Jackie Baillie’s hypocrisy as Keir Starmer spends £60 130 of taxpayer money on a private jet trip to watch the Leopardesses
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S Jackie Baillie posted this on X on 20 August (based on a BBC article that had a headline “John Swinney defends £45,000 business-class flights to World Cup”). “Such luxury in a cost-of-living crisis is not the lived experience of most Scots. Perhaps the FM should have considered the expectations of taxpayers before spending our money. It’s not the first time the SNP have been cavalier with the company card”. Meanwhile I am sure that the same Jackie Baillie was not so ‘concerned’ at these stories: “Sir … Continue reading Jackie Baillie’s hypocrisy as Keir Starmer spends £60 130 of taxpayer money on a private jet trip to watch the Leopardesses
Lucy Whyte didn’t appear to know that freezing the cost of supermarket staples was a Scottish Labour manifesto pledge
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S As Jackie Baillie was interviewed by the BBC radio in Scotland in a softly softly interview that was mostly, as per, an opportunity for her to have yet another public platform to scream #SNPBAD via the BBC in Scotland. Yet here is what I found online in the ‘Scottish’ Labour manifesto for the 2026 Scottish elections. 30 April 2026 “100 Days of Change” This was on the ‘Scottish’ Labour website: “If international instability continues, deliver £100 million of emergency support including … Continue reading Lucy Whyte didn’t appear to know that freezing the cost of supermarket staples was a Scottish Labour manifesto pledge
1 586 fully-researched rebuttals and revelations in 2026 so far – help us keep going
Help Talking-up Scotland keep goinghttps://crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to:JOHN WATSON ROBERTSONSort Code – 08-91-04Account 12266421Many thanks to the 104 supporters so far.36 000 visitors in August1586 researched posts in 2026 so farJohn Continue reading 1 586 fully-researched rebuttals and revelations in 2026 so far – help us keep going
Thanks to Glasgow Labour – From your child’s hospital bed, so close you can smell it and see where the ‘highly putrescible primary sludge’ first comes on site
The Shieldhill Prelimary Works, [Pre-sedimentation] at the end of Hospital Boulevard, on the right, a few hundred metres from the QEUH main entrance with the Royal hospital for Children where a much-reported cancer ward death linked to bacterial infection took place. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Thanks once more to Anonymous for this idea and link. He writes: This is the Gate 3 Shieldhall Waste Transfer Station…sign visible on right, lorry emerging might be carrying un-processable waste from ’pre-sed’. Up ahead hospital entrance on right. Shieldhall WWTW on left … Continue reading Thanks to Glasgow Labour – From your child’s hospital bed, so close you can smell it and see where the ‘highly putrescible primary sludge’ first comes on site
Glasgow Labour’s new giant incinerator upwind of the QEUH associated with congenital anomalies, infant death and miscarriage
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Ends Waste & Bioenergy in January 2015: Plans to build the UK’s largest waste management complex [image at top] and energy-from-waste plant have come to an end, it has emerged. Lifetime Recycling Village Ltd, which had planned to build the £640m plant 12 kilometres south of Glasgow, was officially wound up in February, according to government records. Proposal to build the facility were first unveiled in 2010 by three waste and construction entrepreneurs. Its three gasification lines would have processed a total of … Continue reading Glasgow Labour’s new giant incinerator upwind of the QEUH associated with congenital anomalies, infant death and miscarriage
Swinney accused by Herald of starting wars to distract from his Ferry Fiasco 2
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Herald of Free Enterprise’s Maritime Williams today, the latest in his wrecking yard of journalism on ferries: Ferry fiasco 2.0? Why is £20m more needed for Turkish ships? After the ferry fiasco of Ferguson Marine, the Scottish Government and its ferry procurement wing, Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL), looked abroad for a shipyard that could build new vessels on time and at a price the taxpayer could stomach. and: Aye, right! We know who they are. Try asking a representative sample instead and watch your … Continue reading Swinney accused by Herald of starting wars to distract from his Ferry Fiasco 2
Massive growth in key economic sectors since early days of SNP administration
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From Industry statistics: Economic statistics for industry sectors in Scotland published today, the above data: From 2010, just before the first majority SNP Government in 2011 and until 2025, major parts of the Scottish economy, industry sectors increasing wealth and reinforcing the case for full autonomy, have been growing in number at a phenomenal pace. You can see the percentage increases above in red but the 98.6% increase, almost 100%, of businesses operating and employing in the Energy sector, is notable. Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/industry-statistics/ Help Talking-up … Continue reading Massive growth in key economic sectors since early days of SNP administration
Violence against women – does the Guardian’s Scottish Correspondent ever read anything first?
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 The Guardian’s Scotland Correspondent, Libby Brooks, is often ill-informed and this show little sign of doing any better. The image is, of course, from a march in London. Good morning. Violence against women and girls, in all its myriad forms – physical and mental, blatant and insidious – is a global challenge. It reaches back through millennia and, lately, it has been turbo-charged by technology, which offers abusers new ways to shame, harass and monitor victims. What would it take to eradicate it? Scotland’s first … Continue reading Violence against women – does the Guardian’s Scottish Correspondent ever read anything first?
Blaming the Scottish Government for the plague of English organised crime gangs
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Headlining on BBC Scotland‘s inserts to BBC Breakfast every 30 minutes this morning, making it onto the national UK broadcasts, illegal tobacco products and vapes in Inverness. Inverness isn’t the sort of place where you’d expect organised crime, but the increase in illicit tobacco there demonstrates the long arms of the gangs involved. Trading Standards and HMRC recently raided a shop there suspected of selling illicit tobacco. It was the 11th time Trading Standards had been at the premises since 2024 and the ninth … Continue reading Blaming the Scottish Government for the plague of English organised crime gangs
Nearly 5 000 Scots treated in A&E within 4 hours who might not have been had they lived in England as demand climbs above pre-Pandemic level
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 In July 2026 NHS Scotland’s full, consultant led, Type 1 emergency departments, 148 029 attended and 65% were treated within 4 hours. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/healthcare-system/urgent-and-unscheduled-care/accident-and-emergency/interactive-charts/number-of-attendances/ In NHS England the equivalent figure was 61.7% treated within 4 hours. https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ That 3.3% difference seems at first small, but when you consider it in the context of the 148 000 attending, it matters. Had they lived in England, 3.3% of that 148 000, 4 884 would have not been treated in time. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank … Continue reading Nearly 5 000 Scots treated in A&E within 4 hours who might not have been had they lived in England as demand climbs above pre-Pandemic level
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