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Labour vows to merge ferry bodies and fix ‘broken system’ broken by their Douglas Alexander and Jack McConnell in the first place

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Headlining for BBC Scotland, featuring across all media operating in Scotland and in The Standard today: Labour vows to merge ferry bodies and fix ‘broken system’ – Anas Sarwar will visit Stornoway on Monday, as he warned the ‘SNP’s ferry fiasco is a symbol of their incompetence and waste’. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/anas-sarwar-snp-holyrood-isle-of-lewis-b1276923.html I’m already blinded by the shine from Labour’s brass neck on this one. Merge what? CalMac which runs the service and CMAL which owns the ferries and commissions the building of new ones. Until 1 October 2006, Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd ran the service and owned the boats. The harbours and … Continue reading Labour vows to merge ferry bodies and fix ‘broken system’ broken by their Douglas Alexander and Jack McConnell in the first place

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Going, going, gone – The Labour MSP charged over indecent images and the secret of English drug gangs targeting vulnerable women

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA Briefly last night the Labour MSP charged over ‘indecent images’ (children not mentioned in the text as in other media) has already dropped a place this morning (below). Watch out for how quickly he drops off the page altogether. Still down at the bottom, the County Lines gangs ‘targeting vulnerable women.’ More on this below. Here’s what BBC Scotland say about the County Lines gangs: County lines gangs are forcing vulnerable women into joining networks supplying crack cocaine and heroin to the … Continue reading Going, going, gone – The Labour MSP charged over indecent images and the secret of English drug gangs targeting vulnerable women

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Knife crimes plummet in Scotland to only half the level under Labour and 90 times as many, per head, ‘Zombie’ knives mentioned in crime reports in England & Wales

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restrict the purchase of knives online, in an attempt to reduce the number of attacks involving young people. The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser [closing tomorrow at 2pm] primarily to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further improve the blog, has made a good start. To contribute, only if you can (!) go to: Talking-up Scotland – a Politics crowdfunding project in Ayr by Professor John Robertson By Professor John Robertson OBA BBC 1, first thing today, headlining the above issue. BBC Scotland do not follow up … Continue reading Knife crimes plummet in Scotland to only half the level under Labour and 90 times as many, per head, ‘Zombie’ knives mentioned in crime reports in England & Wales

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UK Government figures reveal that NHS Scotland performs significantly better than NHS England because it has 21% more staff after 17 years of SNP rule

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By Professor John Robertson OBA From The healthcare workforce across the UK: 2024 A summary of the cross-UK comparability of official direct NHS employment statistics and other relevant data sources, including non-official data, on specific healthcare professionals across the UK, published by the ONS on 6 March 2024, the following data on staffing at the end of 2023: NHS England – 1 308 825. With one tenth, or 10%, of the population, all things being equal, we might expect NHS Scotland to have around 131 000. However, it had 158 375, 27 375 or 20.8% more staff Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthcaresystem/articles/thehealthcareworkforceacrosstheuk/2024 Performing better? See: Support Scots … Continue reading UK Government figures reveal that NHS Scotland performs significantly better than NHS England because it has 21% more staff after 17 years of SNP rule