Neil Bibby allowed to question a second referendum with facts that on examination are lies but still show the SNP has done far better than his party ever could even if they were true

Professor John Robertson OBA

Wheeled in by BBC Scotland’s Glen Campbell, in the BBC HQ rather than his constituency, becasue he doesn’t have one, to try to take the wind out of the SNP sails during their conference, Neil Bibby Labour list MSP for the West of Scotland, based on his party only winning 22.2% of the vote, to say:

We have got one out of six Scots on an NHS waiting list, we’ve got rising violence in our schools, we’ve got a housing emergency. These are the issues that the people of Scotland want to see action on.

1. Hospital waiting lists:

As of 30 June 2025, out of a population of 5.55 million, there 639 579 waiting for treatment in Scotland.1 That’s 1 in 8.6, not one in 6, Neil.

As of 28 September 2025, out of a population of 58.6 million, there were 7 406 648 waiting for treatment in Labour-run NHS England.2 That’s 1 in 7.91, worse than in Scotland, Neil.

Labour-run Wales make it hard for you to find figures because in June 2025, it was a shocking 796 0003 out of a population of only 3 190 000, 1 in 4!!!

Sources:

  1. https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-waiting-times-stage-of-treatment/stage-of-treatment-waiting-times-inpatients-day-cases-and-new-outpatients-quarter-ending-30-june-2025/
  2. https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/wlmds/
  3. https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Hospital-Waiting-Times

2. School violence is in decline in Scotland

Like a playground crowd around a fight, our MSM have gathered frothily around some figures which seem to bear little relationship to those published above.

Looking at the above data, it is clear that all forms of bullying are decline from the 2018 level and that Scottish students feel significantly safer than in other nations, on average.

And in England? No such breakdown seems to have been done with only this offered:

The report also found that the majority of pupils in England reported feeling safe in their schools.

That it? Just ‘the majority’ is OK?

Why no percentage we might compared with Scotland?

This sort of thing?

Violence fears make children miss school [in England], youth survey suggests

Results from the survey of over 7,500 children [in England] indicate 16% of children aged 13-17 have been a victim of violence. The children’s commissioner [for England] said knife crime and violence was the “number one issue” raised with her by young people.

and:

Hundreds of children thrown out of school in English county lines hotspots

Sources:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/programme-international-student-assessment-pisa-2022-highlights-scotlands-results/documents/

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-among-highest-performing-western-countries-in-education

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/29/hundreds-of-children-thrown-out-of-school-in-english-county-lines-hotspots

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-67359254

3. Housing emergency?

Year after year Scottish Government builds between twice and 80% more affordable housing than Wales or England and six times more for social rent to tackle poverty
As English councils sell 8 times as many houses as they build, Scotland’s councils sell none for 9 years and build nearly 8 times as many homes, per head of population
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  3. MSM Monitor posted this on ‘X’ in respect to the BBC Sunday show:

    “The Sunday Show lined up Douglas Alexander and Margaret Curran to follow John Swinney’s conference interview. Two hard-line Labour BritNats. Alexander launched into multiple SNPBad attacks with zero challenge. There were no SNP voices on during the Labour conference. None”

    Curran another Labour Dinosaur and also historically a failed MP , who was , like others, one who was (eventually) parachuted , in January 2025 , into the HOL.

    An action that Sir Keir Starmer assumed was acceptable to do (though did he really care on it’s acceptability as an act), also based I assume, upon Labour winning an additional 36 MP’s in Scotland to join their measly one MP, Ian Murray, in the 2024 UK GE.

    Curran lost her seat , that is she was rejected by voters in Scotland in the UK GE in 2015…..but that means nowt to Labour , as just like the Tory party, a politician rejected by the people is then seen as being ideal to be ‘parachuted into the multi UK party Honours system that is the political VIP lane’ i.e. those ex UK party MP’s tactically placed into the HOL’s.

    Breaking news via BBC Scotland Sunday show:

    ‘The Labour UK government’s man against Scotland Douglas Alexander and a Labour Peer Baroness Curran, as those in opposition to the SNP, both declare #SNPBAD’……hardly shocking or surprising as political non news…..just really the BBC in Scotland yet again giving another opportunity to a pro UK party to diss the SNP while not giving that same opportunity to the SNP during the Labour party conference .

    A Labour party conference where Anas Sarwar sat in the front row of that Labour party conference and he also gave a speech at that conference…..so surely that was worth asking an SNP MSP or our FM to opine on what Sarwar said in that speech…..which I am sure was full of the usual #SNPBAD non facts.

    (In fact didn’t the BBC publicise what Sarwar said in his Labour Conference party speech in a online article…yes they did – their headline was “Sarwar says ‘knackered’ SNP has run out of ideas” and there was no analysis in that article from Glenn Campbell and no comments sourced from any SNP politician).

    As to John Swinney’s speech we have Glenn Campbell the hostile BBC Political editor giving an “analysis” where he Campbell , as per, includes comments from a Tory MSP and also a Labour MSP …..

    Rachel Hamilton Tory MSP – who decided to be ironic in her take being “the SNP had “lost all credibility”……where as the Tory party ………look at the polls Rachel (and the results of last years UK GE)………….now that is ‘lost credibility’ in a party, surely.

    She also said , also with no sense of irony , that:

    “The SNP showed themselves in their true colours at this debate, ludicrously labelling the same old obsession with independence ‘a fresh start'”……….

