Further evidence that Scotland does not need cheap catamaran ferries – ‘a mono-hull’s seakeeping and residual stability characteristics would have given passengers a markedly better chance’
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 Widely broadcast this morning and from BBC Europe yesterday, the above and: At least eight people have died and 18 others are still missing after a passenger boat [a twin-hulled catamaran] capsized off northern Cyprus, the head of the Turkish administration there has said. Ünal Üstel, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Turkish republic on Cyprus, said the ferry had been carrying 259 passengers and eight crew members when it began taking on water after departing the coastal town of Kyrenia on Sunday. and: Üstel … Continue reading Further evidence that Scotland does not need cheap catamaran ferries – ‘a mono-hull’s seakeeping and residual stability characteristics would have given passengers a markedly better chance’
Glasgow’s super-hospital – We and our children, irrespective of ‘class’ or ‘wealth’ are all in the poorhouse now
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 Anonymous Those who instruct the architects and engineers were aware in 1910 when the sewage works were opened…next to a poorhouse with a hospital wing…who gave a f*** about segregated families in a poorhouse. They were aware in the early 1980s when the sewage works were renewed/enlarged. Who gave a f*** about Govanites. They were aware in 2000 when GGHB ignored its own ‘consultation’ which basically said “Cowglen FFS!” They were aware when Janis Hughes (Labour MSP) led a debate against the GGHB ‘consultation’ manipulations … Continue reading Glasgow’s super-hospital – We and our children, irrespective of ‘class’ or ‘wealth’ are all in the poorhouse now
How in 2001 Labour’s Malcolm Chisholm MSP condemned Glasgow and it’s child cancer patients to the only major hospital in the world within secret but easy breathing distance from millions of litres of stirred raw sewage sludge
From clear liability for a looming health disaster in 2001 to a media transferring the blame to an innocent party in 2017 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 stewartb The full transcript of this debate in the Scottish Parliament on 17 January 2001 can be read here: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/meeting-of-parliament-17-01-2001?meeting=4278&iob=28854 What is abundantly clear from the record is substantial cross-party discontent with the nature of and response to the public consultation undertaken by the health board regarding options for the proposed new south Glasgow Hospital, including in particular its location. The issues concerning location … Continue reading How in 2001 Labour’s Malcolm Chisholm MSP condemned Glasgow and it’s child cancer patients to the only major hospital in the world within secret but easy breathing distance from millions of litres of stirred raw sewage sludge
Funding education ‘for the good of society’ but ‘whose society?’
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 Within the pre-school and school sector, funding per capita allocations increased as age groups increased. So, allocations to pre-school organisations were less than those for primary and, these, in turn, were less than the allocations to secondary. And, within secondary, these were even greater for senior secondaries compared to junior secondaries and for students in Fifth and Sixth Years, the two years after the school leaving age of 16. Students opting to continue beyond the statutory minimum leaving were disproportionately from … Continue reading Funding education ‘for the good of society’ but ‘whose society?’
Why ‘the English Left’ including Gordon Brown will happily let Northern Ireland go but hypocritically and desperately insist on keeping Scotland
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 In terms of GDP, energy, food and drink exports, number of graduates, universities, water and other resources, would Scotland be a far greater loss for the rest of the UK? Yes. On those real-economy measures, Scotland would be a far larger loss to the remaining UK than Northern Ireland. Scotland is about 8 per cent of UK GDP; Northern Ireland is about 2 per cent. Scotland’s sales to the rest of the UK are on the order of £50 billion-plus a year and around … Continue reading Why ‘the English Left’ including Gordon Brown will happily let Northern Ireland go but hypocritically and desperately insist on keeping Scotland
Is debunking the lies and revealing the good news about Scotland a ‘luxury item?’
Were it not for their editorial position against Scottish independence, I’d be tempted to give the Guardian a tenner every month but, despite supporting Irish re-unification and every other departure from the Empire, they ignore my requests to re-consider and so I cannot. Are we at TuS a ‘luxury item?’ 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 Productivity in the Crowdfunder era, almost doubled and readership up 20% but: At Talking-up Scotland, we’re producing more and better, I’d say. Our repeated and deepening investigations into the siting of the Queen Elisabeth … Continue reading Is debunking the lies and revealing the good news about Scotland a ‘luxury item?’
Approach with caution – Mark Smith’s ‘new’ made-up crime stats
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 haven’t bothered with the The Herald’s Mark Smith for years now. In 2022, I wrote ‘Herald’s Mark Smith does a Ross Kemp and gets out of Holyrood before a few elderly feminists ‘kick off’ and thrust their merkins at him,’ but have not looked for fear of upsetting myself. It’s at: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2022/12/26/heralds-mark-smith-does-a-ross-kemp-and-gets-out-of-holyrood-before-a-few-elderly-feminists-kick-off-and-thrust-their-merkins-at-him/ Approach with caution. Today, we have another of his biographical proud diversions in an attempt to seem clever: It is a constant disappointment to my parents that, despite the fact I … Continue reading Approach with caution – Mark Smith’s ‘new’ made-up crime stats
The truth of how Labour is responsible for all of the QEUH’s troubles – short video
Detail – https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/30/grotesquely-misguided-how-in-2000-a-glasgow-doctor-described-the-bizarre-decision-to-build-the-new-glasgow-hospital-next-to-multiple-stinking-sewage-ponds-in-a-clear-and-shaming-indictment-o/ Continue reading The truth of how Labour is responsible for all of the QEUH’s troubles – short video
Off the Table — at Your Peril
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 This week, our new ‘listening’ Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, took both Scottish independence and Irish reunification “off the table”. Why? I can only assume that a border poll in Northern Ireland, granted under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, would make Westminster’s refusal to allow Scotland another referendum increasingly difficult to defend — both domestically and internationally. But there is something else about this that should alarm everyone living in the United Kingdom. A Prime Minister hiding behind … Continue reading Off the Table — at Your Peril
‘Grotesquely misguided!’ How in 2000, a Glasgow doctor described the ‘bizarre’ decision to build the new Glasgow hospital next to multiple stinking sewage ponds in a clear and shaming indictment of Labour and the Herald since then
An aerated rotivated sludge pond like the 12, only 200 metres from the QEUH 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 The at least 29 raw sewage ponds upwind and horribly close to a giant hospital with thousands of vulnerable patients. How the wind blows the sewage aerosols TO the wards. Thanks to stewartb for finding these media reports including in particular the one from the Herald at the top of this, questioning the choice of site years before work began, approved by the Labour Glasgow City Council in 2004: It’s … Continue reading ‘Grotesquely misguided!’ How in 2000, a Glasgow doctor described the ‘bizarre’ decision to build the new Glasgow hospital next to multiple stinking sewage ponds in a clear and shaming indictment of Labour and the Herald since then
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