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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going to rebut and to reveal Unionist lies at least 7 times a day, 7 days per week

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going 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 Very many thanks to the 161 supporters so far, inc bank transfers not listed in crowdfunder. You are very much appreciated. Still struggling to even approach our target despite around 8 fully-researched posts per day, read by around 2 000 visitors per day and more than 15 000 social media followers seeing the main points. Sobering. Continue reading Help Talking-up Scotland keep going to rebut and to reveal Unionist lies at least 7 times a day, 7 days per week

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Not a ‘clear consensus’ but a ‘majority’ for a second referendum. Someone tell Scotland’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’

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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 By Liz S Andy Burnham’s response to Chris Law was actually a tad too ambiguous, but then that is always what you get with any HQ party at WM. WGD did an excellent article yesterday on this topic too. He argued that “We must not and cannot allow Burnham or any other anti-independence politician to shift the goalposts by insisting on a “consensus” instead of a majority“. He also stated that “Note that again, as I pointed out in a previous post, the opponents of independence … Continue reading Not a ‘clear consensus’ but a ‘majority’ for a second referendum. Someone tell Scotland’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’

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Contrary to poorly/if-at-all researched Tory report – Glasgow SNP leader is correct – It is ‘a safe city’ far safer than any in England run for decades by them and their near-equivalents in New Labour

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According to the Daily Express today: The departing SNP leader of Glasgow City Council has insisted that the city is “safe.” This is despite rising reports of rape and violence within the city centre. 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 the Sun in October 2025 –  DANGER ZONES Map shows the top 10 UK crime hotspots – do YOU live in the most dangerous area? Newcastle has the lowest crime rate of the ‘UK’ Top Ten at 116 per 1 000 people:  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36904645/map-top-10-uk-crime-hotspots/ Westminster in central London had the highest current annual crime rate … Continue reading Contrary to poorly/if-at-all researched Tory report – Glasgow SNP leader is correct – It is ‘a safe city’ far safer than any in England run for decades by them and their near-equivalents in New Labour

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Unionist Socialist Workers Party member tells Bella Caledonia readers that Scottish firefighters ‘cannot take any more cuts’ but forgets to mention fires down by 35% yet staffing down by only 18%

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Call that a wildfire crisis? See this: 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 Bella Caledonia is great, nearly all the time. They have a lot of high quality writing, often putting our more prosaic percentages and line-graphs stuff in the shade but, every so often, show considerable political naïveté or lack of concern, platforming attacks on the Scottish Government which can only damage the wider movement – if you can’t run a…how can you run a country? Two days ago they had the above from an SWP member on behalf … Continue reading Unionist Socialist Workers Party member tells Bella Caledonia readers that Scottish firefighters ‘cannot take any more cuts’ but forgets to mention fires down by 35% yet staffing down by only 18%

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Blaming Scotland and Glasgow for UK Government’s immigrant housing crisis

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The Ferret, happiest when in synch with the anti-SNP media, launches its latest campaign to investigate what the Scottish Government has achieved, or not, on social housing in the context of the far-right violence in Glasgow. BBC Scotland, of course, knows already that it’s our housing crisis and not the UK Government’s immigration crisis to blame. 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 Here at Talking-up Scotland, we’ve done this to death, but just for them: How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building … Continue reading Blaming Scotland and Glasgow for UK Government’s immigrant housing crisis

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Thousands of cancer patients not treated on time after nearly two decades of right-wing government cuts and neglect in England

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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 BBC Health today and on BBC Breakfast this morning, the above story and: Alan was diagnosed with lung cancer after a nodule was found in June last year. The 70-year-old was meant to be operated on within weeks but ended up waiting nearly five months, by which time the cancer had spread, making his surgery more complex. “I was so frustrated and angry and couldn’t understand why they would leave me like that,” says Alan. On two occasions, scans were cancelled because machines … Continue reading Thousands of cancer patients not treated on time after nearly two decades of right-wing government cuts and neglect in England

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County lines gang members who ‘have been through the justice system in England’ target vulnerable women in Highlands months before they do same in England?

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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 watched the above. We are, technically, still in Britain. All of these tragic events took place in England. There was not one mention of Scotland. There should be. Here’s why: County lines gang members who ‘have been through the justice system in England’ target vulnerable women in Highlands months before they do same in England? From BBC Leicestershire 12 March 2026, the above and: A youth worker has warned girls in a market town are being lured into drug running by gangs operating across county … Continue reading County lines gang members who ‘have been through the justice system in England’ target vulnerable women in Highlands months before they do same in England?

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Explosion risk in almost empty Arran ferry gas escape was essentially zero

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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 BBC Scotland yesterday: A faulty valve on a CalMac ferry led to a sudden and uncontrolled release of highly flammable methane gas last summer, BBC Scotland News has learned.The operator’s investigation found that 700kg of the gas – enough to fill a four-bedroomed house – was vented from the side of MV Glen Sannox over the space of 12 minutes while it was carrying 82 passengers from Arran to the mainland. So much methane was released that some of it was sucked into a … Continue reading Explosion risk in almost empty Arran ferry gas escape was essentially zero

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DEAR PRIME MINISTER, ARE YOU AWARE…?

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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 By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61575625542197 At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Chris Law asked Andy Burnham about Scotland’s right to determine its own constitutional future. The Prime Minister referred to the Good Friday Agreement and its conditions to hold a Border Poll for the people of Northern Ireland. But of Scotland, he said: “I am not aware that there is a majority of public support for another referendum.” So let’s make sure he becomes aware. We are asking people across Scotland — and anyone who … Continue reading DEAR PRIME MINISTER, ARE YOU AWARE…?

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Retired Heidie explains how the Pisa system has been gamed

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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 By Alasdair Macdonald I remember in the first few years of PISA and looking at the samples of students in the countries which were ‘top of the league’. These countries presented no students who had additional needs. Others presented mainly children outwith the two lowest socioeconomic deciles. With regard to children from Scotland, a number of the questions were on topics which were no longer in the curricula in Scottish education. Much is known of the concomitant factors which lead to higher outcomes. For … Continue reading Retired Heidie explains how the Pisa system has been gamed