This is deliberate misunderstanding in pursuit of a Scottish Government ‘failure’ fed by Jackie Baillie to a complicit media.
The report suggests that online appointments can lead to a £9.15 prescription charge. Don’t be daft. They’ll take it a local pharmacy and get it free. Why on earth wouldn’t they? There’s a potentially misleading wording in the document or Jackie has misread it for them.
We’re told that those who require more specialised treatment such as addictions therapy, may have to travel to England. Perhaps one or two may, I’m no expert, but I do know that Scotland’s drug and alcohol services have been smashing their waiting targets for years so may well cope:
Having to write this sort of stuff for the Herald must cause terrible cognitive dissonance and risk schizophrenia.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
We all know who is in dire need of mental health treatment.
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And it’s not oor John!
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I have come to the conclusion that Editors in the British media operating in Scotland suffer from, not cognitive dissonance, but…….
Psycoscotophobia…or……Anti-Scottish personality disorder.
They exhibit traits of —-
Hiding evidence of competence and good governance.
Omitting facts beneficial to Scottish self-government.
Inventing stories against Scottish self-government.
Undue deference to politicians from the south.
A dreadful cringe when discussing Scotland.
And just a whining, nescient cringing disposition in general.
And these are their GOOD points!
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On a slight tangent from this.
I was pottering through programmes, looking for things I wanted to record throughout the week, when I happened upon the BBC Parliament channel.
Noticing that it had, amongst other things, Welsh FMQs, Senedd sessions, NI Parliament sessions and a meeting of an English Devolution Committee, I scrolled through the week, past hooouurs of HoC and HoL etc, looking for Scotland.
Guess what?
Nothing. Nowt. Zilch. Nada. Not a dicky bird…
Is it something we said?
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O/T
John,I thought this would be of interest.TV
‘Smug’ BBC executives to threaten over-75s who have not paid £157 licence fee
In the post today “Please act today,before your licence is cancelled.”
A long spiel about writing to me before regarding TV and not setting one up at a cost of £159.
Signed Ross McTaggart………..”Not the there’s been a murder one”
WHAT WILL I DO ??????????????
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Scott
You ask as what to do with ABC (BBC)
letter
Answer
1 Throw it un the bin
Or
2.Install it upon the toilet roll holder
Overall i consider use by them of paper as a criminal waste of trees
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I think I will light the Barbie with it
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Scott
Ah but that releases the co2 trapped in the paper
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P1UK, I’m puzzled. Why does the CO2 leaflet Scott intended to use represent a greater threat to the planet than igniting the Doll collection of which he is evidently tired ?
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Paper is mainly made from trees
Which trap carbon
Making paper produces a fair amount of carbon
Paper burning releases the trapped carbon
Modern world needlessly produces far too much paper which turns into needless waste
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But what about the carbon trapped in the plastic Barbies ?
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Bob
Little do most people realise the situation we now must confront
Trapped carbon is massive
1.Loss of forests and burning to clear for agri and palm oil
2..As the temp rises it melts permafrosts
Releasing massive amounts of trapped Methane which is 23 × times more potent than CO2 in causing warming and acts far quicker
3.Ditto for ice shelves
4.Ditto for huge river deltas such as the Amazon that has huge sediments containing billions of tonnes of methane
A violent storm ( caused by increased ocean temp.) Will release all this methane
5.And in Scotland if summer temp. increase and rain fall drops then the peat bogs in the flow country releases vast amount of CO2
all this is called consequential amplification of global warming
It took millions of years for the planet to lay down and trap greenhouse gasses
And mostly done 60 million years ago
And along comes greedy arrogant man and decides to release all of it in a 100 yrs
This is a most profound state of imbalance
And nature abhors such and will exert all its forces to restore balance and harmony
And as man is the source of the imbalance then nature WILL remove us from the planet as it exerts its efforts to rebalance
Mankind is a single species and matters not 1 jot to these forces
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John has an article about this, check thread from about 3 days ago. If you don’t watch the BBC on any device, live or catch up, you do not need a license. The BBC cannot harass you, (ie contact you too often to cause distress) nor can they threaten you with prison, because you cannot be sent to prison for ‘debt’ in Scotland under Scots Law, as they can be in England, under English law which is a disgrace. Write to the BBC, tell them you do not need a license and they will leave you alone for 2 years, until the next letter.
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Your humour implant has malfunctioned, perhaps review….
I agree with all you say otherwise, mankind desperately needs a reset.
My own hobby horse has long been energy conservation, if I can halve energy consumption on a less than 10 year old house which survives Siberian winters and it pays back the investment in a year anybody can whether Pitsligo or Peterborough.
UK emissions being cut by a third was a no brainer 30 odd years ago and would stimulate the economy, but for politicians more concerned with energy company shares, turnover and profit.
We’re killing ourselves and the planet we live on through greed.
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Yes, denying reality is a heavy burden for anyone’s mental health.
Predictive validity and gender differences in a biopsychosocial model of violence risk assessment in acute psychiatry
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29655971/
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It looks like it’s OK to share this here…hope so…
From the BMJ. ‘Pandemic will cast “a long shadow” on mental health, warns England’s CMO’.
https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1655
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Interesting that Whitty studiously avoided all mention of the primary cause of stress, public information, or in England’s case public DISinformation for political ends in which he whatever his personal politics was an intrinsic part..
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You’re lucky I’m a trained as a bit of mentalist then. 😉
The Power Threat Meaning Framework
Towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress,
unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour,
as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis
https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/bps.org.uk/files/Policy%20-%20Files/PTM%20Main(dot)pdf
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So given the Scottish government appears to be determined to force Scots law to privilege the immoral patriarchy of the market over biological reality, I think it’s only fair that folks understand how that can be expected to undermine their democratic rights and mental health.
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2018/12/02/neoliberalism-patriarchy-gender-identity/
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P.S. It helps if you remember that British nationalism and gender ideology are essentially variation on the same ideological denial of reality.
https://voxeu.org/article/lockdowns-widen-gender-gap-mental-health
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P.P.S. If you deny the nature of material/biological reality, you prevent effective communication. So you’re undermine the potential for open democracy.
Thinking through enactive agency: sense-making, bio-semiosis and the ontologies of organismic worlds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-018-9562-2
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