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 Police-recorded non-sexual crimes of violence did rise 7% in the year ending June 2026 (71,915 to 77,005) and 6% in 2025-26 (71,170 to 75,601). https://www.gov.scot/news/recorded-crime-in-scotland-year-ending-june-2026/ I can’t see the full details as it’s behind a pay wall – pay the DR to check their dodgy stats, you must be kidding! Here are some far more important facts followed by the reason why the above ‘cop’ should stick to his day job. And why? 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 … Continue reading Second lowest murder rate in Europe, murder by minors and by knife plummet, overall violent crime less than half the rate in England yet far more police officers

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 an analysis of Employment Injury Assistance International Comparisons Subgroup minutes: March 2026 published today, members identified several features of other countries’ systems they saw as potentially more responsive, broader, or better integrated than the current UK arrangements that still apply in Scotland. Examples include: Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/employment-injury-assistance-international-comparisons-subgroup-minutes-march-2026/ 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 Continue reading Scottish Government investigation reveals inadequacies in reserved Westminster rules for occupational injury and disease compensation and social security

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 I suppose it was a natural transition from Anas Sarwar sitting beside the heartbroken mother and using the tragedy to then shout ‘What about Millie?’ at Nicola Sturgeon in an election debate, to the equally unpleasant figure of Jackie Baillie. We’ve written time and again about this nine-year-old case where a bacterial infection may have been contributory to a cancer death of a child then blamed by opposition parties and their media supporters on a supposed failure by the SNP Government to prevent such … Continue reading Sickening and darkly ironic as Jackie Baillie takes over Anas Sarwar’s creepy uncle role in the tragic death of a child patient 9 years ago which is linked by hard facts to Labour siting her new hospital right next to raw sewage works

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 England, as of June 2026, there were 30.4 violent crimes per 1 000 population, up from 30.26 the previous year.1 In Scotland the equivalent rate was 13.6 per 1 000 up from 12.8 the previous year.2 Nevertheless, the message from the Daily Record yesterday, based on the above 0.8% per 1 000 increase was the above headline and: Opposition politicians hit out at the surging figures too. Scots Tory justice spokesman Stephen Kerr said: “Scotland is becoming a lawless country, and these figures … Continue reading Violent crime is more than 220% higher in ‘lawless’ England where their parties have ruled forever than in SNP’s ‘lawful’ Scotland

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 Police Scotland – FPN/TORs & Seizure stats – E Scooters -2023-25– published today, the above data. This suggests determined efforts by Police Scotland to stem the increase in illegal use of imported e-scooters and to reinforce the effects of the Scottish Government’s track record in limiting their presence on the streets. What’s my evidence that these e-scooters are largely being used by English drug gangs? We know from England that this is the basis for e-scooter and e-bike injury spikes there and we … Continue reading Police Scotland seizing twice as many e-scooters to reduce death and injuries due to English County lines drug gangs