Above the utterly implausible hazardous routes by which small boats full of migrants would have to travel to come ashore in Berwick or in Stranraer but, hey, geography was never Reform UK’s strongpoint judging by their new campaign vans below.
So, they’re not coming to Scotland by boats. They’re coming by bus, train or car, up the road from England?
Easily solution full independence and border control.
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Scotland population 5 million from 1900 and before. Dipped in 1950’s (war?). It only increased after Devolution 2000. 5.4million. Scotland is one of the least densely populated places in the world. Ie Japan 100Million on two relatively small islands.
Saudi Arabia. 30Million pop. 11million migrants. Germany 12Million migrants. 1 in 8 people. Both successful economy.
Brexit losing £Billions. Scotland needs people. Low unemployment. Needs people to work in healthcare, farming, oil & gas, tourism, hospitality etc.
Westminster policies drove people out of Scotland. The Jacobite Rebellion 1715 & 45. After the illegal Treaty of Union. Scotland has not been treated equally. The Clearances, the £10 passage. People had to leave Scotland to find a job and more prosperity. Higher unemployment in Scotland because of Westminster policies. A 40million disporia. In Australia, US, Canada and New Zealand. Oil & Gas workers elsewhere.
Westminster took all the Oil & Gas revenues and spent it in London S/E. Canary Wharf, Tilbury Docks. 30 miles of container port. Shut down trade in ports around the UK. Unemployment in Scotland 15%. Interest rates 17%. The winter of discontent. Rationing of electricity. Illegal wars, the banking crash.
Devolution made Scotland more prosperous. Independence will do even better.
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Reform UK preaching to those people (potential voters) who they assume to be easily taken in, as in them, as potential voters, assuming that what is happening on the shores of England with ‘small boats’ arriving on the English shoreline is then exactly the same , as a situation, here on Scotland’s shoreline.
No one at BBC Reporting Scotland nor STV News have sent out cameras and reporters to film that happening in Scotland have they ?
(And let’s be honest they , TV Channels, would do that , considering the SNP , as the Scottish government, are far more benevolent towards immigrants than the Labour party, Tory Party and pretend party Reform UK are, as the SNP welcomes refugees/asylum seekers)
So yes, any asylum seekers do indeed arrive in Scotland via England.
However Malcolm Offord, ‘vote no borders’ , hopes that those people he wants to vote for his party in May, will then not think about ‘open borders’ in the UK that then allows people to move freely between nations within the UK State.
One of the ways they, asylum seekers, can arrive in Scotland is via UK Home Office dispersal, where “destitute asylum seekers” are moved from initial accommodation to dispersal accommodation (including hotels and houses) across Scotland, managed by contracted providers like Mears.
( The BBC reported that “The UK government or its contracted private housing providers (e.g., Serco, Mears) arrange transport—typically by coach or train—to move asylum seekers from the southeast of England to accommodation in local authorities in Scotland, such as Glasgow”).
The irony is that Scotland is no where near what Reform UK (wrongly) calls “breaking point” , indeed we need more immigrants to come and live in Scotland, but currently Scotland under devolution does not hold the powers to control and manage immigration to Scotland.
Immigration is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998, but then Malcolm Offord would not want to advertise that fact would he.
Reform UK still lying for England.
Liz S
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I added a comment onto another post yesterday on this subject.
BBC website yesterday :
Headline – “Labour drops election candidate after fraud charge”
At 14.57pm that article , which was only added yesterday onto their site, was the 4th article on the Scotland main page and the 2nd article on the Scottish politics page.
Today it is now the 11th article on the Scotland main page and the 3rd article on the Scottish politics page.
The top article yesterday on both the Scotland main page and politics page was this:
“SNP candidate ditched over handling of Linden complaints”
(Note that according to the BBC website headlines, the Labour candidate was “dropped” but the SNP candidate was “Ditched”).
This morning it is still the top article on the Scottish politics page and now the 7th article on the Scotland main page.
There was also a reported (alleged) scandal that had been published yesterday morning by some newspapers that was linked to Joani Reid, the former Labour MP, that was not on the BBC website until much much later in the afternoon.
“Navy investigated links between nuclear sub commander and MP”
(Note no former party name mentioned of this MP)
That Joani Reid story was added after the SNP story on the BBC website, yet today that article on Joani Reid article is now the 9th article on the main Scotland page and the 2nd article on the Scottish politics page.
(So why is the SNP candidate article still higher, as an article, on both of those Scottish pages ?)
Also the Labour “drops” candidate story was added after the SNP candidate story as an article , so why is that also now lower on both pages as an article ? (the original SNP candidate story was under a different headline but an update on that story changed the headline to state she was now “ditched” as a candidate).
(Yesterday the UK (English) politics page also had the SNP Candidate story as an article, today it is gone from that page and now the Joani Reid article is on there, but already it is the 7th article, though if you scroll down that page it, the SNP candidate article, is noted in “Latest updates” ).
When the BBC cannot avoid publishing a story that is negative towards a pro UK party , then they just add it and then it descends very quickly as an article on their website until it finally disappears.
The BBC , still acting as if an opposition party to the SNP in Scotland.
Apparently “that’s their job”.
Liz S
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