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The Herald’s Steven Camley’s interpretation of the SNP leader’s performance in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Like the English cartoonists, he attempts to conceal the fact that the SNP had a substantive, serious, motion, on one of their only 3 days, based on years of consistent support for the human rights of the Palestinian people, hijacked by a bullied Labour Party speaker and his pro-Israel leader, to prevent them being embarrassed by many of their MPs voting for the SNP motion.
In November 2022, I wrote:
I’ve always thought that Camley’s cartoons were a bit crap but this one stinks of political bias.
The idea that Scotland’s waiting times figures are being ‘massaged’ comes from the opposition parties. Here are the facts again:
From Public Health Scotland today, for September 2022:
69% of attendances at A&E services were seen and resulted in a subsequent admission, transfer or discharge within 4 hours.
For the same month in England, the figure was 56.9%.
NHS Scotland has thus performed 21.3% better.
Remember, it’s not just 21.3%. That means thousands more seen within 4 hours in Scotland than if they’d been treated in England and hundreds of thousands more waiting more than 4 hours in England than if they’d been treated in Scotland.
In Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, a staggering only 31.8% were seen in 4 hours. The areas has 3 Labour and 1 Con MP (IDS).
Scotland’s worst performing board, Lanarkshire, saw 56.7% in 4 hours.
| The number of people waiting two years for a scheduled hospital appointment has significantly reduced, helping ease pressure on the NHS ahead of the winter. This follows intensive work from Health Boards to clear backlogs caused by the pandemic. The national target to clear two year inpatient waits in most specialities by the end of September was set in summer to address the impact of the pandemic on long waiting times for planned care. New figures show that by the end of September, 60% (18 out of 30) of all inpatient specialities had fewer than 10 patients waiting over two years for treatment. The Scottish Government continues to work closely with Health Boards to clear remaining waits as soon as possible, with a specific focus on specialities and areas where there are larger amounts of people waiting. This includes maximising and re-allocating NHS Golden Jubilee University National Hospital’s capacity, a new mobile operating theatre at Stracathro to support long waiting patients in Grampian and the development of a new Urology Hub in Fife. New National Treatment Centres opening in NHS Fife, Forth Valley and Highland next year will also create significant additional capacity to treat patients in orthopaedics. Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: “It is through the dedication and resilience of NHS staff that we have been able to clear a significant amount of two year inpatient waits. “This is a positive step forward in our recovery from the pandemic and will help ease pressure on the NHS over winter. “But challenges remain and there are still unacceptable waits in Orthopaedics, General Surgery and Urology – I am determined to provide the support necessary to drive improvements in these specialities.” Background Public Health Scotland report |
Has Camley improved? Still the same crap cartunionist.
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
These cartoonists were clearly gaslighters in a previous life.
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I heard that The Herald was going to change it’s name to DER STURMER!!!
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Maybe I should have put DER STARMER!!!
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Misfire ?????
Words beginning with ‘MIS’ and the ‘Starmageddon’ incident……
No I think the crux of what really happened in the HOC was Starmer’s ‘Mischief’ (scam) surely….
Plus Hoyle’s ‘Mistake’ and ‘Miscalculation’ (stupidity) in assuming that Starmer would not deliberately ‘Mislead’ him (that is conning him and then leaving him, Hoyle, to be the Scapegoat of a mess that he Starmer instigated) .
Then when the proverbial you know what hit the fan…..he, Starmer, ‘Misbehaved’ (did a Boris Johnson) in contradicting Hoyle’s version of why he, Hoyle, decided to do what he did…and Starmer even managed to blame the SNP in saying they tried to set up trap for him, Strarmer, so once again he was deliberately ‘Misinterpreting’ the real facts and truth of what really went down in the HOC that day (as in he was lying to save his own skin)….
He, Starmer, said that Hoyle had ‘Misrepresented‘ (grasped at a very thin straw) what he, Starmer, had said to Hoyle (where really Hoyle had made up feeble reason/ excuse to try and save Starmer in his scheme with Starmer to try and stop the SNP’s motion being voted on and thus Starmer’s leadership facing a rebellion from his own MP’s) ……..
Starmer ‘Mismanaged’ (Botched) this whole fiasco in the HOC via his ‘Misjudged’ (Blundering) actions and in doing so ‘Misread’ (didn’t care about) the fallout of his blatant deception that has basically, for a lot of people, now left them ‘Mistrusting’ (hating) him and his party….
