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#1181 Post by FD2 » Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:53 am

Former left wing SNP leader being parted from his money (nah - I bet someone else paid for it), but what offensive behaviour for an SNP socialist person. :))


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Alex Salmond spotted at restaurant for 'rich people paying ludicrous prices'
By Tom Gordon @HTScotPol Scottish Political Editor

Salmond spotted at restaurant for 'rich people paying ludicrous prices'

ALEX Salmond has featured in a scathing review of a restaurant described as somewhere “rich people pay ludicrous prices for cack-handed food”.

The Alba Party leader was spotted at the rooftop Polo Lounge at the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane, where a basket of bread costs £16 and a steak £135.

The former first minister, who makes a weekly TV show for a Kremlin-funded channel in London, was name-checked in today’s Observer by reviewer Jay Rayner.

Noting the original Polo Lounge opened at LA’s Beverley Hills Hotel in 1941, he said: “At the London version I got to eat a table away from Alex Salmond. And that that was the least troubling aspect of my evening.”

Mr Rayner then savaged the quality of the food and the prices, including salads that start at £28, a bowl of pasta at £38, and the cheapest bottle of wine costing £84.

He said the restaurant "seems to be bashing the rich, flogging them dismal food at inexplicable prices”.

Besides his TV and book income, Mr Salmond has been entitled to a £42,000-a-year pension as a former first minister since he left office in 2014.

In March, he launched the Alba party in a bid to secure an undefined ‘supermajority’ for independence at the Holyrood election, but failed to get a single MSP elected.

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#1182 Post by ribrash » Wed Aug 18, 2021 7:49 am

“At the London version I got to eat a table"

Fancy having to eat a table.....I hope it was well cooked.

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Re: Chaos in Scotland.

#1183 Post by barkingmad » Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:03 am

For anyone currently resident in the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Jockistan or for those considering immigrating to that country, here is an indication of the iron fist of Kim Il Krank;

https://consult.gov.scot/constitution-a ... -recovery/


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/c ... ar-AANq68e


I sincerely hope she hasn’t seen and considered my idea of the peasants wearing a burka in lieu of a face nappy or things really will look ugly north of Carter Bar, though one won’t be able to distinguish the ugly ones from the attractives?!

But heyho, it will allegedly work towards keeping the tally of ‘lergy cases” as low as she’d hoped in the quest for zero-plague.

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Re: Chaos in Scotland.

#1184 Post by AtomKraft » Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:10 am

Nicolas' knickers are moist at the thought of a few tens of thousands from Afg. setting up in Glasgow.

I'm fcuked if I know why.

Why doesn't she just invite the entire population over, and maybe the Scots can go and live in Afghanistan.

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Re: Chaos in Scotland.

#1185 Post by FD2 » Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:39 am

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... e=hs_email


GERS: Scotland's financial deficit expected to have risen through Covid spending
The latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland figures, due to be published on Wednesday, are expected to show the notional deficit of the country has risen massively as a result of huge public spending to deal with the Covid pandemic.
By Gina Davidson
Wednesday, 18th August 2021, 8:26 am

The statistics, which are contentious as a result of Scotland’s constitutional divide, will be revealed by finance secretary Kate Forbes, and will estimate the difference between what Scotland has raised in taxation and what is spent on public services.

Last year the annual financial report showed the country's deficit was around three-and-a-half times bigger than the UK’s in percentage terms, despite a record increase in revenues. The deficit stood at £15.1bn – £2bn higher than the previous year.


GERS figures: out today but what are they?

This year it is predicted the gap will be larger as a result of a massive increase in public spending on Covid relief programmes such as the furlough scheme with a concurrent drop in tax revenues.

The Office for National Statistics has already estimated that the UK's public sector deficit for the financial year 2020/21 was £298bn or 14.2 per cent of UK Gross Domestic Product and the highest figure since WWII.

Ahead of publication of the figures the SNP said they would “make the case for independence more essential than ever”.


Former economy secretary Fiona Hyslop said: “Scotland has a fundamentally strong economy, underpinned by healthy and diverse sectors.

“However, the country is being held back by a Westminster system that treats Scotland as an afterthought at best, and which is actively undermining our economy on a range of fronts.

“The pandemic has shown that countries around the world have had to adapt swiftly to the economic impact of the Covid crisis.

“Old assumptions have been swept aside, as independent nations large and small have been able to take the interventions needed to protect jobs and their economies – steps not currently available to Scotland, which instead has seen a Tory UK government withdraw support.”

She added: “Opponents of independence will, as ever, try to exploit today’s GERS figures to support their arguments – the reality is very different.


