Scotland’s Supreme Leader, Nic Sturge-On, has announced that the lockdown rules in place in some areas will remain in force after Monday. The Sun has more.
The Scots First Minister revealed Glasgow and Moray will remain subject to tougher Level 3 restrictions on Monday as the rest of mainland Scotland drops to Level 2.
It means people in Glasgow will be no longer allowed to mix in each other’s homes from Monday as planned.
And those in the affected areas shouldn’t travel in or out of them either.
The slamming on the handbrake is over fresh fear the India variant is driving an [upsurge in cases] in Scotland’s second largest city.
Some 80.4 cases per 100,000 people were recorded in Glasgow in the seven days to May 11, with experts warning of a “loss of control”.
Speaking to the Scottish Parliament today, Ms Sturgeon told MSPs that “pressing pause” would ensure that coronavirus measures would not have to be reimposed at a later date.
She said: “I know how disappointing this will be, but pressing pause for a few days will hopefully avoid a situation in which we have to impose even more restrictive measures over the next few weeks.”
Initially, both areas will remain at Level 3 for a week, with a further decision made at the end of next week.
It heralds the return of local restrictions for Scotland after parts of the central belt were subject to tougher measures last year.
They will have less freedoms than counterparts in other areas of Scotland, who will be able to mix indoors in groups of six from three households.
Overnight stays are also allowed under Level 2, but are banned in Level 3.
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The Troll just doesn’t like the idea of Glaswegians having sex.
Moray is of course a Conservative constituency so not surprised that the evil one is having a go at them, despite the very few cases there. Glasgow is a bit of a surprise so I am not sure what she has got against them. However I had to deal with my inconsoleable daughter in floods of tears yesterday as her Glasgow wedding is again under threat. Sturgeon and Johnson are pure evil dictators who have no concern whatever for the mental anguish and despair that they are inflicting on us. I can never forgive them for what they have done and continue to do to our family.
One irony of all this is that in India new case numbers peaked over a week ago at a relatively low figure in relation to a population approaching 1.5 billion and have fallen by over 20% since then; the “Indian variant” is clearly nothing like the rampant threat that some would have us believe.
Moray was an SNP constituency for 30 years and, presumably, they hope to regain it.
Moray is an SNP constituency in the Scottish parliament
The people of Moray must think that Sturgeon has lost her Marbles.
Lovely comment! Elgin marbles I assume.
Just returned from a week in Scotland. Man have they scared the pants off people. Walking up to someone, anyone in Scotland automatically triggers a very fast movement away from someone getting too close. There are one way systems everywhere to the point it was impossible to find the way in or out of venues. Dinner over at 8pm, no booze with dinner but magically on this coming Monday, because the virus knows it is Monday, you can have dinner in a restaurant with a drink til 10:30pm. And the funny thing is……everyone seems to think this is absolutely okay!!! As I already said,boy have they scared the pants off the Scottish population. So very sad to see people behave this way. So much stupidity.
Mike Yeadon points out these are false positives. We are very lucky to have someone of his status and expertise commenting below the line. Thank you, Dr Yeadon, for all you do.
Even if they were true, it would be good news. The virus would be spreading amongst the young, asymptomatically, at a time of the year when it is least dangerous, and when all the vulnerable who need it have had the jabs. It would be giving precious natural immunity to the young, and increasing that best of all immunities.
This Scots continued imprisonment is blatantly to force more people to take the jabs, especially the young.
I live in Moray and have studied the numbers in fine detail. Firstly – more than half of Moray has had not a single case for weeks, secondly the centre of this spike (Elgin) turned the corner three days ago and the ‘case rate has already dropped by 47%. My guess is tat by the middle of next week Elgin and Lossiemouth will be ‘light grey’ on the DT’s mini map leaving only the mighty geographically isolated small town of Aberlour a bit pink.
So glad to see “The Science” back in full swing! Lord save us from these bloody experts!
Please stop the blame game. Yes there are a few Scots who have greviences against the English but there are a few English with greviences against the Scots.
I joined this group last year and found myself relating to people because of the situation we find ourselves in now. I don’t always agree with everyones politics but this is not about politics, this is much bigger and we are a small enough group of people trying to find ways to get our freedoms back, using the Scots /English greviences is going to divide us even more.
I know that the population of Scotland is smaller than the population of London and there’s millions more English than Scots, so it benefits the Scots but I’m not going to apologise for how a quarter of the country voted for a psychopath, as the English didn’t make any better decisions in their local elections, none of us were given any good alternatives as the big 2 in England and the big 3 in Scotland, are all built from the same mould.
Let’s put down our pitch forks until we are free to travel the world at will once more and not locked up… Read more »
Quite.
Sorry Scotland! You ain’t never getting out lockdown – there will forever be mutations.
The positivity (fraction of tests performed which come back positive) is far below any reasonable estimate of the operational false positive rate.
What this means is that there almost certainly are NO cases.
It’s incumbent on the Scottish government to show otherwise.
It’s at best incompetence & more likely malfeasance to imply there are cases in the community when there are not.
Exactly the same applies to England.
Remember, your government is lying to you, with the intent of causing you & your family harm.
The Social Anthropologist will be behind this! Sturgeon’s close friend……
Glad you’re here. Been following you since you started making noises last year. You are doing brave, valuable work and many people I know, including me, are using your material to make a noise. I don’t use my real name here because at the start of all this I did and got abuse in my email – by 77th I believe, not genuine sceptics. So I have a wee tiny experience/taste of all the crap you must have suffered.
