11.21 am on Sunday 4 Feb where’s the 4 Feb Sunday National front page? They still have this old one. 24 hours later, on Monday 5th February, they still have this from the 17 January (!) on x/twitter.
Why? Because they don’t like the look of the actual Sunday National front page on Sunday 4 February 2024?
This one?
What’s not to like? What are they hiding? Another Tory wiped his WhatsApp messages.
Clearly not in public interest when BBC Scotland has decided that what’s in their interests is only SNP WhatsApp message deletion so that they can maintain the Nicola pile-on.
Hiding the Rugby win over Labour Wales? A wee bonus.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
#Shush for the union
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Well spotted John, I’m so used to ignoring James these days I didn’t notice…
Totally OT, and I confess to having forgotten where the exchange took place, but it was over the Care Homes rumblings wrt the Covid Inquiry and the focus on what SG could should might have done with particular reference to Woolhouse.
What was brought sharply back into focus as I’d forgotten, is that this strategy of Care Homes was evolved by the London advisory group, and incorporated in the Covid Emergency powers which SG were to incorporate in Scottish legislation.
I’m not attempting to diminish SG’s responsibility under the Law, nor criticise the strategy to clear hospital space and put patients beyond as yet not fully understood harm, but where is that strategy context in any of the reporting ?
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Unelected Tories getting outed soon. Voted for Independence. Stop illegal wars and Brexit. A few more months the right to chose. Use it or lose it. Make the right choice for prosperity, equality and cohesion.
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I have sent the following FOI request to the BBC
“I have listened to a report by Fiona Stalker on the lack of transparency from the Scottish Government during the pandemic with particular reference to whatsapp messages and minutes from meetings. As I agree with the principles of transparency in public services I would like the BBC to provide me with all the info they have relating to their decision to cut short Scottish Government daily Covid briefings to allow opposition parties to comment on the briefing decisions. This should include any communications from individual politicians, editorial meeting minutes and memos and pf course any relevant whatsapp messages (or other messaging services)”
Not expecting much but it was this or explode with rage!
brobb
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They are exempt from FOI…
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Labour FM Mark Drakeford had to correct the Senedd record late last year after he told the Welsh Parliament he did not use the WhatsApp messaging system.
A week later he admitted to the Senedd that he did, although he said he did not use it regularly……
Asked whether he or his ministers had deleted messages, Mr Drakeford said: “I can’t speak for everybody because, as we’ve now learnt, different people’s phones had different settings on them and things were happening without people even necessarily knowing that that was going on.
“I don’t think there’s anything deleted on my phone but there wasn’t much to start with.”
So firstly he said “he did not use the WhatsApp messaging system” then a week later he admitted that he did ….well that inspires confidence in him…NOT.
Then he says “I don’t think there’s anything deleted on my phone”…..so that’s a tad ambiguous is it not.
Wales’ decision making , under a Labour government, in the pandemic will be scrutinised when the Covid inquiry visits Cardiff in February and March…..well that should be fun as it seems as far as Mr Drakeford is concerned he does not seem to know what went on as he stated “things were happening without people even necessarily knowing that that was going on” ….and was oblivious as to whether he was using a WhatsApp message service on his phone…….
Wonder if main English news will make as much fuss of Inquiry vising wales as they did via Scottish Inquiry……Hmm……
NMRN
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As was observed previously by one or more of our contributors here, the WhatsApp furore is a deliberate attempt to conflate what was happening in #10 with what everybody else was doing.
The reason for it is obvious if you look to the early evidence sessions of the Covid Inquiry in London, where the policy of deleting WhatsApps went into overdrive from #10, far beyond what was recommended for security reasons – They are desperate to portray #10 as not being the outlier….
Hence HMS James Cook’s gambit of pushing WhatsApp importance before the Edinburgh sessions had even convened – James’s current gambit is “a culture of secrecy in SG”, but cleverly never putting it in writing – Martin Guissler on the Sunday Show for example, citing ‘this is what today’s papers are saying’, as if folks have not twigged to the gaslighting going on, and this is the propagandists greatest problem – NOBODY is swallowing it whole in great numbers, not in Scotland, not in England, and certainly not in Wales – The propaganda game only works from the media bubble if the public trust it – BBC Scotland finally blew remaining trust with their QEUH campaign, and have been going downhill ever since.
There will be a different KC in charge for the Wales segment – I doubt he/she’d be quite so stupid as on the Scottish leg to “play the man not the ball” – When the true man with the ball is a serial philander and liar, it’s a hard act to follow for either NS or MD…
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*vising wales
visiting Wales….LOL
NMRN
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OT again John, this entirely predicted gambit from HMS James Cook “Scottish Water could hike prices further, boss says” https://archive.ph/4PXua
The desperation of the article to recover James Cook’s credibility despite his blatant ‘WhatsApp’ propaganda gambit is truly awful, relying on “hikes” to avoid recognising Scottish Water being in a class leading position wrt the UK, and almost deific compared to England.
Wow, who knew or cared that ” Rates had already risen by 5% in 2023 and by 4.2% in 2022″ or an “8.8% rise in water bills this April could be followed by future hikes in the coming years “… 😲 An average increase of 70p per week could turn, theatrical pause, the entire Scottish population, sharp intake of breath, against the SNP, communal gasp then sigh, distant fart, close curtains, muffled sounds of f’sake as cast escapes stage rapidly…
Let’s put James’s bullshit into perspective shall we
– We have run out of clean clear or wholesome water in the entire history of SW and it’s predecessors, all the way back to before James was even a gleam in his father’s eye, not so England.
– We have never had to endure the pollution of Scotland’s rivers or coasts anywhere even close to what England endured throughout the existence of RPBs and SEPA, not a single beach smelling of Coffey.
70p a week eh ? Cheaper than a TV licence…
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By way of follow up, James invited the “Nicola ate my hamster” brigade by making comments open, the only current article doing across the BBC’s Scotland and Scotland/Politics web-pages… 🤣
The earliest comment was 14.37, so say 3 and a half hours after publication with no comments open, fairly obvious the gong-holder was displeased and went for the jaguar – Jack’s spelling was always shite hence his obsession with talking it…
It must be so frustrating for James, normally he’d be closing in on a thousand comments from the script from Hamish McItupasIgoalong etc., today no service and barely struggled over the hundred..
, no comments open…
arliest comment from the current ‘rent-a muppet’ shift 14.37, so presumably the man with the gong was displeased
Mathter will be tho ditpleathed…
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Oopth
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This from the Independent on Mr Hamiltons intervention.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/information-commissioner
Some things stand out for me, I admit I was mistaken thinking that it was Mr Hamiltons office that was responsible for Humzas anger but it appears that it was the SPFS that was at the centre of enforcing the deletion of SG Whatsapp messages. Since the paper doesn’t tell us which period this covers the story is open to misrepresentation and this is duly provided by the tory’s.
Golfnut
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