Worries over BBC Scotland’s colonialvirus increase

The same story in first and second place on the website and, no doubt, headlining the TV and radio broadcasts to come during the day.

As hard, real, evidence of NHS Scotland with the Scottish Government, containing the spread and the death rate, supposed journalists turn to other sources – care homes and protective ‘kit.’

First, a reminder of the real facts:

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/04/07/the-trend-is-down/

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/04/07/scotland-coronavirus-death-rate-in-hospitals-falls-significantly/

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/04/07/care-homes-deaths-are-now-the-chosen-tactic-by-bbc-scotland-so-what-about-some-statistics-from-bbc-uk/

As for these ‘worries’, like an earlier report based on a Facebook ‘chatroom’ run by one GP and his friends:

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2020/03/28/reporting-scotland-ignores-its-own-editorial-guidelines-to-cobble-together-an-infection-control-crisis-based-on-a-single-unreliable-social-media-source/

the above report is based on the work of one GP who has collected signatures from ‘over 100’ medics. We’re not even assured that these are GPs out of Scotland’s ‘over 5 000’, 98% of whom, including their union, the BMA, have not written.

The letter’s ‘co-ordinator’ works at this Glasgow practice:

You’ll understand why I thought at first it might be a private facility. Generously funded by NHS Scotland but preferring to present itself in this pretentious [‘Regency’ in Glasgow?], ‘independent’ way with their website software provider accorded as much prominence as NHS Scotland, this disturbs me.

Is this really a local problem, inflated by one indignant GP, but accorded national significance by a desperate state broadcaster, unable to find anything real journalists would want to report?

5 thoughts on “Worries over BBC Scotland’s colonialvirus increase

  1. The second half of Craig Murray’s recent podcast here:

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/04/the-declaration-of-arbroath-and-the-way-forward-now/#comments

    where he sets out the uk government’s position in international law on how nations can and should be able to secede from a parent state is fairly clear and unequivocal. I’m beginning to think the next Holyrood elections should be a de facto referendum on independence – I’m sick of the pissing about with ‘asking’ if we can have a referendum, it is nonsense – you either believe a majority of people are in favour now, or I don’t know, you prefer the devolution settlement after all? It would be good to offer regular referendums afterwards on whether people would like to join in a union with England, as well as things like joining the EU – though these should all be part of a democracy anyway.

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    1. Thanks. I’ll share it.

      ‘I’m beginning to think the next Holyrood elections should be a de facto referendum on independence – I’m sick of the pissing about with ‘asking’ if we can have a referendum.’

      Yes, exactly!

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      1. If 2021 Holyrood election is to be a referendum on Indy. Then we will need to win a majority of the vote.
        The Unionist vote won’t be split amongst Tories, Labour and Liberals.

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      2. Clydebuilt, you would count each vote as appropriate – that is, a vote for someone standing for independence is a vote for it, and the same for the union – you wouldn’t have a referendum based on ‘seats won’ surely? I’m not sure what you mean here to tell the truth.

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