Kevin McKenna excels himself with this one or, actually, worries us that he might need help? Johnson cheated on his wife when she had cancer. He has more weans with more women than he can remember. He is responsible for a UK citizen spending years in an Iranian prison because he hadn’t read his brief and said she was teaching journalism (forbidden) there. He once tried to get a journalist beaten up. Best of all, Johnson is on record, with evidence, as having lied to Parliament and/or the Country, around 100 times: https://boris-johnson-lies.com/ WTF!? Continue reading SHOCK: ‘Sturgeon dumped cancer-ridden lover and has bairns by four men!’

In the Herald today: AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into a “very unusual” spike in deaths among newborn babies in Scotland for the second time in just six months. The alarm was raised after 18 infants died within four weeks of birth in March, causing the mortality rate to breach an upper warning threshold known as the ‘control limit’ which signals a potential problem. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/20137268.investigation-launched-amid-second-unusual-spike-neonatal-deaths-scotland/ In particular we read for late 2021 and early 2022: In July 2020, we read: for this data: Note that in 2017 when there was no pandemic, it twice reached more than 6 per 1000, approached 6 … Continue reading Baby scare story!

The Scottish Cons have referred to the Calmac ferry delays as a £250 million ‘banana skin.’ The UK Cons, in sharp contrast and of course in government, had no such term for a £5.5 BILLION MOD contract with NO date for completion. By stewartb ‘Initiated in 2011: ‘Ajax represents the biggest single order for a UK armoured vehicle in more than 20 years. The Department has a £5.522 billion firm-priced contract with General Dynamics Land Systems UK (GDLS-UK) for the design, manufacture and initial in-service support of 589 vehicles’. This NAO report is the latest in a series highly critical … Continue reading Tories don’t demand answers for £5.5 BILLION ‘banana skin’

A trade union has written to every politician representing the Scottish Borders to highlight “dangerous staffing levels” in local hospitals. Unison claims serious breaches of safety guidelines are occurring daily due to a lack of nurses, auxiliaries and porters. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-61431190 Notice they’ve added nurses even through they don’t represent them? The BMA and the royal colleges of nurses and surgeons are trade unions for doctors, nurses and surgeons but they’re never presented as such. We hear, instead, claims from a ‘leading doctor’ or ‘nurses’ or ‘top surgeon’, but this is a claim from Unison who represent the porters and the … Continue reading BBC Scotland say it’s a union only if it’s working-class?

action to meet targets – that’s according to MSPs on Holyrood’s Health and Social Care Committee. No doubt they’ll claim it was a very short report with no time for any meaningful context or actual evidence for the headline claim but that’s just an excuse for bias. It’s not clear how the story got to the BBC but Sandesh Gulhane is on the committee and always keen to leak. What did the story miss and need to be good journalism? Well, first, this: Child poverty in Scotland is at half the rate of England. Why? Two reasons. More affordable housing … Continue reading Child poverty in Scotland half the rate of England due to SNP actions

As the Scottish MSM continue to feast on the delayed Calmac ferry story, reader Alex Montrose suggests: An article comparing to ferry debacle to the destroyer debacle? 2 ferries in Port Glasgow running late and over budget set against 6 destroyers tied up in Portsmouth awaiting new propulsion systems. and shares this from the Portsmouth Times: ALL six of the Royal Navy’s state-of-the-art Type 45 destroyers are currently docked in port, at a time of heightened tensions with Russia. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/all-six-of-the-navys-destroyers-are-in-port-amid-on-going-tension-with-russia-3558275 stewartb then fills in the detail: The Ferguson ferries situation and comparing this to MoD/Royal Navy fleet management: Source: House … Continue reading What’s worse: 2 ferries delayed or 6 destroyers no bl**dy use as Russia threatens?

to see patients quickly. In BBC 1’s 1pm report on ambulance waiting times the above important factor is mentioned. Regular readers may remember reading here that Scotland has a hospital bed for every 265 people whereas England only has one for every 413 and Scotland has 50% more nurses per patient than NHS England. That must make a difference but not one to be reported by BBC Scotland. Sources: https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-19-00620/ Continue reading NHS Scotland’s greater supply of beds and nurses make the ambulance ‘crisis’ less serious

When BBC Scotland report health waiting times, they rarely if ever, offer comparative data from the other 3 nations in the UK. Scotland has, of course, the best results in the UK. When BBC England reported on ambulance waiting times, they were careful to add: In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the 999 system is also under “tremendous pressure”, doctors say. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61335711 Oh, so things are equally bad everywhere suggesting that the UK Government is doing as well as the others? The report makes no attempt to compare like-for-like data. They rely on: BBC News has spoken to patients in … Continue reading BBC England obscures ambulance ‘crisis’

From SNP Media today: Scotland is a safer place under the SNP with crime down 40% since 2006/2007 and at one of the lowest levels since records began in 1974. Figures from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey also show that just 11.9% of people experienced crime in 2019/20, compared with 20.4% in 2008/09. It is also lower than the equivalent figures in England and Wales of 13.3%. Despite cuts from its central budget from Westminster, the SNP Scottish Government has protected Scotland’s police officers with around 32 officers per 10,000 population in Scotland compared to around 23 in England and … Continue reading Scotland is a safer place since the SNP took over

In the Herald today from William Loneskie of Lauder: The Labour Party was founded on the principle that working people of all countries have more in common than divides them. The problems of workers in Glasgow are exactly those of workers in Leeds. Mr Stenton claims that Scots think differently from English. Rubbish. We speak the same international language, obey the same laws, do the same type of work, worry about the cost of living crisis in equal measure, watch the same television, take the same type of holidays, and so on. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/20128857.letters-end-myth-scots-think-differently-english/ Loneskie is a regular in the media posting conservative … Continue reading Do Scots think differently from the English?