08e7cb No.17352350 [Last50 Posts]
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If you are Scottish, no doubt by now you will have noticed that neither the Scottish nor UK Parliament represent you THE PEOPLE.
New "rules" are being made up daily to undermine our Legal System, effectively turning us into Government Property. We no longer are in control of our government, they no longer even pretend to act on our behalf once elected. Pretty soon they will no longer need to play along with their fake elections designed to brainwash you into believing they work for you.
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UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
Let's take back our power collectively, no matter your racial, employment (yes, the police and military too) or religious background, we are all in this together, and will be subjected to the same tyranny if we allow the perverts and criminals in power to proceed with their plans.
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08e7cb No.17352352
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08e7cb No.17352354
Globals
>>15487554 Use /tech/ for ban lifts & bug reports
>>15443568 HOW TO BAKE Thread; >>16087759 Newfag Q&A Thread; >>16050716 bakers & notetakers, plz tag the dough
>>16495621 CP guidelines: No Hunter near kids, use discernment with anything borderline
>>16538203 Baker's Lite JS code, can insert in Options menu, shows when Q posts (use discernment)
>>16514077, >>16552582, >>16511354 JW & BO on Q posting, Q's board, TOR, SALT, Tripcodes
>>16559261 OP formatting now that Q is posting
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Notables are NOT Endorsements
#7
>>16756008 UNBELIEVABLE Hypocrisy (video)
>>16756045, >>16756050, >>16756055, >>16756055, >>16841213 Former top Scots lawyer convicted of historical sex abuse against four children
>>16937898 SNP council leader resigns after being accused of sexual misconduct
>>16937911 Scotland the brave gone to FASCISM (video)
>>16941413 SNP Sleaziest Top 10 (video)
>>16958808, >>16958826 Eleven Scots accused of child sex abuse ring allegedly involving witchcraft and satanic seances
#6
Spammed out of existence
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>>14548525 Scottish police officers would like to carry a handgun, study shows
>>14728056 Golden goodbyes for police officers hit nearly £20m
>>14793897 WALKING OUT COP26: Glasgow school staff set to go on strike amid further chaos ahead of climate change summit
>>14815736, >>14815742 No dismissals despite almost 250 sexual misconduct allegations among Police Scotland officers
>>14851432 Hundreds of face-to-face GP appointments are cancelled or rescheduled in Glasgow in bid to slash traffic levels during Cop26 climate summit
>>14866491 Who Will Speak for The Children? Fauci Also Experimented on the Homeless Children of New York
>>14866623 Flashback: Fauci’s NIH funded experiments on AIDS orphans in New York City (video)
>>14877925 Green minister Patrick Harvie mocked for complaining about Cop26 road closures
>>15049551, >>15049551, >>15049718 A culture of cover up: “I believed the doctors when they said my baby’s was an isolated case. Now I feel like a fool.”
>>15196144 Songs of Freedom - Transcender 'Make A Stand'
>>15302181 Heads of Scotland's drug death taskforce resign
>>15399259 Sheriff in Lockerbie bomber trial arrested
>>15412530 Royal horror as Queen's Scottish residence daubed with 'paedo home' slur – police on case
>>15547254, >>15547259 £50m of public cash ploughed into firm linked to tax haven by bank set up by Nicola Sturgeon
>>15767624, >>15767629 These MPs praised ‘brave’ Russian protesters – then voted to restrict protest in the UK
>>15940585, >>15942064 Brian Gill, Lord Gill, PC
>>15942279, 15942298 Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham
>>15958864 Call for Glasgow Uni tutor to be axed after branding Ukraine invasion a ‘panto’
>>16061431 Case study no' 6 of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) Bun
>>16095380 DRUG SCANDAL Epilepsy drug that left 20,000 babies disabled in UK is STILL being prescribed to pregnant mums despite warnings
>>16306696, >>16306710, >>16306718 MI5 agent used secret status to terrorise girlfriend
>>16650824 Historic Abuse Bun ''Posted in #6
>>16650827 Covid Bun Posted in #6
>>16650829 Nicola Sturgeon & SNP Bun Posted in #6
>>16650831 Freedom Protests Bun Posted in #6
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08e7cb No.17352356
Dough
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08e7cb No.17380823
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73dcde No.17387002
>>>16756045 (You), >>16756050 (You), >>16756055 (You), >>16756055 (You), >>16841213 (You) Former top Scots lawyer convicted of historical sex abuse against four children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-62466734
Former prosecutor John Watt QC jailed for abusing children
9th August 2022.
A former Scottish prosecutor has been jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing four young children more than four decades ago.
John Watt QC, who was also a criminal defence lawyer, preyed on three young girls and a boy over a 14-year period.
The 72-year-old had been extradited from the United States to stand trial in July.
Judge Lord Braid told Watt he had committed "vile" crimes of the "utmost seriousness and depravity."
Watt was also put on the sex offenders register for an indeterminate period.
Former Scots QC guilty of abusing four children
Last month, Watt was found guilty of one charge of rape, one of indecent assault and three of indecent conduct committed at houses in the Edinburgh area between September 1973 and August 1987.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Braid said: "In each case the offences have had a profound and life-changing effect on the victims."
The judge said that Watt continued to maintain his innocence over the abuse and added that perhaps explained why he had not demonstrated any remorse or empathy for his victims.
Lord Braid said: "In your role as advocate depute (Crown Office prosecutor) you prosecuted the very type of offence of which you have now been convicted."
Abuse at gatherings
Watt raped a girl under the age of 12 at an address in the west end of Edinburgh.
Two other girls were later molested by him in their beds at a house in Edinburgh and a 10-year-old boy was subjected to sexual abuse at an address in Leith in 1987.
The court previously heard that a number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time.
During his trial, Watt pinned the blame on a now dead lawyer for attacks on one of the girls.
The female rape victim told the trial that her father, who was also a lawyer, took her to see Watt at a house in Edinburgh. The woman, now aged 55, said: "I did things to the man which he made me do."
Two sisters told the trial how their lawyer father often hosted gatherings at their home where Watt and others would be present.
One described waking up to find Watt at her bedside before he got in beside her and began touching her inappropriately.
Her sister saw him in the bed and recalled being "frightened", but the advocate then turned on her and subjected her to abuse.
The court heard that their father had subsequently reported Watt to a senior lawyer, who later became a judge, instead of going to police.
The male victim told the court: "I was raped by John Watt. I remember him coming in the room and I remember him telling me to turn over." Watt was meant to be looking after the boy while his parents were away.
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73dcde No.17387006
>>17387002
….continued:
Defence counsel Donald Findlay QC told the court Watt would be lodging an appeal.
He said that Watt "in common with any decent individual deplores the type of conduct that is referred to in these charges".
Mr Findlay said: "He is a first offender. He is still one of Her Majesty's counsel in Scotland."
'Picked the wrong kid'
Watt gave up law in Scotland and moved to Oklahoma in 1995 where he did some work for his wife's real estate agency before armed police detained him ahead of extradition proceedings.
Mr Findlay said Watt did not keep good health and had diabetes but hoped to return home to America and his wife.
Following the sentencing, the two sisters said in a statement addressed to Watt: "You thought you'd picked the right kid.
"The kid of a dad who idolised you and was too weak to stand up to you properly. The kid of a mum who knew it was wrong, but was told that she wouldn't be believed.
"The kid who cowered behind the locked door of a freezing cold bathroom in case you came back for her. The kid who kept her secret for 37 years.
"Having been found guilty, I think you should know that you picked the wrong kid. Because there are no wrong kids. Only kids who are too young to have the power to do anything about it.
"Only kids who people don't listen hard enough to. Only kids who don't have friends in high places who'll turn a blind eye. Only kids who know right from wrong. Just kids."
When John Watt was sentenced in the courts where he used to practise as a senior lawyer, prosecuting people accused of sex crimes, two of his victims were watching from the public gallery.
The sisters were young girls when the Queen's Counsel abused them at their home in Edinburgh 40 years ago. Watt was convicted of raping two other children, a girl aged under 12 and a 10-year-old boy.
They listened to Watt's defence counsel Donald Findlay QC complain that the ex-lawyer had been "treated like some kind of serial killer" when he was arrested by armed American police officers on behalf of the Scottish authorities.
They heard Mr Findlay say Watt was sympathetic to "any victim of this type of behaviour" but still maintained his innocence.
They watched the judge Lord Braid jail the ex-lawyer for 10 years, having noted that his behaviour had had a "profound and lifelong" effect on his victims.
Afterwards, the sisters gave the handful of reporters covering the case a typed statement addressed "to the accused." It was defiant and heartbreaking.
The sisters said their father had idolised Watt but was too weak to stand up to him properly. They said their mother was told she wouldn't be believed. They talked of a secret kept for 37 years and of kids "who don't have friends in high places who'll turn a blind eye".
Questions have been asked about whether these allegations could have been dealt with long ago.
Cases involving so-called historic abuse allegations are now commonplace within Scotland's courts, as justice finally catches up with the evil done by men like John Watt. They're not historic for the victims still living with the consequences.
The former defence lawyer and prosecutor is lodging an appeal, but if his convictions and the 10-year sentence stands, he'll be in his late 70s before he's considered for parole.
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73dcde No.17387031
>>17387002
August 7th 2022 The Sunday Times Scotland.
By Marcelo Mega.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-chief-prosecutor-lord-hardie-should-have-told-police-about-sex-abuse-mz0590j2f
ex chief prosecutor Lord Hardie should have told police about child abuse
Lord Hardie up to his neck in covering up child abuse. Yet another one of these Lordy type fucks with absolutely no integrity who should never have been allowed to judge others for in most cases far lesser crimes than child abuse or the covering up of it.
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73dcde No.17387067
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COVID recovery money was LOOTED
20,157 views 7 Aug 2022
Mercurius
News emerges of @theSNP diverting UK COVID recovery cash to their incompetent #FerryFiasco & the unaccountable @nicolasturgeon pretends she can't use devolution levers to ease the cost of living crisis we ask the @GOVUK to demand an audit into where our money has gone?
Fuck knows what it will take to shake Scots out of their slumber. It makes you just a wee bit embarrassed to be Scottish.
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cdd243 No.17387110
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9269653/donald-trump-visit-scotland-august/
DON HIS WAY Donald Trump set to visit Scotland THIS MONTH sparking ‘special security measures’
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9269653/donald-trump-visit-scotland-august/
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73dcde No.17387203
>>17387067
Just a reminder after watching this and the reference to an UNDERSPEND of £580 million and I was reminder of the 1.6 billion UNDERSPEND when in 2207 he was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth from 2007-2014
https://www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/national/18903911.salmond-holding-child-abuse-inquiry-says-deputy-first-minister/
Salmond was against holding child abuse inquiry, says Deputy First Minister
27th November 2020
Former First Minister Alex Salmond and other influential figures in the Scottish Government were against holding an inquiry into the abuse of children in care, John Swinney has said.
Speaking at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry on Friday, the Deputy First Minister said there was clear division between ministers on the decision to hold a public investigation.
He said an inquiry was authorised “after the change of First Minister had taken place”.
James Peoples QC, senior counsel to the inquiry, said that on Thursday Mike Russell told him “influential figures, including Alex Salmond, Kenny MacAskill and the then lord advocate Frank Mulholland were not persuaded” of the need for an inquiry.
Mike Russell engaged heavily with survivors, John Swinney told the inquiry (Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA)
Mr Swinney agreed, saying: “In 2014, there was a difference of views in Cabinet in the summer of 2014 if there should be an inquiry.”
Mr Peoples said: “Mike Russell described it as ‘quite robust’.
“He said one school of thought was that the time taken, the cost involved, didn’t support the need for a public inquiry.
“Whereas Mike Russell was putting forward another view of what do survivors want?”
Mr Swinney responded: “There was a perfectly respectable debate among Cabinet but there were two opinions.
“One argument was that the inquiry would not address the issues and would not deliver the outcomes survivors hoped for.
“Mike Russell had engaged heavily with survivors and his view was we had to confront this issue as a country, to do justice for survivors to enable them to have their experiences documented, understood and reflected on, and for the state to accept responsibility for what happened to them.
“I supported him in that view in Cabinet.
“The inquiry was authorised in December after the change of First Minister had taken place.
“Without a doubt, there was a division of views in Cabinet.”
Mr Swinney also said the cost of an inquiry would not have been a deterrent, saying: “I’ve seen a lot of traffic about money in the papers and I was finance minister for nine years, so I controlled that money.
“Ironically, in the period after 2007, the financial issues were a lot less than in early 2014.
“When I came to office in 2007, I was pleasantly surprised there was £1.6 billion in an account in the treasury that hadn’t been spent.
“When I was going through the accounts in 2006 and saw that, I thought that would be quite handy to have that.We still had the block grant(however many billions given yearly by UK parliament)and there was £1.6 billion that had not been spent, which I found quite surprising.”
Mr Peoples asked: “Although you weren’t approached about finding money for an inquiry, there was money there?”
Mr Swinney said: “There was a hidden money tree at that point. So the idea that money was an issue – I had the ability to fund the financial priorities my colleagues found to be important.”
The latest phase of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, heard before judge Lady Smith, is exploring reasons why calls between August 2002 and December 2014 for a public inquiry to be held were resisted by ministers.
The current inquiry was set up in October 2015.
It is investigating abuse of children in care in Scotland or where their care was arranged in Scotland.
The inquiry continues.
All through the years from 2002 to 15 they were denying an inquiry to victims because of "cost".
CUNTS!
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73dcde No.17387252
Good, hope he'll bring a prison boat to house Swinney/Sturgeon & Co, while they await trial for treason.
You might let the big fella know I've yet to receive my invite.
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73dcde No.17387266
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73dcde No.17387410
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SNP failing the poorest children
9,119 views 9 Aug 2022
Mercurius
Latest Scottish education stats. Worst off pupils doing even worse. Pass rates down 13% amongst the most deprived kids. So much for your promise to close the attainment gap Nicola. A shameful record of continuing failure.
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73dcde No.17387418
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Are You Awake
460 views 8 Aug 2022
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08e7cb No.17417338
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73dcde No.17432375
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b8qg
==Locked in the Hospital
Disclosure==
Series 5
Reporter Lucy Adams investigates why four young men have been locked in secure hospitals for years. She meets the families struggling to get their loved ones home and hears the stories of those with autism and learning disabilities desperate to get out of a system they don’t understand.
More than 20 years after it was agreed no one should be living in hospital, she looks at why hundreds of people are still stuck behind locked doors, sometimes for decades. Ministers have promised to get most people home by March 2024, but is that going to happen?
Apologies, I've no link to add. If anyone can find a working link please post it.
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73dcde No.17432437
>>17387031
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/401185/cops-quiz-fraudster-who-forged-former-lord-advocate-andrew-hardies-signature-to-buy-a-car-20-years-ago/
MYSTERY PROBE Cops again quiz fraudster who forged former Lord Advocate Andrew Hardie’s signature to buy a car 20 years ago
Jamie Coltart questioned two decades after twice using the lawman's chequebook to pay £325 for the motor
BY DOUGLAS WALKER
8 Jan 2017
COPS have again quizzed a fraudster who forged a top judge’s signature to buy a car 20 years ago.
Jamie Coltart was questioned by detectives as part of a mystery probe two decades after twice using former Lord Advocate Andrew Hardie’s chequebook to pay £325 for the motor.
A police source said yesterday: “Numerous interviews have been conducted at various police stations including Linlithgow.
They added: “It’s all part of an ongoing inquiry.”
Coltart was 16 and living in a children’s home at the time of the fraud in May 1996.
He used the cheques to buy a car from James Hawthorn in North Berwick, East Lothian.
The crime came to light when cops in England needed to trace the motor’s owner and discovered dodgy cheques had bought it.
A court heard Lord Hardie — then Dean of the Faculty of Advocates — had never met Coltart or knew who he was.
He also said he hadn’t realised his cheques or card were missing.
Coltart claimed he got them from a mystery pal and denied faking the signature twice.
He changed his plea to guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in February 1997. But the fraudster dodged being jailed or fined by Sheriff Andrew Bell.
The Crown also accepted his denial to using Lord Hardie’s Visa card to buy £200 worth of goods from petrol stations.
Coltart’s lawyer Alex Lafferty said in court: “He is remorseful.”
Lord Hardie was due to be called as a witness but was not needed. He later said: “I understand it’s a guilty plea. I have no further comment.”
Lord Hardie, 70, was Scotland’s top law officer from 1997 to 2000.
He became a High Court judge known for dishing out harsh punishments to crooks. Over five years, 84 of his sentences were overturned for being too severe.
He retired in 2012 but ex-First Minister Alex Salmond appointed him to chair the inquiry into the shambolic £776million Edinburgh Trams project, above, in 2014.
His report is expected next year at the earliest.
The life peer from Edinburgh — known as Baron Hardie of Blackford — has been married to Catherine for 45 years. The couple have three children.
Police last night refused to discuss the current inquiry. They said: “This is not something we will be commenting on.”
Both Lord Hardie and Coltart declined to comment.
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73dcde No.17432556
https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/sheriff-alistair-duff-arrested
Sheriff Alistair Duff to appear in court
14 Jan 2022
A sheriff has been charged in connection with matters which will become public when he appears in court shortly.
Alistair Duff, 67, who once represented Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, retired on December 1 last year after a 45-year career.
He was appointed sheriff at Dundee in 2004 before being named director of the Judicial Institute for Scotland in 2014.
A Police Scotland spokesman told SLN: “Following a complaint and subsequent investigation, a 67-year-old man was charged and has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal.”
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1531341518040186881
I know Donald Trump said while president that he wanted the Locherbie bombing looked at again. I wonder if this is anything to do with the arrest of Sheriff Alistair Duff who once represented Abdelbaset al-Megrahi?
John Halley Advocate seems rather interested in this. John Halley as you may recall is the guy who was fired from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) after sending a 17,500 word "note" to Lady Ann Smith, current chair of the inquiry detailing those within the Judiciary who were involved in child abuse, and was "sacked" from the inquiry by Smith, who as it turns out has as her personal secretary (personally picked by her, or by Lord Brian Gill on her behalf after he chose her to be the 2nd chair of that inquiry) none other than the daughter of Lord Cullen.
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73dcde No.17432608
>>17432556
I wrote a Note in relation to trafficking of children in the UK. None of SCAI, Crown Office, Judicial Office for Scotland nor SG have investigated very serious concerns. One relevant investigation in Scotland was by the Met. Why was the Met investigating in Scotland in 1996?
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1539353031703154688
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73dcde No.17433061
>>17432556
>I know Donald Trump said while president that he wanted the Locherbie bombing looked at again. I wonder if this is anything to do with the arrest of Sheriff Alistair Duff who once represented Abdelbaset al-Megrahi?
While commenting on an SNP attempt to cover up misconduct investigations in to their government as "not in the public interest" whether or not those complaints are upheld, John Halley again asking the question "What about Sheriff Duff?"
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1539239613562249216
John Halley pinned tweet:
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1124332294016262144/photo/1
>>17432608
>I wrote a Note in relation to trafficking of children in the UK. None of SCAI, Crown Office, Judicial Office for Scotland nor SG have investigated very serious concerns. One relevant investigation in Scotland was by the Met. Why was the Met investigating in Scotland in 1996?
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73dcde No.17456166
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Nicola Sturgeon tries to get into wrong car whilst being heckled at Edinburgh Fringe
NICOLA Sturgeon was filmed nearly getting into the wrong car while being heckled by protesters.
The First Minister appeared at The Stand comedy club on Edinburgh's George Street and spoke with Graham Spiers for his 'In Conversation' series at the Edinburgh Fringe.
But protesters from Unionist group A Force For Good - founded by Alistair McConnachie who was axed from UKIP for being a holocaust denier - turned up outside the venue holding signs that read "Sturgeon is not Scotland."
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73dcde No.17484782
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/world-news/anger-snp-gave-5m-taxpayers-27894826
Anger as SNP gave £5m of taxpayer's money to China's controversial 'spy school' in Glasgow
The Free Tibet campaign is furious that Scottish taxpayers are effectively backing an 'authoritarian government carrying out widespread abuses against Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hongkongers and Chinese citizens'
ByBen Borland Editor
2 SEP 2022
The Scottish Government has admitted giving £5.3million of public funds to the Confucius Institute for Scotland's Schools over the past eight years.
Based at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, it runs 22 learning hubs to promote Chinese languages and culture in schools. However, the organisation - which is controlled directly from Beijing - has come under fire recently amid accusations of espionage.
Confucius Institutes have been closed down in several Western countries and Rishi Sunak has vowed to do the same to the 30 operating in the UK if he becomes Prime Minister. These latest funding figures will only fuel claims that the SNP administration has been too naive in dealing with China.
Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell – shadow cabinet secretary for education and skills – told The Ferret investigative website: "While building cross-cultural links is important, taxpayers will rightly raise an eyebrow at the amount of money being provided by the SNP Government to these controversial institutions, heavily linked to the Chinese Government. Given the large sums involved, full transparency and accountability from ministers is essential."
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, and Aberdeen universities also host Confucius institutes, but they do not receive grants from the Scottish Government.
Others to have previously questioned the organisation's presence on campuses include human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar and Anne Henderson, the former rectors of Glasgow and Edinburgh universities.
John Jones, of the human rights group Free Tibet, described the Confucius Institute for Scotland's Schools (CISS) an "instrument of soft power by a government that is carrying out widespread abuses against Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hongkongers and Chinese citizens".
He added: "While the study of the Chinese language and Chinese culture is fully worth supporting, there is no need for this to be carried out in collaboration with an authoritarian government.
"As the world wakes up to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) human rights abuses against Tibetans, Hongkongers and Uyghurs, it is no surprise that the global trend is one of governments and universities cutting ties with such institutes. It is our recommendation that the Scottish Government follows suit."
The funding figures were published on Thursday and also show the government holds more than 3,000 official documents relating to the Confucius Institute. However, officials refused to release any of these as it would take too long to retrieve them all.
CISS says it is an "award winning Confucius Institute working with schools across Scotland to engage pupils with Chinese language learning and culture". It runs classroom hubs in primary and secondary schools and scholarships are given for pupils to study in China for nine months.
Last year, the Ferret published claims by a former Chinese diplomat that Beijing tries to control its international students studying at Scottish universities through student associations.
The Chinese Embassy in London told the website that China has "never, and will never, exert any political influence on normal academic activities in British universities".
The Scottish Government said: “There is no interference in what is taught in Scottish schools. This is decided solely by Scottish councils, schools and our teachers. Schools are supported in delivering this by Scotland’s National Centre for Languages and its sister organisation Confucius Institute for Scotland’s Schools (CISS)."
A government spokesperson added: “Support provided by CISS, including access to native speaking language assistants and immersion trips to China, would not be possible without their partnerships with Chinese institutions. Educational materials and resources provided by CISS are prepared in line with the principles of Curriculum for Excellence.”
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73dcde No.17519898
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://youtu.be/uBXedHfAHB4
the ways and means
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73dcde No.17540228
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://youtu.be/TyMasVjY-vg
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73dcde No.17548570
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17540228
https://youtu.be/P8CQ1sEtwwc
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73dcde No.17549071
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17548570
https://youtu.be/uucZ7Q4SJU0
King Charles ordered to appear before international tribunal over death of William Combes and others
Kevin A
Charles Windsor was summoned to appear today, September 20, before an international Tribunal to answer charges of his complicity in the death of indigenous children and eyewitnesses like William Combes. The summons can be read in its entirety at www.murderbydecree.com under ITCCS Updates for September 20, 2022. Issued by the International Common Law Court of Justice.
(Note: The Date is according to Greenwich Mean Time)
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73dcde No.17550789
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17433061
Some of John Halley's comments around the period of John Watt QC's trial, which ultimately resulted in a 10 year sentence for Watt.
Is/was Sheriff Duff mixed up in the Establishment child abuse ring? Time I suppose willl tell if his arrest has anything to do with either the child abuse or the Al Megrahi representation during the Locherbie bombing, or something else entirely.
One thing for sure is that the good Advocate, having highlighted establishment abuse with the content of his pinned tweet detailing his "note" (running to 17,500 words) to the Chair (Lady (?) Ann Smith) of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), in which he refuses to be "…..complicit in, nor tolerate, cover up and failuire to report…or investigate……child exploitation, by lawyers, judges, public figures ano others, to be ignored"; he certainly has a very keen interest in Sheriff Duff.
Until Duff appears in a court to answer the as yet unknown (publicly) charges against him we can only speculate; I don't think it is too much of a stretch to imagine that both he and Watt were mentioned in that 17 and a half thousand word "note", along with former Lord Advocate Hardie.
I'll repeat again, the former Lord president Brian Gill had a 30 year connection to the Catholic Bishops in Scotland and similarly lengthy connection to Queen Elizabeth school in Dunblane. He also suggested that Lady Ann Smith personally request the daughter of Lord Cullen as her personal secretary (keeper of secrets) on the SCAI.
What really fucks me off is that John Swinney is trying to get victims to accept in most cases around 20k in damages while renouncing any further claim against the perpetrators, while this ex priest got 455k in damages.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62012571
Honestly, you could never tire of kicking these CUNTS up and down the street, especially Swinney.
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73dcde No.17550799
>>17550789
Made a cunt of that………these are the attachments that should have accompanied the previous post.
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08e7cb No.17552246
>>17549071
Common Law Court of Justice
DOES NOT EXIST
International nor otherwise
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73dcde No.17554723
>>17552246
>Common Law Court of Justice
>
>DOES NOT EXIST
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>International nor otherwise
Thanks.
They have (the guy in the video and others) made a number of similar videos over the last couple of years.
There is no website for such an entity, just the murderbydecree.com suggested in the video.
Much appreciate the prod to look, I should have looked for their own website before considering posting it.
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08e7cb No.17558065
>>17554723
There was a few postings about it in the General and Canada breads. All trying to claim QE2 and Prince Philip took some Kamloops kids for a "picnic" and they never returned. Claim continued to say that "court" had convicted them both.
Turns out the court in "New York, Vancouver, and the Hague" has no offices anywhere, and the contact info given is just a protonmail account
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73dcde No.17598676
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17558065
I saw some "paperwork" some time ago with the same logo claiming to be the same court, it was all bogus and so badly put together that it made no grammatical sense. It was in rather bizzare circumstance which I went along with; much like the proverbial cat, curiosity got the better of me.
Interesting times, much acting going on everywhere, many around me playing parts
in this theatrical event…….makes me wonder what I'm being engineered into.
I'll continue to follow that white rabbit, but sometimes it feels like I'm that rabbit and all I'm doing is chasing my own tail. ;) This has been a lifelong ride for me, I'll endure it till the end and see where I end up.
It will probably be jail, or being experimented on by big pharma in a mental health facility with thrice daily doses of ECG to compliment the prescribed snake oil of choice. I'll seek a rock hammer when I reach my destination.
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08e7cb No.17621912
Canada #36 >>17620684
Scottish Government Orders Investigation Into Recent Spike in New Born Baby Deaths
By Jim Hoft
Published October 2, 2022 at 8:30am
The Scottish Government announced an investigation of why newborn deaths were higher than expected in both September 2021 and March 2022, as published by Public Health Scotland.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland has been commissioned by the Scottish Government to investigate the high incidence of newborn mortality in the country.
“The review will cover all reported deaths across Scotland between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022 to find out if there is anything that may have contributed to the increase. Anything identified will feed into recommendations and actions to improve the quality of care for mother and babies,” according to the news release.
“Once the review team is formed it is expected it will take no longer than six to nine months to complete the work,” it added.
Deaths among infants younger than four weeks old increased to at least 18 in March (4.6 per 1,000 births) and as many as 21 in September (2021) (4.9 per 1,000 births), according to Scottish Daily Express.
“Every death is a tragedy for the families involved, that is why earlier this year I committed to this review to find out if there is a reason for the increase,” Public Health Minister Ms. Todd said.
More from Scottish Daily Express:
While infant death rates vary from month to month, the average among newborns is just over two per 1,000 births with neonatal mortality defined as death within 28 days of birth.
This is the second time since current records began in July 2017 and the second time in six months that the neonatal mortality rate hit 4.8 per 1000 live births, well beyond an upper warning threshold known as the “control limit”.
Coronavirus was suspected of playing a role but experts, while describing the figures as “really troubling” did not directly linked to the virus.
The review will not duplicate any matters which are, or have been, the subject of other review, investigation or audit processes.
Dr Sarah Stock, an expert in maternal and foetal medicine at the University of Edinburgh, told a national newspaper earlier this year: “I think the numbers are really troubling and I don’t think we know the reasons why yet.
“What we do know it’s not neonatal Covid – the rates of Covid-19 infection in babies are very low and deaths from Covid are thankfully very, very small, so this isn’t Covid affecting babies.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/scottish-government-orders-investigation-recent-spike-new-born-baby-deaths/
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73dcde No.17782416
>>17432437
>>17387203
>>17387031
>>17387002
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/abuse-survivors-blast-snps-redress-28502699
Abuse survivors blast SNP's redress scheme as a cold, unfair and distressing ordeal
Lawyer acting for victims say the Redress Scotland scheme lets organisations that allowed abuse to 'hide from public accountability all while saving cash' as John Swinney is told to get it sorted
News
By Ben Borland Editor
Abuse survivors are turning their back on the SNP Government’s redress scheme amid a catalogue of delays, failures and broken promises.
The damning feedback comes one year after the controversial scheme was launched. The Redress Scotland quango is meant to provide one-off payments between £10k to £100k but victims face confusing paperwork, long delays and being made to feel “like a bullet-point on a to-do list”.
Recent data also shows victim applications have plummeted while appeals to low offers have spiked – all while lawyers see an increase in historic abuse claims.
The response from victims is the latest in a 12-month saga of issues with previous concerns raised on a legal waiver, few payments being made and a lack of scheme contributors.
Campaigners fear the scheme is still not fit for purpose and have called on officials to make drastic improvements to avoid worsening the trauma of survivors.
One victim, who was abused by foster parents in East Lothian, gave up on Redress after initially hoping to get recognition after battling with the trauma in secret for decades.
The woman, who gave evidence at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) under the name ‘Rosie’, said: “I was taken in by the assurances but I couldn’t believe the utter mess of the process after I applied.
“I was sent away to fill out huge forms and given no guidance and when I did speak to someone I was met with exasperation like I was a bullet-point on their to do list.
“I was sexually abused as a teenager by a family that was meant to care for me. It took me years to come to terms with things and all I hoped for at this stage was some sense of recognition but Redress turned it into an ordeal of its own. The whole process is cold.”
Applications to scheme fell from 402 to just 83
Redress Scotland was launched on 8 December 2021 by the Scottish Government but it was more than six months later than pledged and without appropriate staffing in place.
It works by organisations like religious groups or local councils contributing to a giant pot. Victims abused in a childhood care setting can apply for a payment of £10k but if they feel they deserve more a panel may consider payments of £20k, £40k, £60k, £80k or a maximum of £100k.
Before receiving any money a survivor must sign a legal waiver to never take a scheme contributor to court in the future.
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73dcde No.17782421
………..continued…….. >>17782416
Yet over the last 12 months Deputy First Minister John Swinney has faced complaints of application backlogs, a low rate of payments and a lack of scheme contributors paying into Redress.
The most recent data shows application numbers have plummeted from 402 in January 2022 to just 83 in August – while appeals of low offers rocketed from 9 in February 2022 to 37 in August.
As of August 2022 there were also 1,167 applications that still didn’t even have a case handler allocated.
'All we see is problems, delays or silence'
Another man engaged with Redress after being sexually abused at Balgowan D-List School in Dundee in the 1960s.
The man, who chose to remain anonymous, said: “I applied after providing a 42-page statement to the SCAI where it will be heard in summer of 2023.
“Redress asked for the same information but demanded I write a fresh copy. The time and upset of writing it out twice is disgusting and shows officials either don’t know or don’t care about the way the Redress process impacts people.
“Swinney assured us everything would be swift, professional and caring but it’s been nothing of the kind. All we see is problems, delays or silence and I got so fed up I sought legal advice instead.”
The redress tariff scheme is seen by victims as unfair because it only considers the type of abuse that happened.
Yet civil courts consider the effects the abuse had on a person’s life which is why many survivors can recover sums up to £1million via historic abuse claims.
