Professor John Robertson OBA
The UK media, above, are clear in their uncritical acceptance of the PM and the Deputy PM’s worries that riots will spread across the ‘UK’ again this summer.
There were none in Scotland last year and the evidence remains to suggest there will be none again this year, no matter how hard the ‘Scottish’ media try to find something similar.
What really happened and why did it not happen in Scotland?
From BBC Scotland on 9 August 2024, in what must be an unauthorised ‘Scotland is the best‘ report by a junior reporter not yet ‘inducted‘:
Police Scotland is considering a request to send 120 officers to Northern Ireland following several nights of anti-immigration riots in Belfast and other parts of the UK.
Jon Boutcher, chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said his officers were exhausted and could not “stand alone to deal with disorder like this any more”.
Mr Boutcher said the PSNI needed support as it had been allowed to “decay” in recent years.
The National Police Coordination Centre, which provides support to forces across the UK, said it was considering a request from the Police Service in Northern Ireland (PSNI) for back-up from other forces.
“As a national service, Police Scotland has the ability to flex resources where the need is greatest in order to keep people safe,” said a Police Scotland spokesperson.
Mr Swinney said “thankfully” there had not been riots in Scotland, but added: “We have to remain vigilant because of the unacceptable conduct that’s taking place.”
He told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland: “I want everyone to remain vigilant because we have communities that are experiencing a great deal of fear and anxiety as a consequence of what they’re observing in other parts of the United Kingdom.”
He said Police Scotland had “formidable” resources that could be deployed flexibly across the country if required. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77lxyz7702o
Evidence for the claims in the headline? Important, I agree. All good journalists do that:
From the Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report : July 2024 edition:
Crime has fallen by 53% since 2008-09. Results from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) show that around 1 in 10 adults were victims of crime in 2021-22 (10.0%) compared to 1 in 5 in 2008-09 (20.4%). The estimated number of crimes fell by 53% over the same period, and by 18% since 2017-18.
IMPORTANT – This is not just based on police reporting which is known to understate the actual level of crime but on The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS), a large-scale (5 500 interviews) social survey which asks people about their experiences and perceptions of crime in Scotland and is considered ‘gold standard’ research methodology ie very accurate.
In crude terms, you’re half as likely to be victim of crime than you were 17 years ago. How’s that for real news utterly unacceptable for our MSM’s agenda?
With particular regard to racism:
The facts, from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), in the graph above and in the actual data, below:
So, race-based hate crimes are down by almost exactly 1 000 from 2014 to 2020 and judging by the graph above continued to fall under Humza Yousaf in 2023.
Sources:
Despite this massive fall, there are actually slightly more police officers, as of March 2024, than there were, 17 years ago, at the end of the last Labour Government in March 2007:
From Police Scotland data, 7 May 2024:
Scotland’s Chief Statistician has published statistics on Police Officer Quarterly Strength, which gives the number of full-time equivalent police officers employed by Police Scotland.
The key findings of the statistics are:
- there were 16,356 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 31 March 2024
- this is an increase of 122 FTE police officers (+0.7%) from the 16,234 FTE police officers recorded at 31 March 2007 https://www.gov.scot/publications/police-officer-quarterly-strength-statistics-31-march-2024/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
England ( posing as the UK ) has its annual weather crises , with warnings about Heatwaves , Water shortages , Hosepipe Bans etc… can now add Race Riots to its Summer calendar .
Race riots in ”The UK ” as a headline is just the usual lazy journalism by the MSM/politicians as Scotland as a separate entity does not impinge on their everyday thoughts about ”The Country ”.
”The Country” is England/UK when they speak of problems in England or talking of their national football team or the NHS or any other negative .
And…In this Great British Union it CANNOT be seen that Scotland does not share in this societal breakdown which afflicts England , so ”The UK ” or ”The Country ” has a problem regardless of the veracity of this .
However , if the MSM are talking about a Scottish problem it is ALWAYS made clear that it is Scotland – not ”The Country” or The UK !
The MSM knowledge of Scotland and Scottish issues is lamentable because they JUST DON’T GIVE A F*CK about us ! And to compound this they often rely on Scottish (?) Labour/Tory agitators from Holyrood to provide them with ”facts” – cue Sarwar or Baillie or Gulhane gleefully speaking sh*te to camera !
So the ”UK” will experience Race Riots this summer even if they do not happen north of the Watford Gap !
