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Retired social work and OU tutor, Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #FBSI 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 European 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hearts supporter, Dog slave, Fifer, Mother of 3, Granny of 6 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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I'm pretty sure folks in England would be outraged to learn another country had brought nuclear weapons onto it's soil, which had they known about, they would be very much against.

Welcome to the Scotland/England dynamic!

#ScottishIndependence

09.03.2026 11:20 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any Scot who prefers being part of a Nigel Farage Britain, is completely bonkers.

08.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Westie with mud covered nose from digging in garden

Westie with mud covered nose from digging in garden

Even worse when they're white!

08.03.2026 10:57 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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07.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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Reform’s Scottish leader may or many not be racist but he’s definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC Scotland yesterday, the above and: Th…

Reform’s Scottish leader may or many not be racist but he’s definitely wrong as knife crime falls in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/07/r...

07.03.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 172 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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Short video – What has the SNP ever done for you? How about stopping private companies using NHS facilities, NHS equipment and NHS staff to enable the private companies to generate a huge profit? Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Full version at:

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06.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Scotland average council tax 35% lower than England,
30% lower than Wales.πŸ‘‡

06.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Swinney slashes 103 miles, 4 hour, Wick to Inverness bus fare from Β£31 to only Β£2! Is this big news? Well, not really, it seems No MSM coverage at all and Northern Scot tries to suggest that Moray Council are paying for a Scottish Government-funded scheme! Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank t…

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05.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Compare and contrast BBC headlines of same story, Scotland and Wales

05.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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today’s Fife Council budget meeting Labour merged their budget with the Tories and then the LibDems and Reform UK voted together with them to get it passed Such a parcel of rogues in a Nation The SNP budget that they joined together to oppose had an extra Β£6.3 million in it for flooding prevention πŸ‘‡

02.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

02.03.2026 10:54 πŸ‘ 11916 πŸ” 4012 πŸ’¬ 590 πŸ“Œ 218
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Many thanks to 300 contributors so far but there were 114 649 readers in just February 2026 and the target is still well off.

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:

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Click here or direct bank transfer Sort Code 08-91-04 Account - 12266421 Name - JOHN ROBERTSON

02.03.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why are more GPs opting to work outside the NHS? They’re not in Scotland where almost 100% work in the NHS Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC England this morning, the above and: …

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02.03.2026 09:19 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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"This is the NHS that Reform UK want to destroy."
meme via The UK Against Racism
#SocialistSunday

01.03.2026 10:49 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy (Published 2023)

Black History Monthβ€”Alice Ball developed 1st effective leprosy treatment, 1915. She earned 2 bachelor's degrees in chemistry & a master's in organic chem & cracked the chemical code of the chalmoogra plant's oil to yield a drug. She died at 24. 2 men stole her formula www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/o...

28.02.2026 07:48 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meanwhile, Reform want to send us back to the 1970's.

β€” producing a combined output of 74 megawatts from 18 floating turbines, sufficient to power the entire city of Inverness (population 65,000) continuously and indefinitely from tidal energy alone.

28.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 469 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 2
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SNP Government gives islanders around Β£5 000 each more than the rest of us in grant subsidies but are they grateful? Do they even know? Source – Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Look at the massive generosity …

SNP Government gives islanders around Β£5 000 each more than the rest of us in grant subsidies but are they grateful? Do they even know? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/28/s...

28.02.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Massive fall in number of children in care as progressive policies work to reduce poverty and as violent crime reduces but, hey, you don’t need to know that do you? Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: 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 ch…

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28.02.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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 Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: 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 2…

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27.02.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good morning friends. I hope you have a fabulous Friday! πŸ’™βœŒοΈπŸ˜ƒ

27.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5
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Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics

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Can anyone explain this logic?
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27.02.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 10
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oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

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Screenshot from The National Newdpaper

Screenshot from The National Newdpaper

Fancy that!

Β£1 Billion invested into Scottish Businesses by oor Scottish Bank

It's almost as though a Wealth Fund from Scottish oil/Gas reciepts would have been a bloody good idea πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

But Scotland can't have more nice things because we're not a normal independent country like NorwayπŸ™„

24.02.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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#SpunkForMilk

24.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Many thanks to the 245 of 1 600 Talking-up Scotland subscribers who have contributed to keeping it going Help Talking-up Scotland keep posting the truth we all need to see at: Direct bank transfer – Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON or Crowdfunder still shor…

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23.02.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries

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'Most expensive imaginary card in history': Cost of scrapped digital ID plan revealed The UK Government's scrapped mandatory digital ID scheme cost taxpayers Β£843,743 before ministers were forced into a U-turn.

πŸ” An SNP investigation has revealed Starmer’s failed Brit card scheme cost the public almost Β£1 million - despite never being implemented.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2587477...

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