After Anas Sarwar’s win last, Dame Jackie Baillie wins an award sponsored by Drax.
Drax! Even the name triggers fear. Drax the Destroyer?
I don’t know why energy giant Drax is sponsoring the Herald’s Scottish Politician of the Year award but it’s a bad, bad image. See this:
A U.K. biomass power plant which received more than £800 million (C$1.36 billion) in government subsidies for renewable energy production last year has been pegged as the country’s largest source of CO2 in the country in a new analysis by the climate think tank, Ember.
The Drax plant, which generates electricity by burning wood pellets, is also one of the biggest sources of dangerous particulate (PM10) pollution in the entire EU, writes Skye News.https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/10/24/report-tags-heavily-subsidized-drax-biomass-plant-as-u-ks-biggest-co2-emitter/
Maybe Drax is good to its workers? Nope. See this:
This fight at Drax is about the fact there’s been a 14 percent pay cut in two years in comparison with the cost of living. Where I work, we got offered a pay rise and it was an insult. The conditions are horrendous. You’re talking 60 degrees when you’re working in the boiler room. With the hot weather recently, it was so hot people were almost collapsing and we have to stay there and work through it. We get treated like dogs.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/23/drax-a23.html
So, why are Labour so relaxed with Drax? This in September 2022:
Climate campaigner ejected from Labour event sponsored by Drax power plant firm
That’ll be it.
Footnote: The Herald in August had: Baillie said there are ‘parallels’ between Letby case and QEUH scandal. Did this trigger the award?
Even her Labour colleague Neil Findlay was shocked:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Akin to the Russian armaments manufacturers sponsoring Pravda’s politician of the year.
A completely pointless exercise but good propaganda value for the state.
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TBH if you had to guess WHO a ‘newspaper’ like The Herald would deem worthy to win “Scottish politician of the year” this PARTICULAR year….then Jackie Baillie would be in the top three……..like TWINS there is more that unites them than divides them as a person and a ‘newspaper’……to verify just try reading some of their articles and then see the similar style favoured and thus adopted by one Jackie Baillie…..as in Gutter style politics……in timing it also helps to promote the false notion that Labour are once again in ascendency within Scotland……the false HOPE of all media in Scotland……
“Scottish Secretary Alister Jack was nominated for Best Scot at Westminster “after testing the boundaries of the devolution settlement with a veto on Holyrood’s gender reforms and contesting the deposit return scheme.”……..says a ………checks notes………’SCOTTISH’ (INO)……’newspaper’ and he WON that ‘award’….. so their “Best” ‘SCOT’ (INO) at WM (LOL) acts against a SCOTTISH parliament in acting on behalf of ANOTHER country’s parliament, as in ENGLAND’s parliament , and he WINS best SCOT for doing THAT ????? ….LOL (is this a parallel universe type of awards….LOL)
“Scottish (INO) Lib Dem leader Alex ‘F*** you Maree’ Cole-Hamilton was nominated for highlighting the problem of sewage dumping in rivers, lakes and coastlines”…….Alex there… STILL thinking of England obvs…..where his heart truly is…….BUT Alex attributed this to SCOTTISH rivers Lakes and coastlines…..as he, like other Pro UK politicians in Scotland, cannot see his beloved England being attacked on this topic WITHOUT then being compelled to include a similar attack (smear) upon Scotland also….as part of his and others campaign to demonstrate that in his VERY UK partisan political opinion #ScotlandIsSh*te……
Labour’s Michael Marra MSP was named One to Watch…..what just ONE ?,,,,watch for WHAT though ?…..Oh
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Drax makes co2 by burning trees! producing less heat per co2 than burning coal.
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They also import the trees/pellets from USA thus transport adding to CO2 emissions.
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Has she ever done something that is actually constructive? Her current tis over 11k roaming charges tells us all we need to know about what she thinks is important.
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Should Labour ever c̶o̶n̶v̶i̶n̶c̶e̶ pool the wool over enough Scot’s eyes, can you imagine her in a ministerial position?
Minister for finding her ar** with both hands?
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*pull
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Both Drax and Baillie produce world leading levels of HOT AIR !
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Well, if the Herald and Scotsman are still to receive “funding” from Westminster via an obscure budget provision to keep what are clearly non viable newspapers going for their services to the Union, then it’s in the Herald’s interests to “butter up” the likes of Dame Jackie Baillie, since its quite possible that Labour may win the next UK General Election.
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Have some people forgotten that Ms Baillie was the most incompetent, frequency sacked minister during the period of the LibLab Scottish Assembly administration.
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As always, the Anglo-American ‘He-hawrald’ doing its bit to help the ‘special relationship’…
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