Labour to copy another SNP policy, after 16 years of failure to get crime down to Scottish levels
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 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Times in 2009: and: Scots Labour criticised the new sentencing provisions as a criminals’ charter that would undermine confidence in the justice system. Richard Baker, the party’s justice spokesman, said: “Communities expect those who break the law to be punished properly and this soft-touch approach will do nothing to deter lawbreakers. As a package, these plans are unsupportable and look unlikely to receive the necessary parliamentary backing.” https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotland-travel/snp-scraps-short-term-prison-sentences-rlqlz7mltcl?msockid=040f0c0f8f6f69bb36d418948ed46872 Still in 2024, Scottish Labour’s Anas Sarwar was against early release or … Continue reading Labour to copy another SNP policy, after 16 years of failure to get crime down to Scottish levels
Sneaked out on Friday afternoon by UK Labour Government to successfully avoid ‘Scottish’ media coverage, 60 000 disabled Scots many on below national average wage, to be stripped of winter fuel payment by tax clawback
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 Professor John Robertson OBA Only in the Sunday Telegraph, as far as I can see, the above exposure of the plans to claw back the winter fuel allowance from 0.6 million disabled people earning £35 000, through the tax system. Per head, this means around 60 000 disabled Scots, many earning below the UK average annual wage of £38 000pa, will have the winter fuel allowance, in the coldest parts of the UK, stripped away, for government savings tiny compared with that which a proper wealth … Continue reading Sneaked out on Friday afternoon by UK Labour Government to successfully avoid ‘Scottish’ media coverage, 60 000 disabled Scots many on below national average wage, to be stripped of winter fuel payment by tax clawback
Scotland pays same share of revenue as England to confirm viability as an independent nation
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 Professor John Robertson OBA Here is how the IFS presented the data in a report titled Scotland relies increasingly on fiscal transfers – like other regions outside South East England, published two days ago: Revenues per person as a share of UK revenues per person Last week, the Scottish Government published its latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) report for 2024–25. It estimates total government revenue raised in Scotland, total public spending benefiting Scotland (including a per-capita share of UK-wide spending on things such as debt interest, … Continue reading Scotland pays same share of revenue as England to confirm viability as an independent nation
Academic cowardice and BBC bias denial at the highest level in the Yes campaign in the run up to the 2014 Scottish Independence public debate
What I didn’t notice at first, I didn’t notice because the BBC had complained about me and I noticed that negative attention, I didn’t notice that none of my peer group were supporting me. None of them, whether they agreed with my research or not, they should have supported my freedom to write this and not to be bullied by the BBC. No single professor of media, politics, or economics or any relevant discipline. Not one broke ranks to say that they disagreed with the BBC. Is this because these people are within a sort of career bubble, and which … Continue reading Academic cowardice and BBC bias denial at the highest level in the Yes campaign in the run up to the 2014 Scottish Independence public debate
The Times tells us there ARE fewer landlords in Scotland but hides the fact that there are nevertheless MORE places to rent
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 Professor John Robertson OBA The Times yesterday had the above and: Gosh, will that make it harder to find private rented accommodation, then? That’s clearly what they’re trying to say but, wait a minute, does that necessarily mean there is now less accommodation? Why doesn’t the Times give us the data on the reducing availability of accommodation? Well, that’s because there is more! See: From Housing statistics: Scottish Landlord Register data published today, we can see that the number of registered landlords in Scotland has fallen slightly, by 1.1% or … Continue reading The Times tells us there ARE fewer landlords in Scotland but hides the fact that there are nevertheless MORE places to rent
‘Huge pools of mystery sludge, leaking silos’ and shocking complacency only a few miles from Stranraer and the highest cancer level in Europe – Does Scottish Labour need a ‘cancer panic’ to wake it up to the horrific risks of pursuing even more nuclear projects?
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Daily Mail today: Atomic bomb waste discovered beneath six homes in St Louis has sparked panic and renewed concern in other US cities still haunted by Manhattan Project contamination. St Louis is far from the only city still dealing with Manhattan Project fallout. Across the country, sites such as Hanford in Washington, Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and Los Alamos in New Mexico remain dangerously contaminated. A 2003 study surveyed 801 individuals who lived downwind of the Hanford plutonium production facility, finding greater-than-expected numbers of central nervous system tumors and cancers of the female reproductive system. High incidences … Continue reading ‘Huge pools of mystery sludge, leaking silos’ and shocking complacency only a few miles from Stranraer and the highest cancer level in Europe – Does Scottish Labour need a ‘cancer panic’ to wake it up to the horrific risks of pursuing even more nuclear projects?
NHS Scotland treats 40% more head and neck cancer patients within the target time – more than 100 per year who would not have been treated on time had they lived in England
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Another careless cartoon from the Herald’s Camley as facts reveal that Scotland’s care system is FOUR times as effective as that in England
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 Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald‘s Steven Camley cartoon today show a glum Health Secretary being greeted by support staff with: ‘I must say minister you’re looking well after your summer of inactivity.’ It’s about criticism of Scotland’s care system by a representative of the private sector just wanting more cash for a business already well-known as a ‘cash-cow‘ for corporations and which has no space for these important facts: If this was more than just another badly drawn image on behalf of corporations and other … Continue reading Another careless cartoon from the Herald’s Camley as facts reveal that Scotland’s care system is FOUR times as effective as that in England
A9 dualling – Anas Sarwar’s unconvincing claims
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Shock as 35% more Scots 16 year-olds pass English exams and 14% more pass mathematics exams, than 16 year-olds in English schools do, to force Labour into panic and plans to just give up on exams
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dottie once more for alerting me to this. In the Telegraph yesterday, the above and: For comparative purposes, I’ll use the percentages for the 16 year-olds and ignore the resit results for 17 year-olds who had failed in the previous year. The GCSE pass is equivalent to, in Scotland, the SQA National 5 Grade D or above. This year, 95% passed English in Scotland compared to 70.5% in England (35% more) and 81.5% passed mathematics compared to only 71.2% in England (14% more). The Scottish results were slightly up on those in 2024 and 2023. Source: … Continue reading Shock as 35% more Scots 16 year-olds pass English exams and 14% more pass mathematics exams, than 16 year-olds in English schools do, to force Labour into panic and plans to just give up on exams
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