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Lady Smith said: "For far too long survivors' voices were not listened to, nor heard; they were treated as if their views did not matter and as if they were not worth listening to, just as when they were abused in care.

"The Scottish government failed to grasp the fundamental importance that survivors appropriately and justifiably attached to their need for justice, accountability and redress.

"Justice is not a service, and those who call for it where it has been denied are not customers of a service that may or may not be available depending on the choice of the administration of the day. That key point was missed."

'Resisted calls'

She added: "Officials and legal advisors wielded significant power and influence. Ministers relied heavily on their advice and generally followed their recommendations.

"By following advice and by not questioning it when they should have done, key aims of the Daly petition were resisted for far too long."

Lady Smith heard evidence from witnesses including former First Minister Jack McConnell - now Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale - during hearings in November and December last year.

He told the inquiry ministers were not trying to "cover things up" when they resisted calls for an inquiry.

Lady Smith said: "It was clear throughout that the justice survivors were calling for, and was of paramount importance to them, was the need for public acknowledgement of their experiences of being abused as children in institutional care, and the need to hold to account those who did not listen to them when they were children, those responsible for the abuse, and those who failed to prevent the abuse from happening."

She said there was "no appetite" within government, at official or ministerial level, for setting up a public inquiry between 2002 and 2014.

The judge found that the delay was the result of factors including:

some ineptitude

some confusion on the part of ministers and officials

officials urging ministers not to hold an inquiry

officials controlling the process up to the point of trying to prevent there being an inquiry

ministers following the advice of officials while not reading and trying to understand the petition for themselves

both ministers and officials failing to listen to and engage with survivors

"Between 2002 and 2014 when the Scottish government announced it was going to set up a public inquiry, a significant number of survivors of childhood abuse in care in Scotland died. For them, justice delayed was justice denied," Lady Smith added.

In response to the findings, Lord McConnell said his ministers made judgments in "good faith within a complex legal environment".

"The delays in communication and the way decision-making was managed were not acceptable then or now.

"There are lessons here for everyone including for the quality of legal and policy advice within the Scottish government. I hope that current and future Scottish governments can learn from that."

This is the legal equivalent of taking a crap, a big hot steaming hot pile of shite and then covering it in butter-cream icing; then having the neck to call it a cake!!!

These fuckers, all of them pictured and a whole lot more besides, covered it ALL up for years. ALL of it.

John Swinney and McAskill were the two head coverer-upperers!! But they have all worked tirelessly to cover it all up. Since the start of the inquiry John Swinney has had his tentacles in to every charity, every newly started business who were given all the funding, ALL of them.

He sent government employees to every AGM the so called charity INCAS has had. This is against the Charities Test which I like to call the smell test, INCAS does not pass the smell test at all with Government interference in every AGM. The chair of INCAS was given a royal gong for her services to charity but INCAS up until at least 1or2 had never sought any government funding for their members, but Helen the chair has had a Royal award. Something smells bad in charities; they don't pass the smell test when suing the government but invite them to all their AGM's.

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> but INCAS up until at least 1or2 had never sought any government funding for their members

Should have read along the lines of …with the possible exception of the last 1 or 2, which were not attended personally with anyone known to this anon: many of the previous ones were.

>>14688023

Alex Salmond 'was opposed to child abuse inquiry'28 November 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55106804

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has heard that then-first minister Alex Salmond and other senior Scottish government figures were against it being set up.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney told the inquiry there had been clear division over the issue.

He said an inquiry was only authorised "after the change of first minister had taken place".

Mr Salmond has been approached for comment by BBC Scotland.

The inquiry was set up in October 2015 and is investigating the abuse of children in care in Scotland or where their care was arranged in Scotland.

The latest phase of the inquiry, heard before judge Lady Smith, is exploring reasons why calls between August 2002 and December 2014 for a public inquiry to be held were resisted by ministers.

Ministers tried to do 'right things' on care abuse

Church of Scotland says sorry over child migrants

Over £4m paid out to child abuse survivors

Children in charity homes 'did suffer abuse'

James Peoples QC, senior counsel to the inquiry, said the current Constitution Secretary Mike Russell told him on Thursday that "influential figures, including Alex Salmond, Kenny MacAskill and the then Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland were not persuaded" of the need for an inquiry.

Mr Swinney agreed, saying: "There was a difference of views in Cabinet in the summer of 2014 if there should be an inquiry."

He told the inquiry that the BBC Scotland programme Sins of Our Fathers, which revealed allegations of child abuse at Fort Augustus Abbey when it was broadcast in 2013, had been a "seminal moment".

Mr Swinney said the Scottish government had taken a number of steps to help abuse survivors but the programme showed they were not doing enough.

Mr Peoples said Mr Russell had said the difference of views was "quite robust" and that there were concerns about the amount of time it would take and the cost involved.

Mr Swinney replied: "There was a perfectly respectable debate among Cabinet but there were two opinions.

"One argument was that the inquiry would not address the issues and would not deliver the outcomes survivors hoped for.

"Mike Russell had engaged heavily with survivors and his view was we had to confront this issue as a country, to do justice for survivors to enable them to have their experiences documented, understood and reflected on, and for the state to accept responsibility for what happened to them.

"I supported him in that view in Cabinet."

Mr Swinney said the inquiry was authorised in December after the change of first minister had taken place.

"Without a doubt, there was a division of views in Cabinet," he said.

Mr Swinney also said the cost of an inquiry would not have been a deterrent, saying: "I've seen a lot of traffic about money in the papers and I was finance minister for nine years, so I controlled that money.

"Ironically, in the period after 2007, the financial issues were a lot less than in early 2014."

He added: "When I came to office in 2007, I was pleasantly surprised there was £1.6bn in an account in the Treasury that hadn't been spent.

"When I was going through the accounts in 2006 and saw that, I thought that would be quite handy to have that. We still had the block grant and there was £1.6bn that had not been spent, which I found quite surprising."

'Hidden money tree'

Mr Peoples asked: "Although you weren't approached about finding money for an inquiry, there was money there?"

Mr Swinney said: "There was a hidden money tree at that point. So the idea that money was an issue - I had the ability to fund the financial priorities my colleagues found to be important."

In 2002 a former resident of a care home submitted a petition to the Scottish Parliament calling for an inquiry into the abuse of children who were in care and an apology.

In 2004, the then First Minister Jack McConnell said sorry on behalf of the people of Scotland but his Labour-led administration stopped short of ordering an inquiry.

Lord McConnell gave evidence about this last week, saying he had been worried that an inquiry would cut across legal action that was being taken by some of the survivors at the time.

The SNP took power in 2007, and Mr Swinney has been a government minister ever since.

Calls for an inquiry intensified after a BBC documentary was broadcast in 2013 which contained allegations that children were abused at the Fort Augustus Abbey School in the Highlands.

The inquiry continues.

Scottish Daily Mail article October 5 2021.

Golden goodbyes for police officers hit nearly £20m

Tax-payer funded to the tune of £20 million over the last 6 years. Police Scotland from 2019-2020 overspend totalling £26.6 million, which means all of the "golden goodbyes" are taxpayer funded. YOU PAY AGAIN.

"A police Scotland spokesman said: "the creation of a single national service has helped maintain responsive and visible local policing…"" Are you kidding? I'm Scottish, the only time I see a visible police presence these days is at a peaceful protest against all the corruption and abuse of power. They cheekily claim that they are saving the public money raising a wry smile on the face of this anon.

Phil Gormley, ex-Chief Inspector who took up that role at the rate of £214,000/annum in January 2016 and then quit in Feb 2018: I wonder what kind of "golden goodbye" he got? I don't know. Anyway, that's all well and good, but what screams out at me is the fact he left "amid allegations" of "bullying" which was of course referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner in July 2017. Two additional complaints were made in Sept of the same year when he stepped aside and went on "special leave". That probably means he left but was still paid full salary, but maybe not?

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Mystery rise in heart attacks from blocked arteries

"Health experts have been left baffled by a big rise in a common and potentially fatal type of heart attack in the west of Scotland.

During the summer there was a 25 per cent rise in the number of people rushed to the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank with partially blocked arteries cutting blood supply to the heart."

Wonder what is causing this?

Wouldn't be all vaccinated would they? Scotland, what the fuck is wrong with you people? So many drones following orders. Wake the fuck up!

I'm in total disbelief that almost 2 years on from the start of the plandemic most fuckers here are still blissfully unaware of what is going on in the world. If the intent of those behind all of this crap was to herd us into cattle trucks for the burner, most of Scotland's people would already be ash.

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Source:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mystery-rise-in-heart-attacks-from-blocked-arteries-m253drrnf

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/7850024/cop26-glasgow-school-strike/

WALKING OUT COP26: Glasgow school staff set to go on strike amid further chaos ahead of climate change summit

"GLASGOW school staff are now set to go on strike amid further chaos ahead of COP26.

Janitors, cleaners and canteen workers could also walk out en masse amid a bitter pay row with COSLA council bosses."

This is the same Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) who have committed to handing out over £100 million of council tax payers money in contributions to victims of historic child abuse in reparations. After they jump through many hoops of course searching for evidence which doesn't exist. It doesn't exist because they fought against an inquiry for 14 years and all the while the went around destroying all the evidence.

