\n According to the latest poll, Reform UK are on course to come second in the Scottish parliamentary elections, so what have they got to offer Scotland?\n<\/p>\n
\n Farage intends to abolish the Scottish Parliament, reintroduce prescription charges, privatise the National Health<\/a> Service, and end free university education.\n<\/p>\n \n Is any Scottish voter going to vote Reform knowingly? Farage stated that \u201cScotland is spending OUR money on free university education.\u201d Is he aware that Scotland gives \u00a3200 billion to the UK Treasury and has one-eighth or the population of the UK as a whole? Why did no-one challenge this?\n<\/p>\n \n READ MORE:<\/strong> Reform UK ‘tax calculator’ shows plans will most benefit super-rich<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n He also plans to build detention centres for unwanted visitors. Without migrants, the NHS would soon be chronically short of labour. Why did no-one challenge this? Without migrants the NHS would be chronically short of Labour.\n<\/p>\n \n Farage is the architect of Brexit and so potential voters are electing him on the basis of his disaster. His popularity is based on scapegoating. All our problems have a direct correlation with immigration, migration or asylum seekers, they say. For Scottish voters, immigration policy is reserved to Westminster<\/a>. Scotland has no control who comes here. In Scotland, the culture is \u201cno matter where you\u2019re from, everybody\u2019s local.\u201d Until now. Counter their argument by asking who the biggest group of migrants are. Poles, Africans, South Asians? They will be surprised when your reply is: 700,000 English people! How many Scots are in London?\n<\/p>\n \n A look at Farage\u2019s ancestry shows that he is undoubtedly Huguenot, that is French \u201cprotestant,\u201d who were persecuted by the Roman Church. It is widely accepted that his ancestors fled France for the English coast. Farage was born in Kent so his ancestors did not migrate very far. His ancestors, in other words, were asylum seekers! Had it not been for the kindness of the good people of Kent, his ancestors would literally have been dead in the water.\n<\/p>\n \n READ MORE:<\/strong> Experts weigh in as Reform declare war on universities<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n \n It is interesting to note that Reform supporters voted against the Conservatives in the last UK election, and now Reform resembles a nursing home for ex-Tories<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n \n The Reform story is one of hypocrisy, corruption and the gullibility of Scots voters \u2013 once dubbed the most politically aware in Europe, thanks to Hardie, Maclean, Gallacher and Maxton.\n<\/p>\n \n Reform will cause untold damage to a progressive Scotland.\n<\/p>\n \n WJ Graham \n THE most economic damage to our country in the last decade has been caused by Brexit \u2013 no ifs, no buts. The impact on our economy has been staggering and quite frankly breathtaking.\n<\/p>\n \n So, we need to ask ourselves who was responsible for promoting Brexit? Well, it was none other than the Leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage MP. Brexit came hot on the heels of 14 years of austerity handed out by the Conservatives, a time when the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, something that is still with us today under a Labour government.\n<\/p>\n \n With this record in mind and all the baggage, how on earth are recent opinion polls for the Holyrood<\/a> election in May indicating Reform UK could become the main opposition in Scotland?\n<\/p>\n
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