Don’t these dentists know there’s a crisis in dentistry? Scottish Labour MPs are telling England there is one to make them feel better and able to keep looking down on us

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Look at that from Newmilns in East Ayrshire! No need to queue round the block for an appointment and then wait forever for it, as we hear is the case across NHS England.

I wonder is the new local MP pleased and sharing this on social media?

Here she is in her last FB post more than a week ago:

Comanic? Cumnock?

She’ll have been busy flying down to Westminster to join her Scottish Labour pals feeing the PM with questions to let him suggest the best NHS in the UK is actually worse than NHS England or even third world Labour Wales. Was she sitting near to and applauding this woman on 15th January 2025?

Kirsteen Sullivan Labour MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow, has just asked PM Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs about a shortage of dentists in Scotland which then allowed Starmer to attack the SNP.

We see, above, Sullivan’s supposed commitment to honesty in public life.

However, on the availability of NHS dentistry in Scotland, she doesn’t want you to know the honest truth, this:

From Public Health Scotland, May 28, 2024:

5,182,993 people were registered with an NHS dentist as at 31 March 2024 (94.6% of the Scottish population). 732,618 extensive clinical examinations were paid in the quarter ending March 2024 under the new pay arrangements

I can’t find directly comparable figures for NHS England, but from a UK Parliament report in 2023:

1 in 5 Britons (22%) are currently not “registered” with a dentist. Of those who were not “registered” 37% said this was because they couldn’t find an NHS dentist.

Only 78% in UK registered, 16.6% lower than the 94.6% in Scotland. So access to NHS dentistry in Scotland 21% higher (16.6% of 78) than in UK.

Maybe, to be fair, there’s a shortage of NHS dentistry in Bathgate?

Hmmm, could she be just another big fibber?

Source: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-dental-data-monitoring-report/nhs-dental-data-monitoring-report-quarter-ending-march-2024/

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7 thoughts on “Don’t these dentists know there’s a crisis in dentistry? Scottish Labour MPs are telling England there is one to make them feel better and able to keep looking down on us”

  1. Aye, no problem whatsoever changing NHS dentist in South Lanarkshire , because just didn’t like my old one.

    I’ve never even considered DIY dentistry , as Sarwar claimed was happening😂

    perhaps it’s just his patients .

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  2. There may be enough dentists but there is a shortage of dental nurses. Not surprisingly, perhaps. Two-year apprenticeship at min wage, with exams at the end to earn the same as a Christmas temp postie.

    Sent from Outlook for iOShttps://aka.ms/o0ukef

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  3. Its their utter desperation to run Scotland down at any cost that get’s me.

    “Standing up for honesty on public life”. Yes Kirsteen, that election promise didn’t last very long did it?

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  4. To be honest John, there are some areas of Scotland appearing to be better served than others, but how much of that is political bullshit rather than fact is very difficult to figure out.

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  5. PM’s Q’s at WM , where we see the new Labour MP’s who were elected in Scotland, act out what is an obvious pre-planned and well rehearsed ‘SNP is bad’ speech , that is badly disguised as a supposed question but whose only purpose is for their leader, as PM, to also then do the exact same with his response.

    This is a rerun of what we formerly witnessed when the Tories were in power, where Tories elected in Scotland would also feed a line to their Tory PM as a opportunity for him or her to also attack the Scottish government and the SNP.

    It’s the same with the very short weekly session allocated for Scottish Q’s at WM , but this time it’s the so called SOS for Scotland who gets fed the lines by ‘Scottish’ Labour MP’s as a cue for him to then also attack the SNP as the Scottish government.

    Scottish Q’s at WM is also where English MP’s are allowed to ask Q’s to the so called SOS for Scotland , or rather they too, as English MP’s , are also allowed to attack the Scottish government and the SNP as a party.

    Where as an MP for an English constituency they are allowed to make their skewed , partisan and often ignorant observations upon another country and it’s devolved government, that other country being Scotland, which is a country that they do not live in or serve as an MP in yet somehow they seem to so apparently clued up on everything going on within Scotland and it’s politics.

    Who is feeding them all of this inaccurate information ?

    And do they do not have enough to do within their own role as an MP for an English constituency, that is , as one who is an MP that is supposed to serve his or her own English constituency’s interests in England’s parliament at WM ?

    Though on English only matters, formerly known as EVEL, it is expected , or rather demanded, that Scottish MP’s do not interfere or give their input into any of these debates in the House, as this is England’s business and not Scotland’s .

    Divisions in the House ?

    Very much so and we all know who creates the real divisions in the so called House (HOC) and also who really creates most of the division in the state that is called the UK, but where most MP’s at WM see it, the UK, as being synonymous with England.

    That is because the majority of MP’s within WM are English MP’s for English constituencies , so they are very much the dominant force within the so called UK (English) parliament, yet one ,** a Tory MP**, once had the audacity to ask “Who speaks for England ?”, it would be laughable if it were not so crass a statement.

    (**Sourced from the former Tory MP John Redwood, an obvious English Nationalist, if ever there was one).

    Liz S

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  7. Dentistry aside, when are the majority of people in Scotland going to fully open their eyes to Labour’s duplicity.

    The Grangemouth betrayal is where Labour, especially Sarwar, is now politically, on the ropes.

    In the 2024 Labour GE campaign in Scotland they, as in especially Sarwar, promoted that “jobs would be saved at Grangemouth for the future” and that “millions would be invested at Grangemouth”.

    Sarwar spoke these words as part of his 2024 Labour campaign in Scotland.

    Now Sarwar is saying, in what is a very feeble excuse, that those who own Grangemouth are a “private company”.

    In other words Sarwar is suggesting that Labour cannot be expected to get involved in or interfere with decisions made by a “private company”.

    However it did appear last year that Labour, via Sarwar and also the then Labour candidate for that area (now the new MP), could indeed involve themselves in and also interfere with decisions involving that same “private company” , as we were all assured that Grangemouth jobs would be saved for the future by a new Labour UK government.

    Confused ?

    That’s the plan and also the reaction that Anas Sarwar hopes to generate with his mixed messages , pre and post last years GE , in relation to Grangemouth.

    Labour UK , as the new UK government, have not saved jobs or invested millions in Grangemouth ,in fact they have abandoned the workers there and also Scotland.

    Sarwar promised they, Labour UK, would act to save Grangemouth during his GE campaign for Labour last year in Scotland and he also made no reference to , as in emphasised, that Grangemouth was owned by a “private company”.

    However what Sarwar now fails to note is that his party, Labour UK as a new UK government , have pledged to give the Chairman of that same “private company” a £600 million loan to set up a factory in Belgium.

    They, the Labour UK government, have also pledged £1 billion to the Old Trafford regeneration project in Manchester (whose Metro Mayor is Labour’s Andy Burnham), and where that same Chairman of the “private company” that owned Grangemouth has a 27.7% stake in Manchester United who are based at Old Trafford.

    Coincidentally the Chairman of that same “private company” that owned Grangemouth refinery changed his allegiance from the Tory party to the Labour party in last years UK GE.

    Something stinks in their UK, and from where I am looking it very much seems to be Labour UK as new so called UK government who emit a very bad smell, as they seem to be only serving England’s interests and not Scotland’s, and it is also their so called leader in Scotland, Anas Sarwar , who also leaves a very bad smell with all of the broken promises that he formerly made last year to Grangemouth , and also to Scotland, on behalf of his party bosses in England.

    “Change” and a “Fresh start” with Labour, my A***.

    All , as empty slogans , now worth diddly-squat !

    Liz S

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