
In the New European, Michael White of the Guardian writes:
The painful fact is that both administrations look unimpressive from the outside and have done much in near lockstep during the pandemic, including the latest Spanish quarantine. Strip out England’s less populated regions along with the Highlands and Borders and the Covid casualty rates in dense urban areas and care homes won’t be very different.

As I rebut the same lie day-after-day, it feels like I’m batting back balls fired at me by a tennis machine but hey, you never know, I might correct the thinking of even just one more reader, if I keep going.
This time it’s Nazi dentist lookalike, Michael White, making the above outrageous comment. He has no actual evidence to offer of course and I suspect he’s still using, like Sky News’ Adam Boulton, the data from the first phase of the outbreak in March and April before the Scottish Government strategy kicked in.
So, once more the facts:
The ‘casualty rates’ after leaving the initial lock-step are very different:

Scotland had zero deaths in the last 14 days and had only six in the previous 14. England is on a plateau with 65.7 deaths, on average every day.
The ‘casualty rates’ for the whole outbreak are now very different too:

After months of fast declining infection and deaths here, even the gap between Scotland and England’s total figures has widened too far to be ignored.
England has ten times the population so if performance was to be similar, the total number of cases and deaths would also be ten times higher but they are not, by any means.
Scotland has had 18 694 cases so if all things were equal, England would have had 186 940 but had 263 602, 41% higher.
Scotland has had 2 491 deaths so if all things were equal, England would have had 24 910 but has 41 598, 67% higher.

I have seen this guy performing on TV in the past.
A rabid anti Scottish independence merchant.
No different to the guys over at the Torygraf when it comes down to it.
Britnats United.
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WHITE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A RIGHTWING PROTAGONIST
TRYING TO MAKE SURE “THE STATE”
IS NOT HELD TO ACCOUNT
i think
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“The big lie” is a propaganda technique.
It tends to rely on repetition and a gullible audience, but for Scotland it is only repetition which is required. Our colonial media does the rest.
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White is just another English/British nationalist who decries nationalism. Hypocrite.
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New European is a Labour Unionist Controlled publication. Not so new and not so European
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He of the Famous Snow White Sliver Hitler moustache. Once seen you will never forget it and who can forget the drivel he was writing during the Indy ref for the Guardian, you know that left leaning illiberal champion of democracy….. except when it comes to Scotland of course
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ABC 6pm News:
So that’s all right then
BUT further 88 covid deaths today on gov uk site
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
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