Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. BBC Scotland today having to travel thousands of miles to the genuinely violent, murderous, USA to get a headline story and a traumatised mother to film for your….paraphilia? Last September, the Scottish crime figures revealed another fall in the murder rate but it was largely ignored. Imagine, it had gone up. Imagine Jackie Baillie and Anas Sarwar shouting at John Swinney. Sorry, I shouldn’t have asked you to do that. Now in January, Scotland’s media continue to utterly ignore the murder rate in Scotland falling to the lowest level ever in … Continue reading BBC ‘Bloody’ Scotland all violence and death to hide the secret that Scotland has lowest murder rate ever and even lower than Denmark!

Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy We’ve been here before with Kevin, perhaps the least convincing convert from Labour to some kind of nationalist. He writes a lot but clearly researches little. Is the above claim based on any substance like a poll? It doesn’t look like it. Two January 2026 polls had a class breakdown. In the YouGov poll, the SNP has exactly the same support 34% from Social groups ABC1 and C2DE. Only Reform UK are better supported in C2DE, by 22 to 17. Labour are notably better supported … Continue reading People in working-class neighbourhoods across Scotland feel loathed by Labour and can see what the SNP has done for them

Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy From the Daily Record today: Criminals are set to be released from Scots jails automatically after serving just 30 per cent of their sentence in the latest desperate attempt to ease an overcrowding crisis. and of course: Anas Sarwar, Scottish Labour leader, said: “Two decades of SNP government has left Scotland’s justice system at crisis point. “Prisons are dangerously overcrowded, hundreds of criminals have been set free early and now Angela Constance wants to cut sentences for more dangerous prisoners. “Violent criminals and drug dealers are … Continue reading Scottish prison releases leading to only 5% re-offending, ten times lower than in England, thanks to more staff

Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy In early November 2025, BBC Scotland told us: The Scottish government has pledged £25.5m to help bring down NHS waiting times. First Minister John Swinney said the money would help deliver more hospital appointments. It is to be shared by nine health boards – Ayrshire and Arran, Fife, Grampian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Shetland and Tayside. The Scottish Conservatives said the £22.5m fund – out of a £22bn health and social care budget – would “barely touch the sides” of what was … Continue reading Long waits for treatment continue to plummet after Scottish Government’s extra £25 million pledge comes into effect

Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy From Police officer quarterly strength statistics: 31 December 2025, published yesterday: There were 16,416 full-time equivalent (FTE) police officers in Scotland on 31 December 2025 This is an increase of 182 FTE police officers (+1.1%) from the 16,234 FTE police officers recorded at 31 March 2007 https://www.gov.scot/publications/police-officer-quarterly-strength-statistics-31-december-2025/ How important has it been to maintain police officer staffing at or just above that in 2007 when Labour was last in power in Scotland? See the graph above, non-sexual crimes of violence down by nearly a quarter … Continue reading Total crime down by third and violent crime down by a quarter since 2007 but still as many police officers after 19 years of SNP rule