Scotland’s media are making much of this line today:
Ambulance workers in Scotland suffered almost 800 [773] attacks in the line of duty over the last five years, according to the GMB.
That’s the BBC Scotland wording, using that well-worn technique of adding figures up over several years to get a big headline number. I’m surprised they didn’t keep going to get ‘Over One Thousand….’
We hear that the number went up last year but just what it was before that, is not reported. Might the trend be down, like the Alex Cole-Hamilton/Reporting Scotland alcohol baby deaths one a few years ago?
You know where I’m going next.
So, all things being equal and keeping in mind the regular TV drama trope of the drunk Scotsman abusing nurses in England, the figure for England and Wales should be around 11 times greater or no more than 8 000.
According to the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives [England & Wales], it was ‘almost 51 000 over the last 5 years‘, more than 6 times more common.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
When I wis young Glesca hooligans wis the best hooligans in the world. They could chin merr people an put the heid oan hunners a others. Noo, look at therr pathetic efforts. Thae SNP an thon Violence Reduction Unit huv tae go so that we kin return tae bein the nastiest wee basturts in the world.
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Chuckle!
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And we’ll have pub quizzes with only one question – who ur you lookin at pal!
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