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Thanks to SNP among the best paid in Europe with by far the smallest classes and the least anxious in the UK so why are teacher union leaders and media hiding strike action poll response rate to try to undermine SNP Government – loyalty to Labour?

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald today: A ballot organised by Scotland’s largest teaching union has displayed strong support for strike action, if a long awaited promise to cut teachers’ class contact time is not delivered in the near future. The ballot organised by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) resulted in 92% in favour of action short of strike and 83% in favour of strike action. The online consultative ballot opened in June at the EIS annual general meeting and closed this week. An … Continue reading Thanks to SNP among the best paid in Europe with by far the smallest classes and the least anxious in the UK so why are teacher union leaders and media hiding strike action poll response rate to try to undermine SNP Government – loyalty to Labour?

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200 000 barrels of radioactive waste dumped in the Bay of Biscay approved by the UK on our behalf is not too far away to add to our burden of waste and disease

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA From WION on 29 August 2025 (Indian English language news channel) European nations dumped 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean, and humans might soon pay the price – A team of scientists has found 3,355 barrels of radioactive waste at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery was made at a depth of 13,000 feet, and hundreds of miles offshore from France. This is only a tiny part of the actual number of barrels filled with nuclear waste scattered … Continue reading 200 000 barrels of radioactive waste dumped in the Bay of Biscay approved by the UK on our behalf is not too far away to add to our burden of waste and disease

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Contrary to the Herald scare and tasteless images Scotland provides far more accommodation for the homeless than Welsh Labour or Birmingham City Labour and 50 times more than Scottish Labour ever did

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald has an exploitative image of someone on the streets for their story today. This does not represent the vast majority of the ‘homeless’ who are in temporary accommodation. Martin Williams in the Herald this morning has: Scotland’s housing emergency: Why can’t ministers fix it? Scotland has lost nearly 90,000 private rental homes since before the pandemic, deepening a housing emergency that sees more than 40,000 homelessness applications every year. New figures show landlords are quitting the market at a rate … Continue reading Contrary to the Herald scare and tasteless images Scotland provides far more accommodation for the homeless than Welsh Labour or Birmingham City Labour and 50 times more than Scottish Labour ever did

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Scottish taxpayers likely to have to pay £300 000 in a British Government settlement over the cancellation of a new Cumbria coal mine

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to ArtyHetty for alerting me to this: From Global Justice Now on 10th August 2025: The British government is being sued in a so-called ‘corporate court’ by an investor in the now abandoned Cumbria coal mine. The coal mine was quashed by the High Court less than a year ago over concerns around carbon emissions, and following large scale environmental mobilisations against it. Investors behind the project are now using the UK’s investment treaty with Singapore to sue the government. The exact details … Continue reading Scottish taxpayers likely to have to pay £300 000 in a British Government settlement over the cancellation of a new Cumbria coal mine

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As they struggle to find somewhere ‘safe’ to store the world’s largest stockpile of radioactive plutonium, an SNP defeat in Holyrood 2026 could see a spineless Labour, swelling Reform UK and the other useless idiots voting to over-rule a local authority and put it under a Scottish mountain

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Frances McKie once more for alerting me to this From BBC Cumbria yesterday: More than £150m will be spent by the government to investigate how best to dispose of the 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium it currently stores at a nuclear plant. Sellafield in Cumbria holds the world’s largest stockpile of the hazardous material. Earlier this year, the government announced the material would not be reused and instead would be made ready for permanent disposal deep underground and put “beyond reach”. Storing it in … Continue reading As they struggle to find somewhere ‘safe’ to store the world’s largest stockpile of radioactive plutonium, an SNP defeat in Holyrood 2026 could see a spineless Labour, swelling Reform UK and the other useless idiots voting to over-rule a local authority and put it under a Scottish mountain

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As the Peter Murrell case is extended beyond the next Holyrood election who was surprised and who do we think is making sure it is being well-milked for that purpose?

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA As we heard Peter Murrell may not return to court until after Holyrood election (Herald 22 August 2025), many would have been thinking they knew this would happen, as the case is further milked for political ends. Then we ponder who is making sure this happens, perhaps in pursuit of what they would call ‘national security?’ The Express in February 2025 had: Nicola Sturgeon was CIA agent who stoked gender wars to foil Scexit, claims top nationalist – Former diplomat Craig Murray suggests that … Continue reading As the Peter Murrell case is extended beyond the next Holyrood election who was surprised and who do we think is making sure it is being well-milked for that purpose?

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As they surge to 30% of all cars why SUVs are 8 times more likely to kill a child and the limits of devolution mean the Scottish Government can do little about it

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details By Professor John Robertson OBA,In the Guardian today: The number of giant cars in England’s cities has increased tenfold in recent years, according to researchers, who warn the vehicles are taking up excessive public space and posing a threat to public safety. Analysis published by Clean Cities has found SUVs have gone from 3% to 30% of existing cars in the past two decades. In London, the number of SUVs has increased from about 80,000 in 2002 to about 800,000 in 2023. Campaigners are calling for Paris-style parking charges to … Continue reading As they surge to 30% of all cars why SUVs are 8 times more likely to kill a child and the limits of devolution mean the Scottish Government can do little about it

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Dr Kennedy BMA (Anti-Scotland) on Herald frontpage to hide this fact – ‘Controversial’ physician associates more than twice as common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details By Professor John Robertson OBA, The role of physician associates [PA] is at the centre of controversy after the BMA sued the GMC over how they are to be described. Today, the BMA in Scotland, ‘top’ (not at all) doctor, Iain Kennedy, is on the front page of the Herald, to attack SNP ministers over the use of physician associates (PA)s in Scotland. What are PAs? Physician associates (PAs) are medically trained [but not full MD training], generalist healthcare professionals who work with doctors in multidisciplinary … Continue reading Dr Kennedy BMA (Anti-Scotland) on Herald frontpage to hide this fact – ‘Controversial’ physician associates more than twice as common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

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News you won’t hear – more police officers than there were last year and more than there were under Labour despite a 22% fall in crime

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBA From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: August 2025, published today: There were 16,427 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 30 June 2025. This was 193 (+1.2%) more officers compared to the position on 31 March 2007, and 220 (+1.4%) more than on 30 June 2024. https://www.gov.scot/publications/safer-communities-and-justice-statistics-monthly-data-report-august-2025/pages/statistics-on-community-safely/ Police officer staffing has been maintained despite the crime level in Scotland falling from 385 509 in 2007/2008 when the SNP took over, to 299 111 last year, a 22% fall. Continue reading News you won’t hear – more police officers than there were last year and more than there were under Labour despite a 22% fall in crime