From BBC Wales today:
A deaf cancer patient in a remote village with no internet or mobile phone signal says he has missed medical appointments because hospital emails did not reach him in time.
John Bowler, 74, a former architect, is a resident in Llangwm near Usk, Monmouthshire, where residents say the issue is causing a number of difficulties.
Local people also said there is no Instagram, Netflix or home-working in their “cut off” village.
The internet provider Voneus said the infrastructure it acquired from the previous provider “did not meet our high standards and we are now investing significantly to upgrade the network”.
There’s no mention of the Welsh Government. Why would there be? Well…
Imagine that was in Scotland?
In December 2020, from BBC Scotland, after just a temporary cut-off:
A village in Stirling was left without internet access for several days after a lorry crashed into a telegraph pole.
One local resident told BBC Scotland the Ripple Retreat – a respite centre for families affected by cancer – had also been impacted by the damage.
In an email to Rural Affairs [SNP] Minister Mairi Gougeon, the woman described the significant impact on the community as poor mobile reception left many households “without an alternative”.
The Scottish government said it was investigating the issue “as a matter of urgency” given the impact on the community.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Does the fact that the resident in Stirling contacted the Scottish Government indicate a trust in the Scottish Government by the resident that the SG would actually do something?
Not the way BBC Scotland and the rest of the Scottish media frame such things. What they intend is that people BLAME the SG when anythings go wrong and that they are right to do so because the Scottish Government, being Scottish, MUST be shite.
Alasdair Macdonald.
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“Cancer patient misses check-ups in ‘cut off’ village but SNP Minister not accused of anything? Well, he is in Wales”
Aye apparently if there is any ‘politicisation’ to be done then it’s only to be done with anything and everything in Scotland against the SNP, the Scottish government, government ministers and also the Scottish FM.
The SNP, Scottish government ministers and the FM are always prepared to be accused, implicated in, responsible for and ultimately having the buck stop with them no matter how little, if any even, their actual involvement was with any situation or incident that has occurred in any Scottish public service .
If say, for example, a Scottish Regional Health Board or individual hospital fails to communicate with the bereaved family of a former patient – then the eventual outcome will always be that the Scottish Health secretary must resign or be sacked for this or the opposition demands answers from the FM and the Health Secretary.
Then this always leads to it being promoted as the SNP “Failing the Scottish NHS”.
However in England it is apparently only the respective NHS Trusts, individual hospital(s) and their staff who are to blame for any (all) negative situations/incidents and indeed all the NHS scandals we have read and heard about connected to English hospitals in the past.
Never is the UK (English) Heath Secretary , UK (English) government or UK (English) PM promoted as being to blame for these matters and neither are their jobs on the line .
In fact the UK (English) Health Secretary was never asked to resign or a demand for them to be sacked by the PM in respect to the many failings and scandals we have seen reported that are connected to any English NHS Trust or individual hospital(s) or staff within that hospital.
(That also seems to be the case for Wales too in that their government, respective ministers and their FM are all also absolved from any blame and also any implication in them being responsible for failings, poor performance etc in the NHS in Wales).
Aye seems that, as a situation , is RESERVED for the Scottish DEVOLVED government only.
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