Swinney accused of being ‘weak’ on teenage knife crime at FMQs”

Did I not state yesterday in my comment on here this:

“Let’s see if he, Sarwar, jumps on this DR bandwagon, it would be as hypocritical for him to do so just as it also would be for the Tories in Scotland to do as well, the Tories whose own party as the previous UK government saw an increase in knife crime deaths in England on their watch “.

Lo and behold as sure as night follows day at yesterday’s FMQ’s then what did we then see and here , also what have the BBC Scotland on their webiste now predictably chosen to be their main headline in being their top story on their Scottish Politics page ?

BBC article included Sarwar stating that:

” many parents are asking how the government has allowed things to get out of control” ( “many parents” so not “thousands” then as per the Daily Express article).

They , the BBC, also noted in their article that Findlay stated: ” “teenagers do not feel safe when they leave the house”

( So not just the parents who are “terrified” for the safety of their children when they, as teenagers, leave the house , as per the Daily Express article, but also the teenagers themselves do not feel safe, though it did not state it was “thousands” of teenagers).

Added onto the article was a ‘analysis’ piece by Philip Sim headed as:

“Swinney seems more and more keen to talk independence“

“What’s particularly notable is that Mr Swinney used this as an opportunity to talk about independence”.

Well they, the SNP, are known to be a party who supports Scottish independence so it is hardly unusual to talk about it, just as the opposition parties (and the media too) all incessantly talk about and support the NON Union , that only , as a (non) Union, exists in their minds (but only when it suits them to refer to it as a “Union”).

Also noted in the article under analysis was this:

“Three young deaths – knife crime is getting worse, says Labour MSP“

“Labour’s Foysol Choudhury asks how the Scottish government is working to prevent it” ?

Strange is it not how quick the opposition and also the media are in their condemnation on this particular subject now, yet that same opposition and that same media were predictably very very quiet previously on the success that Scotland had achieved in reducing knife crime here in for many many years in treating it as a Public Health issue, which as a successful method, has now been adopted elsewhere in the UK where there has been a huge problem in serious assaults with gun and knife crime deaths.

In my comment yesterday I stated that any death is tragic in such circumstances but the fact that the Tories, Labour and their always obliging combined client media all have grasped onto this as a weapon with which to attack the SNP upon , is no coincidence.

Unfortunately yet again the media here ,and the opposition parties also, all want the public to assume that only in Scotland and only with the SNP as the Scottish government is this, as a matter, to be seen as a failure by a government within the UK.

However simultanously , we as a public within Scotland, are then expected to either forget or ignore (or not be told by the media) just how bad this, as a situation, is as a huge huge problem that remains unsolved elsewhere within the UK, and is also , as a huge problem, far far worse than in Scotland.

This is now currently being excessively promoted by the politically compromised and duplicitous media within Scotland (and elsewhere) in their ongoing vendetta in them targeting the SNP yet again.

No matter the subject and no matter the data/stats that are connected to various nations within the UK , we will always see that the so called media in Scotland will always take the side/position of the pro UK political parties and never ever defend anything or anyone connected to the SNP, as a party , or as the Scottish government.

The fact that tragic situations are exploited and used as political weapons is for them, the opposition and the media, of no consequence, as they all have a mission and it is not what they promote it to be on their front pages , their websites or their Q’s at FMQ’s but it solely a mission to destroy support for the SNP, this time their attacks are is being done prior to the major election next year in 2026 in Scotland.

Also what really lies behind every single media attack and also every opposition party attacks upon the SNP, is their combined motivation of trying to stop support for Scottish independence ever increasing within Scotland.

That is the bottom line always for all pro UK media and all pro UK political parties. And they are (all) doing it deliberately too.

Vote SNP via majority in 2026 to show them all that we , in Scotland, are more than aware of who it is who really fails us within their UK, and it is not the SNP, but it is the UK media (ITO) and also very much all of the UK opposition parties, whose own party HQ’s call the shots as to what happens in Scotland , and where many of them as party HQ’s have a catalogue of failures as governments within their UK (either as an outright government or as part of a coalition government).

Where as UK governments they have unleashed “Chaos” within their UK and also are responsible for thousands of deaths via their cruel austerity measures.

Though most of the media HQ’s based outwith Scotland also do their bit to keep Scotland under the political control of their UK aka England and also with them, as a UK media, suppressing or downplaying #BAD news connected to political HQ UK parties as governments within their UK, past and present. ( mainly to try to protect the respective branch office parties in Scotland).

This terrible UK where UK bad politics are seemingly now the norm and where their respective UK client media are even worse than the UK parties that they all try to defend and protect.

We, Scotland, desperately need out of their UK , but for that to happen we need more people in Scotland to (finally) open their eyes and so fully absorb the true position as it currently stands , which as a position , will get even worse with Reform UK now apparently ascending in many of the UK polls .

See it has got even far far far worse for Scotland post 2014 , so much for us being #BetterTogether with the rest of their UK , still waiting for that to happen !

Liz S