For all the evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=SNP For all the evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=SNP For all the evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=SNP For all the evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=SNP For all the evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=SNP For all the evidence: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=SNP Continue reading 14 recent reasons why everyone should vote SNP…in their own interest

The SNP, Alba and Tory candidates have been interviewed by Ayrshire Daily News. You can hear them at: https://www.facebook.com/ayrshiredailynews/videos?locale=en_GB Why might the Labour candidates be hiding? This? Her boss and his love of Maggie Thatcher? This? His 26 u-turns to seduce Tory voters and betray working people? Continue reading Ayrshire Labour candidates refusing interviews to avoid scrutiny on their new Tory policies

Today BBC UK reported the above survey results: The SLC previously said the average balance for loan holders in England when they start making repayments was less than £45,000. New government data, external shows that amount has now risen to £48,470. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2xxp2gv4d1o In 2023, under the typically stupid headline – Scots education crisis, the Herald reported – Students from Scotland on average each owe £15,400 [less than a third of the level in England] when they started repaying in 2023. https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23636199.scots-education-crisis-student-debt-soars-record-7-6bn/ Continue reading Thanks to SNP, student debt in Scotland is far too low to even make the lowest level in BBC survey

From a Freedom of Information request – A9 incidents, accidents and fatalities between January 2020 – 2024, published today, we can report that overall deaths fell dramatically from 12 in 2022 to 4 in 2023. 2 of the deaths took place on non-dual carriage-ways and 2 on the supposedly safer dualled sections. The FOI result was, I suspect a big disappointment to the opposition MSP or opposition journalist who wasted more than £300 of taxpayer money rooting for it. https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/04/10/1-4-million-of-public-funds-and-32-000-staff-hours-used-to-meet-freedom-of-information-requests-such-as-those-by-bbc-scotland-labour-cons-and-lib-dems-trawling-for-snp-bad-news/ Continue reading Massive fall in A9 road deaths

NHS England, Type one A&E, for May 2024, 138 770 waiting more than 4 hours and 42 555 waiting more than 12. 59.7% seen within 4 hours. NHS Scotland, Type ED full A&E, for May 2024, 9 252 waiting more than 4 hours and 1 350 waiting more than 12. 66.7% seen within 4 hours So: All things being equal NHS England with 10 times the population might have been expected to have 92 520 waiting more than 4 hours, but had 138 770, 50% more. And 13 500 waiting more than 12 hours but had 42 555, more than … Continue reading THREE times as many wait more than 12 hours in England’s A&E departments

By Professor John Robertson In the Guardian, today, days before an election: NHS patients are being left unseen in pain and in some cases to die alone because shifts do not have enough registered nurses, a survey shows. The Royal College of Nursing said analysis of a survey it carried out showed that only a third of shifts had enough registered nurses on duty. The union has also gathered testimonies from nurses who talk of always “rushing” and being asked to do more; working in “completely unsafe” levels of care; and having to make “heartbreaking” decisions on who does or doesn’t get … Continue reading No publishable evidence of patients left in pain and to die alone in Scotland, survey finds