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Tim Farron in Scotland: Scotland’s parties can embarrass Tories into action on migrant crisis

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 27th August 2015 - 9:28 pm

Tim Farron was up in Scotland today, on his first visit since becoming leader.. He hosted a roundtable session in Edinburgh with the Scottish Refugee Council, Amnesty and the Refugee Women’s Strategy Group. Issues discussed included devolution and refugees, making asylum work for women and what political parties could do in the UK and Scotland to campaign for fairer treatment of vulnerable refugees.

Here they are having their discussions:

.@willie_rennie & @timfarron meeting with @scotrefcouncil & @AmnestyScotland to talk about the Calais crisis. pic.twitter.com/oStSFNGT5c

— Scot Lib Dems (@scotlibdems) August 27, 2015

Amnesty’s Scottish Director welcomed the meeting:

Great to meet @timfarron and @willie_rennie today to discuss the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe. Positive, humane response.

— Naomi Mc (@NaomiMc) August 27, 2015

After the meeting, Tim said:

Posted in News | Also tagged refugee crisis, scottish refugee council, tim farron and willie rennie | 8 Comments

Menzies Campbell MP on Salmond’s “disturbing lack of judgement” over Putin

By Caron Lindsay | Mon 28th April 2014 - 5:06 pm

You would think that politicians would have more sense than to express any sort of admiration for Vladimir Putin. Alex Salmond has followed in the footsteps of Nigel Farage. He told Alistair Campbell for GQ:

Obviously, I don’t approve of a range of Russian actions, but I think Putin’s more effective than the press he gets, I would have thought, and you can see why he carries support in Russia.

He’s restored a substantial part of Russian pride and that must be a

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Posted in News | Also tagged alex salmond, menzies campbell, nigel farage, siobhan reardon and vladimir putin | 21 Comments

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