Dave

Hard to argue with this. So I won't try!

🇬🇧 Disappointing stuff from the Regional Team Leader of ‘british Labour in Scotland’ 🇬🇧

Another proud day for America.

"I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking."
"Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein?"

Well, Trump can kiss goodbye to the Lewis and Harris Football Association World Peace Prize!

Westminster voting intention:
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
SNP 34%
Ref 22%
Grn 13%
Con 13%
LD 9%
Lab 7%
oth 2%

Scottish parties 47%
English parties 51%

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Ref 31%
PC 27%
Con 15%
Lab 13%
LD 9%
Grn 3%
oth 3%

Welsh party: 27%
English parties: 71%

(Find Out Now; 24 December; usual caveats apply to sub-samples)

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Looking forward to seeing the favourable Scottish CofE attainment levels being announced in all the “Scottish” media outlets, both print and broadcasting, with front page headlines and an interview with Jenny Gilruth. Is it on the BBC Scotland webpage? No? Why ever not?

#YouYesNow #IndyClan?
It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

How can Glasgow need a mayor to tackle a supposed productivity gap when its productivity is steadily growing and outstripping all but one English city, all already with mayors? Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald yesterday continued its Scottish Labour campaign with a report from a non-transparent think tank, Centre for Cities, to suggest it needs a mayor to tackle it…

How can Glasgow need a mayor to tackle a supposed productivity gap when its productivity is steadily growing and outstripping all but one English city, all already with mayors? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/03/h...

Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Photograph on the front page of The National newspaper of Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, with his arms raised. Caption in capitals reads: UK Government to follow Scotland in removing two-child benefit cap.

English government bringing up the rear for the rest of the UK.

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The “Number Crunching” pieces in Private Eye are always so fascinating. In case anyone hadn’t realised it the climate crisis is all about money not people whose very existence is potentially at risk!

We're continuing to make real progress in our NHS.

Waits for treatment have fallen for the fifth month in a row. More to do, but our plan is working.👇

I’ll leave this here, Prem…

So the lib dems in Shetland get £850k funding for climate projects, but couldnt think of any so propped up their routine budgets instead!
I'm thinking blue tents, camper vans first minister arrests over £600k.
But its ok for lib dems!
Source:
talkingupscotlandtwo.wordpress.com?action=user_...

President Putin is said to have been personally "impressed" by the ability of Nathan Gill, the disgraced former Reform UK politician, to persuade a string of British MEPs to appear on a pro-Kremlin television channel. This praise was alluded to in WhatsApp exchanges between Gill and Oleg Voloshyn an alleged Russian agent, who paid the former leader of Reform in Wales up to £40,000 in bribes Gill was jailed for more than ten years on Friday after admitting that he accepted the money to promote the Kremlin's agenda in the European parliament

It's not going away

Rachael Johnson: "Boris did his best".

Only because his best has always been fucking awful.

Let's consider Boris Johnson, a moral man and a great politician: I'd love to talk about all three of them, but I only have space for Boris.

They don’t want us to see.. so let’s share the hell out of it ..

#ReformIsSoviet

I wonder what colour the sky is on planet Mark?

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10 * UK politics live –latest updates The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives. The document also has stinging criticism of a “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then prime minister actively embraced – in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined. Continue reading...

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.

Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks