If this is delivering for Scotland, God help us
Viceroy Murray's allegiance is clear
A heavily edited version published in The Edinburgh Evening News, September 30th.
In his latest propaganda piece, Viceroy Murray trumpets that change has begun for Scotland under English Labour. He arrogantly claims his party '“did well” in the general election despite just 17.52% of UK adults ticking the English Labour box.
He repeats the lie of a £22b black hole that justifies letting pensioners freeze and keeping kids in poverty, ignoring that the UK government’s wholly-owned bank is at its beck and call. (But that hasn't stopped the UK from giving Ukraine £12b since 2022.) All Reeves has to do is order the Bank of England to create the money and then make the investments this disunited kingdom so desperately needs. But that wouldn’t satisfy English Labour’s corporate donors who are expecting payback.
He laments Scotland’s lack of an industrial strategy but is allowing Grangemouth to close, which will make Scotland the only one of the top 25 major oil producing nations without a refinery.
Meanwhile, the UK is stealing Scotland’s renewable energy and jacking up electricity prices in its coldest nation. As compensation, it’s slapping a brass plate onto the GB Energy shell company. And the newly appointed UK climate envoy, Rachel Kyte, is the co-chair of the Quadrature Climate Foundation, linked to the Cayman Islands hedge fund that invests in fossil fuels (and weapons) and in May donated £4m to English Labour.
The Viceroy is happy with the UK government pausing a £25m growth and investment grant for Argyll and Bute which included housing developments and business and tourism facilities that would have created 300 jobs.
He’s no doubt thrilled with English Labour’s plan to change the law allowing him to bypass the Scottish parliament, which he can count on the other 36 English Labour MPs in Scotland to nod through. They know who butters their bread.
Finally, his boss’s list of freebies from Lord Alli continues to grow with the revelation that Sir Keir accepted £20k from the good Lord to help Starmer junior study ‘peacefully’ for his GCSEs.
If this is “delivering for Scotland,” God help us.
If I was being very very cynical I might think that colonial governor Murray wants Grangemouth to close, in order to make Scotland more dependent on England.