The story of Keith Findlay dying after months of being warehoused in a hospital is not unique.
Dozens of people with learning disabilities are stuck in hospitals because there is not the person-centred care available which could bring them home.
Charity Enable Scotland is demanding this human rights scandal ends now and we should all rally behind their call.
For Emma Findlay and her son, it is too late. But something can still be done for those whose lives are stagnating in wards and hospital rooms because our care system is failing them.
The Scottish Government promised to address this cruel limbo in its 2018 Coming Home report yet still people like Keith are suffering.
Local authorities are left to tackle this problem on the ground but they don’t have the funds and resources available.
Keith, 30, died after living in a hospital room for 19 months because no care package could be sourced and that is an outrage in a modern Scotland which prides itself on compassion.
The Scottish Government made £20million available to ease the crisis but it is not enough and local authorities need support and financing to end this betrayal of people with learning disabilities.
We are a nation of equals yet those with learning disabilities continue to be discriminated against by systematic failures in our care system.
Time to go BoJo
Every day seems like a new low for the UK’s worst ever Prime Minister.
Now cops have a photo of the PM holding a beer at a Downing Street shindig.
Not only that but a fifth aide, special adviser Elena Narozanski, quit amid the disgrace of Partygate.
Boris Johnson even tried to stop the mutiny by giving a bizarre speech to staff that referenced the Lion King.
The reasons behind the five departures are not identical but they confirm utter chaos at Number 10.
Johnson’s nightmare got worse when another Tory MP, Aaron Bell, submitted a letter of no confidence in his leader.
The Tory high command is tight-lipped about numbers but we must be getting close to a vote on the PM’s future.
The wider point is people across the UK desperately need a Government solely focused on the cost of living crisis.
Soaring energy bills and rising food prices are going to plunge millions of people into poverty. The looming National Insurance rise will take more money out of people’s pockets.
But Johnson and his cabal cannot seriously tackle this disaster because the Government is paralysed. Partygate should already have been enough to trigger Johnson’s immediate resignation.
His presence in office during a cost of living crisis is a disaster for the country.
He must go – and go now.
