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98% of Scots agree with Nicola
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Scotland has a hospital bed for every 265 people whereas England only has one for every 413 and Scotland has 50% more nurses per patient than NHS England.
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Sturgeon's Glasgow emergency departments are a shocking 68% faster than those in the Norfolk constituency of Liz Truss
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BBC News - Jeane Freeman named Scotland's Politician of the Year
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The '80 hours in an Ayrshire A&E' story by Douglas Ross is exposed as fake news
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SNP Government cleared of any wrong-doing on ferry contract by Police Scotland
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SHOCK: 5 English bridges closed but BBC not bothered.
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The Severn Bridge is still closed yet this is not news for BBC England. BBC Scotland politicizing anything they can to undermine SNP Government.
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SNP support in 3 sub-polls after Queen passes up at around 50% from around 44% in last 3 before that. Labour and Tory support collapsed.
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More than 90% agree with Nicola Sturgeon on detesting 'Tories'
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The £10 a week payment for low-income families with children under 6 has been credited for lowering the need for food banks in Scotland compared to other parts of the UK. Scotland is the only area of the UK that has seen a marked decrease in the number of emergency food parcels.
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Health Secretary praised as NHS Scotland emergency wards perform more than 20% better
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In Scotland, as a £150 million hospital is delayed, Unison and the BBC call for the SNP Health Secretary's head yet in Liverpool, where a new £335 million hospital stands empty, a year late, neither seeks to politicise the story and blame the contractors.
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Now let me think isn't there a shorter word for 'forced to have sex?'
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English health expert on BBC 4 today - 'Scotland has much better uptake of immunisation, better identification of children with complex needs and disabilities, better breast feeding rates'
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On busiest day of the year so far 99% of Calmac crossings are on time and to Arran 100%
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Oxford Professor confirms that Scotland had significantly lower Covid death rate due to Scot Gov 'different' approach and saved 1 000 lives
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There are only 3 million cars in total in Scotland with say 1 million likely to visit Glasgow and only a few of those polluters!
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BBC UK reveal that Matheson has been responsible for ambulances responding 4 TIMES faster on average than in England
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SNP policy success as Glasgow alcohol-related deaths fall by 21.5%! Will BBC broadcasts headline this?
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FACTCHECK: Ferries to Islay and Arran not 'disrupted' and operating at 100% on time
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Scotland's emergency services up to 50% better and better than all other parts of UK
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Why are Alex Salmond defence statements not headlines when accusations were?
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Sub-poll: SNP and Greens surge to 62%
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Second home owners squeezed out of the Highlands as council buys up properties
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SNP MPs at Westminster are giving their £7,000 pay rise to charity
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Sharing - I'm posting quite a lot of useful evidence to counter anti-independence views but very few of the 6 000 apparently following me share it. You can make a difference by just sharing with all those following you. Please.
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SNP Government praised for keeping your health data out of hands of Labour sponsor US spy-tech firm Palantir
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15 000 burned out of their houses with only hours notice by English landlords and it's just 'controversial' BBC Scotland?
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SNP Government's £19 million support for massive renewables-related manufacturing and 330 jobs in Scottish Highlands not reported by BBC Scotland: :
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CalMac Ferries expected to hit 100% reliability after hitting 99.6% yesterday
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Tests confirming no BSE in Scottish cattle fail to make Reporting Scotland headline.
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SHOCK as talkRADIO finds 84% of 13 000 listeners approve of Sturgeon but a BBC Scotland News internal poll of 3 finds 100% approval for Carlaw!
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Boost for Yousaf with biggest lead over Labour since he was elected
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Sturgeon saved lives in England too by following science on face masks
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NO SHOCK: Poll has Scottish Government far more trusted than BBC Reporting Scotland via
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Scotland meets 123% of its own demand and 32% of UK demand from renewable electricity
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Hundreds of lives saved by responsible ferry company staff's sensible decisions?
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Astonishingly Reporting Scotland tell us cost of policing 2005 G8 meeting at Gleneagles was met mostly by Scottish taxpayer though Scotland not a member and foreign affairs reserved.
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Why does Sturgeon face a Ferry Feeding Frenzy in Scotland but no UK PM has had to face a Destroyer Delirium or a Carrier Craze?
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254 English hospitals substandard - Scotland's media unable to find even one here
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Scotland has had the lowest council tax in the UK for SIXTEEN years thanks to SNP
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See those Royal Navy destroyers and that aircraft carrier? Billions over budget, still being repaired, no use against Putin. The Tory Government is to blame for not managing the contracts properly.
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Not a word from BBC Scotland of course.
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SNP wipes out cervical cancer - BBC Scotland?
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CalMac's 100% performance as thousands travel on nearly 200 Boxing Day journeys
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Have BBC Radio Scotland audiences fallen by 20% in one year mainly because of Kaye Adams, Fiona Stalker and John Beattie?
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Shock for Carlaw as proportion of deaths in English care homes revealed to 62% higher than in Scotland via
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Among best paid teachers in world and best staffed schools in UK after 16 years of SNP Government
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Not one case of measles in Scotland for three years, 95% vaccination and the Herald's health correspondent tries to suggest it's like the West Midlands here too
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Daily Record gets Sturgeon tax wrong in sad effort to malign her
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As Tory-run NHS England produces the worst A&E figures in history, the costliest building delays and the most dangerous places to be born, the Scottish Tories might do better to be quiet.