Cosla claims to be "the voice of Local Government in Scotland" when surely THE PEOPLE of Scotland SHOULD BE the voice of local government?

100 million Scottish council tax payers money to be given as part of a gagging order, preventing victims taking legal action against the organisations and individuals who abused them. Get your fucking heads round that. The parasites are going to bleed you for another 100 milllion £ notes. I forget the figure, posted approximate breakdown of some of the individual contributions on previous board but the content is unavailable now.

I wonder how many protesters there will be in Glasgow for COP26?

>>14793911

Why Glasgow?

Why hold this fake climate change crap in Glasgow, when the climate hasn't changed here in my whole lifetime?

Are the people going to be fenced out, or are these imposters and liars going to be fenced in?

How fitting would it be if they were all held there until they were prosecuted in Common Law courts? Are we going to allow the greedy to rule over everyone else forever? These people attending have fucked up this whole world with their avarice.

All those you are supposed to trust!

None of them fit to polish the shoes of the poorest in this world. It's the poor and the meek of this world that consume the least: Those with most in this world would kill off the poorest to save the environment; the environment they want to conserve is the one where they have everything and the vast majority merely survive! They don't give a flying fuck for nature and conserving the diversity of the world, no…if they did they wouldn't be digging the whole fucking world up and polluting it in the first place.

CUNTS.

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No dismissals despite almost 250 sexual misconduct allegations among Police Scotland officers

Police Scotland faces questions about widespread accusations of sexual misconduct after it emerged that not one police officer or special constable was fired over a four year period despite almost 250 sexual misconduct accusations within the force.

In total, 166 police officers and special constables within Police Scotland have been accused of 245 counts of sexual misconduct, a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation found.

The documentary – Cops on Trial: Dispatches – is set to be aired tonight and will claim there are potentially serving police officers with proven sexual misconduct cases.

It comes alongside other data, obtained under freedom of information legislation, found that 64 sexual assault claims were made against Police Scotland officers between 2016 and 2020. Just two allegations were upheld, with 39 not upheld, nine withdrawn or abandoned, and investigations into 14 ongoing.

The data from Police Scotland was in response to a request for the number of complaints of sexual assaults against serving police officers and complaints could relate to historic allegations.

It also comes after the chief constable said he would order an independent review into a tribunal which found evidence of a “sexist culture” with Police Scotland’s firearms unit. Former firearms officer Rhona Malone raised the tribunal against Police Scotland, alleging sex discrimination and victimisation, with the latter claim succeeding.

Responding to the Dispatches figures, Deputy Chief Constable, Fiona Taylor, said: "Police Scotland demands the highest levels of integrity from our officers and staff and when someone fails to meet this standard we take the appropriate action. We have no ability under current conduct regulations to prevent an officer from resigning.

“Our officers will carry out a thorough investigation into any complaint, irrespective of who the offender is. Sexism, misogyny and discrimination of any kind are deplorable and unacceptable. They have no place in policing.

“Progress has been made but there remains much work to do.

“We’re bringing additional focus to ensure our culture is welcoming and inclusive, including independent scrutiny and oversight by an Independent Review Group.”

Scottish Conservative Shadow Minister for Community Safety Russell Findlay said the figures were “shocking”.“Female officers of all ranks have long warned of the problems of misogyny and sexual misconduct within Police Scotland.

“The majority of decent officers are appalled by those who tarnish their good reputation with this type of behaviour, but they should also be frustrated at how these cases are often dealt with.

Full article here:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/no-dismissals-despite-almost-250-sexual-misconduct-allegations-among-police-scotland-officers-3413902

part 1

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Part 2

“Too often, they are met with a PR response to close ranks and protect Police Scotland’s image rather than an honest admission of there being any problem and fixing it.

“It is shocking that so many Police Scotland officers have been accused of sexual wrongdoing but have apparently not been held to account.”

The figures follow the harrowing case of Sarah Everard who was abducted and murdered by serving police officer Wayne Couzens while walking home in London.

Couzens will spend the rest of his life in jail after being sentenced in September, with the court hearing he used his position as a police officer and his warrant card as part of his abduction of Ms Everard.

It also emerged that Couzens had been accused of indecent exposure in 2015, but was allowed to transfer from Kent Police to the Metropolitan force.

The murder of Sarah Everard has led to nationwide discussions on how police services across the UK should respond to ensure women can feel safe when approached by a lone police officer.

Met Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, faced calls to resign after advising concerned women to flag down a bus if they don’t trust the police.

Home Secretary Priti Patel this week also launched an independent inquiry into the "systematic failures" by police following the murder of Ms Everard.

As part of its response, Police Scotland announced it would introduce a verification process which would see an officer’s personal radio to be put on loudspeaker for a member of the public to verify the officer’s identity with the control room.

An incident number will also be created to be displayed on the officer’s phone or radio to confirm the broadcast message details.

Tonight’s documentary will hear from one victim, Annie, who faced years of domestic abuse at the hands of PC Fraser Ross, who served in Police Scotland.

PC Ross avoided jail and was sentenced to three years community payback, 250 hours of unpaid work and a six-year non-harassment order. He also resigned a week before his sentence but kept his pension.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Fraser Ross's conduct fell far below the high standards of professional behaviour that the public rightly expects from policing and which the vast majority of officers and staff demonstrate every day.

"Police Scotland has no ability under current conduct regulations to prevent an officer from resigning. Had Fraser Ross remained a serving officer, his actions would have been considered for gross misconduct proceedings at the conclusion of the criminal matters."

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>>14772472

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scottish-mail-on-sunday/20210829/282183654147043

"Majority" of those dying have had both jabs.

Scottish Mail on Sunday 29th August 2021 by Gareth Rose. Scottish Political Editor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10125075/Hundreds-face-face-GP-appointments-cancelled-rescheduled-Glasgow-slash-Cop26-traffic.html

Hundreds of face-to-face GP appointments are cancelled or rescheduled in Glasgow in bid to slash traffic levels during Cop26 climate summit

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said virtual appointments will be offered

A wider city plan aims to 'substantially' reduce road traffic while Cop26 runs

Around 25,000 delegates and 125 world leaders will attend climate conference

Glasgow will face multiple road closures and possible rail strikes during summit

But the move has disappointed patients who have waited months to see their GP

By Shari Miller For Mailonline

Published: 10:27, 24 October 2021 | Updated: 20:17, 24 October 2021

Hundreds of face-to-face appointments with GPs have been cancelled or rescheduled by NHS bosses in a bid to slash traffic levels around Glasgow during Cop26, with the city facing multiple road closures and possible rail strikes.

The city is playing host to the climate conference, which runs for a fortnight from 31 October and is expected to attract 25,000 delegates and 125 world leaders.

Ahead of the conference, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said virtual and online consultations will be favoured over in-person appointments as a way of helping to 'substantially' reduce road traffic during this time.

The RMT union also plans to stage a rail strike over pay from 1 November to 12 November, causing potentially more disruption to those wanting to travel to Glasgow by public transport for Cop26.

In-person appointments will continue for cancer referrals and urgent care.

But Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour's health and Covid recovery spokeswoman, said hundreds of patients - who have waited months to see their GP in-person because of the pandemic - would be disappointed by the move and called it a 'recipe for disaster'.

Speaking to The Telegraph, she said: 'This will come as a fresh blow to patients who have already been languishing on waiting lists for months.'

Elsewhere, health chiefs have expressed concern that Covid-19 infections in Glasgow will surge in the wake of hosting delegates arriving from all over the world and from countries with lower vaccination rates.

Up to 100,000 protesters, including from groups such as Extinction Rebellion, are also expected to descend on the Scottish city for the Global Day for Climate Justice, on 6 November.

Jillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian commented that there are 'risks associated' with the mass gatherings.

A spokesman for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said: 'Ahead of Cop26, we are working closely with partners to ensure robust plans are in place to enable us to respond to demands for healthcare during the conference, which includes responding to the temporary increase in population.

'All of our hospital facilities will remain open and operational throughout the conference.'

COP26, held at the the Scottish Event Campus, will be the highest-profile event ever staged in Scotland.

A huge security operation, codenamed Operation Urram, will involve 10,000 officers and 200 police dogs deployed each day, including officers on secondment from England.

Specialist ‘protest removal’ squads will be ready to crack down on any illegal disruptions, with the Armed Forces and coastguard on alert for serious threats.

In addition to protests from the likes of Insulate Britain, Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace, Glasgow faces more disruption from the sheer number of extra visitors, exacerbated by RMT union rail strikes and key road closures.

COP26 has been described as the ‘last best hope for the world to get its act together’ on climate change – but China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will not attend, delivering a blow to hopes of substantial progress.

The Queen is also expected to join Prince Charles and Prince William at a banquet for delegates on 1 November.

https://t2conline.com/who-will-speak-for-the-children-fauci-also-experimented-on-the-homeless-children-of-new-york/

Who Will Speak for The Children? Fauci Also Experimented on the Homeless Children of New York

In 2004 a journalist named Liam Scheff wrote an article called “The House That AIDS Built.” In it it stated in Washington Heights the Incarnation Childrens Center (ICC), which was formally a convent house, had a revolving stable of children who had been removed from their own homes by the Agency for Child Services. These children were black, Hispanic and poor. Many of their mothers had a history of drug abuse and have died. Once

taken into ICC, the children become subjects of drug trials sponsored by NIAID (National

Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, a division of the NIH), NICHD (the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) in conjunction with some of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Genentech, Chiron/Biocine and others. In other words Dr. Fauci!

