By Liz S
“Why is Reporting Scotland still headlining the three-day-old news of ‘hundreds’ of operations cancelled in one NHS board”…….why indeed.
Well they, the BBC ‘news’ teams in Scotland, need to hang onto (prolong) what they promote as being #BAD ‘news’….. that they then see as being another political weapon that they can use against the SNP…………it also helps to reinforce the BBC in Scotland’s current favourite UK political party’s message, as in the Labour party, and their political campaign of misinformation upon the Scottish NHS and the SNP.
Meanwhile yesterday MSM Monitor posted this on ‘X’
“Waiting times in the English NHS have gone up for the third month in a row. It made the BBC News at One but was dropped from the News at Six. No politicians in sight. No health secretary. Sarwar and Baillie are lying when they claim waiting times are going down in England”.
The BBC news reported that “Experts warning The (UK) government’s key NHS priority tackling the backlog is at risk. At the end of August the waiting list for routine treatments hit 7.41million, in May it was 7.36 million”.
Then their English Health Correspondent Hugh Pym was asked what they could read into these numbers ?
He said “Well it certainly looks as if it’s a difficult number for the (UK) government and for NHS England. These figures are for England because the narrative of falling waiting lists , thanks to government policy since the election, can now be questioned”
Apparently one (UK) government source told Pym that “we always thought this was going to be a bumpy ride“………
So it’s a “bumpy ride” for a Labour UK government with the English NHS waiting times but not for a “bumpy ride” for the SNP Scottish government with the Scottish NHS waiting times……….I see. Got it.
So basically we have the BBC news teams in Scotland, the Chair of the Scottish BMA, Sarwar, Baillie, the English NHS Health Secretary Wes Streeting, the UK PM, all of Labour HQ & the branch office Labour party in Scotland all politicising the NHS in Scotland but England’s NHS is to be exempt from politicisation now that Labour are in charge. I see. Got it.
(Labour HQ did however always politicise the English NHS when the Tories were formerly in charge as the UK government……..but now apparently, with them , Labour, in charge it’s somehow to be regarded as ‘different’. I see. Got it.).
Pym noted the issues in England’s NHS , like the Doctors strike (where of course, in Scotland, Doctors here did not strike , as a settlement was reached between them and the SNP Scottish government in our Scottish NHS)
He , Pym, also noted there was “other things to cope with” (where of course in Scotland and our Scottish NHS there are “no other things to cope with” for the SNP as the Scottish government, that is….if Labour , the Chair of the BMA in Scotland and also the BBC in Scotland are all to be believed) .
He , Pym, also noted that “NHS England say that the issue really is that you have got record numbers of procedures and treatments being carried out in England. But even more people are coming onto the waiting lists and that they are having to cope with more demand”.
(Of course, more people coming onto the Scottish NHS waiting lists, that would never be allowed to be said, accepted or even be seen as being appropriate as an ‘excuse’ or ‘issue’ that either the Scottish government or any NHS Health Board in Scotland could use to communicate as a reason why it becomes more difficult “to cope with more demand” anywhere here within Scotland’s NHS).
Also Pym noted “But looking at (English) A & E the figures, they don’t make for particularly pleasant reading , the numbers waiting more than 12 hours , so called trolley waits, after a decision to admit to a Hospital but having to wait to get a bed, that went up again to more than Forty Four thousand and there are warnings that it’s going to be a very very difficult winter. The Royal college of Physicians are saying that their members are worried , the Royal college of Nursing are saying corridor care could turn out to be a major problem in the months ahead” (In England).
(Meanwhile in Scotland , in the politicised Scottish NHS, the “winter” that is coming up in Scotland will apparently be a breeze for the Scottish NHS….if , that is, you listen to the likes of Anas Sarwar & Jackie Baillie who say that all Scottish NHS woes begins with, are all linked to and so only exist within the Scottish NHS because of the supposed mismanagement by the SNP as the Scottish government.
Which as a false argument, is then broadcast by the BBC news teams in Scotland and then is also backed up , as a (false) Labour party argument, by the Chair of the Scottish BMA who declares that the “NHS in Scotland is dying”………but he , as Chair of the BMA in Scotland, always ‘fails to notice’ -or rather he chooses to ignore– the actual very much “dying” NHS services that exists elsewhere within the UK as controlled by, checks bloody notes, other political parties/governments. So once again. I see. Got it).
BBC news teams in Scotland incessant attacks upon the Scottish government are at times when the BBC in Scotland know that elsewhere, like say in England , with for example the English NHS, their English news teams at BBC HQ are promoting that the English NHS is failing to meet set targets….that is they, the English NHS, are struggling to overcome their English NHS problems with their increasing waiting times…..
So then as a way to counter that….we then get the BBC news teams in Scotland tell us that there is no “Scottish exceptionalism” with our Scottish NHS…………as opposed to them, BBC in Scotland, ever communicating to Scottish viewers and (Radio) listeners that the Scottish NHS is ever (often) actually out performing other NHS services elsewhere, as in the stats show that the Scottish NHS is often performing better than NHS services elsewhere………apparently that is not allowed .
