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The tweet I linked to says, very clearly
Reports that the UK Government has seized control of Scotland’s Coronavirus testing kits are “simply untrue”, says the Scottish Government
The tweet is from the Times of Scotland's Politics and Education correspondent.
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Ironic because Govt also seized testing kits already allocated to Scotland
The tweet directly contradicts this, so your attempt to argue black is white is quite impressive.
Let me put it this way: Do you have any evidence that testing kits already allocated to Scotland (your words) were seized by England?
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I think both of you are discussing a semantic or maybe syntactic difference.
Reports that the UK Government has seized control of Scotland’s Coronavirus testing kits are “simply untrue”, says the Scottish Government
Is not contradicting
Gompels is a private company, used by all devolved nations until April 1st when it suddenly seems to have acted on instruction from Whitehall not to sell to anyone other than PHE.
Basically ube is saying all new supplies are being redirected to England and you're arguing that existing supplies haven't been removed from Scotland and sent to England. One of you is right, both of you are right or neither of you are right.
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Jesus. You're in such a rush to be smug that you don't even know what you are posting. The Tweet you linked to says that the Scottish Government denied it had given permission for the UK parliament to dictate their testing regimes and to assume control of procurement.
The statement posted in the tweet does not deny that tests had been diverted, but asserts that it will continue to source and conduct its own tests. Sturgeon has said the Government are investigating, and seeking reassurances from Hancock. Hancock cancelled that meeting, then Sunak came out in full denial mode later in the day.
Obviously, with Hancock's track record it isn't a desirable or politically expedient thing to be chained to Tory policy when people's lives are at stake. Health is a devolved area, Public Health England and Westminster have no purview over the Scottish NHS. So, out of two of us, who the fuck is the one posting fake news by trying to pass that tweet off as something it's not? Welcome to the world of BBC style reportage and whatever shite interpretation of 'facts' you come up with.
Edit: here's a sky news report giving context to the actual Scottish Government denial (not the misleading description of it in the tweet you linked to) that it had acquiesced to Whitehall taking the lead on deciding who gets testing kits, hope that's real enough for you, ignorant prick.
https://youtu.be/-OJHtAOv_ro