We’ve seen poll after poll where Scottish Labour support is only half that for UK Labour but this latest has them at less than one third and Scottish Cons back in 2nd place. Quite a low number for the SNP but unlike Labour, they’re supposed to be in trouble at the moment. They didn’t include Alba, I see. Only one wee poll I know but still enjoyable to consider. Continue reading Poll suggests shocking collapse in Scottish Labour support
According to the Sunday Herald in 2016, because of Labour’s PFI scheme, the 80 projects completed between 1993 and 2006, will cost us ‘a massive £30 billion over the coming decades.’ Today, the Herald tells us, under one of their thousands of Nicola pics, that we are facing, due to PFS schemes, an ‘astonishing £8.5 billion bill’ for ‘over 50 schemes‘ (2007 to 2022?), to be ‘forked out in the next 26 years.’ Stop sniggering at Martin Williams’ ‘forked out.’ Clearly a precise comparison is not possible here but it does look as if the SNP schemes are a far … Continue reading Latest: SNP funding infrastructure projects far better deal for taxpayer than Labour PFIs
Today, Sharon Dowey, Conservative List MSP, like a fox in a chicken coop, poses unashamedly in a food bank. It’s doubly strange, in that the party line these days is that food banks are largely unnecessary because the main cause of food poverty is a lack of cooking and budgetary skills. Fear not, Dowey will soon be grinning in a home economics class before you can whimper ‘please sir I want some more.’ Leftist sources like the Jacobin and the Tribune are clear: The last decade of Tory rule in Britain has seen a devastating rise in malnutrition. The impact … Continue reading Tory MSP strangely comfortable in a food bank
The above attempt to demonise Ash Regan as an Alba insider could not be more pathetically faked. Look at the straight lines between Regan and the two on either side of her. Look at the varying resolution of the images with Regan sharp and the others clearly cut and pasted from older poorer quality shots. Has Salmond arrived by time machine. Are other two actually outside on a chilly day? Don’t the young folk have the apps to do this better these days? The above is actually less good than KGB work in the early 20th Century: Stalin was known … Continue reading SNP leader campaign has even more naff photo-faking than Stalin and Mussolini got a century ago
A very useful letter which Leah Gunn Barret sent to the Herald, Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening Times but which only made it into the latter, deserves much more attention and saving away for future arguments with your favourite Unionist neighbour: Did you know 1921 was the last year the British State published Scotland’s contribution to the UK Exchequer? That year, Scotland contributed £119.7m, of which £33.1m was spent on Scottish services and £86.6m was retained in London for ‘Imperial Services.’ Irish independence was most likely the reason publication ceased. London didn’t want to give the Scots ideas above their station.[1] … Continue reading The leadership candidates should be shouting this from the rooftops
Posted today on: The SNP’s record in government and the media. by u/Warr10rP03t in Scotland and worthy of a bigger audience, by: lascivious_boasts For me, the key is to look deeper at the source of the news being published and the intention/overall goals of the author, specific source (newspaper, TV channel), the media group and owners. I think there’s a perception that news is news, and that there’s a lot of faith in how news is presented. But, looking critically, everything is editorialised. The choice of what to report, what to focus on specifically, who to ask for opinions, how … Continue reading ‘Our voice is not spoken, and it is not heard’
It’s been tough for them but the Herald with the help of comparisons done by London-based non-transparent on who funds them, thinktank, the IFS, is today delighted to announce: In the NHS recovery drive, is England outperforming Scotland? and: I can’t find published data to enable the above comparison reliably. Who knows, maybe they have found one in a hundred areas where NHS England ‘appears’ to outperform NHS Scotland. Well done! That’ll teach those Nats! Imagine if that was your purpose in life, to do down your own country? However, on operation completions, I can find comparable data that tells … Continue reading Another desperate attempt to do down NHS Scotland fails
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-64760727 A man with a face and voice to turn a funeral up a side street, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has written a turgid piece and made it even worse by speaking it out loud. Do we need another Flying Scotsman poem? Nope. We have this: This isn’t the first time Armitage’s historical ventures have annoyed. Back in 2016, we had this: One more brick in the wall to make Britain great again: BBC’s pet poet, Simon Armitage, helps to deny its Celtic origins Images: vulture.com,alchetron.com, bbc.co.uk ‘Who’s our greatest national hero? Nobby Stiles anyone?’ Watching the strangely flat-for-a-poet delivery of … Continue reading Poet Laureate’s Flagging Scotsman adds to his errors
From Public Health Scotland on 21 February 2023, there were 225 cases of tuberculosis in Scotland in 2021, down 34% on 2015 and twice as good as the WHO target of a 20% cut. In England, in the same period, there were 4 429 cases, per head twice the level in Scotland. NHS Scotland and the Health Secretary have not been praised for this. NHS England and the English health secretary have not been accused of anything. Sources: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/tuberculosis-annual-report-for-scotland/2021-tuberculosis-annual-report-for-scotland/ https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tuberculosis-in-england-national-quarterly-reports/national-quarterly-report-of-tuberculosis-in-england-quarter-3-2022-provisional-data#:~:text=pulmonary%20TB%20were%20seen%20in,higher%20than%20in%20Q2%202021 Continue reading Scotland smashes WHO target to reduce TB
Above the UK National Audit Office home page. Below Audit Scotland: The differences in messaging are sharp. The UK NAO is all progress, support (three times) and recovery. Audit Scotland is all government needs to improve, challenges and risks. Two quite different cultures revealing, in Audit Scotland, an underlying culture of opposition to the SNP in government. Continue reading Why does Audit Scotland tend to accuse when the UK National Audit Office tends to praise?
