Well said Ben, you would be made welcome at Leith Baptist Churc, Madeira St too. ❤️🙏

Very well said young man. However, it's the SNP that created a lawless Scotland. Think about that.

Don't think it was mate

Hmmm I think I can smell 💩

I have been in Scotland being a settled person speaking perfect Scottish having more Scottish friends than others. I believe and am proud to say that Scottish folk are kind. These negative elements in any society do not represent the actual face of it. I have witnessed Scottish people come forward against racism & hate crime before and look at this video. Scotland is pure Love & Beauty. Continue being Scottish guys 👌🏼

Never heard you saying you went to church if you have when and where?

Definitely not a terror attack!!

Ask the guy why he went nuts

Why did you not do the same video in March when it was the other way round

Well said Ben. The Leith community knows how to come together when its needed

Love with the Police tape right behind you😂

Nice words But Its SNP who Has problem to support and empower Police in laws, tools and People …So situations like this wouldn't take place in the first place… Its SNP whos waiting for people to get hurt first to change whole bunch of laws that block police from chaseing balaclava thughs on bikes ETC… there's no prevention on crime in scotland there's only reaction to it… and as you can see Its Too late for many people who got hurt alredy.. SNP will say few nice words but hey lets see hum much more society can handle…

People are waking up

Wonderful words , great work Ben , please keep this good work up , you got our full support, together we can defeat the hate preachers , Scotland is not racist and have no place for  racism . 

How about the 12 year old that Swinney accused, never heard you speak up then

I agree we should be united not divided but this is not a new thing and it works both ways. 22 years ago, I was crossing the road with my disabled mum at Elm row when an Asian guy reversed at us deliberately at high speed and nearly took us both out. I hit his car with my fist and he then jumped out, threatened me and told me to F off back to where I came from. Portobello? I answered. I reported it and he was well known to the police for attacking white women. It does happen the other way too but rarely reported the police told me. Hate breeds hate, wish we could all just respect each other and be kind but sadly it’s not always the case.

Unity feels in short supply.

And he never mentioned independence.

Nice to see police scotland doi g their job but itbworks both ways. Dont see them rushing out to protect the rest of us. Its no wonder people are getting pissed off.

This 'diversity ' eutopia isn't really working to plan is it

Do you come from leith cause I do I live here work in the community in leith walk and guess what I feel safe I will go to my work tomorrow as u did yesterday and will do today either take care of them selfs and each other even MR sing has a place in the leith heart so jog on mate

Has the SNP dropped the independence referendum.

I support you and SNP 100%

That’s excellent Ben!!! So eloquent… and you said it all!!! 💕💕

Very well said, Ben

For clarify, this was filmed a few months ago which is why I have several jackets on! But the arguments are as true now as they were then.

You need it there is a care home just along the road from there

Well said

Well said .There is a campain to save this station on going .Hopefully the powers that be take head bto what the people are saying !!!!

Well done lad

Well done you

In light of fires through wilful ignorance, the ongoing issue with disposable barbecues and arson, I cannot understand why this should even be an issue. Thank you for fighting fires.

The problem is, this fire station might not make a huge difference today. It might not make a huge difference tomorrow. But what about the next day? You only realise you don't have enough assets, enough fire stations, enough fire vehicles, enough fire fighters when something goes seriously wrong, and then it's too late.

Glad you on it! With the amount of anti-social behaviour escalating as well as global warming/general crime and gangland related crime we need our fireservices more thanever. I haven't seen or heard a valid reason for trying to cut fire services, only that the fire station(s) no longer meet required standards, in which case start building new ones before closing old ones so thefes no gaps betwedn services or we will end up wih a catastrophe on our hands and not enough if any fire fighters/appliances to attend.

I might be wrong but is it not the closest fire station to the two largest hospitals in Edinburgh

Perfectly said Ben

Let them take it away. Then the fires that do start in this area will spread harder and faster, fires are more regular in this area now

No emergency services should be messed with , police fireman and ambulances etc

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THE Campervan could pay for it.

