ScotPol Independence Day 3: Come Aa Ye At Hame Wi Freedom

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mehall: Aug 27, 2010

Still pissed off Matt Kerr didn't win the deputy election.

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mehall: Aug 27, 2010

I'm also not sure how much use it is being active in anti-nuke campaigns given the Scottish consensus is already there, but there's nothing you can do about it without independence anyway.

To say nothing of the fact that they're almost all Amit nuclear power too, which is bad.

# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 11:26

mehall: Aug 27, 2010

Juliet Whisky posted:

That was a lazy list, not intended to be exhaustive or unqualified endorsement. However:

XR Scotland seems pretty autonomous and local groups appear to be finding their own interpretations of the XR tenets. I can certainly vouch for XR peops being very ready to offer solidarity with other campaigns. Also don't tell me that your heart got no glow from their actions against the Murdoch press (in Scotland it was a small, socially-distanced effort which did what they could and knocked it off ahead of arrest due to CV-19 considerations).

Yup, only the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, from all the Scottish Parties in parliament, support nuclear weapons. That's thanks to a campaign over about sixty years, which was and remains dependent on local people being involved in keeping an eye on what's happening near them. The nuclear disarmament campaign in the wider UK and worldwide still benefits from your support here now.

Nuclear power could have been amazing but it was instituted first and foremost to produce weapons-grade material, and subsequently funded just enough to protect the skillset for that -- so we get this instead, and subsidies going out which could otherwise facilitate better renewables.

See, the reason why Hunterston is forced to run another year with a cracked reactor is because of the previous 60 years of no nuke campaigners also targeting all nuclear power.
If they'd said their issue was that it was also making weapon fuel and actually spoke about alternatives, maybe we'd be in a situation where governments weren't poo poo scared of opposition to actually make more modern nuclear power stations, but as it is they're all desperately holding on to whatever they have, fearful of having to replace them because they'll get opposition to fossil fuels - rightly - and opposition to nuclear due to the aforementioned indiscriminate campaigning that sought to label every reactor a Chernobyl or Fat Man, meaning all they can do is work on the modern renewables but also neoliberalism is a thing and they've hosed that too.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 08:37

mehall: Aug 27, 2010

Juliet Whisky posted:

It's a couple of days until what will hopefully be the final election to Scotland's devolved parliament. Predictions are that the result will not be a resounding endorsement of our current constitutional settlement.

Annoyingly Alex Salmond's Allipa, which may as well be an MI5 operation for all the help it's been to the independence movement, looks set to gain a seat or two. This will ideally be offset by a good showing for the Greens, who have graduated from having their arse out the window as the only party to vote against the SNP's budget ten years ago to being the most effective party of opposition in the UK by some distance. Their proposals of free public transport and a universal basic income for all are key points in the (presumptive) Scottish government's agenda for next week.

Meanwhile the same polling suggests that Anas Sarwar may have saved us the embarrassment of having the Tories as Holyrood's second-biggest party. Labour's flagship policy at this election is spending more on shopping vouchers for everyone than their proposed increase to the NHS budget. There is no mention of Trident in their manifesto, despite the democratic aberration of Scottish Labour's members forcing it to formally adopt an anti-bombardment stance.

Some young Scots visited Trident's home berth of Faslane recently, obstructing road traffic at the site's main gate for eleven hours.

Tories will be bigger than Labour, though both will lose seats compared to 2016, and Alba won't get a seat.
That's my call.

Unclear if SNP will have an outright majority or not, it's touch and go.

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