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No.10 irritated when First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a ban on mass gatherings in Scotland shortly after a Cobra meeting in March 2020, then this happened to prove her so right:
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Covid deaths - BBC Scotland lie to conceal Scotland's better outcomes and UK Government's under-reporting
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Update as 82% of Scottish junior doctors settle - Why are Humza Yousaf's successful efforts to avert ALL NHS strikes not being reported though they will have saved thousands of lives?
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SNP probed over small donations from its mass support while the others rake in millions from 'murky sources' and conceal them from auditors
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Sending texts according to Brian Taylor is a calamity for the SNP yet this wasnt for the Conservatives.
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Hah! 'A godsend for businesses', 'boosts journey reliability', 'hauliers hail resilience', 'almost never closed due to high winds', 'at the heart of tourism drive' under-budget and simply beautiful but still SNP baad!
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Sepsis deaths in Scotland falling fast thanks to world-leading patient safety programme introduced by SNP Government in 2007
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No Scottish hospital has a higher than expected mortality rate and Glasgow's QEUH has one of the lower scores in Scotland, at 4.7% compared to the average of 4.95%.
In England, 11 trusts had higher than predicted mortality.
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So altogether we have a Fife Tory councillor calling the FM a drooling hag, a North-east branch treasurer joking about her stillbirth, Ruth Davidson saying she'd a had a doing from Andrew Neil, a transport minister laughing at the idea of Scots going into slavery and a PM...more
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Factcheck - CalMac probably best comparable ferry service in world
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More than 5 MILLION children could be taken out of poverty if UK copies SNP Child Payment
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So-called socialist, ignorant of actual Scottish Government care home guidance, unfairly criticises the First Minister when he should be attacking the uncaring, profiteering, owners who have not followed the guidance and are responsible for the mass deaths
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BBC hiding Kaye Adam's loose standards on paying £124 000 tax put's Matheson's £11 000 roaming charges into perspective
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No mention of Scotland but this is based on an 83% increase in electricity transfers from Scotland to England to a staggering 25 THOUSAND gigawatt hours. ONE gigawatt hour is a BILLION watts and enough to power 725 000 homes.
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2% of the Scots population to pay a bit more for the best public services and universal benefits in UK
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What has the SNP ever done for us - Free prescriptions and tuition fees and lowest council tax plus the highest wages in the UK
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Scotland raises £87bn in tax but spends only £54bn - more pro rata than raised in the rest of the UK
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Nationalised ScotRail performing far better and not paying bonuses of up to £2.1m!
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Bowel cancer ebbs after Sturgeon scheme started screening earlier than in rest of UK
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Research reveals Scotland's island communities benefit from the most inclusive, generously subsidised and up-to-date ferry service in the comparable world
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BBC 1 report Royal College of Nursing calling for safe staffing levels to be enshrined in law in England as they are in Scotland. Fears that Scottish viewers may hear this.
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RISHI Sunak has been caught out quoting dodgy statistics about the rate of crimes in Scotland. The Prime Minister claimed that violent crime was on the rise during an exchange with SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford on Wednesday but...
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Why are the Scottish media asking a retired bacteriologist about a virus when we have professors of virology?
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512 Calmac ferry crossings yesterday 95% on time just like nearly every other day:
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‘Liver disease admissions down’ after minimum pricing introduced.' Leading academic shocked as good piece of journalism from Scotsman reveals SNP minimum pricing policy is saving lives!
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The Covid rate, based on ONS data, after the last lockdown proves that the Scot Gov did better than all the others:
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SNP Government builds massive 74% more affordable homes than Labour Wales
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SNP replaces 43 times more diesel buses than UK Tories can manage
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Scottish student nursing applications at nearly twice the level of England due to SNP Government initiatives
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Research suggests trust in the SNP Government saved thousands of lives
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NHS England waiting list 50% longer than NHS Scotland’s
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Reposted to head off comments regarding who did the research - Research by Ernst and Young LLP reveals Scotland's island communities benefit from the most inclusive, generously subsidised and up-to-date ferry service in the comparable world
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Debunked 84-hour Ayr A&E wait story still being pushed by BBC Scotland
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Covid Inquiry - BBC Scotland hides the truth of UK contempt while BBC Wales headlines it
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Paul Hutcheon - stop reacting everyone. He's just an excrement-mixer slavering after your clickbait to keep him in a job. Let's see what happens if we just ignore him. And try the same for that wee guy at the Sun and Tom thingy at the Herald. Go on try it. Ignore them.
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98% of Scotland’s bathing waters safe to swim in
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'Interesting' she says teeth-clenched at the end! 😂
Probably the best debunking of an anti-Scottish Govt news story you'll ever hear on Good Morning Scotland. This is why context is vital and why BBC Scotland almost always refuses to provide it. Listen to this.
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Surge in SNP support as Channel 4 Gogglebox families try out their Scottish accents and stabbing thrusts. They do know stabbing is now more an English favourite pastime?
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ITV reporting Nicola Sturgeon at Cop27 welcoming runners from Glasgow. BBC Scotland not a word.
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Why has Scotland's media failed to focus on £58 billion of Tory fraud?
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Deaths on A9 plummet to disappoint Murdo Fraser and Scotland's roads revealed to be safest in UK
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A&E waiting times are far worse in England yet no opposition politician is being reported in the media calling for the health secretary's head. This is not the news it's a campaign.
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'In a significant move, Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf and the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) have jointly called for an immediate halt to hostilities in Gaza. This plea came during their bi-annual meeting' but not reported here!
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Covid Inquiry - Scottish ministers closed schools and saved thousands contrary to Prof Woolhouse's wrong views
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Scotland ‘will soon generate 100% of its power through renewables’
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CalMac ferries back at 99% reliability and 100% in 4 out of 5 regions
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