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Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
This article about Marra's EU membership call reinforces our belief that the Scotland Office is influencing BBC Scotland news output. There's no mention that this is a U-turn. Last month Marra cited political instability as a reason *not* to rejoin. Why has he changed his mind?
Marra's lack of detail isn't mentioned - i.e. what's the mechanism to rejoin? Another EURef? If so, what if the four parts of the UK vote differently again, does England call the shots ... again?
What about currency? The SNP is always being told an Indy Scotland would have to adopt the Euro. What about post-Brexit trade deals? What about fishing?
The article is stripped of all journalistic curiosity and scrutiny. Andrew Kerr's 'analysis' reads like a statement from Scottish Labour.
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Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
Left: Five times on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Nigel Farage claimed the UK couldn’t control EU immigration under freedom of movement and had an 'open door policy' - that’s a lie.
Right: In 2017, Femi got him to admit on LBC that EU rules allowed restrictions. “Femi, in theory, you’re right.”
My view:
There was no “open doors” policy with the EU. Freedom of movement was and still is managed migration.
Freedom of movement meant British citizens could live and work in any of the other 27 EU countries, and their citizens could do the same here.
After three months, an EU citizen could stay in the UK if they were working or self-employed.
Students and people living on their own funds could also stay if they had enough money to support themselves and comprehensive health cover.
That’s Article 7 of EU Directive 2004/38/EC.
Article 14(4)(b) also protected jobseekers who could show they were still looking for work and had a genuine chance of finding it.
Article 8 allowed the UK to require EU citizens staying longer than three months to register.
The UK chose not to apply these rules.
Just as it was the UK government’s choice to impose austerity and cut public services, causing real frustration and making life more difficult for people.
At the end of the video, Femi warns that ending freedom of movement could lead to more immigration. And that’s exactly what happened. Under the UK’s post-Brexit rules, put in place by lead Brexiter Boris Johnson, net migration rose to 944,000 in the year to March 2023.
Five times Laura Kuenssberg could have corrected Nigel Farage on his remarks, five times she ignored it. It's this type of dishonesty from journalists who drive narratives instead of providing objective analysis.
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"When we recognise that genocide is happening to anyone, anywhere, we Jews know our duty is to condemn it and act against it."
NEW: 260 British Jews – among them British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, human rights barrister Margaret Owen OBE and journalist and politician @andrewfeinstein – have accused the @BoardofDeputies of genocide denial in an open letter.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
The UK awarded £10.7m in NEW public contracts to firms linked to illegal israeli settlements, despite gov’t pledges to stop funding them aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/1…
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
If anybody’s unsure as to why Farage’s Reform Party is nosediving in the polls, here’s your answer
Sarah Pochin furious at Russell Brand’s sentencing because some brown folk got lesser sentences
I know Runcorn well, and they won’t make this mistake again
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
NEW: Palantir lobbied a Scottish Labour MP to consider extending its AI technology into GP records in England, according to reports
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
Shocking from Laura Maciver. The BBC presenter didn't challenge Times reporter Helen Puttick's claim that the SNP had "turned a blind eye to the pressures on the NHS for a long period of time".
Letting a guest launch political attacks without challenge breaches BBC guidelines. Puttick has effectively accused the SNP of deliberately ignoring the pressures on the NHS and, by extension, of allowing patients to be harmed.
Helen Puttick is regularly used as a client pundit by BBC Scotland to provide anti-SNP commentary on the NHS. We've highlighted her appearances regularly. She is used despite the station already having its own dedicated health correspondent. How much public cash is being wasted?
Maciver's refusal to challenge Puttick's political attack is sadly a practice we are seeing more and more from BBC Scotland's sock-puppet presenters as the station succumbs to its growing BritNat tabloid culture.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
How corrupt is BBC Scotland? During Covid the station began platforming campaign groups critical of Scottish Govt measures. The political background of the people behind the groups was concealed. Michael Marra was presented as a concerned grandfather. Yes, *that* Michael Marra.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
UK (sic) youth job crisis is 55% greater than anything in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
BBC Scotland's playbook isn't difficult to spot these days. Anything that *can* be politicised *will* be politicised. "Has there been any political reaction?" you'll often hear the sock-puppet presenter ask as the reporter reels off the BritNat attack quotes.
Lifting smear stories from BritNat newspapers is also increasing [Swinney air travel, Flynn emails etc] as is the exploitation of people who've encountered tragic misfortune and who, understandably, want someone to blame.
There's no sleight of hand any more as reporters and presenters alike brazenly push political agendas, treat trade unions as though charitable organisations without political links to Labour and conceal the political background of 'impartial' guests.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
England & Wales have 'softest touch' as they release FOUR times as many per head 'dangerous prisoners' early than Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
A terminal cancer patient in England was left in a hospital cupboard for 48 hours as corridor care is normalised in the English NHS. Remember this when, as it will, BBC Scotland politicises corridor care and hands a platform to Unionist parties to attack the SNP.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
Nelson Mandela helped @JuanManSantos imagine peace in Colombia. Later, as President, he achieved it.
Delivering the 24th @NelsonMandela Annual Lecture, he reflected on when peace requires leaders to listen and when it demands they speak out.
theelders.org/news/south-afr…
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
Is BAE colluding with your university to crush dissent on campus?
Lorna Hosford for Double Down Newswatch.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
"I told a police officer that my son was missing. 'Please help me find him,' and she said 'If you can't find your son, how do you expect police officers to find your son for you?'"
The way that jancrow added to Evidence Joel's trauma is disgusting. RIP, Richard Okorogheye.
Today we mark what would have been the 25th birthday of Richard Okorogheye.
On 22 March 2021, Richard - who lived with sickle cell disease - was 19 when he left his home and travelled to Loughton in Essex. He was unfortunately found deceased two weeks later.
Richard's untimely death has been devastating for his mother Evidence, and she has worked tirelessly to campaign for answers, accountability and meaningful change following a lack of police response in the early days of Richard's disappearance.
Richard's legacy lives on in his mother's pursuit for justice in ensuring other missing Black people's stories are heard and are given a fair response by the media and relevant authorities.
We are thinking of Evidence today and continue to send her our deepest condolences.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
The Chancellor admitted that Scotland’s energy wealth would now be over £1 trillion.
But this wealth doesn’t exist — because the UK Government squandered it and pocketed the profits.
And that’s why Scottish households are paying £1200 more for their energy bills than Labour promised.
Taking control of our energy is not only crucial to build the wealth for Scotland’s future — it’s the only way to ensure that energy rich Scotland isn’t paying some of the highest bills across Europe.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
@ScotNational Read more here: thenational.scot/news/267001…
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
Hassan Jabareen from Adalah: You have more than 60 laws that discriminate directly against Palestinians
Its called apartheid.
A reminder that in 2024 the ICJ found that Israel is an apartheid state.
Paul Robertson. 🏴🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 retweeted
Andy Burnham's promise of 10-year plan crumbles The Prime Minister orchestrated the most dramatic bloodless coup in Britain’s recent political history and arrived at No 10 Downing Street empty handed.
thenational.scot/news/267002…
