Will it be food in the house?
Professor John Robertson OBA
BBC Scotland in their BBC Breakfast insert have the above story minus of course the hugely significant consideration that, in Scotland, it need not be this way.
In August 2025, we had the information.
As energy price rises loom, a reminder of why Michael Shanks will not protect us and why Scots would pay far less after independence
As energy price rises loom, a reminder of why Scots would pay far less once independent. From stewartb in June 2025:
I fear that a majority of the electorate in Scotland still have NO IDEA of – (perhaps even conditioned to have no interest in?) – Scotland’s indigenous energy assets and their potential significance for their own lives and those of their children and grandchildren. Little or no awareness of the scale of value of offshore oil & gas assets in the recent past (and still remaining) – Scotland’s great missed opportunity of a generation – and the developing renewable electricity generation assets, their current and realisable potential value – the about to be great missed opportunity of another generation!
And NO IDEA how they and the young folk in their families would benefit from a Scotland having a government with the agency available to – and considered normal and essential in – independent nation-states like Norway and Denmark.
When it comes to energy, the opportunity costs of our present constitutional status are huge!
When marking the coming on stream of the Moray West offshore wind farm in April 2024 – a site with the capacity to generate (just) 882 MW of electricity – Ian Murray MP, Secretary of State for Scotland said: ‘.. Ocean Winds’ Moray West offshore wind farm – which will power 1.3 million homes – half the homes in Scotland’.
Source: https://www.offshorewindscotland.org.uk/news/2025/april/24/moray-west-becomes-fully-operational/
That’s from just one moderately sized offshore wind farm! amongst many operational and in the pipeline.
On the Western Link electricity transmission cable running from Hunterston to the England/Wales border, National Grid has stated: ‘Operational since 2017, the link supported over 450 jobs during planning and development and has transmitted over 30,000GWh of electricity during its first five years of operation – enough to power all the homes in Wales for the same period.’ Now that is a ‘fact’ that won’t get mainstream media coverage!
There are five additional offshore transmission cables of comparable capacity – Eastern Green Links 1 to 5 – under construction, in development or at the planning stage designed to exploit electricity generated by wind offshore Scotland. Each will have the capacity to transport 2 GW of electricity from Scotland: each will have the capacity to power c.2 million homes. Take Mr Murray’s statement: do the sums!
And whilst these energy transfers may be termed ‘exports’, they have none of the usual economic and fiscal benefits that come to an independent nation-state engaged in exporting something of value e.g. earning foreign currency and gaining the confidence of the International financial markets based on balance of trade factors.
Footnote – last Monday, I saw Shanks scurrying across Central Station in Glasgow, head down, anxious body language – no wonder.
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Scotland would be £8Billion better off selling the surplus fuel and energy. Instead of giving it away.
Scotland in surplus in fuel and energy, and nearer the source, pays more because of Westminster policies. To favour the South. London S/E. As always.
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Good point about people still being unaware of reality and facts John. The Scot Gov and Indy parties and groups need to push this educational communication full on.
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Ed Milliband decided Zonal pricing was a big ……no go………as apparently it would have benefitted Scotland……..as this would have meant our energy prices in Scotland would have been lower than places in England……. and that, for Labour HQ, was a big no no.
(However it was a big fat YES YES to Scotland supplying England with electricity via large sub sea cables…..which was promoted as “”electricity superhighways” to transport renewable energy from Scotland to England, (which was promoted as ) “increasing the UK’s energy security and helping to meet net-zero targets”…..)
“UK’s energy security” ?………really ?
(Scotland is already energy secure but obviously England is not…. hence why these “two multi-billion-pound projects” happened via EGL1 & EGL2).
Also Ed Milliband is only interested in telling people in his UK that the Labour UK government will bring down their energy prices……..but where within Labour’s UK?
Well in September 2025 this below was part of a press release online via the UK Government website…….
“Great British Energy is already delivering savings to the British public at a local level, following its investment of around £200 million in solar and renewable energy projects on schools, hospitals and public buildings across the country, with solar panels already starting to cut bills for vital public services”
The above press release statement is in reference to England….as he, Milliband, had previously tweeted on ‘X’ specifically where these investments were happening as part of Labour’s UK government projects ……..so not actually for the “British public”…….
Meanwhile last night BBC Reporting Scotland broadcast the extremely ‘serious news’ (in their supposed ‘news where we are’ programme) to us the people of Scotland in respect to news from the Labour party Conference………..which was that…..
“Sir Keir Starmer had said “The flags of the four nations belong to us all”.
Really ?
That’s not true though is it ?
(Also it is so very obvious that this is only being said by Starmer now …….because of the ‘local’ elections happening next year in both Scotland & Wales….where it is currently showing that Labour are flagging in the polls in both places.…..FGS must we be subjected to Keir Starmer obviously patronising us……just to try and get our votes next year for his political party……..that is in the colonies of his actual Nation/country, which is England).
If we are talking “Flags” then I am old enough to remember when Ian Murray once berated the flag of Scotland being used in a way that demonstrated our pride in our Scottish Nation…..as he said “You can’t eat flags”……(though the Union Flag seems to be quite ‘edible’ to Ian Murray…..and also to his boss Keir Starmer as well)
#TwoFlagsStarmer
If we are talking flags and Nations then here below are some very recent tweets on ‘X’ written by Keir Starmer…………
First a post by Starmer to the (Women’s Rugby) ‘Red Roses’ team which included a picture with two St George’s flags (as we know one flag is never enough for Starmer)…..and the flags were placed either side of a letter that had been written by Starmer with a salutation that stated “To our brilliant Red Roses”
(“Our” now who would that be….the “four nations”…..nope as some of those other Nations, within that four, have their own National Rugby Women’s teams)………….
So the 27 September post on ‘X’ states:
“On behalf of the whole nation, wishing @RedRosesRugby the very best of luck in today’s World Cup Final. Already you have smashed records – the biggest women’s Rugby World Cup in history, hosted here on home soil. We are all rooting for you”!
Also another tweets on ‘X’ by him …….also in September 2025. (to the England Women’s football team)………there is a pattern here by the (non) neutral UK PM.
“Very proud to have a @Lionesses shirt up in 10 Downing Street”.
“History makers — inspiring the next generation. One team. One flag. One nation”
Sorry what ?
“One team. One flag. One nation“…………..yet in the Labour party conference Starmer said it was the “flags of the four nations”……..that ” belong to us all“…………
Nope he . Starmer , wants Scotland, Wales & NI to bow down to the British Flag …………while his own Nation, England, is the only one that is allowed to step out of having total allegiance to British Patriotism ……….that is , as a ‘patriotism, one that is being force fed to the other Nations within his UK…………. and so England alone are allowed to also promote their English Nationalism via all of the dominant English political parties masquerading as UK political parties within their UK State.
Simples…….but not really is it ?
Liz S
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