Con MSP Sandesh Gulhane in Parliament doing political work, on a regular basis, wearing an NHS Scotland lanyard. Update – Dr Philippa Whitford says it look like an NHS England lanyard! On his Conservative Party website, a GP in scrubs and with an out-of-date but sexy (?) stethoscope, trying to look like he works in A&E – I’m sick. Get me a doctor! No, not him. A real one. Twitter-pal of Gulhane, part-time GP, full-time activist for the Union, Dr Iain Findlay, posing so hard, I nearly fell of my seat and now have that winter-vomiting thing. Here he is … Continue reading Part-time ‘Doctors’, full-time chancers and posers, Sandesh Gulhane and Iain Kennedy – do they think we’re bleeding idiots?

From the Herald’s notoriously thick/mendacious health correspondent, early on the 19th December 2024, the above and this: The number of operations being carried out at Scotland’s largest dedicated elective hub has fallen in recent months despite Scottish Government targets to drive down waiting list backlogs. Analysis by the Herald of publicly available data shows that 6,240 surgeries were completed at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank in the three months from August to October this year, compared to 7,229 in the same period in 2023 – a decline of 14%. Within seconds, Labour MSP for neighbouring and dependent Dumbarton, Jackie … Continue reading Wonderful [I should know] local hospital staff in Clydebank, quick to correct their ungrateful, petty, ill-informed, neighbouring Dumbarton MSP and local rag

Not a proper scientific sample I know, but a reasonably large response from an X account with nearly 11 000 followers 90 plus percent, for Yes, the above suggests quite limited support for the idea being widely touted, that former FM, Nicola Sturgeon, should now lead the wider independence campaign. I’m agnostic on this. Some were less so: Read the rest at: https://x.com/ProfJWR/status/1871186993788723242 Footnote – I have no absolute proof that I have not been lobotomised and do, at times, wonder. Continue reading Poll – Only modest support for Nicola Sturgeon to lead independence movement among Yes supporters

On BBC Reporting Scotland Badly and Down, last night, we hear: Publicly available figures show ScotRail has paid more than £2.1 million in delay payments since the train service was nationalised in April 2022. It comes as data obtained by the Scottish liberal Democrats, for the same period, the train operator paid almost £70 000 in accommodation costs for passengers whose trains had been disrupted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026hy4/reporting-scotland-evening-news-22122024 Thanks again to AR for alerting me to this. This is then followed by the leader of Scotland’s 5th biggest party platformed to have a wee rant based on the above misrepresented stats. Why … Continue reading Little shock as Alex Cole-Hamilton exposes 2p average rail delay payment and 0.06p average accommodation cost, per journey