Wikipedia lists the ideology of the Scottish Tories as "conservatism", "British unionism" and "economic liberalism". To which we must now add "pro-virus".https://t.co/0f2ta2vyUS
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2020
If the Scottish Tories are claiming full credit for "forcing" the Scottish Government to reopen schools in August, will they also take full responsibility for any negative consequences, such as infections and deaths?
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2020
No. Of course they won't.
The perception is that parent pressure led to a change of tack from the Scottish Government, but I know of parents who are frightened and upset at talk of legal action if they don't send their children to school. It's sometimes a mistake to heed only those who shout the loudest.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2020
There should be no talk of legal action. If parents aren't sufficiently reassured to send their children to school during a pandemic, that's a failing of the authorities, not of the parents.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2020
Shows the danger in Swinney's announcement today.
— Ben Wray (@Ben_Wray1989) June 23, 2020
Setting expectations now that Scotland will be in a position to have full re-entry of schools on 11 August is a big gamble. Six weeks is a long time.https://t.co/0LnOBRlEQO
Jason Leitch: "We are going to learn to live with this infectious disease, like we live with tuberculosis and flu."
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2020
You kind of get the feeling that, even at this stage, he can't quite stop hankering after the herd immunity 'solution'.
Coming to the Fringe next year
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2020
JASON LEITCH - THE MUSICAL
Featuring the show-stopping numbers...
'Everybody's Going To Get It (But Not Twice)'
'From Ben Nevis To Arthur's Seat'
'Hug Your Granny MORE'
'I Don't Like To Use That Term (But Yes)'
'My Masters Degree, Piers'
Make your choice: 👇significant amount of virus circulating into 2021 & then re-group (current strategy) versus make a concerted push now to get rid of the virus.
— Devi Sridhar (@devisridhar) June 23, 2020
Do you really want to be in the current situation in winter (esp with virus which thrives in damp/cold)? https://t.co/evTsA9OqEo
This is unacceptable! Thousands of new cases each day & significant daily death toll is where England is today. We need to eliminate the virus. That's happening in Ireland and Scotland. Proper local case finding, testing, tracing, isolation and support needs to be in place. https://t.co/TOubZqb9DP
— Gabriel Scally (@GabrielScally) June 23, 2020
Today, Boris Johnson announced that the 2m rule is to be reduced to 1 metre plus.
— Katy (@KatyJane_101) June 23, 2020
Chris Whitty warned that the 2m rule would "need to be in place as long as the pandemic lasts".
I guess the government are now clearly following the money rather than the science.
Chris Whitty asked whether all members of the SAGE committee signed off today's package of measures, replies that "the job of advisers is not to sign things off.”
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 23, 2020
Make the most that you sensibly can of the summer. Looks like next winter will be grim - Covid and No Deal ( or as near as).
ReplyDeleteA Lib Dem voting neighbour said, over the hedge last week, "The government (Westminster) is so inadequate and uncaring, thank goodness we have Nicola Sturgeon."
She's right of course and I made a point of being, very gently, encouraging. Never despise a late change of mind.
Scotgov does what it can but the main levers of power remain with the killer clown gang and their bling aeroplane and second virus wave policies.
If we don't use next year's election to move decisively towards independence we will deserve all the filth forced on us by ignorant, selfish unionism.
Your point about your neighbour is encouraging, but in a way it isn't new - there has always been a segment of the public (8%?) who are willing to give pragmatism suitable due over partisanship and vote for the SNP as government of Scotland. (There must be well more than that now who are counting their lucky stars that the SG isn't headed by Jackass Carless, Redundo Leotard or Weary Willie.)
DeleteThe secret, though, is to get them to extend that willingness to believe that we could really do it far better all-round as a self-governing country. In the face of two crises rolled into one biggie looming at year's end, we can but hope...
Agreed. She's never been happy about Faslane. Next time we speak ...gently, gently !