Whatever today’s figures show, GERS does not represent the finances of an independent Scotland – it shows the situation now under Westminster control.

However, Pamela Nash, chief executive of Scotland in Union, said the pandemic proved the strength of the union, with the ability to “pool and share both resources and risk.”

She added: “It’s ludicrous to claim that Scotland is being ‘held back’ when being part of the UK has safeguarded so many jobs and livelihoods over the past year.

"Of course a separate Scotland could have taken steps to support citizens during a pandemic, but this would have been limited and at a much greater cost. As part of the UK we have access to a stronger safety net.

“The only people undermining Scotland’s economy are SNP politicians who are blinded by their obsession with division when they should be focused on recovery.

“The very last thing that Scotland wants or needs is another divisive referendum and the deep uncertainty this would cause at such a vital time for our country.”


Words fail me - Inderef 2 asap!! It's obviously all the Toaries fault still.

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Re: Chaos in Scotland.

#1186 Post by Woody » Wed Aug 18, 2021 1:34 pm

That’s an awful lot of Buckfast :((
Scotland's public spending deficit more than doubled to £36.3bn last year as spending increased and revenues fell due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Total spending by the Scottish and UK governments and other public bodies rose to £99.2bn as Scotland went into lockdown.
Income from taxes fell to £62.8bn, leaving a gap between spending and revenue equating to 22.4% of GDP.
The deficit for the UK as a whole over the same period was 14.2% of GDP.
Scotland's figure for the previous year - before the onset of the pandemic - was £15.1bn, or 8.6% of GDP.
What is Gers and how is it calculated?
The figures were calculated by Scottish government statisticians as part of the annual Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) report.
It illustrates how public finances were hit by the pandemic, with huge spending on healthcare as well as relief programmes such as the furlough scheme and payments to businesses forced to close by lockdown.
Public sector spending in Scotland increased by 21% in the 2020-21 tax year, with the figure compounded by falling revenues and the price of oil.
Total spending was equivalent to £18,144 per person - £1,828 per person more than the UK average.
The Fraser of Allander Institute - an economic think tank based at Strathclyde University - said the figures were "the largest ever seen in terms of the notional deficit", noting that the UK has also recorded its largest deficit since the second world war.
Director Mairi Spowage said the increase in the Scottish figure relative to the UK was "a little larger than we might have expected", due to a larger fall in Scottish GDP caused by the contraction of the North Sea oil industry.
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image captionKate Forbes said the Scottish government should be given more powers to deal with financial crises
Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said the "significant economic impact" of the Covid-19 pandemic had "fundamentally shifted our fiscal landscape".
She said: "While we face continued challenges, there are welcome signs that the Scottish economy is beginning to recover strongly. Business confidence is back above pre-pandemic levels, output is increasing and job vacancies are rising.
"As we rebuild, we are pushing forward with an ambitious 10 year agenda of economic transformation to help seize Scotland's potential and deliver a more prosperous, fairer and greener economy."
Ms Forbes also called for further borrowing powers to be devolved to Holyrood as part of efforts to rebuild the economy.
She said the pandemic had "clearly demonstrated the need for fiscal reform and tat the Scottish government's financial powers are insufficient to deal with the new economic reality".
Economic recovery
However, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said the figures "show how all of us in Scotland have benefitted from being part of a strong United Kingdom".
He added: "We have been able to weather the Covid storm as part of the UK but we now face the challenge of rebuilding our economy and supporting our heroic NHS and other public services. Our focus remains on that task.
"We have faced a terrible crisis far, far stronger as one UK - and we will build back better as one UK."
Meanwhile, business group CBI Scotland said the Covid-19 crisis had "served to exacerbate many of the weaknesses found in the Scottish economy pre-pandemic".
Director Tracy Black said: "After an incredibly tough eighteen months, the Scottish government must fully commit to making economic recovery their number one priority.
"If the Scottish government plans to launch a series of ambitious spending plans, this must be backed-up by consistent revenue generation. That means supporting enterprise to deliver the jobs and growth we need by taking steps to build public and business confidence in the recovery."
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Re: Chaos in Scotland.

#1187 Post by om15 » Fri Aug 20, 2021 6:15 pm

The intellectual Kate Forbes claims that the dishonesty and ineptitude displayed by her department proves that Scotland needs independence and no one challenges this *****.

Now we see the alliance between the Greens and the SNP we can expect to see even more lunatic proposals, as well as school children being unable to read and write or even know what sex they are, as well as the population completely permanently sozzled or bombed out, as well as vast sums of public money being "misallocated", the sad wretched people of Scotland will no longer be able to drive their cars, heat their homes or get a job.