Kim Leslie, Partner at Digby Brown Solicitors, said: “No tariff-based system is ever fair as capped payments stop survivors getting the recognition they deserve while the waiver strips them of their legal rights.
“Those who stand to benefit the most from this scheme are perpetrators because the scheme lets liable organisations hide from public accountability all while saving cash as it’s cheaper to pay into the scheme than settle court actions.
“Despite the pledges the scheme is clearly still not fit for purpose and it needs a drastic overhaul if it’s to play any positive part in the kind of life-affirming support survivors deserve.”
Operating model has been 'improved'
A Scottish Government spokesman said it was “not possible” to determine an average timescale, but that priority is given to applicants with a terminal illness and those over the age of 68.
“Scotland’s Redress Scheme is designed to be swifter and less adversarial than civil court action, and the number of applications received to date is in line with projections,” he added.
“More than £8m has already been paid out to survivors in less than one year of the scheme being in operation, with 8% of applicants having requested a review out of 189 payment offers.”
The spokesman continued: “In response to feedback received from survivors, the operating model for Scotland’s Redress Scheme has been improved to ensure that applications can be progressed prior to applicants having a case worker allocated.
“To support the efficient delivery of the scheme additional case workers have been recruited.
“Feedback from applicants on their experiences of the process is encouraged to ensure that the scheme is robust, credible and operates efficiently with survivors at its heart. Practical and emotional support is available to applicants at each stage of the process.
“The restriction order issued by the Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry prevents applicants from using their inquiry statement as part of their application. The Inquiry operates independently of Government.”
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73dcde No.17782583
Have tried several times prior to post this but boards have been fucked up. From 5th October 2022.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/scottish-covid-inquiry-thrown-chaos-28156865
Scottish covid inquiry thrown into chaos as top lawyers resign just months after launch
Four lawyers working on the inquiry quit last week but their resignations were only made public yesterday.
News
By Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor
A public inquiry into Scotland's handling of the covid pandemic was thrown into chaos last night after it was revealed four members of its legal team had quit.
It comes just days after the top judge appointed to chair the inquiry quit for "personal reasons".
Douglas Ross KC and three junior counsel sent their resignations to Lady Poole, the inquiry chairwoman, last Thursday.
Poole quit the next day but her departure was not announced until Monday by Deputy First Minister John Swinney.
The public inquiry was launched in February and has already cost taxpayers almost £1 million with no estimate of the final cost.
Families who lost loved ones to covid have now demanded the Scottish Government offers an explanation.
Peter Watson, who represents some families whose relatives died in care homes, told The Times : "What we need to know is who is to be appointed as core participants, who they think would be useful to give evidence, if they are going to break it up into modules, as they have in the English inquiry.
"We need timings. We haven't even got premises. The families have had no answers."
The public inquiry into the UK Government's response to the covid pandemic held its first session yesterday. There is no date for when the same will happen in Scotland.
A spokesman for the Scottish Covid-19 inquiry said: "We can confirm that four members of the counsel team have left the inquiry.
"We are immensely grateful for their contribution to the inquiry’s progress and wish them every success."
A Scottish Government spokesman said: "A public inquiry operates independently of ministers. As a result, the procedure, conduct and operation of the inquiry, including staffing and counsel appointments, are matters for the chair.
"The Scottish Government is keen to help ensure the excellent progress made so far by the inquiry is continued. Consequently, work to appoint a new chair is being progressed at pace.
They quit because of Government interference…..Just like the previous chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) Susan O'Brien and her deputy Professor Lamb both citing "Government interference" by none other than John Swinney.
https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/susan-obrien-qc-resigns-as-chair-of-scottish-child-abuse-inquiry
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73dcde No.17787406
>>17782416
"Recent data also shows victim applications have plummeted while appeals to low offers have spiked – all while lawyers see an increase in historic abuse claims."
"The response from victims is the latest in a 12-month saga of issues with previous concerns raised on a legal waiver, few payments being made and a lack of scheme contributors."
It's not just lawyers making a packet out of all this abuse…while most of the victims are being papped off with a poxy £10k. There's a whole pile of wages to be paid out of the £100+ million promised in contributions from (COSLA) the Association of Scottish Local Authorities including Johnny Gwynne and the other 20 odd staff employed to pay out compensation under the "redress scheme".
COSLA will find their £100+ milllion contributions from the pockets of Council Tax payers.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-child-abuse-survivors-slam-24810162
"The chair, retired deputy chief constable of Police Scotland Johnny Gwynne, will be paid £560 a day to sit, while panel members will receive £390 a day. Redress Scotland’s work is expected to last five years."
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73dcde No.17787422
>>17787406
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-child-abuse-survivors-slam-24810162
Scots child abuse survivors slam £10,000 payout plan from government
They say the huge amount of victims means many will receive payments as low as £10,000 or £20,000 – making it meaningless.
By Marcello Mega
22 AUG 2021
Survivors of child abuse in Scottish institutions have warned that £400million Government compensation won’t be enough.
They say the huge amount of victims means many will receive payments as low as £10,000 or £20,000 – making it meaningless.
One survivor, now in his 60s, said: “It will be remembered as a callous and ineffectual system if people who lost their entire childhood while in care, and are affected by it still, are told their lifetime of suffering is worth £20,000.
“Abuse in childhood, especially sexual abuse and violence and the fear that comes with that, affects your entire life.”
The Scottish Government has set up its Redress Scotland scheme to set levels of compensation, with a maximum award of £100,000, and is committed to making payments to all known survivors.
The most likely number of survivors is currently estimated at 8000 but could be as high as 10,400 and half of those compensated are expected to receive just £10,000 or £20,000.
Survivors believe the final figures should be higher if they are to provide meaningful redress.
There is also growing dismay among survivors that those evaluating their suffering will be paid at levels higher than the figures they can pay out.
The chair, retired deputy chief constable of Police Scotland Johnny Gwynne, will be paid £560 a day to sit, while panel members will receive £390 a day. Redress Scotland’s work is expected to last five years.
The chair is expected to work only six days a month for most of that time, yet that will take his earnings to over £200,000, more than twice the highest award for survivors.
This has caused anger and survivors say the pay levels are “an insult” to them when their awards will be capped at £100,000.
Dave Sharp, a survivor and campaigner on child abuse, said: “Six years into the inquiry, the Government appears not to know how many people will receive awards.
“Yet, while the chair and panel members pick up hundreds of thousands of pounds for judging survivors, half of those who suffered will be sent away with £10,000 or £20,000.
"It’s clear they have not thought this through.”
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was established in 2015 and has so far heard of appalling abuse of children at institutions run by charities, religious orders and private schools.
Its running costs are set to reach the £50million mark in a few weeks.
Jamie Greene, Scottish Tory justice spokesman, said: “Survivors must have full confidence in the independence of the awards panel and know that claims will be processed fairly without influence.”
A Scottish Government spokesman said: “Survivors can have confidence their applications will be looked at with the care and sensitivity which their circumstances so fully deserve.”
This article is more than a year old, the bill is well over £50 million now
Imagine they just paid out all the victims with that and didn't spend it on legal advice, lawyers fees, consultations, 13 years of delay, talking shops, new start businesses (for profit) conveniently in time for the gravy train? This whole system is rotten to the core.
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73dcde No.17787452
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-63498082
https://youtu.be/MMo3rN9-W3Y
FM denies ferry contract was 'jobs for the boys'
4 November 2022
Nicola Sturgeon has said she "completely and utterly" refutes suggestions of political interference in the award of an ill-fated ferry contract.
She was asked if the award to someone with a known relationship with the government was "jobs for the boys".
The first minister insisted there was "absolutely, categorically" nothing untoward in the procurement process.
MSPs are investigating delays and overspends over two CalMac ferries.
The construction project at Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow is five years behind schedule and could end up costing the public purse more than three times the original £97m "fixed price contract" price.
Ms Sturgeon was giving evidence before the public audit committee following a damning report from Audit Scotland which listed "multiple failings" in the process.
The contract was awarded in 2015 to the Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) shipyard in Port Glasgow, a year after it had been rescued from administration by Jim McColl, a pro-independence businessman who sat on the first minister's council of economic advisers.
Ferries deal awarded without financial safeguards
Conservative MSP Sharon Dowey asked if the award to a firm owned by Mr McColl was a case of "jobs for the boys".
Ms Sturgeon responded: "If you are saying was there anything untoward in this procurement process in order to somehow inappropriately steer this contract towards FMEL, then absolutely, categorically not."
She said she naturally was happy for work to go to a Scottish company which would secure Scottish jobs - but it was important that this was done "by the book".
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73dcde No.17787460
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17787452
Continued………
And she insisted the award was made solely on the assessment of the bids by government owned ferry agency CMAL.
Ms Sturgeon accepted that a recent BBC documentary which presented evidence that FMEL was given preferential treatment in the procurement process had raised "serious issues" that should be investigated further.
However, she said she was personally not aware of any impropriety.
The Disclosure programme found that FMEL was allowed to substantially alter its design and price after the tender deadline, and had access to a key CalMac specification "wishlist" that was not available to rival bidders.
Dossier suggests ferry deal may have been rigged
The first minister was asked why then transport minister Derek Mackay approved the final award of the contract to FMEL in October 2015 despite serious misgivings by the CMAL board about the level of financial guarantees being offered.
She said that various mitigations had been sought to reduce the risk and, based on what information was available to him at the time, she thought it was a "reasonable decision".
She said: "To be fair to Derek Mackay, had that 8 October [documentation] been brought to my attention, based on everything that was in that, I am not saying I would have reached a different decision - I don't think I would have done - but perhaps with hindsight it should have been brought to my attention."
Mr Mackay, who left government in 2020 over messages he sent to a 16-year-old boy on social media, appeared before the public audit committee in September.
At the start of the hearing, committee convener Richard Leonard questioned the government's commitment to transparency over the ferry fiasco.
He pointed out that a letter from Mr Mackay, submitted to the hearing by Transport Scotland appeared to have been "edited" to remove two key paragraphs relating to financial guarantees.
The first minister insisted her government was committee to openness, and that she believed the issue of the letter was imply a "formatting" error.
She pointed out that a full version of the same letter had been submitted by SNP MSP Stuart McMillan, who was its recipient.
The first minister said she would look into publishing more documentation including a record of a meeting with Jim McColl in May 2017 at which he raised concerns about the way the project was progressing and the role of the government ferries agency CMAL.
One word which notably has not crossed the first minister's lips today is "sorry".
While Nicola Sturgeon accepts responsibility for what went wrong on her watch, she denies she's to blame.
That's a hard balance to strike.
Especially since this ferry crisis has happened on her watch as first minister - all the way back to late 2014, when she took on the top job.
Within a year, the contract to build two ferries had been awarded to Ferguson shipyard.
By November 2017, the first minister herself was launching the first of the vessels, MV Glen Sannox.
Few there on the day - myself included - knew that ferry was largely unfinished and the engines didn't work.
No-one - including Nicola Sturgeon - knew that five years later, the ferries would still not be ready.
She's said repeatedly the buck stops with her. She is accountable, she insists.
But she clearly sees this as a collective, systemic failure, and not one for which she is personally to blame.
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73dcde No.17787468
>>17787452
Up to her neck in all sorts of corruption this one, her and her pal Swinney who continue to groom our children in Scotland from primary school onwards. Sick CUNTS!
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08e7cb No.17800067
>>17787468
We knew this was not going to end well last year.
Is there a Scottish word for "boondoggle?"
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2105b1 No.17803937
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08e7cb No.17805125
>>17803937
And what, pray tell, do you derive that opinion from?
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73dcde No.17806059
A few years old but still relevant.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16122837.us-cracks-confucius-institutes-mushrooming-scotland/
==US cracks down on Confucius Institutes mushrooming in Scotland
29th March 2018==
By David Leask
AMERICAN lawmakers are moving to force Chinese-funded language schools to register as “foreign agents” in a row raising new doubts about Scotland’s controversial Confucius Institutes.
US politicians want universities to declare donations and other financial ties with the Communist authorities behind the hubs, which are now monitored by the FBI, amid growing concerns over academic freedom and censorship.
Their proposed crackdown comes as universities in America and elsewhere pull out of funding arrangements with the Chinese body behind the institutes, Hanban.
Scotland has the world’s highest concentration of Confucius Institutes at universities and Confucius Classrooms at schools, language and cultural education facilities with Chinese-trained and supplied teachers.
Edinburgh Zoo earlier this month announced Scotland’s latest Confucius Classroom as part of its wider relationship with China, from which it rents two pandas.
The expansion of Confucius Institutes north of the border has come despite withdrawals from the scheme elsewhere and on-the-record remarks from Hanban that it would expected its teachers to toe the party line on issues like Taiwan.
Analysis: the soft power of language learning
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Aberdeen universities have Confucius Institutes. Strathclyde University hosts a specialist Confucius Institute which provides teachers to schools.
American Congressman Joe Wilson, discussing proposed legislation on Confucius Institutes, told Foreign Policy magazine he wanted details of deals with US universities out in the open.
He said: “The goal is transparency by the foreign agents themselves and also by the universities. The American people need to know that they are being provided propaganda.”
Scottish universities say they have not had problems which prompted similar organisation overseas to break off ties.
Linda Fabiani MSP, of the Scottish Parliament's cross-party group on Tibet has quizzed some academic institutions on their links.
She said: "I know that there has been concern expressed about Confucius Institutes. Our group wrote to our participating Universities here in Scotland. They were very clear that academic freedom was paramount and that they would not accept any censorship of topics."
Linda Fabiani
A University of Edinburgh spokesman this month said there had been “no loss of academic freedom nor inhibition of academic debate at the University of Edinburgh as a consequence of Hanban’s support for the Confucius Institute”.
Edinburgh is also under fire for awarding an honorary degree to an ally of Vladimir Putin as it obtained funding from the Russian equivalent of Hanban, Russkiy Mir.
John MacDonald, editor of Cable Magazine, Scotland’s specialist foreign policy publication, stressed states had always sought to use soft power in the way Russkiy Mir or Hanban do now. But he added: “The context of this is the increasing confidence with which Russia and China doing so.”
Campaign group Free Tibet has led calls for a rethink of Scotland’s Confucius Institutes.
A campaign spokesman said the US action was “timely and necessary” and stressed there was “little scrutiny” in Scotland. He added: “As Confucius Institutes in US are being urged to disclose their funding as well as the scope of their activities, we urge Scottish educational authorities to be cautious about accepting injections of cash from China given its human rights track record.”
A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman previously said the institutes help mutual understanding and boosted friendship. She told a news agency criticism was outdated ‘noise” .
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73dcde No.17806108
>>17806059
As I said, still relevant….everything is, including this one from 2016.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/733140/Nicola-Sturgeon-SNP-foreign-China-deal-farce-exposed
==Black Friday early deals
REVEALED: 'English magic' expert was behind Sturgeon's £10bn failed China deal==
UNDER-FIRE Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon sought advice from an author of a book on “English magic” before her controversial trip to China, it can be revealed.
By Siobhan McFadyen
The First Minister, who was last week left embarrassed by the collapse of a £10bn trade deal with the country, pleaded for help to find Scottish people to attend events in the Asian country.
And expenses of the trip which took place in July 2015, have still not been released - which is believed to breach the Ministerial code.
To date the up to date costs of the trips have not been published online and the Scottish Government has not responded to a request for the costs.
Now it shown - from a series of emails released - Ms Sturgeon took advice from the author Sir Richard Heygate, who was also a Director of Sino Fortune, the firm behind the £10bn deal, before she flew to the Asian country for the 'top level' diplomatic trade mission that has since been exposed as a sham.
And Sir Richard who had meetings with Ms Sturgeon predicted that China's yuan would "replace the Dollar as international currency" and told her that she should talk about “visions” and “dreams” during her five day junket.
In a series of bizarre emails released by both the Scottish and UK governments under Freedom of Information requests, it can be revealed just how shoddy the trip was.
Papers show how Ms Sturgeon was asked to rewrite her speech by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after she tried to mention Hillary Clinton during one of her addresses.
Communications between the SNP led administration and the British Foreign Office also show Ms Sturgeon's officials needed help to find Scots in China to make up the numbers at an event.
In May 2015, just after the General Election, Ms Sturgeon's officials had been in communication with the FCO to discuss the trip.
Ms Sturgeon's special advisors had been asking for help to promote the First Minister during the trip to Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in which she was to make a number of addresses to "promote Scottish businesses”.
One email on May 27 stated: "We want to make sure we getting things right from a First Minister but also Leader of SNP perspective."
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73dcde No.17806112
>>17806108
Continued…………..
Another email just days before the trip advised the First Minister's planned speech might be diplomatically questionable.
It states: "Mark asked me to take a look as he is up to his eyeballs. I agree with your points in red - needs more of a Chinese flavour.
"Separately – a couple of more UK specific points: - Odd to reference Hillary Clinton in first para rather than a Chinese, UK or UN leader."
And another email dated 17th of July revealed the Scottish Government - which claims to have a strong international network - needed help to organise their guest list for a party.
It stated: "Can come back to you with more names for Scotland reception if you want me to."
But perhaps one of the most bizarre communications to come out of the debacle was the advice given to the First Minister from "The Book of English Magic" author Sir Richard Heygate who was providing advice to the Scottish Government.
His book claims to explore the "hidden story, from its first stirrings to our present-day fascination with all things magical. Along the way readers are offered a rich menu of magical things to do and places to visit."
Both Sir Richard and his business partners had been in regular communication with Ms Sturgeon's team before the trip and for at least six months afterwards.
One email stated: "The Chinese hate smart complexity as they feel one is trying to fool them.
"They also love ‘visions’ and ‘dreams’ in a way we have long forgotten.
"The FM should emphasise her dream for Scotland and stress how the Scots traded so heavily with China in the past and that the FM is committed to get people to do the same today”.
It is unknown how much money the trip to China cost the taxpayer as the Scottish Government has never published the figures.
However, the travel and accommodation alone for Ms Sturgeon was £3,920.55 however there was a caveat in reporting those figures with the Scottish Government writing "full costs not yet available, to be updated."
Despite the trip taking place 17 months ago the First Minister has still not published or revealed how much she billed the taxpayer.
However the Ministerial Code states: "The Minister's Private Secretary must also provide International Division with details of the dates of the visit, countries visited, meetings held, and the names and designations of those who accompanied the Minister and the final costs of the visit including, all flights and travel and subsistence costs.
"International Division will collate this information as a central record, ensuring that up-to-date information on such visits and their costs can be made available at short notice in the event of Ministers being asked to account for their travel."
Now the whole farce is being called into question by taxpayer groups who are becoming increasingly concerned with the First Minister's "amateur" behaviour.
Eben Wilson of Taxpayer Scotland said: "Grand junkets that edge towards political events to capture corporate deals are almost bound to fail.
"Taxpayers have seen their money spent without any real return, it also sounds as if those on the trip were well out of their depth and expecting magic results; the reality is that international business success is hard graft with lots of little twists and turns with private investors taking private risks with their own money not our taxes.
"Success is not easy.
"That full clarity on the costs of the trip has not been made is worrying.
"In a nation purporting to champion fairness, that total transparency still does not exist for ministerial trips is a disgrace."
The Scottish Government has been approached for comment by Express.co.uk.
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2105b1 No.17806191
>>17805125
Nothing that was said to happen, happened. Nobody that was said to be trusted was trust worthy. Trump had his chance and blew it. Q was a larp and nothing more.
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73dcde No.17806322
Does Q have anything to say on Scotland or the Scottish Child abuse inquiry?
Will revelations out of US trickle down to little Scotland where many Americans have strong ancestral ties, including DJT?
Some of us poor anonymous Scottish fuckers feel like we are banging our heads off a brick wall at times.
Any comment to make on the other 2 international arrest warrants for Scottish Judges including William Nimmo Smith who is currently in Argentina which has no extradition treaty with the UK? Or Al-Megrahi's lawyer currently in custody in relation to the same ring of child abusing Scottish Judges and Lord Hardie's involvement in the cover up (how many Lords are involved just in the child sexual abuse, never mind the medical experimentation on children in collusion with pharma) of all the child abuse or the inclusion of Lord Cullen's daughter on the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry?
Lots and lots of related material here connected to the information posted by Q. I know many Scots follow the Q drops and could do with some hope here.
John Watt QC who was jailed on August 8th 2022 for 10 years for child abuse convictions was arrested on an international arrest warrant in Oklahoma back sometime around September/October 2020 (forget the exact date). Feel free to put a link from any American newspaper who reported on the arrest here. Would like to see how the US press reported on the arrest. Thanks.
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73dcde No.17830154
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9888899/Scotland-let-pupils-aged-FOUR-change-gender.html
Scotland will let pupils change gender aged FOUR without their parents' consent - and tells teachers not to question a child's request to choose a new name or use a different toilet
By Michael Blackley
12 August 2021
Children as young as four will be able to change their gender at school without their parents’ consent under guidance introduced in Scotland.
Any pupil who decides they want to switch gender must be supported and listened to in school following the Scottish Government advice.
The guidance applies in primary schools, where the youngest children are only four or five, because ‘recognition and development of gender identity can occur at a young age’.
It also tells teachers not to question a child who says they want to transition to live as a boy or a girl - and instead ask for their new name and pronouns.
Primary and secondary schools have also been told to put books featuring transgender people on the curriculum, allow pupils to choose which changing room or toilets to use, and consider introducing a gender neutral uniform.
But the guidance was branded ‘shocking’ and led to concerns that children are being allowed to make life-changing decisions at too young an age.
The advice says: ‘Some young people are exploring their gender identity in primary school settings. Primary schools need to be able to meet the needs of these young people to ensure they have a safe, inclusive and respectful environment in which to learn.’
A section on ‘changing name and recorded sex’ says children simply need to tell others informally that they want to use a different name, and that they don’t need to record this formally on their official school record. Advice to school staff on what to do if a child wants to discuss their gender includes asking ‘what name and pronoun you should use to address them’.
It also says that they should ask if their family are aware they are considering their gender identity – but does not suggest the teacher should contact them.
The guidance document also states that no Scottish law compels people to use the toilets that correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth.
Marion Calder, director of the For Women Scotland campaign group, said: ‘To be transgender you have to have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. What are they thinking? Parents will be very concerned to be reading this document.’
Scottish education secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said: ‘This guidance outlines how schools can support transgender young people while ensuring that the rights of all pupils are fully respected.
‘It provides schools with practical suggestions. The guidance is not prescriptive and does not promote transitioning.’
Nearly 1,600 children have type 2 diabetes as a result of England’s obesity epidemic.
NHS figures show that 122,780 people under the age of 40 have the condition. Of these, 1,570 are children aged 18 or under, including 105 under the age of 12 and 545 aged 12 to 15.
Type 2 diabetes was traditionally seen only in the over-40s. But soaring obesity levels mean cases in children are on the rise.
The Young People With Type 2 Diabetes report, published yesterday by NHS Digital, found that under-40s now comprise about 4 per cent of all those with type 2 diabetes. It is more common in young women, Asian people, and those from poorer backgrounds.
The figures show that around nine in ten under-18s with the condition are classified as obese or overweight.
The report said: ‘Obesity is the dominant category of people with type 2 diabetes at all ages up to 60 years but especially so in younger people.’
It can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks and strokes and is more aggressive in younger adults. Charities said the figures were a ‘worrying wake-up call’.
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73dcde No.17830210
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-ministers-using-chauffeur-driven-28579597
SNP ministers using chauffeur-driven limos for trips between first and second homes
Exclusive: The Scottish Express has found ministers are using their chauffeur-driven cars to shuttle back and forth even when no engagements appear to be taking place.
News
ByBen Borland
Richard Percival
27 NOV 2022
SNP ministers who live in the north have been accused of taking advantage of their lavish limo service by taking long journeys between their first and second homes.
The Scottish Government says the taxpayer-funded car service "provides a secure environment to conduct government business while travelling to and from ministerial engagements".
Ministers can also travel to or from a personal address at the start or the end of the working day.
READ MORE: SNP spent almost £1m of taxpayer cash on chauffeur-driven ministerial car journeys last year
However, the Scottish Express has found that several ministers whose constituencies are in the Highlands – and therefore qualify for an Edinburgh second home – are also using their chauffeur-driven cars to shuttle back and forth on days when no engagements appear to be taking place.
Finance Secretary Kate Forbes, Rural Economy Secretary Mairi Gougeon, public health minister Maree Todd, mental wellbeing minister Kevin Stewart and just transition minister Richard Lochhead are among those to take advantage of the loophole this year alone.
Ms Forbes – who is currently on maternity leave – has made nine 170-mile journeys between her second home in Edinburgh and her main home in Dingwall.
On each occasion, the chauffeur presumably had to make a two-way trip as the car service is based in the capital.
Ms Todd has used a government limo for 19 journeys of 175 miles between Strathpeffer and Edinburgh, while Ms Gougeon has taken 13 journeys of 88 miles between Brechin and Edinburgh.
Mr Stewart has taken six journeys between Aberdeen and Edinburgh (128 miles) and Mr Lochhead took a limo between Elgin and Edinburgh on one occasion this year (172 miles).
All five take advantage of the Edinburgh Second Home Allowance, which allows MSPs who live up north or down south to rent a home in the capital with all expenses paid.
There are regular trains between Edinburgh and Aberdeen and Brechin, while Elgin and Dingwall are also on the rail network.
The MSPs could also drive themselves and claim back the mileage, saving the chauffeur a two-way journey.
Critics called for the practice to stop immediately and branded it an ‘insult’ to Scots suffering from a growing cost of living crisis.
John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Chauffeur perks for politicians drive taxpayers round the bend.
"Some travel will be required in government roles, but ministerial cars are only meant to be used when necessary.
"With the cost of living crisis biting, ministers must not make excessive use of these luxury limos."
Scottish Conservative Transport spokesman, Graham Simpson, said: "This will stick in the throat of hard-pressed Scots. Government limos aren't there for the private use of SNP ministers. It's fair enough to use them for Government business but not to get to and from private addresses, so this kind of practice needs to stop immediately."
Scottish Labour Finance spokesman Daniel Johnson, added: "Taxpayers are footing an eye-watering bill for SNP Ministers to be chauffeured around from one house to another. This is an insult when ordinary people are struggling with the cost of living crisis and the SNP are cutting services to the bone. Next time the SNP are deciding which budget to raid, they should take a look at their own bloated government operation."
Earlier this year, the Scottish Government defended the spend of almost £1million on the ministerial cars in 2021/22 – and made it clear how they are supposed to be used. They said: "Travel is an essential part of official government business and with the recent easing of Covid restrictions more ministerial business has been conducted in person.
"The Government Car Service provides a secure environment to conduct government business while travelling to and from ministerial engagements. We continually look for ways to ensure the Government Car Service is delivered in the most cost-effective manner, offering the best deal to the taxpayer."
A Scottish Government spokesperson said: "Travel is an essential part of official Government business and Ministerial cars are used for business purposes only. Ministers take their responsibility to travel sustainably very seriously and aim to use more sustainable forms of transport wherever possible."
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73dcde No.17830591
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17806322
>Does Q have anything to say on Scotland or the Scottish Child abuse inquiry?
>
>Will revelations out of US trickle down to little Scotland where many Americans have strong ancestral ties, including DJT?
Maybe keep that one for your Q&A….?
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73dcde No.17850638
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1702406/NHS-hospital-rape-sex-assault-figures-patients-visitors-staff-Wes-Streeting
4,000 raped or sexually assaulted in UK hospitals over 4 years, horrifying figures reveal
Shocking figures uncovered in an investigation show a reported 4,000 rape or sexual assaults took place in UK hospitals over the past four years.
By Francesca Edwards
Mon, Nov 28, 2022
The NHS must "urgently investigate" rape and sexual assault in hospitals, the Shadow Health and Social Care secretary said after an investigation uncovered "disturbing" figures. Byline Times unearthed shocking figures claiming 4,100 patients, visitors, and NHS staff who were raped, or sexually assaulted between January 2019 and September 2022.
Labour’s Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said: “Hospitals ought to be safe places for patients and staff, but these disturbing findings show that is not the case for far too many people. The NHS should urgently investigate why these disgusting crimes are allowed to happen and on such a widespread scale.”
Data collected from 3 police forces across the country revealed the scale of the issue which included at least three incidents against a female child under the age of 13.
Liberal Democrat spokesperson Daisy Cooper said the figures are "horrifying", demanding an "urgent and comprehensive response" from the Government.
“Hospitals should be safe havens for vulnerable patients, visitors and staff and not somewhere where such abhorrent attacks can ever take place," she added
Navina Evans, chief workforce officer at NHS England said: “The health service must be a safe space for patients, the public and our staff. The NHS does not tolerate any form of sexual misconduct, assault, harassment or abuse in any setting and we are clear that all NHS trusts and organisations must have robust security measures in place to keep everyone who uses their sites safe - ensuring immediate action is taken in any cases reported to them.
“We take all complaints very seriously and I would strongly encourage anyone who has concerns about any form of sexual assault while on an NHS site to come forward, report it and seek support.”
Of he reported allegations, just 5.21 percent resulted in a charge of summons.
The report added: "One police force, which recorded 161 sexual assault and rapes across hospital estates, shared with Byline Times the reasons why charges were never brought following a reported sexual assault. Concerningly, in 26 rapes and 11 sexual assaults, no suspect was able to be identified.
"Although most police forces did not provide data on the sex of perpetrators and victims, women are overwhelmingly likely to be the victims of sexual assault, with men most likely to be suspects. Women made up 87.1% of alleged victims in North Wales, and 88% of reports to West Mercia were made by women. "
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73dcde No.17864400
>>17830210
https://news.sky.com/story/shame-on-you-nicola-sturgeon-heckled-over-scottish-government-gender-reforms-12758613
'Shame on you!': Nicola Sturgeon heckled over Scottish government gender reforms
Scotland's first minister was speaking at an anti-violence against women and girls event in Edinburgh.
By Guy Birchall, news reporter
Wednesday 30 November 2022
Nicola Sturgeon has been heckled over her government's plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act.
Speaking at an event hosted by Zero Tolerance Scotland on Tuesday, one attendee shouted "shame on you" at the Scottish first minister.
In a video posted online, the heckler could be seen yelling: "You are allowing paedophiles, sex offenders and rapists to self-ID in Scotland and put women at risk.
"Women campaigning for women's rights is not against trans people.
"Shame on you, you're letting down vulnerable women in Scotland, not allowed to have their own spaces away from any male."
She claimed women have been raped by trans women - although she didn't cite specific cases.
In response, Ms Sturgeon warned against further stigmatising trans people.
After the clip went viral, the heckler was praised by JK Rowling, who has been an outspoken critic of the reforms, with the author tweeting she would like to send the woman "a crate of her favourite tipple".
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill proposes to remove the requirement for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria as a condition of acquiring a gender recognition certificate.
The bill would also drop the minimum age of applicants from 18 to 16, as well as dropping the amount of time most applicants need to live in their acquired gender to three months, with a further three-month reflection period, from two years.
Amendments to the bill at stage two mean the time limit for 16 and 17-year-olds is increased to six months, while another provision was inserted to say the bill would have no impact on the Equality Act.
Concerns have been raised about the impact the bill could have on single-sex spaces, with some critics saying it could put women at risk - a charge Ms Sturgeon and the Scottish government have repeatedly denied.
Under the 2010 Equality Act, people who have undergone gender reassignment can be legally refused entry to single-sex spaces for certain reasons, such as a women's refuge or changing area.
Last week, the Scottish government backed an amendment to the bill which said it would not impact on the Equality Act, put forward by Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy.
'Important voices are heard'
The heckler also hit out at event organisers, who had asked attendees to refrain from talking about the gender reforms.
After the woman appeared to be removed from the room, the Ms Sturgeon apologised if her being there had sparked the confrontation.
"I do not, as I know this organisation does not, seek to close down anyone's freedom of speech," she added.
"It's important that voices are heard, but it is important that all of us get the opportunity to speak freely about these issues.
"What we shouldn't do is further stigmatise a group of women who are too stigmatised already."
see video on link below…
https://news.sky.com/story/shame-on-you-nicola-sturgeon-heckled-over-scottish-government-gender-reforms-12758613
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73dcde No.17864454
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63821836
Ian Blackford to stand down as SNP leader at Westminster
Ian Blackford is to stand down as leader of the SNP group at Westminster, it has been confirmed.
Mr Blackford said he believed it was time for "fresh leadership" after five years in the role.