Apparently Scotland can only ever get #BAD news………as can all things connected to the SNP, as a party and also as a Scottish government…….with absolutely no external factors that can ever be considered that negatively impact our public services…….. as clearly that is only reserved for elsewhere within the UK….as in it is reserved as ‘excuses’ that are always used for others, more so for the English public services , as controlled by the UK (English) government(s)……..
So do you now see and so have you now got it all Scottish people, especially those people within Scotland who are often heard to parrot (repeat) what the Labour party say and also what the BBC news teams in Scotland say
(Then also repeat what others, who are also hostile opponents of the SNP, have to say too)
That is those accusations by opponents of the SNP presented as being supposedly factual here in Scotland (but are not) ……….
Then apparently , we Scots are all supposed to recognise and acknowledge that it’s ‘apparently’ not the same elsewhere within the UK …..as they (elsewhere) can make excuses, can cite and so quote external factors that impact their public services and so then what ….they, as other governments within the UK , are all to be absolved of all of their (many) mistakes, their (many) bad decisions, their (continuous) lack of funding on specific public services , their (obvious) mismanagement and their (clearly) prioritising and focusing their attention elsewhere……as in ….Nuclear.
#LabourPutBombsBeforeBairns
Well all of the above is not a argument that UK hostile forces can use against our Scottish government , as it is evidently pure partisan propaganda, which is the weapon of choice that all opponents, be they a political or a media source, choose to attack and so undermine the SNP with………….so if I see and also if I get it then why do others also not do so as well , within Scotland………why indeed.
Liz S
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I keep seeing ‘Scottish Labour’ ads on Ytube, I wonder who’s funding that propaganda.
Also I unknowingly subscribed to ‘organise’ based in London, an activist organisation, and they have a lot of stuff about the ‘NHS’ being destroyed by the Labcons, write to your MP etc. Looking at their take on things Labour are selling off the NHS (in England though they don’t say of course), to the US etc. BBC reported as saying hike in meds prices is ‘necessary’.
The Brit state is desperate to oust the SNP, so as we all know the SNP very very bad propaganda is being hiked up a few notches even now.
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“I keep seeing ‘Scottish Labour’ ads on YouTube, I wonder who’s funding that propaganda”
Well ArtyHetty, this also happened with them last year with the UK GE…constant interruptions when watching certain videos on YouTube …..that is interrupted by a succession of the same ‘blame game’ Party political broadcasts starring…. Sarwar & Baillie, the non dynamic duo (of Liars) .
Guess who they , Sarwar & Baillie, both blamed …..Yawn.
Both of them saying how , Labour in Scotland , would save the Scottish NHS …..when it is now obvious that they , Labour in Scotland, cannot even save themselves in Scotland.……never mind the Scottish NHS…..as based on the current poor polling for Labour in Scotland and also for Sarwar as well……. as in their, Labour’s, supposed leader in Scotland…..aka Labour’s branch office manager…. as we all know that the real Labour party ‘leader’ is based at Labour HQ……based in London.
In September The Herald reported that:
“The new “Thistle Network” offers three tiers of support, with donors promised VIP access and exclusive event….as Labour in Scotland “unveils a £8000 ‘platinum’ donor scheme”………so just as it is said “like father like Son” we now are seeing #DonorGate where it is ‘like Labour HQ like Labour branch office’…….
“VIP access” to whom and to what ?
“Thistle Network”……what about the English Red Rose ‘Network’ as a traditional floral symbol for the Labour party ?
Democracy for sale….again……dirty politics……….lobby, lobby, lobby…..replace the ‘L’ with a ‘J’ to then see the real end result of that prickly ‘Thistle Network’ of the Labour branch office…….as in things are all likely to go to S***……as is happening with Labour’s HQ’s flawed and failed attempts at being a government (UK) & also Welsh Labour, being the Welsh government, who too are not that great at governing within Wales……….have you seen the state of their NHS.
Please make it stop…….drives you Nuts.
Liz S
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Here is a thought.
Addressing delegates at the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow, Sarwar criticised the SNP’s 17 years in power for holding back Scotland, describing them as “tired and out of ideas”
And then we have this
Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every United Kingdom general election since 1922, every National Assembly (now Senedd) election since 1999
So after the 17 years of SNP what does it say about Lab after all this time.
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‘…. what does it say about Lab after all this time’
Perhaps that EVEN the wondrous British Labour Party that has governed in Wales for so long, is unable with (just) devolved powers to counter the cr_p that is the Westminster-run UK?
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why on earth does the BMA want a unionist government in Holyrood when their members are better off under the Scotland government – it makes no sense to me – they have a major poster campaign going on in the GPG surgeries making out the Scottish Government as damaging the NHS – no comparison with England I.e. no of patients per GP in Scotland has grown from 1200 to 1500 under the SNP yet in England it’s over 2200 – surely with independence and more financial levers the NHS would be even better
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BBC Website UK (English) Politics page ……..10 October.