DeleteProblem is, we have a summer to get through, Scotland is open sadly and English hol tourists will flock in once their school hols start, and Scotland's schools will (poss) reopen just as hoards of English people do flood into Scotland, where we know the virus will spread like wildfire among our urban and rural areas. We cannot close the border because that is a 'UK'EngGOv power, so we are utterly royally screwed! All the work being done now by SNP ScotGov could be reversed and we could see a huge lockdown in late autumn/winter. It hardly bares thinking about actually.
DeleteUS Governors enact interstate travel restrictions.
DeleteMeanwhile in one of the oldest nations of the world our devolved gov have absolutely no control over borders. Yet the lying Britnat Tories are always peddling the lie that the Scot parliament is one of the most powerful devolved parliaments in the world. Like Trump the Britnats are pathological liars.
I didn't call it the Tory Plague for nothing in previous posts.
ReplyDeleteThe way things are going it may soon be changed from the Tory Plague to the English Plague.
DeleteThe Tory English Plague sounds about right.
DeleteThe ultimate Tory fear is that paying for covid will require tax increases on the wealthy, which is them.
ReplyDeleteHundreds of thousands dead is a price worth paying to avoid a penny on the pound if you are a Tory.
Likewise Brexshit. The international money-laundering scheme must go on.
Delete(Tough luck but no cigar for all those easily-disposable goons in England - and one very lonely blackshirt on here - who still don't realise that it's not about helping them. Not even a teensy bit about helping them.)
YouGov polling on what you think about speed of lifting restrictions in Scotland, what you understand to the restrictions in place at phase 2 etc.
ReplyDeleteHeavy whiff of internal polling for ScotGov.
James, I've been pretty much in agreement with you all the way through this crisis (and on most other topics) but my sense isn't that this is a climbdown or retreating because of pressure. My impression is that the Scottish Government is genuinely surprised that the figures here have come down rapidly, and they want to fully reopen schools in August while previously they didn't think that was possible. I'm a bit worried about July however when tourism reopens, as that may set us back a bit again, especially if the rates in England aren't falling enough. It might be that the schools won't be able to open fully in August, but I'm confident that the Scottish Government is much more driven by the science than our southern neighbours and they will make a rational decision nearer the time.
ReplyDeleteEnglish people will flood into Scotland ( no offense I am originally Eng) because they will mostly be cooped up in UK due to covid19 etc...and if Scot schools return in Aug, just when English hols are in full swing, we will see huge rise in covid cases in Scotland, poss long term late autumn/winter lockdown. A horrendous scenario to say the least.
DeleteWithout border control powers, Scotland is in great peril right now, and the EngGov will be delighted to see Scotland suffering re covid19 cases and deaths, as well as economically destroyed. I fear that our schools will reopen, but, given Eng have later school hols and fact they WILL holiday in Scotland ( where else is there to go right now?) then we are in deep doo doo.
The worse pandemic for 100 years coupled with Brexshit and we have a human plague of bungling, Brexiteer,corrupt bampots in charge in Westminster.
ReplyDeleteWe are in the middle of a horrendous shitstorm that will not go away any time soon.
I'm a Scot - SNP get me out of this UK now.
How much can I chuck In. STENA are still on to Ireland.
DeleteLove you Nat sis. Wee Knickerless follows Boris by a week or two pretending she is different and you tosspotts fall in line. Skier was bumming about Germany a while now what do we see. The Virus cannot be eliminated only a vaccine will help. You are like the Stepford wives. NEEP NEEP.
ReplyDeleteShe's a clever one. The polls show she has massive approval ratings for not following Boris, while he's about as popular as a fresh shit in a lift. She's even got Yes to massive (greater than 'overwhelming') majority.
DeleteI just don't understand this attack line. There are only so many ways to lift lockdown. It's obvious that every country's lifting of restrictions will look pretty similar. The key is that in Scotland, things have gone more slowly and more carefully. The outcome is that Scotland has daily deaths and new cases in single figures now, while England's are in three figures just as Johnson has effectively announced that there's basically no problem any more. The extra caution of the Scottish Government is manifestly a lifesaver. It's utterly bizarre that BritNats seem to think it's the ultimate gotcha line. Their British Government has directly caused thousands of excess deaths. The cognitive dissonance involved in comparing Scotland unfavourably to it must leave them catatonic.
