Benjamin Leiper

[Benjamin Leiper @BenjaminLe17941]

@glenncole55 @WhiskyElf Renewables may be intermittent, but nuclear has the opposite problem in that you can’t just turn it off during low demand and/or grid restraints, so other forms of generation have to be paid to turn off, like renewables and fossil fuels.

[Benjamin Leiper @BenjaminLe17941]

@glenncole55 @WhiskyElf On occasion, but for the most part there is enough electricity produced in Scotland to amount to a surplus.

England, on the other hand, has an electricity generation shortfall, so it would make more sense to put new nuclear there, where Ofgem grid connection charge will be less.

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@ace1uk @Mr__Comics @CraigMurrayOrg Again, an unpopular petition, open to anyone whether they are resident on the island or not.

If the people of Orkney or Shetland wanted a vote, they could just hold a vote via their local council, who run polling stations. A petition to the Scotgov is not a serious proposal.

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@ace1uk @Mr__Comics @CraigMurrayOrg An unsuccessful petition which was open to be signed by anyone whether they were resident on the island or not.

What of it?

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@ace1uk @Mr__Comics @CraigMurrayOrg On the contrary, There’s been next to zero history on the question of independence or joining Norway in the island community.

It has been suggested by a few individuals, mostly from the mainland.

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@umspickin @DonaldRankine @murdo_fraser His party voted for trams in Edinburgh instead of duelling the A9.

The A9 should have been duelled in the 1970s and a motorway by the 80s.

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@lawrenson_40883 @CraigMurrayOrg No, that’s not how licensing works.

Companies that extract oil and gas, are guests in the countries they operate in.

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@KGBFINGAR @CraigMurrayOrg That is not how licensing works.

Companies that extract oil and gas, are guests in the countries they operate in.

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@Mr__Comics @CraigMurrayOrg Given there has never been a popular movement in Orkney and/or Shetland for increased autonomy, let alone full independence, you raise a very uninteresting moot point.

No time wasters or please.

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@rocketshuggy @Davidsi86612571 @Duckyyy2142 @BrechinYes2 One councillor in Orkney
Three out of 21 councillors in Shetland proposed a motion, the other councillors gave them enough rope.

Nothing happened, no proposals, no enthusiasm.

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@Duckyyy2142 @rocketshuggy @Davidsi86612571 @BrechinYes2 No, there has never been a popular movement.

There have been a few deeply unpopular ones. None of them have proposed full independence.

If O&S were to remain in the UK, they would have a 12 mile limit like Guernsey.

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@Duckyyy2142 @BrechinYes2 Unlikely, but only if an independent Scotland is as incapable of “levelling up” as the UK has been.

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@MargaretMc15665 @SSalyers2 If they consider themselves “British”, they should be honest about it.

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@MargaretMc15665 @SSalyers2 There is no such party as “Scottish Conservative” registered with the Electoral Commission.

You can’t vote for a party that doesn’t exist.

“Labour” similarly, do not appear as an option on ballot papers in Scotland, since 1999. Reform are not familiar with Scotland.

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@MintIrate @rebeccabutlerm2 No that is not the truth.

William Patterson was the Scot who suggested that the Bank of England should be formed. But by the time England had negotiated a union via threats and bribes to a few nobles, England was in debt.

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@MintIrate @Indy_Quint @rebeccabutlerm2 The thing about democracy is you can change your mind.

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@AndreasKoureas_ @YesCornwall That’s not how Self Determination works.

You idiot.

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@Duckyyy2142 @thomsonchris @AlexMacLeod9 If the UN preferred voting franchise, media and campaign funding rules, had been used, the result would have been reversed.

Decolonisation ≠ “separatist movement.