Sooner or later the UK is going to have to switch off the free money, we can't keep funding this nonsense.

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Re: Chaos in Scotland.

#1188 Post by FD2 » Mon Aug 23, 2021 5:47 am

The big deal is here! Certain bigwigs in the SNP are strangely silent about some of its implications so maybe some of the rank and file need to make their voices heard. The fuhrerin and her cohort naturally want to keep the Greens' fingers out of certain areas, as long as she can claim she has a 'majority' to govern.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... nsensical/

SNP rank and file must speak up against Nicola Sturgeon's nonsensical pact with Greens

It’s patently obvious that this backstairs deal will harm, rather than help the Scottish people



Alan Cochrane
22 August 2021 • 6:22pm


A strange silence has settled over the SNP’s rank and file concerning the lack of reaction to the coalition deal that Nicola Sturgeon has concluded with the Scottish Greens.

There may be euphoria amongst the membership of the party co-led by Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater that they’re at last getting a stake in a Government but there appears to be no sign of general rejoicing amongst SNP members. It’s patently obvious that this backstairs deal will harm, rather than help the Scottish people to recover from the economic downturn but Nat footsoldiers are holding their tongues.

Sadly, they are giving the clear impression that they will suffer any humiliation, any lack of economic "nous" and work to bring in some of the daftest ever policies - providing it aids their solitary aim of breaking up Britain.

And the proof of this pretty nasty pudding comes from a reading of the agreement document, which specifies what policies are "exempt" from the cooperative element in the Nat/Green deal. This is similar to the Scotland Act that created the Scottish Parliament and which spelled out the policies - like foreign affairs, defence and the constitution - that are "reserved" to Westminster and beyond the legislative competence of Holyrood.

Thus, anything not so exempt or "reserved" in the Bute House deal is fair game for both parties in the coalition to thrash out between them - which is where some of the gravest danger lies for Scotland’s future. It is true that the SNP wants to retain macroeconomic policy as their sole responsibility, which is understandable given the Greens’ ludicrous opposition to economic growth.

However, as past experience has shown it only takes a row over the budget, during which in the past the Greens have withheld their support until they’ve got their way, for the tail to wag the dog again. The SNP also hope to control things on aviation policy - an especial bête noire for the Greens

'Radical Greens are ferociously anti-car'

But if that’s a hypothetical situation, other aspects of the deal are not. The Greens are ferociously anti-car, especially joint leader Lorna Slater, who pinpointed transport as the area she plans on which to focus her radical policies.

This has led to widespread fears, not yet allayed, about the future of major improvement schemes on two of Scotland’s busiest roads - the A96 between Aberdeen and Inverness and the A9 between Perth and Inverness, the latter nicknamed the country’s "killer road" on account of 74 deaths in the past decade.

The dualling of these routes is absolutely essential if the Highlands and North East are to share in any economic recovery in the rest of Scotland. And almost every single politician representing constituencies in those areas has, at one time or other, campaigned vigorously for the improvement of the A96 and A9.

Nevertheless, in spite of there being no fewer than nine nationalist MSPs in Scotland’s North East region and a further seven in the Highlands, not one has raised as much as a whisper in support of these vital arteries. Moreover, we are talking here about very senior Nats - including, as this column has noted before, Kate Forbes, the finance and economy secretary, widely tipped to become SNP leader in the not too distant future.

She has been a persistent campaigner for the dualling of both roads but the question she should be prepared to answer is will she continue that campaign if her new Green partners call a halt?

Her Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency faces another challenge from the Greens who, incredibly, want to restrict, if not kill off completely the fish farm industry which provides hundreds of jobs in rural areas as well as being Britain’s biggest food export. As of now, I’ve heard nothing from this lady on this important issue.

The same goes for the SNP’s Commons leader, Ian Blackford, whose seat is similar to Kay Forbes' and whose constituents depends on fish farms for their livelihoods.

It’s time for Forbes and Blackford to speak up against this nonsensical deal on behalf of their constituents rather than their leader.

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#1189 Post by Undried Plum » Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:07 am

The wee nippysweetie bitch is playing for time.

She's already said that she will stand down from politics after the next election, whatever its outcome may be. It's known that she intends to go with her ffrench girlfriend to Brussels to take up one of two very lucrative jobs there.

Forget the "It's Scotland's Oil" routine. She holding off approving the development of a new oilfield off Shetland to appease the Green Meanies and because there's some sort of international Green conference due in Glescae shortly.

She isn't actively campaigning for another Referendum for two reasons. The first is that she knows that SNP would lose it. The second is that she's seen the books. She knows how **** Scotland would be financially, and how quickly, if disconnected from rUK's hind tit.

