Two old guys who really should know better and with nothing substantive to say to justify their fees, reveal the Herald’s plea for readers to support their ‘good trusted journalism’ to be laughable.
They take the most serious of government strategies in a time of pandemic, carefully designed to ease the country back to life while at the same time protecting lives and, with their unattributed ‘source’ at No 10, try to make the story this:
NICOLA Sturgeon is “following” a path blazed by Boris Johnson with her route map for easing the coronavirus lockdown, Downing Street has said.
Did anyone other than the authors actually say that? Blazed?
Well of course there are many similarities with Boris Johnson’s somewhat less precise version. Both plans are about the very same thing. Had the First Minister and her team come up with something radically different, imagine the uproar!
Then we get this supposed quote:
It shows the UK-wide approach is working. We set out the roadmap a few weeks ago and now the devolved administrations are following that path at the right speed for them. It’s vital continue to confront this virus as one United Kingdom and work closely with the devolved administrations.
The speed, the timing, are key parts of the strategy. That’s the whole bloody point. Johnson may yet be shown to have caused real damage by going too soon. By rejecting the No 10 plan and choosing to take less risk with lives, with a later, more cautious approach, the Scottish plan is inherently different.
Because both plans involve allowing golf or opening garden centres doesn’t make one a copy of the other. Only an idiot with that kind of playground ‘nah nah nah you’ve copied what I did’ mentality could think so.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
NICOLA Sturgeon is “following” a path blazed by Boris Johnson with her route map for easing the coronavirus lockdown, Downing Street has said.
Did anyone other than the authors actually say that? Blazed?
Putting Boris and blazed together is oxymoron.
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But, Blazing Saddles though? There’s a part for him there surely?
https://tenor.com/view/horse-abuse-punch-fight-wild-west-gif-5513688
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Yes, the horse
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Is that a bean eating horse or a brewer.. y horse.?It might account for much that emanates from No 10
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In a scene straight out of Viz I can imagine Boris Fuctwit setting his unkempt hair a Blaze.
And that’s before noon.
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Jackass Carlot made a similar comment yesterday.
Operation ‘Scotlands Governance isn’t better’ continues!
BritNats can not allow anyone (especially themselves) to know Scotland is doing anything (or even capable of doing things) differently from Greater Ingerlund!
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Its OK. Boris can bung his last squeeze (but three) contracts, grants, places on official trips and who knows what—but he HAS DONE NO WRONG!!!
In Toryland, entitlement gets you precisely what you pay for.
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“HAS DONE NO WRONG”. I was amazed to hear a friend, whom I always thought was a pretty sensible person, say these words with vehemence during a conversation about the handling of the crisis strategy. It was the health experts’ fault, as far as she was concerned.
I find this adulation of Mr Johnson literally beyond my comprehension.
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The Boris route? Speak to the UK on a Sunday outlining plans and tell people in England to go back to work Monday by public transport/not by public transport/maybe by public transport or walk.
Schools will reopen June 1st and essential track and trace app will be in place/may be in place/wont be in place by then but does not matter because it is not needed.
The Boris plan. How many times has he appeared in public since that carefully pre-recorded load of manure was ‘set out’ in minute detail…not? Twice? At PMQs.
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I strongly suspect also the Tory line is a carbon copy of most other Euro Governments who have already set out their own Route maps. He is simply a buffoon.
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