NHS England Dentistry in crisis!
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 Liz S “Mobile dental services and urgent care rollouts in Peterborough have drawn heavy demand and long queues due to severe local shortages in NHS dentist access. (Belfast Telegraph). I was also told by someone who lives in Cambridge that when these mobile dentist visited Peterborough (this year) there were not enough dentists and not enough time for all of the hundreds of people who had queued to get seen by one of these (six) dentists offering NHS dental work via their mobile dental service. These mobile dentists also exist for other areas in … Continue reading NHS England Dentistry in crisis!
5 times the gas and 6 times the electricity Scotland needs is produced here yet a UK agency tells us the price and it’s going up
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 above BBC Scotland report, part of their very short BBC Breakfast insert every 30 minutes, goes on to call for action by ‘Government’ and is careful not to remind you that this is a matter reserved to the Burnham Labour UK Government. Of course it does not have to be this way. I’m sure you remember why but here it is again, in case you need the evidence in your daily discourse with a Unionist neighbour or colleague. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or … Continue reading 5 times the gas and 6 times the electricity Scotland needs is produced here yet a UK agency tells us the price and it’s going up
Why might BBC Scotland snub the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce’s big news about Scotland leading the UK?
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 BBC Scotland even before they lose any staff, above with space for several minor stories but apparently none for the one above, and: 402,000 new companies incorporated across the UK in H1 2026. Active company base grows to 5.66 million businesses. Startup activity continues across every UK region, with Scotland recording the strongest growth. Regional entrepreneurship also remained vibrant. Scotland recorded the strongest growth in startup activity, with incorporations rising 3.73% compared with H2 2025 to 20,900. https://www.edinburghchamber.co.uk/scotland-leads-the-uk-with-fastest-growth-in-new-startups-as-technology-startups-drive-a-new-wave-of-entrepreneurship/ Have any of those other media … Continue reading Why might BBC Scotland snub the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce’s big news about Scotland leading the UK?
SNP actions on destitution such as Scottish Child Payment reduce it to lowest level in UK
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 From Ending Destitution Together: Phase Two Delivery Plan, published yesterday: What is destitution? Destitution should be unthinkable in a modern Scotland. However, it remains a daily reality for many people who have moved here to work, study, join family, or seek sanctuary from violence and persecution. Nobody should be forced into destitution. People who are subject to the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition are members of our communities and we should be able to support them at times of crisis. The Ending … Continue reading SNP actions on destitution such as Scottish Child Payment reduce it to lowest level in UK
Scotland does not leave care leavers alone at 18
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 the Guardian yesterday, the above and: David’s death is one of a number examined in a landmark review into the deaths of more than 100 care leavers aged 18-24 in 2025. The review findings suggest the death rate of this cohort is about 3-4 times higher than the death rate of the general population. One-fifth of all these deaths occurred at age 18, with experts saying a “care cliff” means young people experience an “immense drop off in support” as they transition from being a … Continue reading Scotland does not leave care leavers alone at 18
Independence cover-up: We would be rich
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 You Can’t Handle the Truth! The above image is quite the newspaper clipping. Don’t you think? It tells us something very important about how Scotland was being presented to itself before the Scottish National Party came to power. The date is 30 November 2006. The SNP had not yet formed a Scottish Government. Alex Salmond had not yet become First Minister. The independence referendum was still almost a decade away. This was The Glasgow Herald reporting on revelations that … Continue reading Independence cover-up: We would be rich
Overall crime in Scotland still lower than 15 years ago, far lower than in England & Wales with murders less than half that under Labour
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 2011-12 , in Scotland, there were 598 crimes and offences per 10 000 population with 121 murders, down from 142, when the SNP took over in 2007-08.1 Today, from Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending June 2026, we see the figure has climbed from a low of 525 in the pandemic to 583 last year but with 49 murders.2 The latest figures for England & Wales are 680 per 10 000 crimes and 522 murders.3 Sources: Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank … Continue reading Overall crime in Scotland still lower than 15 years ago, far lower than in England & Wales with murders less than half that under Labour
Yet another area of good public service performance in Scotland that cannot be acknowledged, far less lauded
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 Evidence of yet another area of relatively good public service performance in Scotland that cannot – must not – be acknowledged, far less lauded, either by the MSM and or by opposition (Unionist) politicians in Scotland. Showing Scotland’s public services and public institutions in a favourable light would dilute the ongoing gaslighting of the nation’s electorate. And that would be a disservice to their precious Union! From the ‘Dentistry’ news website (25 March, 2026) NHS dentistry satisfaction remains low but Scotland shows what … Continue reading Yet another area of good public service performance in Scotland that cannot be acknowledged, far less lauded
Not safeguarding vulnerable children? Will Labour and Lib Dem figures ever be asked why, after the 1999 Inquiry, they allowed the system to return to business as usual?
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 shiny592bc990af The 1999 inquiry — formally “The Report of the Edinburgh Inquiry into Abuse and Protection of Children in Care” — was commissioned in response to serious allegations of abuse of young people in Edinburgh’s residential care system. A Scrutiny Panel was set up, chaired by a senior Tory figure, Cllr Tom Ponton, in whose name a report was submitted in October 2003. The Scrutiny Panel report states that its purpose was to review: “all the recommendations of the Edinburgh Inquiry into abuse … Continue reading Not safeguarding vulnerable children? Will Labour and Lib Dem figures ever be asked why, after the 1999 Inquiry, they allowed the system to return to business as usual?
The conspicuously non-Scottish membership of neo-Nazis on Princes Street
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 Thanks to Arty Hetty for alerting us to this: From the Edinburgh Inquirer, today: Police are investigating a far-right demonstration where neo-Nazi, ‘white nationalist’ and banned terrorist group flags were flown on Princes Street. Banners of the neo-Nazi Combat 18, the racist and antisemitic Patriotic Alternative and anti-Islamic Scottish Defence League were displayed at the demonstration at the east end of Princes Street on Saturday, 15 August. Another carried the name of the proscribed terrorist organisation the Ulster Defence Association. The demonstration, attended by … Continue reading The conspicuously non-Scottish membership of neo-Nazis on Princes Street
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