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I have emailed every single SNP MP and MSP with my challenge SET THE AGENDA NOW. Not one has replied yet, apart from automated responses. Lets see how our elected representatives treat working Scots who reach out. Bookmark this post and follow. I will publish every reply they send, if they send anything at all. If you want real pressure on them, please share this, follow, and tag your own SNP MP or SNP MSP. Make it impossible for them to ignore this. After the Budget, and after watching the UK Government destroy Scotland’s oil, gas and chemical industries with the windfall tax, this is the moment for the SNP to show real leadership. This is the moment to set out a true vision of an independent Scotland that actually protects its people and its industries. Westminster is failing Scotland. Our industries are being targeted. Our workers are being squeezed. Our families are struggling more every year. Scotland needs leadership that is pro worker pro family pro Scottish oil and gas pro chemical and engineering pro fair taxation pro value for the taxpayer pro national interest. Share this so others see it. Tag your SNP representatives so they feel the pressure. Follow for updates so we can track exactly who stands with the Scottish people. This is accountability. This is transparency. This is how the people push back.

Stephen, you’re rewriting history here. Let’s not forget the SNP’s own approach to Grangemouth — years of inaction, lack of urgency, and no serious industrial strategy when it actually mattered. People remember that. And on energy — your party has spent years undermining Scotland’s oil and gas sector, the very industry that underpins jobs, investment and energy security. You can’t weaken domestic production then complain about reliance on imports. Now we’re meant to believe you’re concerned about aviation fuel security, while backing new taxes on the aviation industry in Scotland? It’s completely contradictory. You can’t talk about “strength” while supporting policies that actively make Scotland more dependent, less competitive, and less attractive for investment. This isn’t strategy — it’s political opportunism, and people can see straight through it.

Grangemouth produced jet fuel for all of Scotland. The UK Government let it shut. Surely people are realising that outsourcing jobs, investment, emissions and energy security leaves us weaker, not stronger. Scotland’s resources should be controlled by Scotland.

@JohnSwinney Why wait until then?

On day one of a new SNP government, I will demand powers over energy to be transferred to the Scottish Parliament - so we can cut bills, protect jobs and unlock investment. If Westminster will not bring your bills down, they should get out of the way for a government that will.

@Heccles94 The state should never take more than half your income don’t be so stupid

I think we should change the tax brackets. Up to 15k tax free Basic rate 20% up to 60k 60k - 80k - 30% 80k - 150k 40% 150k - 500k - 50% 500k - 2,000,000 55% Then 60% on the rest over 2,000,000 What do you think?

@Ed_Miliband Doubling down on making life more expensive, doubling down on zero growth, doubling down in more unemployment, doubling down on stupid slogans

1/ The affordability crisis is the number one issue families are facing. That’s why we’re doubling down on our mission for clean power. To give families energy security and lower bills for good. Here’s what we’ve been up to this week👇

@Ed_Miliband @labourpress Fucking liar! This ma is destroying Scotlands oil and gas industry

This Labour government is fighting people's corner. We're cutting energy bills. We're calling out price gouging. And just now the Prime Minister has set out further support for those who use heating oil. Affordability is the number one issue, and we're determined to act.

@JohnSwinney Cost of the snp tax on working people crisis

Beautiful morning in Edinburgh for SNP conference today. We’re here to talk about tackling the cost of living crisis and improving our NHS. We’re here to bring hope, and show that a better future is possible. And we’re here to win independence for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@JohnSwinney @ShonaRobisonMSP More taxes for working Scot’s

As the cost of living spirals and the economy stagnates on Labour's watch, the SNP is investing in our communities. We will always be on Scotland's side.

