Under this image of a relatively small Liverpool windfarm, 348MW compared to Moray East at 950MW, there’s not a word of Scotland.
Why might it have?
Scotland powers nearly half of UK’s wind energy milestone. Scotland’s wind farms are generating 48% of the UK’s 30GW wind power capacity, with new projects pushing this total higher.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/08/30/scotland-powers-nearly-half-of-uks-wind-energy-milestone/
Net electricity transfers from Scotland to England [in 2023] increased 15 per cent to 6.0 TWh year-on-year, with transfers from Scotland to England increasing by 14 per cent to 6.1 TWh while transfers from England to Scotland decreased to 0.1 TWh. Net transfers from Scotland to Northern Ireland more than doubled to 0.5 TWh compared with Quarter 1 2023, which was mainly transfers from Scotland to Northern Ireland, with only a small amount of electricity transferred from Northern Ireland to Scotland.
Scotland has 8% of the UK population.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Once again, FB has removed my post when I reposted Talking up Scotland. This time it was this article about the Guardian ignoring Scotland’s 48% contribution to UK wind power.
I prefaced my post with this quote from the article:
” Scotland powers nearly half of UK’s wind energy milestone. Scotland’s wind farms are generating 48% of the UK’s 30GW wind power capacity, with new projects pushing this total higher.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/08/30/scotland-powers-nearly-half-of-uks-wind-energy-milestone/“
I have requested a review.
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How secure are the cable networks and other infrastructure from attack by people that perhaps don’t have the UKs best interests at heart? Presumably it would be pretty easy to cause a massive blackout by attacking just a few key components leaving the English freezing in the dark.
It would be really unfortunate if that happened.
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Wouldn’t it just!
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I like this Scotland is going to be shafted again just like before.
https://x.com/MeidasScotland/status/1831975426601660561
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Won’t repeat my comment, upon reading Talking-Up-Scotland article!
Haste the day, when we close the door on all things
‘british’/English Establishment and everything related thereto!
When Scotland’s wealth and resources will be for the benefit of Scotland and WE her people.
When that, over and above covering all of Scotland needs, will be sold at a price to suit and benefit Scotland, and
NOT TAKEN by ‘ENGLISH ESTABLISHMENT legalised theft’
HASTE THE DAY!
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“Guardian colludes to hide Scotland producing half of the UK’s renewables electricity with only only a twelfth of the population”
It is , of course, ever thus .
Where The Guardian, like the majority of the UK MSM , can never be seen to promote or single out Scotland, as a nation within the UK , that benefits the whole UK a great deal more than is acknowledged by them as a UK media or indeed by UK politicians.
Indeed they all collectively have a tendency to promote the opposite as being the case, as in Scotland supposedly being subsidised by the UK . (Same UK that we, Scotland, are a part of ).
So who do they all really mean is supposedly subsidising us , Scotland, as a nation ?
I suspect they mean it is actually England who they see as subsidising us in Scotland as well England also subsidising all of the other nations in the UK too.
If they , the UK media and politicians, ever dared to concede our, Scotland’s, true value/wealth via our Scottish sourced contributions to and for the benefit of the whole UK.
Well for them to concede that they would then fear that proves it to be more likely, as a fact and a reality , that it is the UK that needs us, Scotland, far more than we, Scotland, need them.
However none of them are willing to let that particular ‘Cat out of the bag’ as in make it common knowledge that they , as a UK media and UK politicians, would ever want to promote within Scotland or indeed elsewhere in the UK either.
We of course also just need more of our fellow Scots , and other nationalities too who choose to live here in Scotland, to become more clued up on this as being a fact.
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Their continual, contemptible lies against Scotland, is NOT something we should ever forgive or forget.
They’ll eventually reap what they’ve sown.
They continue their lying/thieving/pillaging/plundering/
of Colonised Scotland.
The Restoration of
Scotland’s Rightful, Sovereign Independence
can’t come quick enough!
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But how Helen? The Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish Government cannot hold an Independence Referendum without the consent of the U.K Government, and, in my opinion, that is never going to happen, not after the fright they got in 2014. So we can gripe all we like about the bad boys at Westminster, and in Edinburgh, being nasty to us, but they will, as usual, just ignore us, quite simply because they can. We are merely noises off, and I’m afraid we are going to remain so for the foreseeable future.
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we don’t need a referendum, we need a political party or party’s to have as a single issue in their manifesto, withdrawal from the ToU. They can list as many reasons as they like but the vote is for just one thing, ending the union.
Golfnut
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Liberation Scotland/Salvo via the UN/ICJ.
No more ASKING for permission for an ENGLISH STATE-controlled Referendum, or anything else.
The SNP are choosing to ignore the existing legal route, the one created after WWII.
Their raison d’etre is to ensure Nations who want to break free from Dictating Colonialist Nations, are heard to present evidence of the Colonisation of their Nations.
