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GB Grid ? Well if it pans out to be anything like Labour’s GB Energy, then we should not hold our breath

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Before the crowdfunder finishes tomorrow, support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: 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 TuS yesterday: “Scotland heading for massive increase in renewables electricity generation in 2026 to generate 4 times more per head than England”. Burnham in his speech stated that “One of the biggest barriers to growth in the UK is the cost of energy. British businesses and billpayers pay some of the highest energy costs in Europe”. What about Scottish billpayers paying higher standing charges than the rest of … Continue reading GB Grid ? Well if it pans out to be anything like Labour’s GB Energy, then we should not hold our breath

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Labour still trying to get away with hoping that the public have very poor memories and have forgotten how Labour treat workers in Scotland

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S More brass neck from Labour and this time from the Labour MP Brian Leishman . Leishman who in the past, together with Anas Sarwar, campaigned in 2024 in the UK GE when he and Sarwar were both promising (in what turned out to be an empty promise) that “a Labour government would step in, keep Grangemouth working, and invest hundreds of millions into the site’s transition”. Labour won the 2024 UK GE. Grangemouth Oil Refinery was not saved and so over 400 workers lost their jobs. … Continue reading Labour still trying to get away with hoping that the public have very poor memories and have forgotten how Labour treat workers in Scotland

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How Scottish Labour’s betrayal of Glasgow in the 1980s created a place of excess child death that even 20 years of Scottish Government success in reducing child poverty cannot remove

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rate of any UK nation. Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 It’s true, 10.1 deaths among 1 to 15s in 2024, compared to 8.5 in England, 6.4 in Wales and 10.0 in Northern Ireland. It’s been like this for decades. Why? These guys knew 10 years ago: The RCPCH report itself states that social and economic disadvantage in early childhood is closely linked to higher child mortality. What follows is based on the research published by the above researchers, comparing Glasgow with Liverpool and Manchester. The long-standing “Scottish effect.” Even after researchers adjust for current … Continue reading How Scottish Labour’s betrayal of Glasgow in the 1980s created a place of excess child death that even 20 years of Scottish Government success in reducing child poverty cannot remove

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To compare an English region to Scotland

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S Here’s something the BBC website has added as an article onto their local news page for Yorkshire (region of England). “MP calls for Yorkshire to get its own parliament” “A Liberal Democrat MP has called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to go further with his devolution plans and give Yorkshire its own parliament” Why ? Well according to this Harrogate and Knaresborough Lib Dem MP , Tom Gordon: “Yorkshire had a population larger than Scotland and an economy larger than Wales, and, as such, it should … Continue reading To compare an English region to Scotland

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‘Shameful’ – Labour’s GB Energy to allocate only 6% of £30m community fund to Scotland

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By stewartb From the Aberdeen-based Energy Voice news website (September 18): ‘‘Shameful’: GB Energy to allocate 6% of £30m community fund to Scotland’. ‘The announcement that as little as 6% of GB Energy’s recently revealed £30 million community energy scheme (sic) has been branded “shameful” by one Aberdeen MSP. ‘Under-secretary of state in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Martin McCluskey, revealed that only £1.8m from the new initiative would be allocated north of the border. ‘ To this, Donside MSP Jackie Dunbar (SNP) said: “Scotland is home … Continue reading ‘Shameful’ – Labour’s GB Energy to allocate only 6% of £30m community fund to Scotland

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Who exactly are those 37 ‘Scottish’ Labour MPs really working for ?

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep goingCrowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-goingOr by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 By Liz S So Sky News reported today that: “British Steel losing £1.3m a day – and there is no ‘credible‘ survival plan yet, MPs warn”. In a new report, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns that the government has not yet set out concrete plans for how the company will become financially sustainable. It continues to cost £1.3m a day of UK taxpayers’ money“. (So I say that basically it seems then that no expense is spared when it is an industry that is based in England). The article continued in stating that: “The government intervened to prevent the closure of its blast furnaces in April 2025“. “More … Continue reading Who exactly are those 37 ‘Scottish’ Labour MPs really working for ?

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Scottish Labour leader – ‘Hardest job in British (sic) Politics’ is also least important job it seems

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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

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YouGov’s naked bias still using the thousands who have passed since the 2014 to make you think No could still win

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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 There’s a pattern there, above. YouGov don’t seem to find any Yes leads and a massive 10% No lead, in the most recent polling. I’ll come back to Ipsos. Take these out and we’ve have some of the kind of settled will evidence the new PM seems to need. It’s not just the last three YouGov polls, going back years they almost never get a Yes lead. YouGov is of course, Tory-owned. So how might they be doing this. Have a look at the … Continue reading YouGov’s naked bias still using the thousands who have passed since the 2014 to make you think No could still win

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Not a ‘clear consensus’ but a ‘majority’ for a second referendum. Someone tell Scotland’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’

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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 Andy Burnham’s response to Chris Law was actually a tad too ambiguous, but then that is always what you get with any HQ party at WM. WGD did an excellent article yesterday on this topic too. He argued that “We must not and cannot allow Burnham or any other anti-independence politician to shift the goalposts by insisting on a “consensus” instead of a majority“. He also stated that “Note that again, as I pointed out in a previous post, the opponents of independence … Continue reading Not a ‘clear consensus’ but a ‘majority’ for a second referendum. Someone tell Scotland’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’

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Blaming Scotland and Glasgow for UK Government’s immigrant housing crisis

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The Ferret, happiest when in synch with the anti-SNP media, launches its latest campaign to investigate what the Scottish Government has achieved, or not, on social housing in the context of the far-right violence in Glasgow. BBC Scotland, of course, knows already that it’s our housing crisis and not the UK Government’s immigration crisis to blame. 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 Here at Talking-up Scotland, we’ve done this to death, but just for them: How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building … Continue reading Blaming Scotland and Glasgow for UK Government’s immigrant housing crisis