The drugs being given to the children were toxic known to cause genetic mutation, organ failure, bone marrow death, bodily deformations, brain damage and fatal skin disorders. If the children refuse the drugs, they were held down and force fed. If the children continue to resist, they were taken to Columbia Presbyterian hospital where a surgeon put a plastic tube through their abdominal wall into their stomachs. From then on, the drugs were injected directly into their intestines.

In 2003, two children, ages 6 and 12, had debilitating strokes due to drug toxicities. The 6-year-old went blind. They both died shortly after. Another 14-year old died. An 8-year-old boy had two plastic surgeries to remove large, fatty, drug-induced lumps from his neck. This was AIDS research. The children at ICC were born to mothers who tested HIV positive, or who themselves tested positive. However, neither parents nor children were told a crucial fact — HIV tests are extremely inaccurate.

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https://www.worldtribune.com/flashback-faucis-nih-funded-experiments-on-aids-orphans-in-new-york-city/

Flashback: Fauci’s NIH funded experiments on AIDS orphans in New York City

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved drug trial experiments on hundreds of AIDS orphans in New York City. Over 200 of the orphans died during or after the experiments, according to Liam Scheff, the investigative reporter who broke the story.

The Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) “began testing drugs on its orphan population in 1992, the same year they became a subsidiary of Columbia University’s Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Unit, under Dr. Anne Gershon,” Scheff noted. “In 2003, I went undercover inside the facility and saw the effects of the drugs on the children myself.”

Scheff broke the story in an article entitled The House that AIDS Built that first ran on Indymedia.org.

Scheff said his investigation found that the NIH and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital acted unethically.

The Associated Press reported in June 2005: “The government has concluded at least some AIDS drug experiments involving foster children violated federal rules designed to ensure vulnerable youths were protected from the risks of medical research.”

Fauci was the NIH AIDS Coordinator before being appointed as the first Director of the Office of AIDS research when the office was established in 1988. He served in that capacity until 1994. Fauci became director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1984 and still holds that position.

Scheff reported several deaths in children at the ICC during the drug trials, adding that “although the mainstream denied that any deaths were due to drug toxicity, they admit that over 200 children died.”

In 2005, the City of New York hired the VERA Institute to produce a final report on the drug trials. VERA was given no access to medical records for any of the children used in trials. Their report was published in 2008.

VERA reported that 25 children died during the drug studies, that an additional 55 children died following the studies (in foster care), and, according to Tim Ross, Director of the Child Welfare program at VERA (as of 2009), 29 percent of the remaining 417 children who were used in drug studies had died (out of a total 532 children that are admitted to have been used).

No payment or compensation was ever paid to any of the children used in the trials, or to their families, Scheff noted.

Many of the drugs (like AZT and its analogues) that were used in the experiments on the AIDS orphans in New York City had previously been approved for use in adults and “evidenced life-threatening and fatal toxicities,” Scheff reported. “So why put a drug with severe recorded toxicities into a population of black and Hispanic orphans?”

Scheff noted: “Incarnation’s orphans live at the bottom of the American class system. Often the children of drug users, they were born into ill health and poverty. Additionally (and like all AIDS patients), these children were, because of their HIV status, written off as a loss by the medical authority, before they even got a chance to live.”

Why wasn’t Fauci’s NIH interested in competitive AIDS research?

“That’s the billion-dollar question,” Scheff noted. “That is, if inexpensive micronutrients and competitive disease and treatment models prove more successful than the current research, it will represent a loss of billions for the AIDS drug and research industry.”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/19669806.cop26-road-closures-today-clydeside-expressway-m8-junction-remain-closed/

COP26 road closures today as Clydeside Expressway and M8 junction remain closed

Drivers in Glasgow will this week face major road closures as busy routes shut down ahead of COP26.

The city's Clydeside Expressway and parts of the M8 closed to drivers from 9pm on Saturday, causing diversions of up to five miles.

Alternative routes for drivers who travel through Glasgow have been issued by Glasgow City Council.

The expressway (A814) section which is parallel to the OVO Hydro will be shut for three weeks alongside junction 19 of the M8.

The junction is being specifically used to escort world leaders and delegates travelling through from Edinburgh and outside Glasgow.

Diversions, which could take drivers as far away as Anniesland, will spark extreme congestion in the city during the conference.

An aerial map of Glasgow shows the full city will be 'at risk of congestion', and a ten-mile stretch of the M8 (J13-J26) will be 'significantly busier than usual'.

Here are the road closures:

Congress Road - Closed October 10 to November 17: As expected the first road to close will be the one directly outside the SECC and Hydro, where the majority of talks will take place, and it will re-open at 6am on November 17.

Congress Way: Partial closures with lane restrictions will begin on October 17 and the full road closure will begin from 9pm on Sunday October 24. It will re-open November 21 in the morning.

Clydeside Expressway – Partick Interchange to Anderston (Junction 19): The major dual carriageway will cause disruption to commuters as the road is set to be closed from October 23, but it re-opens earlier than others on November 15.

Clyde Arc and Lancefield Quay: Road closed from October 23 to November 15

Minerva Street – West Greenhill Place: Road Closed from October 28 to November 13.

Local Area Traffic Management Plans (LATMPs) have issued day-to-day maps detailing road closures and areas with high risk of congestion.

Transport Minister Graeme Day said: “Many months of travel planning, and preparations are now entering their final, crucial phase.

“This event will be unprecedented for so many reasons and will bring its own unique challenges for Glasgow and beyond.

“I would urge commuters, business and the public to take some time to read the transport plan and familiarise themselves with the road closures and latest travel advice. We can all play a key role in delivering a successful event and ensuring the talks deliver results to help secure a better future for our planet.”

>>14877477

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19680840.cop26-dont-cause-chaos-sturgeon-warns-protesters/

Cop26: Don’t cause chaos, Sturgeon warns protesters

NICOLA Sturgeon has urged climate protesters not to add to the “disruption and inconvenience” Glaswegians are already facing during COP26.

The First Minister said Police Scotland has made clear there will be a “sensitive policing operation” during the crucial climate summit.

But she asked demonstrators to protest peacefully and “with recognition that the people of Glasgow are agreeing to host the conference and suffering some disruption because of that”.

It came as she refused to meet cleansing workers in Glasgow to discuss the city’s rat problem, and accused Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar of talking the city down for raising it at Holyrood.

COP26, which takes place between Sunday and November 12, will see more than 25,000 delegates descend on Glasgow as well as thousands of protesters and activists.

More than 120 world leaders are due to attend, including US President Joe Biden.

During First Minister’s Questions in Holyrood, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross pressed Ms Sturgeon on whether she is “fully confident that Glasgow is ready to grasp this opportunity”.

He said there is “real potential for disruption from protest groups at COP26 that risks public safety”.

Mr Ross insisted there must be a “zero-tolerance” approach to unlawful protests.

Ms Sturgeon said it is for Police Scotland to decide the appropriate approach to policing demonstrations.

She said Chief Constable Iain Livingstone has been clear there will be a “sensitive policing operation that will do everything possible to facilitate appropriate and peaceful protest”.

She added: “However, Police Scotland will respond to any protests that seek to break the law and disrupt people beyond what would be considered reasonable.

“People want to come and make their voices heard. That is understandable, given the importance of the issues that are under discussion.

“However, I say to people who are looking to come to protest in Glasgow that they should do it peacefully and with recognition that the people of Glasgow are agreeing to host the conference and suffering some disruption because of that, so they should not add to that disruption for them.

“Let us all get behind the people who will negotiate a good outcome – I hope – for the future of the planet.”

>But she asked demonstrators to protest peacefully and “with recognition that the people of Glasgow are agreeing to host the conference and suffering some disruption because of that”.

The people of Glasgow didn't agree to do anything, the people of Glasgow will be stuck in nightmare traffic jams for weeks to accommodate all of these corrupt, lying cunts; any suggestion that anyone in Glasgow agreed to this is an outright fucking lie. If Iain Livingstone was to do his job properly he would be putting all of the attendees in jail. He won't, he will obey all direction from this monstrous wee thing that calls itself 1st Minister of Scotland. I call her a CUNT!

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A LIE, a lie almost as big as corona(crown)virus.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19679363.nicola-sturgeon-accuses-msp-talking-glasgow-raising-rat-problem/

Nicola Sturgeon accuses MSP of 'talking down Glasgow' for raising rat problem

NICOLA Sturgeon has refused to meet cleansing workers in Glasgow to discuss the city’s rat problem, and accused Anas Sarwar of talking the city down for raising it at Holyrood.

It came as one Glasgow Labour MSP told FMQs that she had rats in her flat.

She's a cracker this thing, the only rats in Glasgow are going to COP26. The attendees and the Scottish Government are the infestation of rats Glasgow is having to deal with in these trying times.

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>>14877477

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/green-minister-patrick-harvie-mocked-25297538

Green minister Patrick Harvie mocked for complaining about Cop26 road closures

Scottish Greens Minister and Glasgow MSP Patrick Harvie is struggling to get to grips with travel changes in the city ahead of the global climate summit.