The English Government cannot be seen to interfere, but it doesn’t mean they won’t continue their sleekit, covert ways.
Liberation Scotland/Salvo will soon present our Case to the UN.
Please sign up and support.
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There are no laws which prevent a state from withdrawing from a Treaty and you would ignore that route as instead of asking the influx you would ask somebody else.
Golfnut
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As = and.
influx = inglis.
Golfnut
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Please sign the Open Letter to the First Minister at dearscotland.substack.com asking him to incorporate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights into Scots law. And get others to do so.
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WHO LIKES SPONGERS LIVING OFF SCOTS
NOT THE SCOTS. UNLESS YOUR ENGLISH UNIONIST
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Don’t forget the Scottish Unionists of which there are, sadly, too many.
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THEIVING ENGLISH
never in all of History
have England been able TO SUSTAIN THEIR OW POWER
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Scotland in surplus and nearer the source, pays more, because of Westminster policies. A burden on the Scottish economy. The companies would charge Scotland less. Westminster refuses. No parity.
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Next week on BBC there is a two part two hour documentary, that was commissioned by the BBC called “Salmond and Sturgeon: A troubled Union”.
They, the BBC, are promoting it on their website via their BBC Media centre online section where they say that it, as an article , is:
“To be broadcast in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, the series includes contributions from; First Minister, John Swinney: former First Minister, Humza Yousaf: Liz Lloyd, Nicola Sturgeon’s former Chief of Staff: George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Geoff Aberdein, Alex Salmond’s former Chief of Staff”.
So “in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum the BBC decide to ‘celebrate’ (NO’s win ?) by commissioning and broadcasting a documentary that will have show two prominent figures on the YES side , where according to this BBC article, “the series will focus on turning points in the SNP’s fortunes“, the “tensions which arose in the hierarchy” and also apparently will be a “tale of ambition, power and broken friendships and it reveals the human cost of devoting your entire life to a political cause.”.
Firstly we could challenge why both Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon agreed to be:
a) A part of a documentary such as this to be broadcast ” “in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum” which is hardly one that puts either them as politicians or indeed the YES side in a positive light.
b) It being a documentary commissioned by the BBC ! (a pro British broadcaster and no friend to or supporter of either independence, the SNP or indeed Mr Salmond or Ms Sturgeon, indeed the opposite is the case as in they, the BBC , are the opponents to all noted)
We could also ask why Humza Yousaf and John Swinney also agreed to contribute to a BBC commissioned documentary based on a “Troubled Union” that was concerning Mr Salmond’s and Ms Sturgeon’s relationship .
I mean surely the only real “Troubled Union” is the (supposed but not) “Union” where those who support the UK refer to us, Scotland, as being a nation that is a part of a (supposed but not) “Union” but where we on here, and others also , see it as not a “Union” but do agree it is very much “Troubled” as an actuality for us in Scotland.
The production company and director tasked with this job by the BBC formerly did documentaries such as “The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson” and “Jeremy Kyle: Death on Daytime” so it seems that much of their area of ‘expertise’ ,as a production company , seems to be as one where they do exposés on a subject regarded as either shocking or ‘controversial’ (which is a term the BBC loves to associate with any action via the SNP as the Scottish government)
So “in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum” why (do the BBC) not commission a documentary or better still a drama (an honest and truthful one) on why all that was promised by the NO side, who won in 2014, has now not transpired for Scotland.
Plus that same NO side conducted what was called “Project Fear” where we in Scotland were told during the independence referendum campaign by the NO side that there would be high food prices , high energy bills, also that we, Scotland, would be out of the EU , Mortgages would rise and a there would be very much a dire state of affairs that would all come to pass but only if we had voted YES in 2014.
What is really shocking is that all of these NO prophecies have now actually come true but not by us voting YES but by us , via a not overwhelming or shockingly high percentage, voting NO.
(Plus we were also told oil was going to run out, indeed an ‘expert’ -Sir Ian Wood- told the BBC that it, Oil, would run out in 2019 , -they the BBC tweeted this non fact- but it , Oil, did not run out , so yet another lie via that same “Project Fear” campaign -that included the BBC as part of it – all conducted by the same NO side campaign)
I mean how come there was a drama commissioned on Brexit called “Brexit: The uncivil war” which did an exposé of those on the ‘Leave’ side with many of the main ‘characters’ being depicted in a very unflattering light as those who plotted and schemed (Lied) in order to try and win the vote in 2016 for ‘Leave’ , which included, as plotters and schemers, many prominent Tory politicians.
Yet where is the same commissioned exposé, in drama form, of some of the main ‘characters’ on the NO side in the independence referendum of 2014 (two years prior to Brexit) that also depicts how they , as main characters on the NO side in the independence referendum campaign , also very much plotted and schemed (Lied), to win that referendum.
