We’ve seen Anas Sarwar with the mother of a child who died in a hospital and who believes that death was due to failures by the hospital for pushing five years now.
On one occasion, he shouted out the name of the child in a TV debate with then FM, Nicola Sturgeon. He presents himself in heroic terms but to many, I feel sure, it comes across as creepy.
In yesterday’s BBC report, he is named 5 times and the SNP is associated with the death:
Mr Sarwar said former SNP health minister Jeane Freeman had supported an investigation, put the health board in special measures and instigated the public inquiry.
But he said those who predated her had never been held to account, and those that followed her in that role, including First Minister Humza Yousaf, had taken them backwards.
“I honestly believed that in Jeane Freeman I had a partner that was willing to open up the books, to challenge the establishment and wanting to find the answers,” Mr Sarwar said.
“To this day, the suspects are being allowed to walk the crime scene.”
Not only does he try to suggest a split in the SNP for electoral purposes but, also, in tabloid imagery, in that last sentence, he denies the right to innocence until proven guilty.
Further, this is unique to BBC Scotland.
In July 2020:
More than 1 000 cases! The health board CE has to answer. There’s no mention, certainly no anxious photo, of the minister or of the PM. There’s no image of a creepy Labour MP ‘supporting’ the parents either.
But in Scotland, the BBC and the Labour Party do it differently:
Not only do we get an exploitative photo of the Health Secretary, a former nurse, who clearly cares about what she does, we get the First Minister and Anas Sarwar ‘supporting’ the parents.
In July 2020 again:
More than 1 000 cases! The health board CE has to answer. There’s no mention, certainly no anxious photo, of the minister or of the PM. There’s no image of a creepy Labour MP ‘supporting’ the parents either.
More recently:
In November 2021, two child deaths at a Glasgow hospital were ‘linked to hospital infections’. At the time and now, there was no evidence that the infections had caused the deaths, yet the BBC coverage allowed the Scottish Labour leader to appear to be championing (groom?) the parents and opened the report with this:
The deaths of two more children were linked to infections at a troubled Glasgow hospital, the Scottish Labour leader has claimed. Anas Sarwar said he had been told about the deaths by clinicians who were afraid to speak out publicly. He called on the government to sack the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital’s bosses and take over its running. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would look into the cases “as a matter of urgency”.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-59415672
Today BBC Nottingham, reporting on two baby deaths, do not politicise a health tragedy by platforming an opposition leader and, only after 46 paragraphs do we even read:
Michelle Welsh, who is a Labour councillor for Nottinghamshire, and sits on the health scrutiny committee, said she felt “traumatised” by her treatment when she gave birth to her son Billy. She said: “My worry is that NUH thinks Donna Ockenden is coming and everyone stands back. “We still need to see evidence of improvements and NUH. I am concerned NUH think it’s resolved and it’s not resolved. “That’s why it’s really important the government needs to be there to back Donna Ockenden up.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-61899753
In Wales too, no politicising of deaths in the NHS:
BBC Wales tell us that an asthma sufferer died despite the efforts of her family who made three 999 calls for an ambulance.
There is no mention of any politician, far less the Welsh Health Secretary or the First Minister, anywhere in the report. The opposition Conservatives and Plaid Cymru make no call for any resignations.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
What disgusts me more is the justification for these political theatrics being restaged – The practice of the Crown Office requesting Police Scotland carry out further investigation on A, B, C etc. is nothing unusual…
But for it to be seized on and amplified via BBC Scotland to identify only the Health Board as “suspect”, allowed BBC Scotland to recycle their vast library of QEUH propaganda, carefully avoiding slippage from the incontinent pigeon debacle.
All of it is political theatre to promote Sarwar when public support for Labour is falling UK wide over their Gaza position, and which HMS James Cook has gone to great lengths to avoid all mention of.
The Crown Office are doing their job (albeit at alarmingly slow pace), PS will do what is required, the BBC in Scotland remain disinclined to honest journalism, just as Sarwar is disinclined to honest politics.
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If Labour win the next election, they can presumably authorise suitable compensation (and perhaps set a precedent for future hospital deaths). It remains to be seen whether Labour will endorse and practise this kind of accountability if in government in the future.
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Look what labour have done to Wales NHS no thank you keep Labour well away from our NHS
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I do not think Labour will win in Scotland but of course Scotland will get what England want and Scotland will have to like it or lump it.
Sarwar isn’t very bright is he , he bumbles along doing what he is instructed to do by his London bosses just like his predecessors .
It’s a tragedy when a child dies.
The Labour Party and BBC Scotland obviously think the dozens and dozens of people involved in all the enquiries and investigations are liars , you have to be thick or have ulterior motives to believe so many people all got together to do a cover up.
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Sarwar, BailLIE and co. are no more and no better than ambulance chasers. Every incident (not just NHS incidents) that can be linked to the Scottish government, however tenuously, is seized upon, dissected, processed, prepared and then presented to the ever eager BBC Scotland.
What sickens me is the faux concern that they show whenever speaking about these incidents, Sarwar’s political theatre (as mentioned above) and BailLIE’s crocodile tears. Ruthless, lying people who will do anything to keep Scotland in this toxic Union.
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