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The Ferret’s Paul Dobson, who ironically has previously attacked the ‘SNP Government’ on links between Scottish/UK energy firms and Israel during the Gaza war, seems comfortable with using de Pulford to attack them again today:
Boss of SNP-backed wind firm named in bribery scandal
Hey there,
Paul here with a rare Ferret Saturday night broadcast.
The Scottish Government is regularly hammered for failing to create more jobs from the renewable boom.
So you can understand why SNP ministers were enthusiastic about plans from Chinese firm Ming Yang for a wind turbine factory in the Highlands, with the potential to create thousands of jobs.
That proposal has put Holyrood and Westminster at loggerheads in recent months, though, after the UK Government blocked it on national security grounds.John Swinney said that was an “anti-Scottish” decision while other ministers have accused their UK counterparts of sabotaging Scotland’s “industrial future”.
But how much did the Scottish Government really know about a company to which it had given full-throated support?
Critics say our investigation tonight – published alongside the Sunday Times – raises serious questions about the checks carried out before ministers threw their weight behind Ming Yang.
The boss of a Chinese renewables firm, backed by the SNP to build a controversial factory in Scotland, was named in a bribery scandal, The Ferret has found.
and:
However, Luke De Pulford, executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, claimed the case raised “alarming questions” about the security risk posed by Ming Yang and could be used as “leverage” by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Zhang.
He said that the Scottish Government’s continuing support of the company “without identifying or confronting basic court records” was a “staggering failure of due diligence”.
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So, now the Ferret is accepting and putting its name to UK Government titbits dripped out through the ‘usual channels’!
The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t need such a flimsy excuse to put pressure on anyone.
What the UK Government needs to provide is a credible link between someone operating a wind turbine factory in Scotland and the UK’s national security – and they still don’t have one!
The Ferret is now collaborating with the UK Government and the Murdoch press on the deindustrialisation of Scotland.
You can look forward to my, albeit small, monthly donation being transferred from the Ferret to TUS.
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I have been a long time annual contributor to the Ferret but, more recently, I have found myself questioning their output. I’m at the stage now of considering my financial contributions and it looks like this one needs to be chopped.
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