Prime Minister Boris Johnson: two years of Brexit lies, contempt and power grabs Scottish National Party – SNP

Its been two years since Boris Johnson entered Downing Street.

Every day through his actions, he demonstrates why he is unfit for any public office, never mind the office of Prime Minister and why its high time Scotlands future was in Scotlands hands, not Boris Johnsons.

Here are just some of the many reasons.

Struggling to force through Brexit, Boris Johnson suspended parliamentary democracy to deprive MPs of the opportunity to hold the UK government to account.

By attempting to bypass Parliament, Boris Johnson acted like a tin-pot dictator and showed utter contempt for democracy.

Thanks to pressure from SNP MPs, his moves to shut down Parliament were ruled unlawful and unconstitutional by Scotlands highest court, and then by the UK Supreme Court.

The man who repeatedly lied to MPs, misled the Queen, and used dirty tricks in an attempt to force through an extreme Brexit through the backdoor, is simply unfit for office.

In the height of the pandemic, Boris Johnsons ministers secretly directed funds from an emergency Covid contract supposed to be used for things like PPE for our brave NHS workers to carry out secretive polling on the Union.

It comes after a series of revelations of Tory cronyism with hundreds of thousands of pounds in public money being handed to Tory friends and donors, with little to no scrutiny and transparency.

When challenged about this gross misuse of public funds by Ian Blackford, Boris Johnson said he could not think of a better use of public funds.

In 2014, the Better Together parties promised that Scotlands powers would never be altered without the express consent of Holyrood.

Now, through the Internal Market Bill that fundamentally undermines devolution, Boris Johnson is shattering these promises.

The Bill, which broke international law, allows an unelected and unaccountable Westminster body to overrule the Scottish Parliaments decisions. With a stroke of a pen, Westminster can challenge policies made in Scotland and its already doing so by taking the Scottish Government to court for passing a Bill to strengthen childrens rights.

Boris Johnsons Brexit Deal has hit jobs and living standards hard at the worst possible time.

From a sell-out of fishing communities, to the betrayal of Scotlands farmers and the removal of opportunities for young people, Scotland is paying the price of Boris Johnsons Brexit.

Boris Johnsons Brexit deal, with all the red tape and chaos it caused, lead to fishing boats being forced to sit in the docks for weeks depriving fisherpeople and their families an income to live on. And thats not the only sector Boris Johnson has sold out.

Boris Johnson was promising to stand up for Scottish farmers and crofters. Yet, in a desperate attempt to get a trade deal with anyone, he sold the farm from under their feet.

The Australian Deputy Prime Minister said, The big winners, in the UK-Australian trade deal, are Australian producers, Australian farmers, indeed Australia full stop Im not worried about the Welsh, Scottish & NI beef producers.

The Tories have treated Scottish fishing as expendable and now theyre doing the same to Scottish farmers. The UK governments own analysis said a deal with Australia would only be worth an 0.02% increase in GDP over 15 years, and thats under an optimistic scenario.

It wont even cover 1% of the lost opportunities from Europes markets due to Brexit, all while negatively impacting Scotlands agricultural sector.

The heavy price of Brexit is already clear for all to see. Analysis from the Food and Drink Federation last month revealed EU sales dropped by 47% in the first three months of 2021 to a ten-year low hitting the UK economy with a 2billion loss.

In 2016, as part of the Vote Leave campaign, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel issued a commitment that:

There will be no change for EU citizens already lawfully resident in the UK. These EU citizens will automatically be granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK and will be treated no less favourably than they are at present.

Scottish Government repeatedly urged to grant EU citizens an automatic right to remain, but Boris Johnson and Priti Patel decided to force EU citizens to apply to stay in their own homes.

Worse still, they have threatened the rights of thousands of vulnerable EU citizens with an arbitrary hard deadline with reports showing that many people who have legally lived and worked in the UK for years could now be criminalised and deprived of basic rights, such as the right to work, rent, or access the NHS.

The SNP will use what powers we have to limit the impact of Boris Johnsons right-wing policies and the damage theyll cause to Scotland.

But the only way to guarantee getting rid of a Prime Minister who breaks the law, strips citizens of their rights, denies democracy and imposes an extreme Brexit against our will, is taking our future into our own hands with independence.

Independence means that Scotland can decide the kind of country we want to be free from the damaging decisions of Tory governments we havent voted for in over 60 years.

It means having all the powers to create a more welcoming, more equal and fairer society just like other European countries of similar size to Scotland, such as Denmark or Ireland.

Once the pandemic is over, people in Scotland must have the choice to put Scotlands future firmly in Scotlands hands not those of Boris Johnson and his right-wing ilk.

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