Dear All
Has there ever in the entire of the SNP in Government been a competent Health Secretary? Obviously this is a quick question with and equally quick answer, the answer being No! Every SNP Health Secretary has been a dude, starting back with Nicola Sturgeon in 2007. Sturgeon unlike most of the subsequent dross had a better PR operation to mask her incompetence, what she did was focus on directing resources to a few specific targets while the rest of the service when down the pan. Nicola Sturgeon then 'jumped' ship when the independence campaign and just before the cracks appeared of how badly the service had deteriorated. Her replacement in a straight job swop was Alex Neil. Neil's claim to fame in the post, was he couldn't stand the sight of blood, his tenure didn't last long.
The post given to Shona Robison by her pal Nicola Sturgeon as part of Sturgeon's more women in government plan, which appeared to be 'all her pals'. Robison didn't have the slick PR operation of Sturgeon in place, and her performance showed very quickly that she was promoted beyond her ability. Arguably there is a strong case that Shona Robison was the most incompetent health sec ever in Holyrood history. Entered office on 21 November 2014 and left 26 June 2018, a rollercoaster ride of stupidity, ineffective leadership and failure. Nicola Sturgeon started the decline of the Scottish Health Service, but Robison was like petrol thrown onto a burning building.
Following the collapse of confidence in Robison publicly, she had to be replaced, she had damaged the service too much, her husband was ploughing into another woman down south, and she looked like she couldn't comb her hair in the morning. In what was supposed to be a safe pair of hands, Nicola Sturgeon turned to Jeane Freeman, Scotland's Quango Queen who had served on health boards, I suppose the impression was Freeman and her background would turn around the health service. It didn't, then came Covid 19, and as many people were to see Freeman wasn't the supposed superstar that she was portrayed as. As the Covid pandemic hit, elderly patients with Covid were shipped from hospitals into sterile care homes, thousands of elderly died. In what must be the greatest injustice, Freeman retired from politics and got off scot free. In a report by Public Health Scotland, 78 patients were sent to care homes after testing positive. In a BBC report over Covid deaths, in October 2020, they published that Deaths in care homes accounted for about half of Covid-related deaths in Scotland, with about 2,000 resident deaths. Of Freeman herself, it could be said that a lot of people are dead because she wasn't very good at her job.
In a shrinking pool of talent following a changing of the guard, Nicola Sturgeon found herself in a real pickle because there wasn't a stand out candidate to replace Freeman in her ranks. It was because of that she had to give the position of Health Secretary to Humza Yousaf, a serial failure in every portfolio that he has been placed in. As the Minister for Transport, he wasn't just poor, he even racked up a driving offence while driving a vehicle without insurance. As Minister for Justice, in this role he was entirely unsuitable, and if you caught the news, he was at the helm when prisoners were given mobile phones, which the prisoners hacked and used to commit crime and setup drug deals. Now in the role of Health Secretary, he is like someone in panto playing a role. Handing out ill-informed advice without any common sense or wit to realise the significance of what he is saying.
So, what is this chancer saying now?
Humza Yousaf is urged Scots to think twice before calling 999 for ambulance. So, he is in effect wanting people with no medical training to self diagnose themselves, like you would see in a medical drama of Drs and nurses doing triage. In a statement of the obvious, he says that the NHS is facing an “extraordinarily difficult winter”. Newsflash, the NHS faces a difficult winter every year, this year is no different. In a throw away statement presumably which some would say was done to make himself look good, he "pledged" additional cash that could be found would be spent trying to ease the pressure on the health service. Are you buying into his pledge, I am not, the SNP have a habit, or modus operandi of moving money and dubbing it new money, when it in fact isn't. In the past, many have highlighted the fact that previously Humza worked as a 'call centre' worker, and although that isn't really an issue, his stunning lack of common sense is an issue particularly when he starts handing out health advice. People who have no medical training, particularly the elderly have no real understanding when ill whether their issue is manageable, critical or absolutely critical when calling for an ambulance. In a recent story, someone who had a stroke called for an ambulance, it didn't arrive quickly, the victim of the delay is now in a worse condition than if he had been treated earlier.
Where is plan B for augmenting the ambulance service? Is there a plan at all to make use of forces medics and equipment? Has anyone suggested UK government help? If not why not? The fact is the SNP Ministers would rather not call for help and show they are capable of using intelligence because they run with the false flag independence narrative that they are;
1/
Capable
2/
Managing effectively.
3/ Coping.
All of the 3 listed above, are what the SNP isn't. Evidence of failure can be shown by the benchmark of the target time four hours in accident and emergency has hit record highs. In part of his panto performance from reading off his 'script', Yousaf said the ambulance service was being given an “extra £20 million injection” to help boost staff numbers. My question is, where was the £20 million pounds moved from? And certainly someone should be asking this as matter of concern. Did Yousaf and his team, moved money from one part of the health budget to another part? He added as part of his, 'I am going everything possible' pitch:
“We are beginning to see more and more ambulance staff recruited. That recruitment is happening now, so we are helping to staff up the ambulance service.”
Finally,
surely recruitment happens through-out the year, if more staff have been recruited,
given they have to be trained, where is this happening, how did the ambulance
service find the extra capacity for training? How much extra resources was put
into getting extra trainers? If there were no extra trainers hired, does that
mean that the service was operating previously under capacity? If so, how long
has the service been operating under capacity? Was this due to a cut in funding
for the ambulance service? In reading these questions, you might be tempted to
stop at this section and ponder this? Humza Yousaf was appointed Health Sec on
20 May 2021, his get off free jail card at the moment is his short tenure in
the post, he can claim he is the new broom who will sort of problems. But,
given his history in Ministerial posts, his lack of judgment and common sense,
how much weight can you put on any advice he offers? The SNP is directly
responsible for the deaths of thousands in care homes, we know that, but just
as Covid was a pandemic, there is another pandemic which is riding towards
Scots behind that. It is the pandemic of people who have serious undiagnosed
health issues, heart, liver, Lung, brain, cancers, and neuro palsy, and a whole
host of other issues. I found out recently, a number of people I have known
over the course of nearly 40 years have serious health problems that have
kicked in. One guy has neuro palsy, he is going to die, others have M.S.,
another has a serious heart problem, another sees his diabetes return. And
Scotland has Humza Yousaf at the wheel of the Scottish NHS, he like Nicola
Sturgeon will probably run that brief doing PR crisis management, when he should be doing long
term planning, because the health backlog could turn out to be in the path of a real health tsunami heading for Scots.
Yours sincerely
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