Changes to Glasgow travel routes have thrown off the Scottish Government's minister for active travel, prompting the opposition to warn that Cop26 road closures are creating "utter confusion".

Patrick Harvie has admitted he was unaware that Kelvin Way, a popular route in his own constituency, would be closed temporarily to all traffic including bikes and walkers.

In a post on social media, Mr Harvie went on to complain that he didn't see the point in cutting off access to the walkway.

It's not the first time the MSP has been in the dark. Despite his new role in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's Cabinet, he was spotted earlier in the year cycling without a helmet whilst also championing cycle road safety.

The Scottish Conservatives said the failure to inform a member of the government on basic road closures shows just how confusing the information on travel is.

Tens of thousands of people are set to arrive at the city ahead of the conference and locals are expected to navigate road closures, longer commutes and heavy traffic in their daily routines.

Shadow transport minister Graham Simpson said: “If the Scottish Government minister for active travel isn’t aware of the road closures within his own constituency then what hope do the people of Glasgow have?

“Ironically, the road that the Green Party MSP Patrick Harvie is complaining about is scheduled to close in preparation for an event protesting against climate change.

“The SNP’s road closure planning has caused utter confusion with their much-publicised ‘Get Ready Glasgow’ website devoid of critical pieces of information explaining how locals are expected to travel around the city during the COP26 conference.

“Cop26 is set to be the largest event Glasgow has ever hosted, and the SNP is providing less than the bare minimum of information to people on how their lives and businesses will function during the conference.”

Strathclyde University and Collage Union made a comment on the tweet pointing out that many people will struggle to commute during Cop26.

The comment said: "Can't you just use Zoom like the rest of us Patrick?"

Transport Scotland declined to comment and the Scottish Greens have been approached.

>"Can't you just use Zoom like the rest of us Patrick?"

Use zoom says the zoomer. We'll all just stay locked up our houses, in the streets and roads we and our ancestors have paid for, just so all the lying cunts fucking up our world can be safe from us. This is a foreign invasion of CUNTS who want to poison off most of the world and then tax the survivors to death for this climate change con.

It's time to clean house, get rid of all these CUNTS and take back your country. Scotsmen are the embarrassment of the world, loud and aggressive over football but meek as kittens when their kids are being poisoned en masse. A country full of thick cunts who can't see the tyranny dancing around in front of them, mocking them through the media for their subservience and stupidity.

You are a disgrace to humanity at this point in time Scotland.

It's your womenfolk who have the balls, most of the protesters are women. The menfolk by and large are thick as fuck, booze sodden, coke fuelled and spend all their time watching sport and gambling………….useless, useless CUNTS.

Fireworks! Richard Lucas questions John Swinney on sex education.

29,863 views

6 Oct 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujePAmm5uK4&t=299s

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/police-probe-250k-award-taxpayers-25399073

Police probe £250k award of taxpayers' money to Sturgeon book publisher

ByDouglas DickieContent editor

09:59, 7 NOV 2021

Sandstone was given £120,000 in the 12 months leading up to the publication of 'Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon'

A fraud investigation has been launched against the publisher of a book of speeches by Nicola Sturgeon.

Police have opened a probe into £250,000 of taxpayers' money being handed to Sandstone Press of Inverness, which us run by ardent nationalist Robert Davidson.

The cash was awarded to the publisher by Highland and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Sandstone was given £120,000 in the 12 months leading up to the publication of 'Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon'.

The book - with a foreword by crime writer and independence supporter Val McDermid -was released just days after the Scottish election.

According to the Sunday Mail, Keith Charters, managing director of book firm Strident Publishing, wrote to Sturgeon warning of concerns over Sandstone.

His subsequent police complaint, now the subject of an investigation, involves allegations of wrongdoing directed at both the publisher and HIE.

As well as the £120,000 of grants given last year, police are probing £175,000 of loans agreed with the company in 2019 which are all understood to have been drawn down.

Over the last 15 years Sandstone has benefited from over £500,000 of public money when grants from Creative Scotland are also taken into account.

The publisher has been accused of making false statements about the number of people employed, while HIE is alleged to have wrongly recorded the location of the firm which increased its eligibility for financial support.

It’s alleged that HIE gave the firm a funding score which suggests they were based outside Inverness, increasing it’s eligibility for support.

Charters said: “To date over £500,000 of public money has been used to prop up Sandstone Press.

"That includes the £120,000 it received in the 10 months prior to announcing it would be publishing a book of Nicola Sturgeon’s speeches in the week of the Scottish Parliament election.

"It is deeply concerning that, when we blew the whistle on how HIE had provided Sandstone with that £120,000 – when we provided the First Minister with detailed evidence of suspected wrongdoing – the response of her officials was to vilify us for daring to challenge on the basis of the evidence.

“That evidence not only indicated that Sandstone had claimed employees it did not have and a non-executive director it did not have but that HIE had scored an application from the Inverness-based company as if it were not located in Inverness.

"In fact, its offices were less than half a mile from HIE’s Inverness headquarters.”

Charters has also launched an appeal for a judicial review of some of the grant cash handed over by HIE.

Scottish Tory culture spokesman Donald Cameron said: “There are serious questions for the SNP government to answer.

“The SNP government was made aware of concerns surrounding this significant amount of public money just before the election period kicked off.

>>14946262

…continued

“They must be fully transparent over what checks were carried out at that time and why they believed it was still appropriate for public money to be given to the company who then published the book of Nicola Sturgeon’s speeches.”

The book includes a collection of the First Minister’s speeches given between November 2014 and February 2020 and is edited by Sandstone boss Davidson.

In a newspaper article in 2019, he said: “I find myself more in harmony with the present Scottish Government than any I have known in my life. I long to be the citizen of an independent Scotland.”

A Scottish Government spokeswoman declined to comment on the police investigation.

She said: “Given there is a police complaint, it wouldn’t be appropriate for the Scottish Government to comment.”

The book’s synopsis states it focuses on the importance of “good government and Scotland’s place in the world”.

It adds: “Taken together they show a side of Nicola Sturgeon that is too often missed in public discourse.

‘Thoughtful, progressive, compassionate, as well as passionately committed to the cause of Scottish independence, she is as pragmatic on matters of economic strategy as she is progressive on social issues.”

Editor’s notes claim the book is being published and financed independent of any public body, with no funding received for the book.

Sandstone Press said: “We have not been contacted by Police Scotland. All funds received from HIE have come through due process.”

HIE, meanwhile, said it would defend any allegations robustly, adding: “We’ve not been contacted by Police Scotland in relation to any issues concerning Sandstone Press.

"An application to commence judicial review proceedings has been made to the Court of Session and HIE intends to defend this robustly.”

HIE boss Charlotte Wright revealed in May that she was leaving the organisation.

he Sunday Mail reports that Police Scotland officers interviewed Charters in the summer to take a full statement and he has since been contacted by the financial crimes unit based in Dundee.

Police said: “Information has been passed to police which is being assessed.”

HIE is a government body responsible for awarding grants and loans of public money totalling £75million a year to firms in a bid to create jobs.

A government response to Charters’ letter stated: “Highlands and Islands Enterprise are comfortable their approvals of funding are compliant.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-59225246

Scottish vaccine passport scheme could be expanded

Scotland's vaccine passport scheme could be expanded to more hospitality and leisure venues amid fears of a new wave of Covid-19 cases over winter.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the rules may need to be tightened in order to prevent a return to lockdown.

This could also include requiring face coverings to be used in more settings, and more home working.

Opposition parties said the "vague" announcement would be of "significant concern" to businesses.

Any changes will be confirmed at the next review of the restrictions on 16 November.

People over the age of 18 currently need to show proof of vaccination in order to enter nightclubs and large events such as football matches and concerts.

The move has been controversial, with all opposition parties at Holyrood voting against it.

There was also an unsuccessful legal challenge by the hospitality industry and teething problems with the apps used to administer the scheme.

Mr Swinney told MSPs that the range of venues required to check vaccine status could be expanded in an attempt to head off a "dangerous" situation over the winter - and in particular the Christmas period.

The deputy first minister said the country was in a "precarious and unpredictable" position, with case numbers remaining at a "concerningly high level" and "intense pressure" on the NHS.

He said it was reasonable to suspect case numbers could rise over the winter period, with colder weather increasing the amount of time people spend socialising indoors and concerns about the COP26 conference.

However, the test positivity results for Blue Zone pass-holders at the conference, based on lateral flow tests, was only about 0.1% last week.

Mr Swinney said: "It is because we want to avoid more difficult restrictions that we cannot rule out strengthening the baseline protective measures currently in place as the best way to head off any prospect of future lockdowns.

"We have been considering whether we may need to extend the Covid certification scheme to bring more settings into scope, such as further indoor hospitality and leisure settings.

"Among other possible interventions, we are exploring how we can help improve ventilation, what we could do to increase home working, and whether changes are needed to extend use of face masks.

"I would stress though that we have not yet taken any decisions about strengthening the existing baseline measures, and we will be discussing options with business sector organisations this week."

'More uncertainty'

Opposition parties were critical of the lack of detail of Mr Swinney's statement, with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross pressing for clarity about what venues could be affected.