Politicians like you are absolutely clueless. Policies like this will make ordinary people poorer. The UK already has a world-class energy basin sitting on its doorstep in the North Sea — yet your answer is to shut it down and import more energy instead. That’s not security, it’s dependence. If you actually cared about households, you’d: • Scrap the Energy Profits Levy that’s killing investment • Open the North Sea to new licences • Require a portion of new production to supply the UK at a lower domestic price once projects become profitable • Use a small additional levy to fund the energy transition properly That would strengthen the country and lower costs. Instead we get ideological, headline-chasing policies that weaken our economy and push bills even higher

The cost of the clean energy transition is less than the entire cost of the last fossil fuel crisis. A further reminder that politicians on the right who want to abandon our drive for clean power want to saddle our country with huge costs and risks. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The UK Government needs to stop chasing headlines and start making serious energy policy. We already have the answer sitting in the North Sea. Instead of weakening our own energy security, they should: • Scrap the Energy Profits Levy that is driving investment out of the UKCS • Open new North Sea licences to bring production and jobs back • Link new developments to UK supply so a portion of production goes directly to domestic energy at a lower long-term price • Use a small additional levy to fund the energy transition, rather than forcing households to pay through ever-higher bills This would strengthen our economy, protect jobs, improve energy security and fund the transition properly. Right now the UK is choosing to import more energy while sitting on its own resources. That’s not climate leadership. That’s bad policy. #EnergySecurity #NorthSea #CostOfLiving #UKEnergy

Politicians like you are absolutely clueless. Policies like this will make ordinary people poorer. The UK already has a world-class energy basin sitting on its doorstep in the North Sea — yet your answer is to shut it down and import more energy instead. That’s not security, it’s dependence. If you actually cared about households, you’d: • Scrap the Energy Profits Levy that’s killing investment • Open the North Sea to new licences • Require a portion of new production to supply the UK at a lower domestic price once projects become profitable • Use a small additional levy to fund the energy transition properly That would strengthen the country and lower costs. Instead we get ideological, headline-chasing policies that weaken our economy and push bills even higher

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK. Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Politicians like you are absolutely clueless. Policies like this will make ordinary people poorer. The UK already has a world-class energy basin sitting on its doorstep in the North Sea — yet your answer is to shut it down and import more energy instead. That’s not security, it’s dependence. If you actually cared about households, you’d: • Scrap the Energy Profits Levy that’s killing investment • Open the North Sea to new licences • Require a portion of new production to supply the UK at a lower domestic price once projects become profitable • Use a small additional levy to fund the energy transition properly That would strengthen the country and lower costs. Instead we get ideological, headline-chasing policies that weaken our economy and push bills even higher

This report makes a compelling case: that cutting carbon emissions makes sense for our economy, as well as for the safety of our climate. theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement tells you everything you need to know about this Labour government. Higher taxes. More borrowing. Very little real growth. The UK economy is already struggling with: • weak productivity • falling business investment • some of the highest energy costs in the developed world • one of the highest tax burdens in modern history Yet the Spring Statement offered very little to address any of it. No serious action to lower energy costs. No credible plan to restore investment confidence. No meaningful support for industries like the North Sea energy sector that actually generate wealth and jobs. Instead we continue down the same road: high tax, low growth and constant political tinkering. Just look at the North Sea. A 75% headline tax rate through the Energy Profits Levy has already pushed investment elsewhere. Projects are being shelved. Supply chains are shrinking. Jobs are being put at risk. You cannot claim to support economic growth while punishing one of the UK’s most productive industries. And while the Chancellor talks about fairness, there was no acknowledgement of the student loan situation facing graduates in England and Wales. For many young people it has become a government-run loan shark system, where debts grow for decades and repayments function more like an additional tax. It’s another example of a system that has drifted far away from the idea of supporting opportunity and education. If there was ever any doubt that this Labour government doesn’t have a coherent economic strategy, after nearly two years in office the Spring Statement should remove it. This was an opportunity to reset. Instead we got more of the same: High taxes. Policy uncertainty. Weak growth. Scotland absolutely needs the economic powers to shape its own future. But unfortunately right now we don’t have the competent political leadership required to seize that opportunity either. And that is the real frustration. Because the potential is there. The leadership is not.

