The above video excerpt is already out these across social media. I’m just giving another wee push and, importantly reminding folk that location pricing is never, ever, going to happen until Scotland is a fully independent country.
The evidence?
First, as energy bills are set to rise again a reminder of the English financier who said ‘Scotland subsidises London energy bills’ and it’s ‘better for Scots to pay over the odds than those living in the English capital’
From inkl in October 2024:
Households in Scotland are paying higher energy bills than they ought to keep prices down south of the Border, according to experts at the Fuller Treacy Money investment strategy firm.
In a newsletter arguing against zonal pricing, the firm’s owner Eoin Treacy [above] says it is better for Scots to pay over the odds than those living in the English capital.
Zonal pricing, which has been considered by the UK Government in the past, would see places like Scotland – where lots of energy is produced but there is lower demand – pay cheaper bills, while London would pay more than they currently do.
You have to respect the transparent, if callous, honesty in this.
Further down but clearly not influencing Treacy’s thinking:
Kenny MacAskill said: “Privatisation and fragmentation have rendered the entire UK energy system dysfunctional.
“But what’s clear is that Scotland is energy rich, yet half of Scots are in fuel poverty. It’s perverse that turbines turn on land and sea, yet folk cant heat their homes.
“First it was oil and gas and now its renewables. It’s about time that Scotland and Scots benefitted from their resource. If that means zonal pricing then so be it, it’s what we’re due.”
Second,had it been the opposite, England benefitting from reduced zonal pricing, then this U Turn would not have ever occurred
Liz S
It is being reported in the newspapers that Labour Minister Ed Milliand has abandoned plans to charge less for electricity in Scotland. This was reported as such in The Guardian newspaper.
However in the Daily Mail (the non so called ‘Scottish’ edition) they reported it as this:
“Ed Miliband ‘abandons zonal electricity pricing’ plan that would have charged people in southern England more for power than Scots” just so that we all know whose side they , the Daily Mail, are on i.e. not the “Scots” .
This is the same story as The Guardian but with a different pro English spin put upon it.
Unsurprising that The Telegraph also put the same pro English spin on this story as they reported “Ed Miliband has abandoned controversial plans to charge southern households more for electricity than those in the North”….
Meanwhile neither the Daily Mail or The Telegraph will concede that currently the place in the “North” as in where the “Scots” live is the country that is supplying approximately 2 million English homes with electricity via a large-scale subsea electricity cable to transmit renewable energy from Scotland to England.
Instead these English rags are trying to promote that the sweaty Jocks , who they as rags , often love to report as being those within the UK, as a nation , are those who are heavily subsidised by the UK, and who were, via via Zonal pricing, potentially going to gain yet ‘another’ benefit as in ‘cheaper electricity’. (which they as Scots see their own country Scotland produce in abundance).
This is where we in Scotland are already paying way more than the English for our electricity. (another fact that these two rags and other like them will ignore as it does not suit or fit their anglified agenda , which is to present Scotland as the poorest, neediest , weakest link and most -supposedly- subsidised people within their UK).
It seems to me that Labour’s GB Energy, which they reported was a way for them, as the new Labour UK government, to be able to get energy bills down is now clearly nothing but a damp squib of a Labour supposed ‘UK’ project, the GB Energy HQ may be located (tactically for political reasons) within Scotland but it has proven to be nowt but an empty gesture as there is no tangible benefits that have come to Scotland via reduced energy prices or jobs since Labour won the UK GE last July !
We did however see Ed Milliband many tweets in respect to reduced bills for various areas within England in places like Hospitals , Schools and Colleges , thanks to what he referred to as being a GB Energy projects …so the power and advantages lies only with regions within England in regards to GB Energy and not the place , Scotland, where it’s supposed HQ is based.
Who knew Scotland would be ignored by UK Labour ?
Well we all did on here (and others did too) and we also knew that after reading about GB Energy that it was just yet another Labour party initiative that was created as yet another opportunity for private investors to benefit from yet another Scottish resource , while the people of Scotland would see nowt of benefit from something that is yet another very valuable Scottish resource stolen to mostly benefit other areas in the UK (and too the UK government’s Treasury) that is sourced via our country, Scotland.
It was reported in March this year that:
“The boss of one of the UK’s biggest energy providers says people living in Scotland could have the cheapest electricity in Europe“.
“Greg Jackson, who founded Octopus Energy, wants the electricity market to be reformed to introduce zonal pricing“
“He argues that if prices were based on local generation, the high levels of renewable energy being produced in Scotland would keep bills low”
Now with what has been a backlash against Zonal pricing Labour are now said to have done yet another U Turn , as we cannot have the sweaty Jocks benefitting from something their own country, Scotland, produces, as the UK (mainly English media and politicians) will not condone this or indeed allow it and neither it seems will Labour either as the current UK government, hence the U-Turn.
(Had it been the opposite, as in England benefitting from reduced zonal pricing, then this U Turn and backlash would not have ever occurred as it would have been ‘all steam ahead’ ).
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 