He said: "How can this government take these plans forward when they know the damage the scheme is already doing to Scottish businesses, and the impact it is having on people's jobs?

"Exactly which venues will be impacted by this change? This only brings more uncertainty for businesses sat an extremely difficult time - they need to know if they are on the cusp of being hit by added costs and extra hassle."

Scottish Labour MSP Daniel Johnson questioned whether the government would consider allowing a negative test to be submitted in lieu of proof of vaccination, with the deputy first minister saying this was under consideration.

Mr Johnson added: "It will be of significant concern to all of those running hospitality businesses what the deputy first minister has stated in terms of the prospect of rolling out vaccine passports yet to more contexts, especially given the broad and non-specific nature of his statement.

"While nightclubs have door staff and a natural point to check these things, cafes don't tend to - so the practicalities of checking passports in these settings are hugely more challenging."

Meanwhile Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said there was "no evidence base" for the use of vaccine passports, adding: "They will not save Christmas."

John Swinney's arse must be collapsing on him as the exponential rise in Scots seeing through SNP corruption and the resulting cover ups, continues to gather pace.

The people's eyes are being opened John, where will you and your colleagues run to once the majority are informed?

Now here's a story some may find interesting…

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/queen-elizabeth-university-hospital-cover-up/

A culture of cover up: “I believed the doctors when they said my baby’s was an isolated case. Now I feel like a fool.”

Excoriating evidence given by a bereaved mother to a public inquiry into a flagship NHS hospital is to be kept secret after official lawyers objected to her testimony.

Theresa Smith, whose baby Sophia died 12 days after being born at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, in Glasgow, is “devastated” her evidence will not now be made public.

She was allowed to give evidence in full to the inquiry led by Lord Brodie but, after legal applications by the Scottish Government and the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, much of it will remain private and is redacted on the inquiry’s website.

The judge agreed with the official lawyers that parts of her evidence could “cause public alarm” and damage the reputations of clinicians and officials, who had no chance to contest her claims.

The official moves to keep her evidence secret can be revealed days after Nicola Sturgeon promised she would not “tolerate cover-ups or secrecy on the part of any health board,” adding “where there are concerns, we will address those concerns.”

Yesterday, Mrs Smith and her husband Matthew, said they were dismayed by the ruling: “Obviously we are devastated the restriction order means people will not be able to see or hear our full evidence but because of those legal restrictions we can’t say more.”

Sources close to the couple said they are angry at being asked to give evidence only for it to be kept secret.

One said: “They have been asked to wait four years for the chance to explain how their daughter died and ask why in an official forum. Why were they asked to give evidence at all? It seems an odd sort of public inquiry that asks for evidence but refuses to make it public.”

The inquiry is into the troubled construction of two flagship hospitals, the QEUH and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, in Edinburgh.

In Glasgow, the building of the hospital was linked to ventilation and water supply problems blamed for the spread of viral infections and the death of patients, including children. The hospital has been repeatedly accused of concealment and cover-up of the problems.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, has led political calls for answers. Yesterday, he questioned why Mrs Smith’s evidence was ruled too contentious to be made public and said such orders must only be used as the very last resort or it risks public confidence in the inquiry.

He said: “Nicola Sturgeon last week told MSPs she will not tolerate cover-ups or secrecy from health boards but in this case her own officials acted to ensure evidence was heard in secret. The culture of cover-up and secrecy which has dominated the Scottish Governments response to this crisis cannot be allowed to shape the inquiry as well.”

The Smiths have waited more than four years for answers over why Sophia died at the £840 million hospital from a strain of the MRSA bug 12 days after being born in March 2017.

Legal teams acting for Scottish Government ministers and NHS Greater Glasgow argued that Mrs Smith’s statement contained allegations suggesting potential misconduct in public office, and criminal behaviour, which they strongly rejected.

They said if the allegations from the Smiths proved to be unfounded, the inquiry would have provided what they described as a “platform for the public dissemination of allegations with wide-reaching harmful effect on both public and private interests”.,,,,

Anonymous ID: 9f1779 Nov. 21, 2021, 10:02 a.m. No.15049655 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>9663 >>9362

….continued

….Lord Brodie said: “At this stage the inquiry cannot properly ascertain or examine the factual basis for the allegations in the absence of further evidence. The public interest would not be served by publication of such allegations which are, by necessity at this stage of the inquiry, evidentially unchallenged.”

He said there was a clear risk of harm to the personal and professional reputations to the individuals named in the allegations.

However, leading lawyers said, when it came to public inquiries, such orders could only ever be the last resort. One of the UK’s most respected QC’s Michael Mansfield said: “As a general rule, all relevant evidence should be heard in public unless there are pressing reasons of national security or confidential matters that might endanger the health of a witness.”

Lawyer Des Collins, who has been involved in some of the country’s highest profile public inquiries, including the investigation into the contaminated blood scandal, described the order as “highly unusual”.

He said: “The whole purpose of a public inquiry is exactly that. Inquiries need to be public so they can determine what happened, why it happened, so steps are taken to ensure it never happens again. Restricting the evidence of grieving parents, especially so early in this inquiry, is highly unusual.”

On Thursday, the first minister promised cover-ups would not be tolerated as she addressed criticism from Louise Slorance, the widow of former government official Andrew Slorance, who died last year at the QUEH while receiving treatment for cancer.

She said doctors had not told her that her husband was being treated for a virus before or after his death.

After promising cover-ups would not be tolerated, Sturgeon said: “In relation to the QEUH and other issues raised, there is under way right now a public inquiry and I think that, I hope that, is a sign of our determination to ensure that any issues that are raised are properly investigated and that answers are forthcoming.”

Miles Briggs MSP, who was the Scottish Conservative’s health spokesperson as the scandal unfolded at the hospital, said: “This inquiry is supposed to shine a light on the biggest public health scandal Scotland has ever seen. Babies died. Children died. Adults died. We need to know why and how this happened so it never happens again.

“The very ethos of a public inquiry is that people’s voices are heard, not silenced, muted or redacted. The public expect and deserve the full truth.”

Professor Andrew Watterson, a health expert, said: “For any inquiry to work, basic principles, the right to know, the right to be heard and the right for those involved to see and, if necessary, challenge evidence, need to be applied for all parties involved.”

Roger Livermore, a former Health and Safety Executive prosecutor said Scotland has already seen too many ineffective public inquiries, including the Vale of Leven inquiry over 34 fatalities caused by C-Difficile and other infections. He said: “That cost £12m, took five years and achieved very little for the public.”

The Scottish Government said: “Lord Brodie, chair of the independent public inquiry, has set out that a restriction order was necessary in the public interest and he has explained his reasons publicly. We are completely committed to ensuring that issues raised at QEUH are properly investigated and that answers are forthcoming.”

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde said: “Due to the nature of comments made in the witness statements, and on legal advice, an application for a restriction order was made by the board and by another core participant. This is the only restriction order that was applied for by NHSGGC.”

Anonymous ID: 9f1779 Nov. 21, 2021, 10:04 a.m. No.15049663 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>9718

>>15049655

….continued

…The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry said: “Lord Brodie considered applications for a restriction order. He granted Restriction Order 6 following those applications. This order allowed Mr and Mrs Smith to give their evidence in full.”

I believed the doctors. Later, I felt like a fool

In a statement to the inquiry – much of it redacted at the request of lawyers – Theresa Smith told how the short life of baby Sophia had been a maelstrom of emotion.

Her newborn daughter went from being so poorly because of breathing difficulties that parents Theresa and Matthew had an emergency christening to recovering so quickly the hospital were discussing her being able to go home.

She said: “I remember being so full of joy that I very nearly somersaulted, then remembered, ‘You’ve just had a baby and you’re not 16 anymore’.”

But, Mrs Smith added: “Everything changed on Day 10. She was looking very pale. I started to say to them the baby’s pale, and they said, ‘No she’s not’. I said, ‘Her skin tone has changed. She’s very white’.”

Unknown to the couple, the hospital had put Sophia on strong antibiotics as they suspected she had the MRSA-type infection which ultimately killed her, 12 days after being born in March 2017. Her parents believe the infection was passed on from her central line, a tube inserted to give fluids or medication.

Her parents fought for six months before receiving her post-mortem report. Hospital letters did not even spell their baby’s name correctly.

The family have been told Sophia’s death is being investigated by the Crown Office but have never been told what aspect of her death will be covered. They have been warned any Fatal Accident Inquiry could take another decade.

Mrs Smith said: “I only got to hold Sophia twice, once to change her nappy and when she died in my arms.”

She said she “felt like a fool” for believing doctors, who assured her Sophia’s death was “an isolated case.”

She said: “They said we were the only ones. That it’s never been heard of, ‘There’s no problem in this big fancy hospital of ours, no one else has died of this. We’ve never heard of anyone else dying of this, nothing like this has ever happened in this hospital before, you’re the only ones, you’re an isolated case.’

“I said, do you need to tell anyone, do you need to do anything about this? He told me no, as Sophia was an isolated case, that it’s never happened before, it will probably never happen again.

“I read all those same sentences verbatim in a newspaper about another mother talking about the death of her child.

