TODAY 🏴 Scotland’s Not For Sale
Scotland is being asset-stripped: Our politicians take their lead from the corporate lobby and vested interests.
It’s time to take back what’s ours.
“Scotland’s offshore wind is one of our greatest natural assets, yet ScotWind handed control to fossil fuel giants, asset managers and foreign governments,” says @L__Macfarlane
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We’ve long been promised that private finance will fix the nature crisis. But our new report shows why the economics don’t stack up — and why we need a public-led alternative instead
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A good day of important discussion in the National Piping Centre, setting out how Scotland’s natural assets have been privatised — and how we can take them back.
@ConterScot Closing today’s conference, @KennyMacAskill sets out how Scotland’s offshore wind sector has been handed to foreign multinationals — and how we can take it back.
TODAY 🏴 Scotland’s Not For Sale
Scotland is being asset-stripped: Our politicians take their lead from the corporate lobby and vested interests.
It’s time to take back what’s ours.
@ConterScot In our final session, Professor John Foster provides an overview of Scottish capitalist development since the 1970s - and asks who owns Scotland today.
Interesting observation from Dr Tom Montgomery @ScotNotForSale : when Swinney was negotiating whisky in the US alongside Mandelson, it could have been a scene from 2008, when Swinney was finance sec and Mandelson was business minister.
…17 years from the financial crash.