In April 2023, ScotRail transferred into public control and ownership In 2022/2023, ScotRail cancelled 2.9% of planned journeys (source below) up from 2.8% in 2021/2022 but the same as the pre-pandemic figure in 2018/2019 . According to a report by iNews (above) From Avanti to Northern, the UK’s worst rail firms cancel 200 trains a day but bosses still take bonuses, the cancellation rates were: Avanti in 2019 and 2023, 3.19% and 6%. Transpennine in 2019 and 2023, 8% and 7.19% Crosscountry in 2019 and 2023, 4.8% and 10.3% Northern in 2019 and 2023, 4.26% and 6.4% Despite this bosses … Continue reading Nationalised ScotRail performing far better and not paying bonuses of up to £2.1m!

Anonymous Scotland raises £87Billion in tax revenues. Up from £76Billion. Scotland spends £54Billion. More pro rata than raised in the rest of the UK. (£644Billion} The UK raises £731Billion (down from £817). Westminster is spending £1090Billion. The rest of the UK borrows £100 more. Pro rata £10Billion. 2019/2020. 2020/21. UK Gov whole accounts. June 2022. Scotland has to pay for waste projects and Westminster mismanagement. HS2, Hickley Point, Trident, redundant weaponry, illegal wars etc. £13Billion is spent a year by Westmibster decommissioning nuclear energy. For 10 years £130Billion. More in the future. Yet Westminster wants to build more. Years late … Continue reading Scotland raises £87bn in tax but spends only £54bn – more pro rata than raised in the rest of the UK

From Christopher Wynne on twitter via https://twitter.com/maryadavy Continue reading SNP Taxes – On £100k a year you’d be nearly 10k WORSE OFF in England!

Leah Gunn Barrett There’s been a chorus of criticism of the Scottish government over its recent budget from unionist politicians and media. But why should anyone be surprised over Scotland’s dismal state? The reason is our status as a de facto English colony.   As a colony, we don’t own our own resources so we can’t provide heat and power for the costs of production which is what nationalized energy companies do. Instead, our resources are owned by private corporations that cream off profits for shareholders.  We can’t create our own key industries for transport or control our ports because they … Continue reading Why should anyone be surprised over Scotland’s dismal state?

Frances McKie Today in The Scotsman, Mr Tom Greatrex, whose position as Chief Executive for the Nuclear Industry Association was preceded by a varied career within the Labour Party, has objected to the Scottish Governments  criticism and rejection of nuclear power as  unsafe and uneconomic.  Mr Greatrex must be hoping  that no-one has noticed the latest news from the UK Government’s “Great British Nuclear ”  project at Hinkley Point . On Wednesday  this week, the  China Nuclear  Power Group withdrew  from funding the building and operation of this EPR so that EDF, the only  other major participant,  must now obtain … Continue reading Refused by the Scotsman: Nuclear power – How the media and Westminster are trying to ‘ensnare’ Scotland

BBC Scotland is headlining a single case of a delayed discharge but what is the situation more widely? You’d be forgiven for thinking there was some kind of crisis, based on media reporting. Even I though it might be a really quite big problem. Imagine my surprise when I had a look at Delayed discharges in NHSScotland annualAnnual summary of occupied bed days and census figures – data to March 2023: Of 541 747 cases in Scotland in 2022/2023, only 3% were delayed. It’s been 3% since records began in 2016/2017 other than in 2019/2020, when it was 4% of … Continue reading 97% of over half a million hospital discharges were on time! Hear that anywhere else?

Update: Dr Gould seems determined never to reveal that she is not a local but her partner is from Glasgow. From BBC Scotland today: A wheelchair user says she has had to sleep in her van in a hospital car park while her husband is treated for an illness. Dr Caroline Gould said she could not find suitable accommodation in Inverness due to visitor demand for hotel rooms after Denis was transferred to the city’s Raigmore Hospital from their local hospital in Skye. Mr Gould had expected to be discharged home on Tuesday, but the required care package discussed three … Continue reading Hospital discharges – Another single BBC Scotland source who doesn’t declare their interests who has chosen to settle on an island and a report devoid of context

From BBC Scotland in 2016: Commenting on the statistics, Scottish Labour’s health spokesman Anas Sarwar said that Health Secretary Shona Robison needed to “get a grip of the growing NHS winter crisis”. “These figures show that A&E performance across Scotland is getting worse. The fact that one quarter of A&E patients at the £850m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital aren’t seen within four hours is unacceptable. “These figures are yet more evidence that the SNP’s decision to allow the closure of the minor injuries unit at Yorkhill Hospital is senseless, reckless and ultimately dangerous.” The Scottish Liberal Democrats said the waiting … Continue reading A&E waiting times are not politicised anywhere but in Scotland