The dentist strikes again. -_-
I hope people see how arbitrarily this has been done. Hope is a burning ember at this stage however
Its time to remove her from office and remove this lockdown.
So you remove her from office – which party leader is likely to step up and cancel the new lockdown?
Where Scotland leads Boris Johnson always follows a week or so later
“It means people in Glasgow will be no longer allowed to mix in each other’s homes from Monday as planned.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Yeah right!
Lolz
Well thanks Sturgeon, indoor gym classes were suppose to start up in Glasgow on Monday, not anymore. I’m still paying £30/ month for a very reduced gym service. But I know the gym might close if even more folk cancel their membership. They are hanging on, and need folk like me to keep paying full price for limited access, but for how long….
Then there is my friend who had arranged a night out with an old friend on Thursday next week to the casino… She tells me he is not coping well and was really looking forward to a bit of company, well he will just have to wait then. And the local pub near me, with no outside space, they have been closed but the lights have been on over the last few days and folk inside have been getting ready to open on Monday, how are they feeling now, back to putting the boards up on the windows?
But what does all this matter to Sturgeon, Leitch or Bauld?
Spiteful Nannying Party Fuhrerein
And she lives in Baillieston in the east end of Glasgow, the area I grew up. How her windows haven’t been put in every night is a mystery to me.
Her salary is paid by you and I don’t forget.
It’s about time we stopped using North Korea as a measure of authoritarianism when the country’s people enjoy greater freedom and civil liberties than we currently do.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
Except it is not for the good of its victims, though that is what the government et al is trying to portray. By this time, we all know what their agenda really is, and it is evil and harmful. They don’t give a fig about us expendables. And their consciences aren’t troubled one jot. They are enjoying it.
8 cases in 10,000.
Am I missing something?
Yes. The operational false positive rate. It’ll be larger than 8 in 10,000, which is equivalent to 0.08%. According to a June 2020 government document which was sent to SAGE & called “SAGE paper, when Lord Bethel referred to it in a written answer, the oFPR still hadn’t been determined, but past estimates ranged from 0.4 – 2.3%.
They’re lying again.
Sooo predictable!! First Sturgeon and Drakeford go ape, and then Boris will follow suit. This pattern is becoming monotonous – carrot & stick, hope & despair. Surely even the sheep should wake up to this now?
Let’s make tomorrow’s protests throughout the country huge. And even bigger in two weeks time in London!
Please call the Prime Moron by his proper name of Kim Jong-Johnson.
Thank you.
How the hell can anybody have voted for this nasty little hag?
The alternatives were terrible.
For the same reason, England voted for Kim Jong-Johnson instead of Jeremy Corbyn.
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So fatty the pretend Jogger has all but canned 21 June. What a surprise. And yet no English media are pointing out what this prat in Scotland is up to. Absolutely awful bunch. But hey people voted for them.
Bet they’re really glad they voted her back in….. Suckers
You know how she works. She either copies or tries to get ahead of the agenda. Which means, we’ll follow suit eventually. I don’t know why I get surprised by any of this anymore. Known the plan since mid last year. I think its more a case of wishing I was wrong but I really need to get real and prepare best I can. Get ready folks. The next step will be rampant inflation so make sure you have a) money in assets like shares and property or b) have cash at hand to accommodate food prices going up.
They’ll ban cash soon enough…with the excuse that it harbours the virus and other nasties! Big Brother can then really be the all-seeing eye. Bastards!
Invest now in canned food. Move to Dixie.
There is no hope for Scotland.
Scotland is doomed.
Looking at age related “cases” shows that the peak age group is 14 to 19 year olds, which is why even if they have it, they haven’t needed hospitalisation and simply don’t die from it.the
Test enough school kids twice a week and figures are almost guaranteed.
They voted for her… they got her…..their problem
As I’m sick of telling my English/Welsh/NI friends; more people vote AGAINST the SNP in Scotland than vote FOR them. The problem is the pro-union vote is split 3 ways.
Believe me, most people in Scotland are just as appalled by her “leadership” as those of you in the rest of the UK.
Speak for the people of Scotland she does NOT!
I”ve campaigned for Scottish Independence for years in order to get away from these idiots that keep getting voted in in Englandshire – don’t diss the SNP when Scotland have not voted for a Conservative government since around Nineteen Fifty Oatcake. Still – I cancelled my SNP membership last week – not keen on being run by yet another bunch of villains.
So if Grovel Smarmer got voted in in England, you’d rejoice?
God help you.
You attribute imaginary views to your adversary
Egos. Why for instance did so many anti Lockdown candidates stand for the London mayoral election? I know it would have made little difference but if they’d got together as a coalition the anti Lockdown vote might have done even better. Just a thought!
Exactly. Time to put personal ambition aside and figure out who has the best chance in a coalition because there is much that unites them. Pick the winner out of a hat if necessary! Just stop splitting the damned vote.
But it’s not just their problem is it? Where Sturgeon leads Johnson follows. England will go for a similar solution in designated areas/tiers next week, but we’ll get the south of the country into full freedom (except masks) after Jun 21 to allow Johnson to get married. But after that…. Tiers in Sep, full lockdown in Oct.
The fascinating conundrum for Johnson and Sturgeon will be COP 26 in Glasgow in November: how will they balance that one?