“She had been told her child was the only one that had passed away from an infection at the hospital; that this is isolated; nothing like this has ever happened here before.

“There’s no problem with infection control here, nothing like this will probably ever happen again. ‘It’s such a lightning strike’ was the phrase he used.

“I felt like such a fool when I read that in the paper because I had believed him….

…continued

Anonymous ID: 9f1779 Nov. 21, 2021, 10:12 a.m. No.15049718 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>2268 >>4048

>>15049663

“Because you don’t know: you can identify that they’re arrogant and you can identify that they have very little people skills, but you still have this level of respect where you think well, they’re the doctors, they’re the consultants, they’re geniuses in their fields.

“You believe them until you start reading it in the papers that they’ve told every other family that too.”

The inquiry

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry was announced by the Scottish Government in October 2019 after growing public concerns over problems at two new hospital sites.

An investigation earlier that year had found widespread contamination of the water supply at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow which had opened to patients in 2015. A total of 23 children contracted blood infections in the cancer wards in the first nine months of 2018. Two children’s wards were closed and remain shut to this day.

The public inquiry will investigate the construction of the QEUH Campus, which includes the Royal Hospital for Children, and also look into Edinburgh’s Sick Kids hospital and adjacent Department of Clinical Neurosciences. The chair, Lord Brodie will report at the end of the inquiry and make recommendations aimed at ensuring any past mistakes are not repeated in future NHS infrastructure projects.

Comment…

As it turns out "Public Inquiries" are not public at all, only that which the Judiciary want to be public is actually "public".

These inquiries are a farce when labelled "public". Those within the shadowy realms of Government office, within Crown Inc can decide what is put on public view, conversely they also decide that which IS NOT put on public view. With regard to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) those who are deciding what can be public and what can't, are also those who the shining light of truth is attempting to illuminate: the Judiciary, the lords and the ladies who have put themselves above us all. You all need to know the truth. Your governments, churches, media are all working against you, against what is right, against the very justice they are supposed to dispense, against the very people they are supposed to SERVE!

Hot off the press

>>15029681

Nice that that should fortuitously preceed my introduction of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) releasing…

Case Study no. 6

The response of the Scottish Government between August

2002 and December 2014 to Petition PE535, and other key issues

raised by adult survivors of childhood abuse experienced in care

in Scotland arising after the petition was presented to the Scottish

Parliament.

Evidential Hearings: 17 November 2020 to 4 December 2020

I haven't read through it yet so I'll drop comments on the pages I find of interest as I read through.

attached (vii)

Ministers, civil servants and other key individuals

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/3024/scottish-government-findings.pdf

The main thing from where I am standing is that there may now be, from Lady (is she?) Anne Smith, the notion that this part of her inquiry is now over (case study no. 6), when in actual fact it should now only have just begun.

She also has to get her pretentious little head around the fact that this is supposed to be a "public" inquiry, that being said she should realise that ALL information in a public inquiry should and has to be, released in its entirety to the public, including the 17, 500 (approx) submission by Advocate John Halley. We won't put up with you whitewashing your fellows in the judiciary out of any meaningful investigation.

You have still to questtion Salmond, Sturgeon, MacAskill and Angela (crocodile tears) Constance, there will be others that have evaded any questioning with regard to this case study no 6.

She has questioned none of the Judges who have already been publicly named for "advising" Government not to hold an inquiry in to Child Abuse. These include, Lord Advocate Colin Boyd who "wasn't convinced" that a public inquiry was in the public interest; Lord Advocate Frank Mullholland, who also was "not convinced or persuaded" by the calls for a public inquiry; Lord Advocate Wolfe who was also against an inquiry…then of course there is Lord Brian Gill who as Lord President "was one of the people who felt that if we went down that route we woulfd be sucked into a swamp", see attached page 20 of the statement submitted to the inquiry by Michael Russell.

Anonymous ID: 9f1779 Nov. 25, 2021, 3:33 p.m. No.15079527 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>1889

>>15065729

>Anyone sharing this?

This is a ghost town….only you, me and the tumbleweed.

I have a question? Perhaps not for you, but for the tumbleweed. If anyone, boatfag anon eg. could find a list of serving officers on board of a particular US Naval vessel, during a particular time frame in a particular posting over a period of around 3-5 years?

Would such a thing be publicly available with photographs of the serving officers dated during their time of service. 1960's through 70's?

>>15056349

>She has questioned none of the Judges who have already been publicly named for "advising" Government not to hold an inquiry in to Child Abuse

She may very well have questioned them (behind closed doors)…not "publicly" though.

>>15065729

>Anyone sharing this?

This is a ghost town….only you, me and the tumbleweed.

I have a question? Perhaps not for you, but for the tumbleweed. If anyone, boatfag anon eg. could find a list of serving officers on board of a particular US Naval vessel, during a particular time frame in a particular posting over a period of around 3-5 years?

Would such a thing be publicly available with photographs of the serving officers dated during their time of service. 1960's through 70's?

>>15056349

>She has questioned none of the Judges who have already been publicly named for "advising" Government not to hold an inquiry in to Child Abuse

She may very well have questioned them (behind closed doors)…not "publicly" though. >>15056349

>You have still to questtion Salmond, Sturgeon, MacAskill and Angela (crocodile tears) Constance, there will be others that have evaded any questioning with regard to this case study no 6.

>

>She has questioned none of the Judges who have already been publicly named for "advising" Government not to hold an inquiry in to Child Abuse. These include, Lord Advocate Colin Boyd who "wasn't convinced" that a public inquiry was in the public interest; Lord Advocate Frank Mullholland, who also was "not convinced or persuaded" by the calls for a public inquiry; Lord Advocate Wolfe who was also against an inquiry…then of course there is Lord Brian Gill who as Lord President "was one of the people who felt that if we went down that route we woulfd be sucked into a swamp", see attached page 20 of the statement submitted to the inquiry by Michael Russell.

The attached youtube clip is from the day dear Angela got herself a new nickname….."crocodile tears".

This was her ministerial statement to the scottish parliament on 17th December 2014 in relation to Historic Child Abuse in Scotland.

She got her nickname at 5 mins and 30 seconds, how the chief guinea pig and I laughed that day at this hopeless "performance".

>>15089588

>This was her ministerial statement to the scottish parliament on 17th December 2014 in relation to Historic Child Abuse in Scotland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBJwuVi-rQ

A wee bit more background…The SCAI originally was chaired by Susan O'Brien QC and all three members were selected by John Swinney and Angela Constance. The other 2 members were Prof Michael Lamb and another guy Glen Houston. Prof Lamb resigned from the inquiry citing "interference" by Scottish Government (Swinney) see attached article from STV at…

https://archive.news.stv.tv/politics/1358966-academic-resigns-from-child-abuse-inquiry-citing-interference.html

The Chair Susan O'Brien left soon after citing the same claims of Government interference and micromanaging of the inquiry…

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/abuse-inquiry-chairwoman-quits-over-government-interference-0x2zj8pcm

>>15089588

First to ask a question of Angela Constance is Iain Gray (Good Guy) I've attached some notes, which are important for people to see the collusion. I'm doubtful case no'6 will highlight this collusion by Gov't, Judiciary and others, I'm expecting it to be hidden along with John Halley's 17, 500 word submission to the inquiry prior to his removal for making a public statement drawing attention to his submission and refusal to cover up for those in high positions and their crimes against children.

Where are the other politicians "past and present" and other significant contributors to the delay in a public inquiry going to be questioned. People like for example, Lord Gill, Lord Boyd, Salmond, MacAskill, Constance, aids and advisors to ministers, we know they each have several advisors and personal secretaries, why are their advisors not being questioned along with these lordy type fucks?

>>15056349

>Case Study no. 6

Pages (xii-xv) of the study

Summary and some comments.The Judiciary fighting all the way against a public inquiry, none questioned or named so far, though there is plenty in the summary to point the finger at them being largely responsible with the help of a collusive government for delaying the whole process in their determination not to hold such a thing.

attachment 5, rough content (subtitles not exact) of the question to Angela constance by Alison McInnes and the reply by Old Crocodile Tears….Lots of talk about avoiding the re-traumatising of victims/survivors….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzBJwuVi-rQ

19 mins 35 secs approx for Alison McInnes question on statement of Constance, reply at 20 mins 20 secs.

….square that away with Swinney's compensation package, on a sliding scale from £10-80k depending on evidence he knows has been destroyed being given by the survivor/victim and forcing them to give up any right to civil claims against the perpetrators individually or collectively.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18872123.john-swinney-urged-axe-rule-abuse-survivors-sign-waiver-get-payout/

This guy Swinney has a hand in the cover up at many stages during the whole of SNP government (3 full terms +).

>>14866491

>Who Will Speak for The Children? Fauci Also Experimented on the Homeless Children of New York

>>14615999

>Vaccination on school grounds IS a "disruption to education". Children go to school to learn, not to be used as guinnea-pigs!

I've been saying here for a good while now that kids have been killed while experimented on by the Scottish Government and its predecessor the UK government. Here is a story from Ireland, The Irish Examiner which may be of interest to a reader…

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40206482.html

More than 40,000 children used in vaccine trials, Mother and Baby Home Commission found

Thu, 14 Jan, 2021 - 06:30

Neil Michael

There were at least 13 vaccine trials carried out on more than 43,000 children, according to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation.

