Just a quick note to let you know that I've written today's online-only National Extra piece - it's about Boris Johnson's apparent belief that visiting Scotland this week will "save the Union", and what past precedents tell us about how likely that is. You can read it HERE.
I also had a piece in The National the other day about the Olymipc question in the Scot Goes Pop / Survation poll - you can read that one HERE.
Johnson says " we have done everything we can" aye to make a complete bollocks of everything.
ReplyDeleteJohnson says " I take full responsibility for everything the government has done" well resign now don't wait till it gets to 200k - criminally incompetent.
ReplyDeleteWho is actually threatening the Union?
ReplyDeleteHe's absolutely welcome to visit and tell us 'Shut it jock vermin; we English say you can't vote for 40 years!'.
ReplyDeleteI am sure he can do his meetings via Zoom as he never meets the general population. He wants a staged TV opportunity. The amount of deaths reported today maybe it is not that wise.
DeleteVery pleased to see that new Scots are still coming to Scotland from Europe and beyoned, even though there is a mass brexodus of skilled workers underway across the UK.
ReplyDeletehttps://eminetra.co.uk/foreign-workers-flee-britain-as-a-pandemic-and-brexit-bite/246524/
Lovely.
DeleteThe same people who betrayed their new homeland by voting overwhelmingly for english rule.
You people are insane.
Panelbase indy poll:
DeleteOther country of birth (not Scotland or England):
55% Yes
45% No
Has Peter Murrell tried on the black leather glove yet to see if it fits. I am sure his legal counsel advising him are telling him it worked for OJ you know. I saw it on Netflix.
ReplyDeleteThe UK poll Scottish sub sample has SNP 50 Tory 20 Lab 14 LD 7 GN 4 RF 2 oth 2. A year of 2 back the Tories were in the high 20's in their sub samples.
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.cdn.yougov.com/owu386v4se/TheTimes_VI_Tracker_210122_W.pdf
The SNP are failing at the most important challenge facing our country.
ReplyDeleteWe all want the Covid vaccine to be a huge success. But the rollout should be going much better.
On Sunday the number of vaccinations was the lowest yet and the SNP tried to blame their slow rollout on delayed data.
Yesterday’s figures have exposed that claim as absolute nonsense. Vaccinations are no higher than last week.
The rollout should be ramping up, not standing still.
For wee Doogie goes ploppy.
DeleteDeaths within 28 days of a positive test per 100k population:
105 Scotland
151 rUK = 44% higher
7-day case rate per 100k population:
195 Scotland
377 rUK = 42% higher
First does Vaccinated:
1/10 Scotland
1/10 rUK
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19031217.scotlands-covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-makes-absolute-sense-doctor-says/
Scotland's Covid-19 vaccine roll-out 'makes absolute sense', WHO doctor says
SCOTLAND’S coronavirus vaccine roll-out “makes absolute sense”, according to a World Health Organisation special envoy on Covid-19.
Dr David Nabarro told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme that he is “glad” to see people in care homes, who are among the most at risk from the virus, being prioritised.
By contrast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55820178
Covid-19: 'Poor decisions' to blame for UK death toll, scientists say
A legacy of poor decisions" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSTbwydtMc
Johnson - "Just Let Corona Virus Happen".
One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go & allow coronvirus to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2021/jan/26/johnson-deeply-sorry-as-uk-covid-death-toll-passes-100000-video
Johnson 'deeply sorry' as UK Covid death toll passes 100,000 – video
England / the UK are of course states with the full powers of an independent country with virus outbreak control a reserved matter.
Is this the same Skier who has nats never make comparisons with the rest of the UK.
DeleteYes. I only discuss the validity of unionist comparisons when they make them on here.
DeleteOnly half of Scotland's over-80s have now had a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
ReplyDeleteThe latest figures show that 51% of people in the age group have been vaccinated - considerably lower than the 78.7% across the UK as a whole.
The number of people being vaccinated every day has actually fallen over the past week, but John Swinney still insisted that good progress was being made. An absolute disgrace.
"ultra vires", virus on the brain.
ReplyDeleteThe rollout of the vaccine across the whole UK is one of fastest in the world - a sign of what our Union can do together. The SNP in Scotland however are failing at their most important challenge because in their eyes, indyref2 trumps everything else.
ReplyDeleteThey’re putting a referendum first and damaging Scotland’s recovery.
The SNP's vaccine rollout is behind schedule and it's entirely their fault.
ReplyDeleteThe SNP have hundreds of thousands of doses sitting in storage, ready to be used, but they're failing to deliver. The pace should be picking up, not standing still.
Their own plan says the vaccines are available for overnight delivery but GPs are still telling us they're not getting supplies quickly enough.
