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I'm going to have to stop reading your posts Leah for the sake of my sanity. How much ridicule and gaslighting will the Scots take before doing something about it? How about a picket outside Holyrood every morning, jeering the devolutionists as they go in to debate such vital matters as what a woman is rather than the raison d'etre which they were elected on. No, even that would be too much to ask.

I despair.

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Yes Leah, the plunder of Scotland's renewable energy over the next 50 years may well exceed the £trillions plundered from Scotland's oil and gas fields over the last 50 years. Renewable energy produced here will soon have a retail value of £100+ billion a year, all plundered from our nation and people who receive no royalties for this resource.

Meantime, our energy rich nation is forced to pay what is probably the highest energy prices in the world! Plunder and exploitation of this nature are all part of the colonial balance sheet, a country rendered un-competitive and under-developed, lacking in economic growth or opportunity so long as we are unable to access our own resources.

https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/the-realities-of-an-energy-rich-scotland-plundered-under-colonial-rule/

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Murray is happy for Scotland to have a state owned energy sector, so long as it is owned by the Norwegian state and not the Scottish state!

Some people in Shetland recently campaigned for that Island to be returned to Norway. Personally I'd be happy if the whole of Scotland was part of Norway, and not UK. I'd be happy to learn Norwegian to spite Westminster.

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I'm sure a lot would prefer Norway over Westminster.

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The Vikings were not exactly welcome visitors to Orkney or Shetland or Caithness etc as far as the indigenous Picts were concerned, the latter descended from the Neolithic peoples.

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scandalous!

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Yes Leah, the plunder of Scotland's renewable energy over the next 50 years may well exceed the £trillions plundered from Scotland's oil and gas fields over the last 50 years. Renewable energy produced here will soon have a retail value of £100+ billion a year, all plundered from our nation and people who receive no royalties for this resource.

Meantime, our energy rich nation is forced to pay what is probably the highest energy prices in the world! Plunder and exploitation of this nature are all part of the colonial balance sheet, a country rendered un-competitive and under-developed, lacking in economic growth or opportunity so long as we are unable to access our own resources.

https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/the-realities-of-an-energy-rich-scotland-plundered-under-colonial-rule/

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I'd like to see some action against this plunder. Any suggestions?

If I were in an affected area, I would be very tempted to demolish a few ugly pylons and disrupt the process but that might not be sensible.

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