By Anonymous

UK government Scotland tweet on 15 October 2024:

“Yesterday the UK Government secured £63 billion of investment to provide almost 38,000 jobs. Scotland will benefit from the UK Government’s plans to drive growth. Some quickfire qs to Scottish Secretary @IanMurrayMP on why Scotland is the place to invest”.

(Note how this tweet does not specify that the “38,000 jobs” will be in Scotland in fact they only mention Scotland as supposdley benefitting via the “UK government’s plans to drive growth” but then how will Scotland benefit from that , as surely it is more their whole UK , as in mainly one part of it- not Scotland- that will derive more benefits, to include majority of jobs and “growth“, which will also then include any profits for the UK only going to the Treasury of the UK government).

So the attached video had quick fire Q’s to Ian Murray.

Q :”Why should people choose Scotland” ?

His answer: “It’s the best place to live , work and love in the world”

(However as far as investments are concerned it is more a case of our Scottish resources being rife for plundering, exploiting and profiting from as being the more honest answer we should be hearing from the so called Scottish SOS Ian Murray).

Q: “What is your main takeaway from this summit about the future of UK investment”

His answer: “It’s going to be stable, innovative and a government that’s 100% behind the mission of growth. Which means that this is the best place to be, Britain’s open for business. And if there’s any investments to come anywhere in the world it should come to here” ?

( “growth” for whom ? Who will really profit from these external investments ? Is Britain really “open for business” or is it Scotland’s resources and land that is still up for sale via another UK government ?).

Q: “How will the international investment summit impact the people of Scotland” ?

His answer: “Well we want to bring in more investment so we can provide that growth. We can meet our missions that will mean prosperity for all over the country, including Scotland”

(“investment for growth” so what about actual jobs in Scotland . How many in Scotland as a return for investors investing in our country via our resources. Murray says “prosperity for all over the country” and then he adds “including Scotland” as an aside. I think we all know where the majority of prosperity will be and also where the majority of jobs will go in Britain too).

Yesterday I also saw this online in respect to someone having noted this in regards to the UK governments plans for investments into their, Labour party’s, ‘Britain’.

” There are no mandates to ensure GB Energy & foreign energy firms source from UK suppliers. The Iberdrola (Scottish Power) investment is mainly for the East Anglia wind farm – creating 450 jobs in Fene, Spain – all supplied by a Spanish state company (Navantia)”

This was in response to a tweet that the UK government Scotland had tweeted:

“Spain’s largest power company @Iberdrola is investing £24b for it’s British arm @ScottishPower ahead of the international investment summit. PM @KeirStarmer and @ScotSecOfState @IanMurrayMP welcomed Executive Chairman Ignacio Galan with a bottle of @johnnniewalker following the news”.

(So “investing £24b for it’s British arm”, at checks notes, “@ScottishPower”. Yes I think we all know what is really going on here. Scotland is for sale and that sale will benefit mostly the buyers and also those who are selling off Scotland’s resources – as in the UK government aka currently the Labour party).

Talking of growth it was reported that “UK government is not considering a Scottish visa to attract migrants” an SNP MP said that a Scottish separate immigration system “would allow Holyrood to “tackle the Brexit-born staff shortages that have inflicted pain and hardship upon our NHS and Scottish businesses”.

Prior to the GE Jackie Baillie stated that “her party would look at ways to “incentivise” migrants to the UK to settle in Scotland”

(“incentivise” well that’s an interesting word to use and also one that is an open to interpretation as a non committal statement on there ever being a distinct policy for Scotland on immigration from the rest of the UK)

However days after the GE Anas Sarwar was asked if he would push the prime minister for a distinct immigration system north of the border. His response was ““No. We have to have one UK border agency, of course we need one immigration system” .

(Yet in Scottish Labour’s ‘election’ manifesto ‘they’ “pledged to reform the UK migration advisory committee and to ensure migration and skills policies “work for every part of the UK“. However I guess we were not electing Scottish Labour in the UK GE as we were electing UK Labour MP’s to sit in the UK parliament).

Bottom line is that all any UK government does as a UK government is not to act for Scotland or on behalf of Scotland but only act as colonial masters to assume that they, as a UK government, represent us in Scotland and so they own all of our resources to do with as they, as a UK government, please. All that Scotland gets from them, as UK governments, is condescension and a succession of worthless platitudes, that they assume will be sufficient in order to try to placate us but really just being uttered to try to keep us quiet aka to shut us up.

GB Energy where are all of the jobs in Scotland then ?

So far only learnt about jobs and investment via GB Energy in Merseyside and Teeside aka “growth” for England.

4th October tweet via the UK PM @10DowningStreet:

“A new era for the clean energy industry”

“The UK is investing in carbon Capture technology in Teesside & Merseyside”

“4000 new jobs”

“Accelerate towards Net Zero”

“£21.7 billion investment”

UK not investing in UK then but seemingly investing in England , jobs and growth there.

Scotland gets a nameplate as GB Energy HQ.

So what about Scotland (jobs) ?

What indeed.