HooseLee Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, Rugster said: Part of the reason Sturgeon still had the cmo out there was for her to, pardon the pun, face the medicine. If she’d given her a pass she’d be accused of protection. She did the second best thing she could in the circumstances. Only if she isn't still in the job tomorrow. If the cmo is still there, she will be the focus of the press conferences. It's the fact that its twice while others have been fined. There is no justification for her actions and Sturgeon keeping her thre doesn't look good. It also doesn't sit well with folk. Not even fined when others have been for doing it once. It's the same old... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HooseLee Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 3 minutes ago, Fife Saint said: I thought I was hearing things but it appears Dominic Waghorn asked Sturgeon if she still thought she could do the job better 'than any Male, still?' Utterly unbelievable. Did he ask that? What a twat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Did he ask that? What a twat. I actually rewound it, couldn't believe what I had heard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: Only if those tests are conducted on the general public at large (and on top of that only if large numbers of those testing positive went on to develop severe symptoms). If they are being conducted on those seriously ill enough to present themselves at a hospital then it could be argued that the figure is actually quite low. It was 34% for the previous day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 minute ago, HooseLee said: Only if she isn't still in the job tomorrow. If the cmo is still there, she will be the focus of the press conferences. It's the fact that its twice while others have been fined. There is no justification for her actions and Sturgeon keeping her thre doesn't look good. It also doesn't sit well with folk. Not even fined when others have been for doing it once. It's the same old... I agree ideally she should have been fired. That’s not happened though and as a result she must continue, or else it will be seen as a climb down to media pressure to get rid. The time for her to go was first thing this morning. That should have happened in my opinion but Sturgeon has chosen to stick rather than twist and must stand by that now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 minute ago, HooseLee said: Only if she isn't still in the job tomorrow. If the cmo is still there, she will be the focus of the press conferences. It's the fact that its twice while others have been fined. There is no justification for her actions and Sturgeon keeping her thre doesn't look good. It also doesn't sit well with folk. Not even fined when others have been for doing it once. It's the same old... For me it’s saying one thing, which is pretty much the overriding tenet in the governments policy then twice going against her own advice. I can’t understand her thinking? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 I had to brave ASDA there, and all I can think is that there is f**k-all point in 80% of folk following the social distancing guidelines when it's plainly positive 20% of people don't give a flying shite about them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, ayrmad said: It was 34% for the previous day. Without context, though, these numbers are quite meaningless 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, Fife Saint said: I thought I was hearing things but it appears Dominic Waghorn asked Sturgeon if she still thought she could do the job better 'than any Male, still?' Utterly unbelievable. I've tweeted him to ask. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, jagfox99 said: For me it’s saying one thing, which is pretty much the overriding tenet in the governments policy then twice going against her own advice. I can’t understand her thinking? The advice has changed so quickly I'm not too sure what it was her for first bunk off from her 24/7 schedule, or even the second? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Tbf Nippy can’t really win. Sack her (accept her resignation) and she’s then got to throw a newcomer in. Before this morning’s scoop, Calderwood did seem to be getting the message across in a credible and authoritative manner (Chuckles’ testing perhaps excepted. Don’t sack her and the sideshow threatens to overwhelm the real message. Jason Leitch seems to have built a similarly reassuring air. Is there a reason he doesn’t qualify for the gig? -3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Just now, Todd_is_God said: Without context, though, these numbers are quite meaningless I can only go with what I see and hear, we appear to be testing the same group as before whilst adding in health professionals, it isn't easy to get figures now, a lot of pages are either being hidden or getting shoved to the bottom of the pile when you search. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Those calling on the FM to sack the CMO miss the point that no Civil Servant can be sacked by a minister. Only the Permanent Secretary can sack a Civil Servant. It should also be noted that civil service in Scotland is a matter reserved to Westminster not Holyrood. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: Those calling on the FM to sack the CMO miss the point that no Civil Servant can be sacked by a minister. Only the Permanent Secretary can sack a Civil Servant. But I assume the FM can ask for a different representative for the daily briefing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Hancock endorsing Sturgeon at the end of the UK briefing. Who’d have thunk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) I am now at the "looking at hair trimmer" stage Edited April 5, 2020 by doulikefish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 48% of tests proving positive is quite worrying. I dont see that as bad at all. Glad they are obviously doing decent screenings first before wasting tests we dont have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 9 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: Those calling on the FM to sack the CMO miss the point that no Civil Servant can be sacked by a minister. Only the Permanent Secretary can sack a Civil Servant. That’s pedantry tbh. She could make her position very clear and Calderwood’s position would be untenable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Connolly Posted April 5, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 5, 2020 The worst thing about Calderwood's behaviour is that it's given Janey fucking Godley a chance to do another of her shite voiceovers 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 14 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: Those calling on the FM to sack the CMO miss the point that no Civil Servant can be sacked by a minister. Only the Permanent Secretary can sack a Civil Servant. When you become a bigger story than the one you're talking about surely it's time to step aside and get out of the spotlight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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