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Does Jackie Baillie realise that any QEUH corporate homicide investigation would be into the Glasgow Council that decided, uniquely in the world, to put a hospital right next to raw sewage tanks?

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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 Herald today, the above and: Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26526174.swinney-told-protect-qeuh-evidence-nhs-overhaul/ Baillie has not been keeping up. The Glasgow health board running the QEUH these last near 20 years will not be responsible for anything to do with bacterial infections linked to patient deaths but individuals in the Labour party may. Why? ‘The Labour Glasgow Council chose the site in 2004. The hospital completion was signed off in 2015, by a health board stuffed with Labour councillors, no SNP members and under a Labour city administration … Continue reading Does Jackie Baillie realise that any QEUH corporate homicide investigation would be into the Glasgow Council that decided, uniquely in the world, to put a hospital right next to raw sewage tanks?

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The UK State is ‘ducked’ and cannot now be salvaged

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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 BBC website : “Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest“ “masked men” and then according to the BBC they were holding a “protest“. More like thugs on the loose disguising themselves but why ? What’s that saying again “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck” etc etc Hey BBC why not say it like it really is . The article states: “Hundreds of protesters, dressed in black and wearing face coverings, blocked roads and were heard chanting “stop the boats”. “Traffic was stopped from going … Continue reading The UK State is ‘ducked’ and cannot now be salvaged

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Another desperate attempt to drag us into the surging violence and hatred of the UK

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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 Headlining for BBC Scotland today above, and: A 25-year-old Scottish man has been jailed for racially-motivated “violent disorder” linked to rioting in Belfast during the summer of 2024. Reece Dunnett, from Dunfermline in Fife, pleaded guilty to rioting and criminal damage offences at Laganside Crown Court on Friday. He received a 27-month sentence – half of which to be spent in prison and half on licence after his release. Dunnett committed the offences after trouble arose in the Sandy Row and Donegall Road areas … Continue reading Another desperate attempt to drag us into the surging violence and hatred of the UK

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Fires fall dramatically to lowest in 10 years and staffing climbs but Scottish Labour try to hide the truth from you

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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 Brian Leishman, Scottish Labour, above lies through his teeth above the situation with regard to fires and the fire service in Scotland in 2026. Above, the bigger picture for fire services in the UK, but the Scotsman today is platforming a trade union they used to habitually attack before they became useful for the Union: From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: March 2026, the above and : The number of deliberate building fires has fallen over the last year while the number … Continue reading Fires fall dramatically to lowest in 10 years and staffing climbs but Scottish Labour try to hide the truth from you

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Will George Foulkes mentor Anas in the Lords?

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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 August 2021, Sarwar seemed more concerned then about ‘jobs for the boys.’ Now he joins this lot: In July 2023, we saw the kind of work Labour Lords like Anas Sarwar and the above sign up for: Commenting on the remarks by Baroness Neville-Rolfe in the House of Lords today – in response to George Foulkes – that the UK government is considering sanctioning the Scottish Government for work in relation to independence and reserved areas, SNP cabinet spokesperson, Kirsty Blackman MP said: … Continue reading Will George Foulkes mentor Anas in the Lords?

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Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms significantly more likely to pay staff minimum wage than in other parts of UK

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Top story at BBC Scotland Business and front page on the BBC Scotland News site but barely mentioned across other BBC sites, ‘Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms that failed to pay staff.’ 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 BBC Scotland today: Fifty firms in Scotland have been revealed on a UK government list naming and shaming employers that failed to pay staff minimum wage. Three of the companies topping the list in Scotland – including North East bakers Murdoch Allan & Son – each owed more than … Continue reading Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms significantly more likely to pay staff minimum wage than in other parts of UK

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How the Labour/Lib Dem coalition in 2002 hid the facts from the Scottish Parliament in a sham consultation to make sure the new South Glasgow Hospital was built on a filthy site no other city in world would think suitable for its people

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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 With apologies for the length of what follows. It’s hard to do justice to such a topic – to offer an authoritative account – without quoting extensively from the Scottish Parliament’s record of debate from c.25 years ago. I and others on TuS discussing the siting of a new ‘South Glasgow Hospital’ have referred to a debate in the Scottish Parliament on 17 January 2001, noting the cross-party concerns about proposed location.  Nearly two years later, these concerns about location of the … Continue reading How the Labour/Lib Dem coalition in 2002 hid the facts from the Scottish Parliament in a sham consultation to make sure the new South Glasgow Hospital was built on a filthy site no other city in world would think suitable for its people

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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’

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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’

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Off the Table — at Your Peril

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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

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Does not being paranoid mean they’re out to not get me?

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BBC Scotland’s top brass in a Holyrood committee room in March 2014, above, to explain why they had reported an academic to his employer because of his research showing they had been objectively and quantitatively biased against the Yes side. 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 man they had reported, the only academic they had ever reported to his employer, Professor John Robertson, Faculty Research Ethics Chair of the University of the West of Scotland, had spoken to the committee just before. They had been together on the train … Continue reading Does not being paranoid mean they’re out to not get me?