BBC Good Morning Scotland’s Gary Robertson reflecting this morning on the care home deaths and the First Minister’s reminder that they have strict guidelines to follow, asks:
‘So does the guidance need tightening up and is enough being done to equip our care homes and care workers?’
Note the agenda. Why does he not ask whether the care home owners are failing to follow the guidelines or whether they, the owners, are doing enough? He starts from the position of implying that the Scottish Government guidelines might be flawed and that they should be making sure there is enough PPE. Why does he call them ‘our’ care homes when many, if not most, are privately owned often by corporations based in the USA?
He then asks, remarkably, in the context of the responsibility of the employer to provide PPE, as a matter of health and safety:
I suppose the difficulty is when you talk about the responsibility fro PPE being with the employers some people may not understand who the employer is which goes back to my question whether it is the care home, whether it’s the local authority, whether it’s the Scottish Government? Is it constructive at this point, to differentiate between public and private care homes?
Again, note the agenda. Which people do not know that the owner of a private business is not the employer and responsible for health and safety? Why does Robertson appear to wish to shelter the private sector from the criticism now emerging?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
On GMS today, Ms Laura McKeever interviewed the Tory MSP and spokesperson for health, Mr Miles Briggs. It was clear from the intro that it was the UK testing target she wished to discuss. Immediately he began attacking the SG. When she persisted with her question he said his job was to hold the SG to account, “particularly on care homes”, where, he said, there are big questions. Again, she tried to return him to her initial question. He began a reply and then the call cut off. While I was listening, he was not called back.
This was the strategy used in the GE – do not answer questions on the Tories, immediately attack Jeremy Corbyn. Or just do not turn up for interviews.
So, I suspect there is collusion between the unionists and the media to attack the SG and present the PM in a vaguely fuzzy glow, letting the oily Hancock take the flak, since his credibility is shot.
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