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@mdf200 Oil and gas, upstream and downstream, operate on cost curves. Expensive assets get canned / dont get developed. No one holds back capacity for redundancy. You want to move down the cost curve govt needs to reduce tax and /or offer incentives. But no one seems to want that either.

The UK Government breaking their election promise to save Grangemouth - who produced 97% of our Aviation fuel, now means that, like Europe, there's only 6 weeks left before they run out.

@JillBelch I think its worth investigating but the problem is that it would kill investment.

When we are the coldest Where we need most heat Where we produce over 120% of Scotland’s electricit6 needs Where costs are highest Does that feel fair?

@ScotNational You think the minister for propaganda shouldn't be questioned?

Tomorrow's front page 📰 BBC slated over interview treatment of John Swinney

@GMacdonaldSNP Well the French example wasn't exactly what seems to be being proposed and also wasn't successful (food inflation was still 8-12% in 2023 then fell as global inflation rolled over, along with the rest of the world). So yes, its a gimmick.

No mention that France introduced a similar scheme back 2023 to cap essential food items due to high food prices. The same policy was being considered by the UK gov. But it’s only a ‘gimmick’ because it is an SNP policy, Meanwhile, Tesco profits last year were £3.15 billion!

@MikeyTheBuddie Maybe they realise that the UK is literally a country.

Given all the data, I’m sure that England will be better off as an independent nation. And I encourage them to stand alone. Not one single English MP agrees. But they all agree that Scotland cannot be independent. Hmm.

@JMrtarnowo @MikeyTheBuddie Yet. The differential isn't quite high enough to make it worthwhile. But its getting there.

@MikeyTheBuddie Similar to all those who protest about income tax in Scotland but I don’t see a convoy of people heading south .

@Emr678 @alison_voy Plus, if you think brexit was a bad idea, why so you want to do the same thing on steroids? Make it make sense.

@Emr678 @alison_voy Brexit was a terrible idea and definitely hasn't helped, but inflation has been like that globally due to oil and gas price spikes, and supply chain issues from covid, Ukraine and now middle east. Read some International news - it cost most incumbent govts their jobs in 2023/4/5

The UK Since Brexit Food up 24% Rent up 22% Gas up 85% Electricity up 70% Hotels up 35% Fuel up 45% Avg income down nearly 3% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 NEEDS better Ask yourself Are we Better off under right-wing tory/reform austerity policies ?

@alison_voy @GearoidUi @ShiningWire @danielgoyal Eh? The OP said we vote for socialists. The reply said name a successful socialist country. You named a bunch of market capitalists with large welfare states, which is pretty much what we are. Except OP and SNP seem to hate the capitalist part, which is maybe why we're so fucked.

@GearoidUi @ShiningWire @danielgoyal Yes, so why ask to name a successful socialist country? It has no correlation with the original post.

Scotland hasn’t voted for a right wing government since 1955 Yet since then we have spent 47 years under right wing rule Now we are facing being ruled by a far right UK Party…. despite voting overwhelmingly for a socialist party. Do you blame us for seeking Independence?

@ShiningWire @danielgoyal Scandinavians pay more tax across the board, and the more you pay in, the more you get out. Scottish version is to have millions of people pay nothing and get everything. Scandi's also have some brilliant companies - they're in no way against capitalism.

@danielgoyal Scandinavian countries are not socialist. We have higher tax rates than they do. You think socialism works well do you? No hunger or poverty in a socialist country? Try asking folks in Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. You’re so stupid you don’t even know you’re stupid.

@Johni1967 @chicco650 @danielgoyal Gemini is rubbish. Check the links. In fact, if you look to the bottom of your right hand screen shot the Scottish govt says 921k people received benefits - twice the number you highlight. All sources support higher benefits in scotland vs england, but difficult to compare.

@chicco650 @danielgoyal Yes. 12% of the uk on benefits compared with 8% in Scotland, yet Scotland is somehow responsible for 10.8% of the uk total

@ricardo10101994 @craig_mcleary @danielgoyal @PeterDilworth1 Scotland - the country that gave the UK 7 prime ministers and made up one-third of the officers of the East India company - is a colony? Lol!

@craig_mcleary @danielgoyal @PeterDilworth1 You seem to have a problem with reality and history.

@Johni1967 @Scotland2Philly @danielgoyal We run our own country. The UK. We get the same share of the vote as everyone else in our country.

@Scotland2Philly @danielgoyal Normalisation isn't nationalism. Normalisation is running your own country. Running your own country doesn't mean discrimination

@Wilson34David @danielgoyal Bollocks. If by right wing you mean lower tax, lower spending it would be almost inevitable - we'd have to balance our budget. Would likely try higher tax first, then when all high earners buggered off and made it worse (think uk in 70s), the next gov would cut tax & spend.

@danielgoyal You can guarantee an independent Scotland will never have a “right wing” government?

@tigerloun @DW8530 @danielgoyal I'd happily see NHS staff on higher wages. Its achievable just now because scotland runs a massive deficit. Under independence we'd need to grow rapidly or public spending would be slashed. Unless u think we could just 'tax the rich' to pay?

@DW8530 @danielgoyal You prefer to see NHS staff on poorer wages and strikes disrupting services. That’s failure!!

@VoDevlin @khris_mr @danielgoyal Yes, its kinda like that. But much, much more integrated. 300 years. Full monetary union. A single solitary country, with some devolved powers, common in many countries. So if you think leaving the EU was bad wtf is the argument for breaking up Britain?

@khris_mr @danielgoyal is it kinda like when we were in the European Union but were pulled out of it against our wishes by being allied to English Racists & Xenophobes? More Scots voted for that Union than the one that was foisted on us 300 years ago by bribery & coercion!

@ja_SONS @danielgoyal 2024 2025 deficit was 11.6% (5.2% rUk). Most of the 1.9% YoY worsening was due spending increasing by 1.2% of GDP. And what's the promise ahead? More freebies. Not sustainable if independent without rapid growth.

@ja_SONS @danielgoyal The deficit has been ~10% last 3 years, 2x the rUK deficit - so even if you take out UK allocations its obvious that scotland is outspending. And you couldn't take out all UK allocation. Maybe some national debt and parts of defence. But iScot still needs its own defence.

@danielgoyal And yet spending on the NHS is up 6 to 10x per capita over that period (real terms) while real terms welfare spending is up 3 - 5x per capita.