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Starmer tweeted this below today………..(to apparently help make his “country” more lawful , in him inciting anger and perhaps even violence from moronic so called ‘British protestors’ towards any migrants working in his and their Britain) .
“We’re cracking down on migrants working illegally as food delivery riders. We’ll share asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats so they can take action if riders are staying there. We will do what it takes to ensure fairness for British people”.
I see , so basically Labour are targeting these workers by colluding (and so supporting) those companies who employ these workers….so what measures are Labour also taking against those companies that they mention, to then stop them , as employers, continuing to employ those that Labour deem to be ‘undesirables aka migrants’ ?
A Labour Home Office Minister Seema Malhotra was on SKY News and the X account of Saul Staniforth noted that she was “boasting about cracking down on illegal working. So she’s asked, how are companies like Deliveroo, Uber Eats & Just Eat being punished” and Saul also tweeted in response “They’re not. Why not? Because whether its profiteering water companies or exploitative gig economy employers, Labour is on their side”.
Keir Starmer paving the way for Reform UK to win in 2029 by legitimising Nigel Farage’s hateful and divisive (non) arguments, as currently Farage is declaring that “Britain is facing societal collapse” as splashed on the front page of the English (HQ) edition of the Daily Mail.
Meanwhile Starmer and Angela Rayner take no responsibility for what is happening in certain places in England , like the rioting recently in Epping, as instead they also lay all of the blame on those that are referred to as being “illegal immigrants”, thus they, like Farage, encourage even more riots outside hotels that are housing asylum seekers…of course Keir Starmer making a recent tribute Enoch Powell speech only helped to fan the flames on what he is now saying (copying Farage) on the so called “fraying Britain”…..aka England of course.
Keir Starmer has now tried to distance himself from his , checks notes, own speech that referenced an “Island of Strangers” situation within his Britain…..but his only “regret” on this was the resulting backlash that followed…..that’s what happens when your Chief of staff, McSweeney, tries to make the party (Labour party) a tribute act to all of the various parties that have been led by Nigel Farage .
UKIP-Brexit Party-Reform UK- Labour party ……..all singing from the same hateful, divisive and warped hymn sheet.
BTW we also see this….when England’s women’s football team played Wales women in the Euros competition recently, well the supposed neutral UK PM Keir Starmer did not tweet any encouragement or support to either of these two UK teams or indeed did he , the following day , tweet a congratulations to England’s women’s football team or a commiseration to the Welsh women’s football team.
However yesterday and today it is business as usual as the supposed neutral UK PM, Keir Starmer tweeted this yesterday “Best of luck in the semi-final tonight @Lionesses We’re all behind you”.
Today he tweeted ” What a performance @Lionesses Into the final and inspiring the nation. Let’s bring it home”
The “nation” being England and “bring it home” meaning to , checks notes, England.
Meanwhile there was no good luck or commiseration to the other, checks notes, UK football team in this competition, as in the Welsh women, when they played both England or indeed any other team in this competition , in fact I do not think he, Starmer, even acknowledged the Welsh women were in this same competition as his own actual real team the English Lionesses.
That’s Labour’s UK in a nutshell where only one nation within their UK is the one they want to (pretend) to support and encourage and also praise.
Starmer is Labour’s tribute act leader to Nigel Farage …….and Starmer’s Labour party are now way too keen to be seen as being the best tribute act to Reform UK.
(Basically both are English Nationalists pretending to be British Nationalists or rather what they term as being “Patriots”).
I mean with either the Labour party or Reform UK being in charge of their UK….we then have the same kind of parties really, but Labour are doing their best to ensure wins happen in current and future elections for Reform UK , and it seems that voters in England prefer the real thing (Reform UK) to the tribute act that Labour are so desperate to be………
Can English voters not see that ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’……alas, it seems that for those English voters, that for all of the Labour party “flattery” for Reform UK as a party, is still then is not worthy of their voting for Labour any more in the future as voters in Engalnd…………..so please can some voters in Scotland now finally catch on to that fact and so then also finally stop voting for the Labour party …….going forward………in all elections !
Liz S
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This is easily explained.
The colonial media understands “Britain” as the bit south of Hadrians Wall. AKA “Roman Britain”………..Scotland exists in a wee world of its own, far away from London, and with every aspect of life and governance in a state of perpetual crisis—- even though they are better staffed, better run and with better stats than in England or Wales……ask “our” media to explain how this works, would be like asking ants to explain the Universe……it just is!!
gavinochiltree
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