Who cut funding? Oh yeah, the SNP. 🙄

Public holiday for reaching the last 48 of the World Cup costing millions. Money should have been spent elsewhere.

Will you please get the weeds so overgrown sorted out and litter picks done more at the soft play and Foot Leith Walk Absolutely disgrace

If your govt. Hadn't taken the Fire service away from local govt. ,and handed it over to a quango and cut it's budget., then it wouldn't be in this position .Blame lies fairly and squarely with the SNP govt.

Another useless entity.

Are your bosses going to take any notice. The same goes for all the others they want to close down. Funding cuts to pay for all the freebies….

Is not the SNP who have deciamted our fire and police services

And snp cut funding to fire services

Sturgeons house is burning down.. I hear…. The House of Sturgeon’s burning down KENNY MacASKILL looks at the depth of the corruption tolerated within the Scottish National Party and the efforts to keep it from public scrutiny Nicola Sturgeon with Peter Murrell as they cast their votes in the 2019 General Election at Broomhouse Park Community Hall in Glasgow Kenny MacAskill PETER MURRELL’S embezzlement is but a symptom of the wider disease of Sturgeonism. It’ll be him alone when sentenced at the High Court but in the court of public opinion his former boss and spouse, Nicola Sturgeon, also stands accused. It’s only the start of wider investigations into both this fraud and other actions by her and her acolytes. The House of Sturgeon’s burning down, and the flames are now licking at John Swinney’s new abode in Bute House. Murrell’s sentence will be severe not just for the amount taken but the breach of trust. After all a postie can face jail if they even just fail to deliver mail. Blame for the fraud rests only with him even if many wonder why neither Sturgeon nor the party treasurer were not on the indictment at least until his plea of guilty was finally tendered. It certainly was standard practice, and I write that as a former defence agent of 20 years never mind justice secretary for seven-and-a-half years. Why that was not done only the Crown Office can answer. There’s no doubt he fiddled figures and perhaps even falsified documents, but organisations have in-built safeguards, and the SNP was no different. I also served as SNP national treasurer for several years in the 1990s. For sure it was a different world then with the party far smaller and a financial position of carrying a six-figure overdraft. IT and cash room systems have also morphed. No more the cashroom assistant getting a taxi to my office for me to sign the staff’s wages. But those in charge whether the national treasurer, the party leader or the NEC all had and have powers and oversight. Duties, it should be said, not just powers. Those failures are down to Sturgeonism. Control freakery, autocracy and self-obsession rather than the cause or even the interests of members. That the chief executive of a party, let alone the government party, was the spouse of the party leader and first minister was not just absurd but plain wrong, even a bowling club wouldn’t have the chief steward married to the president. But Sturgeon insisted on it. Why, only she can explain. When individuals including one national treasurer sought to dig deep, they were blocked by Murrell and chastised by Sturgeon. There were no issues, she assured all, accusations were deeply damaging — and worse still, individuals were turned on and hounded out by her and her team. I recall phoning the then national treasurer when suspicions first broke in the press. He assured me that the “money was threaded through the accounts.” A ludicrous phrase and unknown in even basic accountancy rules. Of course, that’s not in any way indicative of any guilt or involvement in the crime of embezzlement. That national treasurer simply stands as a patsy and a fool. But both that and the extensive wider circumstances certainly see Sturgeon accused of an abuse of power and a manipulation of party and other levers available to her. Why Murrell took the money we’ll probably never really know. Perhaps, a sense of entitlement as salary increases or even payments were forgone as party funds were down. There was a previous issue with funds when he worked for Alex Salmond in Peterhead but that was dealt with internally and saw him moved on. His appointment as SNP CEO was made by Swinney. He was never a pal, but he was very efficient at his job. I, like most, never queried it viewing the past issue as a minor indiscretion rather than the first sign of kleptomania. But I’ve met wicked and depraved people over my career and he wasn’t one. I’ve known him and Sturgeon for almost 40 years and was even at their wedding. What I do recall is his joy at hooking up with her. He might cruelly be described as wee bald and paunchy which is why some of the items purchased through those embezzled funds sure weren’t for his own use. He felt he’d punched well above his weight in marrying her and she was his princess. He’d do anything for her and so history seems to show. I recall Salmond was irked that funds were kept back in the last few weeks of the referendum campaign rather than spending every last penny. But paying for the Glasgow hydro and other rock star type events for his beloved as she succeeded to the top posts had to be provided for. In some ways I feel sorry for him though he has to pay the price for his sins. But while he’s rotting in prison, she’ll be away gallivanting though not in the EU or UN positions that so many seemed to think were bound to come her way. Instead she’s now rightly being scrutinised and even ridiculed. There’s nothing worse than being laughed at and social media is cruel. After all she was “the selfie queen” unable to walk past a lamppost without stopping for a picture. Now she’s running from the press and their questions. Her reputation was largely made by Covid where her undoubted communications skills were to the fore and compared favourably with the bumbling Boris. But now she’s shown to have spent hours in a police station refusing to comment. For sure that’s the advice I’d have given to a client, but she was a former first minister who promised candour and openness. The focus now turns to her tenure and in particular her actions in Salmond’s prosecution. I’ve always said there was a conspiracy and that is given credence by this. What Jeremy Corbyn endured was dreadful, but what Salmond suffered was criminal. The truth will out and Swinney who has been covering for her is now coming into the frame on both the Salmond case and the wider Sturgeon legacy. Murrell will be sentenced soon and his prison door clang shut. But the exposure of Sturgeon’s sins are just beginning. Kenny MacAskill was an SNP MSP from 1999-2016 and Scottish justice secretary from 2007-14. He was MP for East Lothian from 2019-24.

