SNP Government Can't Even Organise the Census in Scotland!

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SNP Government Can't Even Organise the Census in Scotland.

NRS - (National Records of Scotland) have been forced to put back the deadline for census by four weeks because at least 600,000 Scottish households have not completed and returned their census forms. That is about 23% of the total population who are not cooperating with the Scottish government and ignoring the £1.000 fine threat if they do not comply.

The Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson denies that he is presiding over a 'disastrous process', and Holyrood has been forced to offer NRS an extra £10million to cover the extra costs of extending the deadline. The original deadline was set for Sunday, May 1st 2022 but despite a torrent of reminder letters and cards, and the threat of a £1,000 fine, still 600,000 have not submitted paper returns.

This little exercise in SNP government efficiency has pushed the costs of Scotland's census over the £30 million mark.  Talk about value for money.

Keen to demonstrate to the rest of the UK how a census should be done, the Holyrood government prioritised on-line census returns, but at least 68,000 Scottish on-line return forms were either incomplete or not filled out correctly.

Such a smooth and efficient process to demonstrate how the SNP government departments get things done.

Another triumph for the SNP.... Eh First Minister?

BM Scotland Says : Time for an audit of SNP government spending. Where has £70 Million gone?

 

£70 Million - Where Has it Gone ?

SNP Government was paid £70 million by the Westminster government to cover the cost of staff National Insurance rises across the Scottish government workforce and Scottish local authorities. But the SNP administration at Holyrood claims that it cannot 'find' where this very recent direct grant from the UK national government has gone. Local authorities across Scotland are going to have to find the financial increase in National Insurance payments from their existing funds, because Holyrood cannot pass on the funds that it claims it cannot find. Time for an audit we think.

REMEMBER THE FERRY CONTRACT SITUATION?

The ferry construction contracts are now four years behind on completion and delivery, by the way.

Seems that the SNP Finance Minister wants all the minutes of the meetings with Ferguson Marine to remain private, and for Freedom of Information requests to either be denied or for any released documents to be massively redacted. 

Is this the SNP idea of 'Open and Transparent' governance?

This image issued by the Scottish Conservatives is a pretty fair comment on the SNP.

THE SNP GOVERNMENT WASTES MONEY GRANTED TO IT BY WESTMINSTER ON A  MASSIVE SCALE - YET CONTINUES TO PUSH THE FANTASY OF AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND CAPABLE OF MANAGING ITS OWN BUDGET.

WHERE WILL YOU GET THE MONEY FROM SNP ? - FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION?

BROADSWORD Issue 63 available now from NS PRESS UK.

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A couple of mock the SNP snippets to start the month of April.

A couple of mock the SNP snippets to start the month of April.

Do as I say - Not as I do....

Nicola Sturgeon pushed ahead to extend mask wearing and other Covid restrictions across Scotland but she attended Prince Philip's memorial in London NOT wearing a face mask, nor did her husband. Such a fine example of setting an example or do the rules she sets not apply to her?

OK, so now that we are in April the rules on masks are starting to relax but her example proves that she is a hypocrite.

Is She Serious or Was This Just an April Fool Statement ?

First Minister Sturgeon actually claims that the myth of the Loch Less Monster is an 'English conspiracy' part of England's oppression of the people of Scotland!

Forget about the millions of quid it generates for Scottish tourism! 

does Sturgeon have no concept of the importance of the Loch Ness Myth to tourism and the tourist industry in the Highlands?   

An English Myth? - Tell that to every business exploiting the Loch Ness Monster from Inverness down the loch to Fort Augustus and Fort William. It generates millions in both British and overseas tourism. That is not oppression that is a flourishing tourist attraction.

Loch Ness generates more livelihoods for the Highlands than any SNP inspired scheme ever could. And what about the financial chaos around those ferry contracts First Minister?

The Commando Memorial at Spean Bridge

Does Nicola Sturgeon even know where that is ?

SNP Milking the System - Plus Indy 2 Might not be Legal!

SNP Milking the System - Plus Indy 2 Might Not Even Be Legal 

Labour Party Scotland has published a report that exposes the 'gravy train' created by the SNP at Holyrood. Since 2007 the number of directors appointed to the boards of government health authorities and government agencies in Scotland has increased by 29%. This is a spending splurge of £8 million per year. The SNP was elected partly on pledges to control government spending but has in fact created a 'gravy train' for board executives in Scotland. It comes to something when the Labour Party in Scotland is complaining about spending tax-payer's money!

Sturgeon Extends Covid Mask Restrictions to April - so much for earlier promises to lift restrictions on March 21st.

