Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks to Frances McKie for alerting me to this.
In a remarkable piece in the Cumberland News & Star, tow days ago we read:
The Electrolux vacuum cleaner was found in Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, which has been a locked vault since the 1970s. The household hoover is thought to have been used to clean up radioactive dust in the facility during the 1950s and 1960s.
After decades of work to figure out how to take waste from a building designed never to be emptied, retrieval teams at Sellafield are now doing exactly that. So far, enough waste to fill 18 storage boxes has been cleared.
Roddy Miller, Sellafield Ltd’s chief operating officer, said: “It’s a fantastic achievement to get to the point where we’re routinely retrieving waste from the building.
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/25122676.vacuum-cleaner-found-sellafield-nuclear-waste-store/
The writer does not think to ask the obvious:
‘This radioactive stuff for a room designed never to be emptied, why was that and what are you going to do with it now?’
Presumably, they’re going to have to bury it somewhere else. I remember they had the Ayrshire & Galloway hills in mind last time, in 1984, when local protests stopped them.
Why does the answer matter so much to Scotland?
Just this:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Stop these ENGLISH THUGS
POISONING SCOTLAND COUNTRYSIDE
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The Scotsman published a story yesterday that stated “Majority of SNP’s voters believe nuclear power should be part of Scotland’s mix of clean energy generation” this has now been declared nowt more than a PR stunt .
The Scotsman , which as a newspaper has kept it’s quaint name, I say quaint as a name , as clearly it supports anyone but a person of Scottish origin, and surely in it still retaining the name “The Scotsman” it is breaching the Trade description Act.
Those who currently own it as a newspaper are based in Leeds, England (which explains why we get such a constant negative angle on both Scotland as a nation and also a succession of headlines and articles against the SNP as a political party).
Apparently this ‘poll’ was conducted by some organisation called Britain Remade.
That title alone of the organisation is enough to guarantee that this poll was a crock of you know what.
Who are Britain Remade ?
Well would it shock you to know there were Tories within it’s organisation.
Their CEO was a former (Tory) special advisor at No.10 Downing Street and their Head of Communications was a media Special Adviser to the (Tory) Prime Minister with responsibility for regional media and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and he was also he was a Senior Adviser to Tees Valley Tory Mayor Ben Houchen, overseeing political communications and operations.
This is looking murkier by the minute.
On their website they state “Britain Remade is a campaign to promote economic growth. We put forward practical solutions to the problems holding Britain back”.
“to the problems holding Britain back” ? (Brexit perhaps ?)
Well as to Britain being “held back” I care not, but it’s clearly being “held back” by political parties like the Tories, as well as too many organisations like Britain Remade, that are set up as yet another type of Think Tank seeking to promote only one political party (in this case it will be the Tories they seek to promote) and also to promote their Tory policies/ideas etc while also undermining other political parties (like say the SNP).
They, Britain Remade, are also yet another pro UK organisation who will stick their nose into our Scottish business and so will do their bit for their Britain to be sustained.
I personally do not care or indeed give too much thought as to what or who is “holding back” their Britain but what I do care about is Scotland being “held back” because it ,as a country, is still within their Britain .
I suspect their “Britain” will never be “remade” and as to their Britain, UK actually, ever re-joining the EU well that , I am sure, will not be a future campaign that this Tory Think Tank, disguised as a ‘campaign’ organisation, will seek to campaign or petition for in order to try to regain the lost “economic growth” of their Britain/UK.
(Why ‘Britain Remade’, what about the UK that includes Northern Ireland, or is NI just another nation , like Scotland and I am sure Wales too, that this organisation cares not a sh*t about).
Lost “economic growth” is also down to parties like the Tories, Labour and other UK parties but also with the political interference by rogue (new) organisations who call themselves ‘Britain Remade’ and who produce rogue polls , which BTW I am sure there will be a succession of, which I am also certain will all try to undermine the SNP and also independence too.
Scotland is OUR business not the business of some Tory rejects.
As certain individuals within this ‘new’ organisation ‘Britain Remade’ aka Tory rejects have now seen their former jobs terminated and so they have formed some rogue BritNat Think Tank , no doubt being financially backed by even more (Tory) rogues who seek to get what they want.
On their website Britain Remade have a list of campaigns , one being ‘New Scottish nuclear power’ sign the petition “Lift the ban on new Scottish Nuclear Power”. Is that the poll as promoted by The Scotsman, well I wonder who has signed it as a petition, surely not a “majority of SNP members” going into a website called “Britain remade ?
You know I am pig sick of the whole BritNat shebang.
I am also sick of rogue organisations like this ‘Britain Remade’, who are just yet another BritNat campaign organisation who , in this instance, are nowt more than Conservatives who act not in our best interests in Scotland but solely in the interests of others who care not a sh*t about us or our country, Scotland.
Vote SNP in 2026 and hopefully one day Scotland will hopefully be free of so called Think Tanks who do anything but “Think” , also if we constantly ignore them in Scotland then eventually, God willing, they will “Tank” as organisations.
Liz S
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