DeleteBut Salmond would have closed the border.
ReplyDeleteSkier, I do not know any Unionist who hates Knickerless we are just political opponents. Sadly it is you minority English hating Nat sis who are the problem in our society. Will you go back to ROI humiliated if you lose your suggested referendum.
ReplyDeleteI am pro-England / English.
DeleteYou are anti-England / English and pro-Britain / British.
If the English started talking about having more independence, making their own laws etc. You'd be on Englandgospop abusing them too.
Brit nationalists hate the English as much as they hate the Scots. Have a look at the comments on Britain Elects when there's a Scottish indy poll.
ReplyDeleteYou have lots of nice English folks saying 'Good luck to the Scots' and 'I'm moving there if they go for it!' etc, while lots of GWCs hurl vile abuse at them too.
Have you overdosed on the Hemp Oil. 5 drops are enough you do not swally the bottle.
DeleteYou do nothing but call my English neighbour a Nazi simply because he's English.
DeleteAnd I'm the one that's anti-English?
Skier, any comments on your Vunderbar German handling of the Virus. You were bumming them up some time ago however you do bum up anything outside the UK. Ukbad foreigners OK. Hundreds of foreign workers, Hungarians and Romanians in the German meat packet industry being prevented from going home due to the new lockdown.
ReplyDeleteYour right wing Germans friends murdered many Jews and others during WW2.
DeleteActually they were left National Socialists! Who embarked on massive socialist work programmes which did not include Jews. Ring a bell in yer dense heid Nat Zi. Some of your pre war Scottish Nat zis supported Hitler. Now when the children go back to school do join them.
DeleteBollocks - you don't know the history of the Nazi party. Your friends were no friends of the socialist or the communists which were banned in 1933. Right wing murderers of children and the disabled. Plenty of Nazi supporters in the Tory party including MP's, Lords and certain newspapers. The chap you were trying to frame was no lover of Nazis, he was a pacifist. Your friends were no pacifists just murderers.
DeleteYou should read your previous comment, slowly, ya fud.
DeleteThere's another issue about opening up the schools, which was put to me by my son who has two children at primary. You can't just flick a switch, and expect everything to go back to pre-Covid normal, when children are now used to not being in school.
ReplyDeleteMy son had spoken to the head teacher when blended learning was the plan, and she was planning to let the children adapt back into schooling in a less busy school. I hope the DFM is taking this issue into account in his revised plan.
Scottish Tories could also be characterised as colonist/regionalist as they'll happily defer to England both culturally and politically.
ReplyDeleteSycophants were to be found in every country that freed itself from the British Empire.
Their time is slipping away.
And they know it. Hell will mend them.
It's like the Brits are the most insecure people in the world.
ReplyDeleteEvery other country is happy to close internal borders to protect lives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53167780
The trains have been running between Brussels/Paris and St Pancras since lockdown. Are you suggesting that the trains and lorries carrying passengers food and beverage across the UK should cease? The ferries having been on between the EU mainland and the UK since lockdown. Do you want to isolate Scotland as a political gesture! And what about Germany your ideal country and the virus. Workers in the meat processing plant working in shit conditions then the unions complain belatedly.
Delete9k dead in Germany, 43k dead in the UK.
DeleteGermans know how to run a country a lot better than the brits.
They know how to invade countries. They know how to politically and economically dominate countries and mugs like the Scottish Nat sis.
DeleteGermany has had the best response to this virus of any large country in Europe. One major outbreak in a crowded meatpacking facility does not somehow change the fact that 50,000 more people have died in the much smaller England.
DeleteWee knickerless could be in power as long as Vlad Putin is going to be.
ReplyDeleteBritnats lie. They just lie all the time across all mediums.
ReplyDeleteThey lie in the printed press.
They lie in the online press.
They lie on the broadcast channels.
They lie on on-line forums.
They lie face to face with people.
They lie in parliaments.
They lie at their Party conferences.
