“‘Enough Is Enough’: Farage Leads a Scottish Uprising as Labour and SNP Lose Control”
We now know Scotland’s biggest city is housing more asylum seekers than any other local authority in the UK – almost 4,000 by the end of September.
All funded by Scottish taxpayers who have never been asked to approve the open-door policies of the SNP and Labour Party, or told the truth about what’s happening to their nation.
And more illegal immigrants are heading north every week. Most of them are young men of fighting age, with no registered identity or nationality – having thrown their ID into the Channel on their way to Britain.
They are put up at public expense and left free to roam the streets of Scotland.
Meanwhile, uncontrolled immigration is changing Scottish cities almost beyond recognition. Just this week we learned the staggering fact that nearly one in three children in Glasgow does not speak English as their first language.
There was total uproar when I had the temerity to point this out on social media earlier in the week.
Glasgow City Council has also declared a housing crisis, with waiting lists at a record high.
Today, I will be in Scotland, at a sold-out Reform UK rally in Falkirk, speaking to Scottish people who have had enough of all this. Falkirk has become a symbol of Scotland’s anger over the asylum crisis.
Nigel Farage says Scottish politics is now a straight fight between the SNP and Reform
In June, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant from Afghanistan, who was housed in Falkirk’s Cladhan Hotel, was jailed for nine years for raping a 15-year old girl in broad daylight in the town centre.
Sadeq Nikzad’s defence solicitor told the court that there was a ‘cultural barrier’ between Scotland and his home country, where child marriage was common. That is a disgrace.
The assault has sparked weekly protests outside the Cladhan Hotel.
Reform Councillor Claire Mackie-Brown from Falkirk has been a vocal supporter of the campaign.
The immigration crisis is one reason why Reform UK is on the march in Scotland.
We have come from nowhere to beat the fading Labour Party in local by-elections from Clydebank to Fife, and, nationally, we’ve surged to second for the first time.
Scottish politics is now a straight fight between the SNP, the party of the old establishment, and Reform – the party of radical change. The old system is broken.
The public know it, and they have had enough. Those in the Scottish parliament who express astonishment at the rise of Reform should try to answer this question: after 26 years of SNP and Labour rule in Scotland, how has life in this proud nation changed for the better?
Under the SNP and Labour Party – alongside Tory governments in London – Scotland has been deindustrialised.
The crazed pursuit of Net Zero targets has created soaring energy costs for homes and businesses, in the process destroying well-paid jobs in the oil and gas industries.
Now the SNP and Labour want to impose Net Zero in Scotland even faster than the rest of the UK.
Scotland’s only remaining oil refinery at Grangemouth – the oldest in Britain – has been closed. ExxonMobil has shut down the Mossmoran ethylene plant in Fife with the potential loss of over 400 local jobs.
The vital oil and gas industries around North-East Scotland continue to crumble into the sea, with Labour energy chief Ed Miliband and the SNP government banning new North Sea exploration and hammering ahead with their ruinous crusade against fossil fuels.
It’s a similar story of failure wherever you look. Scottish education was once the envy of the world. Under the SNP, Scotland crashed down international school league tables.
Meanwhile, Scottish universities face a funding crisis due to SNP policy, resulting in more Scottish youngsters being replaced by international students.
Crime is rising across Scotland, notably rapes and sexual assaults in the cities.
Drug deaths in Scotland remain the highest in Europe.
NHS waiting lists are still longer than ever before, with an exodus of doctors and medical professionals due to high tax.
Around a quarter of a million children in Scotland live in poverty.
Both Labour and the SNP are to blame for this shameful record of 26 years of failure. Little wonder Scottish voters are turning to Reform in record numbers. Campaigning in recent months, I have felt something remarkable happening across Scotland.
Everywhere I go, people tell me they want to vote for change – and that they are counting on Reform UK to make change happen. It’s humbling to hear that, and it’s a responsibility that we take seriously.
We cannot allow the same parties that broke Scotland to pretend that they are now the solution. But there is another way.
Reform UK believes in the potential of Scotland to rise again.
We would scrap Net Zero targets and utilise the treasure of the North Sea to cut energy costs and create jobs.
Reform will always support Scotland’s fishermen and farmers who have been sold out by Keir Starmer. We will do everything we can to cut the public spending bill that is such a burden on hard-working, tax-paying Scottish people.
We can turn around lawless Scotland with a crackdown on crime, recruiting more police and deploying stop and search to drive knives off Scottish streets.
And Reform will end the asylum crisis in Scotland and across Britain.
Glasgow is now housing more asylum seekers than any other local authority in the UK
We will not just close the asylum hotels, but we will detain and deport thousands of illegal immigrants.
We will stop the boats bringing any more illegal immigrants to our shores, if necessary using the Royal Navy.
Perhaps most importantly, a Reform UK government will quit the European Convention on Human Rights and scrap Tony Blair’s UK Human Rights Act, to stop the courts siding with illegal immigrants against the British people.
What’s happening in Scotland mirrors what is happening all over Britain. Reform has now topped more than 175 successive UK opinion polls.
We’re winning over millions of voters – including many who’ve never voted before. We are turning people’s anger into hope.
When I returned to politics last year, it was for three reasons: Family, Community, Country. These three words have struck a powerful chord with people across the UK.
In May’s Scottish elections my party will stand on a programme that, for the first time, puts the people of Scotland first.
The SNP and Labour have failed Scotland. Reform can make Scotland a nation to be proud of once again.