Rachel Reeves is meeting North Sea oil & gas bosses today. If she walks out of that meeting still defending the Energy Profits Levy, then it proves one thing: Westminster still doesn’t understand the North Sea. The damage from this tax is already happening. Projects are being cancelled. Investment is leaving the UK. Supply chains are shrinking. Jobs are disappearing. With a 75% headline tax rate, the UK has become one of the least attractive basins in the world for energy investment. You cannot run a world-class industry like that. So here’s the deal I’d put on the table — fair, pro-investment and pro-public. 1️⃣ Scrap the Energy Profits Levy Replace it with stable, predictable fiscal rules that actually attract capital back into the UK Continental Shelf. Energy projects require billions in investment and decades of planning. Investors need certainty, not political tax raids. 2️⃣ National interest supply clause New gas developments should include a UK supply tranche. A fixed percentage of production sold into UK supply at long-term stable pricing for a number of years. That way households and industry benefit directly, not just the Treasury headlines. 3️⃣ A real transition fund — paid from profits, not taxpayers Introduce a 5% levy on profitable wells AFTER capital payback, ring-fenced for: • workforce skills • infrastructure • energy transition investment No blank cheques. No public subsidy carousel. 4️⃣ Debt first. Discipline back. A fixed share of North Sea revenues should be automatically allocated to reducing national debt every year — transparently. Resource wealth should strengthen the country’s balance sheet. Not disappear into the Treasury black hole. And here’s the bigger question. If Westminster insists on managing the North Sea into decline, then the Scottish Government needs to step up. If London won’t use Scotland’s resources properly, Holyrood should demand control of Scotland’s share of the sector and run it in Scotland’s national interest. And while we remain part of the UK, if Scotland’s resources are contributing to UK-wide finances, then Scotland should see the benefit back through: • cheaper domestic supply • real investment • national debt reduction Not managed decline. Because once investment leaves the North Sea, it doesn’t come back.

Agreed — the EPL should end. It’s investment-killing and it’s costing jobs in the North East. But the Scottish Government also needs to get serious: you can’t call for “certainty” while flirting with anti-oil rhetoric and relying on Green votes. If you want certainty for workers: •back the industry consistently •support new development with national-interest supply clauses (cheaper UK supply tranche) •fund transition from profits after payback, not the public •and if Westminster won’t act, start demanding real control over Scotland’s share.

Especially at a time of global instability, people in Scotland need certainty - not more risk to jobs or rising bills. The Chancellor should use her meeting tomorrow with industry to announce an immediate end to the Energy Profits Levy, which is hammering jobs in the North East.

Let’s slow this down. You’ve now moved from debating immigration policy to debating who I’ve retweeted. That’s not accidental. It’s easier to imply guilt by association than to engage with the substance of border control, vetting, scale and placement policy. On Musk and Robinson — You’re entitled to your view of them. But retweeting something does not mean endorsement of every view that individual has ever expressed. It means engaging with a point, an argument, or a topic. If that logic held, anyone who shares content from a controversial figure would automatically inherit their entire ideology. That’s not how debate works. Now, on extremism and racism — If someone makes racist arguments, criticise the arguments. If someone spreads misinformation, challenge the misinformation. But collapsing all discussion of immigration scale, enforcement or asylum vetting into “extremism” is intellectually lazy. You say I’m downplaying racism. No — I’m separating issues. Racism is discrimination based on race. Border control is a state policy about entry, legality and enforcement. They are not the same thing. And finally — this constant push to identify who runs the account is irrelevant to the policy argument. If the points are wrong, refute them. If the data is incorrect, correct it. If the model is flawed, explain why. But trying to imply “darker motives” because someone questions migration scale isn’t debate — it’s character assassination. You can disagree with me. You can even think I’m wrong. But attempting to shut down discussion by labelling it extremist while simultaneously calling for censorship is the very intolerance you claim to oppose. Debate the policy. That’s the point.