The Scottish government's explanations "simply do not add up", and that "the programme in England is getting faster while in Scotland it's getting slower".
Is it not time we looked at how the Union benefits England.
ReplyDeleteEngland alone within the UK is factually independent. Nobody tells them against their will to have nuclear weapons or when to go to war.
They alone can overrule the other three nations combined.
£Billlions of taxes/revenues are squirelled away to the London treasury annually that should be under the democratic control of Holyrood, yet we seem to be ignoring this when it's clear the Brit treasury will lose out big time when we become independent.
So let's attack the so-called Union as it benefits England.
No nation should rule another, let alone three.
Also, a warning to the SG.
The Indyref is about Statehood not any new Federal offer that will keep us under LONDON rule.
That ship sailed 7 years ago.
Independence is about empowering the people of Scotland not maintaining England's internal Empire.
Yes, when comparing how well covid has been handled, England or the UK can be directly compare to other countries.
DeleteScotland can't. Its a region of one of the worst affected / poorly managed states in the world.
Ramstam - we all know the UK is a shite English dictatorship that subjugates, humiliates and steals from Scotland on a daily basis that cares nothing for the people of Scotland. The question is how do we get rid of the murdering bastards and it ain't following that baloney of a 11 point plan.
DeleteChairman Mao famously said - every journey starts with a first step.
DeleteOurs is winning a YES Majority in the May elections.
Come back and ask me the next step then.
(or was it Ho Chi Minn)?
Doggie R, are you the new kid on the block? Sent in to try to undermine the correct perception that the Scottish NHS is performing well under trying circumstances.
ReplyDeleteTry this. Take the Scottish Covid death figures and multiply by 10 to show England's figures.
This reveals that 50% more lives have been lost in England than there needed to be. Shocking incompetence from Hancock and Johnson who ignored the advice of medical experts to instead put "saving the economy" first.
Many thousands lost their lives because of this.
The vaccinations are not "getting slower" in Scotland.
All care homes and support workers are done. Most 80 plus and 70 plus will be complete by the coming month.
The NHS don't need people undermining their efforts with politically motivated misinformation.
DO NOT weaponise our excellent and outstanding Scottish NHS.
Doogie is our salmond conspiracy QKAnon troll that pretended to be me the other day.
DeleteRamstam - shocking incompetence by Johnson and his crooks. They managed the awful double whammy of the worst economic hit in Western economies and the highest death rates.
DeleteSmearer Skier ( lying since 2014) - only a Britnat would steep that low to want to be you.
DeleteAnother political trial (of Craig Murray ) commences this morning. What a justice system Scotland has. The Lord Advocate who was appointed by Sturgeon and sits in the Cabinet and is now famous for malicious prosecutions trying to send another person who Sturgeon doesn't care for to prison.
ReplyDeleteThis is your Scotland all you "I'm with Nicola" people. Feeling proud or shamed.
The nazi's are now trying to jail other nazi's, it's always the way with these type of regimes. Just look at history, at China, at Russia and North Korea.
DeleteThe overriding message is very much you can.......Never trust the Nazi's
DeleteIt's interesting who pushes the Salmond conspiracy stuff.
DeleteIfS; if you want folk to believe you support indy, it's best not to hang out with Doogie goes ploppy.
Smearer Skier - if you want people not to think you are a psycho you best not hang out with Juteman. Diddy.
DeleteI don't care if arseholes like you Smearer Skier believe what you believe.
Never trust the Nazis
ReplyDeleteThe shameful failed conspiracy to imprison Alex Salmond for crimes he didn’t commit – a conspiracy, remarkably, for which nobody has yet been held to account in any way despite the most obvious of grounds for suspicion of perjury, and which the Scottish Government is still frenziedly trying to conceal.
IfS, you've said this millions of times.
DeleteSmearer Skier you have posted the truth now and again doesn't mean you are not a liar and an arse.
DeleteI've read on a blog that in addition to the police, the CPS, and the UK civil service, the entire cross-party Holyrood Salmond investigation committee are in Sturgeon's pocket and are going to let her off the hook by 'whitewashing' her / the entire SNP's apparent criminal actions in conspiring to commit perjury.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/111055.aspx
Can anyone comment on this?
Yet again we are seeing that the SNP are distracted by their independence obsession, instead of fighting for jobs and businesses across Scotland.
ReplyDeleteWhere is their 11-point plan to rebuild Scotland?
I assume the UK government will apologise for this?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-nireland-church-children/report-finds-unwed-mothers-mistreated-at-homes-in-british-ruled-northern-ireland-idUSKBN29V275
Report finds unwed mothers mistreated at homes in British-ruled Northern Ireland
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Unmarried mothers in British-ruled Northern Ireland suffered cruel treatment in homes run by the Protestant and Catholic Churches, a report found on Tuesday...