As they all gloat over our drug deaths, a clear causal connection between Liverpool drug gangs, extreme violence and the flood of cheap, more powerful, drugs into Scotland is hidden from Scots

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Professor John Robertson OBA

The ‘Scottish‘ media above collectively hanging on to our drug deaths sadness and discounting any progress.

Utterly ignored by ‘your’ media but in the Liverpool Echo in November 2022, above, and:

A series of raids across Scotland last week highlighted the continuing focus of Merseyside’s organised crime groups on the drugs market north of the border. Last week officers from Merseyside Police teamed up with Police Scotland for raids in Peterhead, Aberdeen and in Knowsley. On Wednesday, November 2, Police Scotland raided an address in Peterhead where cocaine and heroin were recovered and a man and woman arrested.

Debate has been raging north of the border over how to handle drug-related deaths, which have remained high for a number of years and show little sign of significantly reducing. Scotland still has the highest number of drug deaths in Europe. In 2021, 1,295 deaths were linked to illicit drugs in Scotland, albeit down from 1,411 in 2020 which represented the highest number on record.

Liverpool based street gangs do not appear to have been phased by the misery, death and addiction on the streets of Glasgow and other Scottish cities and towns, however. In 2018, a National Crime Agency (NCA) annual strategic assessment said: “Significant serious organised crime connections exist between Scotland and the north west of England, predominantly Merseyside.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-drugs-gangs-still-eye-25476347

Was any of that reported by BBC Scotland, STV? I can find nothing.

The Liverpool Echo is making a clear causal connection between Liverpool drug gangs, the flood of cheap, more powerful, drugs into Scotland and our still far too high drug deaths. Why are Scotland’s media ignoring that?

6 thoughts on “As they all gloat over our drug deaths, a clear causal connection between Liverpool drug gangs, extreme violence and the flood of cheap, more powerful, drugs into Scotland is hidden from Scots”

  1. You would like to think the Scottish press would want to alert the public to this threat, it might lead to more folk giving the police info about gang activity, cannabis farms etc as well as maybe saving lives

    Every now and again I type County Lines into the search box on the BBC website and there is no shortage of articles across most of England’s regions, though I doubt they ever make the UK pages. I did spot this one though which I must have missed, there appears to be a Scotscast episode linked to it but I’m not registered to listen to BBC sounds

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy0xdxdl40o

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    1. You don’t need a TV licence to listen to the radio or BBC Sounds. I haven’t paid the TV tax for years but can listen to radio programmes anytime. Just click on the link or go to the BBC Sounds website.

      I never watch TV though. It’s mostly rubbish anyway.

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    2. The first thing I spotted was the guarded phrasing of the article, and went through it twice to verify, which can only be as result of an edict from Pacific Quay or London to avoid the England identification…. … “sent north”…. from their…. “home cities”… 🙄

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  3. Drug deaths in Scotland are down 155. The Scottish Gov has funded total abstinence rehab facilities £250Million over 5 years. Proper rehab facilities are opening up everywhere. Proper rehab is better than prison for getting people in better health. Most crime is committed by those under the influence of alcohol and drug. MUP has cut consumption. Cut alcohol deaths. Proper total abstinence proper rehab facilities will cut crime and drug deaths. Drug deaths are fallen.

    Scottish drug deaths are collected as a total. Higher. Drug deaths elsewhere are collected in three categories. Death by poison, death by heroin and death by drug abuse. Making the death by total drug abuse lower. Not calculated as a total. Statistics. Methods.

    Abused women cannot get away because they do not get legal aid which has to be paid back in any case. Abused women have to pay 6 month rent upfront. Agencies charge women illegally. Even with good credit. Legal aid would reduce the number of abused women. They could get away. Without £Thousands of legal charges. Cheaper in the end than cost of social services, police, prison.

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