Year after year Scottish Government builds between twice and 80% more affordable housing than Wales or England and six times more for social rent to tackle poverty
Professor John Robertson OBA From Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end June 2025 published today – Affordable [and social] housing delivery across the UK as a rate per 10,000 population 2007-08 to 2023-24 (years to end March): https://www.gov.scot/publications/quarterly-housing-statistics-september-2025/ Since the SNP came to power in 2007, Scotland has built affordable homes at around twice the rate in Labour-run Wales and at a 70-80% higher rate than in Conservative-run England. Social rent is typically set at 50-60% of market rent while affordable rent can be as high as 80% of market rent, so the former … Continue reading Year after year Scottish Government builds between twice and 80% more affordable housing than Wales or England and six times more for social rent to tackle poverty
News you won’t hear – Scotland hits highest renewable electricity generation figure EVER after 19 years of giving nearly a quarter of a million GWh, worth £60 billion, to England
Closing today, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From Energy Statistics for Scotland – Q2 2025 published today: In the second quarter of 2025, 8.1 TWh of renewable electricity was generated in Scotland. This is the most renewable electricity generated in the second quarter of any year in Scotland Scotland’s capacity for electricity generation from renewable sources has continued to increase and currently stands at 17.7 GW – a 4.3% increase compared to 17.0 … Continue reading News you won’t hear – Scotland hits highest renewable electricity generation figure EVER after 19 years of giving nearly a quarter of a million GWh, worth £60 billion, to England
US Air Force investigation into cancer among nuclear missile workers must be replicated in Scotland
Closing today, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From the Washington Spectator yesterday: Over 800 Air Force personnel have independently reported cases of cancer and other serious illnesses due to extended exposure to toxic chemicals while serving at three Minuteman ICBM bases since 2023. These missileers’ revelations come at a critical moment as the Air Force continues with restructuring its exorbitant $140.9 billion plan to decommission 450 Minuteman IIIs and replace them with 634 … Continue reading US Air Force investigation into cancer among nuclear missile workers must be replicated in Scotland
Scottish Government backs new AI programme and BBC Scotland Business make intelligent move to ignore it for the Union
Closing today, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From UKAuthority, yesterday: A new initiative aimed at helping Scottish businesses harness the power of AI has been launched, backed by nearly £1 million in Scottish Government funding. The programme will provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with tailored consultancy services and grants to adopt or expand AI technologies, fostering innovation, market growth, and investment. Delivered by enterprise agencies, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and … Continue reading Scottish Government backs new AI programme and BBC Scotland Business make intelligent move to ignore it for the Union
Welsh Labour standing up for Wales and how but for Scottish Cons and Labour the SNP might have shut down institutional child abuse
Closing today, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Welsh Labour above with help from BBC Wales stand up for Wales in the debate over Labour’s ID proposals. Scottish Labour and BBC Scotland? Toilets. Anywhere else in BBC Scotland? The flag gets no mention and the SNP become the target with: The Scottish Conservatives said Labour’s plans were flawed and would lead to “state control” which violated the right to privacy. But they also claimed … Continue reading Welsh Labour standing up for Wales and how but for Scottish Cons and Labour the SNP might have shut down institutional child abuse
How’s the mood there in Liverpool? Well the drug gangs are enjoying the one-way trade making millions and keeping Scotland’s drug deaths up
With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland are in Liverpool today for the Labour Party Conference but they haven’t managed to pin Anas down for some tough questions about his boss or the numerous sex -offenders he hosts. Will their BBC Liverpool colleagues be asking how Glasgow has managed to get such a low crime rate since the SNP took over? Eurovision Decision: Liverpool has nearly twice the … Continue reading How’s the mood there in Liverpool? Well the drug gangs are enjoying the one-way trade making millions and keeping Scotland’s drug deaths up
Ferret journalists far more than ‘slightly’ wrong on Pete Wishart’s accurate claim that English drug deaths are ‘written out of figures’ when UK civil servants estimated 25% undercounting in 2023!
With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Bob Lamont for alerting me to this: The Ferret on 24 September 2025, concluded: Pete Wishart is wrong to say that “thousands of deaths in England simply written out of the figures”. The statistics on the total number of drug-related deaths in England are not in question, but new research has found undercounting in the proportion of deaths that … Continue reading Ferret journalists far more than ‘slightly’ wrong on Pete Wishart’s accurate claim that English drug deaths are ‘written out of figures’ when UK civil servants estimated 25% undercounting in 2023!
How Labour has betrayed the people of Wales with an NHS ‘brought to its knees’
With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By stewartb As Scotland’s shoppers (and voters) view the front pages of newspapers without having to buy them whilst in supermarket queues and elsewhere (perhaps via the BBC), the messaging that NHS Scotland is ‘really bad’ and it’s that SNP’s fault, is fed drip by drip by drip – constantly, repeatedly – into the nation’s and the electorate’s consciousness. After all, according to BMA Scotland … Continue reading How Labour has betrayed the people of Wales with an NHS ‘brought to its knees’
Clyde shipbuilding welding centre was never off track as Rolls Royce declare massive profits and shareholder dividends bloated by Ukraine war
With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Scotland today: A specialist welding facility to support shipbuilding, planned for a site beside the River Clyde, looks set to go ahead after the UK government confirmed £2.5m of extra funding. The £11m project, led by Rolls Royce, aims to support the construction and maintenance of Royal Navy submarines. The plans were left in doubt earlier this year when it emerged … Continue reading Clyde shipbuilding welding centre was never off track as Rolls Royce declare massive profits and shareholder dividends bloated by Ukraine war
A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidden from you
With only 2 days left, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – John Robertson, Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA The Record today making much of a crime wave tiny in the wider context of the English County Lines drug gangs plaguing Scotland. What is the list of crimes affecting Scotland? This: Timeline: How the gang feud developed Very upsetting, I know, for all involved but only damage to property and no serious violence, no deaths. How does the above compare with the … Continue reading A handful of assaults and damage to property in the Scottish news every day – the Scottish ‘gangland feud’ is dwarfed by the massive plague of extreme drug gang violence and surging overdoses from England’s cities but this is hidden from you
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