For the full facts and the properly sourced evidence, click here: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=poverty For the full facts and the properly sourced evidence, click here: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=poverty For the full facts and the properly sourced evidence, click here: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=poverty Continue reading As BBC Scotland go on child poverty in Scotland, the many facts they and Labour do not want you to know

From the Salish Current in Washington State USA (GDP $672 billion compared to Scotland’s $217 billion), today: Commentary: San Juan County interisland ferry had 110 cancellations out of 502 scheduled sailings in the first 20 days last month It’s been almost a year since The Seattle Times offered the stark (and, to many of us, belated) view that Gov. Jay Inslee “has one year to right (Washington State Ferries) before cementing a legacy as the governor who sailed the system into decrepitude.” It’s safe to say that ignominious legacy now is well cemented. It’s now likely that the first new ferry won’t … Continue reading 20% of ferries cancelled, no new builds till 2028 in a place 3 times richer than Scotland

By Professor John Robertson OBA Don’t be deceived. Reporting today’s 2% fall in suspected drug deaths, the Scottish media will tell you: This is insignificant, the reduction has stalled’ or recent figures are higher than they were in 2022 or 2023. Those interpretations are either stupid or deliberately misleading. A one year variation when looking at data such as these is not important but a trend over 4 or 5 years is. The trend is down and down significantly by around 20% in 4 years. The dramatic dip in the annual variation from the end of 2020 until the second half … Continue reading Scotland’s drug deaths – the trend is the news, the news that matters, and it’s DOWN, by 20% in only 3 years

Kinbrace in Scotland in August 2024 -1.2 °C, Manston in Kent – 16.6 °C By Professor John Robertson OBA Skwawkbox today: The Labour party’s cut to the Winter Fuel Allowance will kill around 4,000 pensioners this winter – according to the party’s own research. Labour’s analysis, published during the 2017 general election campaign, warned that the Tories’ plans under then-PM Theresa May to cut the allowance for millions of pensioners would be deadly, leading directly to the deaths of around 4,000 people. Called ‘the single biggest attack on pensioners in a generation’, it combined with the Tories’ ‘dementia tax’ plans and Corbyn-led Labour’s … Continue reading Factcheck 2 on useless Scottish Labour MPs – Labour’s own research proves their winter fuel allowance cut will kill many more in Scotland