She's now saying that there should be another IndyRef in five years. Conveniently for her, that'll be after she goes off the Brussels with her ffrench tart.

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#1190 Post by llondel » Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:09 pm

Anti-car in Scotland would leave an awful lot of people with a lot of walking or horse riding to do to get their weekly shopping and to get to work. A city with decent publish transport can cope, although there aren't that many with a good-enough network (quite possibly none in Scotland) and there will always be poorly-served areas.

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#1191 Post by Undried Plum » Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:24 pm

llondel wrote:
Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:09 pm
Anti-car in Scotland would leave an awful lot of people with a lot of walking or horse riding to do to get their weekly shopping and to get to work. A city with decent publish transport can cope, although there aren't that many with a good-enough network (quite possibly none in Scotland) and there will always be poorly-served areas.
Public transport in Scotland's major cities is excellent. In rural areas it's inevitably poor.

Electric cars are the way to go. Scotland is now fully self-sufficient in electrical power. Pistonbangers are an absurd anachronism. 19th century technology in the 21st century.

The energy problem now facing parts of Scotland is having too much power. In Orkney that's now becoming quite acute.


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#1192 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:21 pm

Opening the pubs and launching the Edinburgh Festival(s) with the epidemic very clearly running out of control was sheer madness.

Other than some desultory mask-wearing, there are almost no public health regulations addressing the pandemic in Scotland. Almost all the precautions have been abandoned.

Totally predictable that the infection rate would climb sky high.


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A year ago they'd almost got a grip - then they slackened off and just let the thing run rip.

Until they've innoculated the population with the Delta variant specific booster, they should be trying to control the damned disease, not deliberately trying to spread it which is what they appear to be doing at the moment. ~X(

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#1193 Post by ricardian » Wed Aug 25, 2021 3:34 pm

Undried Plum wrote:
Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:24 pm
The energy problem now facing parts of Scotland is having too much power. In Orkney that's now becoming quite acute.
Yes, see Orkney Islands Council A transmission link for Orkney An impact analysis on the Orkney economy
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#1194 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Aug 25, 2021 4:39 pm

I'm a little bit surprised that clever people in Orkney haven't been mining Bitcoin with all that surplus power.

That's what they do in China and Iceland and ffrance with surplus nuke and geothermal.

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#1195 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:55 pm

Scottish teachers have been urged to take a “white privilege test” and to teach their pupils that the concept of race was deliberately invented by Europeans to justify “crimes against humanity”.

Nicola Sturgeon’s government unveiled a series of “anti-racist” instructions for primary and secondary teachers on Thursday, which the SNP said were designed to “embed race equality” in classrooms and “decolonise” the school curriculum.

However, experts branded the documents “astonishingly one-sided” and claimed they risked seeing children presented with an overly simplistic account of racism and its history.

The move paves the way for controversial concepts such as “white privilege”, which Kemi Badenoch, the UK Government equalities minister, has said would be illegal to present as “uncontested fact” in English classrooms, to be embedded within Scottish lessons.

White people have ‘automatic advantages’
The guidelines assert that white people receive “automatic advantages” because of their skin colour with society “designed around a world view of a white majority ethnic group”.

Meanwhile, teachers are told that they should recognise that race is “a system that serves to enable capitalism and the current world order”.

They have been urged to “reflect on their own racist thinking with which they have been socialised” and to take a 30-question “white privilege test” designed to demonstrate “structural racial inequalities” in British society.

Under guidance developed for Scottish teachers, they are asked to take a “white privilege test” in an attempt to understand the “power and advantages” white people hold over other groups.

The test has been developed by a Scottish group called the Anti-Racist Educator Collective, and is designed to “debunk the myth” that the UK is a “post-racial meritocracy” by exposing “structural racial inequalities”.

It is adapted from a 1988 essay by Peggy McIntosh, an American academic and activist, who described invisible advantages white people benefit from and popularised the concept of “white privilege”.

For each statement, participants are asked to give a score between 0, if the statement is “often true”, to five, if it is false.

The higher the score, the higher the level of “white privilege” a person benefits from.

There are 30 statements, including:

When I walk into any British supermarket, I will rarely find plenty of food products that meet my family’s traditions.
It’s hard to find the right hair products that work for my hair.
It’s hard to find make-up, tights and/or plasters that match my skin tone.
If ever I am stopped by the police, I would feel that it is likely they singled me out because of my skin colour.
In the history I have studied, my ancestors are not given much attention or credit.
The festivals and holidays my family celebrate are not usually celebrated in schools.
If my day or my week is going badly, I can’t help but wonder if the negative episodes or situations had racial overtones.

