Wings Over Scotland describes itself as a “Scottish media political digest and monitor” which has been variously bombarded by praise and vitriol. In a page posted the other day, the website tackles the knotty issue of the Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife story that has been popping up almost daily in the mainstream press recently.
The page called ‘The thickness of blood‘ is an entertaining and informative summary of the self-inflicted car crash to date:
Much of Scotland, and indeed the rest of the UK and beyond (the story below ran in the London Standard), has been grimly gripped this week by the ongoing and scarcely believable trainwreck that is Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife.
The tribunal has now overrun the time allotted to it, and will reconvene for another 10 days in the second half of July, ramping up the already considerable costs incurred by NHS Fife, which is in the middle of a huge financial crisis.
According to legal experts, there is little doubt about the law surrounding the dispute. NHS Fife is clearly and unambiguously in the wrong – Dr Beth Upton, the transwoman at the centre of the problem, is legally as well as biologically male, and had no lawful entitlement to be in a female changing room. The authority also appears to be in very considerable potential trouble over failing to disclose key documents and evidence when ordered by the original judge.
So it seems remarkable that the board of NHS Fife is allowing the case to continue rather than immediately conceding to save money and any more public humiliation of both itself and its staff, like the hapless nurse manager Esther Davidson who endured a very uncomfortable two days in the witness box this week, and the clearly manifestly incompetent Equality And Human Rights Lead Officer, Isla Bumba, who yesterday deleted her LinkedIn page after being identified as the person who gave Davidson incorrect and unlawful guidance.
(Bumba is a 29-year-old immunology graduate and former bartender who ditched the challenging and gruelling field of vaccine development for a rather cushier number in pronoun-policing for £40–47,000 a year, somewhat more than the £31,000 average wage on offer to staff nurses like Sandie Peggie, who’s been a nurse for longer than Bumba has been alive.)
Readers may reasonably wonder if the makeup of the board might offer some clues.
From thereon the page goes into that NHS Fife board in colourful detail, speculating that “it’s highly likely that misguided sympathy for friends and family members is a major part of how the [trans] ideology has managed to secure such a strong foothold so fast”.
Worth reading in full if only to wonder just how long it’ll be before the NHS collapses under its own woke wastefulness and ineptitude.
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