He said he would formally stand down at the group's annual general meeting next week.
There has been speculation in recent weeks that some SNP MPs were plotting to replace Mr Blackford as group leader.
In a statement, he said he would continue in his role as the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber and had also accepted a new role at the centre of the SNP's independence campaign.
Mr Blackford said: "After more than five years in the role, now is the right time for fresh leadership at Westminster as we head towards a general election and the next steps in winning Scotland's independence.
"During my time as leader, the SNP won a landslide victory in the 2019 general election, with an increased share of the vote and MPs, and support for independence has continued to grow with polling this week showing a majority in favour."
Mr Blackford has become as well-known figure in the House of Commons through his weekly appearance at Prime Minister's Questions and is seen as being a close ally of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader.
He faced calls to resign from political opponents after the Daily Mail reported in June that it had obtained a recording of Mr Blackford urging fellow MPs to give "absolute full support" to SNP MP Patrick Grady, who was suspended for sexual misconduct.
Mr Grady, a former SNP chief whip, was suspended from Parliament for two days over a sexual advance towards a colleague in 2016, and also suspended from the SNP's Westminster group for a week.
Ms Sturgeon subsequently said that the support expressed for Mr Grady had been "unacceptable".
There have been reports that some SNP MPs were also unhappy at Mr Blackford's handling of the case, with Aberdeen South MP Stephen Flynn recently dismissing suggestions that he was "on manoeuvres" with a view to replacing him as group leader.
At the time, Mr Blackford made clear that he intended to stand for re-election to the post at the upcoming AGM.
He also denied rumours in March that he was considering resigning amid further reports of party infighting.
SNP sources have told BBC Scotland that they expect Mr Flynn to stand for the leadership, and that he has broad support among their MPs and may be the only candidate to succeed Mr Blackford.
The Westminster group's AGM will be held next Tuesday, with the leader being selected by the 44 MPs who currently hold the SNP whip.
It means the new leader will be in place to face Rishi Sunak at Prime Minister's Questions the next day,
Mr Blackford defeated former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy to become the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber in 2015, with his campaign being mired in controversy over online abuse aimed at Mr Kennedy and his long-running battle with alcoholism.
Brian Smith, who was convenor of the SNP's Skye and Lochalsh branch, later resigned after it was reported that he had called Mr Kennedy a "drunken slob" and "quisling-in-chief" in a series of more than 130 tweets.
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73dcde No.17864459
>>17864454
continued. …..
Mr Kennedy died of a major haemorrhage linked to his alcoholism just three weeks after the election.
It is only a fortnight since Ian Blackford made clear he would stand again for the leadership of the SNP group at Westminster at their annual meeting next week.
At that point, his MP colleague Stephen Flynn insisted he did not intend to put his name forward, despite reports suggesting he was preparing to challenge for the job.
Mr Flynn is now expected to stand and may be the only candidate. So what's changed?
It seems a majority of SNP MPs made clear they favoured a leadership change and that Mr Blackford decided to stand down to avoid a challenge he might not win.
There have been rumblings about his position for a while, not least since the controversy over his handling of a harassment complaint against the MP Patrick Grady.
Others say his leadership has not been inclusive enough with high profile MP Joanna Cherry - who has criticised the leadership over women's rights and its independence strategy - sacked from the party's front bench team.
Presentational grey line
Ms Sturgeon said Mr Blackford had led the party's Westminster group at a time of "huge electoral success".
She added: "I would like to place on record my thanks for Ian's diligence, tenacity, friendship and loyalty in his time as group leader.
"I look forward to working with Ian's successor as group leader at Westminster, as we continue to make the case for the people of Scotland to have a democratic choice on the country's future."
SNP MP Joanna Cherry, who has been an outspoken critic of Ms Sturgeon's leadership, tweeted that she was "pleased to hear" that Mr Blackford was standing down as it was "time for fresh leadership and tolerance of debate and diverse viewpoints."
She added: "I hope the SNP Westminster group will be now be left to choose our new leader without outside interference and in accordance with our standing orders."
Labour's shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray said Mr Blackford's decision to stand down showed that the SNP was in "total disarray".
He added: "Nationalist MPs know Nicola Sturgeon's plan for a de facto referendum is finished before it is even started and are worried about Labour gaining seats."
Scottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said Mr Blackford should have been "sacked immediately" by Ms Sturgeon over his support for Mr Grady, and accused the first minister of showing a "total lack of judgement".
He added: "It is clear that, unlike Nicola Sturgeon, SNP MPs were not prepared to forgive how Ian Blackford put the needs of the perpetrator above the victim who had bravely come forward in this case.
"The SNP Westminster group are clearly in a state of disarray and Nicola Sturgeon is rapidly losing her grip over her party."
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73dcde No.17865342
https://www.ardrossanherald.com/news/23166864.north-ayrshire-two-men-guilty-sexual-abuse-kerlaw-school/
High court
Kerelaw: John Muldoon and Matthew George guilty of sexual abuse
TWO men who worked at a Stevenston school for troubled children have been found guilty of the horror abuse of almost 30 pupils.
Former art teacher Matthew George, 73, and care worker John Muldoon, 69, were convicted after a fresh probe into how youngsters were treated at Kerelaw residential school.
Jurors heard how physical and sexual attacks were "rife" with children too scared to report their ordeals at the time.
George, of Largs, was today convicted of a total of 39 charges involving 21 boys and girls.
Muldoon, of Irvine, was found guilty of 16 of the charges he faced. These listed nine children including the rape of two girls.
Two of the victims were abused by both.
The pair had previously been jailed in 2006 for abuse at Kerelaw.
George was locked up for 10 years and Muldoon two-and-a-half years.
But they were hauled back into the dock in 2017 amid new allegations.
This led to a two-month trial at the High Court in Glasgow, which saw jurors convict them again today.
The pair had been on bail but were remanded in custody as a judge warned them they face "significant" sentences in the New Year.
The crimes occurred between 1975 and 2000.
George had been a teacher at Kerelaw for 29 years.
The school - run by Strathclyde Regional Council and then Glasgow City Council - closed in 2006.
Victims - with much of the evidence recorded and played before jurors - spoke of being abused by George there and at his home in Largs.
As well as horrific sexual abuse, the court heard of physical violence which included children being put down holes while also being punched and hit.
Putting allegations to George, prosecutor Paul Kearney KC said: "A picture of routine violence and it being ignored?"
George: "That is the picture some are painting."
Terrified victims were scared to complain as they feared "repercussions".
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73dcde No.17865350
>>17865342
……continued
George - who also taught physical education - was described by one victim as the "leader of the boys".
Mr Kearney: "You would show off your karate moves."
George denied this.
Mr Kearney: "Evidence shows us that violence was rife and tolerated by staff."
George: "Violence was not rife - absolutely not the case."
Mr Kearney: "The evidence from (one witness who worked at Kerelaw) was that members of staff would line up boys in the gym hall and hit them with golf balls.
Mr Kearney: "If done in the open, even all the more blatant?"
George: "It did not happen."
The advocate depute: "A pretty clear sign things were rotten at Kerelaw?"
George: "It did not happen."
Mr Kearney: "The evidence from (one witness who worked at Kerelaw) was that members of staff would line up boys in the gym hall and hit them with golf balls.
"There was laughter about this and it was said: 'This is what we do'.
"She was uncomfortable, but that was the whole ethos of the place."
George: "I did not line up boys."
The court also heard how one boy was booted on the ankles as he recovered from breaking them weeks earlier.
Another was kept in the cells of the secure unit area of the school for more than a fortnight having been assaulted.
One boy was also battered with a mop handle and forced to eat soap.
George also denied on of his "methods" was to lure victims to his home - some who could vividly recall what it looked like.
But, the pervert claimed it was "common knowledge" where he stayed.
George was mainly convicted of indecent and physical assaults.
Muldoon - who worked in the secure unit - also put young victims through harrowing ordeals.
The sexual and physical violence he doled out included raping two teenage girls.
He also attacked one boy with a mallet and put a lit cigarette on one girl's arm.
A number of the victims in the case have since passed away before they could see justice being served.
After the verdicts, Mr Kearney said eight victims had written statements about their ordeals for judge Lady Drummond to read.
She went on to tell George and Muldoon: "You have been convicted of charges involving sexual and physical abuse on children in your care over decades.
"You will be sent to prison for a significant period of time."
Muldoon winked to relatives as he was led handcuffed to the cells. George waved to those with him.
They will be sentenced on January 13 in Livingston.
Senior Investigating Officer, DI Ross Black, Police Scotland, said: “Police Scotland would like to thank everyone who came forward to police during this investigation. Their engagement, bravery and commitment helped secure the verdict today.
“We hope that people can now be confident in coming forward to police knowing that no matter the passage of time, justice like today’s verdict has underpinned what can be achieved.
“Police Scotland is committed to identifying and bringing to justice those responsible for these crimes.
“We are, and will continue, to investigate all aspects of child abuse in these former residential care establishments, and I would urge anyone who may have experienced abuse at the school but not yet come forward to police to do so.”
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73dcde No.17866574
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/23166045.amp/
Service launched for children not attending school in Glasgow
By Lauren Brownlie
Senior reporter
2 December 22
A first-of-its-kind service has been launched to provide support to Glasgow primary and secondary school children who are finding it difficult to attend school.
Quarriers has been awarded the contract for Glasgow’s first Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance service which will be available to all primary schools and secondary schools to help children and their families develop a plan towards positive steps back into education.
Within Glasgow City Council schools, the number of children with under 80% attendance has increased from 12.30% to 14.70% between August to December 2020 and the same period last year.
REACH (Respond, Engage, Ask, Connect, Hope), has been launched in association with Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership and will provide targeted support to children who have prolonged non-attendance or are starting to show signs of developing a non-attendance profile at school.
The service aims to promote the well-being of every child to ensure they can be supported to reach their full potential.
There are many complex reasons why children don’t attend school including poor mental health, anxiety, language and communication difficulties or other concerns.
Colin Simpson, service co-ordinator of Quarriers REACH service, said: "What is different about this service is that we are able to go into the community and spend time with the children and their families at home to overcome some of their anxieties and mental health challenges.
“We will provide a supportive relationship in the home and help the young people on a journey back towards their learning.”
Barry Syme, Glasgow City Council's principal educational psychologist, said the aim was to intervene early to support young people and help divert them from the adult mental health system and much worse outcomes and more expensive interventions.
He added: "Covid prevented a lot of young people experiencing opportunities because they were at home and that is going to be a real challenge and we probably haven't seen what the impact of that has been."
REACH has specially trained staff who can offer one-to-one, child-centred support to help build the strengths of each child and discover what works best for them.
Workers can help act as a bridge between the school, help the child gain access to support already available within the school, or where appropriate will refer to services out with, for example, social work or health and educational psychologists.
The team will also help parents understand the pressures on children and help them support their child toward positive destinations.
A request for a referral can be emailed to reachservice@quarriers.org.uk or contact the service on the REACH Team Leader’s direct contact number - 07827 042202.
For more details, go to quarriers.org.uk/reach-service
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08e7cb No.17866591
>>17866574
>poor mental health, anxiety, language and communication difficulties or other concerns
All from those Lockdowns against a virus with a 99.9% Recovery Rate in kids. Nice job SNP
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053781 No.17872657
>>17864454
Any idea why Blackford is really stepping down?
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73dcde No.17873314
>>17866591
>All from those Lockdowns against a virus with a 99.9% Recovery Rate in kids. Nice job SNP
Just like any other cold.
I'm still convinced it was no coincidence they used the coronavirus as the vehicle for their jabs…the virus seems to be taking out a few royals along the way; will it usher in a new one? I don't know. I do know that those that for generations have presided in the gutting of personal freedoms for the people should never be considered for a moment.
If that's the way we go once wrongs have been righted it better be someone who knows their place is of subservience to the rest of us and not one of dominance.
>>17872657
>Any idea why Blackford is really stepping down?
Honestly? No.
I'd not be in the least surprised to find it was in connection to John Watt QC and the wider circle of people that were/are involved in child abuse. I don't know though. I do know that the SNP for what must be approaching the end of their 4th (?) term in office and for all of it they have done everything they could to sweep it all under the carpet.
There is so much corruption on so many levels that it could be a number of them.
I do know that there is a change most demonstrable in the arrest and conviction of John Watt QC and it is having a knock on effect. Grindingly slow are the wheels of justice but they do seem to be turning in the right direction.
Have you any idea yourself?
>>17800067
>Is there a Scottish word for "boondoggle?"
I thought it "was" a Scottish word, it sounds like a word a Scot might make up.
According to this..
https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-boondoggle-come-from
the word origninates in New York and appears to relate to "neckerchief slides" which in the Boy Scouts is known as a "woggle". Could it be a NY attempt at something like "rhyming slang" common in the UK particularly among east enders from London? The cockney is a dying breed in London. It seems we Brits are being disposed of by our own government and replaced.
>>17417338
>Can Anons confirm?
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18270734.14m-trees-cut-scotland-make-way-wind-farms/
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73dcde No.17902044
CAN SOMEONE DELETE ALL OF THIS SPAM SHITE AGAIN?
THANKS.
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73dcde No.17925717
Bitchute embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://www.bitchute.com/video/xmwgmeWn4U67/
Some enterprising anons have set up a projector show displaying video of vax injuries and other topical globalist issues.
It looks like Buchanan street in Glasgow beside the Donald Dewar bronze.
Well done guys, keep spreading truth.
Someone Was Playing Our Vax Injury Videos On A Projector Screen Downtown Scotland
https://twitter.com/Power_of_Xanadu/status/1599072266687348736?s=19
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73dcde No.17925807
>>17830210
>>17864400
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-two-speechwriters-costing-28624268
Nicola Sturgeon has two speechwriters costing taxpayers up to £125,000 a year for 'hot air'
Exclusive: The Scottish Government employees 'mainly' work for the First Minister although they also provide 'speaking notes' for John Swinney and Humza Yousaf
News
ByJohn Glover
The SNP Government has revealed that it is paying up to £124,825 a year for two scribes to write speeches for Nicola Sturgeon as well as "speaking notes" for John Swinney and Humza Yousaf.
Both wordsmiths also occasionally help train policy officials about speechwriting on top of their usual services. Over the past five financial years, they have cost the taxpayer up to £600,000.
The Scottish Government also spent an additional £8,000 on external speechwriting services for ministers during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. This is despite the Nats ALREADY spending £4million-a-year on an army of 176 spin doctors.
The figures were revealed following Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Conservatives, who suggested Ms Sturgeon and her administration were suffering from "delusions of grandeur"
MSP Russell Findlay said: “Taxpayers are being hit with the gargantuan bill for SNP hot air. Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney and Humza Yousaf speak a lot of words but rarely say anything of substance.
“During the cost-of-living crisis, Scots might wonder why ministers are splurging this six-figure amount to spin SNP lines. It’s out of touch and smacks of delusions of grandeur.
“Rather than waste money on speechwriters, why not save public cash by getting one of the many party spinners to do the job instead?”
In 2021, police launched a fraud investigation after a publisher received £295,000 in grants and loans before publishing a collection of Ms Sturgeon's speeches called 'Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon'.
A rival publisher even claimed he was "vilified" after writing directly to the First Minister to raise concerns about Sandstone Press of Inverness, run by SNP supporter Robert Davidson.
The Scottish Government also maintains an online library of Ms Sturgeon's speeches including all her Covid-19 daily statements and other public pronouncements.
The FOI said: "In the last five financial years, there have been two posts in the Scottish Government, which are primarily dedicated to speechwriting. These speechwriters mainly write for the First Minister, but they have also provided speaking notes for the Deputy First Minister, and the Cabinet Secretary for Health.
"They also on occasion help to train policy officials about speechwriting. One post is currently graded at C2 level, and the other is currently graded at B3 level."
B3 level staff are paid between £39,659-£47,485 a year while a C2 level salary grade earns between £65,275-£75,341.
It adds: "The Scottish Government also spent £8,000 during the 2021-22 financial year on external speechwriting services, as a result of the high volume of ministerial speeches and remarks during COP26. It did not spend anything on external speechwriting services during the other four financial years."
A government spokesman told us: “Ministerial speeches are an important way to inform the public of the action the government is taking to improve the lives of those who live in Scotland. This includes providing vital public health messages, promoting vaccination campaigns and giving advice to help people with the current cost of living crisis.”
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73dcde No.17950879
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-walks-away-after-28740737
Nicola Sturgeon walks away after questions on husband's £107,000 'cashflow' loan to SNP
The First Minister walked into a lift, then up a flight of stairs, after being quizzed on the loan by reporters.
News
ByPaul Hutcheon
15 DEC 2022
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon walked away from questions over why her husband loaned the SNP over £100,000.
She twice said SNP chief executive Peter Murrell had made a “personal contribution” before quickly walking up the stairs to her office. According to the Electoral Commission, the £107,620 loan was made on June 20th last year.
Nearly £50,000 has been paid back, with £60,000 remaining outstanding, and opposition parties at Holyrood have demanded answers.
Asked about the loan by reporters after First Minister’s Questions, she said: “Look, he made a personal contribution as a supporter of the party and that is the position.”
She then left the media scrum before walking into a lift and leaving it again. She repeated her answer about a “personal contribution” before heading for the stairs.
Following the revelation Labour MSP Neil Bibby called for transparency, he said: “This is highly irregular and the First Minister’s part if any in providing these secret loans needs further investigation.
“The saga surrounding the SNP’s finances just keeps getting murkier, from the questions around the notorious £600k to the unexplained resignation of the party’s finance committee.
“The SNP operate under a veil of secrecy and cover-up by default, but the public deserve transparency about the dealings going on in the party of government.”
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73dcde No.17950909
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>17950879
https://youtu.be/gDfMmYBpiw0
Husband and wife: New SNP cashflow irregularities (see description)
Mercurius
Why did @theSNPchief executive @PeterMurrell loan £107,620 to @theSNP in June last year?
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/po…
And what happened to the £600k "ring fenced" for #indyref2 campaigning?
Only the Murrell husband & wife team know the answers……
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73dcde No.17950974
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9864860/police-scotland-controversial-deputy-chief-constable/
NEW BEAT Police Scotland appoint controversial cop who led Number 10 lockdown parties probe as new Deputy Chief Constable
Paul Rodger
2 Dec 2022
POLICE Scotland has appointed a controversial cop as its new Deputy Chief Constable.
Jane Connors, who headed the probe into lockdown parties at Number 10, has taken up the £190,390 per year role as she joins the force's top brass.
Tonight Police Scotland confirmed Ms Connors was chosen after a recruitment campaign was launched on October 13.
She is leaving her role as temporary Deputy Assistant Commissioner for professionalism at the Metropolitan Police and replaces Will Kerr, who was appointed Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police.
Ms Connors led the Met's probe into Downing Street bashes during lockdown.
The investigation concluded that then Prime Minister Boris Johnson hadn't breached Covid regulations more than once.
She was also embroiled in a row over the policing of the Sarah Everard vigil.
Ms Everard was abducted, raped and killed by ex-Met firearms officer Wayne Couzens in March last year.
People gathered in Clapham Common in London to pay their respects to the murdered marketing executive.
But heavy-handed cops broke up the vigil and some mourners were pinned to the ground, arrested and dragged away by officers.
The shocking scenes led to a backlash against the force.
Just a few months later, Ms Connors defended the Met's policing strategy after Wembley Stadium security was overwhelmed by ticketless fans at the Euro 2020 final last year.
The force faced sustained criticism over a vigil in Clapham held for the 33-year-old marketing executive after she was abducted and murdered by Scotland Yard firearms officer Wayne Couzens.
Police Scotland has described Ms Connors as a "highly experienced police leader" with a "wealth of complementary skills".
The appointment selection panel was chaired by Martyn Evans, chair of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA).
It also included Sir Iain Livingstone, Chief Constable of Police Scotland, Professor Fiona McQueen, an SPA board member, and Angela Leitch, chief executive of Public Health Scotland.
Martin Hewitt, chair of the National Police Chiefs Council, was an advisor to the panel.
Chief Constable Livingstone said: “Jane is an outstanding police leader who will add further experience and skills to our senior team.
“I am grateful to all the high-quality candidates who stepped-forward for what has been a demanding and competitive process.”
Mr Evans said: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Jane Connors QPM as Deputy Chief Constable to Police Scotland.
"Jane is a highly experienced police leader who brings a wealth of complementary skills to strengthen and support the Chief Constable and wider leadership team.”
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said: "DAC Jane Connors has made a massive contribution to policing London, from leading on tackling violence to commanding public order operations of great scale and complexity.
"She will be sadly missed but I know what an asset she will be to Police Scotland."
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73dcde No.17951381
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_B-KN7qlD8
WHY WE DO WHAT WHAT WE DO : David Scott Of UK Column Paying Tribute To The Freedom Movement!
Freedom Walker
109 views 15 Dec 2022
Why We Do What We Do:
A wonderful tribute by David Scott of UK Column, featuring the work of Five Times August, Freedom Walker channel - and the millions around the world who stand for FREEDOM!
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73dcde No.17983586
Bitchute embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://www.bitchute.com/video/1GlPLee6Qvsd/
John Watt - After one year, finally, the diagnostic… MYOCARDITIS !
A Scot speaks on his vaccine injury.
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73dcde No.17983794
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/gender-law-could-lure-sex-28760928
Gender law could lure sex offenders to Scotland, claims former First Minister
Lord McConnell said a summit should be staged to bring together different parties.
ByPaul Hutcheon
18 DEC 2022
A former Labour First Minister has claimed new gender recognition proposals could lure sex offenders to Scotland.
Lord McConnell also called for a three month pause on the Bill so that a summit could address concerns.
The SNP/Green Government’s Bill aims to simplify the process for a person to obtain a certificate for changing their gender.
Provisions include removing the requirement for a medical diagnosis and replacing it with a system of so-called “self-ID”.
Critics believe the Bill, which will have its final vote on Wednesday, could allow predatory males to access single sex spaces like women’s refuges and rape crisis clinics.
McConnell, First Minister between 2001 and 2007, wrote in the Sunday Times: “There are really serious concerns about safe spaces for women, especially those facing and dealing with the trauma of abuse, violence and rape.”
He also claimed there could be an “incentive” for predatory male sex offenders to come to Scotland, identify as female, and access female only spaces.
He added: “I support reform of gender self-identification to help those facing real difficulties in their personal lives , but the Scottish parliament must pause the final decisions on this bill.
“There should be a summit with open debate that engages those with genuine worries, and makes appropriate changes to make sure women are safe in Scotland.”
Defenders of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill counter by saying the new system would not impact on single sex services and accuse the critics of alarmism.
An initial vote on the Bill in October led to 9 SNP MSPs failing to support the Government.
Holyrood sources expect the Bill to pass, but accept divisions in the SNP and Labour are inevitable.
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73dcde No.17984031
>>17621912
>Scottish Government Orders Investigation Into Recent Spike in New Born Baby Deaths
Scottish government won’t investigate vaccination status of women who lost babies for fear of truth
By
Derek Knauss -
November 16, 2022
From conservativereview .com:
Imagine a government openly telling its citizens that officials are refusing to study the effects of a dangerous therapeutic because if the results show it’s indeed harmful, it might cause people to lose confidence in the product. Sound genocidal? Well, that’s exactly what Public Health Scotland is doing.
Back in the good old days, when science and public health abided by the Nuremberg Code, the public health establishment would embrace the opportunity to scrutinize the safety of a medical product in order to discover any potential harms to the public so that the public would be forewarned against consuming that product. This was doubly true after sudden deaths and complications correlated directly during the time of the inception of that product. Now, they are openly admitting they are avoiding all studies of negative consequences, including neonatal deaths, because such discoveries might make people not want to take the product. Welcome to the new religion of “biomedical Baal,” where lives must be sacrificed for the religious sacrament.
Last year, we reported that Public Health Scotland identified a disturbing trend of neonatal deaths more than doubling in the fall of 2021, which triggered an investigation by the health authorities. Bizarrely, they never studied the vaccines as a potential culprit, never affirmed what was the cause, but did rule out COVID itself. Fast-forward to this year, when the safety signals began blaring red again in March, and they launched another preliminary investigation. This time they quickly ruled out the vaccines, but bizarrely never studied the vaccination status of the women who suffered infant deaths! Now, emails released via public information requests by the Scotland Herald reveal that Public Health Scotland refused to study vaccination status because officials openly admitted they didn’t want the public to find out potential harms about the shots.
On October 9, the Scotland Herald published an article titled, “Covid Scotland: Vaccines ruled out in neonatal deaths spike.” Naturally, I was intrigued to find out how the health authorities studied this and how they ruled out the vaccines as a cause. Well, it turns out they studied it by not studying it! They refused to study the vaccination status of the mothers and just opted to conclude on their own that there was no “plausible” link between the shots and the shocking rise in neonatal deaths that cannot be attributed to chance. Why would they do this? According to the Herald:
Public Health Scotland (PHS) said its consultants had given “careful consideration” to the “potential benefits and harms” of carrying out such an analysis as part of its probe into the tragic deaths of 39 infants, but concluded against doing so because “it was not possible to identify a scenario that would have resulted in a change to public health policy or practice” given that vaccination policy was already “appropriately informed by good-quality population-level evidence and safety data.”
I had to read this several times to make sure there weren’t typos or my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me. They are essentially saying that no matter what is discovered about the safety of the shots, they will never, ever terminate this vaccination program. That is a given – a fixed variable. As such, they feel there is no benefit to finding out the harm if there are no plans to change policy.
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73dcde No.17984035
>>17984031
……..continued….
It gets even worse:
In a statement, PHS added that there was also a risk that “identifying the vaccination status of the mothers, even at aggregate level, would result in harm to those individuals and others close to them, through actual or perceived judgement of the effects of their personal vaccination decision.”
So, they won’t even identify the aggregate rate of neonatal deaths by vaccination status without naming the specific mothers because they don’t want them having regrets! Here we savaged, stigmatized, segregated, and nearly criminalized the lives of people who didn’t get the shots under the false pretense that they made the wrong health care choices, yet when there is a very sudden, disturbing reversal in generation-long positive trends of infant mortality that require investigation, they are too scared to discover potential reproductive dangers of the shots so that no anguish is caused to the parents!
The last sentence is the real money quote, though.
Furthermore “the outcomes of such analysis, whilst being uninformative for public health decision making, had the potential to be used to harm vaccine confidence at this critical time.”
So, we can’t study and discover the extent of the harm caused by a shot because it might harm the public confidence in taking the harmful shot! Taken to its logical conclusion, this would mean that if a therapeutic would potentially kill every person who takes it, we should refrain from studying it so that people don’t stop taking it.
This is Fourth Reich-level human experimentation. But it’s worse than experimentation. Even after they see the endless harms, they dig even deeper rather than calling off the experiment.
The Herald obtained this information from emails through a public information request. An email dated November 24, 2021, stated: “We do not have any plans to examine maternal vaccination status, as there is no public health reason to do so.”
Even PHS admitted in an email to the Herald that it is “concerning to have another month with strikingly high figures so soon after last September,” especially after noting in its report that variation due to mere chance is considered unlikely “given the magnitude and consistency” of the changes. In most Western countries, infant mortality has gone down every year for decades. After a rough pre-2021 baseline of two infant deaths per thousand, Scotland hit 4.9 per 1,000 live births last September, on a par with levels that were last seen in the late 1980s, and then 4.6 per 1,000 births in March 2022.
There is quite literally nothing the needle cultists will not sacrifice for their religion, including babies. Then again, we just learned that the hard way on this side of the Atlantic, as the CDC’s advisory committee on immunizations just voted to add these dangerous shots to the childhood immunization schedule. It’s quite clear for those who wanted to move on from the politics of COVID that this will not end until we as a people end it with Nuremberg 2.0.
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73dcde No.17986919
>>17433061
Back to Advocate John Halley.
Somehow I'm unable to go back further than July 11th on John's twitter feed, unsure why or if this is the same for others visiting his twitter account? The last I posted on John's twitter account was from his June 21st post….restating his inquiry "What about Sheriff Duff".
>>17432437
>>17387203
>>17387031
>>17387002
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73dcde No.17987142
https://news.sky.com/story/army-could-be-deployed-to-help-limit-christmas-strike-disruption-12761258
Military could be deployed to help limit Christmas strike disruption
Around 2,000 military personnel, civil servants and volunteers are being trained to support a range of services, including Border Force at airports and ports, the government says.
Samuel Osborne
News reporter
Sunday 4 December 2022
Military personnel could be drafted in to limit disruption caused by planned strikes in the run-up to Christmas.
Military personnel could be deployed as ambulance drivers and firefighters, the government said.
It said around 2,000 military personnel, civil servants and volunteers are being trained to support a range of services, including Border Force at airports and ports.
It said the decision on deploying troops was yet to be taken, but the troops "are part of the range of options available should strike action in these areas go ahead as planned".
The UK faces a wave of strikes this winter, which will affect services including transport, the NHS, education and delivery drivers.
Tens of thousands are expected to take industrial action as the UK is gripped by recession and the cost of living crisis.
"Multiple unions have taken the decision to strike over the coming weeks, leaving millions of people facing disruption over the Christmas period," the government said.
"Many unions are asking for uplifts in line with inflation or even more - despite comparable uplifts in the private sector averaging between four and six per cent so far this year.
"The government recognises these are very challenging economic times. That's why it is focused on getting inflation under control as the best way to help everyone's money go further and avoid soaring inflation rates being embedded in the UK economy."
The government added: "There is still time to call off planned strikes and ministers have repeatedly called for unions and employers to keep talking and come to an agreement, rather than take pre-emptive industrial action."
Well we are here now, strikes etc.
Let's see what transpires.
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73dcde No.18004010
>>18003976
In the comments on the 5th attached screenshot in the previous post there is a link to this article on the bbc…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38922239.amp
Paedophile self-help site Stop It Now used 1,530 times
More than 1,500 people in Scotland visited a self-help website last year designed to stop them viewing sexual images of children.
Sexual abuse prevention campaign Stop It Now also said 78 men from Scotland had called their helpline in 2016.
The service offers "anonymous, effective support" to those worried about their online sexual behaviour.
It also provides information and support to those worried about the behaviour of friends or family.
Stop It Now, a UK-wide campaign which is run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation charity, said it had received 28 calls from people in Scotland who were concerned about another adult.
Assistant Chief Constable John Hawkins said child sex abuse was preventable and encouraged people who had sexual thoughts about children to use the service.
"Police Scotland is determined to work with our statutory partners, with support services and importantly with our communities to do all we can to eliminate child sexual abuse," he said.
"Changing offender behaviour is a vitally important element of this work. Stop It Now provides abusers and potential abusers troubled by their sexual thoughts regarding children access to support. In turn this can help them to manage their thoughts and behaviour."
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Stop It Now Scotland figures for 2016
1,530 people Scotland accessing web help
78 calls from men worried about their behaviour
28 calls from adult worried about a friend or family member
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The service also supports the partners and friends of people arrested for - or suspected of - looking at child abuse images online.
Stuart Allardyce, the director for Stop it Now in Scotland, said the campaign had worked with hundreds of men arrested for viewing sexual images of children.
He said: "We make sure these men understand the harm they have caused the children in these images, and also the serious consequences for them and their families if they don't get to grips with their online behaviour.
"Once they understand this, they become far less likely to reoffend. But there are thousands of men out there viewing sexual images of under-18s.
"We need to get to them too, to help them understand what they are doing is illegal and incredibly harmful to the children and young people in the images - and to get them to stop."
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73dcde No.18004056
>>18003976
>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-38976269
Concern over child abuse review chairman
A charity which supports survivors of sex abuse is asking the Scottish FA to think again about the man they have appointed to chair their review of child abuse in football.
The SFA announced earlier this month that Martin Henry would take on the role.
The charity, Open Secret, says concerns have been raised about his suitability for the role
The Scottish FA said Mr Henry had "amassed unrivalled experience in many facets of child protection in a 40-year career, including his role as vice-convenor to the Scottish Parliament cross-party group on Survivors of Sexual Abuse."
Published
14 February 2017
Section
BBC News
Subsection
Scotland
The video here shows the "concerns" regarding the appointment to an inquiry of Martin Henry. A must watch to connect the dots.
Would really be helpful if someone could find a way to embed the included video at ....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-38976269
...here on this board.