None of the mothers — some of whom were as young as 15 — involved appears to have given consent for their children to be involved in the trials.

Some of the mothers involved were known to have "mental health issues" or "psychiatric disorders".

In addition, a number of the infants involved did not have their mothers with them at the time they were involved in the trials.

Of these trials, seven were carried out in six of the homes the commission investigated.

There were believed to be at least four different vaccine trials carried out in St Patrick's, Navan Rd, (Pelletstown) and three at Bessborough in Cork.

There may have been a sixth vaccine trial carried out at St Patrick's but the commission was unable to confirm details of a possible oral polio vaccine trial there in 1965.

Although two vaccine trials took place in Cork between 1930 and 1936, the commission was unable to determine whether they took place in institutions within its remit.

Of the children who took part, at least 1,135 of them were from institutions, and the rest were from “the general population”.

At least 223 of the children from institutions came from mother and baby homes or county homes within the commission’s remit.

The commission stated: “It is clear that there was not compliance with the relevant regulatory and ethical standards of the time.

"Consent was not obtained from either the mothers of the children or their guardians and the necessary licences were not in place.

“There is no evidence of injury to the children involved as a result of the vaccines.”

At least one child is known to have died of cardiac and respiratory failure two weeks after receiving the first injection in one of the vaccine trials.

The commission said: “The available medical records do not suggest that this child’s death was in any way linked to the vaccine.”

Dublin Union

In 1934, Dr Denis Hanley, assistant medical officer for the City of Dublin, administered Wellcome’s APT anti-diphtheria vaccine to 24 Dublin Union resident children, varying in age from seven months to 14 years.

An examination of the institutional records of the Dublin Union and Pelletstown failed to identify the 24 children involved in Dr Hanley’s initial APT trial.

However, the commission said, it is more than likely the children selected for inclusion were "illegitimate" and unaccompanied, as most children resident there at the time were categorised as such.

In January 1935, with the "consent and co-operation of the medical superintendent and staff" of the Dublin Union, Dr Hanley administered Wellcome’s APT vaccine to another 24 children in the Dublin Union.

Working on the results of his own investigations, and with the full support of the Dublin municipal health authorities, Dr Hanley administered Wellcome’s still experimental, and not commercially available, one-shot APT vaccine to 39,267 schoolchildren in Dublin.

The commission noted Dr Hanley emphasised the importance of obtaining written consent prior to treatment and provided a breakdown of the number of consent forms returned in each school.

No child was immunised unless a written parental consent form was produced.

“However, Dr Hanley made no mention of consent, written or otherwise, in respect of institutional children,” the commission stated.

Read the full article at the link.

https://odysee.com/@thesearethedamned:1/A-Good-Death:3

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>>15146346

Mother and Baby Homes report describes "dark, difficult and shameful chapter" of Irish history

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The Mother and Baby Homes Commission's final report "describes a dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history," Taoiseach Micheál Martin said.

The lengthy and long-awaited report has been published this afternoon, highlighting the 'particularly harsh treatment' that women who gave birth outside marriage were subject to.

The commission says the harsh treatment was "supported by, contributed to, and condoned by, the institutions of the State and the Churches" - but that some of the institutions offered a 'harsh refuge' when many families provided 'no refuge at all'.

It reveals there were around 56,000 unmarried mothers and 57,000 children in the mother and baby homes and country homes investigated by the Commission, mostly in the 1960s and 70s.

However, it says it's likely there were another 25,000 unmarried mothers and even more children in other homes which were not investigated.

It finds that around 9,000 children died in the institutions under investigation - or around 15% of all the children in the institutions - and describes the mortality rate among children born in several of the homes as 'appalling'.

It shows there were seven vaccine trials in the homes between 1934 and 1973 involving a number of children, noting the trials were not in compliance "with the relevant regulatory and ethical standards of the time".

Around 1,638 children who were resident in the mother and baby homes and county homes were placed for foreign adoption - the 'vast majority' going to the US.

There was no statutory regulation for the adoptions, and only 'informal supervision' in terms of issuing passports.

The Commission says it's impossible to prove or disprove allegations that "large sums of money were given to the institutions and agencies in Ireland that arranged foreign adoptions".

It also explores the 'widespread discrimination' experienced by unmarried mothers and their children within Irish society into the 1980s.

The report comes following accounts from hundreds of witnesses and survivors, including those who were sent to the homes after being victims of rape.

In their recommendations, the Commission says adopted people "should have a right to their birth certificates", and says there should be a right for people to have access to their birth information - saying a referendum should be held if that's needed to change the law.

It recommends the Government should consider a redress scheme for many of the women impacted - including those who spent lengthy periods in the homes before 1974, and those who carried out unpaid work while in the institutions.

Ministerial Statement: Scotland’s Redress Scheme

Wednesday 08 December 2021 2:47 PM

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/ministerial-statement-scotlands-redress-scheme-december-8-2021

Apologies, can't embed video, please visit the above URL to watch and see how disingenuous John Swinney actually is.

>Deputy First Minister John Swinney told a hearing last year that Alex Salmond had opposed the inquiry being set up while he was first minister.

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>He said there had been a clear division in cabinet over the issue and the inquiry was only set up after Nicola Sturgeon succeeded Mr Salmond.

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> Alex Salmond 'was opposed to child abuse inquiry'

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> Ministers tried to do 'right things' on care abuse

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Kind of sounds like Mr Swinney is throwing Mr Salmond under the bus. Then there was the Salmond/Sturgeon (can it really be "co-incidence" that both have very "fishy" names?) affair with both throwing each other under the bus. It's always very subtle this of course; and all the while extolling their own obsequious achievments. You can see this very clearly with John Swinney every time he speaks, especially on the topic of the SCAI.

>Sources close to the couple said they are angry at being asked to give evidence only for it to be kept secret.

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>One said: “They have been asked to wait four years for the chance to explain how their daughter died and ask why in an official forum. Why were they asked to give evidence at all? It seems an odd sort of public inquiry that asks for evidence but refuses to make it public.”

Yes, very odd that a public inquiry does not make all evidence and submissions public. It seems that it is not an isolated case but, rather the standard operating procedure for ALL public inquiries. When will Lady (?) Anne Smith make public the 17,500 word submission of John Halley QC?

>Legal teams acting for Scottish Government ministers and NHS Greater Glasgow argued that Mrs Smith’s statement contained allegations suggesting potential misconduct in public office, and criminal behaviour, which they strongly rejected.

>>15049655

>“The very ethos of a public inquiry is that people’s voices are heard, not silenced, muted or redacted. The public expect and deserve the full truth.”

>reply by Old Crocodile Tears….Lots of talk about avoiding the re-traumatising of victims/survivors….

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Lots of talk but as you can see/hear from Swinney here in this address to parliament and the resulting questions, he fully intends that they (victims/survivors) should be re-traumatised from yet again having to recount to Johnny Gwynne and cohorts all the details of their abuse.

CUNTS.

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/3024/scottish-government-findings.pdf

Page 19-23 of the pdf.

Pages 1-5, Introduction.

Attached with added comment.

A wee reminder, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland it was I believe that advised John Swinney NOT to hold a public inquiry in to Historic Child Abuse in Scotland, having previously given the same advice to Michael Russell previously stating that he was "not persuaded" with the calls for a public inquiry.

Why was Frank Mulholland not questioned Lady (?) Anne? Why were the several others who are paid to "advise" also not questioned with regard to the 13+ years before an inquiry was announced?

Salmond was "advised" by Lord President Brian Gill not to have an inquiry for fear of being dragged in to a "swanp", of the Judiciary's making.

Jackie boy (now LORD) McConnell was advised by Colin Boyd then Lord Advocate not to proceed with any inquiry and "advised" for him to change his apology to victims from "on behalf of Government" to "on behalf of the Scottish people".

Why the fuck are none of these absolute CUNTS not being brought up for questioning, this case study should not have been completed without their oral testimony in front of the inquiry.

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>>14493547

>>>14243430 SHAMING OF ABUSE PROBE FATCATS WHO WILL RECEIVE MORE CASH THAN THE VICTIMS

>>14504670

>National Records Office in Edinburgh looking for them to initiate a search for the records of the FAI in to her death, knowing full well that they had been destroyed soon after he first starting trying to dig in to his past many years previous. Of course he was informed by the head of legal services that there were no records, even although the law states that such records must be kept for a minimum of 100 years: the records could not be found.

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>>14688023

>This is the legal equivalent of taking a crap, a big hot steaming hot pile of shite and then covering it in butter-cream icing; then having the neck to call it a cake!!!

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>These fuckers, all of them pictured and a whole lot more besides, covered it ALL up for years. ALL of it.

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>John Swinney and McAskill were the two head coverer-upperers!! But they have all worked tirelessly to cover it all up. Since the start of the inquiry John Swinney has had his tentacles in to every charity, every newly started business who were given all the funding, ALL of them.

>>14688356

>This is the legal equivalent of taking a crap, a big hot steaming hot pile of shite and then covering it in butter-cream icing; then having the neck to call it a cake!!!

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>These fuckers, all of them pictured and a whole lot more besides, covered it ALL up for years. ALL of it.

