Knife toll

Doctors working in Scottish A&E departments dealt with hundreds of stabbings in the past year despite a long-term fall in levels of violent crime, figures show.

In comparison, since 1 January, 2019, there have been an incredible 100 homicides in England – 60 of these 100 murders were committed using knives, or other bladed weapons; 22 of these knife murders occurred in London; nine in Greater Manchester; eight in the West Midlands. The remaining 11 knife murders occurred across other parts of England.

Samuelcoldstream With a population of 55.62 million 100 in just over three months is not bad; last year London was hitting 40 knife crimes a day. Scotland had 60 murders last year, with a population of 5.42m, so per capita murders are higher in Scotland than England.

Englishandinscotland There seems to be a lot of cars stolen round here. Good luck if you confront these gentlemen at 3 in the morning...

Sheeps Sadly, the commendable recent efforts in Scotland by the Violence Reduction Unit have been negated by what is currently thought in England to be cocainerelated mental health issues. At last in England stop-andsearch is being brought back. That is probably going to be necessary for at least the next ten years and we should have that now in Scotland so that lives can be saved. “government’”which is supposed to do stuff for us, but they do nothing. We have many government “ministers”, each on £110k per year plus expenses, who do nothing... and I mean nothing.

Hoditanddodit Maybe we should get the Tories in to sort it! No, wait didn’t they cut police by 20,000 leading to a massive increase in violent crime? Didn’t shut any police stations, though, did they?

David Daniels in Scotland were first put forward by Finance Secretary Derek Mackay during crunch budget talks with the Greens, it has emerged.

Harvie says he believes in local democracy and yet supports the most centralising government in Europe. Obviously independence transcends localism. What colour do you get if you mix yellow and green? Is it brown? How appropriate.

Persona non grata If Derek Mckay suggested the workplace parking levy, that certainly makes sense. It’s on a par with his other