By Professor John Robertson OBA, Primary 7 Maths teacher till 1981.

Scottish Labour have always had trouble with numbers and Scottish Labour Leader, Anas Sarwar is no exception as he walks into an embarrassing gaff in the Daily Record today, with this:

Almost 1 in 6 Scots are on an NHS waiting list. The combined waiting lists total 824,725 people.¹

The Scottish Con’s, Sandy Gullane, similarly no that bright, says:

Around one in seven Scots is on a waiting list for NHS treatment.²

Make up your mind lads. That’s a big difference, hundreds of thousands.

Never mind the sums then, what’s the total?

The Record above says 824 725 on the NHS Scotland list.

Scottish Labour must know a few of the chaps down in Labour Wales. Before we agree how bad 1 in 6 is, let’s compare how they’re doing after decades in control?

BBC Wales today says they have 801 300 on their waiting lists.³

Steady now, Labour lads. To be fair, we will need to do a wee sum because there are more folk in Scotland in the first place. Scotland has 1.7 times the population of Wales, so we’ll need to multiply their 801 300 by 1.7 to get a fair estimate of how many would be on a waiting list in Scotland if it had a Labour Government.

It’s a shocker – 1 362 000, far bigger than 824 725 so with a Labour Government Scotland would have around 500 000 [HALF A MILLION] more on their NHS waiting lists.

Sources:

1. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/scotland-s-nhs-is-on-life-support-under-the-snp-and-scots-are-being-failed/ar-AA1tR9C5?ocid=iehpLMEMpx&apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
2. https://www.msn.com/en-ph/health/other/80-rise-in-scots-patients-going-private-as-nhs-waiting-times-soar/ar-BB1mwJwH?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c704y4lk3z9o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5BBBC+England%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_origin=BBCWalesNews&at_medium=social&at_format=link&at_link_type=web_link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_id=2404DEC2-A801-11EF-A43E-9AFB7F9B2CF4