Glasgow’s A&E goes AWOL

 Recently Glasgow has released a statement that nobody should go to their A&E unless it’s life threatening!

Do you understand the consequences of such a statement? The largest city in Scotland, centring a region of 2m people, does not have a functioning A&E service!  It now just has a scrape off the floor and revive service, a l'americaine.

The essence of this there is a faceless bureaucrat, almost certainly not qualified in emergency medicine has said this with the full blessing of the Scottish Government and a certainly SNP Health Minister called Humza Yousaf who has been a failure in every post he has held and has no qualifications to be in politics never mind in charge of Scotland’s health!

How dare anyone, especially some faceless bureacrat, tell us we can self assess if our condition is life threatening! 

And if you wait until your condition is life threatening it's quite likely you will die on the way or on the wait for an ambulance. It is reckless to delay urgent treatment! 

To think that the SNP’s war cry once were that they were going to save the NHS from Boris selling to Trump! Nice sound bites if you ignore that Scotland’s NHS is a devolved service and Boris has invested more in the NHS than any previous PM …but don’t allow facts to perforate a political narrative! 

Whatever next? When the hand cart comes around the street with cries of “bring out your dead” I will be curious what will be written in Gaelic on the side of it. 

Scotland’s Dwindling NHS

 Andrew Neil once said when interviewing Nicola Sturgeon in 2019 “You’ve called for legislation to protect the NHS from Donald Trump. Maybe the NHS needs legislation to protect it from Nicola Sturgeon?”

How very true this statement is when we peer behind the curtain by examining the past years on the GERS reports which are produced by the SNP led Scottish Government (GERS deniers don’t have a leg to stand upon …figuratively but could be literally if relying upon the Scottish NHS for a prosthetic) 

Sometimes I do think criticism of the SNP is becoming too much of a theme for my blog, it’s almost lazy as it’s picking the low hanging fruit or like shooting fish in a barrel but all the same, I was born in Scotland, I live here and it astonishing how this bunch of cranks can get away with so much and during their past 14 years in office Scotland and all it’s devolved service have suffered and went stale yet they still get voted in and some fanboys get triggered every time they hear a nasty work about their political idols! We only were a canny bred us Scots but no longer in the case of many!   

SNP have siphoned of billions from the health budget to finance their other pet projects such as Scottish Independence, Gaelic road signs and “let’s pretend” gender laws. 

For instance. At the end of the first year in Gov in 2007/08 the SNP spent 15.9% more per person on health than England

By 2019/20 that had fallen to only 3.26% more than England despite Scotland getting £2,135 per person more to spend than England

England increased its real health spending per person from 2007 to 2020 by 25% yet in Scotland it only rose by c11%. Scotland received the full Barnett consequencials of increased English health spending yet diverted much of that extra funding away to other areas

People are literally dying in Scotland because the SNP refused to increase health spending in line with England’s increased spending. They received the money. They just siphoned it off into other areas other than health.

It is a recipe for disaster as we have seen from the drugs deaths (highest in Europe) and other drug/drink and unhealthy life choices related deaths.

 It only are the druggies, jakies and fried Mars bars connoisseurs missing out on treatment it’s also children (infections at Glasgow's super-hospital), babies (closures and lack of beds at neonatal units) and of course the elderly as we have seen from Sturgeon shipping out covid positive OAPs from hospitals into care homes! 

Also read my post from the 23rd of May 2020 “Sturgeon the Reaper” …how can anyone defend this woman and her party of glorified inexperienced town councillors? Take Humza for an example, a failed transport minister who got caught driving without insurance, then he was the justice minister and introduced a hate bill which the Taliban would be proud of and now moved to health minister but too busy twittering and FB’ing about problems getting his daughter into a nursery instead of sorting out the crap…I.E…getting on with the work he is getting paid for! 

Splash of Green on Yellow

 The fervorous gusto with which the zealots of Scottish Independence preach evangelically their chimeraish economic case for Indy (*spoiler - there never was one) seems to have suffered much lag in social media these days. Splintered and divided (much like they would have of our great union of GB) their supporters.

Prior to the 2014 AD Indy vote Alex Salmond descended the great Munro Mount Sinai with his tablets of stone promising to lead his people across the wastelands from the accursed “rest of U.K.” ruled by terrible pharaoh overlords called “tories” to the promised land of unicorns and whisky with the economical white paper case of “its oor oil” to base Scotland’s economic case as a key to release the chains and shackles of slavery (Deuteronomy parodies never fail)

Now it’s 2021 with the Cassandra power of hindsight also known as GERS (oil prices took a dook and if Scotland voted YES is 2014 we would be a unvaccinated bankrupt Nation now) 

The new messiah Nicola Sturgeon tried to part the seas to continue the fatal journey with her newly found green credentials and faith that it will take a union to break a union by partnering up with the Scottish Green Party, a Marxist anti-everything party who, like a mango, appear green on the outside but inside they are yellow within and have supported Independence even when it was reliant upon fossil fuels.

These Green Muppets are the height of hypocrisy…opposing fuel poverty whilst being anti-fossil and nuclear fuel, vowing to end hardship when they publicly support everything which would stifle economic growth… But I am sure the Indy supporting armchair economists of social media will paint over such discrepancies with their tartan paint and believe all will be alright on the day …just keep shaking that magic money tree … promise the world and blow up smokescreens when scrutiny comes a knocking. 

These wee green monkeys are anti-monarchists too, if we flick our minds back to April when the Queen’s husband Prince Philip passed away the Scottish Parliament met on a motion of condolence for the late Duke of Edinburgh. The main party leader and chief Indy Carrot dangler First Minister Nicola Sturgeon actually paid an eloquent tribute to Prince Philip's seven decades of public service but co-leader of the Scottish Greens wee speckled Patrick Harvey (yes “co-leader” the other co-conspirator is Canadian Lorna Slater for gender balance despite their support for the non-biological claim that there is something like 57 different genders and if you don’t agree you go to jail on hate crime charges)  told Holyrood that his party had considered boycotting the Holyrood tribute and criticised Prince Philip’s 'extreme wealth, privilege and status' by pleading that it would have been 'wrong to give a performance of feelings not sincerely felt.'  …did his mummy not learn him that’s it’s not nice speaking ill of the dead? Especially considering that the late Prince Philip spent his lifetime supporting nature conservation, including founding the World Wildlife Foundation… but obviously this does not cut the mustard with the mango environmentalist party. 

I guess Scottish Independence supporters are deleting their “it’s oor oil” meme now the dangling SNP carrot is organic with large gluten free and fair trade stickers on it to keep them onboard.  Their poor heads must be spinning, one minute if was all “secret oil fields” and “Air Passenger Duty cuts” now it’s all windmills and trans tolerance. 

I best not write here about how the Greens are advocates of the MMT (modern monetary theory) and it’s implications of non-conformity with Sturgeon’s current Hail Mary pass on her Indy Economic thoughts, don’t want to muddle wee small Indy defending brains more than what they currently are. 

Sturgeon (as the other fish before her) with her minions of supporters of Scottish Independence could never build a credible economic case for secession but at least she would try albeit with denials, falsehoods and smoke & mirrors, now with the biggest deficit since devolution they don’t even attempt to say boo! 

How I miss these gallant defenders of Indy attempt to argue their economic theories, all of which have been shot down… there are a few still treading the waters by being GERS deniers but these poor hardy souls are getting less and less (or looking more and more pathetic) but ah well, they still have their memes of Boris and now a disco dancing Micheal Groves.