Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Thanks to Dottie once more for alerting me to this. As the implementation for the Scottish Budget in 2026/2027 looms, we can reflect on a few hundred million that we don’t have because it’s being used to subsidise our de-industrialisation. In the Guardian, in 2025, the above, and: Ministers have lined up special managers to run Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations if they are put into administration, according to a revelation at the high court in London. The development shows that the government … Continue reading Scottish taxpayers soon to pay first £100 million instalment to keep an old English steelworks in business and another £100m to save an old English oil refinery so that it can replace a Scottish oil refinery to refine oil almost entirely from Scottish waters

Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy From the Herald’s Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco today: Tech firm with NHS Scotland contracts to sell ICE-linked subsidiary – A French tech company with Scottish Government contracts will sell its US subsidiary after it emerged the firm had engaged in people-tracking operations for ICE. The Herald reported last week that Capgemini had provided IT services to a number of public entities in Scotland, including NHS Scotland, SAAS, and the Care Inspectorate.  On Sunday, following backlash from French politicians, the tech firm announced it would divest from its US subsidiary – which signed a deal worth up … Continue reading SNP-GOOOD? Decision to avoid US/Israel affiliated creepy Palantir for your health data further validated but Herald goes full obtuse on us

Support Talking-up Scotland to keep rebutting the lies almost every day of the year, at https://t.co/xFcIcegHTy ‘It was great to catch up with my old friend‘ Epstein was jailed July 6th 2019, nearly SIX years before Sarwar tweeted the above! I know few think that Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, is genuine friend of Scotland but the extent of this elite inner circle member’s loyalty to people like Blair, Brown, Mandelson and other London-based figures is being hidden from voters in Scotland. Sarwar has not even bothered to delete the above cosy image – ‘old friend (!)’ confident that the … Continue reading FOUR posts in one – ‘Old friends’ Sarwar and Mandelson, BBC teacher strike misinformation, Welsh Labour’s inferior quality baby bundle post code lottery and Labour campaigns to have trans women assaulted in male prisons