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Everything is then to be considered as British and so ready to be privatised……..

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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 By Liz S The media report that “US tech giant Palantir has wrapped its tentacles around the British state, securing major contracts with the Ministry of Defence and the NHS”. But  the US data analytics firm Palantir is not operating within NHS Scotland……….as in reference to the NHS and the “British State”. So even information online states that “NHS England is a separate entity from NHS Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland” and also “The Palantir deal, which has faced significant backlash from privacy campaigners and doctors’ groups, is specific to NHS … Continue reading Everything is then to be considered as British and so ready to be privatised……..

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Daily Record’s ‘Horror street drug ‘pyro’ sweeping Scotland as addicts found dead in the street’ is being produced by a county lines gang from a city in England setting up labs here but you don’t need to hear that UK-bad story it seems

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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 That’s the Record‘s headline yesterday and: Scotland’s homeless community has told of the horror of contaminated street drugs – after 81 people died in three months after taking synthetic opioid “pyro”. Nitazenes, produced in illegal labs and used as cutting agents in heroin and benzos, are now implicated in an eighth of all suspected drug deaths, data shows. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/horror-deadly-synthetic-drugs-scots-36797256 Where are these illegal labs? In the Independent last September: Police have uncovered the first drug lab for nitazenes in the UK, … Continue reading Daily Record’s ‘Horror street drug ‘pyro’ sweeping Scotland as addicts found dead in the street’ is being produced by a county lines gang from a city in England setting up labs here but you don’t need to hear that UK-bad story it seems

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How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building target that Labour just gave up on in England?

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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 As the Herald, today, frontpages the Scottish Conservatives, soon to face a near-extinction event and become only the 5th party in Scotland, to ‘blast’ the SNP Government and suggest once more an affordable homes crisis, there’s no space, it seems for these: For 2025, the SNP Government has funded 5 313 new affordable home starts to a level down from a peak of 11 158 in 2021 but above the level before 2014 and still almost twice that … Continue reading How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building target that Labour just gave up on in England?

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As it falls in NHS Scotland, BBC England evidence for corridor care surges in North of England is based correctly on our method and not that used by the Herald and repeated lazily by BBC Scotland

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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 From BBC England today, the above and: More than 52,000 patients waited longer than 24 hours to be admitted to hospitals across north-west England last year, a BBC investigation has revealed. Known as “corridor care”, patients are lining up on trolleys or sitting on chairs, stuck in A&E because there are no beds for them in the wards. The Royal College of Nursing has described the situation as a “national emergency” and called on the government to end … Continue reading As it falls in NHS Scotland, BBC England evidence for corridor care surges in North of England is based correctly on our method and not that used by the Herald and repeated lazily by BBC Scotland

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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

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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

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Shock as proportionally 4 times as many children in England & Wales face domestic abuse compared to Scotland

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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 From BBC England today: An 11-year-old boy who had both legs amputated after being assaulted by his birth parents has won his campaign for a new child safety register. Parents guilty of neglect will face similar monitoring to sex offenders following an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, which the government said it expects to table “shortly”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3gxkn453ro Does Scotland also need such a register? Currently in Scotland, child protection operates differently: There is a Child Protection … Continue reading Shock as proportionally 4 times as many children in England & Wales face domestic abuse compared to Scotland

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Scotland IS different as it protects unaccompanied children seeking asylum

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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 Prompted by today’s news of a planned child cruelty register for England, this: In the Guardian, November 2nd 2025, the above and: More than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK [sic] and while in the care of the authorities are still missing, according to data obtained by the Guardian. Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs of lorries and are thought to have been taken … Continue reading Scotland IS different as it protects unaccompanied children seeking asylum

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There are NO places in Scotland where anything close to this horrific claim of ‘almost 100% of children live in poverty’ but there are 73, SEVENTY-THREE, in England

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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 Prompted by today’s news of a planned child cruelty register for England, this: Thanks to Dottie for alerting us to this. In the 31 October 2025, the above and: Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families, according to new measures that factor in the impact of soaring rents. Changes to official measures reveal the neighbourhoods where in effect all children live in low-income households. Of these, 31 are in inner London boroughs with high housing costs … Continue reading There are NO places in Scotland where anything close to this horrific claim of ‘almost 100% of children live in poverty’ but there are 73, SEVENTY-THREE, in England

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Geriatrician called ‘Elder’ is clearly ‘having a laugh’ when the FACTS tell us NHS Scotland is barely privatised at all compared to NHS England

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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 The above threat is not the result of the gathered opinion of thousands of Scottish ‘doctors’ but just the views of Geriatrician, Professor Andrew Elder of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, above. He clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. NHS England is more than 100 times, 10 times per head, more privatised than NHS Scotland in England were delivered by private hospitals and clinics in the last 12 months – that’s almost 500 000 higher … Continue reading Geriatrician called ‘Elder’ is clearly ‘having a laugh’ when the FACTS tell us NHS Scotland is barely privatised at all compared to NHS England

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Wrong! There are 6 505 fewer pupils yet 63 more teachers to keep Scotland’s pupil/teacher ratio the best by far in the UK

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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 Rehashing a story from one of their December 2025 front pages, the Herald’s Garrett Stell (‘Originally from North Carolina’), has the above headline based on an apparent fall in teacher numbers from 2022 to 2025. I’m not going to check. It’s not important. Much more important, he doesn’t seem to know about the ratio between teacher and pupil numbers. I’ll resist the temptation to do my Appalachian accent. You’ll see above, in the official figures, that pupil numbers … Continue reading Wrong! There are 6 505 fewer pupils yet 63 more teachers to keep Scotland’s pupil/teacher ratio the best by far in the UK