@WdgScotland You retweet / parrot both. That’s also a fact. Lazy and unprofessional you say.

WAKE UP, SCOTLAND – THIS IS YOUR REALITY NOW Two stabbed. Two in hospital. A school locked down — kids terrified. Armed police swarming a residential scheme. A knifeman on the loose near families and nurseries. This isn't some distant headline. This happened yesterday in Edinburgh's Calders. Communities living in fear — again. And the Scottish Greens? Still pushing: • Mass higher immigration • Softer borders, weaker controls • Sneering at "fear politics" when people are bleeding • Dismissing your legitimate safety concerns as bigotry. Ask yourself the brutal question they refuse to answer: If you flood the system with more arrivals but refuse to scale up vetting, policing, housing, and frontline services — what the hell do you think is going to happen? Pressure explodes. Oversight crumbles. Trust evaporates. Ordinary Scots pay the price — in blood. This isn't "hate". This is basic risk management any sane government should prioritise. Every country has a duty to control its borders, vet entrants rigorously, and put its own citizens' safety first. But if the Greens get more power? Their track record screams: More unchecked migration. More ideological posturing. Less enforcement. More lectures about "welcoming" while your neighbourhood turns into a crime scene. That is their deliberate political choice. And choices have consequences.Scotland needs leaders who actually give a damn: Security over empty symbolism Our communities over global virtue-signalling Our families over dangerous ideology Safety is not negotiable. Put Scotland first — before it's too late.

You say Musk and Robinson “ARE extremists.” That’s your opinion. If you’re making a factual claim, then define it and evidence it. “Extremist” is a serious label. So is “racist.” Throwing those words around without substantiation is exactly the behaviour you claim to oppose. As for working in criminal justice — that doesn’t automatically make your political opinions authoritative. It’s not a trump card in a debate. Appeal to authority isn’t an argument. Now on the bigger point: Raising concerns about immigration levels, asylum policy, infrastructure strain or safeguarding is not racism. It’s policy debate. If you disagree with controlled immigration, argue the numbers. Argue capacity. Argue vetting. Argue sustainability. But trying to shut the conversation down by calling people extremists or racists is lazy and frankly unprofessional — especially from someone claiming to work in criminal justice. If you truly believe I’m “parroting racists,” provide evidence of something I’ve said that is racist. If you can’t, then stop the labels.

@WdgScotland It’s possible to do both. Also a father l, also worked in criminal justice. Musk and Robinson ARE extremists. Trying to worm out from the account question and why you parrot racists. The main issue in Cqlders will not be yesterday’s incident.

When you can’t argue the point, you attack the person. “Who runs this account?” “Reform type.” “Darker motives.” Cheap tactics. You don’t have to agree with my politics — but questioning motives instead of addressing the issue proves you have no answer. Now back to the actual point. Two people in hospital. A school locked down. Armed police in a residential area. As a father, I don’t care about your smears. I care about safety near schools. The public have a right to ask: • Who is here? • Are borders properly controlled? • Are vetting systems robust? • Are communities carrying disproportionate strain? • Who pays when the system fails? Those are not extremist questions. They are parental ones. If leaders can post endlessly about foreign conflicts, they can also speak clearly about law and order at home. Stop trying to label people who raise legitimate safety concerns. Debate the policy. If you think open-ended immigration without strict enforcement carries zero risk, make that case. But don’t pretend asking for security makes someone “dark.” Safety first. Always.

@WdgScotland He will get out though either the Criminal Justice or MH process. Now, about who runs this account. Reform type, sensationalism, Robinson, Musk. I suppose the name hides darker motives..

@TerrorinMC Suppose the guy stabbing is a friend of Scotland

@WdgScotland Who is behind this account. Retweets Musk and Robinson. Doesn’t strike as a friend of Scotland…