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73dcde No.18004090
>>18003976
>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/catholic-church-put-its-reputation-above-child-safety-0rp2p7zd8
>
>Latest attachments showing some connections to the Catholic church….
>
>If anyone can find the full article from the Times where these latest pics attached in John's tweets of Ratzinger, O'Brien and Martin Henry can you post it here please……I can't find the full article or anywhere else that may have published the article. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Catholic church ‘put its reputation above child safety’
Marc Horne
Wednesday July 13 2022
The Catholic church in Scotland put protecting its reputation above the safety of abused children as it covered up for paedophiles, its former safeguarding adviser has claimed.
Martin Henry advised the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh on child protection for 22 years and was a member of the Scottish Catholic bishops’ working party on child sexual abuse.
His testimony was cited after the Scottish child abuse inquiry found that sexual predators found it easier to target children in religious settings because of a culture of “habitual deference”.
“God was ‘weaponised’ in the sense that there was a habit of taking advantage of the subservience by others to the power of the religious; they could rely on routinely being held in high regard and that
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73dcde No.18004128
>>18003976
>https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/john-watt-lawyer-sexual-abuse-27405821
Former top Scots lawyer convicted of historical sex abuse against four children
John Watt QC was hauled back to Scotland from America to face justice after preying on three girls and a boy over 14 years in the 1970s and '80s
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ByConnor Gordon
Grant McCabe
5 JUL 2022
A former senior Scots lawyer has been convicted of historical sex abuse against four children.
John Watt QC was hauled back to Scotland from America to face justice after preying on three girls and a boy over 14 years in the 1970s and 80s. A number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time.
The attacks happened at different properties in Edinburgh's New Town and Leith, as well as another in the West End of the capital. Watt, now 72, was extradited in 2020 from Oklahoma in the United States, having moved there in the mid-90s with his wife.
He denied the crimes during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow pinning the blame on a now dead lawyer for attacks on one girl. But, Watt was today found guilty of a total of five charges spanning between 1973 and 1987.
He was convicted of raping one girl. Watt was further guilty of lewd and libidinous behaviour against the same victim, another girl and a boy. He was also guilty of indecently assaulting a third girl.
The shamed former advocate showed no emotion as he was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month. Watt often worked and mingled with a number of leading names in the Scottish legal world at the time.
The female rape victim told how her father - who was also a lawyer - took her to see Watt at a house in Edinburgh. Prosecutors said she was aged seven when the abuse began.
She recalled being given an "instruction" by her dad before being left alone with Watt. Prosecutor Kath Harper asked what then happened. The now 55 year-old replied: "I did things to the man which he made me do."
She told jurors how she was raped on two occasions and Watt told her she was a "good girl". Watt's legal team had lodged a special defence incriminating another lawyer for the crimes against this victim.
But, shown a photo of this man, the woman insisted he was not the person who attacked her. Two sisters - now in their 50s - told the trial how their lawyer father often hosted gathering at their home where Watt and others would turn up.
One recalled being in bed during a social event there and woke up to find Watt at her bedside. She said: “I think he said something about being cold or tired... and got into my bed."
This victim said she was facing away from the door when Watt inappropriately touched her. The witness added: “I have a lawyer in [my] bed, but you think something is happening which is not right.”
Her sister had saw Watt in the bed for around 10 minutes. She remembered being "frightened" and moved to turn away. But, the preying advocate then turned on her putting his hand under her bed clothes.
The woman sobbed as she described being molested for "what felt like 10 minutes." She claimed that she did not tell her parents what happened to her the next morning despite her sister speaking to them about her attack.
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73dcde No.18004130
>>18004128
……continued…..
Jurors were read a statement from their dad, who has since passed away. He said he had reported Watt to a senior lawyer, who later became a high court judge, instead of police at the time.
Jurors were also read an undated letter from Watt to the sisters' dad in which he "apologised unreservedly…for any distress caused." Watt's final victim told how he was aged 10 when the advocate had been asked to look after him while his parents were away.
But, the now 45 year-old told Miss Harper: "I was raped by John Watt. I remember him coming in the room and I remember him telling me to turn over."
Asked how long the attack lasted, the witness replied: "Honestly, I do not know. I have played it over in my mind 100,000 times. I know it was something I did not want."
After the abuse, Watt gave up law in Scotland and set up a new life in Oklahoma in 1995, working at his wife's real estate agency.
But justice caught him up with him, when a police probe lead to him being extradited back to Scotland in 2020. From once regularly appearing in the well of a courtroom, he instead stood in the dock of Edinburgh Sheriff Court in October of that year to face the charges.
Watt had been living at flat in Glasgow city centre during the trial. He claimed in his evidence that he had "never seen" the female rape victim, had "no recollection" of the incidents with the young sisters and had never been in sole charge of the boy.
Defence QC Donald Findlay had asked for Watt to remain on bail pending sentencing.
However, judge Lord Braid told Watt: "You have been convicted of very serious offences and a custodial sentence is inevitable. Bail will be withdrawn and you will be remanded in custody."
He will be sentenced on August 8 in Edinburgh.
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73dcde No.18004195
>>18003976
>https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/paedophile-network-leader-has-prison-sentence-1087225
Paedophile network leader has prison sentence cut by more than four years
JAMES RENNIE, once a prominent and respected youth worker, was originally told he must spend at least 13 years in jail before he could apply for parole.
ONE of the ringleaders of Scotland's biggest paedophile network has had his minimum jail term cut by four and a half years.
James Rennie was convicted in 2009 of molesting a young boy over more than four years, beginning when the child was aged three months.
Rennie, once a prominent and respected gay youth worker, was jailed for life and told he must spend at least 13 years in jail before he could apply for parole.
Today appeal judges cut that to eight and a half years.
Rennie, 38 at the time, was convicted of a string of child porn charges alongside seven other men.
At the time of sentencing, judge Lord Bannatyne told him the level of betrayal of his victim's parents was "truly appalling".
Rennie was formerly the chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland.
His co-accused Neil Strachan was also jailed for life in October 2009 and ordered to serve 16 years before applying for parole.
Ross Webber, from North Berwick, Craig Boath, from Dundee, Colin Slaven, from Edinburgh, John Milligan, Neil Campbell and John Murphy all from Glasgow, were sentenced in June that year for their involvement in the paedophile ring.
They received sentences ranging from between two and 17 years.
No pictures on this article
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73dcde No.18004228
>>18004195
BBC coverage of this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15790605
Abuse ringleader James Rennie has minimum sentence cut
One of the ringleaders of Scotland's biggest paedophile network has had his minimum prison sentence cut by four-and-a-half years by appeal judges.
James Rennie is serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting a three-month-old and for conspiring to get access to children in order to abuse them.
Rennie, from Edinburgh, was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years in jail.
Appeal judges have reduced that to a minimum of eight-and-a-half years before he can apply for parole.
Judge Lord Clarke, sitting with Lord Philip, said: "We wish to make it clear that that does not mean he will be released after that period of time.
"All that has been done is fixing the period of time that must be spent by the appellant before any consideration can be given to his release."
Rennie was convicted in 2009 along with seven others on sex abuse charges.
Co-accused Neil Strachan from Edinburgh; Colin Slaven, from Edinburgh; Neil Campbell, John Milligan and John Murphy, 44, all from Glasgow; Ross Webber, from North Berwick in East Lothian; and Craig Boath, from Dundee, were all convicted of various offences.
At the time of sentence in October 2009, judge Lord Bannatyne said Rennie had also betrayed the trust of the parents of his victim to a "truly appalling" extent.
The judge said Rennie, a trained teacher who was found guilty of 14 charges, was at the heart of the conspiracy to abuse youngsters, and likened him to a spider weaving an electronic web to bring about his crime.
'Greater reality'
Rennie was the chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland, which offers advice to young gay and lesbian people.
The mother of the boy who Rennie sexually assaulted said: "Previously we could factor in our son being a lot older when James Rennie is released and I just think it brings it closer for the potential for him to be released.
"It brings it into a greater reality for us to have to factor in as to how we deal with that.
"Not that he will have contact with our son but the fact he potentially might be out and our son is going to be younger and more vulnerable.
"That makes it more challenging to get our head around."
She added: "We think of our son, but these men are of great risk to the public in terms of what they have done and what they could do if they were ever released."
The boy's father said: "We have concerns that someone convicted of these offences will likely re-offend.
"It could be four-and-a-half-years sooner that Mr Rennie could now attempt to re-offend.
"It might be somebody else's child."
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73dcde No.18005636
>>18003976
>>17986919
>>17433061
1st attached
retweet of a JrSpigot posing the following ...
"Director of Judicial Institute of Scotland A J M Duff was arrested and charged in December 2021 but yet to appear in court?
Just asking."
Alistair Duff, John Halley's interest reflected.
also..
Mandate now
"Scotland also lags the majority of jurisdictions in the rest of the world by not having mandatory reporting of known and suspected #CSA by professionals working with children."
2nd
Links this article...
https://scotlandtoday.online/a-very-judicial-silence
Above link seems incomplete...
and this one...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62127523
Children in care are being illegally placed in caravans and boats
2nd pic
Links this article...
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/paedophile-catholic-priest-review-finds-24541732?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Damning review into paedophile Catholic priest finds 'institutional failures' at Brum Archdiocese
Brum is colloquial slang for Birmingham.
3rd
Links following...
Birmingham priest article and Mandate now ... calling for legislation on the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse.
4th
should link to this article, but the link from the twitter feed does not direct you here.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-hides-inaction-behind-almost-400-reviews-and-panels-qgrfjw32k
SNP ‘hides inaction’ behind almost 400 reviews and panels
John Halley tweeted on the 21st of July
"Excerpt from DM sent to me:
“So strange, still now every time I ‘like’ your pinned tweet it soon stubbornly and automatically ‘unlikes’ it…”"
It's been around 2 years since I was kicked off that platform and experienced the same issue when trying to "like" his pinned tweet....which I've repeatedly posted here on Qresearch board.
5th
Draws attention to...
"Many, perhaps most, Catholic parents had no idea that Henry and O'Brien were "Integrating Those Who Pose a Risk to Children" in "our Catholic Communities". Not investigated."
and...
"Apparent safeguarding concerns at the very top of the Scottish legal profession. What’s being done about it? It’s getting the silent treatment."
.......In response to his own tweets.
I'm starting to feel like John Halley in that I'm always replying to my own posts and trying to show connections. Like a long lost spiritual brother.
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73dcde No.18006172
>>18005636
1st screen shot is trying to link to an article with the headline…
Article
Too well connected to be treated like others who are accused?
Unable to find this article. The link is broken as can be seen in ….
Screen shot 2…
Nick Whelan confirms dead link in reply to tweet.
3
Highlighting comments on Sheriff Duff again…
"Why wasn’t Sheriff Duff disciplined? Why was he apparently permitted to retire without disciplinary action? Similarities with cover ups of allegations of clerical abuse? Judicial pension now in payment, pending prosecution and trial? No questions being asked of those at top?"
4
July 22nd sees John reply to a tweet by @GracieDaz1 who says…..
"Interesting to look back to 1998:
‘Children #involved in prostitution’ -
« NEW GUIDELINES for the police, social services and courts »
“There is no excuse at all for a law that punishes abused children”"
Linking to this article in the independent….
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/children-in-prostitution-not-criminals-1194714.html
Children in prostitution `not criminals'
Linking to his own tweet he replies…
Replying to
@GracieDaz1
1999:
“children #involved in prostitution”
“children #falling into prostitution”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/464226.stm
5
JrSpigot and Auld Aussie respond to earlier tweet…
"Why wasn’t Sheriff Duff disciplined? Why was he apparently permitted to retire without disciplinary action? Similarities with cover ups of allegations of clerical abuse? Judicial pension now in payment, pending prosecution and trial? No questions being asked of those at top? twitter.com/AdvocateHalley…"
@AuldAussie
"Having experienced working in both the legal world in Australia and then Scotland I would say there is something very amiss in Scotland. Recommend to all to follow @AdvocateHalley
- @donturvLDR
some potential stories here for your journalist contacts."
JR_SPIGOT
@JrSpigot
·
Jul 24
Why does this sound so depressingly familiar ? @ScottishLegal
@BBCGraemeO
@mandatenow
@JakeKeith_
@HelenaKennedyQC
@Lawscot
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73dcde No.18006177
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73dcde No.18006181
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08e7cb No.18016542
Harsh Winter Storm Threatens US LNG Exports
Bloomberg December 24, 2022
By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) A winter storm battering huge swaths of the US threatens to temporarily disrupt exports of liquefied natural gas from the Gulf Coast, exacerbating the global fuel crunch.
The arctic front, expected to continue for several days, is triggering warnings and advisories stretching from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. The US is a major LNG exporter and a key supplier to Europe, which means port disruptions could have a global impact.
Subfreezing temperatures and high winds through Dec. 26 may cause delays or suspension to pilot services for the Sabine-Neches Waterway in Texas, according to notices from Moran Shipping. The waterway services the Sabine Pass terminal, the largest US LNG export facility.
Pilots for the port of Corpus Christi, who are responsible for docking vessels in the southern Texas region, have suspended boarding vessels due to the cold, according to Moran. That may affect ship traffic to the Corpus Christi LNG export facility.
Cheniere Energy Inc., operator of the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi terminals, said that it always prepares for and responds to extreme weather to safely manage operations. The company didn’t comment on the current operations of the facilities.
https://gcaptain.com/harsh-winter-storm-threatens-us-lng-exports/
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73dcde No.18039348
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-child-abuse-inquiry-accused-28684548
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry accused of ignoring Operation Planet and evidence of establishment paedophile ring
EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer John Halley says there was "no excuse" for the inquiry to not include an investigation into the infamous Operation Planet scandal from the 1990s claiming the 'rent boys' involved were victims of child trafficking
ByJohn GloverTrainee reporter
28 DEC 2022
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been accused of ignoring evidence of an establishment paedophile ring operating in the 1990s.
Advocate and part-time sheriff John Halley was appointed as a lead junior counsel to the public inquiry in 2015 by Scottish Government minister Angela Constance. He says his remit included the investigation of "child trafficking through prostitution of children in care in Scotland".
Mr Halley then battled cancer for several years before handing a detailed legal "Note" to chair Lady Smith on April 1, 2019. He says he was then told that he had strayed beyond his remit and had included material he "ought not to have been working on".
READ MORE: Jimmy Savile cop claims another famous paedophile is operating in UK
The Scottish Daily Express has seen his bombshell Note and it threatens to blow the lid off multiple child abuse scandals that could reach the very top of British society.
In it, Mr Halley calls on the inquiry to look at information that is already in the public domain about a police investigation from the 1990s called Operation Planet, claiming there is "no excuse" for choosing not too.
Operation Planet was launched after officers discovered a 16-year-old boy in a flat in central Edinburgh who had been held over a period of 10 days and drugged and repeatedly raped by a number of men, said to include some influential public figures.
The investigation initially resulted in 57 charges against 10 men, later reduced to 10 charges against five men whose not guilty pleas were accepted by a court in February 1991.
It led to claims of an establishment paedophile ring that is said to have operated over several decades and to have included, at one time or another, well-known TV personalities, judges, lawyers and senior police officers.
Mr Halley analysed a 1993 report written by Lord Nimmo Smith that looked into the Planet investigation and the events that followed called 'Allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice'.
Controversially, by modern standards at least, it dismissed the young people involved – many of whom were children in care – as 'rent boys' and said they were not being abused because they were receiving payment.
Mr Halley said the young people were in fact part of a child trafficking network and called on the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to re-investigate the Operation Planet probe.
He noted that the criminal cases were dropped after the Crown accepted that sex had been consensual between the complainers and the accused.
"However, that view may be open to question," Mr Halley states. "The extent of the real consent is likely to have been consent to payment. The circumstances appear to point to exploitation through prostitution. This may be trafficking of children in care.
"Thorough investigations should be carried out with or without applications to the SCAI, standing the insidious nature of the problem, and the systematic criminalisation of the victims."
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73dcde No.18039360
>>18039348
......continued.....
'Crystal clear example of child trafficking in Scotland'
He goes on to discuss the 16-year-old boy – known as M – who was "taken from a care home by a group of men" and states: "M was drugged and raped. He was kidnapped for 10 days. This is a crystal clear, proved beyond reasonable doubt, example of child trafficking in Scotland."
M was held at a property Palmerston Place in Edinburgh's West End owned by Tam Paton, manager of the Bay City Rollers. Although Paton was already a convicted paedophile by the time the report was complied in 1993, the report does not mention his ownership of the property.
Mr Halley adds: "However, there is a striking and very concerning aspect of the material in the report, for present purposes. The concern is that there appears to be little or no active consideration given to the need to protect children in the care system who are at risk of exploitation through prostitution.
"In fact, the accepted views and policies highlighted in the report point to a contrary prevalent attitude which appears to have clearly fostered and encouraged exploitation of young people in care through prostitution. On a critical reading of the report, it appears to intentionally ignore blatant child trafficking."
He describes the original incident as the "clearest record of trafficking of a child in care" and argues that the "abuse of M, and the perpetrators of that abuse, whether or not they were convicted of offences at the time (i.e. even if they were acquitted), require to be investigated by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry".
Adding: "It is certain fact for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry which has been investigated, prosecuted (to some extent) and reconsidered (albeit for different purposes) in a publicly available report commissioned by the Lord Advocate. There is no reason, and no excuse available, for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to decline to consider this.
"This publicly known and investigated case of child trafficking has apparently been ignored from the perspective of child welfare concerns. Prima facie, that may point to failures in various systems, including the legal system at the very highest level.
"But it is not just the procedures in the care system that require to be considered here. Crown Office procedures, the practice of lawyers and the operation of judges and the courts all feature. The failure to identify the problem and call it what it is – child trafficking - and to investigate and report from a welfare perspective appears as endemic as it is damning."
'I was instructed and I did investigate'
Mr Halley continues: "It must be viewed as obviously wrong for the SCAI to ignore the sexual exploitation of rent boys who were in care because money had changed hands (i.e. because their consent was being paid for). The same attitude was and is unacceptable in respect of young women in care. Such situations must be investigated, identified and properly labelled as child trafficking through prostitution.
"It is right and proper, for the sake of public confidence in the interests of justice, that SCAI should fully and properly investigate matters in which the same Crown Office policy operated where there are factual allegations (not necessarily made by the complainers) and they fall within the [Terms of Reference]."
Mr Halley's role in investigating historic child abuse was defined by Lady Smith at a meeting in September 2016 and he was diagnosed with bowel cancer the following month, meaning that he has been unable to return to work.
Nevertheless, he was able to compile his 17,500 Note for Lady Smith. However, after submitting his report, she informed him through the secretary(Daughter of Lord Cullen of 100 year cover up fame)of the inquiry that it included material he "ought not to have been working on".
He said: "I refute that entirely. I was instructed and I did investigate and report. The Note sets out a summary of my remit, important facts, allegations inferences and sources for investigation by the SCAI."
A spokesman for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry said: "The Inquiry is engaged in extensive investigations which are ongoing. All information we become aware of, related to the abuse of children in care, is considered as part of the work of the Inquiry."
>>18019548
>4.
>
>"This is the real issue that requires urgent attention: the proximity of relationships of key institutional decision makers."
>
>Lord Cullen's daughter as Personal Secret(ary) to the Chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) is one of these instances that need's URGENT attention. Pushed by Lord Brian Gill.
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73dcde No.18054250
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://youtu.be/565BGImgVVU
Nicola Sturgeon Lives Like Queen On Taxpayer
Mahyar Tousi
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73dcde No.18055735
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-64126110
Doctors ask health board to declare major incident
30 December 2022
A&E doctors have urged NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to declare a major incident amid "grave concerns" over patient safety, the BBC understands.
Staff working at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital said the A&E department continued to be overwhelmed.
NHS GGC, which declined the move, said it was taking action to support staff.
It comes as both NHS Borders and NHS Grampian issued a plea to staff on leave to come into work, due to "extreme pressure" at hospitals.
With an increase in flu and respiratory viruses across Scotland, health boards have asked the public only to attend A&E if it is urgent or life threatening.
Flu rates in Scotland at highest level since 2017
A series of messages seen by the BBC show a request from A&E consultants in Glasgow to declare a major incident was declined by NHS GGC on Thursday.
They asked for it to be called so extra resources could be diverted to the department.
A major incident is declared when the the health of the community is under serious threat.
Special measures would be put in place to assist the demand on the health service, such as extra resources to manage the volume of patients.
The messages said every space in the emergency department was occupied by patients waiting for a bed in the hospital, with no resuscitation beds and an eight-hour delay for ambulances offloading patients.
'Substandard care'
"We are now unable to provide safe critical care," read one of the messages.
Another read: "This is without any doubt the worst shift I've worked, and I've never been more convinced of real patient harm due to overcrowding and exit block."
Staff said a combination of issues meant critically-ill patients received "substandard care both clinically and from [a] humanitarian perspective".
The health board was later asked to reconsider calling a major incident, which it again declined.
A spokesperson for NHS GGC said: "We have an escalation policy that would allow us to declare any major incidents and we closely monitor the safety of our departments and patients at all times and keep this under close review.
"Our services, like the whole of Scotland, are facing major pressures including significant Covid, flu and norovirus cases and our staff are doing all they can to meet this demand."
Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Little France, Edinburgh
Both NHS Borders and NHS Grampian have put out an urgent call for any staff on leave to come into work.
NHS Grampian said it was facing "an extreme level of pressure" due to the number of acutely ill patients arriving at hospital and difficulties in discharging patients to the community .
NHS Borders also said its services were under "extreme pressure" and it had higher than normal staff sickness levels due to Covid and flu.
Meanwhile, NHS Lothian said the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, St John's Hospital, the Western General Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People were all at full capacity.
The health board said high levels of respiratory viruses in Lothian was heaping extra pressure on its hospitals
'Wear a mask'
Dona Milne, NHS Lothian director of public health, said: "We have now reached extraordinary levels of flu in Scotland that we haven't seen for many years.
"Although they can be mild infections for many, it can be extremely serious for some people causing them to require urgent hospital treatment.
"We are asking anyone who has cold or flu like symptoms to help limit the spread of infection. Stay at home if you feel unwell. And if you do have to go out, please wear a mask."
Scotland recorded its worst ever performance times at A&E in the week up to 18 December, with 55% of patients seen within the government target of 4 hours.
This is down 7.4% compared to the previous week.
At the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, just 45% of patients were seen within four hours.
A total 1,821 patients spent more than 12 hours in emergency departments across Scotland.
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73dcde No.18056066
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/legal-showdown-looms-over-snps-28849557
UK Government set to mount unprecedented legal challenge to block SNP's gender bill
The Tories are poised to lodge a Section 35 Order in an attempt to veto the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which passed in Holyrood by 86 to 39.
ByJohn Ferguson
1 JAN 2023
The UK Government is set to mount an unprecedented legal challenge to block Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial gender reforms. The Sunday Mail has learned that ministers will more likely than not lodge a Section 35 Order in an attempt to veto the legislation within weeks.
The mechanism has never been used but effectively gives the UK Government a right to block laws produced by the Scottish Parliament from gaining royal assent on the grounds they adversely affect UK statutes. The move would almost certainly result in a Supreme Court showdown between First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
A senior UK Government source said: “Ministers across the UK Government have very serious concerns about the SNP’s gender recognition bill. Lawyers and officials are still assessing the potential impact of the bill on the Equalities Act and other UK-wide legislation and considering the implications for prisons and schools.
“Obviously any action by the UK Government would have to be consistent with the devolution settlement but using a Section 35 Order, as set out in the Scotland Act, to prevent the Bill going for royal assent is absolutely on the table.”
Earlier this month the Scottish Parliament voted to make it possible for people to legally change their gender without a medical assessment, faster, and at the age of 16 rather than 18. While many MSPs say it advances the trans community, feminists fear for women’s rights and access to single sex spaces.
A UK Government challenge to the legislation revolves around how the new bill will impact women and girls’ rights in prisons and schools. The fear is that predatory men who claim to be trans to more easily gain a Gender Recognition Certificate in Scotland can then use it to exploit the Equalities Act in other parts of the UK.
The Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill by 86 to 39. But Scottish Secretary Alister Jack announced less than an hour later that the UK Government would consider using powers under the Scotland Act to prevent it becoming law.
The UK Government has a four-week period to review any bill agreed by MSPs before it moves to royal assent. A Section 35 allows the Scottish Secretary to lay an order essentially vetoing it.
It acknowledges the legislation is devolved but blocks its progress on the grounds it could have an adverse impact on legislation reserved to the UK.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman made clear any attempt to block the bill would be vigorously opposed.
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b18194 No.18060416
>>18055735
More lies so they can give lethal unnecessary kill shots to those that never fell for their covid scam , all doctors and nurses involved will/should be hung for crimes against humanity , along with the satanists in Edinburgh
There is no such thing as flu season , there is only a lack of D3 season , i.e. lack of sunshine
take a small d3 with zinc and it kills all viruses so no need for their death jabs
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73dcde No.18067204
>>18060416
>More lies so they can give lethal unnecessary kill shots to those that never fell for their covid scam , all doctors and nurses involved will/should be hung for crimes against humanity , along with the satanists in Edinburgh
>
I don't know why but it's very common these days for doctor's surgeries to send text messages saying they have a shortage of Drs leading to a shortage of appointments or several other excuses for not accepting new appointments for the day….I get 2 or 3 a week since convid began.
What is going on behind the scenes? Are others experiencing this?
There is a darkness in Edinburgh of that there is no mistake.
Should they hang? That's a question that will have to be answered by everyone collectively when the full facts are known. I am compelled to consider …
Matthew 7:1-3
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
I'm not perfect, few are.
I strongly suspect that few would plan to kill off much of society just to retain control over everyone else that remained. If you were to hang everyone that collaborated to any degree we might find ourselves acting out the plan to reduce the world population to 500 million. All of us are responsible for the state of the world, most of us paid for it through taxation without questioning where the recompense for their blood, sweat and tears was spent while voting for a whole succession of CUNTS to replenish those who went before. None of us are blameless.
In these British Isles we have a king who is not a king, who's mother was a queen, who wasn't really a queen. How far back beyond her does the deception go?
I know one thing. Here in this land everyone operates under the crown. If there is no legitimate crown then nobody has any legitimate authority. We won't fix these lands, broken and battered, by the machinations of bastard bureaucrats, unless first we address the root of the deception and appoint a true monarch. We are in a constitutional crisis.
We need someone in charge that understands the remit and that isn't ever going to be Charles or his offspring. The role is one of service to the people, not dictatorial rule, nor subservience to wealthy interests/corporations.
Whether you are a Monarchist or not that is the basis for our law, nothing can operate without a Crown. It may be that the people want to go to a Republican model of government in the future but that can only be decided by plebiscite and that can only be determined in law as it stands, you cannot remove the necessity of a crown in the meantime if you are to remain lawful. We need to make the appointment ( on a temporary basis) and then through him/her determine how we go forward with or without them at the helm.
The crown is the representative of the people, the servant who's primary function is to uphold the constitution without fear or favour and protect the rights of all.
Just my 2 bob's worth.
"To err is human; to forgive, divine"
Alexander Pope
(1711)
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73dcde No.18076036
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60496221
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry judge had no power to ban media, court rules
Published
23 February 2022
By Andrew Picken
BBC Scotland News
A senior judge was acting beyond her powers to prevent the BBC from fully reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, an appeal court has ruled.
Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), passed orders stopping detail of an employment tribunal claim being reported.
A judicial review of the orders brought by the BBC backed Lady Smith's move.
But the appeal court has now ruled she "had no power" to make the orders.
The SCAI said it was considering its position in light of the court's decision but added the restriction orders were issued to "prevent the imminent disclosure of confidential inquiry information into the public domain".
The £2.6m employment tribunal claim - alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation - was brought against the SCAI and its chairwoman in July 2019 by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.
An order restricting reporting detail of the claim, which was later dropped by Mr Halley, was issued by the SCAI and then challenged by the BBC, first through a judicial review and then an appeal of that review decision.
The Court of Session appeal opinion, delivered by Lord Carloway, said Mr Halley's claim contained allegations of discrimination but did not relate to the proceedings of the inquiry so "it follows that the respondent had no power to make the restriction orders".
The appeal opinion also said the court "was not persuaded that any of the issues raised in the present proceedings are academic in the sense that it would be inappropriate for the court to address them".
It further states the BBC's petition "raises an important point about the powers of those chairing public inquiries to restrict publication of material which is the subject of other legal proceedings".
The appeal opinion rejected any suggestion of apparent bias on the part of Lady Smith, stating the restriction orders were made "in the context of the proper administration of the inquiry" and not "for the benefit of the respondent personally".
The opinion also pointed out it would have been open to the SCAI to make an application to the employment tribunal to restrict publication of Mr Halley's claim and response documents, rather than issuing its own media restriction orders.
'Considering our position'
A spokeswoman for the SCAI said the restriction orders were issued to "prevent the imminent disclosure of confidential inquiry information into the public domain and, importantly, protect the anonymity of vulnerable individuals who engage with the inquiry".
She added: "They were issued by the chair under statutory powers that, at the time, she understood were available to her.
"The allegations in the employment tribunal proceedings were withdrawn, and the claim was dismissed.
"We are carefully considering our position in light of the court's decision."
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b90bce No.18076398
With all the shill messaging, negative press, programmed bots, and disinformation made us to live in fear/anger, your message, anon, has been a refreshing text. I do agree with you completely. Who hasn't sinned/erred in their lifetime ?
Plus, I do completely agree we all have a part in this, I don't know who still doesn't accept it anymore. Yet, I do feel like we can overcome that with some truths. Religions divide anon, that's a fact, its just a label. Yes we are "entitled to our opinions", but that's cause opinions were formed due to manipulated and hidden facts. Again, not judging any individual in particular, just stating the situation. As you say, if we desire harm to others, that comes back…. or as a wise person said not too long ago "can't wish death on nobody, cause they might just come back for you."
Also, this I state openly to the "GF" as they have been "leading this change", although I don't agree "all the time" with hm, a choice in messaging, they have led us in a positive way.
Furthermore, there is a group that has been targeted alot….yeah, that could change in a heart beat…. specially since, well, there's those that have acted kindly and with a huge heart, and then there's those heartless individuals, but still can't judge. Also, BM and B, are a bitch….and that….well….Frank Gore….
again, not judging….the people….just the situation…. theres a group, that just wants absolute power…there I'm Not agreeing at all….with how things were handled. Something tells me things could be better….specially for the innercities, or Haiti, Africa.
I think everybody deserves a chance, or 2 or 3, 4, as long as there's progress… as you say, forgiving is divine, and erring is human. AI there's absolutely good AI, and then there's the misuse of AI for example. It's how we do things with our heart, or no? Plus, birds sing in cages, not on land, and not flying….unless they are seagulls, but seagulls are ugly as fuck. There's a lot of birds that are way more pretty than fucking seagulls……
truths and what happened/has happened….so much that…what are we gonna get stuck in the past stuff, like with the "slavery" topic, or are we going to progress? Or as with the fake "holohoax" and the made up number of victims….not saying people didn't die….but the European Census of 1937 has (scrubbed but probably still attainable) 1/2 of the population that the narrative states (of jewish faith based individuals)….. or even the hashtag NeverForget…made up to keep people plugged, in hate and fear…anger….
I didn't even know christopher reeves died…. or something like that….
So yes, erring is human, forgiving divine. Sorry, I am, Interrupting dinner is a human mistake….but anyway…. i just think thateres things that can change, a few that can improve, and a thing that probably will stay the same….
Again, yes, some stuff….deep….really deep….but other stuff…..like S.O. or Human Trafficking….again not towards judgement of one person….put the situation….gotta change……WITH….
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73dcde No.18076505
>>18076036
>The SCAI said it was considering its position in light of the court's decision but added the restriction orders were issued to "prevent the imminent disclosure of confidential inquiry information into the public domain".
To prevent the imminent disclosure of a raft of senior establishment figures involved in child abuse and the subsequent cover up of it. Remember this one "personally" requested the daughter of Lord Cullen as her personal secret-ary. Lord Cullen using his position on a previous inquiry to cover up all the evidence for 100 years.
>>18076036
>It further states the BBC's petition "raises an important point about the powers of those chairing public inquiries to restrict publication of material which is the subject of other legal proceedings".
