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Professor John Robertson OBA
Briefly last night the Labour MSP charged over ‘indecent images’ (children not mentioned in the text as in other media) has already dropped a place this morning (below). Watch out for how quickly he drops off the page altogether.
Still down at the bottom, the County Lines gangs ‘targeting vulnerable women.’ More on this below.
Here’s what BBC Scotland say about the County Lines gangs:
County lines gangs are forcing vulnerable women into joining networks supplying crack cocaine and heroin to the Highlands and Islands, a senior detective has warned. Det Ch Insp Craig Still said criminal groups based in major UK cities were sending associates north to co-ordinate drug dealing.
He told BBC Scotland’s Scotcast that the suspects were often young men known for violent offences in their home cities. Domestic abuse victims and a heavily pregnant woman have even had their homes taken over by gangs to store and sell drugs.
Det Ch Insp Still said a dedicated team of detectives were working with officers across Scotland and England to disrupt the activity.
‘Across Scotland and England?’ So, where do they come from, Scotland or England? The local press know fine well:
The criminal networks behind County Lines originate in major cities like Liverpool, London, and the West Midlands, and use a combination of coercion, exploitation, and violence to tighten their grip on the drug trade. Inverness is the hub of their northern operations but their reach extends as far as Alness.
BBC Scotland did once reveal a wee bit of the truth of the plague of entirely English city-based drug gangs terrorising Scotland (55 places at the last count). In 2019, SIX years age, for the last time, we could read this:
Rural communities in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Perthshire are being targeted by gangs using school children to sell class A drugs. Dealers based mainly in London and Merseyside use youngsters to move heroin and crack cocaine from major cities to smaller locations.
Conor Gillies wrote that and is long away to Sky News now. Since then, and as we see today, BBC Scotland, Reporting Scotland and Good Morning Scotland have NEVER linked this appalling situation, keeping drug deaths up and causing violent crime surges in formerly quiet towns and villages, to named English cities.
For hard evidence to confirm my claims, see these:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Aye, ‘impartial reporting’ stopped on the appointment of the Dishon Sarah Smith, and has rarely been seen since…
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Bella Caledonia posted this on ‘X’
“This is from former Sun editor David Dinsmore who has just been made Labour’s chief of communications”.
Then a picture of a Sun headline when he, Dinsmore, was the Editor……stating….
“Rescue boats” ?
“I’d use Gunships to stop Migrants”.
However even worse was the text within the article under that headline which started by stating…
“No I don’t care. Show me pictures of Coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad”.
Also in that article it stated “”Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches”………….
Does the Editor of a newspaper not have the final say on what articles are allowed to go into each edition of their newspaper and so he, Dinsmore , then thought this article was okay ?
That article was written by a pathetic article called Katie Hopkins….she of the “Sweaty Jocks” jibe, in reference to the Scottish Ebola Nurse ( Hopkins tweeted that sending “Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians” to London “isn’t cricket” and labelled Scottish people “little sweaty jocks”) ….and David Dinsmore, the now Chief of Communications for Labour UK, thought that she was just so perfect as someone that he employed , as in allowed , to write a weekly (offensive) column in his paper, The Sun , when he was the Editor of that tabloid rag aka part of the gutter press…..
So he Dinsmore now works for Labour UK, as someone who would surely be considered as being more suitable for the Reform UK party as a ‘Chief of Communications’ .
However instead he has been hand picked by the No “Change” party aka Labour UK party as a communications Chief …I dread to think what he is going to communicate based on him allowing that above headline and article in The Sun to be published…..
What does Anas Sarwar think ?……
#AskAnas
Wikipedia noted that “In 2016 he was convicted of breaking the Sexual Offences (Amendment) act after inadvertently revealing the identity of a victim of a sexual offence”…..
So basically he was communicating that which he should not have communicated….
Also “In November 2013, he stated that he had no intention of dropping the page 3 (topless women) feature”……
So in 2014 “he was named sexist of the year by the ‘End violence against women”…..
Wow , he, Dinsmore, has a strange (bad) pedigree to be seen as one who is appropriate as the new Chief of Communications for the political party (Labour) who are currently the UK government…..it almost makes one wonder WTF will Labour, as the UK government, do (wrong) next ???……and too their Chief of Communications as well….
Meanwhile….we must all apparently only focus and obsess upon #SNPBAD
Labour ……can they really get any worse….well seems so, based on who they are employing….to help them, checks notes, chiefly ‘communicate’…..think Tory…think Reform UK….you then will get Labour UK.
Liz S
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But this puts the ferries in a new light. From the Telegraph on line. Wonder when BBC Scotland will run with it?
https://archive.is/eqTot
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