Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC Scotland today: Council tax in Glasgow is set to rise by between 5% and 6%, after the SNP and Greens agreed a deal to pass a budget. Free school meals are expected to be extended to all children in primary seven and the council also plans to invest in cleansing, including more gully cleaning to prevent flooding.1 The average in Scotland, looks like being around 7-9%, well above that in Glasgow. In Birmingham City, now more … Continue reading Council tax in Labour-run Birmingham to rise by 50% more than in SNP-run Glasgow where for it you actually get your bins emptied and only half the level of violent crime to worry about when you bring them in, in the dark!

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Herald front page today is frankly disgusting. That’s a five year total added-up in an infantile attempt to get a big number. It was actually just 96.2m and far more important, they won’t share with us the real news, it’s falling. In their own report, para 7, we see: So three years ago, in one year, £38m out of £96m was paid out, leaving £58m to be shared out over the other 4 years, three of them … Continue reading Maternity negligence in NHS Scotland falls dramatically in last three years to only one seventh, per head, of that in NHS England but the Herald desperately tries to suggest a crisis here

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Above, the crimes of violence in Scotland overall and in Aberdeen, as recorded by Police Scotland in Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending September 2025. Violent crime across Scotland has increased recently in Scotland, down slightly last year, but has fallen significantly in Aberdeen City. BBC Scotland today, returns to a regular topic – violence in Aberdeen schools, with: Violence against teachers in Aberdeen’s schools remains “widespread, frequent and harmful”, according to Scotland’s largest teaching union. The EIS … Continue reading One in every 100 Aberdonians was physically assaulted last year but it was one in every 4 for teachers? As violence in Aberdeen City statistics plummet a teacher union says it’s surging to nightmare levels in the schools – how can this be?

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Annie Wells, List Con MSP, for now, campaigning on a platform of drug and alcohol deaths. Today, it was alcohol deaths and the above claim. You can, with some very simplistic arithmetic, prove the above to be kind of true but to do so you have to: Not take account of population growth, aging demographics, or external factors like the COVID-19 pandemic, which drove spikes in 2020-2023. Ignore the telling fact that in the first full year and … Continue reading Minimum unit pricing in Scotland is associated with 13% fall in alcohol deaths Glasgow University study finds but Annie Wells fiddles the sums to try to deceive voters and save her neck in May

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The news yesterday, headlining today in BBC UK TV broadcasts seems unlikely to represent an overall increase in funding for schools in England but, rather, a re-organising of them, as in deck chairs on the Titanic. Scotland’s media are, of course, not on this story. Here’s why, from the rarely SNP-friendly Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report – How does school spending per pupil differ across the UK?” – published in April 2023. In Scotland, large increases in … Continue reading Scotland’s schools have had a 21% increase in funding to leave them 18%, £1 300 more for every pupil, better off than those elsewhere in the UK