BM SCOTLAND. A Summer of Dis-satisfaction and Discontent for the People of Scotland.
A new Labour government at Westminster but the SNP are still in charge at Holyrood.
And their policies continue to fail the people of Scotland.
Drug Deaths - Scotland has the worst levels in Europe - AGAIN!
Scot Rail - failing again under SNP policy directives.
Another SNP failure - the legacy of last year's SNP alliance with the Scottish Greens saw peak rail fares abolished to encourage Scots to use the trains instead of their cars. Now the Scottish government are going to reintroduce peak rail fares across Scotland.
Add to that this admission that the Scottish transport secretary Fiona Hyslop has admitted that the Scot Rail peak fare cut had cost the Scottish government £40 million but only resulted in less than a 7% increase in rail use. Scottish Labour's Alex Rowley commenting on the SNP transport policies in regard to rail transport said that, "had left Scot Rail services in chaos" with cuts to timetables, shortage of drivers and low uptake of the cut rail fare scheme.
Note: A clear sign of SNP government failure; official UK government data has shown that, "Scotland's climate targets were no longer credible, in part because ministers had failed to prove how they would cut car kilometres by 20% by 2030."
*** Add to that all the crazy policies about ULEZ zones for Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
Shetland - Rocket explosion at the 'UK Space-port'.
The Saxa Vord spaceport on Shetland on Monday August 19th 2024 saw a major technical failure when the site's first rocket test resulted in a huge explosion and fireball on the launch pad. The Saxa Vord facility is a new UK venture in space technology and the launch site on the island of Unst was licenced and cleared to become operational in December 2023. The authorisation to launch rockets and satellites was granted as recently as April 2024.
A major advance for British technology and Scottish innovation? Hardly, because the rocket being tested on Monday was built and produced by a German company RFA based at the Rocket Factory Augsburg.
Afghan Student Doctors.
The NHS in Scotland might be in chaos and hospital waiting lists well behind targets and a general shortage of doctors in NHS Scotland but don't worry, the Scottish government in collaboration with the UK government and the government of Pakistan has worked with the charity The Linda Norgrove Foundation to bring 19 women medical students to Scotland from Afghanistan to complete training as doctors. The charity contributed £60,000 towards the cost of bringing the Afghan student doctors to the UK, welcoming them this week as they flew into Edinburgh from Pakistan. The Afghan women have been granted places at four Scottish medical schools, and Scottish ministers changed the law so that these Afghan young women could be treated as Scottish citizens and so eligible for free tuition in Scotland.
The trial of the Palestine Action Scotland for the protest and break in at Thales, Govan in June 2022.
Reported in the Scottish news media but largely ignored in the UK wide media.
"Five pro-Palestine activists who occupied the roof of a factory in Glasgow which supplies the defence industry have been jailed. Stuart Bretherton, Eva Simmons and Calum Lacy, along with Erica Hygate and Sumaya Javaid, all scaled a fence at the Thales plant in Govan and staged a demonstration on its roof. Hygate and Javaid also broke into the factory, damaged equipment meant for submarines and threw smoke bombs into an area used by hundreds of workers, causing it to be evacuated. More than £1m damage was estimated to have been caused at the plant. All were handed sentences ranging between 12-14 months after pleading guilty to breach of the peace. Hygate and Javaid also admitted damaging property. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that the group had gathered outside the plant early on the morning of 2 June, 2022, dressed in orange overalls and balaclavas. Hygate and Javaid then climbed through a door on the roof and got inside the factory, setting off an internal fire alarm which sparked an evacuation of the premises and confusion and panic among staff. While that evacuation was taking place the pair set off pyrotechnics including smoke bombs. Some were thrown into the area from where the staff were evacuating, causing smoke to pool dangerously close to staff members. Bretherton, Simmons and Lacy remained on the roof, which was surrounded by a number of police officers, until finally coming down at 7:45pm, when they were arrested. Hygate and Javaid remained above through the night, and glued their hands to the rooftop. They were finally removed the following morning by police. Javaid, who continued to be obstructive, was removed in leg restraints. Sheriff John N. McCormick sentenced Bretherton, Simmons and Lacy to 12 months' imprisonment after they each pled guilty to a breach of the peace. Erica Hygate was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment after she pled guilty to a breach of the peace and damaging property. Sumaya Javaid was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment after she pled guilty to a breach of the peace, damaging property and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner."
REMEMBER: This protest and damage took place more than a year before the Hamas attacks of October 2023. So was not part of the current Gaza crisis protests.
*** Note that Glasgow City Council has announced this week that it will donate £20,000 to a charity operating in Gaza on behalf of Palestinians. More Scottish tax-payers money being spent outside Scotland instead of improving services in Glasgow.
SCOTLAND DOES NOT NEED IMPORTED DIVERSITY !
No comments:
Post a Comment