    While Rachel and her Tory party obsess about the UK State being sustained….and so they show their “true colours” (Red, White and blue….with the red and white dominating) in all debates, in them “ludicrously labelling” that Scotland is ‘Better Together’ with the rest of the UK………which has now been disproven as something that they was once wrongly declared to be factual….as now everything for Scotland has gone down (down down) since 2014………all because Scotland is still a part of their UK State.

    Then Neil Bibby Labour MSP , also Labour in Scotland’s ‘constitution’ spokesman (for the UK) , described the vote ( the plan to declare a mandate for a second independence referendum, if the party wins a majority of seats in next year’s Holyrood election) as a “waste of time” and called on the SNP to address concerns over Scotland’s public services.

    Well Bibby would say that what with him having seen the polling for his party, Labour, in Scotland (and elsewhere in the UK)….where the majority of the Scottish public seem to consider that to vote Labour is now a “waste of time” next year in the Scottish elections…….

    Also how are the “public services” in England & Wales doing ?

    As according to recent polling it seems to be a case of the public lacking all confidence in the Labour party as governments.

    As in within both nations, England & Wales, we are now seeing that Labour are trailing in the polls…….so hardly an endorsement or a display of public confidence in Labour as governments, or them being seen as successful in how they are managing the public services in both Nations (England & Wales) as Labour governments….is it Mr Bibby ?

    In fact it seems as if in England and in Wales the public have “concerns” on Labour’s ability to govern well…….or indeed be able to manage the “public services” well also.

    Glenn also included some comment from Kenny MacAskill of the Alba party….who now , as a party, have no MP’s nor do they have an MSP any longer either , as Ash Regan resigned from the Alba party and she intends to stand as an ‘independent’………well for now that is…..who knows where her career ambition will lead her……….next.

    However Glenn Campbell included Kenny’s comments as he , Campbell, thinks that ‘every little bit helps’ (as in all #SNPBAD comments) as in helps the BBC in their quest to try to destroy the SNP as a party and also to try to destroy more support for Scottish independence …..aided of course by others within politics who are all on the same side as Glenn and his employers the BBC.

    Let’s be honest Bibby could have told Glenn that ‘John Swinney ate my Hamster’ and that would be accepted as being factual and true………..by the BBC and Glenn.

    BBC Scotland employees do not want to question or challenge the non facts as stated by pro UK politicians against the SNP………or indeed do they seem to want to do any research on the misinformation spewed out by opposition politicians against the Scottish government……that’s why they, BBC Scotland news teams, often have starring roles in the section that is ….BBC’s corrections and clarifications……..

    Speaking of which ………..this was recorded recently in that BBC section……..

    “The Sunday Show

    BBC Radio Scotland, 31 August 2025

    “In the introduction to our item on drug related deaths in Scotland, we incorrectly stated that the figure for 2023 was ‘1,339’. This was the figure for 2020. The figure for 2023 is 1,172 and we’re happy to correct the record“

    08/10/2025

    “we’re happy to correct the record” ?

    “Happy”……..not really an appropriate word under the circumstances….also it seemed to many , who complained about this lie when it was first broadcast by the BBC, that the BBC Sunday show was also only too “happy” to give out the incorrect (lie) (mis)information in August 2025 without checking first whether it was correct………..where also it was then 5 weeks later that this ‘error’ then appeared on the BBC’s corrections and clarifications page.

    Note the BBC would not have had to “correct the record” at all if only they had first checked the information was 100% correct prior to them broadcasting it as factual news….but then some of us suspect there is a ‘method to the BBC’s constant error prone madness’ in them constantly broadcasting misinformation……

    Funny how yet again a BBC Scotland political news ‘error’ is one that disadvantages the SNP as the Scottish government………that’s what happens when the BBC bases most of their political news in Scotland upon the misinformation (lies) they receive from pro UK political parties aka opposition parties to the SNP…………

    Then it also proves that they, the BBC, do not check (research fully) whether that information they receive is indeed correct and so is then 100% factual and also then 100% accurate as information/stats etc etc…….so that being the case you then do begin to wonder just how many lies have been broadcast on the BBC Scotland News programmes that was, at the time, not identified by viewers as being political news that was totally incorrect so were actually lies and misinformation.

    So then as missed lies and misinformation they are then sustained and so seen, by the viewers who watched and heard that news at the time, as then still being assumed to be true and factual in the supposed ‘news where we are’ ……….

    Quite scary really and yet that’s how the BBC always seem to roll here in Scotand……as a not fit for purpose British news media within Scotland…where they occupy Scotland as a hostile British news force who only work on behalf of the UK State…..and so they then also support all of the UK State political parties over the SNP as a party……that’s why so much news they promote is incorrect.

    Once you are identified as being a news source that consistently promotes misinformation then it should really be ‘Game over”…. as you, as a news organisation, should never again be trusted or believed in the future……..I think that the BBC in Scotland , via their news output, has won the title of most ‘Untrustworthy news source’ with a multitude of examples to verify that as a fact.

    Liz S

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  4. Aye, I remember Neil Diddy – List MSP for 14 years, hence unelectable (not quite so so bad as ‘there’s been a Murdo’), realises the Labour in-house places are shrinking in the expected rout of 2026… Oh-oh, so call the ‘Linesman for the County’ for a bit of promotion, still believing Glen Campbell has any credibility left.

    What does in take to get rid of these parasites ? Perhaps something stronger than milkshakes ?

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