In typical SNP (Marxist) double-speak the First Minister said that extending the rules on wearing face masks was, "in the spirit of solidarity and mutual concern that has characterised the public response to this pandemic."  

Really?   It sounds more like 'I like to control your behaviour and your lives and will not be giving up that control yet.'

INDYREF 2 - Not Legal ?

It seems that the much vaunted demands for a second Scottish Independence referendum might not be legal under British law.

The Indy 1 referendum was hailed at the time as a 'once in a generation opportunity' and in 2014 Scotland's voters rejected it. This rejection is the SNP blind spot and Nicola Sturgeon has refused to accept this as being final. 

The SNP government has been repeatedly asked as to what legal opinion it has taken from Scottish law officers at Holyrood about what the SNP calls Indy Ref2. But when put under direct questions, the SNP Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson has dodged the question and has refused to provide any kind of answers. The reality is that a second independence referendum so soon after the solid answer in 2014 is not legal, so all the SNP spending on preparing the ground for IndyRef2 might just be pointless (and a huge waste of money).

And for some reason Nicola Sturgeon thinks it appropriate to use the on going war between Russia and Ukraine to 'justify' the SNP demand that Scotland becomes an independent country from the United Kingdom. How ?

Time For the SNP to Go - Time for British National Socialism in Scotland

Never Forget - The Murder of Kriss Donald -March 15th 2004

 NEVER FORGET - NEVER FORGIVE

The Racial Murder of Kriss Donald - March 15th 2004

Just 15 years old. Kidnapped off the streets of Glasgow, then beaten, tortured,  dumped like rubbish, set on fire and left to die by an Asian gang of drug dealers who wanted to kill a young White man. The courts refused to consider his death a 'Hate crime'.

An innocent victim of a multicultural society.

SNP Moves Closer to Creating a Dictatorship

 SNP Moves Closer to Creating a Dictatorship

Keen to build on the image of Scotland as a 'One-Party State', the SNP is launching an initiative to extend the powers it enjoyed during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

In a typical Marxist move the SNP 'Polit-buro' at Holyrood are ignoring established Human Rights laws to make Covid lock-down legislation permanent in Scotland. This is in the face of legal advice that such a move would be unlawful and in direct contravention of the Human Rights Act that the SNP is so often keen to quote. 

The electoral system in Scotland means that the SNP dominate the Scottish Assembly parliament but need the help of the Scottish Greens to prop up that dominance.  As long as the SNP maintain that dominance, Scotland will continue to be ruled as a one-party dictatorship.

Just saying.......

Meanwhile at Holyrood....

New Heights of SNP Political Success - Nicola Sturgeon gives full pardons to all those convicted in the great witch trials of the 16th and 17th Century under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 in Scotland. This together with a posthumous apology for all 4,000 Scots who were persecuted under what the First Minister described as "that egregious historic injustice".

Got to be a vote winner in 2022 !

No Nuclear Submarine base or Royal Navy on the Clyde if the SNP has its way.

 No Nuclear Submarine Base or Royal Navy on the Clyde if the SNP has its way.

An Independent Scotland will remove the Faslane base, its nuclear submarine docks, the Royal Navy facilities and repair yards. ( A lot of jobs will go with them).

The SNP has once again been trumpeting about independence for Scotland, and how that visionary First Minister Nicola Sturgeon believes her new version of Scotland will function on international matters. Totally ignoring all the economic implications of breaking with the United Kingdom, totally ignoring the implications of building Scotland's economy from scratch, totally ignoring the reality of building Scotland's 'new' currency from ground zero ( Euro's?).

More seriously Sturgeon says that the independent Scotland will remove all nuclear weapons from Scottish territory which includes closing down all the Royal bases on the Clyde and also shutting down the Royal Air Force bases in Scotland. 

No mention of how this is to be achieved of course, or what impact all that will have on Scotland's economy (thousands of jobs lost). Plus the great glaring question as to how will Scotland create its own military ?

Over to you First Minister Sturgeon.

Meanwhile on the Covid Front....

Now Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP Health Secretary are announcing a 'return to normality' across Scotland as Covid restrictions are relaxed (allegedly). But some controls remain in place and Sturgeon's concept of normality is being denounced by some commentators, who think that Nicola has become addicted to the powers that controlling Covid in Scotland gave her. powers and authority that she does not want to let go.

Of course Covid is to blame for all Scotland's current economic failings, and the failings of the NHS in Scotland - it cannot possibly be that the SNP policies have created those problems. 

It is always someone else to blame.

Time for Sturgeon and the SNP to go......