SOPPY SUNDAY
Month: June 2018
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
WHO SHOULD PAY FOR TRUMP’S JOLLY?
Humza Yousaf Retweeted ScotsPolFed
It is simply unacceptable that UK Govt has so far refused to say that they will pick up the policing bill for President Trump’s visit, he is a guest of the UK Govt. I’ll be writing to the UK Govt demanding an urgent resolution to this matter.
Donald Trump is visiting the UK, by invitation of the Prime Minister.
He has business in England with:
The American Ambassador in his residence;
The British Queen in Windsor Castle;
The UK Prime Minister at Chequers.
During the visit, he will be protected by a heavy squad of American presidential security and various English constabularies. The extra finances implicit in a visit of the American President (or any other invited head of state) will be provided by the UK government.
He then is scheduled to come to Scotland to visit Turnberry.
His visit there is completely private, either to do with the Trump Organisation’s business or with him having a round of golf or both.
He is not scheduled to meet any Scottish government officials or indeed any UK government officials in Scotland. And yet it looks like Scotland is going to have to fund his protection.
I contend absolutely that either the UK government which invited him or he personally should pay for the protection that he is afforded while in OUR country. Alternatively, he can take his chances like any of the rest of us.
We did not invite him. I’m pretty certain most of us don’t want him here.
What do you think?
If you have an hour…
This is very much worth a watch.
Jim Fitzpatrick reveals new information on how the DUP and Vote Leave worked together in the EU referendum. Did they break the law? And he digs deep into the finances behind the DUP’s record referendum donor in a money trail that leads to Ukraine and beyond.
Yes, I know it’s the BBC, but every once in a while, they come up with something good.
It looks like Vote Leave and the DUP may have been on the fiddle and maybe some people in Northern Ireland and some in New York are going to be looking into it.
Don’t expect any help or encouragement from Downing Street though, as Arlene Foster owns May, lock, stock and barrel.
HERE’S THE NEW CABINET
So, this is the new cabinet, with junior ministers to be announced tomorrow.
Personally, I’m sorry to see Shona Robison, my own MSP and a friend, go, but having read her letter of resignation, I can understand why she made the choice to resign. Shona has had a hard year with the death of both her parents and a personal health scare to cope with. She is in a new relationship now and I wish her every happiness. I hope she’ll continue to be our MSP because she’s a damned good one.
Britain spends less than most of Europe on its health services, below the EU average, and way below countries like France and Germany, but for all that, Shona has managed to make NHSS the best of the four UK services. Jeane Freeman has big boots to fill, but her first-rate setting up of Social Security Scotland makes me sure we will be in safe hands.
Jackson Carlaw put out a generous and courteous tweet:
I shadowed @ShonaRobison for many years & appreciated her genuine concern for the NHS. A hugely challenging brief & while @ScotTories did not call for her to go, now is the time for fresh leadership & thinking. On a personal level, I wish her well & thank her for her courtesy.
Anas Sarwar, on the other hand, not only made a bit of a mess of the grammar but was left looking rather petty and silly by comparison:
After 2 years of relentlessly exposing SNP failures on health, Shona Robison is removed as Health Secretary. While this is a welcome change, the best gift on the 70th year of our NHS would be adequate funding and staffing. That is her successor’s real test.
A personal congratulations to Humza, too. I remember Munguin, he and I met on the Edinburgh March in 2012. He was busy, but he took time to meet with Munguin and have a photograph taken with him (which I have subsequently managed to mislay). He may have uttered a few words to me as well!
He’s done a great job with transport… again, Scottish trains, poor by EU standards, are the best in the UK. It is gratifying to see his promotion to Justice Secretary.
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Post Script:
Some comments on Sarwar’s tweet…
Anas, my husband is a hospital consultant and has been for decades. He is clear that under @SNP @ShonaRobison the NHS has never been better. He swears that under @scottishlabour it was an utter shambles. So suggest you get help for your verbal diarrhoea (LMR)
Just spoke to a Senior Specialist Nurse in the NHS and I quote: “.@AnasSarwar needs to stop playing political football with the NHS. He’s just shown why Labour aren’t fit to govern” (Colin Alexander Storrier)
I work in the NHS in Glasgow. I have friends and relatives in Wales and England and I can tell you that the service we have up here in Scotland is miles ahead of what they have elsewhere. (Purple Monkey)
Factually incorrect and seriously lacking class. I give you Anas Sarwar, who luckily is destined never to be in charge of anything. (ميور 🏴 @muirtsmith )
Delete this, you poor excuse for a human being and public servant. Once you’ve deleted this, delete your account you quilt. The legacy of Ms Robison is the best NHS in UK and that really sticks in your craw! Now, sling your hook! (Davidlikesguys)
Well if failure is the best performing Health service in the U.K What the hell would you call what’s going on in #Wales And as far as funding goes It’s Central government to blame in #Wales but the SNP’s fault in Scotland? How would you square that? (Lez)
And there are many many more…
TELT!
EVER WONDERED HOW ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND RICHEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD ENDED UP WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP?
THIS MAY EXPLAIN IT FOR YOU…
It has, at least in large part, to do with race, colour, religion and making loads and loads of money.
Now, why does that not surprise me?
My thanks to Danny for sending it.
Friday Night and Saturday Morning
Thanks for all the pics on Twitter.
SAD SOPPY SUNDAY
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
So, there you have it.
Post Brexit jobs crisis sorted.
When you get paid off from your highly-skilled Aircraft factory job, you can easily get a job picking rasps. Well, for at least 2 months, off and on, dependent on the weather and the ability/willingness of someone else to pay the rent/food/electricity on the days you get no work.
Thank goodness for a brilliant PM, I say.
(Thanks to Ross Colquhoun for bringing it to my attention.)
MUNGUIN'S NEW REPUBLIC 