From: snpmedia@snpmedia.net SNP MP Angela Crawley will today present her Private Members Bill to change the law to ensure those who experience a miscarriage are given at least three days paid leave. The MP for Lanark and Hamilton East has led the campaign to introduce paid miscarriage leave. In a cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, she highlighted that around one in eight pregnancies will end in miscarriage, meaning thousands of women and men are “suffering profound loss without adequate time to grieve.” The SNP government is committed to introducing three days of paid miscarriage leave within the public sector in Scotland … Continue reading ‘One step closer to ensuring parents get the time they need to grieve and process a miscarriage’

‘Sturgeon’, ‘SNP’ or ‘Scots’, everywhere blamed for making a decision to protect Scots but which inconveniences English holidaymakers. The terms ‘Scottish Government’ or ‘First Minister’ are avoided lest anyone think they might have a legal responsibility and a right to protect Scots. Surely, BBC Scotland, a public service broadcaster paid for by Scots will offer a Scottish Government perspective? Nope and their wee Breakfast TV broadcast insert managed 4 negatives on Scottish Government policy , in the space of only 2 minutes before the weather. And, from this eminent member of the twitterati: Yes Sir, We Can Boogie@msm_monitor First three … Continue reading ‘Sturgeon’, ‘Scots’ and ‘SNP’ accused of trying to protect ‘Scots’

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, in its call for a ‘Summer to Recover‘ campaign, outlines a series of recommendations to ensure that Emergency Departments do not become the system failure service this winter. The above, from 4 key requests, will strike a chord with TuS regulars. For more than a year now, I’ve been reporting on NHS Scotland’s superior A&E performance and noting that the gap is almost certainly even greater because NHS England fiddles its data. For any who have missed this, the gap is probably even greater because. BBC Scotland has accused NHS England of fiddling the … Continue reading Royal College tells NHS England to copy NHS Scotland and tell the truth

From: snpmedia@snpmedia.net The SNP has said Douglas Ross is “failing to stand up for Scotland” over the growing threat to Scottish farmers and crofters from the Tory government’s Australia trade deal. Deidre Brock MP said the Scottish Tory Leader was making claims that are “simply not credible” – after a BBC Sunday Show interview in which Douglas Ross repeatedly dodged questions and gave misleading answers. When challenged by presenter Martin Geissler “why was there no dialogue between the UK and Scottish Government?” – Douglas Ross dodged the question When challenged about the concerns of Scotland’s farming communities on tariff-free imports, the Scottish … Continue reading ‘Failing to stand up for Scotland’

From SNP Media: The SNP has challenged Boris Johnson to make a cast-iron commitment to maintain the triple lock on pensions – amid reports the Treasury is planning to impose a cap. Responding to reports the Chancellor is considering breaking the link between pensions and earnings, David Linden MP said the Prime Minister must “overrule” Rishi Sunak and make clear the Tory government will not break yet another manifesto commitment by ring-fencing the £4billion needed to fund the annual rise in pensions next year. The SNP Shadow Work and Pensions spokesperson said the Tories must not betray their election pledges to pensioners and … Continue reading Chancellor won’t even protect lowest state pensions in the developed world

The Mayor of Greater Manchester is not happy. Why? See this from the Guardian rather than the above smelly rag: Nicola Sturgeon has imposed a travel ban between Scotland and Manchester and Salford as a result of rising Covid cases. The restrictions, which will come into force from Monday, add to travel limits put in place last month as the Delta variant spread rapidly through the north of England. Speaking at her Covid briefing on Friday, Scotland’s first minister said: “Manchester and Salford currently have high levels of Covid and so from Monday onwards non-essential travel between Scotland and those cities … Continue reading Praise for First Minister ignoring Mayor of Manchester

Doctors? Who? How many? Using what facts? Well just Dr John Thomson, a consultant in emergency medicine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, so in just one hospital and using no published statistics, so worryingly for a professional using science in his line of work, keen to claim: Hospitals are jammed. They’re absolutely full and bursting. Dr T is a media regular, in the Herald and the Times, shouting alarm. In January, he was ‘voicing fears‘ in the Times. It’s a hobby he has. Facts, Dr T? A&E: During week ending 06 June 2021, there were 28,493 attendances at A&E services in … Continue reading Hospital attendance still below pre-pandemic level so no bursting?

From the BBC all day today: More than half a million people have died from Coronavirus in Brazil. It is the second highest death toll in the World after the United States. There are protestors in the streets unlike in the UK but then ‘we‘ have done so much better haven’t we, with the vaccine rollout? Only if you don’t consider the death rate per 100 000, a better measure of performance, surely? Many have died in Brazil and the people should be protesting against their psychopathic, stupid, leader but, per head of population, England has done worse than Trump’s … Continue reading Covid deaths: Trump did better than Johnson!

This is the publication of the report by the small group of MSPs, with a Unionist majority built-in, contradicting the legal verdict by James Hamilton, former director of public prosecutions for Ireland, which cleared the First Minister. This partisan report was dead-in-the water long before its publication but the MSM have delighted in repeating the jaundiced words of those dread clowns, Murdo Fraser, Margaret Mitchell and Alex Cole-Hamilton. The Scottish Tories’ motion of no confidence, based on leaks by the above three, in the First Minister, not ‘Sturgeon’, was defeated back in March when the Greens refused to back it. … Continue reading Attack on ‘Sturgeon’ is ‘opportunistic political theatre’ once again

I know, they broke Wembley’s goal posts and stole turf and, no doubt, carried out acts of violence on London’s streets back in the 20th Century but have things changed a bit? 20 000 and 27 arrests? You’d get more arrests from 20 000 on Troon beach. Try finding images of them fighting last night, anybody, England fans, each other, the police? You can be sure we’d see those. What about England fans, still this century, in a neighbouring capital city? Paris 2016? Belgium in 2000, employing the favoured weapon, chairs: Throwing coins at Gypsy children? https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/16/football/euro2016-england-fans-video/index.html And of course, … Continue reading Fans in neighbouring capitals