In a January 2023 piece by Labour pal Rachel Watson of the Sun rag, we read the shocking fact that thousands of kids who have not applied for the SNP free bus pass have not received one because, allegedly, they’re too ‘thick’ to complete the application form.
Did Neil Bibby MSP have a look at the form and get a headache?
Anyhow, Bibby, with great comic phrasing said:
Thanks to mismanagement, the scheme was overly complicated. Too many young people are paying the price for the SNP’s incompetence. Bus services are being cut across the country, leading to many young people asking what is the point of a free bus pass if there are no buses to use it on. The SNP should explain why uptake is so low.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10102952/scots-missing-out-free-bus-pass-scheme/
Working at pace, someone, submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Scottish government to ask what percentage of eligible kids applied.
Assuming it was a Labour aide, they’re going to be disappointed by some of the data published yesterday:
Edinburgh – 75 065, 93.3%, of Edinburgh youth have the pass.
Inverclyde – 89.7%
Dundee – 82.1%
Across Scotland for the key 16-21 year-olds – 80%
https://www.gov.scot/publications/young-persons-under-22s-free-bus-travel-scheme-foi-release/
Makes you wonder how many Labour/Lib Dem/Tory FoIs disappoint so much they never see the light of Reporting Scotland?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Pity there was not more Freedom of information on all the efforts the Scottish (INO) MSM make on behalf the opposition parties in obscuring much of what they do and say as pro UK political parties ……that would surely be worthy of some justifiable backlash against both of them via the public……instead the MSM gives opposition parties the FREEDOM to be exempt from REAL scrutiny and thus promote ONLY the INFORMATION that they , as opposition parties, want promoted against both the SNP and too independence……
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Like buses , if you miss a FOI request from the Unionists another 10 will be along in a moment !
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The law should fine people BBC etc and newspapers who make accusations before getting FOI evidence , it’s quite simple but in ununited kingdom the BBC and newspapers are allowed to publish lies that are corrected after publishing by FOI
Only in the corrupt ununited kingdom are you allowed to publish and broadcast lies you know are lies.
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The bbc in Scotland should be barred from calling itself a news organisation, instead being identified only as a propaganda unit of the british state, operating here with the sole purpose of denying the population the information it needs, to make an informed choice about our country’s future.
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