On Reporting Scotland, last night, Carlaw stood firm behind the Home Office edcit on care home workers from the EU: Carlaw said: If we find after it’s come into place that there are still deficiencies then those are things that can be corrected but I don’t automatically (sic) believe that the care home sector will be unable to recruit the right people inot it. As I say, I think the important thing is that we see the skills and reward within the care home sector reflected and properly recognised given the work that they’ve done over the last few months. … Continue reading Jackson Carlaw stands with Priti Patel and betrays his care home owner donors

Headlines you never thought you’d hear? Have you heard Dan Wootton? His voice is astounding. I had a headache within seconds. Even stranger though is his apparent belief that Sarah Smith is helping the independence movement. Here’s the English Daily Express on the story: Speaking on talkRADIO Dan Wootton hit out at the BBC’s Scottish Editor Sarah Smith claiming she had broadcast an SNP puff piece on during the flagship news bulletin. The radio host also lashed out at Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP for using the COVID-19 pandemic to pursue Scottish independence.  Mr Wootton said: “I believe Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP … Continue reading Sarah Smith accused of pro-SNP bias by shock jock, shock!

Professor Reicher often speaks well of Scottish Government but like many English experts seems to feel the need to balance the account and does so by repeating myths loved by opposition parties: He has not replied. Continue reading Professor Stephen Reicher says good things about Scotland but still believes the myths about lock-down delay and hospital transfers here

Yesterday, England’s 7 day average covid death toll (80.6) was 806 times higher than for Scotland (0.1). Her population is only 10 times greater. Pro-rata then the toll is 80 times greater. This toll is a result of the failure to control infection levels with clear messaging and firm lock-down: The Conservative and SNP governments have been in control for at least the last decade. The Scottish Conservatives are members of the only Conservative Party in the UK: This is your leader. His policies are your policies. The death at his door is at your door too. Continue reading England’s unending death toll 80 times higher per head of population is down to your party and the men you dare not question

In the Herald today, from David Bol: A SENIOR Tory MSP has called for clinical health experts to “call the shots” in the NHS amid proposals to implement a “much greater culture of collaboration”. Miles Briggs, the Scottish Conservatives’ health spokesperson, has set out his ideas for reforming the NHS in Scotland in light of problems the institution has faced during the Covid-19 outbreak. Senior Conservatives across the UK have been shocked by this radical socialist language from Briggs and wish to remind him of their proud history of undermining the NHS at every opportunity: ‘Tories resent the NHS’ In recent years, Conservative governments … Continue reading Scottish Conservative rejects UK Conservative principles to ask NHS Scotland to be even less like NHS England

This UK Government graph shared with me by a regular feeder of The Tusker who wishes to remain anon, inadvertently reveals the extent to which Scotland has repressed the virus and the failure in England & Wales to do the same. The vertical scale of the graph to allow the full horror of our situation at the peak in April, as the Scottish Government began its tough lock-down to save lives, makes that clear. Also, clear is the relative insignificance of the infection levels in Scotland thereafter as the numbers become too small to show and the worrying persistence of … Continue reading UK Government graph reveals Scotland’s relative infection level to be invisibly small!

Second peak, second peak, second peak! Click and read on but warnings of any second peak ‘in Scotland’ as promised above, are not there: Try that one bottom-right there, and you get: Coronavirus in Scotland? Are we still there? Michelle Roberts? Let’s see if we know the scientists? Sridhar? Bauld? Pennington? Nope. Sir Patrick Vallance commissioned the research from Prof Stephen Holgate, a respiratory specialist from University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust and they came up with this modelled scary image: Matt Hancock gets a mention but England is never mentioned so it must be based on UK-wide data. Yes? No. … Continue reading There is no evidence for a second peak in Scotland

Junior minister for the Home Office, Christopher Ian Brian Mynott Philp, has been dispatched north to ‘clean’ the situation in Glasgow after the stabbing incident in a hotel housing asylum seekers. Philp, who has a Masters degree in quantum physics insists the Home Office has a proud record of protecting vulnerable asylum seekers though he could not say in which parallel universe, of the infinite number quantum physics chappies like he, and his many versions, believes exists, this was the case. In an effort to ‘clean’ the situation, Philp and his colleagues have approached the SNP leader of Glasgow Council … Continue reading Tory minister to blame Glasgow’s SNP hotel inspectors for the asylum seeker hotel deaths

In the Herald yesterday, we heard from Scotland in Union‘s only health expert that he is confident the Scottish Government’s strategy will ‘see off‘ the virus by the end of the year. The Herald’s health correspondent, Helen McArdle, had clearly hoped the professor would be more pessimistic after the massive spike in cases on Friday taking it up to a tiny fragment of that in England and the evidence of the SNP Government failing to get cases down to zero for some weeks now. Professor of bacteriology, Hugh Pennington’s comments in the Herald stand in stark contrast to those of … Continue reading Leading anti-SNP group must sack their top health expert as he predicts complete success for SNP Government’s Covid strategy

In the Scotsman yesterday, plain ‘Hugh Pennington’ now claims he’s a virologist though he’s a bacteriologist everywhere else and writes a letter of such simple inaccuracy you wonder if maybe it’s from another Hugh Pennington or if he’s not well. He opens with: ‘As a virologist and someone with a bit of experience of outbreak investigation’ he tells us it’s too soon to judge the success or otherwise of the Scottish strategy. He’s not a virologist. Does he feel the need to pretend to be one in case readers know the difference? Experience of what viral outbreak? The small-scale E-coli … Continue reading Now Scotland in Union’s leading professor goes undercover to argue Scotland has achieved little