Government By Gang
Scottish Ministers are deliberately withholding information - because they were quick to release unofficial 'estimated' data on Monday when it suited their purpose having previously insisted that no such data would be released.As figures for England suggest that almost half of hospital patients in London didn’t know they had Covid before going in, #TheNine’s @mmgeissler asks Scottish health secretary @HumzaYousaf about Scottish Covid hospitalisations. pic.twitter.com/4GmCpmMpmT
— The Nine (@BBCScotNine) December 29, 2021
To their great discredit Humza Yousaf, John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon all commented on this unofficial data via their personal Twitter accounts.
Government By Gang (December 28, 2021)
The Scottish Government web site displayed the following message over the Christmas weekend:
Published: 24 Dec 2021
Directorate: Chief Medical Officer DirectoratePart of: Coronavirus in Scotland, Health and social care
Updated at 2pm to provide the latest data on COVID-19 in Scotland. There will be no updates published on 25-28 December and 1-4 January. On Wednesday 29 December and Wednesday 5 January, we will provide the latest daily data for that day and the previous 4 days.
What odd behaviour, especially as Scottish Ministers have some 55 spin doctors on the public payroll - yet the SNP seem to prefer government by a close-knit 'wee gang'.