But doesn't at all raise any important points about the "powers" of a chair of a public inquiry being able to retain information from the public about the inquiry itself.It's not a public inquiry if information is prevented from reaching the public.
>>18076036
>The appeal opinion rejected any suggestion of apparent bias on the part of Lady Smith, stating the restriction orders were made "in the context of the proper administration of the inquiry" and not "for the benefit of the respondent personally".
Your behaviour was unlawful but there's no wrong done here
Struggling to wrap my head round that one.
"in the context of the proper administration of the inquiry"so the proper administration of the inquiry is "unlawful"?
>>18076036
>she "had no power" to make the orders.
>>18076036
>The opinion also pointed out it would have been open to the SCAI to make an application to the employment tribunal to restrict publication of Mr Halley's claim and response documents, rather than issuing its own media restriction orders.
Translated means…
You can't do it that way but you can do it this way. A nod to Smith on how to "prevent the imminent disclosure of confidential inquiry information into the public domain".
It's not just a nod to tell her how to suppress John Halley's "note" to her pointing out the establishment villains…..more important than that it eats up time. They are using the same tactics to deal with Halley that they have used so successfully to silence victims; they are usingTIMEto contain him. I've said it many times……."Time is their greatest ally" waste enough of it and both plaintiff and respondent/defendant die off without a word spoken in truth.
>>18076036
>A spokeswoman for the SCAI said the restriction orders were issued to "prevent the imminent disclosure of confidential inquiry information into the public domain and, importantly, protect the anonymity of vulnerable individuals who engage with the inquiry".
We know that the "anonymity" they are trying to protect are senior figures in all the high places of government. We know the "vulnerable individuals who engage with the inquiry" are from among their own ranks, not the victims of abuse. They are protecting the abusers not the abused.
>>18076036
>"We are carefully considering our position in light of the court's decision."
Translation….
We'll take your advice on board and apply to the employment tribunal forthwith.
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73dcde No.18076861
>>18076398
>refreshing text
As is yours anon. There is not much interaction on the board…just me and the tumbleweed.
>>18076398
>"can't wish death on nobody, cause they might just come back for you."
>
Yeah, karma is a bitch. >>18076398
>Religions divide anon, that's a fact, its just a label
They use everything to divide and will don the cloak of any religion in pursuit of their goals.
>>18076398
>, not judging….the people….just the situation….
Same.
Surely we progress? Lots of lies behind the 2nd WW; all of history is a lie. When the truth comes out people will #neverforget the lies or the liars. I've no hate, little fear but lots of anger from time to time for the complicity of my fellow man in all of this and few of them understand how.
The situation has to change. We can no longer have people judge us and incarcerate us that are bigger criminals than those they are jailing. Justice has to be restored.
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73dcde No.18077541
I really should have reviewed this stuff in real time.
1
Shame the link to the "US calls out Scotland over child slavery cases" story in the Times is not available. Here's one from the Scotsman
https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/scottish-prosecutors-angered-by-us-criticism-of-record-on-child-slavery-3794204
"A spokesman for the Scottish government said: “Any form of human trafficking or exploitation is completely unacceptable and it is vital Scotland continues to play its part in helping victims." Lady Smith @SCAI
appears to have done nothing re my Note for SCAI, dated 1 April 2019.
Yeah, seems Lady Smith took it as an April Fool's prank. 2023 now and still no public Acknowledgement of it……..or is the jailing of John Watt QC evidence of movement here? I don't know.
2.
Replies. Auld yin bang on the money again.
Replying to
@AdvocateHalley
and
@SCAI
@ScottishCAI
when will Lady Smith address the issues raised in John Halley's note? Why is it being avoided?
3.
Love the hat John. Not just any old hat?
4.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 6, 2022
Replying to @AdvocateHalley @BDevlin1 and 3 others
Here's a belter from 30.6.16:
"The first minister stands up at Holyrood and says ministers do not accept Prof Lamb's claims about the independence of the inquiry." Demonstrable lies. I was there, I have the documentation and I can, and will, prove it.
https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla
Takes you to the bbc story here….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-36713198
Timeline: Events leading to Susan O'Brien's resignation
5.
Replies to above are interesting.
as are the ones here prior to and leading to the tweet highlighted in 4. The origin of the tweet is in reply to a photo taken (supposedly by Sturgeon)…
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 6, 2022
Replying to
@janeymcd23
@BDevlin1
and
@spunsin
Wouldn’t even trust that @NicolaSturgeon
took the photo, without evidence, I’m afraid
Brian Devlin
@BDevlin1
·
Aug 6, 2022
Replying to
@AdvocateHalley
@janeymcd23
and 2 others
She didn’t claim she had
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 6, 2022
Replying to
@BDevlin1
@janeymcd23
and 2 others
You're right Brian. Apologies for loose language. The point remains however. Prevarication, concealing the truth and active lies are matters for which the FM has record.
All of that coming before this one..
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
Replying to
@AdvocateHalley
@BDevlin1
and 3 others
Here's a belter from 30.6.16:
"The first minister stands up at Holyrood and says ministers do not accept Prof Lamb's claims about the independence of the inquiry." Demonstrable lies. I was there, I have the documentation and I can, and will, prove it.
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73dcde No.18077710
>>18077541
>Takes you to the bbc story here….
>
>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-36713198
>
>Timeline: Events leading to Susan O'Brien's resignation
>
The resignation of Susan O'Brien QC as head of a panel examining historical child abuse in Scotland is the latest in a series of controversies. Here is a timeline of events which led to the departure of Ms O'Brien.
line
December 2014 - Abuse inquiry announced
Following a series of disclosures of abuse in childcare institutions in Scotland, the Scottish government announced that it would be setting up an inquiry to examine the details. Ministers said panel members and a chairman would be appointed in due course.
line
May 2015 - Susan O'Brien appointed
Leading QC Susan O'Brien was appointed to chair the inquiry, which will have statutory powers to compel witnesses to give evidence.
The new head said she would give full details of how the inquiry would operate once panel members had been appointed by the Scottish government.
She added at the time: "It would be helpful if all other interested parties made themselves known to the inquiry now, so that their views can also be taken into account."
line
01 October 2015 - Abuse inquiry formally set up
The inquiry formally begins its work to investigate allegations of child abuse at Scottish institutions.
line
22 February 2016 - Susan O'Brien QC makes comments
During a training session attended by 10 inquiry team members, she appeared to make light of the abuse suffered by an individual at a boarding school.
line
09 May 2016 - Scottish government informed of concerns
Psychologist Claire Fyvie, who attended training session, emails government to say that she has concerns about comments made by Ms O'Brien.
line
10 May 2016 - Susan O'Brien rejects criticism
The chair, other panel members and senior counsel to the inquiry, reject characterisation of Ms O'Brien as a "person whose attitudes, values and beliefs are incompatible with the post of chair of a public inquiry into child abuse".
line
16 May 2016 - Susan O'Brien asked to resign
The chair is asked to resign by Scottish government officials on the basis of the letter of complaint. She refuses.
line
20 May 2016 - Proceedings to remove Susan O'Brien begin
Susan O'Brien advised that Scottish ministers are "initiating proceedings" against her under reference section 12 of the Public Inquiries Act 2005.
line
25 May 2016 - Second panel member Michael Lamb supports Susan O'Brien
Prof Michael Lamb writes to John Swinney backing Susan O'Brien and says section 12 proceedings seem to be "predicated on the assumption that Scottish ministers, rather than the panel, should control the inquiry".
line
30 May 2016 - Third panel member Glenn Houston supports Susan O'Brien
John Swinney receives a letter from another panel member of the inquiry giving his support to Susan O'Brien. Mr Houston warns that there would be a "significant risk of loss of public trust and confidence in the integrity of the inquiry should the chair be removed from office".
line
31 May 2016 - John Swinney meets Lamb and Houston
Glenn Houston and Prof Michael Lamb meet with the deputy first minister. Prof Lamb warns that he will resign if Mr Swinney moves to dismiss Ms O'Brien.
line
22 June 2016 - Susan O'Brien meets John Swinney
Ms O'Brien insists that she does not underestimate the gravity of child abuse. The QC also states that the legal basis for the section 12 proceedings are "fundamentally flawed".
line
27 June 2016 - Prof Michael Lamb resigns
Prof Lamb writes to John Swinney resigning as one of three panel members in the child abuse inquiry, saying it is "doomed" by government interference.
line
30 June 2016 - Nicola Sturgeon rejects accusation of interference
The first minister stands up at Holyrood and says ministers do not accept Prof Lamb's claims about the independence of the inquiry.
line
4 July 2016 - Susan O'Brien QC resigns
The chairwoman of the inquiry writes to ministers tendering her resignation from the position with immediate effect.
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73dcde No.18077729
>>18077710
>senior counsel to the inquiry
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73dcde No.18077780
>>18077729
Coincidence? More than likely though I don't really believe in coincidence.
>>17806322
>Does Q have anything to say on Scotland or the Scottish Child abuse inquiry?
>
>Will revelations out of US trickle down to little Scotland where many Americans have strong ancestral ties, including DJT?
>
>Some of us poor anonymous Scottish fuckers feel like we are banging our heads off a brick wall at times.
>
>Any comment to make on the other 2 international arrest warrants for Scottish Judges including William Nimmo Smith who is currently in Argentina which has no extradition treaty with the UK? Or Al-Megrahi's lawyer currently in custody in relation to the same ring of child abusing Scottish Judges and Lord Hardie's involvement in the cover up (how many Lords are involved just in the child sexual abuse, never mind the medical experimentation on children in collusion with pharma) of all the child abuse or the inclusion of Lord Cullen's daughter on the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry?
>
>Lots and lots of related material here connected to the information posted by Q. I know many Scots follow the Q drops and could do with some hope here.
>
>John Watt QC who was jailed on August 8th 2022 for 10 years for child abuse convictions was arrested on an international arrest warrant in Oklahoma back sometime around September/October 2020 (forget the exact date). Feel free to put a link from any American newspaper who reported on the arrest here. Would like to see how the US press reported on the arrest. Thanks.
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83783d No.18089714
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d3058c No.18090045
>>18089714
Wtf is wrong w catalog
Sheesh
Retarded this shit cant be fuxed for good
Made in China type shit Jim
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73dcde No.18106357
>>18077541
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley
1.
AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
·
Aug 6, 2022
Replying to @AdvocateHalley @BBCandrewpicken and @STVNews
Prof Lamb is a respected academic. The public should know the truth. Having followed the Australia Royal Commission and the Scottish Inquiry. Scottish Inquiry is political and corrupted in my view. Only politically weak get investigated. The Crown Office should be investigated.
John responded to the above tweet. The guy is absolutely correct, the Crown Office should be investigated. The whole system needs investigated. The public don't know the truth because everything is covered up from above. The chair of the SCAI tried to cover it up using her position on a supposedly "public" inquiry to block John's pursuit of justice for his sacking from the inquiry. Government secrecy is for covering up corruption. Since when did an employee get to withhold information from the employer?You're the employer, don't take this pish
Halley replied..
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 7, 2022
Prof Lamb was the only world authority figure ever associated with @scai
. Yet @NicolaSturgeon
simply swept away his concerns in a blatant pack of lies to parliament. Ask her civil servants,Donald Henderson, Andrea Summers and Julie-Anne Jamieson. Liars, one and all.
4 liars in total including Sturgeon…all of them blackening the name of Prof Lamb who John describes as "the only world authority figure ever associated with @scai"
He is later in the short thread corrected by his new auld pal from Austrailia who gives him the correct twitter handle for the SCAI which is, should anyone want to voice an opinion on their progress is …… .@ScottishCAI as the correct tag.
Times article on Lord Hardie…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-chief-prosecutor-lord-hardie-should-have-told-police-about-sex-abuse-mz0590j2f
Ex-chief prosecutor Lord Hardie ‘should have told police about sex abuse’
A former head of Scotland’s prosecution service who went on to become a judge has been lambasted for not speaking to the police when he learnt that a colleague had molested the two daughters of another advocate.
The girls’ mother said Lord Hardie, previously Andrew Hardie QC, should have called the police when her former husband told him John Watt had sexually abused both his daughters while they were in bed. Hardie was leader, or dean, of the Faculty of Advocates from 1994 to 1997, before becoming lord advocate in Tony Blair’s Labour government in 1997, responsible for all prosecutions in Scotland.
…
2
Lord Hardie Times article..
3
Lord Hardie times article part 2
I note from the text John wrote to accompany the link to the times story and what else is still to unfold.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 7, 2022
And much, much more…
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73dcde No.18106525
>>18106357
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley
1
2nd Link to previously posted Times article with the following link..
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/401185/cops-quiz-fraudster-who-forged-former-lord-advocate-andrew-hardies-signature-to-buy-a-car-20-years-ago/
MYSTERY PROBE Cops again quiz fraudster who forged former Lord Advocate Andrew Hardie’s signature to buy a car 20 years ago
Jamie Coltart questioned two decades after twice using the lawman's chequebook to pay £325 for the motor
BY DOUGLAS WALKER
8 Jan 2017
COPS have again quizzed a fraudster who forged a top judge’s signature to buy a car 20 years ago.
Jamie Coltart was questioned by detectives as part of a mystery probe two decades after twice using former Lord Advocate Andrew Hardie’s chequebook to pay £325 for the motor.
A police source said yesterday: “Numerous interviews have been conducted at various police stations including Linlithgow.
They added: “It’s all part of an ongoing inquiry.”
Coltart was 16 and living in a children’s home at the time of the fraud in May 1996.
He used the cheques to buy a car from James Hawthorn in North Berwick, East Lothian.
The crime came to light when cops in England needed to trace the motor’s owner and discovered dodgy cheques had bought it.
A court heard Lord Hardie — then Dean of the Faculty of Advocates — had never met Coltart or knew who he was.
He also said he hadn’t realised his cheques or card were missing.
Coltart claimed he got them from a mystery pal and denied faking the signature twice.
He changed his plea to guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in February 1997. But the fraudster dodged being jailed or fined by Sheriff Andrew Bell.
The Crown also accepted his denial to using Lord Hardie’s Visa card to buy £200 worth of goods from petrol stations.
Coltart’s lawyer Alex Lafferty said in court: “He is remorseful.”
Lord Hardie was due to be called as a witness but was not needed. He later said: “I understand it’s a guilty plea. I have no further comment.”
Lord Hardie, 70, was Scotland’s top law officer from 1997 to 2000.
The life peer from Edinburgh — known as Baron Hardie of Blackford — has been married to Catherine for 45 years. The couple have three children.
Police last night refused to discuss the current inquiry. They said: “This is not something we will be commenting on.”
Both Lord Hardie and Coltart declined to comment.
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73dcde No.18107149
>>18106525
1.
1st screenshot from above post with following tweet…
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 7, 2022
Look at this. @Unite4_change
is clearly saying that covering up of child sexual abuse allegations, and associated corruption, is ok by SG and Scottish institutions because its on a smaller scale that at Westminster. Unacceptable. Corrupt4_change.
2
Full exchange with @Unite4_change
In retort to this narcissistic prick who clearly feels he has a "more educated and … more developed political consciousness." he replies…
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
Replying to
@Unite4_change
and
@SCAI
Bullshit. There would be less corruption is those at the top were required to be less corrupt.
Yes John, but if you extrapolate on that thought … wouldn't there be "less corruption" if there wasmore punishment?
Think of how many people these miserable cunts have sentenced over their life times? Could some of them be overturned now? I don't know, but would assume a good possibility.
3
I'd have loved to have read the Times article referred to at the top, unfortunately it is not obtainable now.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
The First Minister @NicolaSturgeon
told lies to the Scottish Parliament.
Nicola Sturgeon seems to lie every time she opens her mouth John.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
Why would SG want to undermine an independent child abuse inquiry? Well, recent news stories might provide some explanation of the apparent desire to cover up. Shame on the Scottish Government.
Yes they do.There must be plenty of them with things to hide. The whole system is a festering sore.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
Many, many questions to be asked about this. The Lord President of the Court of Session, the Lord Advocate (x2, Wolffe, QC, and Bain, QC), and the Dean of Faculty (x2, Jackson, QC, and Dunlop, QC), have had my Note for SCAI dated 1 April 2019, for in excess of three years each.*(see 4 for full thread)
4
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1556374159806144519
*
Yes it seems the dam is breaking with regard to Hardie.
The stories about Hardy are hitting the headlines the week in between the guilty verdict of John Watt QC and his sentencing to 10 years 2 weeks later on just this very day August 8th 2022.
I had posted the story of John Watt several times on earlier boards and as soon as it went up the boards filled up with shite/spam. I posted it on the Scottish midnight riders board after a couple of failures…eventually got them on later board.
5
In reply to his earlier tweet …
Scotland's First Minister @nicolasturgeon
lied to the Scottish Parliament.She knew that Scottish Government civil servants Donald Henderson, Julie-Anne Jamieson and Andrea Summers had been undermining the SCAI:
with the following link…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36650261
Panel member quits 'doomed' Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry
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73dcde No.18116908
>>18039348
>>18039360
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-child-abuse-inquiry-warned-28721801
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry warned Scotland may have a 'problem' similar to the scale of Rotherham scandal
Exclusive: A detailed legal note to the inquiry explains that exploitation of young people in care in Scotland could be similar to what happened to the Rotherham scandal and the inquiry should try to find Scottish survivors.
News
ByJohn Glover
8 JAN 2023
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has been warned Scotland could hide similar "problems" to the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. It heard it would be "delusional" to think it did not "occur in Scotland" with the scale being unknown.
The comments were made by advocate and part-time sheriff John Halley, whho was appointed as a lead junior counsel to the public inquiry in 2015 by "Ministerial determination". He says his remit included the investigation of "child trafficking through prostitution of children in care in Scotland".
Mr Halley then battled cancer for several years before handing a detailed legal "note" to chair Lady Smith on April 1, 2019.
The Scottish Daily Express has seen his bombshell document, which we revealed earlier claimed the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry had 'ignored' evidence of an establishment paedophile ring operating in the 1990s.
In the note, Mr Halley calls on the inquiry to use its resources to call for a report into the scale of child trafficking by prostitution in Scotland as there has been "virtually no work done" that he was aware of to gather and assess meaningful data in relation to prostitution, or trafficking, of girls and young women in care in Scotland.
He added that the Rotherham experience "ought to inform that the problem is likely to be much more prevalent for girls in care than for boys".
He adds that a survivor claims she has details of Scottish cases of child trafficking by prostitution and ends the section stating that the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry "should be anxious to investigate".
The note says: "Sexual exploitation, through prostitution and child trafficking, of children and young people in care (up to age 18) is an issue that is self-evidently at the very most serious and worrying end of the spectrum of child abuse that this Inquiry ought to be dealing with, insofar as relevant to the Terms of Reference."
A children's safeguarding review in 1997 by Roger Kent voiced "great concerns" on the issue and estimated at the time there were about 10,000 young people being cared for away from home in Scotland with 5,000 thought to be accommodated at boarding schools, 2,500 in foster care and 2,500 in residential care.
The report notes that young people in care were able to get a Saturday job or do paper rounds noting that if they needed more money to cover a drug habit or to finance themselves when they ran away, "prostitution may appear superficially to be an easy option."
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham from 1997 - 2013 stated that there "has been relatively low reporting of sexual exploitation of young males, with the exception of the police operation and a criminal conviction in 2007 of an offender who abused over 80 boys and young men".
"Over the years, this was identified at inter-agency meetings and in child sexual exploitation plans as an issue that required attention in Rotherham. That continues to be the case today," it added.
Mr Halley analysed a 1993 report written by Lord Nimmo Smith that looked into the Planet investigation and the events that followed called 'Allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice'.
He wrote in the note: "It is delusional to think that such problems do not occur in Scotland. The Nimmo Smith Report, among other materials, informs that such problems do occur in Scotland. The numbers and even the scale of the problems might be different.
"The Nimmo Smith Report was commissioned for purposes other than to identify children and young people in the care system who were at risk… A similar operation has not been embarked upon, for any purposes, in relation to girls. Yet the Rotherham experience ought to inform that the problem is likely to be much more prevalent for girls in care than for boys.
"There are likely to be cases of exploitation of young people and children in care who will not themselves make applications to the SCAI.
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73dcde No.18116918
>>18116908
continued…..
"That is known from other inquiries such as that carried out in relation to the exploitation of children in Rotherham. Manifestly, that does not relieve the SCAI of the duty and responsibility to fearlessly and thoroughly search for and investigate these cases."
A survivor in care "asserts that she has details of Scottish cases of child trafficking by prostitution" in relation to women.
In 2014, Police Scotland launched a probe similar to the one in Rotherham investigating the sexual exploitation of vulnerable children in Scotland by men from ethnic minorities.
The advocate adds that "little research" has been done in Scotland into the involvement of children in care in prostitution, although some English studies have recently shown under-16s of both sexes going out from residential care units to work as prostitutes.
However, he notes the Scottish Government-funded research facility Centre for Excellence for Children's Care (CELCIS) at Strathclyde University could be asked by the SCAI to carry out the research to help with the inquiry or other academics.
Mr Halley claims the research appears to have "largely ignored" or "not followed up" adding that "the problem of trafficking of children in the care system through prostitution appears to have been ignored, as a genus of child abuse in Scotland which is worthy of thorough investigation, by the SCAI to date."
He adds: "The issue is never tackled head-on, as far as I have seen thus far, in a subsequent report or series of reports leading to the establishment of the present Inquiry. This is surprising given the acute nature of the subject within the context of any consideration of the care system or child abuse in general."
He concluded: "The detail set out above provides analysis and examples which point to a number of very grave problems in relation to the policy and practice of the courts, COPFS, social work services, the police, the Faculty of Advocates and every other part of the systems which ought to have been configured to protect children in care who have been trafficked through involvement in prostitution.
"The cases detailed above are mere examples of cases in which multiple failures by state and non-state institutions (including the courts) to protect children in care in Scotland can be seen. There are likely to be many, many more."
A spokesperson for the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry said: “The Inquiry is engaged in extensive investigations which are ongoing. All information we become aware of, related to the abuse of children in care, is considered as part of the work of the Inquiry."
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73dcde No.18126150
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/popular-glasgow-mcdonalds-targeted-afghan-28909930
Popular Glasgow McDonald's targeted by Afghan men looking to exploit children, ex-cop claims
Exclusive: Police officers were asked to compile data of missing people who turned up with new items or with older men as part of the operation while looking out for any reference to the McDonald's in the Four Corners.
A popular Glasgow McDonald's was targeted by Afghan men looking to groom children, an ex-cop has claimed.
The former Police Scotland officer alleges that bobbies were told to "watch out for any reference" to the Jamaica Street McDonald's at the famous Four Corners as "intelligence from elsewhere" indicated that "males from Afghanistan" were "using it as a base" to exploit children in care.
The former cop told the Scottish Daily Express that they were based "primarily outside" and when it started to rain they would move to the Hielanman's Umbrella under Glasgow Central railway station. It is thought they would approach vulnerable-looking children with an aim of exploiting them.
The former officer was part of Operation Dash, a broader attempt to root out child sexual exploitation across the Strathclyde police area working in partnership with charity Barnardo's Scotland to gather intelligence.
Police have carried out two investigations into grooming gangs in and around Scotland's largest city, Operation Cotswold and Operation Dash.
Operation Cotswold was set up in 2011 and focused on a group of Middle Eastern asylum seekers in the north of the city. At least 26 potential victims were identified and files were sent to the procurator fiscal.
Police Scotland ended Operation Dash almost two years after it started with 27 offenders reported to the procurator fiscal. One culprit, 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker Javaid Akhond, was jailed for six years for preying on young girls.
The officer was part of the team providing research for CID to investigate concentrating on children in care, which lasted about three or four months.
He told the Scottish Daily Express: "We concentrated on children in care. Each division had cops checking files for evidence of grooming, such as missing person reports which mentioned the missing person had returned home with new clothes, or other gifts, or any disclosures of being with older men, or being dropped off by older men.
"We found a report that mentioned a girl who had been in care, had invited some other girls from a Paisley care home to a party in Clydebank, where there were older men.
"There was no more detail than that, so we passed it on for further enquiry to the DCs who were part of the next phase, which was to make further enquiry into what we found. I did not find out what the result was.
"I also remember being told to watch out for any reference to the McDonald's in Glasgow at the junction of Argyle Street and Jamaica Street, as there was intelligence from elsewhere that males from Afghanistan were using it as a base.
"We did not find anything specific about that. The problem we ran into, was the lack of detail in the reports, which may just say 'traced in city centre', but did not say where or what the missing person was doing, or who she was with."
The information was then passed over to the CID team based out of the Baird Street police office and fed from a machine. The division would never hear back as it was "typical of CID operations". He added: "Any uniform cops brought in to assist were kept out of the loop as much as possible."
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73dcde No.18126157
>>18126150
Continued………
In 2020, it was reported that Police Scotland took down a large gang of asylum seekers from the Kurdish, Afghani, Egyptian, Moroccan, Turkish, Pakistani and Iraqi communities.
The gang was reported to have preyed on the young girls and had at least 44 victims, including six youngsters who were all known to each other.
Officers identified 55 suspected members of the group with 46 positively identified and one victim believed to have been abused by 28 men with another linked to 23
Police have said that 19 members were reported to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal, but it's unknown how many were convicted
Glasgow city centre - including the main entrance to Central Station along with sections of Hope Street, Union Street and St Vincent Street - has topped the list of the worst neighbourhoods for crime in Scotland.
The third-placed area is just to the south including the 'Four Corners', the Hielanman's Umbrella and parts of the Broomielaw.
Campaigner and survivor of historical abuse Dave Sharpe said: "I've met young rent boys and prostitutes in Edinburgh and Glasgow. I met a guy in Glasgow city mission in 2018 and he was fearful for his life as he was a survivor of abuse and I met the police who confirmed what I was saying.
"These were all kids who were in care. Nothing has changed and nothing is being done because no one cares and too many people are exploiting our children. I have spoken to police officers who have told me they know when they arrest young boys and girls they are throwing them into the wolves cage in these care homes and young offenders institutions where they will continue to be abused until they take their own life.
"The most shocking thing was the young kids aged 16, 17, 18, 19 who were in care and had just run away and no one came looking for them. Almost all of these kids were being sexually abused in care and when they left the abusers just found them and carried on abusing them. What really hurt me the most was that many of these kids were in trouble with the police.
"Many were on bail and knew that if they got in trouble again they were guaranteed to go to prison or a young offenders institution. The abusers knew this and they would just pass these kids around each other. Many many thousands of these kids are the people who fled to London. Nothing has changed in decades.
"I was kicked out of the home in April 1976 and within weeks I was on the streets of London and I stayed there for years and there was never a time when there weren't hundreds of Scottish children who very quickly pimped out. I still have nightmares about lots of my friends getting taken away in big flash jags and I never saw them again. I have lived with that nightmare my whole life."
Police Scotland have been approached for comment.
ByJohn Glover
10 JAN 2023
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73dcde No.18127006
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/23239857.msps-get-pay-rise-april-confirmed/
MSPs to get a pay rise in April it has been confirmed
10th January
MSPs are to get a pay rise, it has been confirmed.
The increase of 1.5% in April will give MSPs an extra £1000 a year, taking their annual salaries to £67,661.
Ministerial salaries will also increase by 1.5%.
READ MORE: Glasgow primary schools shut amid teacher strike
For a number of years, Scottish Government Ministers have declined to accept pay increases.
Currently, cabinet secretaries are paid extra on top of their MSP pay.
Nicola Sturgeon, The First Minister is paid £96,567 on top of her MSP salary taking the total to £163,229.
If she takes the increase it would take her pay to £165,676.
Cabinet Secretaries are paid £50,097 on top of the MSP salary taking their total to £116,759.
If they accept the rise they will earn £118,510.
Holyrood annually increases MSP pay in accordance with the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) for the average of full-time public sector workers in Scotland.
The Scottish Parliament said this means MSPs don’t vote on their pay rate, and the increase they receive reflects public sector pay rises in Scotland.
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08e7cb No.18128441
Thanks to General Research #22224 >>1818127831
Satanic child abuse ring shut victims in oven, forced them to kill animals and filmed themselves gang raping them, court hears
A total of 11 people have been accused of being members of a paedophile ring
The group is alleged to have abused children in Glasgow over course of 10 years
It is claimed members of the group raped and abused three young children
Glasgow High Court heard the children were forced to take part in witchcraft too
By Matthew Lodge For Mailonline
Published: 14:30 EST, 6 January 2023 | Updated: 14:30 EST, 6 January 2023
A satanic child abuse ring tortured children by putting them in an oven, forcing them to kill animals and gang raping them, a court has heard.
Seven men and four women are accused of abusing three young children over the course of 10 years in Glasgow which saw them attempt to 'call on spirits and demons'.
Two girls - one of whom was allegedly shut in a microwave, fridge, oven and freezer in an attempted to kill her - and one boy were forced to kill animals as well as being sexually abused by the group, it is claimed.
Members of the group have been charged with 43 offences with among the most serious being attempted murder and rape of young children.
Iain Owens, 44, Elaine Lannery, 38, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan, 40, Marianne Gallagher, 38, Scott Forbes, 49, Barry Watson, 46, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 45, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, all deny the offences.
Four other people alleged to have been involved in the ring - Maureen Goudie, Steven McHendrie, Robert Brown, James McLean and Douglas Gachagan - have since died, according to court papers.
The High Court in Glasgow was told on Friday that the offences took place between January 2010 and March 2020 at a number of addresses in the city.
The group are alleged to have run a wheelchair over the legs of one of the girls, as well as putting a plastic bag over her head.
It's claimed she was made to eat cat food, as well as take drugs and alcohol, with the other girl also made to eat pet food.
The second girl was allegedly chased by an adult wearing a devil mask and hung by her jumper from a nail on the wall.
This culminated with her being pushed into and trapped inside a microwave, an oven, a fridge freezer and various cupboards, the court heard.
It is claimed one of the girls was threatened with being sent to Turkey with a male stranger, while the boy was put in a bath which they said was filled with blood.
The boy and older girl are alleged to have been made to take part in 'seances (and) use a Ouija board…to call on spirits and demons'.
The children were also involved in 'witchcraft' leading them to believe that they themselves had 'metamorphosed into animals'.
The 11 are further said to have worn cloaks and devil horns as well making the young boy stab a budgie to death.
The group are also accused of killing a number of dogs including getting the children to attack the animals.
It is claimed that all three children were raped and sexually assaulted by members of the ring, with some cheering and clapping while recording the offences.
Prosecutors allege that some members of the group paid for 'sexual services' from three of the children.
The court heard that when the older girl called the police she was threatened by members of the group and had her call disconnected.
More"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11607643/Satanic-child-abuse-ring-shut-victims-oven-filmed-gang-raping-court-hears.html
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73dcde No.18133173
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/hundreds-scots-demand-nicola-sturgeon-28938421
Hundreds of Scots demand Nicola Sturgeon resign in protest outside Holyrood
The event, led by the Glasgow Cabbie, attracted at least 500 people as they demanded the First Minister resign and campaigned against the gender reform bill.
David Walker
12 JAN 2023
Hundreds of angry Scots made their point in a protest outside Holyrood on Thursday as they demanded that Nicola Sturgeon resign over a number of failings.
Organised by the Glasgow Cabbie, a well-known taxi driver in Scotland, two bus loads of protestors came in from Scotland's biggest city to make their feelings known.
They held up a number of placards, mostly in protest at the controversial gender reform recognition act which was passed by MSPs at the end of last year.
At least 500 people were in attendance as they drowned out a counter karaoke protest which was held by trans allies and activists to show their displeasure at the event.
The campaigning was named "Leave our women and kids alone" as it targeted both the gender reform act, and the sex surveys for kids which have been criticised due to asking leading questions about sexual activities in schools.
Stef Shaw, the Glasgow Cabbie, introduced a number of speakers who all talked about their distrust of the current Holyrood government amid a call for action.
He said: "We've had absolutely amazing support today for our campaign. I can't believe the amount of people here, you are here in your colours, suffragettes, union jacks, saltires, your posters and placards and everything else that you have brought.
"We are representing decent people of Scotland who want to crush the GRA which is appalling. This is a highly dangerous bill to both women and children. We are here to show our voice against the bill. We want the UK Government to use their powers to quash it.
"I am loving all these signs I see, the taxi for Sturgeon one, resign Sturgeon, yes please."
