Chapter 1: What insights does Nigel Farage share about the changing political landscape in Scotland?
Wow. Week six and we're still going. But boy, I mean, we've put everything into this. Absolutely thrown everything at this. So the one thing I'll be able to say to myself on May the 7th at 10 o'clock when the polls close is come whatever the results, whatever joys or disappointments or whatever happens, I can look myself in the mirror and say I did my best. Welcome to the Reform UK podcast.
I'm Ray Addison, and this week I'm taking you behind the scenes of Reform's election campaign in Scotland. There's too many freebies and goodies to be had versus looking after our local people. As Nigel said, it's week six, and with postal votes about to land on doorsteps, the race is entering a critical phase where many will make up their minds.
I'm not sure yet. I'm actually still thinking about who to vote for.
In 2013, protesters tried to make Nigel feel like an intruder in hostile territory, drowning out his message with heckles and disruption. But as you'll hear, things have changed. Well done. Welcome to Glasgow.
After nearly two decades in power, the SNP has left Scotland with record NHS waiting lists, Europe's highest drug death rate, a stagnant economy and crumbling public services, a legacy of chronic failure and broken promises for all to see. And now Nigel's being welcomed by many with open arms.
The great thing about making statements that others dare not make is you make them and then when you get confronted with the outrage, you double down and go further. That is the tactic. I think Trump learned that from me. We begin on Monday the 13th of April. At the PMJ live event centre in Aberdeen, a reform rally is set to begin in just a couple of hours.
Backstage in the Green Room, Nigel is giving advice to Malcolm Offord, Reform's leader in Scotland, who's received some interesting information from a whistleblower about health tourism disguised as asylum claims.
This doctor says to me, I've had patients claim just arrived in the UK who, before they left their home country in Nigeria, as students being diagnosed with HIV, clearly knew about this long before leaving, add to this hepatitis C and TB.
I can think of at least three cases of this. I mean, our duty is to refer these individuals to the local hospital
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the rally in Aberdeen for Reform UK?
Do you think you've got a Trump problem?
No. You don't? No.
Luke Trill said that, of More in Common, says that the biggest barrier to people voting reform is Trump.
Well, some people might not like it, but I want to say this, really important. It doesn't matter who the American president is, whether it's Joe Biden, whether it's Trump, whether it's whoever comes next. I believe our relationship with America is absolutely crucial.
Chapter 3: What alarming claims are made regarding health tourism and asylum in Scotland?
So for me, In terms of international relationships, it's America first, not Trump. Live from Aberdeen here in Scotland, please welcome political commentator and broadcaster Charlie Rowley. With just minutes to go until Malcolm was due on stage, I asked him about the conversation he'd had with Nigel earlier.
I got the sense that you were a little bit sort of nervous about whether or not to talk about that. How do you feel and what's your stance? I feel that I was approached by some GPs who came to me. I didn't seek them out. They came to me and said, can we just explain what's going on?
And so what they told me was a level of sort of health tourism that's going on disguised as the Salmon Seekers is really quite shocking. And that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. And we are being taken for fools here. And the public are right to be angry because there's a real squeeze on health right now, health services for...
for the local people here, and they're being squeezed out by new arrivals who've just turned up, and they're, you know, they're opportunistic.
It's a subject that the establishment does not want to talk about, but I believe we've got to give it some daylight, and that's what I'm going to do this evening. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the leader of Reform UK Scotland, Malcolm Offord.
When reform chairman Dr David Bull introduced Malcolm, he was met with loud applause as he walked on stage and he explained his concerns to the Scottish people. I know that I will be pilloried again in the press for being a racist and for stirring something up. I'm not. I've never been that in my life. I'm reflecting back
What I'm being told is happening in our communities, especially our working class communities. And they are a breaking point. And this has to stop. There's too many freebies and goodies to be had versus looking after our local people. Then it was time for Nigel to go on. Ladies and gentlemen, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage. Good evening Aberdeen! Thank you.
Well some fireworks to begin with and are we going to get some electoral fireworks on the 7th of May here in Scotland? Has everything since 97 made Scotland happier? Made Scotland richer? Made it more successful? And yet what you see from Sawa, from all of them, Swinney, is the same tired old formula. What they are offering the Scottish electorate is more of the same in the next few years.
It isn't that devolution is the wrong thing. It is that devolution has been handled by people who have bungled it, made everything worse in Scotland. Scotland is broken and Scotland needs reform. And of that I'm certain.
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