"This is an important thing to think about."

How they treat fraud.

$3,000,000,000 - 40 months
$100 - 180 months

Crime is only crime for the poor, can't be sending the rich to jail.

Or they might end up there themselves

🚨Last day to register! Scottish Parliament elections are coming up on May 7th, and refugees have the right to take part.

We've answered some FAQs about voting. Now available in Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Tigrinya, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/pYMS50YMoSz

I’ll go one further.

They should be taxed to the point there are NO billionaires.

There’s no need for anyone to have that much money.

Wealth should be capped at £100m.

Don’t agree? Please explain why anyone needs more money than that?

Despite 1 320 more referrals, Scotland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence The Child, adolescent, and psychological therapies national dataset (CAPTND) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Report published today, does not cover waiting times targets, so I used the …

As the Record today shamelessly distorts the figures on behalf of Anas, how despite 1 320 more referrals, Scotland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/03/d...

Register to vote Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

The deadline for registering to vote in the Scottish election is midnight tomorrow (20 April). Many 16 & 17 year olds are not registered. Anyone over 16 resident in Scotland can vote in Scottish elections, you don't have to be a UK citizen. You can register online here

www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Big shout out to all those having a good try at:

"Another EU referendum would be fine and this Labour government with fuck all support can have one. But Indyref2 would be like Covid multiplied by the 100 years war and the SNP can never have one because reasons."

Very revealing lads.

The causes of healthy life expectancy falling – Scotland already has far more, per head of population, GPs, nurses, midwives and other professionals than other parts of the UK so maybe look at this? The Herald today has: Scotland already has far more, per head of population, GPs, nurses, midwives and other professionals than other parts of the UK (table above, sources below) so Prof Cameron&#8…

The causes of healthy life expectancy falling – Scotland already has far more, per head of population, GPs, nurses, midwives and other professionals than other parts of the UK so maybe look at this?

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/04/19/t...

A letter to act on.

Wow! Impressive! All I did was scroll through Instagram more and added Threads for another option to avoiding housework.....

I was. But all sorted now I think.

Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years.

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

And Fife where we have 2 defectors to Reform propping up a Labour led Council along with Tories and LibDems (37) to the SNP’s 35. I think there’s 9 councils running similar coalitions in Scotland despite Sarwar saying “no deals, pacts, coalitions” before the council elections. He’s corrupt

More doctors trained year-on-year to nearly 20% more than 5 years ago and nearly 40% more than England From Scottish medical training statistics: FOI release published today, the above, revealing year-on-year increases in the number completing medicine degrees. There are no precise data for England …

More doctors trained year-on-year to nearly 20% more than 5 years ago and nearly 40% more than England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/04/14/m...

As Covid Inquiry reconvenes today, a reminder of just how FM, Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at one third lower than the UK average, saving thousands, despite ... I’m grateful to @amaccj for reminding me of this and for the link to the source. When the final assessment is made, we need to set the scene with these facts: The World Health Organisatio…

As Sarwar is allowed in the Herald to lie barefaced, the truth of Nicola Sturgeon's pandemic leadership - better than all the rest! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/16/a...

👇

Did you know that Westminster doesn’t permit the Scottish Government any power over Broadcasting, Constitution, Defence & Security, Employment, Energy, Economic & Monetary Policy, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Telecoms or Trade & Industry? Independence would give us control of all of it.

Scottish government and SNP is faaaaar from perfect, but which other country on earth achieves so many positives whilst having its core economic powers and levers controlled by a parliament 450 miles away in another country which has different priorities? #Scotland #SNP1SGP2

Despite 1 320 more referrals, Scotland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence The Child, adolescent, and psychological therapies national dataset (CAPTND) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Report published today, does not cover waiting times targets, so I used the …

As the Daily Record again today campaigns for Labour with one case and without these facts: - Despite 1 320 more referrals, Scotland's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/03/d...

Please sir . . - Indy PosterBoy There is no greater proof of the need for independence than Westminster refusing to ‛let’ Scotland have a democratic vote on it.

There is no greater proof of the need for independence than Westminster refusing to ‛let’ Scotland have a democratic vote on it. #Scotland #SNP1SGP2
indyposterboy.scot/please-sir/

For al first time voters - if you know of any in your family- make sure they are registered to vote.

“Angela Rayner ‘dodged’ paying the correct amount of tax.

Her position is morally indefensible.

If she had any integrity, any moral decency she would resign.”
(Dick Tice, Reform Ltd)

Small west highland terrier lying in a sunbeam....

42 racehorses have died in the UK so far this year. 42 in less than 4 months. Yesterday a horse broke its back at Aintree.You can bet your life that if a single jockey died at the Grand National they would finally do something about it.

#youbettheydie
#grandnational

These enormous wind turbine projects would damage Wales – and all to supply the rest of the UK with energy | Simon Jenkins Labour’s deals with private companies will ride roughshod over a wilderness so remote there are no people to defend it, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Self awareness isn’t one of a Guardian columnist’s strengths! Simon Jenkins wittering on about the Cambrian mountains in Wales supplying the “rest of the UK” completely unaware of Scotland’s significant larger contribution! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/04/09/w...