UK report reveals Scotland's wealth props up the failing UK

An abbreviated version was published in the May 8th edition of the Edinburgh Evening News and May 9th in The National.

Elizabeth Carr-Ellis, a Hello! Magazine sub-editor in Canterbury (England) is English Labour’s candidate for the new Scottish seat of Angus and Perthshire Glens, a mere 500 miles away. It’s like a scene from Blackadder, except it’s all too real. 

But, of course, the forthcoming General Election IS a joke. Scotland has 2 fewer seats to contest, down to 57, while England is up 10, to 543. This is just another imperial snub because in 317 years we’ve not had a snowball’s chance in hell of influencing Westminster. The system has always been rigged against Scotland to facilitate England’s exploitation and plunder of our nation. 

Here’s the proof. The ONS has recently published Scotland’s Natural Capital Accounts for 2023. Natural Capital is another name for a nation’s natural wealth - clean air and water, productive soils, biodiversity, energy resources, forestry, mineral and fish stocks. These assets are the basis for providing long-term goods and services to the people, except we know our assets are being stolen by our colonial overlord with just enough table scraps being thrown to keep the People from revolting.  

 
The report reveals why our colonial master holds Scotland, with just 8% of the UK population, fast:

-       Scotland is 32% of the total UK land area and its total natural capital asset value was £230 billion in 2019, or 13% of the total UK value.

-       Scotland’s ecosystem services - the contribution they make to economic and human activity - are valued at £15 billion, 30% of the total UK value.

-       Scotland’s value of provisioning services - products extracted, harvested or derived from nature such as food, water, energy, minerals, timber - was £14 billion or 57% of the UK total value.

-       Scotland provides 73% of UK fish landings, 78% of which were sustainable vs 35% of rUK’s.

-       Scotland generates 31% of UK wind electricity, with 86% coming from onshore wind.

-       Scotland accounts for 62% of UK timber production.

-       Scotland extracted 28% less water between 2003-2017 partly due to fixing water leaks, another benefit of a publicly owned water service.

-       Scotland accounts for 11% of the UK annual value in cultural services, defined as the non-material benefit derived from ecosystems through recreation and tourism. 48% of Scots received health benefits from nature vs 37% in England.   

Scotland’s natural capital should benefit the Scottish People. Instead, the UK coloniser has flogged the lion share to private corporations and foreign governments, leaving our citizens impoverished. This has been accomplished with the help of native Anglo-Scots like English Labour’s Ian Murray and the devolved SNP administration that is a creature of Westminster. 

So why are we still participating in this union farce by sending MPs to the Westminster cesspit? Scottish MPs should quit the toxic English chamber and come home to help end this faux union. If they refuse, then the Scottish People must take matters into their own hands.