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 or by direct bank transfer method – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By Liz S If they, the BBC, want to join in what should really be a “media feeding frenzy” then they should also report on, via their BBC website, the news that SKY News have been reporting upon……after what they, Sky News, say has been a “two year investigation”. On what ? On the Labour supporting Trade Union GMB. For what ? “Allegations of bullying and harassment inside one of the UK’s biggest … Continue reading Labour’s favourite union and funder, the GMB, where bullying, misogyny, cronyism, and sexism is rife but BBC Scotland don’t want you to hear of it

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 or by direct bank transfer method – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By Liz S “Do you ever get fed up with me reporting how after 18 years without LabCons just about every public service in Scotland has been protected by the SNP”? No. Why would we ? However I , and I am sure also others, do get extremely “fed up with” much of the media in Scotland and also Labour UK and too their branch office in Scotland promoting how they regard … Continue reading Vote Labour and get………“Catastrophe” , “fiascos” and “Scandals” going back for years

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 or by direct bank transfer method – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA In the Scotsman yesterday Prof Curtice claims: Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party “really are in deep doo-doo”, polling guru Sir John Curtice has said. Sir John, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the party’s poll rating is arguably at an all-time low. That’s obviously true but this isn’t: Pollster Mark Diffley said recent developments were bad news for Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar as his party looks towards the … Continue reading How can Anas Sarwar be ‘hamstrung by events down south’ when he and Scottish Labour are far less popular than even UK Labour?

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 Neil Mackay in the Herald two days ago, had the above and: John Swinney and the SNP are at a fork in the road when dealing with Nigel Farage and Reform’s rise, the ascendency of the far and hard right, and the extremists within, says Neil Mackay, The SNP has two choices: accept its part in the rise of the far-right, or grow a spine and take the fight to extremists.  Before I respond, lets remind ourselves if Mackay is the kind … Continue reading The SNP should absolutely not charge in and ‘tool up for dirty fight to death with Reform UK’. It should focus on its demonstrable and many strengths

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 By Liz S “Spineless Labour”….100%….as in the whole of Labour UK are….in their clear dereliction of duty, as a supposed opposition party , who as an opposition party are supposed to represent an opposing view to other political parties, like say those parties in opposition to them, that is the Tories and Reform UK However it seems Labour are refusing to call out and so challenge Nigel Farage & Reform UK and all of their disgusting plans for their UK….. that seem to be , as Reform UK’s … Continue reading Supported by their Pink Ladies spineless Labour are refusing to call out and so challenge Nigel Farage & Reform UK and all of their disgusting plans for their UK

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 By Liz S Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was quoted in 2023 as saying that “Labour had changed permanently under his leadership”. He then stated “if you don’t like that, if you don’t like the changes that we’ve made, I say the door is open, and you can leave”. Well guess what….people are now acting upon that and so many are now leaving Labour as party members…..and also leaving as Labour voters…where future voting intentions are showing that Labour are down in the recent polling outcomes. In February … Continue reading To Hell with the UK and the likes of JKR, Katie Hopkins , Kelvin McKenzie , Dan Wootten, Farage, GB News, the UK gutter press and all the others

By Liz S Last year in October there was an article on the BBC website. “Scottish government avoids defeat over housing emergency ‘failure’” “Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar put forward the motion which was debated by MSPs at Holyrood. It was defeated by 60 votes to 54 with eight abstentions”. “Instead, a motion amended by the government which removed the claim it had failed in responding to the emergency passed by 59 votes to 55 with eight abstentions”. “Sarwar stated homelessness on the rise” and he also said “Every number a human being in need of help and every missed … Continue reading Not another one

By Liz S Lies but also hypocrisy…….. Remember last week at PMQ’s the staged ‘performance’ between the then Labour MP Brian Leishman and his then Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in respect to Alexander Dennis Bus Manufacturers. Starmer stated that “The SNP should be backing Scottish workers” …….as he said that ” the SNP are ordering Buses from China“. Apparently that was hilarious for many of the MP’s in the HOC as so many burst out laughing at the ‘China connection’. Well it has now been reported that the big Labour flagship policy GB Energy has a connection to China…… So then would all of those same MP’s , especially … Continue reading Labour’s hypocrisy about ordering from China

stewartb More on the state of dentistry in England. From The Mirror – traditionally a Labour-supporting newspaper (July 14, 2025): ‘Wes Streeting defends only paying for half the population to get an NHS dentist – Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been grilled by MPs about suggestions Labour will not substantially increase the NHS dentistry budget it inherited from the Tories’ ‘Health Secretary Wes Streeting has defended why the Government is only paying for half the population of England to get an NHS dentist. (my emphasis) ‘MPs on the Health Committee grilled Mr Streeting on whether he would “reconsider” a decision to stick with similar funding for … Continue reading Access to NHS dentistry in Scotland – How trust in hypocritical Scottish Labour has ‘rotted away’

By Liz S I am hopeful that somehow Reform UK will never emulate the same level of success in Scotland next year that they, as a (pretend) party, seem to have achieved in England. (and also via polls are anticipated as having even more success in the future via some subsequent UK elections). However they will, I am sure , gain some seats next year in the Scottish elections which I think will be both a disgrace and also very much a huge badge of shame for Scotland as a nation. Open Democracy wrote an article in June 2025 which … Continue reading Hell springs to mind as an apt description of that unwelcome scenario….but I believe the ball is in the court of voters in Scotland