@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.
@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.
@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.
@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?
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.