Professor John Robertson OBA
Today, the Herald’s Martin Williams has:
Exclusive – Scotland’s £1.5bn council debt mountain reveals (sic) exposes SNP promises
Wow! more than a billion. That’d be like £18bn in a country with around 12 times the population, say the UK.
From GOV.UK’s Live tables on local government finance on 18 December 2025, the outstanding local authority borrowing of the UK’s local councils, was £147bn.1
So, debt under the Cons and the New Cons is now 8 times higher than in Scotland under the SNP?
Martin does seem to be doing everything so I guess he has no time for research or proof reading.
Sources:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Happy New year everyone!
Just think, even our councillors are better at managing budgets than they are ‘elsewhere!’
John
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You need to be doing YouTube shorts John.
everyone needs to be presented with the truth, rather than than politically skewed BS the unionist papers print.
John Lawson
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Another ”exclusive” by a dying newspaper !
If it were really an Exclusive story due to hard work and persistence by a crusading journalist determined to expose real corruption in Government then this would have been worthy of respect .
However , the truth is very different . Another ”story” from the biased unionist media gleaned from the ‘exhausting’ work of a Freedom of Information Request with the obvious intent of trying to undermine the Scottish Government .
As John exposes above , this story is missing context . The position of Council debt in England is many , many times worse . If The Herald journalist (sic ) really wanted a ”story” then he should have contrasted the situation in Scotland with that south of the border and asked …Why is it so bad in England ?
But , of course , that was not the point of this propaganda piece !
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