From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report : June 2024
Crime has fallen by 53% since 2008-09. Results from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) show that around 1 in 10 adults were victims of crime in 202122 (10.0%) compared to 1 in 5 in 2008-09 (20.4%). The estimated number of crimes fell by 53% over the same period, and by 18% since 2017-18.
Talking-up Scotland / Facts on NHS, Crime, ferries and everything else you can think of 
“Making our streets safer” is one of Labour’s five key pledges.
Of course, like everything else in the Labour manifesto it is about the situation in England and, since ‘we are all one country’ this means that whatever is the case in England MUST be the case everywhere else. In any case, since the media report only bad things about Scotland to the people of England, Scotland appears even worse and they just shut the North of Ireland out of their minds and think Wales are just large sea creatures.
Alasdair Macdonald.
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Sorry folks but as a long time SNP member me thinks I am slowly losing the will to live.
Just caught a brief glimpse of a Sky news item at lunchtime advertising a political debate in Scotland later tonight. It featured 3 male students sitting on a bench (presumably on Arthur’s seat) indicating they will be voting Slabour as the Party most likely to get them on the housing market along with an elderly guy who similarly wants (as he put it) ”to drain the swamp of dirty politics at Holyrood” and will be voting Slabour for the first time.
The inference of course was the political mood in Scotland is apparently changing in Labour’s direction. It either simply beggars belief the level of ignorance or as I suspect has been prompted by the possibility the SNP (now lead by Swinney) is closing the Election polling gap (if indeed one exists at all) as surely the ‘Murdochs’ want to see a resurgence of any Unionist Party that they can exert influence over in future instead of the SNP in Government.
Perhaps unsurprising but I despair nonetheless. PLEASE PLEASE LETS REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO ENSURE THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN (FOR MY SANITY IF NOTHING ELSE).
Robbo.
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Robbo, that is precisely why I have never watched any British news channel for almost 10 years. Nothing sophisticated, just another attempt at brainwashing the Scottish public into believing that Unionism is best, and that we couldn’t run our own affairs much better in an Independent Scotland. All rubbish of course, but sometimes effective.
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O/T Latest update for the Labour politicians in Scotland who constantly berate the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland on A&E waiting times:
Latest on waits in the main A&E departments in the NHS in Wales – from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (https://rcem.ac.uk/summer-provides-no-respite-for-over-stretched-emergency-departments/ )
1) ’44.1% of patients (more than 2/5) waited four hours or longer (up 10.6% on April 2024)’ – so just 58.6% discharged, transferred or admitted within four hours. The RCEM reports ‘the number of patients having to wait more than four hours has almost doubled since 2017’.
2) ’23.2% (more than 1/5) of people waited more than eight hours (up 0.5% on last month)’ – ‘for eight hour waits it has tripled’
3) ’14.5% of patients (more than 1/7) had to endure waits of more than 12 hours (up 0.3% from April)’ – ‘for the longest waits of 12 hours or more the number of people as gone up four times’.
For comparison, the RCEM reported on performance data for Scotland ’s main emergency departments during April 2024 :
– 64% of patients were treated, discharged or admitted within the target time of four hours (Wales = 58.6%)
– 12.7% of attendees waited more than eight hours (Wales = 23.2%)
– 5.7% of attendees waited more than 12 hours (Wales = 14.5%).
The difference in performance between NHS Wales and NHS Scotland’s emergency departments is marked. To what question is Labour the right, the best answer for Scotland?
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