So Cartoonists and client media may (Mis)present (Lie) in regards to this incident in omitting the real main protagonist in all of this (Keir Starmer) in their collective ‘Lost in translation’ versions of whose to blame (Starmer) and whose blameless (SNP) and also whose scalp they want (currently it’s Hoyle’s) but we all know who is really to blame (Starmer) , who generated this scam (Starmer), who helped him (Hoyle)why he, Starmer, did it (to save his own skin), who he an his party did it for (Donors to Labour who are Pro Israel) and no amount of Labour apologists from the media and elsewhere can spin this into anything but the gross ‘Misconduct’ (disgusting behaviour) from Starmer himself…..that , for voters, defines him as nothing more than a ‘Miscreant’ ( a Wrong ‘un )……….
Don’t vote Labour in Scotland because your ‘Misplaced’ loyalty (wasted vote) in them will not be acknowledged by them via ‘you or yours’ benefitting in any positive way should they win the next GE…………Vote for the SNP…..to not do so could be the biggest ‘Mistake’ you may ever make……
NMRN
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*blame the SNP in saying they tried to set up trap for him,
“blame the SNP in saying they tried to set a trap for him……
My ‘Mistake’…….not as deliberate as Starmer’s or Hoyle’s ones though….LOL
NMRN
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And the Herald’s owners think that by promoting this inane rubbish, it will somehow stop its circulation decline! 🙂
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The Herald Clickbait. Readership going lower and lower. Groundhog Day.
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I thought I would put this one in as it wont be on RS
.https://www.sdi.co.uk/news/funding-agreed-to-secure-350-million-inward-investment-project?returnUrl=%2Fnews&utm_source=scotdevint&utm_medium=social&utm_term=twitter&utm_content=66203d16-817b-417e-8318-3afa2ad89ac6&utm_campaign=sdi_web&s=03
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The only thing I don’t like about that is the Freeport issue
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Also yet more power cables going South with Scottish Energy…….to then come back up here at a higher cost to Scottish homes than England!!! Fantastic about the jobs but should this not all be in the hands of an Independent Scotland…..just shows you what we could do!!!
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If you really want to read a ‘Lost in Translation’ piece on the events in the HOC by another Labour apologist then look no further and read Ian Dunt’s article in (Striking 13) Substack entitled :
“Commons chaos: These partisan halfwits have shamed us all”….
After reading his article you will be in no doubt that tis Ian Dunt himself who is most definitely one of the ‘partisan halfwits’ who he refers to , in both his header and article, and also is apparently, for Ian, anyone but Starmer or the Labour party (he also makes excuses for Hoyle)…..
Ian , in his Twitter bio, states ironically that he is a “Liberal extremist” but after reading this article by him you will regard him as nothing other than a devoted and loyal ‘Labour extremist’.
Alas my techno techno skills do not allow me to link it onto this site but here is an abridged version of some of the text that he wrote in his article ….(on behalf of the Labour party …as in the one with Starmer as leader not the Corbyn one)……..here goes….
He writes : “Anyone who watched what happened should affirm to themselves their utter commitment to change”…
My highlight of the word “Change” in his sentence as it is a tad familiar as a word currently being (over) used by a certain political party…. and as a word one that we are all currently being brainwashed with by the Labour party….coincidence….I think NOT.
Then he also wrote the following:
“The SNP put down an opposition day motion which was designed to hurt Labour, by forcing the party’s MPs to rebel against the leadership or face the vitriol of pro-Palestinian activists. Labour came up with a compromise amendment which might have kept its MPs on side. The Conservatives introduced another amendment, which they thought would prevent the Speaker selecting the Labour amendment. They didn’t do this because they had anything interesting to say. They did it because they shared with the SNP the aim of hurting Labour. They’re incapable of looking outward at the world. They can only look inward, at their tawdry party rivalries”………
Well Ian that was spoken like a true Labour supporter (are you also a member?)…..and also what a load of old ‘partisan’ rubbish in that it totally excuses Labour from all blame, redefines Starmer’s true intention via his actions and points the finger at others as being the real and only villains of the day while also somehow concluding that Labour were the true and only victims in all of this Labour constructed plot in the HOC…..me thinks in that statement that you doth protest (way) too much…..I mean if it was as evident as you state it was, as in via the actual truth of the situation, then why oh why are you then , in this article, having to try and spell it all out for us ? (in your inaccurate summation of events and the wrong principle characters being responsible for it)
Then he also wrote the following:
“Commons rules are not like criminal law. They are changeable. And the main person who can change them is the Speaker. After all: that’s what precedent is. That’s where it comes from. A Speaker making a decision”……
Ah but only one problem Ian ….he, Hoyle, changed a procedure to only benefit ONE political party in this vote i.e. the Labour party while simultaneously disadvantaging another political party (SNP)……on what was supposed to be their, the SNP’s opposition day Motion….and he, Hoyle, did not do this via his own decision….. but he did it only after Keir Starmer met with him , in private, and “urged” him (lobbied him….or bullied him into doing it…..dependent on who you believe) to alter something that was and is not ‘Parliamentary procedure’ in order that he , Starmer, would then not have to face a potential rebellion under his leadership by some of his own MP’s potentially voting FOR the SNP motion .