Nowt t do with the dough then ?????

Well done 👍xx

Awesome xx awe the best xx 😘

Congratulations my man! 🙏🏾

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Imagine having to pledge allegiance to that repulsive family.🤮

#DownWithTheCrown .. I hated hear that bumf…

Wishing all the best in the years to come but frustrating that you have to swear allegiance to Charles Windsor, and not to the people of Scotland.

Well done Ben. 🙏👌

Congratulations Ben. Wish we had more MSPs like you. Keep up the good work. 👍

Well done Ben you so well deserve it.

Congratulations Ben

Mr Ben as much use as ice for a fire.

Welcome back. The real work begins, it never ends. Now raise the matter of the appropriateness if the D'Hondt/ AMS in the chamber. There are alternatives. A more proportional STV-based parliamentary model, for example, could allow voters to rank candidates and parties honestly without fear of “wasting” votes or inadvertently damaging the broader constitutional position they support. Other proportional list systems used internationally also offer greater transparency and simplicity than the increasingly opaque tactical culture surrounding AMS. Oh and get the increased funding in place for visible increased soft policing in Leith and elsewhere. Police on the beat, on their feet, in our communities!

I thought your comments on the debate when asked about your party's position on working with Reform were excellent. Crucially, they were very well measured. There is a calculated attempt by Reform to present themselves as being excluded from Government so they can stir up outrage among their supporters about their votes being ignored. They will participate in the running of the country to the exact same extent as the 116 Tory MPs do at Westminster. Similarly, in 2010, the Tories formed a Government with the Liberal Democrats rather than Labour. Not because they were "subverting democracy" but because a coalition with a party with such deeply different policies and outlook is not a good path to stable, productive Government.

Congratulations!

Well done stud. You deserve it

I was torn on voting SNP again as they have really let down a lot of kids with cahms fiasco and presumption of mainstream with no support but I saw you out the day before the election solo knocking doors in lochend and thought good on you 🙏🏽

Wish you were in Edinburgh West 👍

Some people are skeptical of reform voters, but every voice matters.

Congratulations Ben.

Super

Thank goodness!😃😃😃

Will you work to rid Leith Walk of that stupid tram and that moronic cycle lane down the middle of the pavement?