Grangemouth produced 97% of Scotland’s aviation fuel. We now have to import all our aviation fuel.
Scotland is Europe's 2nd biggest oil producer. We now have to import all our oil products at inflated prices.
Scotland: Asset-stripped. Wealth-extracted. Better-together? 🤔
Honestly never seen anything like it on a football pitch….gogic 6 staples side of pitch and then plays like that for 96 mins 😳 absolutely shows you this team is fighting. Let’s stick together every one of us 🙌🏻���️⚪️⚫️⚪️
Labour blasted as new report shows Scots hammered by high energy costs
1.5 TWh (1.5 Billion kWh) transferred to England every month for no benefit
Highest connection charges
Highest energy bills
No "£300 saving" from #Liebour@GBEnergyHQ 13 JOBS!!
https://t.co/r8Nav5i7GE
The Tories and Labour colluded on a nationwide rollout of free zones not long after Brexit.
12 Freeports - 8 in England, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Wales.
74 SEZs - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, 8 in Wales.
A Freeport is a privately owned port, whereas a port is publicly owned.
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a much larger type of free zone, up to 75km wide. Some Freeports are housed inside SEZs.
AI Growth Zones - There are 5 designated AI Growth Zones in the UK, located in Culham (Oxfordshire), the North East, North Wales, South Wales, and Lanarkshire (Scotland).
Think of Free zones as carve-outs with different laws and regulations from the host country. They are designed to lure corporations with 10-year tax breaks and 25-year licenses, and many more deregulatory perks.
Free zones are basically tax havens, they leech astronomical amounts of State aid (public money) for corporate welfare.
Each Freeport gets £25 million in State aid
Each SEZ get £160 million in State aid
But Rishi Sunak's flagship Brexit Freeport at Teesside spent 560 million in public money, that's 22 times the amount of the initial sum. Profits were split 9/10 in favour of the private sector. @PrivateEyeNews meticulously covered this scandal.
So you can see that free zones are primed for exploitation of taxpayers money, environmental pollution, lowering of workers rights, money laundering, compulsory purchase orders, fossil fuel/mineral mining, and the implementation of corporate governance in a ring-fenced region which is in effect protected from 'big government' intervention.
Freeports and SEZs are stepping stones to Free Cities.
Forest City 1, Suffolk, aims "to house 1 million of the UK's most ambitious people", it is wholly dependent on the Special Economic Zone in the region, which has that pot of State aid gold waiting for unscrupulous entities to pick up, and of course, that deregulatory framework.
Forest City 1 is backed by numerous right-wing think tanks and organisations, and also Dame Patricia Hewitt (former Labour Secretary of State for Trade and Industry). The Guardian also loves Forest City 1.
https://t.co/uNI0YWeGKn
Find out more on my Substack, which focuses explicitly on the duopoly's free zones and free cities rollout.
One last thing, the free zones rollout came with secondary legislation, meaning zero Parliamentary debate, zero public consultation, and zero notification of the press, this is why next to no one in the UK has heard of free zones.
This is a corporate coup, and the British public is paying for the privatisation of the UK.
https://t.co/H1je4HxYAo
The same Labour
👉that buried Glasgow in £1b PFI debt
👉that underpaid GCC women £1b for decades
👉that ditched WASPI women
👉that built six council houses in seven years
That Labour?
We’ll no be swallowing their false promises again
#VoteSNP#bothvoteSNP#nevertrustlabour
🤔 Keir Starmer attended a discreet meeting in Feb '25 between Mandelson and his client the deeply concerning US data/AI company Palantir.
🚨 Downing St has provided no minutes for this meeting despite Palantir later securing a £241m contract from the Labour Government.
Three weeks ago these two held a press conference entitled 'Secret Scotland' where they threw around baseless allegations, smears and made borderline defamation claims. The media were there and lapped it up. They were all over the news that night. Now they're refusing interviews.
So, I live in Paisley.
The Paisley centre has always been shite.
And it was shite before the SNP.
It got shitter when Labour approved plans for Braehead.
And pedestrianised the high street.
This happened 30 odd years ago.
When @D_G_Alexander was in Paisley.
Why has BBC Scotland refused to assign one of its Holyrood reporters to the Mandelson scandal when BBC Wales has assigned Senedd reporter Elliw Gwawr to the story? Why are Lynsey Bews, Kirsten Campbell, Philip Sim and Andrew Kerr being kept away from the scandal?
Anas Sarwar "My friend Keir Starmer"
Anas Sarwar "My old friend ... Peter Mandelson"
Anas Sarwar is as tainted by the Mandelson scandal as Keir Starmer. The whole Scottish media knows this. He backed both men and was happy to pose smiling with both men.
Please share 👇, let’s let Anas Sarwar and @ScottishLabour know that we Scots are not putting up with the lies, this how the Tories under Boris Johnson carried on, and we never fell for it then, and we ain’t falling for it now, enough is enough. #VoteSNP#LabourLies