From SNP Westminster Press Office: The SNP has ramped up pressure for an immediate full public inquiry into the rampant Tory sleaze and corruption scandals, following yet another day of damning sleaze revelations. The call follows reports that –   Scandal-hit Tory MP Geoffrey Cox missed a number of votes in Parliament as he was on a trip thousands of miles away in Mauritius. It comes after earlier revelations that Cox took advantage of lockdown rules to vote in the Commons by proxy so that he could go to the Caribbean to work on his second job. Separate analysis published in the Guardian also … Continue reading Clear pattern running right through corrupt Tory government.

Catching up, six hours after BBC Breakfast reported the same, the opposition leaders are platformed by BBC Scotland: Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross says “unnecessary lives are being lost that could have been saved” because of pressure on Scotland’s health service And Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar highlights the case of a 55-year-old man who died in the stairway of his flat while waiting for an ambulance Mr Swinney acknowledges the pressures and says a “whole system” approach is being taken to make improvements to the ambulance service, A&E and the wider NHS But Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton … Continue reading Ross, Sarwar and Cole-Hamilton undereducated bloodhounds

Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/user/unix_nerd/ for alerting me to this. Though the report does include six references to the role of the Home Office in regulating what happens here, the headline which many only read, does not make that clear. Though the text does make these Home Office references it does not clarify for the reader, explicitly, that nothing that happens here is an SNP Government responsibility. Thanks to confusion in many heads and the headline, it needs to. Continue reading Conservative Government risking safety of women refugees

I never learn but it’s been some time since the last. Continue reading BBC Complaint: Ambulance waiting times ‘across UK’ this morning

Headlining at 6:00am and repeated every 30 minutes or so, across the UK news, full of dramatic claims of a system in crisis and a clear indication that this is happening ‘across the length and breadth of the UK.’ This report comes from the College of Paramedics (No ‘Royal?’), a trade union, and offers of course, no data. The story is not even on their own website! The BBC interviews one person and an anonymous paramedic. Notably, neither in their broadcast nor on the website, BBC Scotland don’t seem to know about these developments: BBC 1 Breakfast only have images … Continue reading ‘Across the length and breadth of the UK?’ Evidence?

Scotland has now vaccinated a higher percentage of its population on all three vaccines, leaving the other three nations lagging behind. BBC Scotland have uncovered concern about rise in cases in Dumfries and Galloway but have stopped reporting vaccinations these days. A source tells us they’ve just lost interest now. It’s no fun when we’re no longer lagging behind. Continue reading Scotland ahead on all three vaccines

From: SNP Westminster Press Office: The SNP has accused Boris Johnson of “giving the green light” to rampant Tory sleaze and corruption, after a statement today from Geoffrey Cox revealed that the Tory chief whip approved steps for Cox to take advantage of lockdown rules to vote in the Commons by proxy so that he could go to the Caribbean to work. In his statement responding to the mounting criticism over his decision to spend up to a month in the British Virgin Islands earning hundreds of thousands of pounds while working to defend the tax haven against a Foreign Office inquiry into corruption, Geoffrey Cox stated: “As to … Continue reading SNP has accused Boris Johnson of “giving the green light” to rampant Tory sleaze and corruption

From SNP Media: The SNP has today called on Douglas Ross to “come clean” over corruption as the Scottish Tories refused to reject tainted donations and distance themselves from dark money. As revealed today, the Tories have failed to hand back tens of thousands of pounds in donations from two firms linked to criminal activity. The Tories have also refused to rule out taking more donations from such businesses in the future. And the stench of sleaze and corruption from Westminster is spreading to Scotland with more reports of so-called “dark money” donations to an anti-independence campaign group which supported … Continue reading ‘Tainted and dark money a test of Ross leadership’

This desperate schadenfreude by the UK MSM regularly headlines apparently appalling Covid death rates in other places – India, Brazil, USA with the effect for some of hiding the scale of the tragedy in the UK and especially in England and Wales. Raw numbers in a big country like Russia can make great headlines for the Guardian or for the BBC and, unwittingly or otherwise, protecting the Johnson government from the criticism it deserves. See this: Continue reading Russia’s Covid deaths soar to well below UK level

In Energy Live News yesterday: Energy market regulator Ofgem has decided to proceed to the Final Needs Case stage of the regulatory approvals for two electricity transmission links that will connect Scotland and England along the east coast. More specifically the ‘Eastern HVDC’ (EHVDC) project aims to construct two High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) links, each with an expected capacity of 2GW. At an estimated cost of £3.4bn for the two links, the EHVDC project is predicted to become the largest electricity transmission investment project in the recent history of Britain. Once commissioned, the project is expected to alleviate constraints … Continue reading Scotland to power 3 MILLION homes in England and Wales