Robert Scott

Grad @livuni X @OfficialUoM

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

Not bad for a boy from Crewe, onto my masters! #livunigrad

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Donald Trump says Britain stayed off the front lines in Afghanistan, and those words do not merely miss the mark. They scrape against graves. Four hundred and fifty-seven British service personnel were killed in that war. Many more were broken in body and mind. They did not die in rear areas or behind wire. They died in Helmand, in Sangin, on roads seeded with mines, in firefights that lasted hours. They died doing exactly what allies are meant to do when they give their word, and any attempt to soften that truth is an insult dressed up as bravado.

When Donald Trump says British troops stayed "a little back", he is not misremembering. He is shrinking the war to suit himself. He is sanding down sacrifice because it complicates the picture he wants to paint, a picture of America alone, burdened, used by others. For that picture to work, allied blood has to fade from view, and history has to be pared down until it flatters the speaker.

Britain went into Afghanistan because the United States asked, and because NATO invoked Article 5 after 9/11. That clause exists for one reason. Collective defence. Shared risk. Britain honoured it, not for weeks or months but for twenty years. British units took responsibility for some of the most violent ground in the country. They did not rotate in for appearances. They stayed. They held. They buried their own, and they carried the cost home with them.

Time and again, hearses rolled through Wootton Bassett. Shops closed. People lined the streets in silence. Parents stood with photographs of sons who would never grow older. No one watching those processions thought they were witnessing the aftermath of a war fought from a safe distance. They knew they were seeing the price of loyalty, paid in full and paid publicly.

Then there is Ben Parkinson, he was twenty-two when his Land Rover hit a mine in Helmand. The blast broke his back, destroyed his face, collapsed his lungs, shattered every rib. Surgeons removed both his legs above the knee. He lay in a coma for months and survived only just. To suggest that men like him were not on the front line is not an error. It is a moral failure that speaks volumes about how lightly some people treat the cost of war.

That is why the response from Kemi Badenoch matters. Calling this flat-out nonsense was not a party manoeuvre. It was a line that had to be drawn. A country that will not defend the honour of its war dead has already started to forget what it is, and forgetting is how alliances rot from the inside.

This reaches beyond Britain. Alliances survive on memory and trust, on the knowledge that when the call comes, those who answered before will be remembered with honesty. Once leaders start treating past sacrifice as disposable, future promises thin out. Solidarity becomes a word rather than a bond, and deterrence turns into noise.

None of this is anti-American. Americans fought and died alongside British troops in Afghanistan. They remember Sangin. They remember Helmand. They know who stood with them. This rewriting insults them too, because it denies the shared nature of the war they fought.

Strength is not found in belittling allies or trimming history to fit a speech. It lies in telling the truth, especially when the truth is heavy. Afghanistan was a shared war. Britain carried its share in blood. Anyone who cannot say that plainly has no business talking about loyalty, alliance, or honour at all.

"Ben Parkinson was twenty-two when his Land Rover hit a mine in Helmand. The blast broke his back, destroyed his face, collapsed his lungs, shattered every rib. Surgeons removed both his legs above the knee."

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@JamesRPlumb Cheers fella :)

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

Hectic year, from starting my masters at a new institution to getting my first job in politics, to fighting local and national elections. Finally can say, I am proud to be a @LivUni X @OfficialUoM graduate.

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@DannyBowman10 Congrats Danny 🎉

[R @rjb_1998]

Everyday it becomes more and more depressing how clear it is that no one involved in football wants to address the culture of abuse against women that seems to be ingrained in the sport

[Ben Fletcher @BackBen4Mayor]

As the campaign closes I am so grateful to have had the privilege to run for Parliament.

Thank you to everyone for their support and encouragement. I have been blessed to have an amazing team around me who could not have done more. Massive thanks to them for everything.

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@JohnWDWhite Happy birthday mate, have a gooden :)

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

Today at @OfficialUoM Absolute disgrace, these vandals should hang their head in shame. #Manchester

[Roman Kemp @romankemp]

This video from @NorwichCityFC is the best bit of Mental Health Awareness I’ve ever seen… watch until the end.

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@JohnWDWhite You too brother 💙

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

Being a young person in politics can be hard at times, but the friends you make along the way make every second worth it 💙

[Cllr Liam Walker @_LiamWalker_]

What a pathetic tweet and trolling from @terrychristian. Here is the original photo I tweeted from our conference in 2021. I’m proud to know these guys who engage in politics and our party. We need more young people getting involved across the political spectrum. Grow up Terry.

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@Liv_Lever This post extends to you, you have done so much for young people within the party. Long may it continue 💙

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@jakewg_ Love you brother, keep proving everyone wrong 💙

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@JohnWDWhite Can take the boy outta Scotland, but can’t take the Scotland out of the boy, cheers lad 🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

8 gold medals, 19 world records broken, and 1 Conservative Party Conference Replacement Pass between us! #CPC2023

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@_Gaughran_ I did but didn’t make the clip, I went onto say about how we need to prioritise Veterans employability and accessibility into civ society whilst also making advanced provisions for mental health of our Ex-Forces.

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

He’s a certainly good looking chap!

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Conservative party conference: What would you do as PM? https://t.co/X6BwQyLf5p

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@realDanielkirk Thankyou for introducing us, he was a joy of fun. Message me if you need anything x

[Robert Scott @RobertScxtt]

@DannyBowman10 @Rethink_ @TheCMHG @William_Wragg @drlukeevans Fantastic event mate, really well put together x