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11 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
EXCL: MP Margaret Ferrier claims SNP chiefs wrote her script apologising for flouting Covid rules then “hung me out to dry" by removing whip - after they saw public reaction. She says SNP bosses wrote that she'd referred herself to police before she had
thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…
Ferrier: "Someone told me to phone the police and said the statement would say I had already done so."
Ferrier said at 6.52pm - 1hr after her statement - she was told whip was being removed "but I would get back in because I was cooperating"

“Why suddenly have we got to the point where they have to take the whip from me? It was because the statement went out and it escalated."
Margaret Ferrier claims re SNP not acting decisively until they saw public reaction has echoes of CMO Catherine Calderwood scandal - and disgraced Finance Secretary Derek Mackay
With Catherine Calderwood, it took more than a day after SNP Gov were notified of @ScottishSun story re her flouting lockdown rules before they announced she was gone. Initially they defended her thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5460581/c…
With Derek Mackay, Scot Gov tried to put up barriers to @ScottishSun story about him pestering a schoolboy with 270 private messages and declined to comment on the article. It was the following morning before a statement was released saying he'd resigned thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5257550/d…

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10 Oct
EXCL: Scotland's Test and Protect system at 'breaking point' in parts of country after failing performance coinciding with spike in cases thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…
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BREAKING: Scottish Police Federation say senior Police Scotland health and safety personnel have described the "Protect Scotland" Covid proximity app as “haphazard”, “unreliable” and “inaccurate” Image
According to the Scottish Police Federation, Police Scotland have recommended that all officers be instructed NOT to use the app. The Fed disagrees and criticises the force's "casual disregard for the health and safety of its officers"
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9 Oct
Crikey. Under questions from journalist about definitions of cafes and restaurants, and who can stay open, Nicola Sturgeon says that "if cafes are finding this difficult then the only alternative we will have is to say anybody with a licence should close"
Nicola Sturgeon:“If a premise is in doubt,they should close until an environmental health officer tells them they think they fall within the definition. Now, if cafes are finding this difficult, then the only alternative we will have is to say anybody with a licence should close"
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1 Jun
EXCL: Scotland's care homes record 600 extra "excess" deaths during pandemic beyond 1,749 fatalities logged as Covid-related. The deaths are thought to be combination of unidentified Covid cases, and indirect mortality effects
We used publicly available National Records of Scotland data to calculate to the figures.
On chart below:
* Blue - expected level of deaths (five-year average)
* Red - excess deaths recorded as Covid-related
* Yellow - excess deaths not recorded as Covid
Chart shows how Covid (red) and non Covid (yellow) deaths leapt between weeks of 23/3 & 30/3. Covid: 5 to 49. Non-Covid: -1 (one less than expected from 5-year-avg) to 142. So initially, non-Covid excess deaths outnumbered Covid. Could many of these have been Covid deaths?
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20 May
BREAKING: Scot Gov admits 921 hospital patients were sent to care homes in March alone, pre mandatory testing. Yet on April 15, Health Sec Jeane Freeman said most of 900 delayed discharge patients discharged since pandemic start went to own homes, not care homes. Huge discrepancy
15/4: Q to Freeman on num of discharges to care homes in pandemic."Up to date there have been just over 900 people who would otherwise be classified as a delayed discharge, discharged from hospital, primarily, as the First Minister said, to their own home"
Scot Gov press office later tell us by email the percentage of the "just over 900" that went to care homes is 31-32%. So, around 300. We ran with this figure repeatedly in days and weeks that followed.
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19 May
There's been much debate re whether untested patients should have been discharged to care homes. Today we learned nearly 38% of delayed discharges in Scotland during pandemic were to care homes - higher than previously thought. We've been pushing for numbers since Apr 15. 1/6
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman gave the 38% figure, but not the number of people, in response to a Q from @MilesBriggsMSP. Based on the rate & figures quoted in April by Ms Freeman, it means at least 342 patients were discharged to care home before testing was mandatory. 2/6
My colleague @clalavelle asked about this on Apr 15 ( ) & Ms Freeman said "to date, just over 900 people" had been released under delayed discharge. Scot Gov press office later said % going to care homes was "broadly similar" to prev pattern of 31-32%. 3/6
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