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Scottish Labour receives donations worth over half a million in just the last three months including £100 000 from English Multi-millionaire once opposed to nuclear energy

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By Liz S I see that democracy is still up for sale. It has been reported that: “Scottish Labour has reported receiving significant donations in the run-up to the May 2026 Holyrood election, with over £550,000 recorded in the final quarter of 2025 alone” “Billionaire businessmen Sandy and James Easdale are among the biggest donors, with a £150,000 cash donation recorded in December 2025 via their property firm, Dalglen, linked to them. “Donations from trade unions continue to support the party, including £5,300 from GMB, £6,000 from UNISON, £6500 from Unite, £4000 from USDAW , £700 from TSA, £700 from Community Union and … Continue reading Scottish Labour receives donations worth over half a million in just the last three months including £100 000 from English Multi-millionaire once opposed to nuclear energy

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Why is a £5.75m Scot Gov investment not newsworthy at all but a £0.25m Lottery Fund grant is?

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By stewartb The main Scotland page of the BBC News website today (Saturday 14 March) has a story with this headline: ‘Historic Borders bridge secures £250,000 for restoration project’. It’s been ‘elevated’ from the South of Scotland local news page and reports on the awarding of a National Lottery Fund grant. The Scottish Government issued a press statement on Friday 13 March with the heading: ‘Driving growth on Scotland’s islands – Funding to create jobs and strengthen local economies.’ This is not reported on the main Scotland page of the BBC News website. Indeed it doesn’t even figure in the local Highlands & … Continue reading Why is a £5.75m Scot Gov investment not newsworthy at all but a £0.25m Lottery Fund grant is?

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England’s Royal Family and residual historical complacency among the members of powerful elites of abuse against the ‘lower orders’

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The above image popping up in FB yesterday, shocked me. What follows is a quick AI starter for your thoughts. There are multiple photographs in the public domain of the current king when still the Prince of Wales in the company of the serial sex offender Jimmy Saville. In the light of the current issue with his brother and reports on Lord Mountbatten does this suggest the Royal Family has or had a problem recognising the seriousness of such crimes? Grok AI response: Taken together, the pattern—across generations and involving figures later (or now) credibly linked to serious sex crimes—does … Continue reading England’s Royal Family and residual historical complacency among the members of powerful elites of abuse against the ‘lower orders’

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Labour’s Dismal Daniel Johnson so mansion-friendly even Paul Hutcheon called him out

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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 (on fire today) Labour MSP Daniel Johnson regarding Council Tax on behalf of an area in Edinburgh that is more affluent , and that has houses that are valued far more than some other areas within Edinburgh and also valued higher than in some poorer places within Scotland. Alas for Daniel this has hugely backfired and exposed him and his party as both foolish and pathetic…..but also worse still it has shown Labour (and Daniel) … Continue reading Labour’s Dismal Daniel Johnson so mansion-friendly even Paul Hutcheon called him out

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‘Thousands of opioid deaths missed off official figures’ in England & Wales thanks to errors ‘not present in 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 By Liz S (S for Smoakinnn! these days?) Anas Sarwar now knows his election campaign in Scotland is crumbling , mainly because it was all built on a foundation of lies, that as a strategy , is one that was not sustainable as an ongoing plan that would generate support for him to be the next FM in Scotland. Labour in Scotland need to now stop using people as political pawns to try to gain a political advantage … Continue reading ‘Thousands of opioid deaths missed off official figures’ in England & Wales thanks to errors ‘not present in Scotland’

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Labour Baroness MSP blames SNP for drug deaths as gangs run children to drug houses in Scotland’s century-long Labour-run-down seaside towns like some she knows well, from places such as ‘Blackpool and Rhyl’

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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 Sometimes, not often I admit, you have to admire the openness of tabloids like the Sun. Yesterday, they told us CRIMINAL gangs are exploiting kids as young as NINE to use as drug mules across Britain’s rail network. The youngsters are recruited — and often kept there by threats — as part of “county lines” ­operations, where drugs are transported from major cities to supply dealers in smaller towns across the country. It was no surprise then to read: The … Continue reading Labour Baroness MSP blames SNP for drug deaths as gangs run children to drug houses in Scotland’s century-long Labour-run-down seaside towns like some she knows well, from places such as ‘Blackpool and Rhyl’

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Independence will end poverty

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By Liz S Independence for Scotland can in the future, with the right government, at least hopefully be able to prioritise ordinary people over other supposed priorities that both the current and the past UK governments have spent way too much time , energy and money upon. Indeed these other priorities do little to help people in the here and now, as instead they actually do the opposite. Nuclear weapons are not a deterrent but they are a threat….to all humanity (and also to all other beings who share this planet). Unfortunately we have UK governments, as well as some other rogue governments within … Continue reading Independence will end poverty

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Independence is a vision but that vision has to be spelt out along with the strands on which that Independence will occur and in what way, an Independent Scotland will differ from the present managed decline rather than a dive over the clifftop like 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 By G Caldow With less than two months to go to the next Holyrood election, the invigorating yet factual debates have been enthusing the public, where healthy and respectful debate between polar opposite views are building a consensus of apathy.  Independence is a vision but that vision has to be spelt out along with the strands on which that Independence will occur and in what way, an Independent Scotland will differ from the present managed decline rather than … Continue reading Independence is a vision but that vision has to be spelt out along with the strands on which that Independence will occur and in what way, an Independent Scotland will differ from the present managed decline rather than a dive over the clifftop like England

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What is Jackie Baillie’s beef with private healthcare in 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 By Liz S “Patients and campaigners have been raising concerns about Palantir’s creeping involvement with the NHS for years based on concerns about ethics, outsourcing, and privacy”.. Palantir a private company, not a UK one, an American one. But doesn’t the Labour Dame, also a Labour MSP, as in Jackie Baillie, just always love to tell us that patients in Scotland have to go private as they cannot get treatment on the NHS………..surely that is her promoting private healthcare and … Continue reading What is Jackie Baillie’s beef with private healthcare in Scotland?

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Mandelson case and Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’ but in 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 In the Guardian today: Palantir’s NHS contract opens the door to the Big Brother-style data-sharing that Reform UK would use for a version of US immigration raids, health bosses have been told. Palantir Technologies – the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp – won a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform in 2023. The UK government is urging health bodies to adopt FDP, which the health secretary, Wes Streeting, says will ensure the NHS is “brought … Continue reading Mandelson case and Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’ but in Scotland