The BBC comments on this documentary , in relation to Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon, about “the human cost of devoting your entire life to a political cause.” so why was and is there now also no same reflection and observation on some of those on the NO side (as in Pro UK side) also experiencing a “human cost” in “devoting their entire (political) lives to the political cause that is the UK” ,via an alternate commissioned documentary.
As we do now know , as does the BBC, that some of those on the opposing side of the independence referendum campaign, that is those on the NO side, have since 2014 ( up to 2024) very much bore the brunt in experiencing a cost politically and personally in UK GE’s.
Where the Labour party , post 2014, have been in the political wilderness in Scotland when in the 2015 GE many Labour MP’s lost their hold on Scotland as they as Labour MP’s, bar one Labour MP, lost their seats in Scottish constituencies. (until in 2024 some voters in Scotland decided to forgive and forget the 2014 lies by Labour and again vote for them in the recent UK GE).
Perhaps in five years time the BBC may want to commission another documentary that is an exposé on how Keir Starmer and his Labour party managed to con some voters in Scotland to once again trust them , in 2024, as a party and as the new UK government but where that trust was then proven to be misplaced.
(Surely there is ‘Buyers remorse’ with some in Scotland who once again fell for empty slogans and soundbites such as those promoting a supposed but not “Change” and also a supposed but not “Fresh Start” .
However now they, Labour UK, are only being seen as actually delivering and offering us the public the same old same old that we, in Scotland, have all suffered under the previous UK government as in when we were governed by the Tory UK party).
Hopefully Labour will once again, in Scotland, be deservedly put back into the political wilderness with one reason being because they as politicians have “devoted their entire political lives to the political cause that is the UK” .
Which, as a “devotion to a political cause”, will eventually again result in both a personal ‘Human cost” and also a “political cost” for them individually and as a party in Scottish politics.
Where once again , we will see Labour become, in Scotland, those who are agins seen to be as insignificant and also very much those considered to be a minor political entity within Scotland.
All because it seems that for them Labour , as a party, it is more important that they as politicians continue to campaign to try to keep the UK intact than try to, as politicians , support and fight for us in Scotland as part of their UK.
Indeed that is very much their, Labour’s, obsession, with Scotland but is not ever either recognised or acknowledged as an obsession by the BBC in their news programmes, Debate programmes or indeed in them, as a broadcaster, ever considering commissioning a drama or documentary to focus upon that as a subject.
(Of course there is always the risk that those same Scots who seemingly are always willing to be very much fooled far more than just once or twice, Indeed they are willing as voters in Scotland, to be fooled constantly to then also suffer some personal “Human cost” in them foolishly once again trusting a party not worthy of their trust, as in the Labour party).
As it seems that for some voters here in Scotland that either their short memories pre and post 2014, or the BBC Scotland’s relentless deluge of anti SNP propaganda and also very much , for them as voters in Scotland, a lack of faith in their own actual country, as in Scotland’s potential, abilities and wealth that then sees them, as voters, too susceptible to political ‘Slogans’ and ‘soundbites’ from the likes of the Labour party.
Which then allows the BBC to commission documentaries such as this one that is going out on BBC 1 next week about Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon and their “Troubled Union” (as part of their , BBC Scotland’s, ongoing campaign on behalf of the Labour party for the 2026 Scottish elections which the BBC hopes will end both the SNP’s time as the Scottish government and too , the BBC hopes, any prospect for Scottish independence to happen).
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That’s the FOREIGN English Broadcasting Corporation who spew their lies and bias and for which, we who are lied to/about, have to pay a Licence fee.
The EBC/aka bbc are utter poison and should be sued for the return of every penny Scotland has suffered the ignominy of
Non-stop subliminal English brainwashing
Had to pay to be insulted, lied about, lied to, misrepresented, misreported etc.
There’s NO benefit in allowing this non-existent ‘union’ to continue.
The Colonisation of Scotland has existed since 1707, since which Sovereign Scots wanted an end to this repugnant English legalised theft/aka ‘the union’.
No Nations’ peoples were ever meant to be or should be under
ANY FOREIGN COLONIALIST JACKBOOT
Destroyers of Nations
Destroyers of Democracy
Thieving parasites
Dividers of Nations/Peoples/Workers/etc
FALSE Flag/FALSE ‘Nation’
The Treaty of the ‘union’ is false, never voted for by
Sovereign Scots, who were never given a vote.
The false Treaty has even been endlessly broken by the
English Coloniser,
An English Establishment, who’ve lived a history of lies,
histories IMPOSED upon Foreign Nations, whose own histories have been suppressed and rewritten by the Foreign English Colonialist Dictator.
The true histories of the Colonised Occupied Nations were banned from being taught in the schools of the Colonised Nations.
In the words of Michael Collins:
Give US the future,
WE’VE had enough of YOUR past.
Give US back OUR country
to live in,
to grow in,
to love.
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