Infection rates today: BBC Scotland reaction: No UK comparisons and at least a week out-of-date. Continue reading Calls for border controls as infections in England surge to 227% higher than in Scotland
After falling for 7 days to 3rd August, infections in England have climbed for the last 3 days, from 19 012 to 28 321, 48.9%, yesterday. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases In Scotland, after climbing on the previous 2 days by around 20%, they fell again yesterday to 1 250, less than half the rate in England. BBC UK/England, above, are not reporting this. BBC Scotland are fussing over drinking at the bar without a face mask. ITV, the Guardian and the Telegraph seem unaware and the Times is in denial, relying on figures to end of July! What is their motto, we wonder? Continue reading Infections in England up nearly 50% in 3 days! Not in public interest
The SNP MP for Scotland’s National Mining Museum has invited Boris Johnson to return to Scotland to visit a local mining community – so he can apologise in person for his offensive comments praising Thatcher’s decision to close the mines. Owen Thompson MP, who represents former mining communities in Midlothian, has written to the Prime Minister urging him to accompany the MP to the National Mining Museum Scotland, and visit former miners and their families, so he can apologise in person and see first hand the devastation caused by Thatcher’s industrial policies. Recent polling by Ipsos MORI has found people in Scotland view … Continue reading Johnson told to apologise to mining communities
SNP Westminster Press Office The Westminster Tory government has been criticised for being “utterly out of touch”, after it was revealed that a government minister travelled to around 30 countries – including those on the red list – without quarantining on his return. Alok Sharma – the minister responsible for this year’s crucial COP26 summit in Glasgow – had taken advantage of an exemption that allowed him to dodge quarantining. He is currently visiting red-listed Brazil and Bolivia. On one reported occasion, Sharma visited a primary school not long after returning from Bangladesh – a red list country. However, the jet-setting climate … Continue reading Tory COP26 minister flies to 30 countries than visits UK school on return from Bangladesh
In the Guardian today: China records highest daily Delta count China reported its highest daily Covid-19 count in its current outbreak of the Delta variant, reporting 124 new cases on Thursday, including 80 local transmissions, reports Helen Davidson in Taiwan. How does that look on a graph? What? England had 41 cases for every 100 000 people yesterday and China had virtually zero? But they had a ‘surge’ yesterday. Wait, I know, China has a population of 1.5 billion, more than 20 times that of England. Let’s see a proper graph! OK: What? England had 23 275 cases yesterday, up 40% … Continue reading Tiny Chinese ‘surge’ swamped by English ‘tsunami’
Only six days ago, after only 7 days of falling case numbers, 21 days in Scotland but that ignored, cases have surged for the last two, in England, by nearly 40%. Cases have increased noticeably in Scotland too but by around 20% and from a much lower base level of less than 50% of the level in England. The MSM are holding their collective breaths. Yesterday, much of international travel was opened up for all parts of the UK. Rangers have announced full crowds. Self-isolation rules following a coronavirus contact will be lifted for the fully vaccinated in England from … Continue reading Is Johnson’s August ‘Freedom Day’ for England under threat by surge?
From SNP Media: The SNP has Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are “treating Scots like fools” with their empty rhetoric on renewable energy – as Scotland suffers from the highest transmission charges in Europe under Westminster control. Alan Brown MP said the sky-high charges, imposed by the last Labour government in 2005 and maintained by the Tories for more than a decade, are the “biggest barrier” to Scotland’s renewable potential – holding back investment and blocking the creation of green jobs. The SNP spokesperson on Energy and Climate Change said the charges made a mockery of Boris Johnson and Keir … Continue reading Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer ‘treating Scots like fools’ on transmission charges
The Times report actually opens with: Boris Johnson has said that a Scottish independence referendum “is as far from the top of my agenda as it is possible to be,” dashing nationalist hopes of a vote in this parliament. So, he can ‘dash our hopes’ can he? We’ll see about that. And ‘tempering?’ That has another well-known meaning: Improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it, “the way a smith would temper a sword” I won’t mention Braveheart. Continue reading Tempering? Yes, our steel
From SNP Media New analysis shows the Westminster government has presided over the least generous unemployment benefits in North West Europe for the past two decades. The analysis from the House of Commons Library [See Notes] has revealed that when 16 types of households on average unemployment benefits are compared over twenty years across 14 countries in North West Europe (including the UK), the UK ranks lowest in 95% of cases. For the latest year available – 2019 for Switzerland and 2020 for the other 13 countries – the UK is only better in 2% of cases, equal in 1% … Continue reading House of Commons Library reveals UK welfare least supportive in NW Europe
In the Herald today: Covid travel misery for fully-vaccinated patients missing from Scots jag database: AN ITALIAN national living in Glasgow says she feels “trapped in a crazy bureaucratic nightmare” over failed attempts to obtain her Covid vaccination certificate. Paola Rizzato, 48, received both of her jags in Glasgow after moving from England to Scotland with her English husband in February, but there is no record of her in the NHS Inform website which links patients to their certificates. Paolo is not new to this Herald ‘PREMIUM’ world. On May 26th: A woman who moved to Scotland from England says she was left “at … Continue reading Is deceit a Lib Dem requirement?
