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May 16Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

This has made me more angry than anything else in politics for a while. I so hope that the people in Scotland unite behind rejecting this. Given our ability to generate wind and tidal power it is ludicrous to consider nuclear.

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May 16Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

Considering the outcomes of most revolutions, I hesitate to call for one, but I feel at the end of the road for what would usually be called rational action. :-(

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Viceroy Jack is ludicrous and spineless when it comes to sticking up for Scotland.

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May 16Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

Yep and having walked past the huge and expenisve two fingers sticking up at Scotland building, aka the 'UK GOVERNMENT' building in Edinburgh, next to our council offices, it really is clear that Scotalnd is no more than a colony. Is there a 'Scottish Governement' builidng in London?

If you look online at NLS image archive you can watch short films about the protests that took place about the building of Torness nuke power station etc.

The 'UKGov' building in Edinburgh when first built was adorned with a massive butchers apron on it, now it shows a blue and white abstract disjointed faux attempt at a Saltire!

Scotland is in great peril.

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May 16Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

I suppose Jack feels he has to say something to justify his Cabinet position and if irritates the Scots, so much the better. Besides the centuries' worth of toxicity, the danger to public health and the fact that Scotland doesn't want or need another nuclear power site, the cost (naturally not mentioned by Jack) would be huge. For whatever it might be, we could build many dynamo vessels of the type developed in Scotland and now active providing tidal power to the Nova Scotia grid in Canada. The UK gov withdrew funding from tidal energy research, but Scotland Gov, in conjunction with the EU and an engineering company, went ahead with development. The prototype ship was towed to the Bay of Fundy for proving trials and was so successful that further development will happen there with governmental help. The tidal races of the Pentland Firth and the fjords of the west of Scotland would be ideal for this type of green energy and connection to the mainland grid would be relatively simple.

The UK GOv's lack of interest in tidal energy, the only green source with a 24/7/365 guarantee, has held back our development: we are installing fixed underwater turbines in the Pentland Firth, but the lack of UK Gov finance and interest has slowed it by a huge amount. In addition Orkney will have had to wait for about 30 years to get a connector cable to transmit the huge amounts of green power that are surplus to local requirements to the mainland (that's if the job actually gets finished). In its absence huge amounts of power just go to waste.

It's got to the state where we Scots have to be far more proactive in our campaigning for independence. Years are slipping by, which suits Westminster fine. The Independence parties need to show more determination and the public need to be more vocal and active; civil disobedience if necessary (Craig Dalzell wrote a couple of informative essays on this a few years back). The "once in a Generation" bullshit that the Unionists bray about should be challenged: BBC Radio3 runs a New Young Generation competition on an annual basis for promising classical musicians. We should aspire to that definition of a generation for Scotland's Independence.

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May 16Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

We need more of these sort of utterances, this diatribe. The microphone should be thrust under Viceroy Jack's stiff upper lip more than it is. It displays the entitled colonialist mind set that they try to keep under wraps.

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May 16Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

Nuclear energy is shite and I hate that people support it. Fucking braindead idiots.

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Same as Jean. More deeply angry than ever before.

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