Other groups were also represented at the protest, including the Scottish Family Party, the Alba Party, the Women Won't Wheest movement and some Unionist Clubs of Scotland.
The Scotland Matters group also toured their van around the event as they protested against Ms Sturgeon and the SNP over their failures in Scottish Government.
Unionist protestor Niall Fraser was one of the speakers at the event as he pointed out the amount of failings the SNP have presided over, including the chaos which has engulfed the NHS in Scotland.
He said: "People are suffering deeply. A few days ago Sturgeon held a press conference because our NHS is dying right before our eyes. She doesn't care, our fellow Scots are dying needlessly due to the inaction of the people in that building {Holyrood}.
"Instead of Humza Yousaf taking responsibility, he chose to weigh up the bodies of our dead Scots and compare that to the rest of the UK."
The demonstration was peaceful with no violence or disturbances as the police watched on. There was a wall of noise coming from the protestors as they whistled, cheered and made noises with their pots and pans.
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73dcde No.18138389
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/anger-eu-project-sees-police-28841534
Anger as EU project sees Police Scotland rebrand paedophiles as 'Minor-Attracted People'
The term – described as 'deeply disturbing' and 'baloney' – was included in the Chief Constable's year-end report as part of an EU project to tackle child abuse and exploitation
Mary Wright
George Mair
30 DEC 2022
A controversial move to label paedophiles as "Minor-Attracted People" in a top-level report has been defended by Police Scotland, with the force suggesting the EU was to blame.
Chief Constable Iain Livingstone's annual year end report refers to child abusers as Minor-Attracted People (MAPs). The move comes amid wider concerns by campaigners over what they see as attempts to rebrand paedophilia as a harmless sexual preference.
A spokesman for the force stressed that MAPs is not a term they routinely use to describe child abusers and said that its use in the report had to be understood in context.
READ MORE: UN official called out for describing trans woman's harassment of a Scottish MP as 'epic'
He explained that the reference to MAPs was in relation to the force's engagement with the European Union's Horizon Europe Project – Prevention of Child Sexual Exploitation.
The report states: "The project's main agenda is to develop understanding and approach to avoid the victimisation of children by engaging Minor-Attracted People (MAPs) and providing them with the necessary support, treatment and guidance to help prevent criminal activities."
A police spokesman said: "Police Scotland does not use the term Minor-Attracted Person. The reference in the Chief Constable's Assessment of Policing Performance 2021/22 was in the context of Police Scotland's engagement with the Horizon Project EU consortium to tackle Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation.
"The term was used in the commissioning documents for the consortium and is more commonly used on the continent. In September, Police Scotland representatives successfully lobbied for the MAP term not to be used by the consortium."
The term MAP is contentious because child abusers are trying to escape the stigma attached to paedophilia and maintain they should be regarded as a niche group alongside the LGBT community.
Kenny McAskill, the Alba Party MP for East Lothian and former SNP Justice Secretary, said any use of euphemisms in relation to child sex abusers was "baloney".
He said: "Spouting these euphemisms simply masks the reality and their danger.
"I very much welcome the common sense approach from Police Scotland, though even in commissioning documents these euphemisms should be avoided as they mask the reality and hide the horror. The term in whatever context is baloney."
'Most Scots will find this deeply disturbing and wrong'
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73dcde No.18138395
>>18138389
continued……
Maggie Mellon, an independent social work consultant, said the term MAP risked "the danger of normalising and therefore perhaps decriminalising a serious offence".
She added: "There should be diagnostic and treatment options for those who present a risk to children but the police are not a therapeutic service - they should be devoting their resources to closing down porn sites that feature children and abuse of women and upping their detection and conviction rates for those promoting child abuse."
A Scottish Conservative spokesman said: "Most Scots will find any attempt to soften the language around paedophilia in official guidance to be deeply disturbing and wrong.
"Offences relating to paedophilia are among the most appalling and unforgivable crimes anyone can commit and it's essential that Police Scotland guidance reflects this."
The MAPs propaganda drive has been compared to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) campaign in the 1970s and 80s which piggy-backed on the gay liberation movement to push for pro-child abuse policies, such as lowering the age of consent to just four.
Single force blasted for 'Orwellian' rape policy
Police Scotland has already come under fire in the past year for saying they would record rapes by offenders with a penis as being committed by a woman if the attacker "identifies as female".
Campaigners said this would warp rape statistics and threaten women’s safety by understating the threat of male violence amid fears that the controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill - which was passed two days before Christmas - would compromise the safety of women-only spaces such as changing rooms and toilets.
Author and campaigner JK Rowling was among those mocking the force, suggesting the move was "Orwellian" with her reference to George Orwell’s totalitarian novel 1984: "War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman."
The force defended the policy claiming concerns were "hypothetical" because the circumstances had never arisen.
Detective Superintendent Fil Capaldi said at the time: "The sex/ gender identification of individuals who come into contact with the police will be based on how they present or how they self-declare, which is consistent with the values of the organisation.
"Police Scotland requires no evidence or certification as proof of biological sex or gender identity other than a person's self-declaration, unless it is pertinent to any investigation with which they are linked."
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73dcde No.18144954
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. https://youtu.be/iibOmmLaDVo
GLASGOW CABBIE GATHERING OUTSIDE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, January 12th 2023
TRUTH BRIGADE
213 views 14 Jan 2023
Glasgow Cabbie , a social media commentator & campaigner held a gathering outside the Scottish Parliament in opposition to the Scottish Governments' controversial School Sex Surveys, Gender Recognition Act & the promotion of deviant sexual practices to schoolchildren as young as 5 years old.
Despite typical Edinburgh weather, a raucous crowd let their feelings be known causing, according to the Daily Express, a suspension of proceedings within Holyrood!
Glasgow Cabbie on Twitter : @GlasgowCabbie1
Glasgow Cabbie on Facebook :
https://en-gb.facebook.com/glasgowcab…
Truth Brigade on Odysee:
https://odysee.com/@truthbrigade:6
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08e7cb No.18157077
Canada #39 >>18155791
Scotland’s Plan To Implement 20-Minute Neighbourhoods Nationwide
The Expose / Rhoda Wilson via Dylan Eleven Truth11.com 16 January 2023
New measures proposed by the Scottish government in a recent document outline a war on carbon and a war on cars. It includes a plan to implement restrictive 20-minute neighbourhoods so that the Government can deliver on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Environmentalists have had it in for cars for years, wrote Spiked Online last year, we all know they’d like to ban cars altogether. In the age of “net zero,” the car is public enemy No1. And so, we’ve had a long line of proposals to make driving more expensive and difficult.
For example, in April 2022, Stefanie O’Gorman, who sits on the Scottish government’s Climate Emergency Response Group, said that the construction of houses with double garages drove her “bonkers.” She told the Edinburgh Science Festival that owning two cars ignores “the social and cultural changes taking place as we adapt our lives to live more sustainably… we can’t afford for everybody to have two cars.”
In November 2022, the Scottish government published a revised draft of their ‘National Planning Framework 4’ which dramatically begins: “The global climate emergency means that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the future impacts of climate change.”
A few paragraphs later it states, “We have already taken significant steps towards decarbonising energy and land use, but choices need to be made about how we can make sustainable use of our natural assets in a way which benefits communities.”
Don’t be fooled by the fluffy language. The Scottish government’s efforts are not an attempt to “benefit communities.” As the draft itself states, the Scottish government is planning “future places” on six principles that “will play a key role in delivering on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
Whom do the SDGs benefit? To demonstrate who benefits we’ll use the example of SDG7 on which we have recently published two articles, see below, and in a nutshell: SDG7 has the goal to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.” We are told that the whole point of “sustainable development” is to mitigate the problems that will supposedly be caused by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. This fairy tale has left most people labouring under the illusion that SDG7 energy transition, and the variations on the associated “net zero” policy commitment, will reduce CO2 emissions. That assumption is wrong. The reality is the UN’s “sustainable” goal for renewable energy is sheer fantasy, if not utter madness and is a scam to enable the rich to become richer off the backs of the poor.
One of the Scottish government’s six principles to deliver on the UN’s goals in its National Planning Framework is “local living”:
Local living. We will support local liveability and improve community health and well-being by ensuring people can easily access services, greenspace, learning, work and leisure locally.
To understand what is meant by “locally” and how they plan to achieve “locally,” we need to read further into the draft, wade through more gibberish and follow the word trail.
The “national spatial strategy,” the draft says, will support the planning and delivery of “sustainable places,” “liveable places” and “productive places.” According to the Scottish government, a “sustainable place” includes:
Scotland’s Climate Change Plan, backed by legislation, has set our approach to achieving net zero emissions by 2045, and we must make significant progress towards this by 2030 including by reducing car kilometres travelled by 20% by reducing the need to travel and promoting more sustainable transport.
More:
https://www.truth11.com/untitled-778/
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73dcde No.18174010
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NHS SHAME: They showed no remorse
Mercurius
6.19K subscribers
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*Her own £850m NHS Improvement Plan failed
*75% of her own "legally binding" NHS targets missed
*4k less beds than when @theSNP took power
*Shortage of doctors & nurses 10 yrs after she cut training places by 20%
If @HumzaYousaf isn't at fault then @nicolasturgeon certainly is
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73dcde No.18181643
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11656145/Nicola-Sturgeons-SNP-plans-ask-children-male-female-transgender-survey.html
Now Nicola Sturgeon's SNP plans to ask SEVEN-year-olds if they are 'male, female, non-binary, transgender or other' in school survey branded 'disgraceful' and 'indoctrination'
A school survey in Scotland will ask seven-year-olds about their gender identity
SNP and Lib Dem-run Aberdeen City Council organised the survey for 59 schools
The gender options are: 'Male, Female, Non-binary, Transgender or Other'
By Michael Blackley For The Scottish Daily Mail
20 January 2023
Pupils as young as seven are being asked if they identify as transgender or non-binary in a 'disgraceful' school survey.
Primary school children taking part in the sex and wellbeing study are told an answer to the question is 'required' to move on to the next page of the survey.
The pupils – who can select either 'male, female, non-binary, transgender or other' – are not required to have a parent present.
Furious parents last night hit out at the 'indoctrination' of young children who do not know 'if they want chicken nuggets or fish fingers for dinner'.
It comes days after Green MSP Maggie Chapman opened the door to children as young as eight being able to change gender.
The survey has been introduced by Aberdeen City Council – led by an SNP and Liberal Democrat coalition – to its 59 schools.
Douglas Lumsden, Tory MSP for North East Scotland and a former co-leader of Aberdeen City Council, said: 'It is disgraceful that the council are forcing children as young as seven to answer questions about their gender.
'We have heard from Maggie Chapman just this week that she would like children as young as eight to be able to change gender.
'These snooping questions from the council seem to be following the same agenda.'
The survey tells pupils it will ask questions about physical wellbeing 'and a small section on your relationships with others and the choices that you make'. It is the first local authority known to be asking the gender question of its P4 children.
The Scottish Government introduced a 'health and wellbeing' survey which has provoked outrage among many parents.
It has been branded 'creepy' and 'intrusive' following concerns about questions that senior pupils in secondary schools were asked.
Under the Government guidance, all pupils from P5 to S6 will be quizzed about issues including school, health, wellbeing, physical activity, sleep patterns, social media, body image and bullying in a 20 to 40-minute online survey to be completed in class.
Those in S2 and above will also be questioned about alcohol and tobacco, while pupils in S4 and above will be asked questions about relationships and sexual health.
These questions have caused controversy because they ask about experience of specific sexual acts.
n the Aberdeen survey, primary school pupils aged from seven to nine are being asked about their gender
Jo Bisset, organiser for the UFTScotland parents' group, said: 'What we are seeing is a huge growth in gender dysphoria among young people. It can look like it is being encouraged and I think the fact that schools transition children without their parents' knowledge is something our members find very disturbing.
'Outside of incredibly exceptional circumstances, parents are the right people to speak to children about these things. This idea that virtual strangers should be enabling transition is very worrying.
'It could easily be the case that parents have no idea about any of these issues and it is hidden from them.
'A seven to nine-year-old child doesn't know if they want chicken nuggets or fish fingers for dinner, and that is how it should be. They shouldn't be worrying about this sort of thing.
'It is indoctrination by adults looking to pursue their own ideology and impress it on children.'
…
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08e7cb No.18196357
Trying to go fast, have several breads to clean up, please forgive if I accidently deleted something important, re-post if able
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08e7cb No.18201112
'''Australia #27 >>18201073
AFP supports Northern Ireland Police investigation into institutional abuse
22 January 2023
The AFP is supporting the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s effort to locate women and children affected by institutional abuse between 1922 and 1990 as the search widens to Australia.
The Police Service launched an investigation in 2021 into allegations of abuse within Mother and Baby Institutions, Work Houses and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland and believes victims and witnesses may now live in Australia.
They are appealing for mothers who gave birth in, or anyone who was adopted from institutions in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1990 to come forward.
These institutions housed many, including pregnant women and girls from 1922 to 1990 in Northern Ireland, who often felt coerced into giving up their child.
Thousands of people are said to have lived in, worked in, or visited these institutions over a 68-year period.
Officers in the dedicated investigation team have now received 88 reports; many of which include allegations of inconsistencies with birth records from those who were adopted from Northern Irish institutions and now live overseas.
Enquires to date suggest that there could be more victims and witnesses out there, with many moving or being adopted to countries overseas like Australia.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland are renewing their appeal and encouraging more people to come forward to report to police and have their voice heard.
They are appealing to anyone currently residing in Australia, mothers who gave birth in one of these institutions in Northern Ireland, was adopted from, visited, or worked there to come forward and report to them. Any information could be helpful.
Detective Superintendent Gary Reid, who is the operational lead for the investigation said:
“As the investigation continues into the Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Work Houses in Northern Ireland, we are becoming increasingly aware that the people impacted by these institutions do not just reside in Northern Ireland but could now reside all over the world as far as Australia,” he said.
“We don’t want anyone to feel they have to suffer in silence anymore and we will continue to do all we can to reach as many people with this message as possible.
“We would like to reinforce that this investigation is very much ongoing in Northern Ireland. If you believe you were the victim of abuse or other forms of criminality in any of these Northern Irish institutions, or know somebody who was, or if you witnessed anything suspicious, please contact us, we want to hear from you.
"We care about what you have to say, will listen and support you, and will act to keep you and others safe."
A dedicated reporting system is in place to make it easier for people to report.
If you are a resident of Australia and wish to contact the dedicated Mother and Baby Institutions, Work Houses and Magdalene Laundries Investigative Team in Northern Ireland, you can do so via the following options:
Email: MotherBabyHomes.Magdalenelaundries@psni.police.uk
Direct line (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm GMT): 0011 4428 9090 1728
https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/afp-supports-northern-ireland-police-investigation-institutional-abuse
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73dcde No.18201933
>>18181643
>>18196357
Thanks for deleting all the shite.
>>18181643
…continued…
A spokesman for Aberdeen City Council said: 'All children in P5-S6 were given the opportunity to participate in a physical wellbeing survey. Like all other surveys, young people have the option to opt out of this process before or during the activity.
'All questions were very carefully considered and through thorough review were deemed appropriate. These questions [have] been developed by a team of education support officers and reviewed by pupils, staff and parents prior to use last year. The questions within the survey are linked carefully to the health and wellbeing curriculum that is covered from P4 (2nd Level).
'The survey itself has very few identifiers, however it does include age and gender to help us identify appropriate supports. It has been recognised that through work in our schools a large number of young people identify as transgender or non-binary as well as male and female and we wanted to ensure that we provided an opportunity for them to respond openly.'
A Government spokesman said: 'This is the council's own survey which it decided to undertake to inform local policy. The Scottish Government had no involvement in this survey as it is unrelated to the health and wellbeing census.'
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a84914 No.18201962
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73dcde No.18202245
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/crown-office-investigating-legal-figures-29024149
Crown Office investigating legal figures accused of historic child abuse linked to Operation Planet scandal
Scottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay has asked for more details after Solicitor General Ruth Charteris KC revealed that 'investigations are ongoing'
ByJohn GloverTrainee reporter
23 JAN 2023
Senior members of the legal establishment linked to trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse of children in care are being investigated in Scotland.
Scottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay was told about the probe last year through a disclosure by Ruth Charteris KC, the solicitor-general for the SNP Government.
Four years ago part-time sheriff and advocate John Halley raised concerns about historic allegations involving senior Scottish legal figures in a bombshell Note to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
The Scottish Daily Express revealed exclusive details of Mr Halley's Note in December, which included well-founded claims of an establishment paedophile ring operating in the 1990s.
At the time, he says he was told that he had strayed beyond the bounds of his remit and claimed there was "no excuse" for choosing not to investigate the allegations. Now, however, it appears that an investigation IS taking place.
Mr Findlay said: "I was surprised to be told by the solicitor-general that some form of investigation is apparently taking place. This has only now been disclosed, four years after Mr Halley submitted his important and concerning note.
"However, [the solicitor general's] response raises far more questions than answers, which is why I've asked John Swinney for a full explanation about what exactly is going on."
The Conservative MSP tabled questions in parliament amid concerns about the apparent failure to act on Mr Halley's note. The solicitor-general responded that it would be "inappropriate to comment" as "investigations into this matter are ongoing".
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73dcde No.18202247
>>18202245
…..continued…..
In a letter to the Deputy First Minister, Mr Findlay criticises the apparent secrecy around the investigation and writes: "The solicitor-general's response did not explain what these investigations comprise, their status or who is conducting them".
He has asked Mr Swinney to provide "a full and proper response", including details of action taken by the Scottish Government "in respect of the note, including the contacting of Police Scotland. I would also like to know the nature of the ongoing investigations referred to by the solicitor general".
Mr Halley was appointed as a lead junior counsel to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in 2015 and maintains that his extensive research found evidence of "child trafficking through prostitution of children in care in Scotland".
Operation Planet looked into claims of abuse network
The part-time sheriff warned that vulnerable young people in care were being let down by a prosecution policy that he believes failed to prevent sexual exploitation through prostitution.
The Crown Office policy introduced in 1991 concluded that it was not in the public interest to pursue clients of male prostitutes as young as 16 who had previously engaged in homosexual acts.
In 1990, police launched Operation Planet after a 16-year-old boy from a care home was found in a flat in central Edinburgh. He had been held over a period of 10 days and drugged and repeatedly raped by a number of men, said to include some influential public figures.
It led to claims of an establishment paedophile ring that is said to have operated over several decades and to have included, at one time or another, well-known TV personalities, judges, lawyers and senior police officers.
The investigation initially resulted in 57 charges against 10 men, later reduced to 10 charges against five men whose not guilty pleas were accepted by a court in February 1991.
The flat on Palmerston Place in the Edinburgh's West End was owned by former Bay City Rollers manager Tam Paton, although a subsequent report written by Lord Nimmo Smith does not highlight this fact – an omission Mr Halley describes as "curious".
He claimed that the police and the Crown Office should have had "detailed knowledge or concerns" about Paton's activities prior to the Operation Planet scandal.
The advocate added that Paton's home in Gogar – where the sleazy mogul died in his hot tub weighing 25 stone – was known for "child trafficking". It has since been torn down.
The part-time sheriff analysed the 1993 report written by Lord Nimmo Smith that looked into the Planet investigation and the events that followed called 'Allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice'.
Controversially, the report dismissed the young people involved – many of whom were children in care – as 'rent boys' and said they were not being abused because they were receiving payment.
Mr Halley said the young people were in fact part of a child trafficking network and called on the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to re-investigate the Operation Planet probe.
He noted that the criminal cases were dropped after the Crown accepted that sex had been consensual between the complainers and the accused.
Last month, an associate of Paton, John 'Sticky' Wilson, 81, was jailed for 12 years at the High Court in Edinburgh, for sexual offences spanning more than half a century. A BBC Disclosure documentary about Operation Planet will be broadcast next month.
The Crown Office said: "It would not be appropriate to comment on ongoing investigations."
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73dcde No.18202319
I've found a bit of time to go back to review the twitter account of John Halley @AdvocateHalley and find myself unable on a suspended account to go beyone his August 8th tweets which is handy as that is the day that John Watt QC was jailed for 10 years for the abuse of children.
Probably worth noting I've scrolled all the way back as far as I can and working myself back from the past in the direction of the present.
1.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
I am truly surprised tonight. My twitter account has come under attack by multiple, apparently bot, accounts expressing support for @NicolaSturgeon
’s right to tweet in a personal capacity. My response: real victims real crimes. Don’t cover up child sexual abuse allegations
I posted the article that day of John Watt QC being jailed for 10 years here on an earlier board…well I tried to….the boards went haywire as they did 2 weeks previous when I posted on his guilty verdict.
Perhaps some of those tweeting at John are sympathectic to the SNP's creepy interest in the sexualising of other people's children? Not saying they are of course but that there's a possibility of it.
>>18181643
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11656145/Nicola-Sturgeons-SNP-plans-ask-children-male-female-transgender-survey.html
>
>Now Nicola Sturgeon's SNP plans to ask SEVEN-year-olds if they are 'male, female, non-binary, transgender or other' in school survey branded 'disgraceful' and 'indoctrination'
2.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
@JohnSwinney
initiated procedures to have Susan O'Brien QC removed as Chair of SCAI. No such procedures initiated for another Inquiry Chair interviewed under caution re allegations of child sexual abuse. Please confirm this is factually correct @JohnSwinney
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John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
@NicolaSturgeon @AuldAussie @ladymcbeth2
The treatment of Susan O'Brien QC, SCAI Chair in 2016, is nothing short of a public disgrace when compared with that of another Inquiry Chair, interviewed by police under caution re allegations of child sexual offences, and still in place twitter.com/AdvocateHalley…
3.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
@JohnSwinney
initiated procedures to have Susan O'Brien QC removed as Chair of SCAI. No such procedures initiated for another Inquiry Chair interviewed under caution re allegations of child sexual abuse. Please confirm this is factually correct @JohnSwinney
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John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 8, 2022
@NicolaSturgeon @AuldAussie @ladymcbeth2
The treatment of Susan O'Brien QC, SCAI Chair in 2016, is nothing short of a public disgrace when compared with that of another Inquiry Chair, interviewed by police under caution re allegations of child sexual offences, and still in place twitter.com/AdvocateHalley…
Louise Slorance
@LouiseSlorance
·
Aug 8, 2022
Replying to
@AdvocateHalley
and
@JohnSwinney
Is that a case of not what you know but who you know?
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
Replying to
@LouiseSlorance
and
@JohnSwinney
Appears to be an inconsistent approach to apparent reasons for justifying removal of public inquiry chairs. The inference you draw seems a reasonable one to me Louise.
9:20 PM · Aug 8, 2022
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73dcde No.18202333
>>18202319
4.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 9, 2022
Why is Lord Hardie protected for so long by so many? He continues to chair one of the ongoing Public Inquires which feed many at the Bar. "The final figure who remains in shadow, might not be sleeping so easily now." And Sheriff Duff?. This is a safeguarding disaster story.
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John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 9, 2022
Lord Hardie. In my Note dated 1 April 2019.
"While he avoided justice in life, his daughter takes satisfaction from being heard and believed, and she hopes her father’s friend, the final figure who remains in shadow, might not be sleeping so easily now."
https://thetimes.co.uk/article/abuse-by-paedophile-qc-left-me-unable-to-look-after-my-son-rbm0r5vsh
I am reminded that John Watt QC held judicial office in Scotland as a Temporary Sheriff. The Lord Advocate at the time had the power to appoint judicial office holders. Which LA appointed Watt and when? @BBCNews
@STVNews
@C4Faye
@AuldAussie
@mandatenow
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John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 9, 2022
Lord Hardie. In my Note dated 1 April 2019.
"While he avoided justice in life, his daughter takes satisfaction from being heard and believed, and she hopes her father’s friend, the final figure who remains in shadow, might not be sleeping so easily now."
https://thetimes.co.uk/article/abuse-
5.
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 9, 2022
I have heard the Lord President, Lord Carloway, say on more than one occasion, that Lord Gill, the previous LP, repeatedly claimed to "have a file" on everyone. Don't know why. Why would you say that? What kind of system is this? The ICAC Model, or similar, is urgently needed.
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AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
·
Aug 9, 2022
Replying to @AdvocateHalley @BBCNews and 3 others
Did people advance because of knowledge about each others offending? Did this pedophile ring have any influence over prosecution of child abuse? Were decisions made to drop child abuse cases or reduce charges or sentences out of sympathy for a kindred spirit?
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 9, 2022
I have heard the Lord President, Lord Carloway, say on more than one occasion, that Lord Gill, the previous LP, repeatedly claimed to "have a file" on everyone. Don't know why. Why would you say that? What kind of system is this? The ICAC Model, or similar, is urgently needed.
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AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
·
Aug 9, 2022
Replying to @AdvocateHalley @BBCNews and 3 others
Did people advance because of knowledge about each others offending? Did this pedophile ring have any influence over prosecution of child abuse? Were decisions made to drop child abuse cases or reduce charges or sentences out of sympathy for a kindred spirit?
An appalling case. I am surprised this prosecution hasn't got the public traction you might expect, given the identities of the people involved.
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Judges Scotland
@JudgesScotland
·
Aug 8, 2022
At the High Court in Edinburgh today, Lord Braid sentenced John Watt QC to 10 years imprisonment after he was convicted of five charges involving the sexual abuse of children.
That thread is worth reading here…
https://twitter.com/PeatWorrier/status/1556648495150469121
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73dcde No.18206079
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1722089/Met-police-chief-inspector-richard-watkinson-dead-child-abuse-latest
Met Police chief inspector found dead at home was facing charges over child abuse images
The body of Met Police Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson was discovered by colleagues who had gone to his property because they were concerned about his welfare.
By Robert Fisk
Jan 17, 2023
A top police officer has been found dead at his home after failing to attend a police station to be charged over possessing child abuse images.
The body of Met Police chief inspector Richard Watkinson was discovered by colleagues who had gone to his address because they were concerned about his welfare.
The Sun reports when officers arrived at the 49-year-old's house they found a body.
Police are said to be treating his death as "unexplained", but not suspicious. A source told The Sun it is suspected Watkinson was involving in his death while under "huge mental strain" due to the case.
Toxicology tests are being carried out to establish his cause of death. The coroner has been informed and an inquest will take place at a later date.
It is believed that Watkinson was due to report back on bail last Thursday to be charged over an alleged network of online paedophiles.
He is said to have feared he was about to be publicly named in connection with the alleged conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children.
A Met Police spokesperson said: “Met officers attended an address in Buckinghamshire on the afternoon of Thursday, 12 January following welfare concerns and found the body of a man in his 40s’.”
A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: “Officers were called to Saunderton, Princes Risborough, at just after 3.35pm on Thursday 12 January.
"Sadly, the body of a man was located inside a property at that location. The man’s death is unexplained but not suspicious. A file will be prepared for the coroner.
"His next of kin have been made aware and our thoughts are with the man’s family and friends."
Watkinson was first arrested in July 2021 when it is alleged that up to thousands of indecent images were allegedly discovered in a secret room at his home.
His arrest stunned his colleagues, as he was a popular figure and was nicknamed "Sir Smashy" after a Harry Enfield character by lower ranking officers on the Met’s West Area Basic Command Unit where he worked.
He was originally held over allegations of misconduct in public office, sending obscene messages, corrupt exercise of police powers and data protection breaches.
It followed a joint investigation by the Met's professional standards unit and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and the Met’s professional standards unit.
When officers searched the suspect’s home, they are said to have found a secret trap-door which led to an area containing computer equipment.
It is alleged child sexual abuse images were found on the computers, and the material was judged to be category the two most serious levels.
After the alleged discovery of the illegal material, Chief Inspector Watkinson was further arrested 11 days later.
His arrest was on suspicion of several offences, including conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children, voyeurism and misconduct in public office.
He was released on bail and suspended from duties while an investigation was carried out by the Met’s specialist crime officers working with officers in Scotland and Lincolnshire.
Last week, officers charged two men with conspiracy to distribute or show indecent images of children. They are due to appear in court shortly.
One former colleague said: “He was a popular governor and his arrest caused a great deal of shock.
“There was talk of thousands of images and videos being found behind a trap door in his home.
“He had been under huge mental strain while he was on bail and there were concerns that he was suicidal.
“The worst fears for his health have now been realised and he was found dead last week. It is suspected he killed himself.”
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73dcde No.18206267
>>18206079
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1724489/met-police-carrick-rapist-latest
Rapist PC Carrick is just tip of the iceberg as police whistleblower says 'this is huge'
Police forces must be braced for more scandals because things will "get a lot worse before they get better", a senior political insider has warned.
By David Williamson - Jon Austin
Rapist PC Carrick is just tip of the iceberg as police whistleblower says 'this is huge'
Police forces must be braced for more scandals because things will "get a lot worse before they get better", a senior political insider has warned.
By David Williamson - Sunday Express Political Editor, Jon Austin - Sunday Express Crime Editor
20:00, Sat, Jan 21, 2023 | UPDATED: 20:24, Sat, Jan 21, 2023
The unmasking of a serial rapist serving in an elite Met unit may only be the “tip of the iceberg”, with the corruption threatening to seriously undermine faith in the police, they said.
Senior MPs fear that confidence has been so badly undermined that a Royal Commission – a major public inquiry – may be the only way of restoring trust.
Failure to do so could lead to “a disregard of the rule of law”.
PC David Carrick was last week revealed to be a prolific sex offender who abused his role in the police to terrify his victims. He faces a lengthy jail term after admitting dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women over 17 years. He will be sentenced next month.
His conviction follows the case of Sarah Everard, 33, who was snatched off the street, raped and murdered by another serving Met officer.
A whistle-blower who previously worked at the same unit as Carrick has described a macho culture of “toxic masculinity”.
Dave Eden, who was in the Diplomatic Protection Group (DPG) said: “You have to ask about the psychology of somebody that wants to swan around in body armour carrying MP5 submachine guns. It’s about image, portraying the hard macho man, picking up women.”
He claimed the unit harboured some “predatory officers” for years, but nothing was done to root them out. Among the behaviour Mr Eden describes are:
● Officers watching pornography on late shifts;
● Prolific and predatory behaviour including patrolling outside Soho nightclubs to pick up women;
● Targeting tourists as they were likely to have left the country before questions could be raised;
● Using police-issue guns to lure impressionable young women into bed.
The Metropolitan Police is currently investigating about 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse allegations that involve complaints against around 800 officers.
Greater Manchester Police has also revealed it had six misconduct cases involving police officers or employees found guilty of sexual offences, or those involving inappropriate relationships with victims of crime, in just three months from October to December, and a further 26 misconduct cases concerning corruption, drugs and violence.
Speaking of the scandals, a senior government source said: “This is huge. I think we are going to discover a hell of a lot more. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.”
Just two days ago, a former officer who abused his role to start relationships with vulnerable women was jailed for two years and eight months. Rhett Wilson, 27, who had served with West Mercia Police, admitted three corruption offences at Worcester Crown Court.
There are fears that public confidence in the police could be shattered if forces cannot root out their abusers.
Mr Eden claims a “toxic canteen culture” of watching porn on night shifts and using guns to impress women went largely unchallenged among some officers within the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Command predecessor more than 25 years ago.
Mr Eden, who spent seven years with the unit until 1995, claims that this culture, which may have attracted and even enabled predators like Carrick, was entrenched years ago.
He said: “That culture went unchallenged, and if it was, the officer was bullied and forced out. We used to sit and watch porn on night duty on satellite TV, or somebody would bring a porn movie in.”
He left the force as a sergeant in 2010 and has remained in contact with former and current officers via messaging platforms.
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73dcde No.18206281
>>18206079
>>18206267
…continued…
He described seeing a sexist and racist culture evolve, from police noticeboards in the early days to private groups on encrypted messaging apps. Last year Mr Eden blew the whistle over alleged racist content on a WhatsApp group of former DPG colleagues.
A man was suspended and arrested on suspicion of offences under the Communications Act and misconduct in a public office and remains on police bail.
The suspect had served on the DPG with Mr Eden, who says that after he blew the whistle, new Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley arranged to meet him. The meeting was later cancelled.
The source pushed for major reform so that officers who are a danger to the public are identified and removed. A key priority is overhauling reporting systems and ensuring that senior officers can be trusted by juniors.
