7 stories about Phil. How will BBC Wales do? 5, 5! It’s a disgrace. Northern Ireland! Many of them are loyal: 5! They’ll get getting another border if they’re not careful. England? 6? Good god man! He lives there. Don’t they remember him nearly running many of them down? Great Britain? Surely. He was in the Navy fighting his German cousins for us. 6 again. The Jocks win! Murdo Fraser must be so proud. Continue reading BBC Scotland wins Servility Award 2021
As of 21st March 2021, 214 202 cases of Covid-19 have been admitted to Scottish hospitals. Of these, 199 075 (92.9%) were picked up in the community while only 3 719 (1.7%) were definitely acquired in hospital. A further 1 664 (0.8%) may have been caught there. https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/population-health/covid-19/hospital-onset-covid-19-cases-in-scotland/ Is that a lot? Let’s compare with our neighbour. NHS England has an increasing tendency to just stop counting figures that might look bad or, as with A&E count them ‘differently.’ Hospital onset Covid data are not as easy to find as they are in Scotland, where the are published every week … Continue reading Far fewer catch Covid in Scottish hospitals
Gina Davidson fails to disclose her close affinity with the Scottish Labour Branch but has left it in her Linkedn cv: ‘More recently I have worked in policy and PR for the Scottish Labour Party’s parliamentary group within the Scottish Parliament, which included speech writing for the party leaders.’ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gina-davidson-7889b810 Surely, they didn’t need speech-writers to generate that rubbish? They’re certainly going to need a good speech writer now judging by the polls. Anyhow, though probably feeling at home with Sarwar’s return to Blairite non-socialist Labour, Davidson can smell the coffee and knows that he cannot win second place. Judging … Continue reading Failed Labour speech writer gets behind Tory push for power
Even if you think a Britain under the soft-right policies of Keir Starmer would be worth staying and fighting for, there is no prospect of even that: Only as the Covid deaths surged in 2020, did voters flirt with the notion of a Labour Government but now bursting with jingoistic pride as Boris the Vaccinator laughs at death in Europe, too many in England prefer him. 60% of Scottish Labour voters want a referendum. It’s time they all jumped to the SS Independence before Captain Sarwar takes them all down. Continue reading Abandon hope all ye who entertain hopes for a better Britain
The Starmerites formerly the Blairites formerly the Thatcherites From SNP Media today: The SNP has said Keir Starmer is “out of touch“ with Scotland and his own party members – as polling reveals a clear majority of UK Labour Party members back an independence referendum. The most recent polling by YouGov reveals 60% of Labour Party members support a referendum on Scottish independence in the next few years, rising to two-thirds (67%) of those expressing an opinion, and nearly one in three UK Labour Party members (31%) think Scotland should become an independent country. The blow to Starmer comes ahead of a planned visit to Scotland this morning. Commenting, SNP … Continue reading Starmerites out of touch as two-thirds of Labour supporters agree that there should be a second independence referendum
Above, BBC Wales headlines Tory corruption and chumocracy casting doubt on the value of the Union, again. BBC England ignores the story: BBC Northern Ireland don’t surrender their love for Britain yet: BBC Scotland, that centre for quality, critical, fair journalism? Ha! Don’t make us laugh: This is only the latest in the signs of BBC Wales going ‘rogue’. Likeable rogue that is! See these: BBC Scotland shocked to hear BBC Wales accused of being pro-Welsh! In one day three Welsh hospitals with serious threats to patient safety but no word of the Tory minister BBC Wales exposes BBC Scotland’s … Continue reading BBC Wales accused of Welsh Nationalist tendencies again
The colonial mindset of fee-paying schools in Scotland is revealed by their choice of the English A-Level curriculum over the Scottish Higher curriculum, in an effort to gain advantage in entry to Oxbridge and from there into membership of UK elites. In the Herald today, this ‘top school’ and ‘one of Scotland’s most renowned independent schools’, turns out to be Clifton Hall in Edinburgh: It looks oh-so ‘top’ but is it? Well it’s not even a ‘top’ independent school. If you want your progeny to get the A grades they need to get into the ‘best’ universities, it doesn’t make … Continue reading Advert for a second-rate English colonial education posing as ‘news’
In the Guardian today: Senior government officials have raised “urgent” concerns about the mass expansion of rapid coronavirus testing, estimating that as few as 2% to 10% of positive results may be accurate in places with low Covid rates, such as London. However, leaked emails seen by the Guardian show that senior officials are now considering scaling back the widespread testing of people without symptoms, due to a growing number of false positives. On 9 April, the day everyone in England was able to order twice-weekly lateral flow device (LFD) tests, Dyson wrote: “As of today, someone who gets a positive LFD … Continue reading One more reason why Scotland’s media need to stop watching England
Mark Smith of the Herald is longing again for the golden days of the soft-right (Caring Conservatives, New Labour and the Lib Dems) in the UK, when you could enjoy your own success in an deeply unequal country, give a little more in benefits to the poor and not be upset by the too-honest celebrations of that inequality by the hard-right of the Conservative Party. He writes: I’ve just been writing The Herald’s obituary for Baroness Williams of Crosby, otherwise known as Shirley Williams, otherwise known as the woman who might have changed British politics in the 1980s but couldn’t, … Continue reading Baroness Williams of Crosby was no radical
Reworking George Robertson in 2014, when the New Labour Lord and NATO supremo suggested that ‘Forces of Darkness Would Love Scottish Split from United Kingdom‘, former Tory councillor and MEP, Struan Stevenson warns us: It is not only the people of Scotland who should witness this spectacle with fear and trepidation. Joe Biden must be pacing the Oval Office in alarm. If the SNP gets its way and succeeds in breaking up the United Kingdom, it would be a geopolitical catastrophe, not only for Scotland and the UK, but also for the United States. The SNP would destroy, at a stroke, the … Continue reading Sturgeon, a century ahead of Johnson, is Biden’s type