“Labour councillor suspended over racist comment”
(Note BBC HQ mention the party title in their headline…..as BBC HQ are way more Tory than Labour politically…..)
“A councillor has been suspended by the Labour Party and is under investigation over a racist comment he made on Facebook”.
“Bristol City councillor Fabian Breckels made the comment under a post of a photograph of an individual from an ethnic minority who was being accused of stealing copper gas canisters”.
“He wrote: “This idiot needs locking up, and if he’s not British, then he needs deporting afterwards.”
Ironic really . considering only last week we had the British Labour PM mouthing off about “British values” and how it was “Un-British” and so then “despicable” that some students were planning to protest against what was happening in Gaza on the second anniversary of the October 7 attack in Israel.
“British values” ?
So “values” only unique to Britain and therefore only held by those who live within all of the nations within Britain……that’s some assumption….and based on what is currently happening within some parts of Starmer’s Britain it is clearly also very much delusional and false as a statement.
So what kind of “values”, “British” or otherwise, did the above Labour Councillor demonstrate in him reading a story about someone “stealing copper gas cannisters” , seeing a “photograph” of that person , then seeing that person was someone from an “ethnic minority” background….and so then that Labour Councillor’s reaction was what ?
Someone applying “British Labour Values” ?
As in him, as a British Labour Councillor, questioning whether that person from an “Ethnic background” was “British” and if not then that person should be deported ?
Here are some “values” , “British” or otherwise, that this Labour Councillor clearly does not have:
Integrity , benevolence, trust, tolerance, Universalism, compassion, kindness, respect, understanding , forgiveness and clearly also he, this now suspended Labour Councillor, does not have an ability to show acceptance for other people from “ethnic minority” groups, as in those that he sees as being non white and so perhaps they are then, for him , to be seen as being potentially non “British” so then they need deporting …..more so if they have committed a crime…..or is it really a case of it being ‘more so’ ?
I mean as a (Labour) Councillor he is supposed to serve all people within the area that his council controls……..which will include those from different “Ethnic backgrounds”……as in not just his assumed (based on his Facebook post) preferred ‘White British” background.
However now that Labour , as a party, seem to be more prone to being a ‘Reform’ (UK) kind of political party as opposed to wanting to be the kind of party that wants to implement real “change” as a government , so then , that is reflected in the kind of language that Labour politicians often now use, also their overall bad attitude ,their expressed (questionable) opinions and also the new Labour government policies ……more so the new Labour government policies on immigration which are cruel , lack any real human “Values” and so are morally bereft as new UK rules on Immigration ……
Perhaps it is time that more people in their “Britain” started to wonder and so debate as to whether the Labour party, and their HQ leader, really have any “values” themselves as a “British” political party.
Or whether it is more a case of them, Labour, just paying lip service to “British” Nationalism (and English Nationalism) in all of this guff about “British values” and something being “Un-British” …….all being said by Labour just to keep certain voters onboard with their Labour HQ party and so then try to stop these same voters from defecting to Reform UK in all subsequent elections.
You know the real irony here is that with all that is happening now within some parts of their “Britain” , as in things being done in the name of their “Britain”…..it is something that clearly lacks many, if any, ‘Values‘. (“British” or otherwise)…………all under the watch of this new British Labour government….as in the………..acceptance by this government of a continued hostile and hateful amount of:
‘Protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers’
‘ Support for Israel over the Palestinian people’
‘Labour government policies lacking any tolerance for Immigrants’
‘Right wing policies being adopted in British politics and so then a demonisation and targeting of the Left within politics and within their “British” society’
All under the category of the kind of behaviour , attitude and opinions that are clearly ones that represents a lack of any “Values” being shown or upheld.
Then we have the “British” media who constantly incite hate, hostility and then the resulting violence that unfolds from the over sensationalised front page headlines that targets and opposes those ‘others’ that they , the British media, want all “Brits” to also target and oppose……..
So then they , as a “British” media, also hold no “Values” and so they too , like certain politicians, also take no responsibility for their words and actions’…..
Then the so called media regulator and also the British Labour government refuse to, and so then they fail to , both condemn this heinous type of media behaviour and language……..
Mainly as Labour are too scared to confront the media on this bad behaviour for fear of losing some of the right wing media’s sporadic support…… or rather Labour , as a party and as a British government, then finding themselves being subjected to an onslaught of ‘Bad press’……
As being those that the British media then begin to classify as being ‘Others’ to be hated and opposed as a political party……..though TBH Labour themselves are actually doing that just now….. what with all of their bad policies , poor choice of language they use and also their many bad decisions as a British government?
This is all really the reality of why so many of us see that British Nationalism has no real moral or ethical values, no cultural values, no social values and so lacks any values …….
Maybe many of us will just stick to having values that we all identify as being real “values” that we try to apply and so uphold in our lives………. and so then we adopt them as being those values that are just human…..as opposed to those fake ‘values’ that Labour , as a British government, want to link to being only associated with and so linked to their fantasy so called ‘British’ values .
So called British Values that Labour state are only held as those that they, Labour say, are represented by a supposed “British” National identity………what a load of ****
Liz S
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