It is clear Salmond is on the warpath. The question is how far will he go? Is he willing to set fire to the house he built, just to watch his enemies burn?
Month: April 2020
STURGEON’S UNCONVINCING UPDATE TO PARLIAMENT
Ms Sturgeon said: “We are now at the stage of this epidemic, as we expected to be, when the number of cases is rising rapidly and unfortunately that means that the numbers becoming seriously unwell and dying are also, sadly, rising.
VIRUS: BAILLIE CALLS FOR FREE TRAVEL FOR NHS STAFF
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Vale of Leven and Helensburgh has today joined calls to give free travel on public transport to all NHS staff.
VIRUS: WE NEED TO VALUE OUR HOMECARE STAFF
We may clap for the NHS, who are visible, but homecare workers are largely unseen and are not given the basic essentials they require for the challenging tasks they find inside the houses and lives of the vulnerable, writes RUTH HUNT
THE DEMOCRAT MAKES NATIONAL NEWS
‘The council’s move against The Dumbarton Democrat is wholly anti-democratic. There has not been a motion before the council to ban either my website or me as its editor. I have complained to Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, about the council’s serious attack on press freedom, but I did not receive a reply.
VIRUS: NO APRIL FOOL JOKES PLEASE
We’ve had it up to here with the horses’ asses who galloped off to Cheltenham for one last hooray henry, cocking a snook at advice to cancel mass gatherings, and are sick to the back teeth of the upper-class twits in Downing Street who seriously believed that a herd immunity would magically materialise if enough people were infected, and that Dunkirk spirit and jolly hockey sticks were the only weapons needed in the fight against this unseen enemy.