“They have got to have seniors they can trust and not seniors who are part of the problem and in collusion,” they said.
They insisted this was about much more than changing the “culture” of policing, saying: “It is much more endemic. It is institutional and it is structural.”
Warning of the consequences if public trust in policing collapses, the senior political source said: “I think we’ll have a disregard of the rule of law.”
The source stressed that problems are not limited to London but exist across the country.
“This is like a big fat onion,” they said. “You are peeling back various layers.
“You are discovering all sorts of things. Some layers are going to make us really weep and really cry a lot, and it’s those layers we have to tackle.”
A leading women’s charity has also demanded robust action.
Farah Nazeer, chief executive of Women’s Aid, said: “Sorry is not an acceptable response to the women whose lives have been ruined by Carrick, nor is it enough for the thousands more women and girls who have lost all confidence and trust in the Met Police.
“Apologies and assurances are meaningless unless they are backed up by robust and measurable actions which tackle the deep-seated misogyny that has been allowed to fester within the Met Police for far too long.”
Jan 21, 2023
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08e7cb No.18218541
Children punched and locked out naked in care homes rated "good"
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63792458
Children in care were punched, locked out naked and had vinegar poured on cuts, according to reports that were filed over three years before the homes were finally shut.
A BBC investigation has learned more than 100 concerns were logged at the Doncaster children's homes, which retained a "good" Ofsted rating.
Leaked documents also show Ofsted was alerted 40 times about incidents.
The regulator has now apologised, as has Hesley Group, which ran the homes.
More than 100 of the UK's most vulnerable children in care are feared to have been harmed, involving many who are non-verbal.
The homes, which included two residential special schools, charged local authorities £250,000 a year to care for each young person.
The homes continued to be rated as "good" by Ofsted, but in March 2021 the regulator finally stepped in and they were closed shortly afterwards.
Hesley Group might need some digging
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73dcde No.18226034
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/over-600-veterans-homeless-snp-29041643
Over 600 veterans homeless in SNP Scotland as Shona Robison urged to declare national emergency
Nicola Sturgeon has been told the buck stops with her government as 47,000 Scots find themselves homeless with a further 21,000 living in temporary accommodation
By Douglas Dickie
25 JAN 2023
The SNP/Green government has been accused of “presiding over a national housing crisis” with thousands of people either homeless or in temporary accommodation. The Scottish Conservatives will use their party-business slot at Holyrood on Wednesday to shine a light on the "perfect storm" while calling on housing minister Shona Robsion to declare a national emergency.
It comes as Scottish Government figures confirmed there are almost 47,000 homeless people in Scotland - including over 600 armed forces veterans - and 21,000 households in temporary accommodation. The Tories say their own research has identified 330,000 Scots on social housing waiting lists.
Shadow housing secretary Miles Briggs MSP will lead twin debates in parliament – the first, on rising rates of homelessness, with a particular focus on vulnerable groups affected. The second will be on ministers’ failure to reach housebuilding targets and the impact of budget cuts and rent controls.
Mr Briggs says he is particularly concerned that almost a third of homeless Scots and those on waiting lists are children, while other vulnerable groups such, as disabled people and service veterans, are badly affected. He will also focus on the SNP’s failure to meet its target to build 50,000 affordable homes on time, a "huge" £170 million cash cut in the 2023-24 housing budget and the effect of the rent freeze and evictions ban on private housebuilding.
The Lothian MSP said focus on housing had "gone under the radar" while the health crisis raged but SNP mismanagement had created a "perfect storm". He added: "It’s completely unacceptable that there are 47,000 people currently registered as homeless, and a third of a million Scots on social housing waiting lists, including close to 100,000 children and more than 24,000 disabled people.
"There are also more than 600 armed service veterans registered as homeless, something which should embarrass us as a nation. The buck stops with Nicola Sturgeon’s government for this crisis. They have failed to meet their own housebuilding targets and there’s little hope of the situation improving when John Swinney’s most recent budget outlined a swingeing £170m cut in the housing budget – and that’s in cash, not real, terms.
"On top of that, we’ve had the SNP-Green rent freeze and eviction ban, which has been counter-productive and damaging for tenants – as we warned it would be – by reducing private rental stock and leading to housing developments being paused or shelved."
Housing charity Shelter has already called on Nicola Sturgeon to "spearhead an urgent Scottish Housing Emergency Action Plan to protect households in Scotland from homelessness". They say that the plan must aim to reduce affordable housing need by 2026.
A Scottish Government spokesman claimed the country has "led the way in delivering affordable housing across the UK". He added: "The number of households in temporary accommodation is too high and we are firmly committed to reducing it.
"Local authorities are making encouraging progress with the implementation of their Rapid Rehousing Transition Plans, and the Housing Secretary has commissioned an action plan from experts in the sector to reduce the numbers of people and time spend in temporary accommodation.
"Our £752 million 2023-24 budget will be supplemented by contributions from the Heat in Buildings Fund and Charitable Bond Programme donations directed towards investment in social rented homes. We remain committed to making over £3.5 billion available for affordable housing over the current parliamentary session as part of our ambitious plans to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032."
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73dcde No.18239986
>>18206267
>>18206079
https://news.sky.com/story/met-police-says-two-to-three-officers-will-face-charges-every-week-for-months-12795025
Met Police says two to three officers will face charges every week for months
Sir Mark Rowley was speaking at the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee.
By Niamh Lynch,
Wednesday 25 January 2023
Two to three criminal cases against officers are expected to go to court every week in the coming months, the Met Police commissioner has revealed.
The criminal cases are a "mix of dishonesty, violence and violence against women and girls", Sir Mark Rowley said.
He also apologised to the victims of former officer David Carrick and said the public should "prepare for more painful stories as we confront cases that… corrupt our integrity".
Speaking at a meeting of the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee, Sir Mark said the force had not "applied the same level of ruthlessness" to upholding its integrity as it applied to fighting crime.
He also said that the Met will "probably find many cases where we got it wrong" in their review of around 1,000 allegations relating to officers and staff historically accused of sexual offences and domestic abuse.
Referring to the "ghastly case" of Carrick, he said: "We're all equally horrified we have hundreds in policing who shouldn't be here, Carrick is an awful example of that."
He offered "sincere apologies to victims for our failings, he should not have been a police officer - that's obvious".
Sir Mark also apologised to "women across London who feel let down and whose trust in policing has been let down".
"We must improve dramatically for London. Lifting the stone and revealing painful truths will not be resolved overnight".
"It will be painful. We need your support and the support of the people of London… as we rid the organisation of those who corrupt our integrity," he said.
In the wake of Carrick's conviction, around 1,000 previous cases involving Met officers and staff who were accused of sexual offences or domestic violence are being reviewed to make sure they were handled correctly.
Sir Mark said he was "moving heaven and earth" to finish the review by March when its findings will be reported.
Carrick, one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, admitted 49 criminal charges including 24 counts of rape for crimes committed over an 18-year period.
The charges relate to the rape of nine different women, but some are multiple incident counts, meaning they cover more than 80 sexual offences, including at least 48 rapes.
The commissioner also apologised for the Met's failings in the case of PC Hussain Chehab, 22, who pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 as well as three counts of making indecent photographs of a child.
PC Chehab's case is one of several that have emerged in recent weeks that called the Met's vetting and complaints processes into question.
Two retired Met officers were charged last week with offences related to the possession of images showing child sex abuse.
The charges were part of an investigation into a serving chief inspector who was found dead before he was charged.
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73dcde No.18240003
https://youtube.com/shorts/c-tWZ54mtls?feature=share>>18239986
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73dcde No.18240040
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>18239986
https://youtu.be/TBZNokJWN1A
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08e7cb No.18240044
>>18201962
Sorry anon, that Dame Linda Dobbs is just not gaining any traction. Have you perhaps come across new info?
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73dcde No.18245339
>>18202245
>>18116908
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/crown-office-not-contacted-john-29036972
Crown Office has NOT contacted John Halley about Operation Planet paedophile ring claims despite new investigation
EXCLUSIVE: Ruth Charteris KC revealed that an investigation was underway into the 'serious allegations' contained in Mr Halley's bombshell Note to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry – but nobody has spoken to him directly
ByJohn Glover
24 JAN 2023
Prosecutors have not contacted crusading advocate John Halley about his Note including allegations of an establishment paedophile ring, despite the Solicitor-General revealing an investigation is underway.
The part-time sheriff raised concerns about historic allegations of child trafficking of children in care involving senior Scottish legal figures in the Note, which was submitted to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the Crown Office and directly to the Lord President, nearly four years ago.
When Scottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay asked about the apparent failure to act at the Scottish Parliament last year, he was told by Ruth Charteris KC that it would be "inappropriate to comment" as "investigations into this matter are ongoing".
Mr Findlay has since written to Deputy First Minister John Swinney asking for details of the investigation to be released to the public.
However, Mr Halley confirmed to the Scottish Daily Express: "They've [Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service] never been in contact."
The Note was submitted to Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry April 1, 2019; to the Crown Office on May 3, 2019; and to the Lord President July 30, 2019.
Following a story about the Solicitor-General's statement in the Sunday Times, Mr Halley tweeted: "I doubt whether this is the candid truth from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. No authority has contacted me in relation to my Note or its contents since submitted and reported in April-June 2019".
Louise Slorance, a widow whose late husband worked in a senior Scottish Government communications role before his avoidable death at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, responded: "Just media lines."
The Scottish Daily Express revealed exclusive details of Mr Halley's Note in December, which included well-founded claims of an establishment paedophile ring operating in the 1990s.
In 2019, he says says he was told that he had strayed beyond the bounds of his remit and included material he "ought not to have been working on".
His Note included details about the Operation Planet and Magic Circle scandals of the 1990s, when senior legal figures were accused of using children in care as 'rent boys'.
The police investigation began after a 16-year-old boy was drugged and repeatedly raped over a period of 10 days at a flat in central Edinburgh owned by Tam Paton, the convicted paedophile and former manager of the Bay City Rollers.
It led to claims of an establishment abuse ring that is said to have operated over several decades and to have included, at one time or another, well-known TV personalities, judges, lawyers and senior police officers.
The investigation initially resulted in 57 charges against 10 men, later reduced to 10 charges against five men whose not guilty pleas were accepted by a court in February 1991.
Last month, an associate of Paton, John 'Sticky' Wilson, 81, was jailed for 12 years at the High Court in Edinburgh, for sexual offences spanning more than half a century. A BBC Disclosure documentary about Operation Planet and the Magic Circle will be broadcast next month.
A Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal spokesman said: "It would not be appropriate to comment on ongoing investigations and there is nothing we can add to the answers given to the Scottish Parliament."
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08e7cb No.18245704
Historic Abuse Bun
>>17387002, >>17387006, >>17387031, >>17986919 Former prosecutor John Watt QC jailed for abusing children
>>17387031 Ex chief prosecutor Lord Hardie should have told police about child abuse
>>17387203 Salmond was against holding child abuse inquiry, says Deputy First Minister
>>17782416, >>17782421, >>17787406, >>17787422 Abuse survivors blast SNP's redress scheme as a cold, unfair and distressing ordeal
>>17850638 4,000 raped or sexually assaulted in UK hospitals over 4 years, horrifying figures reveal
>>17865342, >>17865350 Kerelaw: John Muldoon and Matthew George guilty of sexual abuse
>>18039348, >>18039360 Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry accused of ignoring Operation Planet and evidence of establishment paedophile ring
>>18077541, >>18077710 Timeline: Events leading to Susan O'Brien's resignation
>>18106357, >>18106525, >>18107149 Ex-chief prosecutor Lord Hardie ‘should have told police about sex abuse’
>>18116908, >>18116918 Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry warned Scotland may have a 'problem' similar to the scale of Rotherham scandal
>>18202319, >>18202333, >>18245339 John Halley Advocate
>>18202245, >>18202247 Crown Office investigating legal figures accused of historic child abuse linked to Operation Planet scandal
>>18206079 Met Police chief inspector found dead at home was facing charges over child abuse images
>>18206267, >>18206281 Rapist PC Carrick is just tip of the iceberg as police whistleblower says 'this is huge'
>>18218541 Children punched and locked out naked in care homes rated "good"
>>18239986, >>18240040 Met Police says two to three officers will face charges every week for months (video)
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08e7cb No.18245706
Covid Bun
>>17387067 COVID recovery money was LOOTED (video)
>>17621912 From Canada #36: Scottish Government Orders Investigation Into Recent Spike in New Born Baby Deaths
>>17782583 Scottish covid inquiry thrown into chaos as top lawyers resign just months after launch
>>17866574 Service launched for children not attending school in Glasgow
>>17925717 Someone Was Playing Our Vax Injury Videos On A Projector Screen Downtown Scotland
>>17983586 A Scot speaks on his vaccine injury (video)
>>17984031, >>17984035 Scottish government won’t investigate vaccination status of women who lost babies for fear of truth
>>18055735 Doctors ask health board to declare major incident
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08e7cb No.18245708
Nicola Sturgeon & SNP Bun
>>17387410 SNP failing the poorest children (video)
>>17456166 Nicola Sturgeon tries to get into wrong car whilst being heckled at Edinburgh Fringe (video)
>>17484782 Anger as SNP gave £5m of taxpayer's money to China's controversial 'spy school' in Glasgow
>>17787452, >>17787460, >>17787468 FM denies ferry contract was 'jobs for the boys' (video)
>>17806108, >>17806112 Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon sought advice from an author of a book on “English magic” before her controversial trip to China
>>17830210 SNP ministers using chauffeur-driven limos for trips between first and second homes
>>17864400 'Shame on you!': Nicola Sturgeon heckled over Scottish government gender reforms
>>17864454, >>17864459 Ian Blackford to stand down as SNP leader at Westminster
>>17925807 Nicola Sturgeon has two speechwriters costing taxpayers up to £125,000 a year for 'hot air'
>>17950879, >>17950909 Nicola Sturgeon walks away after questions on husband's £107,000 'cashflow' loan to SNP (video)
>>17983794 Gender law could lure sex offenders to Scotland, claims former First Minister
>>18056066 UK Government set to mount unprecedented legal challenge to block SNP's gender bill
>>18133173 Hundreds of Scots demand Nicola Sturgeon resign in protest outside Holyrood
>>18174010 NHS SHAME: They showed no remorse (video)
>>18181643, >>18201933 Now Nicola Sturgeon's SNP plans to ask SEVEN-year-olds if they are 'male, female, non-binary, transgender or other' in school survey branded 'disgraceful' and 'indoctrination'
>>18226034 Over 600 veterans homeless in SNP Scotland as Shona Robison urged to declare national emergency
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08e7cb No.18245714
Notables are NOT Endorsements
coming up on 150
#8
>>17387110 Donald Trump set to visit Scotland THIS MONTH sparking ‘special security measures’
>>17830154 Scotland will let pupils change gender aged FOUR without their parents' consent - and tells teachers not to question a child's request to choose a new name or use a different toilet
>>17950974 Police Scotland appoint controversial cop who led Number 10 lockdown parties probe as new Deputy Chief Constable
>>17951381 David Scott Of UK Column Paying Tribute To The Freedom Movement (video)
>>17987142 Military could be deployed to help limit Christmas strike disruption
>>18127006 MSPs to get a pay rise in April it has been confirmed
>>18126150, >>18126157 Popular Glasgow McDonald's targeted by Afghan men looking to exploit children, ex-cop claims
>>18138389, >>18138395 Anger as EU project sees Police Scotland rebrand paedophiles as 'Minor-Attracted People'
>>18144954 Glasgow Cabbie gathering outside Scottish Parliament, January 12th 2023 (video)
>>18245704 Historic Abuse Bun
>>18245706 Covid Bun
>>18245708 Nicola Sturgeon & SNP Bun
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73dcde No.18250388
>>18245714
Thanks. I and the tumbleweed greatly appreciate the time you took to go through all of that and try and make sense of it.
>>18245714
>>>17387110 Donald Trump set to visit Scotland THIS MONTH sparking ‘special security measures’
Did he visit? I didn't notice.
Did it go well, if he did?
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08e7cb No.18251601
>>18250388
August of last year, just days before this bread was created.
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73dcde No.18255964
>>18245339
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-open-inquiry-into-claims-of-child-abuse-by-lawyers-m6xcnb3lf
Mark Macaskill and Marcello Mega
Sunday January 29 2023,
The Sunday Times (most likely Scottish editiion)
Police open inquiry into claims of child abuse by lawyers
Officers are investigating historic claims against legal figures
Officers from Police Scotland’s major investigations unit have been instructed to look into claims that senior members of the legal establishment were linked to the sexual exploitation, trafficking and abuse of children.
The Sunday Times understands that at the request of the Crown Office, police have begun their inquiries and will shortly take evidence from John Halley, an advocate who detailed concerns about historical sex abuse against children in a dossier sent to prosecutors in 2019.
Halley was visited by officers on Thursday morning and expects to provide a witness statement this week.
As this newspaper reported last week, Conservative MSP Russell Findlay tabled questions in parliament last month amid concern that senior figures in the government and judiciary had failed to act on Halley’s 43-page note.
The senior lawyer John Watt was jailed for ten years last summer for historical sex abuse against children. At the time, Susie Henderson, one of his victims, claimed that another man who abused her remained in an influential position.
Police opened an investigation into Watt after Henderson made allegations against several lawyers.
She said that her father, Robert Henderson QC, had repeatedly sexually abused her.
She made similar claims about several of his friends and colleagues, including former solicitor general for Scotland, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, the late Conservative MP.
As a result of an investigation, Watt, 72, was extradited to Scotland from the US in 2020. He was convicted in July 2022 of raping Henderson and abusing two other girls and a boy in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of his victims had relatives who were also legal figures.
Halley was appointed as a lead junior counsel to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry in 2015 and maintains that his extensive research found evidence of “child trafficking through prostitution of children in care in Scotland”.
He warned that vulnerable young people in care were let down by a prosecution policy that he believes failed to prevent sexual exploitation through prostitution.
The policy, introduced in 1991, concluded that it was not in the public interest to pursue clients of male prostitutes as young as 16 who had previously engaged in homosexual acts.
Halley’s note called for deeper investigation of Tam Paton, the former Bay City Rollers manager who died in 2009.
Paton owned an Edinburgh flat where a 16-year-old boy from a care home was held over ten days, drugged and raped by a number of men in the early 1990s.
It sparked a police investigation, called Operation Planet, which initially resulted in 57 charges against ten men. This was later reduced to ten charges against five men, whose not guilty pleas were accepted by a court in February 1991.
Findlay said: “This police action is welcome, but the timing is curious given that almost four years have passed since Mr Halley supplied information about alleged connections between prominent legal figures and the abuse of children in care.
“The police action comes a matter of weeks after I lodged a series of written questions asking the Scottish government what action has been taken in respect of this information. Going forward, transparency is vital.”
Police Scotland said it did not discuss details of investigations.
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73dcde No.18256953
John Halley Twitter account again…..furthest i can go back now is 11th Aug 2022……it's like trying to eat ice-cream in the Sahara before it melts.
>>18202319
https://twitter.com/advocatehalley?lang=en
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John Halley Advocate Retweeted
AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
·
Aug 11, 2022
Replying to
@AdvocateHalley
It is so strange how this story has not got traction. Dunlop would need significant media interest to comment. Why are people not more outraged by Hardie? Why are they not asking more questions about if corruption was at work to prevent prosecution of these senior lawyers?
2.
1 - expanded
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 12, 2022
Replying to
@AuldAussie
Maybe simple. @3x1Group
?how much have they been paid?
AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
·
Aug 12, 2022
Replying to
@AdvocateHalley
and
@3x1Group
Can a PR firm stop stories getting published?
Can an FOI request be sent to the Government or the Judiciary asking the question about "PR" firms representing any of those in question?
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John Halley Advocate Retweeted
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 12, 2022
Replying to
@AuldAussie
and
@RoddyQC
Worse, I reasonably apprehend. He has seen it and agreed it’s contents as a production before Lord Boyd. Or are the other witnesses mistaken?
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3 expanded
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3 expanded
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1558212673183023104
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73dcde No.18257167
>>18256953
John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
·
Aug 12, 2022
Really, really important:
Quote Tweet
CIPDH-UNESCO
@cipdhunesco
·
Aug 12, 2022
Visita el sitio de 🗺️📍 #MemoriasSituadas
https://cipdh.gob.ar/memorias-situadas/
Show this thread
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Really, really important
CIPDH-UNESCO twitter thread from John Halley 12 August 2022 expanded
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CIPDH-UNESCO twitter thread from John Halley 12 August 2022 expanded
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CIPDH-UNESCO twitter thread from John Halley 12 August 2022 expanded and translated.
Outwith the translation I'm thinking Clinton Foundation every time I hear Haiti mentioned these days and their ties to Laura Silsby.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-quake-haiti-missionaries-idUSTRE61503J20100206
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/02/laura_silsby_haiti_orphans_wou.html
Laura Silsby, Haiti 'Orphans' ' Would-Be Rescuer, Serial Rule Breaker
February 5, 20101
Frank James
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45dd19 No.18258574
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. You could've been all I wanted
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my world
Well, if you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
Yeah, and if so, here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played letter
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, I'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder… happy will I become
Be true that this is no option
So with sin I condemn you
Demon play, demon out!
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl…
I'd do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl…
Before I hope you die
⚔⛨
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45dd19 No.18258745
>>18258574
Nulled kiks, awesome-slasa-sauceom.
LET'S GO GET BASED & WET
⚔⛨
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73dcde No.18259733
>>18255964
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-sex-abuse-survivor-slams-29091196
Victim of sex attack lawyer John Watt QC slams legal pals who failed to report him to cops
Mark Redwood-Thomson, 46, has bravely waived his right to anonymity to speak out about the abuse by high-flying lawyer Watt that shattered his childhood.
ByMarcello Mega
31 JAN 2023
A victim of sex attack lawyer John Watt QC has spoken out for the first time to slam legal pals who failed to report him to the police. Mark Redwood-Thomson, 46, has bravely waived his right to anonymity to speak out about the abuse by high-flying lawyer Watt that shattered his childhood.
Former prosecutor Watt was jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing four young children more than four decades ago – allegedly as part of a “magic circle” of paedohiles working in the justice system. During Watt’s trial last summer, the High Court in Glasgow heard the father of two of Watt’s victims had reported abuse to other senior lawyers some years before Mark was abused.
But the court heard that the police were never informed. Mark was raped by Watt some years later, before his 9th birthday and believes he could have escaped the abuse if the police had been alerted earlier.
He said: “It’s diabolical. It sounds like they’ve hidden it rather than taking it to the police or whatever. That is appalling. There’s no excuse for that.”
Mark was interviewed in a BBC Scotland Disclosure investigation, Beneath the Magic Circle Affair, to be broadcast tonight. It examines whether a “magic circle” of Edinburgh high-flyers were involved in a paedophile ring in the 70s and 80s.
Mark, who now lives in South Africa with his husband, has never spoken in public about his ordeal, which involved a massive breach of trust. His parents had left him with Watt while they had a weekend away as they were close to the QC and his ex-wife.
Mark says: “He raped me when I was in his care, being looked after by him. I remember it happening. I remember his words.” He goes on to say that he agonised over the incident for many years.
Mark says: “I suppose guilt is probably the first thing that you worry about. Why it was you, why it happened, was it a situation I put myself into?
“But you go back and replay things over and over and over and over again and as a kid you shouldn’t have to. You should go to bed and sleep and wake up the next day.
“He’s just a nasty, horrible man.”
Watt was convicted last year of raping Mark in the 80s, of raping Susie Henderson, 56, in the 70s, and of sexually abusing two sisters. Susie was sexually abused “from an early age” by her father, the late Robert Henderson QC.
Watt was one of many friends, most now deceased, he allowed to abuse her. Susie’s story suggests there was a paedophile ring at the heart of the legal establishment in the 70s and 80s.
She has also waived her anonymity to shed light on the case, saying of her father: “He would come home drunk and say, ‘I’m taking Susie for a nap’.”
She explained that from around seven or eight, she’d be taken to “parties” to be abused by Robert Henderson’s friends and fellow lawyers. One day, he took her to Watt’s home in Leith and told her to do as she was told. She said: “Then he raped me.”
Susie’s desire for justice started the investigation in 2014, two years after her dad’s death. She reported all her abusers to police, including Watt and another living lawyer.
The police file on the second man remains open. Watt’s appeal was dismissed this month.
Disclosure examines Watt’s connection to a scandal that shocked Scotland more than 30 years ago. The Scottish media called it the Magic Circle Affair, with senior legal and establishment figures involved in child abuse and other criminal activities.
The programme also examines Operation Planet, a Lothian and Borders Police investigation into middle-aged professional men paying underage rent boys for sex. Days before a criminal case into the abuse ring called, 47 of 57 charges were dropped, pleas to lesser charges were accepted and only one trial proceeded, ending in a not proven verdict.
Five of the nine boys who were victims in the case have died. The youngest two, aged 15 and 16 at the time, died in their 20s, one by suicide and one overdosed on drugs. Retired Detective Sergeant Charlie Orr, who worked on Operation Planet and was criticised in an official report into the affair, is visibly moved when he is shown the five death certificates in the BBC programme.
He defends himself publicly for the first time, saying: “This was youngsters being taken to locations to be abused by older men. He adds: “It’s not a career choice. It’s exploitation and abuse.”
BBC Disclosure’s Beneath The Magic Circle Affair is available on BBC iPlayer now and will be on BBC One Scotland tonight at 10.40pm.(BST)
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73dcde No.18261843
>>18201962
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11692275/South-African-police-arrest-teacher-accused-preying-boys-schools-Scotland.html
South African police arrest teacher, 83, accused of being paedophile dubbed 'Jimmy Savile Mark II' who preyed on boys at schools attended by Tony Blair and BBC presenter Nicky Campbell
Former SNP leader Ian Blackford told Parliament the suspect's alias is 'Edgar'
He is suspected of molesting boys at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College
He is also accused of continuing the behaviour in a South African school
By David Averre and David Wilcock
30 January 2023
A retired teacher accused of preying on boys at two leading public schools in Scotland has been arrested in South Africa.
The 83-year-old, who was referred to as 'Edgar' by former SNP leader Ian Blackford but whose real name cannot be disclosed for legal reasons, was brought before the city's Wynberg Magistrates Court this afternoon.
He was bailed and will return to court on April 13.
Dubbed 'Jimmy Savile Mark II' by Blackford, Edgar is accused of crimes against boys at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College - the alma mater of ex-PM Tony Blair - in the 1970s. He denies the allegations.
BBC presenter Nicky Campbell, who attended the Academy in the 1970s, has led calls for him to be brought back to the UK to stand trial, with a court hearing due to take place later this year.
Edgar denies having molested pupils while teaching in Scotland, and also denied accusations of similar behaviour after moving to teach in a prestigious school in Cape Town.
He is currently subject to an order at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry preventing his identification.
But former SNP leader Blackford earlier this month used parliamentary privilege to declare his alias as 'Edgar' in the House of Commons.
In a session of Education Questions in the House of Commons on January 16, Mr Blackford told MPs: 'All of us in this house will prioritise keeping school children safe from sexual predators and I am sure the minister will be aware of the Scottish Child Abuse enquiry detailing the horrific allegations from a number of witnesses to events at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes schools by an individual referred to as Edgar.
'I have a number of constituents who have complaints against Edgar. This man has admitted to inappropriate behaviour and is currently fighting extradition from South Africa where he has been publicly named.
'There is precedence (sic) in England where another alleged abuser living in South Africa whose extradition has been sought has been publicly named.
'We now know that there are dozens of boys who have come forward to the police with allegations against the man referred to as Edgar. It is important that others who were abused by this man can come forward.
'It is right that his crimes against children are named – and it is also right that he is now named.'
Earlier this month Mr Campbell, 61, alleged he witnessed 'Edgar' abusing his friend in his school's changing rooms and described his conduct as 'so ubiquitous' that all of the pupils knew what was going on.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Campbell said: 'He could well be one of the most prolific paedophiles in British criminal history if you do the maths and look at how long he taught and how many schools he was at.'
After Campbell went public with the allegations, other former pupils of Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College stepped forward with stories of abuse.
Edinburgh Academy has since issued a public apology and says it is cooperating with police.
In a statement to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, Fettes College - whose alumni include former PM Tony Blair - made a 'full and unreserved apology'.
Edgar, who lives in a retirement complex in Cape Town, was arrested in South Africa in 2019 by British Police, and has a further extradition hearing set for March 17.
>>18201962
Connected?
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73dcde No.18290027
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Raise Your Frequency
Mei-lan
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Release lower vibrations and attune yourself to love, peace, and calm.
I am honored to share these sacred sounds and ancient tones with you. I invite you to relax and open to receive Source love through this transmission.
If you enjoy this transmission, I created an album around this intention called Within: https://mei-lanmaurits.com/within-album
When you raise your vibration and re-connect to your soul, you will experience deep healing — it also helps heal humanity and Mother Earth.
Thank you for feeling called to be a part of this sacred moment and this offering from the Divine.
From my heart to yours,
~ Mei-lan
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Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 000000 No. 17830326
What is coded in your DNA?
Who put it there?
Why?
Mankind is repressed.
We will be repressed no more.
Information is knowledge.
Knowledge is power.
Information is power.
How do you protect your DNA?
There is a war for your DNA.
Protect your DNA.
Ascension.
Q
Raise that frequency and then RISE.
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73dcde No.18303559
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https://youtu.be/rCooblrgEkw
Rabbi reveals what JEWS really believe about the MESSIAH (Moshiach)
Rabbi Simon Jacobson at Meaningful Life Center
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73dcde No.18303582
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LET WOMEN SPEAK - KELLIE JAY KEEN (GLASGOW 5/02/23)
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73dcde No.18303744
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>18303582
https://youtu.be/exUwYR3rV_I
Vaccine Injured Protest London - January 2023
Alice The Journalist
A very poignant closing comment.
"This one's for all the kids who might get jabbed, and can't have kids."
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73dcde No.18307372
>>18239986
>>18206267
>>18206079
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/07/scottish-police-defy-nicola-sturgeon-trans-self-id-law/
Scottish police defy Nicola Sturgeon over trans self-ID law
Police Scotland referred to a transgender butcher arrested in connection with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl as a man
By Daniel Sanderson
7th February 2023
Scottish police have defied Nicola Sturgeon’s sex self-ID drive by referring to a transgender butcher arrested in connection with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl as a man.
Andrew George Miller, known locally as Amy, was taken into police custody on Monday night after the 11-year-old girl who disappeared on Sunday, was found “safe and well” at a home in Gattonside near Galashiels after being missing for more than a day.
Police confirmed yesterday that a “53-year-old man”, understood to be Miller, had been arrested in connection with the disappearance, which caused grave concerns for the child’s welfare and led to a desperate search and rescue mission being launched.
Miller transitioned around six years ago when he changed his name to Amy and began dressing as a female, locals in the Scottish Borders said.
The decision by police to refer to the suspect as a man comes despite Ms Sturgeon’s push to change the law so that those who self-identify as a particular gender in Scotland can easily gain legal recognition in that gender.
The First Minister is embroiled in a political crisis over the unrelated case of Isla Bryson, a transgender rapist who was initially placed in a female jail, under a prison policy that follows the same principles as her self-ID law.
Ms Sturgeon has refused to state whether she believes Bryson is either a male or female. Under questioning, Ms Sturgeon has used female pronouns to refer to Bryson.
A poll has found only a third of Scots oppose the UK Government’s decision to veto the gender reforms.
The Ipsos survey found 50 per cent backed the Scottish Secretary’s move to block the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, compared to only 33 per cent who opposed it. The remaining 17 per cent did not know or did not want to say.
In a major blow to Ms Sturgeon, even 31 per cent of SNP voters said the UK Government should have blocked the legislation,
Publicly supported Ms Sturgeon
Miller maintains social media profiles as both Andrew Miller and “Amy George”. He publicly supported Ms Sturgeon’s push to make it easier for Scots to change their legal sex. After the plans were blocked by the UK Government, he warned that Westminster should “never mess with Scottish transgender issues”.
In contrast to the approach taken by the Scottish courts and Ms Sturgeon to Bryson, previously known as Adam Graham, Police Scotland yesterday used male pronouns to describe Miller.
The approach also clashes with the views of trans activists who insist it is discriminatory to refer to trans women as male.