Britnats are just a bunch of lying bastards.
I am lying out in the gerden reading your constant drivel Nazi boy. Passes the time though.
DeleteGWC gets it right for once he is lying like all Britnat turds do. But there is no chance he is lying in a garden - more like the sewer he crawls out of.
ReplyDeleteTory MP Tom Tugendhat says Scotland witll take its Independence and it will be a catastrophe for the rest of the UK reverberating around the world
ReplyDeleteHe'll be sacked soon if he keeps telling the truth about stuff
Jacob Reese Mogg says Scotland gets its fair share of funding to combat the Covid19 crisis from the chancellors borrowing on the UKs oil futures
ReplyDeleteHe's deliberately telling us where the money's coming from but there's F all Scotland can do about it
Britnats and the word fair do not compute.
DeleteThese arrogant English bastards like Mogg have been ripping Scotland off since 1707.
English/British nationalists, their arrogance and ignorance, continue to seriously damage their own so-called united kingdom. We must give them as much help as possible in order to finish the so-called united kingdom once and for all.
ReplyDeleteFor the hard of thinking Britnats who obviously cannot read you are the MINORITY in Scotland. You can try and kid on that is not the case but you are only kidding yourself.
ReplyDeleteOnly Britnat morons would vote for fellow morons like Johnson and Carcrash. Incompetent bumbling Billy Bunter types who I wouldn't trust to be able to tie their own shoe laces.
Cap in Hand
ReplyDeleteBlackford goes cap in hand to Johnson yesterday asking for the Scotgov to be able to have borrowing powers up to £4 billion to assist in the post covid recovery. Johnson says fuck off Blackford.
Not asking for more of our money back that those thieves in Westminster steal but borrowing powers for Scotgov up to £4billion. That's right just borrowing powers. Money the Scotgov would have to repay out of future Scotgov budgets.
Yet lying Britnats are always peddling Scotland has an annual deficit of £12-15 billion. An annual deficit but Scotgov cannot borrow that type of money. Lying Britnat thieves.
The only annual deficit is a Britnat UK deficit. The only National debt is UK national debt run up by Britnat Tories and Britnat Labour tossers. UK National debt is now well over £2 trillion.
You are a net gainer from the DWP and no doubt will never pay tax into the system preferring the new young generation to pay the debt. Scotland will get it's fair share to boost the economy with no extra burden on the Scottish taxpayer,
DeleteIan Blackford did not go cap in hand to anyone, what he did was exactly what he was told to do, and that was to make Johnson and the UK government publicly refuse Scotland even less powers than the Isle of Man or Guernsey which boosts the case even more for Independence
DeleteYou might have noticed in the past week that the British Nationalists can't seem to shut up about Scottish Independence because they know what's coming
Anonymous - I of Man and Guernsey are not part of the UK. Britnats are always going on about Scottish independence unlike a lot of the SNP/Scotgov.
DeleteBlackford is the man who will always be remembered for his many promises that Scotland will not be dragged out of the EU against its will. Doesn't mention it now mind you.
So much for the infamous VOW in 2014. Scotgov don't even have the powers to borrow. The vow was a con - The Smith commission was a con. The SNP keep letting down the people of Scotland but were happy to try and save England from the Brexshit they voted for. SNP wasted years on this.
Shame madmentalnicky didn't do anything about the White people are evil(TM) marches.
ReplyDeleteWhen several hundred thousand people cram into city centres yelling their faces off and are not arrested then people wonder why they are hiding in their houses afraid to go out for fear of being locked away?
When we don't have a massive rise inf Cov-19 cases after said Hitlerite rallies then people think there can be no real danger now.
Leftards brought it on themselves. No sympathy.
Revealing your true colours eh!
DeleteThe way you have this wee pet nickname for Sturgeon that nobody else has is pretty nuts you know. Using it every time is particularly mental.
I think Johnson's a total erse but I just call him what everyone else does. Like erse, bozo, fuckwit, dumbass etc.
