Once more headlining the non-essential industries and favouring them over SNP Government health concerns, days before the election, BBC Scotland remembers only selectively what the 4 Nations approach achieved last year at this time – mass infection and death. They open with: Scotland should align itself with other UK nations when deciding when to allow holidays abroad, a travel industry representative has said. Alan Glen, from the Scottish Passenger Agents Association, said there was “no way” it would work if Scotland had a different system to England. Non-essential travel abroad will be allowed from England from 17 May. However, the … Continue reading Not enough infection and death? Join the ‘Four Nations System’ again?

Coincidentally, just after referring to Anas Sarwar’s campaign, Reporting Scotland brought back one of their most long-running and regular stories to cast doubt on the competence of the SNP Government – the death of one child. We’re told: The mother of a ten-year-old girl who died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow in 2017 has called for the health board to resign and for a fatal accident inquiry so lessons can be learned from her daughter’s death. Ten-year-old Milly Main was in remission from leukemia in the Royal Hospital for Children when she dies ‘after’ contracting an infection. … Continue reading How many times will Reporting Scotland use this child?

Leaving aside the facts that almost a third of Scotland’s imagined deficit is due to interest on debt that Scotland as the only part of the UK with a long-standing trade surplus, would not have incurred and that all countries other than Norway (see below) run a deficit, the above notion that SNP voters are somehow delusional is of course delusional. Business for Scotland explained this years ago: In the 1970s, Scottish oil revenues stopped the UK from going bust and requiring a bailout, but they were not enough to stop the UK debt mountain from growing. Scotland was then … Continue reading SNP voters KNOW deficit figures are made up

From SNP Media: The SNP has accused Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak of being one of the biggest threats to Scotland’s recovery as he is poised to impose years of Tory austerity on Scotland. It comes after Sunak joined his boss Boris Johnson in denying the democratic wishes of the people of Scotland in the Scottish Daily Mail. Earlier this year, the Chancellor who has previously said that austerity was ‘absolutely the right thing to do’ set out how he will return to years of Tory austerity, squeezing public sector pay and imposing cuts across the board.  He has already failed … Continue reading Sunak: ‘Austerity was absolutely the right thing to do’ and he’ll do it again

From SNP Media The SNP today said that experienced leadership is essential for Scotland as we continue to emerge from the pandemic. With the next set of decisions about Covid and a potential relaxation of the rules, including on meeting people in private homes, to be made just days after the election, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged voters not to take a chance on Scotland’s progress, as she asked voters to back her for First Minister. The next review of Covid restrictions, which could see society open up further on 17th May, is due to take place immediately after the … Continue reading ‘There is nothing that Scotland cannot achieve’

From SNP Media: As fans prepare for the Line of Duty finale tonight, lead actor Martin Compston aka Detective Inspector Steve Arnott, has thrown his support behind the SNP at the election on Thursday. Compston, also known for roles in The Nest, Mary Queen of Scots, The Wee Man, Monarch of the Glen and Ken Loach’s Sweet Sixteen, is among the actors, musicians, writers, and cultural figures taking part in the SNP online ‘get out the vote’ rally tonight at 7.00pm with Nicola Sturgeon and thousands of SNP supporters. Other figures taking part include Hollywood stars Alan Cumming and Brian Cox, leading crime … Continue reading Mother of God!!!

From SNP Media: The SNP today said that the final days of the election campaign showed that Labour and the Tories remain “as thick as thieves” after the leaders of both parties refused to acknowledge that the people of Scotland have a right to determine their future. After interviews on BBC Andrew Marr and Radio Clyde, in which Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar both struggled to defend their anti-democratic position, SNP Depute Leader Keith Brown said: “As ever Labour and the Tories are thick as thieves when it comes to blocking the kind of progress for Scotland that people want … Continue reading Labour learns nothing from 2014

From SNP Media Mogwai star Stuart Braithwaite has encouraged people across Scotland to give both votes to the SNP to guarantee the strong, experienced leadership of Nicola Sturgeon and a re-elected SNP government to help Scotland through the pandemic and into the recovery from Covid. Speaking ahead of the SNP’s ‘cultural takeover’ on social media, the Mogwai star asked if “we want to be run by the people of Scotland, and the decisions to be made by the people of Scotland, or do we want to be run by Boris Johnson?” Stuart Braithwaite said: “This election is the most important in … Continue reading Post-rock band Mogwai back SNP

From SNP Media The SNP has warned that a vote for Labour is a vote for Boris Johnson and the Tories, after reports that Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour, Jackie Bailie, is “targeting traditional Conservative voters whose support helped her squeeze through in 2016.” With Labour offering no opposition to the Tories at Westminster and having failed to protect Scotland from Tory cuts, SNP Dumbarton candidate Toni Giugliano said it proved a a vote for Labour is a vote to leave the Tories and Boris Johnson in charge of Scotland’s future – as he challenged Labour to distance itself from … Continue reading Jackie Baillie “targeting traditional Conservative voters whose support helped her squeeze through in 2016.”

In his 7 minute interview with Douglas Ross today, Andrew Marr interrupted him only 3 times and grunted irritably 10 times. A week before in his 20 minute interview with Nicola Sturgeon, he interrupted her 23 times and grunted irritably 40 times. Given the monstrous failures of the Conservative Party to prevent the damage, from Brexit, to the fishing industry in the Scottish Conservative branch leader’s own constituency and the enormous hypocrisy of his comments on the First and Prime ministers, alleged breaches, Marr was only superficially firm with Ross yet had been loud and aggressive with Sturgeon forcing her … Continue reading 40 irritable grunts