Plus we all know how much Lindsay Hoyle is so very strict as Speaker of the House with ensuring that all rules and procedures in Parliament are always complied with….do we not…especially with or rather mostly with the SNP so why then did he in this instance decide to alter his behaviour and position on these supposed ‘must be adhered to’ and also ‘strict rules/procedures’………..
Of course the SNP’s motion included wording that Starmer knew his pro Israel donors would not like which included the following words:
“condemns the disproportionate response of the Israel Defence Force , including acts which the international Court of Justice have said are plausibly genocide”
Hence why Starmer had whipped his MP’s NOT to vote for the SNP motion…hence also why we then introduced a Labour’s amendment to that Motion….Note both Ian Murray & Michael Shanks put their names to Labour’s Ceasefire amendment (same Michael Shanks who declared he was his OWN man during his campaign to be elected in Rutherglen By-Election…as opposed to him being yet another (Scottish INO) lapdog for HQ) …..colour me surprised……
Dunt then goes on to say that:
“Why should we limit the number of options MPs can select, especially when it comes down to contentious and highly volatile issues? Why should we deprive them of things to vote for? And why should we do it when we can see that there are dangers to MPs from doing so? Activists have targeted individual politicians, they’ve protested outside their offices, daubed them with red paint to show they have “blood on their hands”, targeted their homes, showered them with abuse online and in person. Some are under police protection. In that context, why wouldn’t we want more options for MPs to vote on, if they want to”?
Why indeed…in fact why not just let them do what they want, when they want and thus just make it up as they go along and especially if in doing it THAT way…it then favours only one particular party over another (others)….I wonder if it was the Tories doing this whether Ian’s position would be the same…Hmm….I doubt it….as to targets, protests etc…..are you Ian, in writing this article , not also inciting a fair amount of hostility towards other political parties in making such controversial and “contentious” points against them….. and thus “targeting” those others as those who are, according to you , just ‘Partisan Idiots’ or as you obviously see them ‘the real Baddies’ (and want us to see them this way too obvs)….in what was, in reality , 100% the fault of Keir Starmer in both instigating and implementing the whole “Chaos” and “Shame” that unfolded in the HOC ….that you surmised in your article, via your Pro Labour puff piece , that amounted to no more than a ‘Save Starmer & the Labour party’ article……a Wheesht for Labour…even.
Ian then goes on to say that “reaction to the Speaker’s announcement was utterly shameful”…I guess then that your version of a ‘Get out of Jail card’ for Starmer and his badly misjudged last minute amendment and his lobbying the Speaker to do what he did is not also shameful then…..Ian then proceeds to write even more Blah Blah Blah….in what was, as an article, awfy long (like my comment LOL) when he could have just written “it wisnae Starmer or Hoyle’s fault” or based on those blaming Starmer and Hoyle then Ian could have just written ‘Naw they didnae”…….”It was the SNPBAD wot did it”.
I hope someone can link his FULL (Fool) article onto here…..just for the sheer shockingly bad take he has presented as a serious (Labour are innocent of all blame) piece but I take it (read it) with a pinch of salt….personally I prefer Owen Jones’s more honest and objective take on Twitter where he wrote :
“The SNP used their Opposition Day to submit a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire and opposing the collective punishment of Gaza. This reflected their longstanding position, unlike Labour, whose leader backed war crimes and which has repeatedly either justified or failed to oppose Israel’s mass slaughter. Labour then gutted the motion, blackmailed the Speaker into breaking Parliamentary protocol and prevented the SNP’s motion from being heard at all. In sum, the Labour leadership deserve nothing but total contempt”.
Less partisan as in less of a ‘Pro Labour’ purely subjective ‘opinion’ piece like Ian’s was….just Owen laying out the facts….sadly lacking via most of the Pro UK media and those who purport to be ‘political columnists’ like Ian Dunt…..indeed post reading Ian Dunt’s article I was tempted to replace the first letter of his surname with another letter….nudge nudge say NO more….I think you get my drift….LOL
Sorry for length of my comment….but somebody has to expose these Bobby dancers rewriting their version of history….as in the one that only seems to favour (pardon) the political party that they support and who were, in this instance, clearly the guilty party in this fiasco…obvs
Any mistakes in text of my comment is solely down to me being not as ‘Bwight’ as Ian Dunt…simples
NMRN
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From The Tribune………………https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/a-parliament-against-palestine
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