The media obsession with saying the left is being beaten on its 'tribal' home turf in the north masks the fact that actually, our native socialist movement had multiple points of origins including London, Scotland and Wales and only won the Red Wall by delivering politically, writes KEITH FLETT
The SNP may play cynical politics over immigration enforcement, but plenty of Scots support it
Scottish Labour should beware of supporting the nationalists on an issue the Scottish parliament has no powers over
24 May 2021 • 5:11pm
The home secretary couldn’t have got a better reaction even if she had been deliberately trolling her Scottish opponents.
A fortnight ago an attempt by immigration authorities to remove two men who were living illegally in Glasgow was foiled after local residents blockaded the van carrying them. After an hours-long stand-off, the police advised that the two men should be released. This was welcomed by campaigners for open borders as a great triumph of people power and a rebuke to the rule of the UK government in Scotland.
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20 May 2021
Hospital patients were unlawfully discharged into care homes in Scotland, which experienced a disproportionate loss of life during the coronavirus pandemic.
The revelations come following an investigation by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, a statutory body which “monitor[s] the Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and the welfare parts of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000”, among other duties.
For its report, titled
Authority to Discharge, the Commission took a 457-patients sample of the thousands of people who were discharged from hospitals into care homes in the early stages of the pandemic, often without being tested, and found that a score of them were unlawful, spanning 11 separate Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) areas across Scotland.
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