Incidentally, I think BLM is the wrong approach as 'All lives matter' and that 'LGBT' is deep down problematically not inclusive because it excludes H, although I think the fact people don't realise such things is not due to ill intent.
From your first line though I can see the spittle spraying from your mouth and landing on the sweaty gammon skin.
Some erse that can win a GE and get us out of your corrupt EU.
DeleteYou Nat sis and pretend socialists are the erses. An Irishman wrote this - The European Union is a utopian project, a series of endless corporate giveaways, and an escape hatch for failed politicians. So of course the entire fashionable oligarchy support it.
My faith restored in Paddy.
Erm, all Johnson's achieved is the UK being still fully subject to EU law, but with no say how those laws are made.
DeleteI'm not sure why that impresses you.
You want to be subject to EU law.
DeleteI thought you didn't, yet you are praising the man that has you subject to it without even getting a say. It's not me that's the idiot.
DeleteI did have a say. I voted, do you remember those days when you voted and the result was honoured.
DeleteHow was it honoured? The UK is still fully subject to EU law and free movement 4 years after you voted.
DeleteSeveral hundred thousand? don't be ridiculous, there wasn't even a thousand you stupid twat
ReplyDeleteI was there with my molotov cocktails made up in Guinness cans. Ye cannae beat a good old riot tae hiv a go at the white man an the polis.
DeleteBBC at it again.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53185386
People must follow social distancing guidance while enjoying the sun, or Covid-19 cases "will rise again", the UK's chief medical adviser has warned.
Prof Chris Whitty's remarks...
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/christopher-whitty
Professor Chris Whitty is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England
What is it with unionism and lying? Is unionism incapable of just speaking truthfully?
How can you still get such things wrong after 313 years?
I agree Skier the UK secret service actually spread the disease worldwide to kill ethnic minorities. It was not the Chinks. It was a deliberately spread racist disease. Remember you heard it here first before the Nat sis claim it.
DeleteIs anybody else organising their festive candle display? I know it's early but my wife (the lovely Eleanor) and my friend Timmy are urging me to get started.
DeleteI always start with the tree and my little friends who decorate it. I always have our magical steam train following its track around the base. I always imagine my "tree people" on board the train heading to a prettier world. We all sing the song of the old Seekers "Train whistle blowing makes a sleepy noise. Underneath their blankets go all the girls and boys. Rocking rolling riding out along the bay. All bound for morning town many miles away-ay".
I got cheapies off that.
Judith Durham was a good looker in her time.
DeleteI'm glad I'm not a Brit Scot. It's like being at a party with all your English British 'mates' who just continually ignore you, and when a foreign guest actually notices you there at the back, you are introduced as 'Oh him, that's erm... Steve' when your name is actually Dave. 313 years on and they're still doing it.
DeleteI have more self respect.
I am glad I am not English with Irish fanatics like you living in Scotland. You are Covid 20.
DeleteYou are the one hurling abuse at my English neigbour, calling him a nazi etc, simply for being English.
DeleteThe Scotgov takes action based on the covid data in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteThe UK (England) gov takes covid action as directed by Tory donors.
Deaths per day in Scotland now just 2% of the UK total even though Scotland is 8% of the population.
DeleteHats off to the Scottish government for their management here.
It's good they have not followed London on covid.
Yes the Scotgov have done a good job considering it is only a devolved gov with limited powers. We will never know just how good a job they could have done if Scotland was an independent country eg New Zealand.
DeleteBeing part of the UK continues to cost Scots lives.
Mike Pence implores Americans to pray to rid the USA of the pestilence called covid 19.
ReplyDeleteClearly that's where the Americans have been getting it wrong they are not praying hard enough. It's not because they are led by dumb (Pence) and dumber (Trump).
Scots have been on their knees since the Dark Ages praying. They watch soccer now and are no further advanced than stone age man. Stone age man did not get a Giro.
DeleteThere would be a point to all this stuff about 'plan B' if everyone knew what 'plan B' was, and everyone thought it was the same thing. In the meantime, 'plan B' doesn't exist in reality, and you can't argue in favour of something when you don't know what it is.
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