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: The introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland is associated with significant reductions in deaths from alcohol consumption, research has found. Over a period of two years and eight months after … 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

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 the Herald last week, the above, and: More than 18,000 CalMac ferries have been cancelled due to technical faults over the last five years, it has been revealed Bobbie (10) is that big number? It looks big at first, Mr Robertson, but will CalMac ferries maybe not have done a huger number of sailings in 5 years? Find out for me Bobbie and do a percentage as well. On it Mr Robertson. It’s about 770 000, Mr … Continue reading Herald reveals 97% of CalMac sailings were NOT affected by mechanical issues and the number of those are falling dramatically since the Herald’s previous 2018 freedom of information request