The Viceroy's road to Damascus nuclear conversion
The Viceroy was in Cockenzie yesterday visiting the renewables project Inchcape Offshore Wind Limited, a joint venture between Ireland’s public energy company ESB and Red Rock Renewables, which is owned by China’s public energy company SDIC. Due to be completed in late 2026, it will be one of Scotland’s largest privately owned offshore wind farms generating enough energy to power half the homes in Scotland.
However, the power isn’t for us but for our energy hungry southern neighbour. And the profits won’t flow to Scotland but to the Irish and Chinese governments. As usual, Scotland gets nothing from energy generated on its territory. The Viceroy is fine with that.
However, I digress.
During his visit, the Viceroy announced that he’s abandoning his “lifelong” opposition to nuclear weapons. He said he’ll remove his name from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) pledge, where he promised to work to get the UK to agree to a worldwide nuclear weapons ban.
What explains the Viceroy’s sudden Damascene nuclear conversion?
Like the other unionist parties, English Labour has been bankrolled by the nuclear lobby. Tony Blair is one of its biggest beneficiaries and cheerleaders. The Nuclear Energy Association was in raptures over the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s 2024 pro-nuclear power report.
English Labour is pro-nuke because without civilian nuclear power, there’d be no nuclear weapons programme, the UK’s national virility symbol. Simply, nuclear power is needed for nuclear bombs:
All the processes at the front of the nuclear fuel cycle - uranium ore mining, milling, refining and U-235 enrichment - are used for both civilian and military purposes.
The UK Capenhurst facility makes nuclear fuel for both reactors and Trident submarines.
Nuclear reactors create tritium (the radioactive isotope of hydrogen), which is necessary for nuclear weapons.
A 2017 University of Sussex study uncovered another reason for English Labour’s nuclear love affair. It found that the costs of the Trident programme would be “unsupportable” without “an effective subsidy, from electricity consumers to military nuclear infrastructure”.
Long-suffering consumers, already bearing the costs of uneconomic nuclear power (the private sector won’t touch it without generous government hand-outs), are also subsidising nuclear weapons!
All this for a nuclear ‘deterrent’ that doesn’t even work. The Trident delivery system has failed two tests in a row.
In 2016, a system malfunction caused the missile to spin out of control and instead of flying over the Atlantic, it flew over the US and self-destructed.
In 2024, the first-stage boosters failed to ignite and the 60-tonne missile with dummy warheads plopped into the Atlantic and sank.
Despite these fiascos, the UK insists that Trident “remains the most reliable weapons system in the world.” 😂 😂 😂
Another reason the Viceroy ditched his no nukes stance is because of the Special Relationship, something the British Establishment via its latest cypher, Sir Keir, is keen to maintain.
In July 2024, English Labour amended the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA), a treaty under which the US provides the UK with nuclear weapons material and expertise without which Trident couldn’t function. Officials deleted a long-standing sunset clause that required Parliament to renew the agreement every ten years. The UK’s nuclear arsenal is now permanently dependent upon the US, making a mockery of the UK government claim that its nuclear weapons are “operationally independent.”
Finally, we know why the UK nuclear deterrent is based on the Clyde and not on the Thames.
Westminster doesn’t want the southeast of England to be polluted by these nuclear rust buckets so has confined them to “north Britain.”
Nor does it want its northern colony to actually know how badly they’re polluting the land and water.
In 2017, the MoD stopped publishing annual reports from the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR), the MoD’s internal watchdog, after the reports for 2005-2015 flagged “regulatory risks” 86 times, 13 of which were rated high priority. It has also blocked the Scottish Administration’s environmental watchdog from releasing information about radioactive pollution from the Clyde nuclear bomb bases at Faslane and Coulport for the last ten years.
Scots are getting the mushroom treatment - kept in the dark and fed a load of shite.
The Viceroy’s loyalty isn’t to Scotland but to his British masters who have kept Scotland down for over 300 years. He’s no doubt looking forward to joining the other quislings in their mangy ermine who are squatting in the decrepit House of Lords.
Come on Scotland, bolt!
When Scotland does regain its independent statehood there will be some decisions to be made with regard to the chancers, grifters, con-men, quislings and house jocks who supported and/or collaborated with our imperialist colonial oppressor to the South.
Historically in some newly liberated countries persons that fell into that category have been variously tarred and feathered, skewered on meat hooks and hung from lampposts, firing squad execution etc. All totally barbaric and something that must, and I'm sure will be, avoided in a civilised country like Scotland.
In my opinion a (rather generous) binary choice should be offered to those so classified:
Either
a) life-time banishment from the country with no prospect of return (even for a visit)
or
b) life-time imprisonment in the country without possibility of parole with all prison costs (rent, food, wages) paid for privately.
I just despair at times. I'd say people of Scotland wake the f up and quick, because world events are
bound to curb or stop any notion of escaping the so called UK, I mean, south Britain. Starmer's talking about forcing us to carry 'Britcards' yes compulsory, maybe they will add 'north' to their British nationalist cards forced onto Scotland. Thing is as we all know, the 'British' media, is 100% anti SNP, anti independence and their propaganda is off the scale as per usual.
One major thing, the Scottish administration needs to look at who is allowed to vote in Scottish elections, as in those who are not F/T resident, English students studying in Scotland (last election I delivered leaflets and omg the Eng students were so anti SNP and of course independence) and, thsoe who have lived in Scotalnd for less then three years.
i was in a small galery near me recently and got talking to the owner, from England, exhibition a bit political so that subject came up and they were scatthing of the Scottish 'government'. Discovered they have only lived in Scotland for nine months, well off people, benefitting from all SNP social responsible policies, but would I am sure vote against indepenedence in any referendum and of course SNP would not be getting their votes.
So Scotland needs to look at voting, and quick. Or, be shafted by those who want their UK as it is, to the detriment of Scotland.