An “anti-racist toolkit” endorsed by the SNP Government, states race is a social construct “invented to justify the murder, exploitation and brutalisation of the peoples, lands and resources of the Global South for centuries”.

It adds: “Crimes against humanity were committed against indigenous, African and Asian populations, and form a system upon which our world structures are built to this day.

“Racism is what continues to hold the established power structures in place and race/whiteness … motivates and upholds racism.”
I despair. The kids are already being taught utter shite in History lessons. They are unaware that it was a Scottish King who united the Crowns to form the United Kingdom. They are unaware that it was the Scottish Parliament which united the Parliaments. They are unaware of the fact that there were more Scottish soldiers on the "English" side at the Battle of Culloden than on the "Scottish" side.

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#1196 Post by OFSO » Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:17 pm

I love some of those questions as I can honestly answer yes. As a child I had bright red hair, pale skin and freckles. My life was made a misery at school for that reason. I was picked on by teachers and police because I stood out. As Quakers my school celebrated other holidays and occasions. And my ancestors, at least on one side of the family, aren't given any historical credit at all - nay, they are denigrated - being as they were John Company's Army in India, later the Anglo-Indian Army. Of course were I to answer those - and other - questions truthfully, "they" would disregard my answers as I'm not black, which is for whom the questionnaire was designed. Covert racism...

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#1197 Post by FD2 » Sun Aug 29, 2021 8:19 pm

Yes - the Munros took the Crown's side for instance and many lowlanders.

What outrageous thing can the SNP do which will lift the scales from voters' eyes? Health, Education, huge national debt, even the ferry farce - nothing seems to lose them support. Sadly it's not helped by Westminster, and the English by extension, having a large target to dislike in the shape of Bimbling Boris Bunter.

Any politicians lurking in the shadows who might lead both countries to the sunlit uplands? Not that I can see. Better for Nicola to concentrate on important issues, like giving kids racist complexes.

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#1198 Post by Undried Plum » Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:43 pm

The irony is that racism, nationalism and tribalism are all exactly the same thing, just looked at with different focal length lenses.

They promote nationalism while excoriating racism and they don't see the absurdity of doing that.

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#1199 Post by Ibbie » Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:52 am

So going too close to the Greens causes the Covid alarm to go off.

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#1200 Post by Undried Plum » Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:09 pm

BBC:
Covid cases in Scotland have roughly doubled every week since restrictions eased, leading to an increase in hospital admissions.

More than 500 people with Covid-19 are in hospital and case numbers hit a record high at the weekend.

National clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said the NHS was stretched and elective surgeries could be delayed.

Scotland wanted "to get on top" of the virus and may need a "reverse gear" on some restrictions, he told the BBC.

On Sunday 7,113 positive tests were recorded compared with fewer than 1,500 on 9 August, when most of the Covid restrictions in Scotland were lifted.

Physical distancing rules and the limits on gatherings were removed, and all venues were allowed to reopen.

A further 3,893 new cases were reported on Monday, with 14.1% of tests taken giving a positive result.

The number of hospital patients rose to a total of 551, with 52 in intensive care.

In a BBC interview, Prof Leitch said: "We're now beginning to see rises in hospital admissions and that is harm. We don't admit people to hospital for no reason.

"Over 500 now in hospital and a doubling of the case rate every seven days, so we really want to get on top of it."

He said the increase in Covid cases was partly caused by the Delta variant being more transmissible, schools opening and more people meeting and gathering after lockdown restrictions were removed.

The health service was under pressure already, "with or without Covid", he added.

Prof Leitch said: "When you add a new infectious disease on top of what we already manage, diabetes, and strokes and heart attacks and everything else that comes through our community and hospital system, of course it is stretched."

Efforts to tackle a backlog of elective procedures built up in the past year was being challenged by the latest surge, he said.

"The only thing you can turn off in a health system is elective care. You can't postpone strokes, heart attacks and emergency admissions for the elderly.

"We don't want to do that but if you need staff, beds etc for a novel infection disease then that's what you have to do because you can't just make respiratory consultants out of nowhere, or nurses in charge of intensive care out of nowhere, so you have to be flexible in that."

Prof Leitch warned that there had to be a "reverse gear" to protect public health but said further restrictions might not be a "short, sharp shock", but turning off "some bits of society".

Reading between the lines of what National Clinical Director Professor Jason Leitch has said in public, I surmise that he's not entirely chuffed that his political leaderene appears to be doing the square root of **** about the recent massive surge which resulted so predictably from abandonment of the public health measures.

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