Douglas Alexander asks for it.
Labour on crime:
When Harold Wilson’s Labour came to power in 1964, there were around 160 000 crimes recorded across Scotland. By the last year of the Labour/Lib Dem alliance at Holyrood, in 2006, that figure had almost tripled to more than 400 000!
After 16 years of SNP rule that figure had fallen steadily year-on-year to less than 300 000 in 2023.
At the same time, in England and in Wales, with the Conservatives in control in England and Labour running devolved government in Wales, crime surged. By 2023, there 94 crimes for every 1 000 people in England and Wales but only 53 in Scotland. Overall crime in England and Wales is now almost twice as high as in Scotland. That is a staggering difference between otherwise very similar countries.
Violent crime, an understandable and particular concern for the electorate, has also fallen dramatically in Scotland from more than 92 000 under Labour in 2003 to 62 000 under the SNP in 2021. This is a massive fall of almost one-third!
In England and Wales, in sharp contrast, violent crime has soared from 665 000 when the Conservatives came to power in 2010 and after decades of Labour power across Wales, to more than 2 million in 2023, almost tripling!
Labour on drug deaths:
In 2002, after 5 years of New Labour rule, deaths had grown to 280 per year and by 2007, when the SNP inherited the problem, they almost doubled and reached 455.
Labour on affordable housing:
Scotland has continued the trend of outperforming the rest of the UK in delivering affordable housing.
In the last financial year 9757 homes have been built for social rent, mid-market rent, and affordable ownership.
Scotland continues to outperform the rest of the UK by building 13.9 homes per 10,000 population, compared with 8.0 in Wales, 9.7 in England and 13.0 per 10,000 in Northern Ireland.
13.9 per 10 000 is 74% better than the 8 in Labour Wales
Labour on PFI and cheap concrete:
Major councils and teaching unions laid the blame for the crisis at the door of the Nationalist government, claiming its dogmatic refusal to accept private finance was consigning a generation of Scots children to miserable schooldays and sub-standard education.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “The Scottish Futures Trust is already supporting infrastructure investment and will be used in the commissioning of a new school project in the spring. Local authorities are also able to build schools through traditional funding methods. In 2008, more than 30,000 pupils have swapped sub-standard classrooms for modern ones and over the lifetime of this parliament we will see that total rise to at least 100,000.””
Labour on cancer waiting times:
BBC Health, 8 June 2023, based on the above data, is telling us:
NHS services across the whole UK have been struggling to meet cancer targets since well before Covid.
The differences are greater.
They have been careful to include NHS England’s improvement in March 2023, to 64% starting treatment within the target 64 days, from only 54.4% in December 2022, but have then compared that with the NHS Scotland figure for December 2022.
The correct, fair comparison would be 72% with 54.4%, a 16.6% gap and thus 30.5% better than the 54.4% figure.
Remember, that difference meant around 4 000 patients seen within target in Scotland and around 40 000 waiting beyond the target in England.
As for Wales, NHS Scotland is a shocking 31% faster.
Sources:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/statistics/2006/09/recorded-crime-scotland-2005-06/documents/0038291-pdf/0038291-pdf/govscot%3Adocument/0038291.pdf
https://www.statista.com/statistics/370370/crime-figures-in-scotland/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1030625/crime-rate-uk/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/288256/violent-crimes-in-england-and-wales/
https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/scotland-outperforms-uk-in-building-affordable-housing-298925/
https://www.scotsman.com/news/scandal-of-scotlands-crumbling-schools-2472468
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
When the introduction of Thatchers policies on decimating the industrial base of the UK in favour of a financial base. Resulting in millions losing jobs. And a lost generation. Who turned to drugs. It should be remembered. That these policies are still regarded as a proud moment by Conservatives a d their supporters. Lets not forget that
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Let’s not forget that Labour was every bit as culpable as Mrs T in decimating industry in Scotland in fact probably more so because there were 2 Labour Governments before Mrs T came to power. Labour did little during those periods in power to stop the rot.
When Atlee’s Gov nationalised the coal mines there were 225 mines across the Central belt. By the time Mrs T came to power in 1979 there were 20 pits left. What did Labour do for the mining communities left without pits?
Then there is shipbuilding. By the time Labour nationalised the shipyards in the late 1970s there were only 6 shipyards in Scotland – 4 on the Clyde, 1 in Dundee and 1 in Aberdeen. What did Labour do to help the communities?
Labour blaming Mrs T for everything has been their position for decades in order to hide their own culpability and general uselessness. It hollowed them out such that when it came to devolution and them gaining office they had not a clue what to do with it to make Scotland better.
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Dougie has been out of touch for a wee bit so he probably doesn’t remember how things work at WESTMINSTER !
He is decrying the SNP’s record at WESTMINSTER where we have a tiny fraction of MPs – ALWAYS out-voted by the Blue Tories or the Red Tories , depending on whose turn it is to destroy the economy .
Does he think that getting HIM back to WESTMINSTER will make a big difference to Kid Starver’s policies on Scotland ?
He is the Yes Man’s Yes Man ! When Sir Kid Starver says jump he will already have launched himself into the stratosphere .
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