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Vance ‘not welcome in Scotland,’ campaigners say

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US vice president JD Vance, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy welcomes him to Chevening House in Kent, during his visit to Britain, August 8, 2025

ANTI-GENOCIDE campaigners in Scotland are planning a hostile reception for US Vice-President JD Vance, while the Scottish Greens have demanded that not a single penny of public money be spent on a man who has “no place here.”

Mr Vance had a holiday with his family in the Cotswolds before joining Foreign Secretary David Lammy at his official country retreat, Chevening House in Kent, for some fishing.

But Police Scotland are now believed to be on standby ahead of an unconfirmed stay by the vice-president at the private Carnell estate near the Ayrshire town of Hurlford. 

Pro-Palestinian campaign group Mothers Against Genocide were set to offer their own greeting at the estate last night, waving Palestinian flags and rattling pots and pans to show their disgust at a man they say is “hunting and fishing while he is complicit in starving an entire population.”

Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman demanded answers on the cost of Mr Vance’s private visit.

As many as 1,000 police officers are thought to have been put on standby to deal with the potential visit, which comes hard on the heels of President Trump’s tour of his Scottish golf courses in Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire just a month ago.

Ms Chapman said: “JD Vance is a far-right extremist who has peddled misinformation and lies.

“He has played a central role in the racist Trump government that has torn apart families and communities, attacked women’s rights and armed the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

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Starmer must expel Israeli ambassador, say Scottish Greens

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 Israeli ambassador to Britain Tzipi Hotovely arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, June 15, 2025

SCOTTISH Greens have called for Sir Keir Starmer to expel Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely as they renew their calls for an end to political and military support for the “genocidal assault on Gaza.”

The party’s co-leader Lorna Slater made the remarks after the Prime Minister urged the Netanyahu regime to “reconsider” the escalation of its attack on Gaza, despite his government supplying the Israelis with the military intelligence and armaments necessary to continue an operation which has so far cost tens of thousands of lives. 

She said: “The UK government has not been a detached observer in the genocide against Gaza, it has been an active participant.

“Urging restraint is not enough, the hypocrisy must end. The arms sales must stop and so must the military collaboration and political support that has gone with them.

“That must mean backing sanctions against Israeli forces and expelling the Israeli ambassador who has served as a mouthpiece for genocide.

“This has been a disgraceful chapter in UK foreign policy and has made the Prime Minister and his colleagues complicit in some of the worst war crimes of this century.”

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UK Labour Party government ministers Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are partners complicit in Israel's Gaza genocide. The UK has provided Israel with arms, military and air force support. They explain that they don't do gas chambers but do do forced marches, starvation, destroy hospitals, mass-murders of journalists and healthcare workers.
UK Labour Party government ministers Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves explain that they are partners complicit in Israel’s Gaza genocide. The UK has provided Israel with arms, military and air force support. They explain that they don’t do gas chambers but do do forced marches, starvation, destroy hospitals, mass-murders of journalists and healthcare workers.
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Scottish Greens warn of danger posed by Farage’s Reform UK

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Nigel Farage blames the Muzzies.
Nigel Farage blames the Muzzies.

SCOTTISH Greens warned yesterday of the dangers posed to the country by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.

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He said: “Reform and the politics they represent are a danger to Scotland.

“Whether they have called themselves Ukip, the Brexit Party or Reform, we know what they represent: prejudice, division and environmental vandalism.

“Scotland can and must do so much better than this. We need change, but it has to be rooted in building a fairer and better country, not scapegoating and empty slogans from a cynical millionaire-backed party that offers nothing.

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Scottish government urged to shun Trump visit

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A protester wearing a giant Donald Trump head, outside Holyrood, Edinburgh, ahead of a debate in the Scottish Parliament to decide if the government should investigate the former president’s financing of Scottish golf courses, February 3, 2021

SCOTTISH ministers have been urged not to meet with US President-elect Donald Trump if he visits Scotland this year.

Mr Trump plans to visit Scotland in 2025 for the opening of a new golf course at his club in Aberdeenshire — one of the two he owns in the country.

The Scottish Greens have urged the government to have nothing to do with the visit.

Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie made the call on the fourth anniversary of riots in Washington after Mr Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

Mr Harvie said: “Four years ago Donald Trump was inciting rioters to storm the Capitol and block the democratic process.

“In the time since, he has doubled-down on right-wing conspiracy theories and refused to show even the slightest shred of contrition or regret.

“The prospect of four more years of a racist, climate-wrecking and misogynistic Donald Trump in the White House is one that should concern us all.

“He is a friend of despots, demagogues and dictators, and a threat to migrant communities, LGBTQ+ people and reproductive rights.

“We cannot stand aside or condone the divisive and hateful politics that he represents.

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Badenoch appeals to Tories’ ‘worst instincts,’ Scottish Greens say

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DIVISIVE: New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch

NEW Tory leader Kemi Badenoch was elected “appealing to the worst instincts of the Conservative Party,” the Scottish Greens said today.

Co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Tories were “determined to emulate the gutter politics of Farage’s far–right Reform.”

He said: “It is truly depressing to see the Tory Party now led by someone as unashamedly divisive as Kemi Badenoch.

“She has based her campaign on a nasty culture war agenda, fuelling division and pitting communities against one another.

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