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>John Swinney and McAskill were the two head coverer-upperers!! But they have all worked tirelessly to cover it all up. Since the start of the inquiry John Swinney has had his tentacles in to every charity, every newly started business who were given all the funding, ALL of them.

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>>15169362

Ministerial statement of John Swinney: Scotland’s Redress Scheme - 8 December 2021

>>15190845

Definitely happening worldwide throughout all governments. Judiciary everywhere up to their eyes in cover ups and soft sentences.

>>15177303

>ALL of U.S. Love You Scotland , Do It Q and Q+ ! , WWG1WGA Love Pilotorb

We love you too, your country is a beacon of light to remind us of the Magna Carta, which your great constitution is based on. The war is won. We will have a new order, of the people, by the people and for the people………..world wide. God bless America, Scotland and the world. United, humanity can crawl out of the petri dish and overcome anything.

Scotland has a new anthem.

Songs of Freedom - Transcender 'Make A Stand'

Hearing this song everywhere at the moment up here in Scotland.

Scotland is beginning to rise up and peek behind the curtain at what generations of us have allowed to control us. They are starting to wake up and realise that it is "we the people" who have the power to change the world. United we can change the world.

We have been divided by race, religion, politics, sexuality, nationality and a raft of other devices for many generations. It's that divide that has brought this situation to fruition. Division is the fog of war.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/8172457/hundreds-anti-vaxxers-glasgow-green-protest/

ANTI-VAX DEMO ‘Hundreds’ of anti-vaxxers gather in Glasgow Green for protest and march to the city centre

Harry WilliamsonJordan Tennant

19:30, 18 Dec 2021Updated: 22:35, 18 Dec 2021

HUNDREDS of anti-vaxxers gathered in Glasgow today for a protest against Covid restrictions.

The crowd gathered in Glasgow Green around 1pm and began to march through the city.

It was reported up to 200 anti-vaxxers gathered in the foggy park to take part in the protest.

Members of the crowd held placards with slogans opposing vaccines, mask wearing, vaccine passports and lockdowns.

The group marched from Glasgow Green to the city centre.

Cops escorted the demo through the city until it dispersed on Buchanan Street.

Police Scotland confirmed no one was arrested at the protest and they have launched a probe into the demo.

A spokesperson for the force said: “Officers were made aware of a protest in Glasgow Green on Saturday, 18 December.

"The crowd that was gathered began an unauthorised procession and a decision was taken to manage this to ensure public safety and minimise disruption to the community.

"The group eventually gathered on Buchanan Street before dispersing. No arrests were made and enquiries are ongoing in relation to the incident.”

A similar protest in London saw anti-vaxxers violently clash with police as scuffles broke out at the demo down south.

London cops have reportedly been hurt as thousands of protesters waving placards gathered in Whitehall tonight.

A number of officers are believed to have suffered minor injuries as anti-lockdown campaigners marched through the streets of Westminster.

London mayor Sadiq Khan recently declared a major incident over the capital's surging Covid rates.

The Glasgow protest came as Scots were urged to stay at home amid rising Omicron cases.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned anyone who leaves home risks catching the Omicron variant and spending Christmas alone.

Omicron became the most dominant Covid strain in Scotland this week - making up 51.3 per cent of confirmed cases.

Nicola Sturgeon said: “I’m asking people in the run-up to Christmas to stay at home as much as they can. Every time we go anywhere now we’re at a not insignificant risk of getting Covid.

“Anyone who gets Covid now will be isolating over Christmas Day.

“Think about whether it’s worth it to you to run the risk of not being with your family on Christmas Day.”

New curbs have been introduced as infections are doubling every two to three days.

Scots have been asked to limit gatherings to three households in the run up to Christmas and new measures to prevent crowding in hospitality and retail have been reintroduced.

The new restrictions have seen the First Minister has called for the return of the furlough scheme - to protect workers in high risk industries.

All Scots adults have been encouraged to get their booster jabs before Hogmanay in an effort to tackle the surge.

People queued for hours outside vaccine centres to get the vital third jab - as two vaccines is said to not be enough protection against the new super strain.

All adults in Scotland were told earlier this week they could book their boosters.

One of the First Minister's advisers called for a circuit-breaker lockdown BEFORE Christmas to combat the Omicron "tsunami".

The poison dwarf strikes again! I wonder how many will listen now nearly 2 years down the line?

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/five-new-scotland-covid-rules-22574204

Five new Scotland Covid rules everyone will have to follow from this week

Nicola Sturgeon has introduced a raft of new measures in Scotland to help combat the sweeping tide of Omicron cases the country is facing.

Following a surge in Omicron cases in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government have implemented a raft of new coronavirus rules.

From hospitality, big events to new rules around contact sports, people in Edinburgh will have to ensure they are following the new restrictions in order to protect themselves against the new mutant Covid strain.

Some rules come into effect from Boxing Day, December 26, whereas others will begin from December 27.

So here are five new Covid rules everyone in Scotland will need to follow from this week.

Non-professional contact sports that take place indoors will also be banned from Boxing Day.

Sturgeon said that physical distancing is not possible during these activities and also creates a 'heightened risk of transmission'.

The First Minister has also asked people in Scotland to limit mixing to three different households following festivities.

>>15170610

The cover up is so fucking transparent I can't believe for a minute this Lady (?) Ann Smith, chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) is unable with all her qualifications in law to see it when an uneducated dafty like myself can see it all. She sees it all right, just is employed not to.

Here is the Youtube link to Lord Brian Gill's performance again, for anyone that needs reminding of the contempt which he and others like him in the establishment hold us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMlBc9XNxrc&t=2585s

Attached pages 6-10 of Case study no' 6 of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI).

Pages 24-28 of the pdf file

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/3024/scottish-government-findings.pdf

>>15170610

The cover up is so fucking transparent I can't believe for a minute this Lady (?) Ann Smith, chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) is unable with all her qualifications in law to see it when an uneducated dafty like myself can see it all. She sees it all right, just is employed not to.

Here is the Youtube link to Lord Brian Gill's performance again, for anyone that needs reminding of the contempt which he and others like him in the establishment hold us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMlBc9XNxrc&t=2585s

Attached pages 6-10 of Case study no' 6 of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI).

Pages 24-28 of the pdf file

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/media/3024/scottish-government-findings.pdf

>>15270111

There will be plenty of them going to jail, some of them I expect will possibly see the rope. That I guess will be down to the people to decide once the majority wake up, who knows when that will be. They're certainly taking their time. Went to the shop the other day and there were more people masked than usual. :(

>>15270111

Just that last couple of sentences meant to post there, really have to remind myself to make sure the field is clear before replying to others. ;)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-59830333

Heads of Scotland's drug death taskforce resign

The heads of Scotland's drug death task force have resigned.

Chairwoman Prof Catriona Matheson and her deputy, former deputy chief constable Neil Richardson, have stepped down from their roles.

They said the government's "demand for speed" over a report on reforms was "counterproductive" and driven by a desire to meet targets rather than achieving "sustainable change"

But minister Angela Constance said the taskforce needed to "move faster".

Prof Matheson, a Stirling University expert in substance misuse, has been chairwoman of the taskforce since it was established in 2019.

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It was set up by the Scottish government in a bid to curb a rising number of drug deaths.

The then public health minister Joe Fitzpatrick described the situation as an "emergency" and said new approaches were needed "even if at first they may be challenging".

Drug deaths in Scotland reached a record high of 1,339 in 2020 with the country suffering by far the highest fatality rate of any country in Europe.

Figures published earlier this month showed that Police Scotland recorded 1,007 deaths believed to be linked to drug use between January and September this year, 40 fewer than the same period in 2020.

The resignations were first reported by The Daily Record, which said Prof Matheson and Mr Richardson had stood down after being asked to produce a report on reforms by the summer.

In a resignation letter, they said: "We have always understood the need for urgency but we feel the current demand for speed is counterproductive and driven by other factors such as meeting targets, rather than achieving the sustainable change evidence shows is more effective."

Drugs policy ministerAngela Constancesaid that she regretted the fact that Prof Matheson and Mr Richardson had resigned but thanked them for their "hard work and commitment".

She told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme: "The taskforce has undertaken wide-ranging and very important work to help inform us on how best to turn the tide on rising drug deaths in Scotland.

"But I am clear that as we come to the end of the first year of the national mission and look ahead to what's next, we need to have an increased focus on implementation and delivery on the ground."

She said that was why she had asked the taskforce "to make its recommendations earlier than anticipated".

'Pick up the pace'

"Drug deaths in Scotland is our other public health emergency and we do need to move further but we also need to move faster," she told the programme.

"I think I was very fair and very clear with my expectations. We need to be continuously challenging ourselves and others to pick up the pace.

"We need to be doing more, doing it better and doing it faster."As fast as you got a public inquiry into historic child abuse?

She added that she would speak to the other taskforce members before updating parliament as soon as possible in the new year.

Ms Constance said that the recent quarterly statistics had shown a slight fall in suspected drug-related deaths.

But she added: "It is clear there is still an urgent need to implement changes that will make a real and tangible difference to people's lives."

>>15302181

>TheScottish government has apologised "unreservedly" for what was described as a "woeful and wholly avoidable" 13-year delayin setting up a public inquiry into child abuse.