Nicoliar

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Waiting 40 hours for an ambulance in Scotland is a piece of nonsense. Nicola Sturgeon and her hapless Health Secretary Humza Yousef now known as Humza Yousless cannot blame Westminster for this tragic death of a 65 year old man because Health is a devolved matter at Holyrood.
The buck stops with Nicola and Humza.

One unfortunate incident makes neither the ambulance service nor the Scottish Government incompetent no matter what the stinking Tory linesman says in the Scottish Parliament. Let's balance this one man's unfortunate death against the hundreds of thousands of lives that the ambulance service has saved since the SNP took the reins, unfortunately I don't have the figures but can imagine they're looking pretty good for the ambulance service.

Personally I'd prefer to wait for the results of the investigation before hanging anyone from the nearest tree.

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Humza Yousef’s solution to resolve the current ambulated crisis is for people throughout Scotland not to dial 999 in an emergency but to dial 111.

I believe the words were unless 'absolutely critical'.

I know 2 people that work in the Dundee call centre that handles and distributes 999 calls from all over the disUK. People dial 999 and ask for an ambulance because of things such as sore heads, hangovers, stubbed toes, dogs being sick, the list of ridiculous 999 calls asking for ambulances goes on and these calls need to stop, I suggest a £500 fine for every blatantly non emergency call made with the money being fed directly back to the ambulance service - they'll stop in no time.

A huge number of calls to the ambulance service are elderly people with dementia or mental health problems who just want to talk to someone or who think they're phoning cousin Molly. An ambulance can be tied up for hours just chatting to old Elsie about how her kids never visit now while old John lies on his kitchen floor with a broken hip.

I don't like Humza Yousef any more than you but I reckon he's right to ask people not to phone 999 unless it's a genuine emergency, maybe he worded it poorly (no surprise there) but surely even you realises he has a point?

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She was 47 years old in December 2017.
Banks would be loath to grant a 25 year mortgage for £783,000 for a second home for a person who will be aged 48 on their next birthday

I got a 15 year mortgage at 47 years of age. I could have easily got a 25 year one if I wanted it, and could have easily got over £500,000 for that term but opted to borrow less and pay larger payments to get it out the way before I retire - if the disUK government ever let me retire that is.

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Apologies to all for the four 'bullying' posts above.

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One unfortunate incident makes neither the ambulance service nor the Scottish Government incompetent no matter what the stinking Tory linesman says in the Scottish Parliament. Let's balance this one man's unfortunate death against the hundreds of thousands of lives that the ambulance service has saved since the SNP took the reins, unfortunately I don't have the figures but can imagine they're looking pretty good for the ambulance service.

Personally I'd prefer to wait for the results of the investigation before hanging anyone from the nearest tree.

Listening to the union boy on the news, the ambulance service has been under pressure for a few years now, nothing to do with Covid or Brexit, all to do with SNP cut backs

[eric_sinclair]

Listening to the union boy on the news, the ambulance service has been under pressure for a few years now, nothing to do with Covid or Brexit, all to do with SNP cut backs

Mibbe Boris, s u turn on tax hike will provide more funds for the service.
On the news last night person in charge said it was down to unprecedented demand.
I'm sure figures will come out.

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Listening to the union boy on the news, the ambulance service has been under pressure for a few years now, nothing to do with Covid or Brexit, all to do with SNP cut backs

I'd never take a word said by any union official at face value, politicians and liars same as MPs / MSPs.

However in this case he's probably right but doesn't excuse the linesman taking one unfortunate example and trying to make both the SNP and ambulance service, who do a great job with limited resources, look incompetent - he's just a prick and not good enough to show up the SNP Government, Sturgeon mostly just brushes off his questions.

[Returnofrros]

Listening to the union boy on the news, the ambulance service has been under pressure for a few years now, nothing to do with Covid or Brexit, all to do with SNP cut backs

Around a decade.

Everything they touch.

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[QUOTE=Deeranged;39868163]Once again you've assumed she needed a 100% mortgage, maybe she paid part or all up front?

I'd be very surprised if she didn't have the resources to fund this purchase herself.[/QUOTE
£783,000 is a lot of money to save up from her own resources. She will pay a lot of tax and National insurance on her lavish salary since she became an MSP plus the SNP MSPs and MPs hand over an annual percentage of their salary to SNP funds.

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I believe the words were unless 'absolutely critical'.

I know 2 people that work in the Dundee call centre that handles and distributes 999 calls from all over the disUK. People dial 999 and ask for an ambulance because of things such as sore heads, hangovers, stubbed toes, dogs being sick, the list of ridiculous 999 calls asking for ambulances goes on and these calls need to stop, I suggest a £500 fine for every blatantly non emergency call made with the money being fed directly back to the ambulance service - they'll stop in no time.

A huge number of calls to the ambulance service are elderly people with dementia or mental health problems who just want to talk to someone or who think they're phoning cousin Molly. An ambulance can be tied up for hours just chatting to old Elsie about how her kids never visit now while old John lies on his kitchen floor with a broken hip.

I don't like Humza Yousef any more than you but I reckon he's right to ask people not to phone 999 unless it's a genuine emergency, maybe he worded it poorly (no surprise there) but surely even you realises he has a point?

This is not a new phenomenon. People have been doing this for years but until now there has been no need to ask the British Army for assistance.