By Liz S
“Major infrastructure projects currently planned for Scotland being switched to other parts of the UK”.
Is this another way of the BBC communicating (threatening) some people in Scotland would be better to STFU or else .
I mean if we are talking “Energy” and “losing out” well the Labour Energy Secretary, Ed Milliband, tweeted this on 21 March 2025:
“Great British Energy is coming to you. Our publicly-owned energy company is rolling out solar panels for schools and NHS sites across England. Cutting bills and saving money for frontline services”.
“Coming to you” ?
Like coming to the country where the HQ of GB Energy is based, as in , it is coming to Scotland ?
No.
“Cutting bills” ?
Like “cutting bills” in Scotland ?
Also No.
Ed also linked a video to his tweet and he clarified where, as in which specific country within the UK, GB Energy’s “First project” would be located.
As in the “First project” for GB Energy was not to be in Scotland , that is the same Scotland that Keir Starmer previously referred to as being “the heart of the energy sector” and that would also then house GB Energy’s HQ.
Nope not in Scotland.
Ed confirmed GB Energy’s “First project” was to be in England.
As we, Scotland, had the HQ nameplate in Aberdeen but we were not to be the beneficiary of either GB Energy’s “First Project”, or in fact see anywhere or anyone in Scotland getting their energy bills “cut” or indeed see the supposed thousands of jobs being created here , as in the ones that were promised by Labour for Scotland via GB Energy Ltd, as pledged by them prior to the 2024 GE……
So we, Scotland, house GB Energy’s HQ, but not it’s Chairman , who as the GB Energy Chairman prefers to be based at “the heart” of where all of the actual benefits seem to be going, which currently is in England.
GB Energy is a prime example of Scotland being ‘sold yet another pup’ by yet another UK political party, where what we were promised and what we actually , so far, have received, is very much the equivalent of absolutely nothing tangible that is providing any real benefit to our lives or any “Change” from what we had before when the Tories were previously in power.
I think that if even the UK Energy secretary is admitting where all of the benefits and projects are currently going to, as in not to Scotland but only to England, then it is safe to assume that once again Labour have pulled yet another ‘fast one’ on Scotland, all done just to win (undeserved) votes in Scotland in the 2024 GE.
So where are all of the 37 Labour (so called and self named) Champions for Scotland who promised to do so much for Scotland and their Scottish constituents ?
I suspect they are all doing what they are telt by Labour HQ (forget rebel rebel Brian Leishman as he may moan but he still sits as a Labour MP, so all talk and no action means Jack S*** to his betrayed constituents).
Labour MP’s always put ‘Party before country’ (as in the country, which was Scotland, where people elected 37 of them in 2024 as their Labour MP to represent them in WM).
Which is also now known and referred to as being a wasted vote in Scotland.
Vote SNP in 2026 as a first step to make it all stop…for us anyway.
By Capella
Note also, from that BBC article, that Scottish Power (owned by Iberdrola) says:
data centres have to be built close to the largest populations to maximise their response times for connectivity
So data centres can’t be built in Scotland where energy would be cheaper under zonal pricing. Data centres have to built in England where population is higher so that emails can arrive quicker.
Internet operates at near the speed of light BTW. In fibre optic cables, the light travels somewhere around 60% of the speed of light in a vacuum, so around 200,000 km/s or so. (Reddit)
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Being brutally honest, they only want Scotland for its natural resources.
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”It’s Great British Energy , Jim , but not as we ( in Scotland ) know it !”
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“Note also, from that BBC article, that Scottish Power (owned by Iberdrola) says:
data centres have to be built close to the largest populations to maximise their response times for connectivity”
This 👇
https://www.sobencc.com/white-papers/scottish-data-centres/
“Scotland is ideally placed to gain a significant piece of this pie and is rapidly emerging as the next European data centre hub.”
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Interesting report.
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We should all know by now that nothing with GB or UK in it will ever benefit Scotland.
By the way, I heard something in the passing today. Some random American was discussing Trump’s hope to annexe Canada and Greenland but he added another country to the list. Guess which one? No, not the UK, just the northern part of it. He wants Scotland to be the 50 something state!
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GB Energy is nothing but a huge getaway van, revving up now and loading Scotland’s natural resources in the back before racing down to Westminster with the swag. Any Scot who believes otherwise is lacking even basic cognitive abilities.
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Was particularly amused by that quote from Capella, ” Data centres have to built in England where population is higher so that emails can arrive quicker ” – Let’s for a moment ignore the sheer number of existing data centres nowhere near England, Iceland for example, and examine just how thick Keith Anderson and Kevin Keane think Scots really are….
With optic fibre line losses over 862km by road from Aberdeen to London at 200,000km/s, this results in the email telling Keith he is a total arsehole arriving an entire 4.3mS later… No worries K&K, you know that already, it’s on a blog….
What pisses me off most about the KKok article is ignoring the power line losses over 892km to justify the South of England continuing to enjoy the cheapest leccy in the UK whilst the rest have to suffer – Scots, and to be fair most English, are sick and tired of this ‘Great British’ disease, but I’m pretty sure Keith got the email, ‘f off’…
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I sense anger in your email Bob.
quite right too.
we won’t release ourself from this abusive relationship until more than 50% of our fellow Scots wake up and become rightly furious. We need to tell the English establishment we’ve had enough and we’re leaving.
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‘until more than 50% of our fellow Scots wake up’.
A challenge with a mainstream media and Unionist political class that perpetuates: an avoidance of acknowledging ‘context’, a disregard for ‘perspective’; the endless favouring of negative framing; bias by omission of positives; still fear mongering and use of implied threats around what will ensue post-independence – in short gaslighting. These opponents are engaged whether by individually-decided action or perhaps some organised collective action too, in dampening momentum towards a clear, sustained, unarguable majority for independence.
How to expose and counter more effectively/more widely the ways in which the ‘establishment’ supporters of the Union work to prevent the reaching of a tipping point in support for Scotland’s independence?
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An interesting snapshot of Keith Anderson’s past from Companies House https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/kS55TYsS-rpsgidghMm-yOA_TaI/appointments
Very little information otherwise, his online information has been meticulously pruned….
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The investment in Scotland is I think the means by which Scotland’s resources are transferred to England, in other words theft.
Golfnut
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