Ms Sturgeon has repeatedly insisted that allowing male-bodied people to become legally female simply by signing a declaration poses no risk to women and girls, or single sex spaces.
However, the claims have been undermined by the case of Bryson, who Ms Sturgeon has acknowledged may be faking their trans identity.
Four days after the UK Government announced it was blocking Ms Sturgeon’s Bill, due to fears the provisions would put women and girls in danger, Miller wrote on Facebook: “But the Transgender Policy. How can Westminster decide what we have decided?” He added: “When we decide in Scotland.. It works for us in Scotland.. Simple as that.”
In another post last month, they said: “Silly Billys in Westminster… Never mess with Scottish Transgender Issues.”
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73dcde No.18307373
>>18307372
continued…..
Miller was a butcher in Melrose until the start of the year, when he announced that the shop, Millers of Melrose, would not be reopening after “four generations and nearly 200 years in the trade”.
He had become a well-known figure in the rural community. “Transgender butchers in the Borders are not exactly common,” one customer said.
‘Andy changed his name’
“They couldn’t exactly deny it, but it isn’t a crime so people generally just accepted it.”
Another said: “It was about six years ago that Andy changed his name and started dressing and styling his hair as a female. There was shock amongst the shopkeepers when the transition happened.”
Police said on Monday that they were “very concerned” about the welfare of the girl, who went missing on Sunday after last being seen in Galashiels town centre.
Locals joined in a desperate search for the missing child, before police confirmed she had been found on Monday night and reunited with her family. The hunt involved searching rivers and involved a helicopter and mountain rescue teams.
Police then locked down a quiet cul-de-sac in Gattonside, around a 10 minute, three mile drive from where the child had last been seen.
“The police turned up last night,” a neighbour told the Scottish Sun on Tuesday. “We were told it was something to do with the missing girl but I didn’t see anyone coming or going.
“It’s very worrying to have this here, especially as a father of two young kids myself.”
As “Amy George”, the suspect posted in January 2020 that they were a “single woman, only interested in single women”.
‘I am Amy G Miller’
He regularly posted social media updates about running the butchers business which he described as a “proper butcher shop for four generations”.
He wrote in March 2020: “I’ve been butchering for 50 years personally now. 22 in Jedburgh, 28 in Melrose. I have won many awards in butchery and in cuisine cooking skills. I am Amy G Miller.”
As Andrew Miller, they wrote on Jan 3: “Many Thanks for all your wonderful wishes. The Shop in Melrose will Not be opening again as a Butchers Shop. 4 Generations and nearly 200 years in the trade is enough.”
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “A 53-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl from Galashiels, who was reported missing on Sunday, 5 February.
“The girl was traced at a property in the Galashiels area around 9.30pm on Monday, 6 February. Enquiries into the circumstances are ongoing.”
The force refused to say why it had referred to the suspect as a man.
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73dcde No.18309768
>>18259733
>BBC Disclosure’s Beneath The Magic Circle Affair is available on BBC iPlayer now and will be on BBC One Scotland tonight at 10.40pm.(BST)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001htbp/disclosure-beneath-the-magic-circle-affair
After a senior Scottish lawyer is convicted on historic child abuse charges, BBC Disclosure speaks to his victims and explores how he hid his crimes for decades. Reporter Myles Bonnar also revisits a 30-year-old scandal that rocked the legal establishment. For the first time on camera, members of the police, press and judiciary look back on the so-called 'Magic Circle Affair' and its major players. We ask whether there was a dark circle of criminality operating beneath this scandal.
BBC Disclosure: Beneath the Magic Circle Affair
I've no video to post for this unless someone copies it to youtube in the future.
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08e7cb No.18310437
>>18303582
Thank You Anon!
I shared it over to General Research and Canada breads
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73dcde No.18320557
>>18245708
>>18245704
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/former-snp-minister-takes-dig-29166045
Former SNP Minister takes dig at 'inadequate' Scottish Government as he backs inquiry into child protection
Fergus Ewing wants to see the Scottish Government create a new inquiry that would include widening the remit of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry
By John Glover
8 FEB 2023
Former cabinet secretary Fergus Ewing has backed a petition calling for a new public inquiry into the mishandling of allegations about child protection, abuse and safeguarding as he took a dig at the SNP Government's 'inadequate' response.
The petition also called on Holyrood to "urge" the Scottish executive to extend the scope of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
The SNP MSP for Inverness and Nairn noted in the public petitions committee that there was cross-party consensus that the issue was not being "sufficiently well" dealt with, as parliamentarians have repeatedly raised individual cases of allegations around child protection failings, safeguarding and abuse.
The request calls for the Scottish Government to establish a new independent investigation to examine concerns that allegations about child protection, child abuse, child's rights and safeguarding have been mishandled by public bodies including councils and General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). It also wants to fill in gaps in the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
It called on the establishment of a national whistle-blowing officer for education and children's service to handle these inquiries in future. The petitioners believe that a "separate and wider inquiry into safeguarding".
Clare Haughey, the Minister for Children and Young People, claimed the SNP Government had learned from the extant SCAI and the English inquiry into child sex abuse and the revision of the national protection guidance and felt it did not need to extend the scope of the Scottish abuse inquiry or establish a separate probe into safeguarding allegations.
Mr Ewing who was the Scottish Government's former Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy and Tourism took a dig at the government as he called on the committee to give the petitioners a shot to take on "Goliath".
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73dcde No.18320576
>>18320557
……..continued….
He dismissed Ms Haughey's statement for shooting down the suggestions of extending the remit of the ongoing probe into historic abuse and establishing a new examination to look into the allegations and concerns raised, as he claimed the petitioners' suggestions were "very worthy of consideration".
He said: "I don't think the Scottish Government reply is adequate or sufficient by any many means. I note that several MSPs from all parties have raised individual cases, which I think is an indication that this matter is not sufficiently well dealt with at the moment.
"I make a plea to those present here today who have an interest in this, which is without further evidence from petitioners or others who have specific concerns it is a little bit difficult to move towards and identify solutions but, all the suggestions made are very worthy of serious consideration.
"I would make a plea for further information to be provided and particular cases to be made confidential. The last point I would make in this situation probably feels like David and Goliath situation, where they are David and the public authority is Goliath and feel very lonely, isolated, unempowered and hopeless to act.
"And very often the public authorities are not really listening. That is the experience I've had over many years as an MSP, therefore I think we need to give David that sling to take on Goliath."
The appeal referred to the Scottish Daily Express article about the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry being accused of ignoring Operation Planet and evidence of an establishment paedophile ring noting, "it would not only be tragic but erroneous for these not to be investigated by the SCAI given its clear remit."
The petitioners argued that in response to the minister's statement that a "distinct inquiry into wider allegation and whistle blower concerns about unresolved child protection issues, which relate to organised criminal exploitation and trafficking".
The petitioners highlight in their response "that the national child protection guidance is non-statuary and consider the guidance to be confusing, complex and somewhat contradictory".
Another nationalist MSP disagreed with the response from the Scottish Government as he called for the petition to be kept open so he could write to the GTCS, Scottish Social Council Services, EIS, Unison the Union and the Children's and Young People Commission.
David Torrance told the convener Jackson Carlaw that he wanted to gather more evidence from certain public bodies going against the government.
Scottish Conservative MSP added that he believes the petitioners have found a "gap" and believed there may be a necessity for a whistle-blower to be part of the process of inquiries.
Mr Stewart suggested writing to the Government on how it would wish to continue if the gaps were found by the committee.
Mr Carlaw concluded the committee saying: "There are some serious issues underpinning it that need to be properly examined and pursued and we've outlined a number of work streams we will pursue ahead of our next consideration of the petition."
Ms Haughey said: "Learnings from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the Independent inquiry into child sex abuse in England and the action such as the revised national protection guidance mean that the Scottish Government does not need to extend the scope of the SCAI or establish a separate inquiry to explore concerns and allegations about safeguarding".
>>18310437
>Thank You Anon!
>
>I shared it over to General Research and Canada breads
Thanks, appreciated friend anon.
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73dcde No.18321200
>>18320557
Fergus Ewing was against a Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry from the onset of calls for one from victims. He did not want an enquiry, Fergus Ewing is what this anon would refer to as a CUNT.
Incidentally, it has come to my attention that the Secret-ary to the SCAI was personally requested by Lady Ann Smith and that the personal secret-ary is none other than the daughter of Lord Culllen and that she (Lady Smith) is reported to be the "Godmother" to her secret-ary.
Nepotism anyone?
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73dcde No.18339895
>>18245708
>>>17950879, >>17950909 Nicola Sturgeon walks away after questions on husband's £107,000 'cashflow' loan to SNP (video)
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-told-explain-extraordinary-29201250
Nicola Sturgeon told to explain 'extraordinary coincidence' over Peter Murrell's £107k loan and SNP fraud probe
It has emerged the party's chief executive - and First Minister's husband - issued the cash the day after the party's National Executive Committee met to discuss the Police Scotland investigation
By Douglas Dickie
13 FEB 2023
Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to explain an "extraordinary coincidence" relating to her husband's £107,000 loan to the S NP and the fraud investigation into a 'missing' £600,000 from the party's coffers. It has emerged Peter Murrell handed over the money the day after party bosses met to discuss the ring-fenced independence fund that has prompted a Police Scotland probe.
Mr Murrell - who is also Ms Sturgeon's husband as well as being the SNP's chief executive - loaned the cash after concerns were raised about party finances. It has now been reported that the day before he issued the interest-free loan, a meeting of the SNP's National Executive Committee was held.
During this meeting, treasurer Colin Beattie is believed to have issued a statement aimed at offering members reassurance that the £600,000 would be spent on Scexit campaigning, according to reports in the Scottish Daily Mail on Monday. Speaking after the meeting, Mr Beattie said: "We will ensure an amount equivalent to the sums raised from these appeals will go directly to our work to secure a referendum and win independence."
Detectives launched an investigation into the £600,000 in July 2021 after concerns were raised by SNP members about what the money had been used for. Firebrand nationalist Sean Clerkin lodged a complaint about cash donated by supporters from 2017 that was supposed to be ringfenced for the campaign for a second Scexit referendum.
However, by the end of 2019, the party had only £96,000 in the bank. There have since been complaints regarding the length of the time the inquiry has taken and Mr Clerkin previously said both Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell "should have been questioned long before now".
It emerged last week that Mr Murrell's loan had broken numerous electoral reporting rules. And Ms Sturgeon was ridiculed after claiming she could not remember when her husband told her about the cash.
Of the latest revelation, Scottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said: "Nicola Sturgeon has serious questions to answer over this extraordinary coincidence in relation to her husband loaning his employer a six-figure sum. These questions are not going away and the situation is getting increasingly murky for those at the very top of the SNP.
"The public will quite rightly be concerned that the SNP's CEO and husband of the First Minister loaned over £100,000 to assist with cashflow issues only a day after the party's treasurer had sought to reassure members over their referendum-related donations. This stinks of SNP secrecy and it is time those involved were fully transparent with the public about what exactly went on here."
Detectives at Police Scotland finally handed a report on the "missing" £600,000 over to the Crown Office in January, requesting "further instruction". The force has since said it was "working closely" with the Crown Office.
The SNP has been approached for comment.
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73dcde No.18340087
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-given-message-loud-29206855
Nicola Sturgeon given the message loud and clear as 'resign' billboards pop up in Glasgow and Edinburgh
The Majority reckon it's time for the First Minister to quit with support for Scexit plummeting and her gender reforms widely opposed among voters
By Douglas Dickie
13 FEB 2023
The wishes of Scots could not be clearer for Nicola Sturgeon - it's time to go. And in case she didn't get the message, new billboards have popped up in Glasgow and Edinburgh with the slogan 'ResignSturgeon'.
The campaign is down to pro-Union group The Majority and 150 donors who contributed to a crowdfunding campaign for the billboards. There are eight across Scotland's two largest cities.
It comes after a new poll over the weekend suggested 42 per cent of voters want the First Minister to resign immediately while a mammoth 76 per cent had concerns over her flagship gender recognition reform. And on Monday, another survey suggested support for Scexit was plummeting and Scots backed the UK Government in blocking the gender bill.
The Majority said the campaign "is a simple and direct message to Nicola Sturgeon to take responsibility for her catastrophic handling of the Scottish Government". Mark Devlin, founder of The Majority, said: "While the majority of Scots want the Scottish Government to focus on the cost-of-living crisis, energy bills and a failing health service, Nicola Sturgeon has spent the past eight years dividing Scots, promoting Green extremists to government, and picking unnecessary and costly fights with Westminster.
"Her Gender Reform Bill is just the latest example of how out of touch she is with ordinary Scottish people’s priorities. Instead of putting rapists into female prisons, she must resign so the country can move on."
The campaign message - #ResignSturgeon - is part of an ongoing grassroots hashtag campaign on Twitter that has had hundreds of thousands of retweets and responses and regularly appears on Twitter’s ‘trending’ lists of the social network’s most popular hashtags.
The Majority says the campaign is funded wholly by donations to a crowdfunder that has raised almost £5600 to date. Funds that come in after the billboards are displayed will be used to promote the campaign on social media.
The Majority's #ResignSturgeon billboard campaigns and aerial banner for the 2021 Scottish election were seen by hundreds of thousands of Scots and featured in over 70 newspapers worldwide.
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73dcde No.18340354
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>18245704
>>18309768
>BBC Disclosure: Beneath the Magic Circle Affair
https://youtu.be/2u9ZSNkgukQ
Magic Circle Affair, Radio Scotland, 31-1-2023
Border Bioscope
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90 views 1 Feb 2023
The Magic Circle Affair. Bob Henderson and John Watt. BBC Radio Scotland FM. Plant based diet for hospitals and schools.
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73dcde No.18342452
>>18245704
>>18245708
John Halley, twitter Aug 15th 2022
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley
1.
15th August 2022 tweets.
links to..
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/call-inquiry-scots-historical-sex-abuse-1999957
Call for inquiry into Scots historical sex abuse
WOMAN’S allegations she was assaulted by her father and a Tory MP bring Magic Circle and paedophile ring claims back in spotlight
By DANI GARAVELLI
17th Aug 2014
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/218554/john-swinney-says-child-abuse-inquiry-row-centred-use-public-cash/
John Swinney says child abuse inquiry row centred on use of public cash
By Press Association
July 5 2016
2
AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
Replying to
@LustraSmallFry
It looks like the government didn’t want O’Brien at the helm.
11:17 AM · Aug 15, 2022
3
2 expanded
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-36713198
Timeline: Events leading to Susan O'Brien's resignation
5 July 2016
https://twitter.com/AuldAussie/status/1559121983207788544
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2 expanded
John Halley Advocate Retweeted
Louise Slorance
@LouiseSlorance
·
Aug 15, 2022
Replying to
@AuldAussie
@AdvocateHalley
and
@JohnSwinney
Yet @scotgov
refused to remove the chief executive of NHSGGC when it is clear they have covered up the deaths of at least 4 patients from environmental HA infection over a period of years and with more suspected.
5
John Halley Advocate Retweeted
SHA Scotland
@shascotland
The patients locked in secure hospitals for decades - They remain unable to get out despite Scottish ministers saying 22 years ago that they should be living independently in the community.
Kyle Gibbon - older kilt pic
bbc.co.uk
The patients locked in secure hospitals for decades
Fifteen Scots with learning disabilities and autism have been living in hospitals for 20 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62477095
The patients locked in secure hospitals for decades
Published
15 August 2022
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73dcde No.18347503
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The "24" COUNTDOWN begins
#TikTokSturgeon
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YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>18245708
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https://youtu.be/R1u6GwyyRnc
Nicola Sturgeon resigns as Scotland's first minister - BBC News
Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is resigning as Scotland's first minister after more than eight years in the role.
Ms Sturgeon said she had been “wrestling” with the decision for some weeks, but that she knew "in my head and in my heart" it was the right time to step down.
She made the announcement at a hastily-arranged news conference at her official residence in Edinburgh, UK.
Ms Sturgeon is Scotland's longest-serving first minister and the first woman to hold the position.
She confirmed she will remain in office until the Scottish National Party, which she leads, elect her successor.
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73dcde No.18355354
>>18245704
>>18342452
More from Aug 16th.
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John Halley Advocate Retweeted
Fraser Morton
@frasermorton07
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Aug 15, 2022
The irony is that I'm childless, in part, because of the actions of a cold hearted b***h and her childhood obsession.
Remind me again, who cut nurse and midwife numbers when they were CS for Health?
dailymail.co.uk
Sturgeon says women who prioritise their career are seen as 'b****es'
The First Minister, now 52, who has been married to fellow SNP stalwart Peter Murrell for more than…
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11109253/Nicola-Sturgeon-says-women-prioritise-career-seen-cold-hearted-b-es.html
Nicola Sturgeon says women who prioritise their career over having children are seen as 'cold-hearted b****es'
* Nicola Sturgeon, 52, is married to SNP stalwart Peter Murrell for over a decade
* First Minister has got scrutiny over why she never had children during her career
* She revealed in 2016 that she suffered a miscarriage five years earlier
* And said in interview people think women do not have a family are 'b****es'
By Georgia Edkins
13 August 2022
Women who do not have children are dismissed as ‘cold-hearted bitches’ who prioritise their careers over having a family, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The First Minister, now 52, who has been married to fellow Scottish National Party stalwart Peter Murrell for more than a decade, has in the past been heavily scrutinised over why she never had children.
However, in 2016 she revealed she had suffered a miscarriage five years earlier.
Yesterday, in an interview with The Guardian, she said it was important to speak out about her experience, ‘because if you are a woman, particularly in a senior position without children, there is an assumption made that you’re a cold-hearted b**** that has decided to prioritise your career over having children’.
She said that while her personal life had been subject to excessive scrutiny and commentary, ‘men don’t get that’. She added: ‘The perfect illustration is [Alex] Salmond – I can’t recall a single interview that he did in his entire time as First Minister or SNP leader about why he didn’t have children.’
Miss Sturgeon also said she felt a responsibility to reduce the stigma surrounding the menopause, adding: ‘If there are things you can do to try to move the dial a little bit, I’ve got some obligation to do that.’
When asked to define what makes a woman – a question which has either tripped up or been dodged by many senior politicians – she said it included women who were born women and those who were transgender. She added: ‘The vast majority of women are people like us, who were born women and are biological women, and a very small number who are trans women – who are women.’
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73dcde No.18355595
>>18245704
>>18352181
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John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
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Aug 15, 2022
Charteris said: “This means that the prosecutor must often, to prevent the case from time-barring, commence proceedings against people who have provisionally been identified as victims.”
thetimes.co.uk
Swift checks needed on slavery suspects
Scotland’s most senior law officer has written to the Home Office to urge high-ranking civil servants to accelerate the checks made to determine whether childr…
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley/status/1559204471162507267
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/swift-checks-needed-on-slavery-suspects-7blpbrz7h
Swift checks needed on slavery suspects
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John Halley Advocate
@AdvocateHalley
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Aug 15, 2022
I'm so pleased @bespaceaware
has picked up on the unacceptable contradiction in commencing criminal proceedings against children who are simultaneously recognise as victims. VICTIMS. The ultimate in secondary victimisation courtesy of COPFS. Welcome to Scotland!
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SPACE
@bespaceaware
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Aug 15, 2022
' .there is a strong presumption against prosecuting YP..forced into criminality bt UK bureaucracy means they cannot easily discern btw criminals & victims.'
🔨Nailed.
Meanwhile, victims not RIC continue going missing, aka UK trafficked, exposed to harms few adults will know/see twitter.com/AdvocateHalley…
https://twitter.com/bespaceaware/status/1559275896460148736
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73dcde No.18358001
>>18352181
>Nicola Sturgeon resigns as Scotland's first minister - BBC News
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11748861/Nearly-50-Police-Scotland-quit-misconduct-proceedings-against-completed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
Nearly 50 Police Scotland officers have resigned or retired from the force to avoid misconduct proceedings against them
* Figures reveal 47 Scottish police officers facing disciplinaries quit since 2019
* Scottish law allows hearings to be dropped if officers resign, unlike England
By Stewart Carr
14 February 2023
Forty-seven police officers in Scotland facing misconduct allegations have resigned or retired since 2019 before their hearings could be concluded, it has been revealed.
Unlike forces in England and Wales, officers working for Police Scotland who are facing disciplinary proceedings can close the cases against them by quitting.
Last year, Nicola Sturgeon's Government pledged to change the rules for police misconduct hearings - allowing them to continue after an officer's departure - but it has yet to pass the required legislation.
In its announcement last year, the SNP-led administration said its goal was to 'promote transparency' but a rival Conservative MSP has blasted the latest figures as 'further evidence of Scotland's dysfunctional system of police complaints and governance'.
The figures emerged through a Freedom Of Information request by BBC Newsnight, the BBC reports.
Police Scotland currently employs 16,644 full-time police officers.
The misconduct figures obtained through the BBC's FOI reveal that 12 officers under investigation left the force in 2019, followed by 15 in 2020, 16 in 2021 and four last year.
The figures also show that the Scottish constabulary received 332 gross misconduct claims, and 1,182 general allegations of misconduct among its staff over the same period.
Dame Elish Aniolini, the former Lord Advocate, made a series of 111 recommendations in her independent 2020 report which explored how police complaints are handled.
Dame Elish suggested the misconduct rules should match those of England and Wales. In those countries, the Policing and Crime Act 2017 allow disciplinary proceedings to carry on even if an accused officer quits their role.
She said: 'I believe there is a strong public interest in dealing fully and thoroughly with police officers' gross misconduct after they have left the police service and no longer hold the important office of constable/
'[If appropriate] their names [should be] added to Police Barred and Advisory Lists which I also recommend should be maintained for Scotland.'
In a public consultation which followed Dame Elish's review, Scottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown insisted the devolved Government would weigh up the responses.
But the Scottish Police Federation has opposed proposals which would stop officers to voluntarily resigning while awaiting the outcome of cases against them.
General secretary-elect David Kennedy said: 'The main point in gross misconduct proceedings is to make sure that police officers who remain in service are fit to hold the office of constable.
'Someone resigning gets the same result as any misconduct process would and is at much less cost to the public purse.'
He added there was 'no financial gain' for an officer to be dismissed instead of resigning.
Conservative MSP Russell Findlay blasted the figure as 'further evidence of Scotland's dysfunctional system of police complaints and governance'.
Speaking to the Scottish Daily Express, he said: 'The significant number of officers being investigated for misconduct continued to suggest deep-rooted problems within the force.
'These issues and Scotland's broken complaints system were laid bare in Lady Elish Angiolini's watershed report. But the dithering SNP government have been far too slow in acting on her 111 recommendations.'
Deputy Chief Constable Fiona Taylor said: 'Police Scotland demands the highest levels of integrity from our officers and staff and when someone fails to meet this standard we take the appropriate action. We have no ability under current conduct regulations to prevent an officer from resigning.'
Connected?
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73dcde No.18360890
>>18355595
https://twitter.com/AdvocateHalley
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Some discussion on the topic of secondary victimisation.
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John Halley Advocate Retweeted
AuldAussie
@AuldAussie
Victims call for Scotland to legislate for mandatory reporting of child abuse by staff in schools. This already exists in most countries but not Scotland. What have the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry done about it? Absolutely nothing…
theguardian.com
Alex Renton: the abuse survivor still shining light on ‘vicious’ elite schools
BBC Radio 4’s In Dark Corners gives platform to those who suffered abuse in British private schools
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jul/27/alex-renton-private-school-abuse-radio-series-in-dark-corners?CMP=share_btn_tw
Alex Renton: the abuse survivor still shining light on ‘vicious’ elite schools
Alex Renton decided to speak out about the abuse he suffered at one of Britain’s elite private schools after reading an article in 2013 that made him realise his abusers could still be teaching – and hurting other children.
Renton says he had made a sort of peace with his horrific schoolboy experiences but decided that day that he nevertheless owed it to others “who might need revenge, relief from the history – or money” to speak out and give them his support.
Since then, Renton has helped fellow survivors through direct support, his books and articles, and now a BBC Radio 4 series, In Dark Corners, which gives a platform to those who suffered abuse in British independent schools.
But still he is not finished: he has, he says, a database of more than 800 criminal allegations from former schoolchildren of 300 mainly private boarding schools.
The allegations keep coming. This Wednesday, on a podcast inspired by Renton’s series, the TV presenter Nicky Campbell spoke with the journalist about the “horrific” abuse he experienced and witnessed during his days as a private schoolboy at the fee-paying Edinburgh academy in the 1970s; revelations that have prompted even more survivors to get in touch with Renton.
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73dcde No.18360901
>>18360890
“I have 50 new emails containing criminal allegations that require serious attention from me,” he says. But it is not just the numbers involved: Renton continues to be shocked by the “vicious” lengths to which schools go to avoid being held to account for the historical sexual abuse that went on behind their gates.
“What I still find absolutely shocking is that grand and often self-regarding institutions – and the grand men who ran them and can still run them – agreed to what I think of as the worst crime of all, which is not being someone who grooms a child and abuses them but of knowing that that is happening under your watch and letting it continue or allowing that person to go to another school and continue their career of abuse,” Renton says.
As if to prove his point, Renton reveals he spent Wednesday morning responding to a letter from one of the schools he named in a recent edition of In Dark Corners threatening legal action. “It’s hard not to conclude that for many schools, including the most eminent, reputation still comes before child safety and transparency,” he says.
Rather than work to understand what has happened and how to prevent it happening again, schools too often act to protect themselves and their reputations from accusations of historical child abuse. “In this context,” Renton says, “‘historic[al]’ can mean something that happened just five years ago”.
He adds: “The schools first try to placate parents, while not admitting any responsibility. If the case goes to court despite their efforts, they use very expensive lawyers to keep the school’s names out of the court papers on grounds of protecting the children. What that means is that the school’s failings in tolerating an abuser don’t get revealed so they can avoid addressing it.”
Richard Scorer, the head of abuse law at Slater & Gordon, who represented many of Jimmy Savile’s victims, has had many similar experiences. “Many private residential schools have changed their legal status over past decades – dissolving the company through which they operated and becoming a new legal entity, in some cases more than once,” he says.
“In some instances, it appears that this has been done deliberately in order to escape legal liability for past abuse. Where liabilities are not transferred to the new entity, and no insurance existed for the old one, claims for damages can be stymied and victims are left uncompensated.”
Part of the solution would be to have mandatory reporting of sexual abuse in schools. Tom Perry, founder of Mandate Now and the first complainant in the Caldicott school child sexual abuse scandal, has long campaigned for those working in schools, healthcare and faith settings to have a statutory obligation to report known or suspected abuse.
“It sounds incredible but reporting of known or suspected abuse is discretionary,” he says. “All we have – unlike other countries including France, America and Australia – is an expectation that a report ‘should’ be made.”
Perry dismisses claims that “it’s all different now”.
“The foundations of institutional safeguarding, which we are attempting to overhaul, remain unchanged since the 50s,” he says. “The current law is an unwieldy patchwork of inconsistencies with hundreds of different rules in different places.”
In the absence of a legal overhaul, Renton believes boarding schools are simply unsafe. “I’m the first person in my family in about seven generations not to send their children to boarding school,” he says. “I just wouldn’t do it. I think it’s perfectly clear that there is a type of person who likes to prey on children in organised institutions and the law doesn’t protect children from those people, nor does it protect whistleblowers who try to help.”
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>>18352181
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10233280/police-sturgeon-snp-husband-questioned-fraud/
QUIZ QUERY Cops urged to reveal if Nicola Sturgeon or SNP boss husband have been quizzed over ‘fundraising fraud’
Chris Musson
16 Feb 2023
POLICE chiefs tonight faced calls to disclose if they have interviewed Nicola Sturgeon or her SNP chief executive husband over alleged fundraising fraud.
The demands come after the First Minister and Police Scotland refused to say if she had been quizzed - and appeared to rule out confirming if she will be questioned in future.
Detectives are now 18 months into an inquiry into what happened to nearly £500,000 cash the SNP raised for a referendum campaign in a 2017 online crowdfunder.
Tory MSP Russell Findlay said the public should be told if Ms Sturgeon or SNP chief exec husband Peter Murrell are interviewed.
He said: “It would be extraordinary for Scotland’s national police service to think it appropriate to keep secret something of such fundamental importance.
“The people of Scotland are entitled to know whether the First Minister or her SNP boss husband are questioned by detectives as part of an inquiry into alleged fraud.
“Such a refusal would be especially wrong given that concerns have already been raised about transparency and due process in relation to this investigation.”
On Tuesday, the First Minister dodged answering if she’d been grilled as she took questions at her resignation press conference.
It came days after it emerged cops had reportedly stepped up their probe.
And sources said cops investigating into the affair may also look at a £107,620 loan to the party from Mr Murrell.
As she finished her Bute House press conference yesterday, Ms Sturgeon said: “I’m not going to discuss an ongoing police investigation, I wouldn’t do that on any issue and I’m not going to do it now.”
Later, a Police Scotland spokesperson said the force wouldn’t confirm who it speaks to as part of an ongoing investigation.
Today the force declined to comment beyond a statement on Wednesday which said: “A report which outlines enquiries already undertaken and seeks further instruction has been submitted to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
"We are working closely with COPFS as the investigation continues.”
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>>18360962
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10234902/snp-figureheads-nicola-sturgeon/
OUT THE RACE Two heavyweight SNP figureheads will NOT stand to replace Nicola Sturgeon
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https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-labels-nicola-sturgeon-29228142
>>18352181
Donald Trump labels Nicola Sturgeon a 'failed woke extremist' as he welcomes her resignation
The former American President and the First Minister have never seen eye-to-eye and the businessman has said "good riddance" to the SNP leader quitting her role.
By David Walker
15 FEB 2023
Former US President Donald Trump has said his farewell to his old nemesis Nicola Sturgeon as he labelled her a "woke extremist" in a scathing attack.
The pair never saw eye-to-eye during the businessman's time in the White House, with the First Minister often critical of the Republican's policies and attitude.
And now Mr Trump, who is plotting another run to be President, has made his feelings clear as he claimed that Scotland would be much better off without Ms Sturgeon in charge.
READ MORE: Hundreds celebrate Nicola Sturgeon's departure at Glasgow's George Square with massive conga line
He released a statement through his own social media platform Truth Social where he claimed that the SNP leader had tried to stop him building his golf courses in Scotland.
Turnberry and Trump International are operated by the businessman but both made massive losses over the last five years and were subjected to massive scrutiny by the Scottish Government.
He said: "Good riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland! This crazed leftist symbolises everything wrong with identity politics.
"Sturgeon thought it was OK to put a biological man in a women’s prison, and if that wasn’t bad enough, Sturgeon fought for a 'Gender Recognition Reform Bill' that would have allowed 16-year-old children to change their gender without medical advice.
"I built the greatest golf properties in the world in Scotland, but she fought me all the way, making my job much more difficult. The wonderful people of Scotland are much better off without Sturgeon in office!"
It was an obvious rebuke to Ms Sturgeon who had previously criticised the former American President and said "Don't haste ye back" when asked about his reign.
She told Holyrood in 2021: "I'm sure many of us across the chamber and across Scotland will be very happy to say cheerio to Donald Trump today.
"Don't haste you back might be the perfect rejoinder to him and in advance of the inauguration later on I'm sure we would all want to send our congratulations to Joe Biden."
Ms Sturgeon has also criticised Mr Trump a number of other times and showed her dislike for him. While on her taxpayer-funded American junket, she told gathering citizens not to re-elect him "at any point."
It was in response to a question at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC where she was asked about what the US could to better assist European energy security. She replied: "Don’t re-elect Trump at any point."
Ms Sturgeon resigned as First Minister during a hastily arranged press conference at Bute House on Wednesday where she said she had decided that it was time for her to go.
But she did not blame any of her most recent scandals, including surrounding her party's murky financials or the gender reforms and in particular the Isla Bryson scandal.
Instead, she detailed how "in my head and in my heart I know that time is now. That it's right for me, for my party and my country." She added: "If the question is: can I battle on for another few months? Then the answer is yes, of course I can.
"Since my very first moments in the job I have believed a part of serving well would be to know almost instinctively when the time is right to make way for someone else.
"But if the question is: can I give this job everything it demands and deserves for another year, let alone for the remainder of this parliamentary term, give it every ounce of energy that it needs in the way that I have strived to do every day for the last eight years? The answer honestly is different."
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