https://www.inquest.org.uk/deaths-in-prison
From SPS for Scotland:
http://www.sps.gov.uk/Corporate/Information/PrisonerDeaths.aspx
So, population of Scotland is just over one tenth of that of England and Wales and the prison death rate, in most years, is the same, one tenth.
Yet, even the respected though little-read Holyrood magazine allows it to be described as a massacre:
I could so become PM! Don’t be ridiculous!
From Ludo Thierry:
Despite the feverish early efforts of the meeja (especially in Scotland) to promote La Swinson (?LowJo) as the new Anointed One for the britnat cause in Scotland there has been precious little sign of any particular movement to date.
The main development of which I have become aware has been the defection of a solitary tory cooncillor and a solitary labour cooncillor to LowJo’s ragged regiment. Curiously, both these defections occurred in the South Lanarkshire Council which has a minority SNP administration. The britnat defections may well assist the SNP administration by diluting the opposition. Link and snippets below: Note the very warm welcome that LowJo’s Scotland branch manager Wee Wullie is offering to disaffected tories. Note also how the tories seem perfectly happy for their erstwhile member to go perch with LowJo’s merry band (all jolly good britnats together, what ho?). The labour group chap’s comments are rather less sanguine – one can almost sense the existential stress that he is observing within his struggling party’s Scotland branch office. (Guys like him really need to wise up – and seriously ask themselves why they are not finding themselves able to act in Scotland’s interests instead of always holding onto Nanny UK’s apron strings).
Tory councillor defects to Lib Dems with swipe at new PM Boris Johnson
Hamilton West & Earnock councillor Mark McGeever announced he was quitting the Tories on Mr Johnson’s first full day in office, arguing the party had “abandoned” the political centre ground and was looking for populist answers.
Tory voters and members disillusioned with the Boris Johnson-led Conservative Party “can find a comfortable home with the Liberal Democrats”, the Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said following the defection.
A Scottish Conservative spokesman said: “Mark leaves with no hard feelings from us, and we wish him all the best for the future.”
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/south-lanarkshire-councillor-defects-lib-18963953
A second South Lanarkshire councillor has defected to the Liberal Democrats.
Former Labour councillor Fiona Drybrugh (East Kilbride South) quit the party following shadow chancellor John McDonnell’s comments about a second independence referendum.
Reflecting on her decision, Cllr Dryburgh said: “My politics have not altered but the Labour Party has now moved to a place where I can no longer support them. I am vehemently opposed to Scottish independence and I firmly believe that Britain is better off in the EU.”
The leader of the Labour group in South Lanarkshire, Joe Fagan, said: “The Liberal Democrats are currently led by one of David Cameron’s Ministers from the coalition years. Jo Swinson helped the Tories impose austerity economics and rip up the welfare state as we know it. That is not the kind of government I want for our country and I don’t really think it’s the kind of government Fiona would want either.”
Mostly in response to daft stuff in the BBC, Herald and Scotsman sites:
Thanks to a parliamentary question from Monica Lennon (SCLABR) on Wednesday asking for a gender breakdown, TuS can reveal a significant increase in the number of female and male graduate apprenticeship starts and a reduction in the gender gap, between 2017/18 and 2018/19:
I’m finding myself doing more via Twitter and apparently getting up to 80 000 impressions. Will keep blog going but finding less time to respond to comments below.
Let me know if the blog is your only contact.
Thanks
John
In Holyrood on Monday, Alex Cole-Hamilton asked the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce the National Child Measurement Programme in Scotland, which was introduced in England in 2005, in order to tackle childhood obesity? Is he daft or just deliberately provocative? England’s attempts to reduce obesity are failing! Why on earth would we copy their 14-year-old unsuccessful plan when ours are already succeeding?
Does nobody in the Opposition Parties / MSM Alliance read reliable, peer-reviewed research? No. See this:
From the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reported in the Independent on 26th May 2018:
‘Under current trends it is predicted that 11 per cent of the population in Wales will be morbidly obese in 2035, roughly 340,000 adults, while Scotland is likely to plateau at about 5 per cent and England will rise to about 8 per cent.’
The researchers offered a surprisingly clear, confident and simple explanation for the significantly slower growth in Scotland – Scottish Government policy initiatives and resource allocation:
‘The government put a massive push on developing a route map for how we can actually combat this. They put together resources from the NHS that were proving to be effective. They did put a lot of work into it.’
As recently as March 2019, Tavish Scott suggested we copy another FAILED English scheme on student teacher recruitment:
How good is the English system? It’s not good at all:
https://neu.org.uk/blog/how-bad-does-teacher-recruitment-crisis-have-be-dfe-calls-it-crisis
Is the Scottish system working? See:
SHOCK: Scotland has 35% more teachers per capita than Tory England and 46% more than Labour Wales!
Words fail me. Lack of brains or big blinkers fail them.
