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In BBC Scotland’s retrospective comment on Jeanne Freeman’s time as Health Secretary, they write:
Freeman stood beside Sturgeon in press conferences throughout the next year. There would be praise for their calm stewardship and she was there at the start of the vaccine roll-out. But the decision to discharge elderly hospital patients to care homes during the first few weeks of the pandemic without a requirement for a negative test was one which hung over Freeman for the rest of her time in politics and beyond. The worst mortality rates were later seen within care homes as the virus spread among vulnerable residents, and it was another month before the guidance on testing was changed.
Even in death, a disgusting utterly inaccurate account. Here is what really happened:
Discharges from hospitals to care homes, in Scotland, were made by professionals in both locations with a view to saving lives. The Scottish Government did not interfere other than to remind care homes of their longstanding responsibilities to protect residents by implementing the isolation procedures they should have had ready after decades of flu outbreaks.
The Scottish health secretary, contrary to her English equivalent, ensured earlier vaccination in care homes, in line with the JCVI guidance, to do so before all other groups and, consequently achieve a far lower death rate:
The above graph revealing starkly the cost in lives of the failure in England to fully implement the JCVI guidance and vaccinate care home residents before all other groups was compiled by Na Sirf Musiqi https://twitter.com/nasirfmusiqi from official sources.
It’s a story never told on MSM.
This below shows the impact of the vaccinations as they began to confer immunity on many in Scottish care homes from the middle of January 2021 only because Jeanne Freeman prioritised the care homes contrary to practice in England:
The contrast was stark in the first few months:
From the 1st of January 2021 until the 26th February, 9 088 care home residents in England died from confirmed Covid-19.
From the 1st of January 2021 until the 28th February, 532 care home residents in Scotland died from confirmed Covid-19.
England has ten times the population so pro-rata might have been expected to have ten times as many deaths, 5 320, but had around 3 700 more.
Had NHS England, followed the JCVI advice and vaccinated care home residents as a priority above all others, 3 700 lives might have been saved.
Who told them not to follow the JCVI advice? Who told NHS Scotland to follow it?
We know. Will the UK media tell everyone else?
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Talking-up Scotland 
SHE WAS GREAT DURING COVID
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YET AGA
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BBCScotland is a shameful organisation and expectations that it might , one day , evolve into a trustworthy news organisation that reports the political issues affecting Scotland without fear or favour are almost non-existent .
If Sarwar is the Scottish embodiment of a conscience-free Ambulance Chaser then BBCScotland provides the medium for him to broadcast his despicable self-serving propaganda . They are a stain on Scotland .
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Not a stain on Scotland really. The BBC is an English organisation, broadcasting is fully controlled by the English government across the UK. Scotland is not allowed to have their own broadcasting outlet.
It’s a stain on England and the English government, and yes it’s a massive propaganda unit posing as unbiased news, deploying their propaganda jobsworths in Scotland.
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Filthy unionists not a sympatheticBONE
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O/T
Read this online today.
“Reform UK is now under police investigation after admitting it distributed by election material disguised as a private letter from a “concerned neighbour”.
Voters in Gorton and Denton received personalised letters urging them to back Reform, presented as the views of a local pensioner. The material carried no legal imprint stating it was funded and distributed by the party, despite being produced and circulated as part of an organised campaign.
Failing to include an imprint on election material is a criminal offence. Reform’s claim that the omission was a printing error does not alter that fact. The matter has been referred to Greater Manchester police, with the Electoral Commission confirming enforcement sits with law enforcement.
This is not a misunderstanding or a technical slip. It is a case of party messaging being passed off as a personal appeal during a live election, and it has now crossed the line into a police matter”.
Watch out for similar tactics in their campaign for the Scottish elections, indeed the election material I have had so far from Reform UK describes Malcolm Offord as “plain old Malcolm from Greenock”.
He may indeed be “old” but his current wealthy status makes him anything but “plain Malcolm from Greenock”.
Words matter and the misrepresentation of a candidate also matters and there is not many “plain old people from Greenock” that one is to assume means ordinary people that can donated £150, 000 to the Tory party, be awarded a peerage by the Tory party , drive a pretty nice Jaguar car and have various business interests as a company Director.
That is anything but “plain” it is instead exceptionally fortunate “old Malcolm” .
Indeed online his registered interests were noted as:
“Lord Offord of Garvel (Malcolm Ian Offord), a Conservative-turned-Reform UK peer (as of Dec 2025), holds significant registered interests focused on finance and investment. Key interests include controlling shares in Cashmaster (Holdings) Ltd, Badenoch & Co (and related firms), investments in air monitoring and whisky, and various property holdings”.
Below is what was listed in the UK Parliament website for his registered interests:
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
More really a case of ‘fortunate old privileged Malcolm formerly from Greenock many years ago’ but then Reform UK knows that when they campaign in Scotland , they then need to downplay the reality of the current privileged life as lived by old Malcolm Offord and so then hark back to his humble beginnings…….he has now left behind.
Indeed since leaving his humble beginnings he chose careers with banks , investment companies and he is still the founder and chair of Edinburgh-based private equity company, Badenoch and Co.
He failed to gain a seat as a Tory MSP in 2021 but after donating thousands to the Tory party he was made a life Peer and in his maiden speech Offord expressed support for the UK’s Net Zero objectives arguing that the UK could demonstrate global leadership on climate change.
Offord was then appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (against) Scotland by Boris Johnson , so an unelected Tory Peer got to Lord it over our elected Scottish government. (He was also reappointed to this role by Liz Truss & Rishi Sunak). In 2023 he was also appointed as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business and Trade, in addition to his role as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Scotland Office.
Now Offord is the so called ‘leader’ of Reform UK in Scotland, still as yet unelected , but then democracy be damned and disrespected as UK politics rides roughshod over democracy. (as democracy is something that is for sale in UK politics to those UK political parties- real and pretend ones- who manage to have the most wealthiest donors and also the biggest donations).
I would love Reform UK to fall flat in May just to show them that Scotland’s voters cannot be bought (same goes for other parties too where it was recently declared that Labour had spent £80k on promoting Anas Sarwar on social media ahead of the May election).
However ultimately the decision lies with us the voters, so do hope that finally , for some voters , “now is the time” that they realise it is best for them and their families that they vote for a Scottish party and not vote (again) for a party whose HQ is based elsewhere within the UK.
Failure to do so will reap huge detrimental consequences in the years to come for all of us within Scotland.
They were all warned about all of the pitfalls and guaranteed bad experience that would unfold in them voting NO to Scottish independence and also some voting LEAVE in the EU Referendum.
Now they have experienced the pitfalls, endured the instability and also the suffering since both 2014 and 2016.
But will they now finally heed these predicted future warnings and signs ?
Let’s wait and see, part of me is not hopeful, solely based on the past votes from some here within Scotland……….how far in the gutter are some people in Scotland willing to descend before they finally say enough is enough.
Liz S
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RIP Jeanne.
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