Why 5th of May? Oh, I don’t know. Do we have the day off on the 6th? Continue reading Cuddling Gran’ma: Next target date for relaxing Covid restrictions except in Moray should brought forward to 5th May

Sunniest April ever? Would a third wave help? What else? The Gibraltar People’s Liberation Front watches us for tips? Our one man in Romania is the top scorer? Pattern? Continue reading April 2021

This is the man thought by several commentators to have done well in the campaign, telling a monstrous lie. In the Herald: Nicola Sturgeon is guilty of worse mistakes than the UK Government in her handling of the pandemic, Anas Sarwar has said. The Scottish Labour leader said the First Minister deserved credit for some aspects of the Scottish Government’s response, but also got “some major, major things wrong”. His exact words: On some of the big issues, she has made the same mistakes as the UK Government, and in the case of the care homes made worse mistakes. For … Continue reading Sarwar lies shamelessly: ‘She has made the same mistakes as the UK Government, and in the case of the care homes made worse mistakes!’

Ten days ago, the Lib Dems were feeding BBC Scotland with lies. The truth on meeting the JCVI priority to protect the vulnerable: Continue reading Lib Dems accuse Scottish Government of only being interested in vaccines

Readers will remember many examples of the politicisation of health issues in Scotland, over the last few years, as even the merest suggestion of some kind of remote responsibility for deaths led to photographs of and calls for the Health Secretary, Jeanne Freeman, to resign. At the same time, BBC England and Wales used photos of hospital buildings and pointed the finger at health boards. The English Health Secretary was never accused and, indeed, he would have been shocked to have been, given that he appointed the boards to take responsibility. Today, BBC Lancashire report: A police investigation into the … Continue reading 8 deaths in NHS England, police investigate, but no mention of Matt Hancock

From SNP Media: The SNP has said Scotland sees through Boris Johnson’s bluster on the Tory sleaze scandal – as new polling shows two-thirds think he did say he would “let the bodies pile high in their thousands”. The YouGov poll for the Times found half (50%) of people across the UK think Boris Johnson made the comments, rising to two thirds (65%) in Scotland. Just a quarter (26%) of people across the UK think he didn’t make the comments, falling to 16% in Scotland. Commenting, SNP Depute Leader Kirsten Oswald MP said: “This poll shows people in Scotland can see … Continue reading Two-thirds think he did say he would “let the bodies pile high in their thousands”

From SNP Media: The SNP has said that Scottish Labour are failing voters with their refusal to  “get off the fence” on vital issues facing Scotland as the party fails to stand up to the Tories in Westminster. With polls today showing that despite the sleaze surrounding the Tories, Labour are completely failing to have an impact, SNP Depute Leader Keith Brown said Scotland needed experienced leadership that could stand up to the Tories and protect Scotland from Westminster cuts, not politicians or parties that sit on the fence. Anas Sarwar has faced criticism for evading questions on Labour’s position … Continue reading Labour are completely unable to stand up to the Tories and to keep Scotland safe

By Alex Lee-MacDonald Polling consistently shows the public believes the Scottish Government has handled the coronavirus pandemic significantly better than the UK Government but it has become a common refrain among media commentators that the public’s interpretation is (to quote John Curtice) “generous”. The BBC’s Glenn Campbell even went as far as to say the UK and Scottish Governments have had “similar outcomes”. Official Statistics though tell a different story and back public opinion – England has a death rate per capita of around 1990 per million, which is about 40% higher than Scotland at around 1400 per million*. This suggests a significantly … Continue reading Should Scotland should have had a significantly higher Covid death rate than England?

On only one of the BBC’s web pages and down at the bottom: With the UK no longer part of the European Common Fisheries Policy, it now deals directly with Norway – which is not an EU member state – on fishing matters. The two countries agreed last year to a post-Brexit system of co-operation, including annual negotiations on quotas and access to each other’s waters. But a deal for 2021 proved impossible, despite weeks of talks. UK Fisheries chief executive Jane Sandell complained that the UK government had failed “even to maintain the rights we have had to fish … Continue reading Only Norwegian cod in your fish supper now as BBC Scotland hide fishing industry disaster from you

In February 2021, Michael Gove promised: But, from UK Fisheries on 22nd April: Since Brexit, the UK has failed to deliver a single access agreement with our coastal neighbours. The Government’s Scorecard is getting worse. Kirkella is tied up, and our crews have no work. The UK must make these deals if we are to save distant-waters fishing in the north-east of England. Right now we have no access agreements with our coastal neighbours, Norway, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes, yet we’re offering trading partners like Norway tariff-free access to our valuable market for fisheries products, and getting nothing in … Continue reading Ross to drink that cup of sick as Gove and Johnson let fishing deal slip out of their hands?