3 OCT 2024 · Alistair McConnachie of pro-UK unionist campaign group and think tank, A Force For Good (AFFG), American guest Avellina Balestri, and viewers discuss:
- Pics from our weekend activism!
- Our Classic "Union Heart" Tee-Shirts - available at link below.
- Everyone has their role to play at AFFG.
- Latest AUOB and "Believe in Scotland's" events.
- Reform UK could be the fox in the Scottish Parliament henhouse in 2026.
- Richard Tice says the Small Boats advocates have "blood on their hands".
- If you don't Stop the Boats then you won't stop the people-traffickers.
- The huge numbers perishing in the Atlantic, trying to get to the Canary Islands, to get to Calais.
- Quote from Ed Dorn on the importance of history.
- GUEST: American historian and novelist, Avellina Balestri: Topics include previous programmes on Scottish Loyalists in the American Rebellion, Major John Pitcairn, and General Simon Fraser; tonight's subject, Major Patrick Ferguson concludes a "triune" of famous Scots Loyalists; Ferguson's roots in Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh; the Battle of Brandywine; inventor of the Ferguson rifle; sense of chivalry towards non-combatants; the American loyalists in the Southern Campaign; Battle of King's Mountain; his legacy today; "keeping faith with those who have gone before".
- "One Big Country", "Wee Book for the Union", "WW1 Greeting Cards", "Scotland Now" available at the links below.
REFERENCES
Eir Nolsøe, "The British Pensioner Paradise becoming a Graveyard for Small Boat Migrants", Sunday Telegraph, 15-9-24: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/15/canary-islands-el-hierro-graveyard-small-boat-migrants/
Tony Smith, "Is the EU pushing its own mass migration problem in our direction?" Daily Telegraph, 16-9-24: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/15/small-boats-channel-mediterranean-eu-push-back/
LINKS for GUEST
Avellina Balestri is at: https://www.youtube.com/@avellinabalestri
Her book "All Ye That Pass By: Book 1: Gone for a Soldier" is available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Ye-That-Pass-Soldier/dp/B0D9QMCS6N/
Avellina's song about Major Patrick Ferguson "Ferguson's Grave" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7e73Ta418
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This is the 115th episode of "Good Evening Britain" broadcast on Wednesday 25th September 2024.