By Liz S Calling Malcolm Offord & Thomas Kerr to ask them if they watched last night’s ITV news report on the racist & sexist comments made by Reform UK Councillors and Candidates in England (is it only there though ?). Reminds me of when the BBC reported on Reform UK on their BBC website in March 2026 via this headline “Reform UK suspends Scotland candidate over financial allegations” . That also, as an article , included other Reform candidates suspect opinions in one of them “spreading rumours about asylum seekers moving into a former school in Perthshire” and also … Continue reading Reform UK candidates will be vetted

By Liz S STV News reports: “Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is adamant that, despite Andy Burnham’s defence of the United Kingdom earlier this week, Labour is not serious about keeping the Union intact“ “keeping the Union intact” ? What Union would that be ? STV also mentioned that “Burnham has long been criticised for snubbing Scotland – after excluding it on his August summer ‘listening’ tour” . Mind you when do we ever see Kemi Badenoch, current Tory HQ leader, make a conscious effort to come up regularly to Scotland to reaffirm her supposed support for Scotland within the UK … Continue reading “WE need oil and gas, WE need nuclear, WE need renewables, we need to get serious.”

By Liz S I am quite amazed that the Supposed ‘Scottish’ pages of the BBC website have been so very subdued in their reporting of the Labour leadership contest happening in Scotland (or indeed other media) , which as yet , as a leadership contest, has not been concluded. Help Talking-up Scotland keep goin 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 Yet given the circumstances that brought about this contest then it makes perfect sense really. What with Sarwar’s abject failure as the previous Labour leader here in Scotland together with him failing to win the Scottish election … Continue reading Scottish Labour leader – ‘Hardest job in British (sic) Politics’ is also least important job it seems

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 “When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it”. Well so far a lot of people are seeing Burnham as being not so “different” from the one that he replaced, indeed Burnham is being seen by many people as being nowt more than a ‘Continuity Starmer’. The Guardian reported on 26 August this year that: “Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors” . Now that is a biggie , as in a betrayal, or is … Continue reading When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it!

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 Scotsman yesterday: Politics is “deeply fragmented”, the UK’s leading polling expert has said, with social class no longer determining how people vote. Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said age and educational background are now much more important than in the past. There’s much wrong with this and I’m not sure if it’s what the reporter has said or what the Sir Professor Emeritus actually said. No one I know has ever thought that social class determines how you … Continue reading Class may not ‘determine’ how you vote but only the ‘better-off’ in Scotland significantly support Labour

From Liz S The Sunday Mail (falsely) headlined this last Sunday: “Burnham: I’ll deliver for Scotland”. So what has he, so far, “delivered” ? Well he has given a peerage and also a role in his UK government to someone who, as the (alleged) leader of Labour in Scotland, (badly) lost the Scottish election for Labour in Scotland in May of this year. He has also kept on the same SOS against Scotland even after revelations in June 2026 that this same individual, Douglas Alexander, was said to have “broken the ministerial code by not declaring a meeting with Peter Mandelson’s lobbying agency“ that is when he, Alexander, … Continue reading Burnham delivers ‘for Scotland’ two men close to Peter Mandelson