THE SNP CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE - Scotland Needs a Radical Political Alternative to the SNP, to the rotating dictatorship of Conservative and Labour Parties, to the Liberal Democrats, to the Scottish Greens and assorted parties of the Left - it needs British National Socialism!
SNP membership is in steady decline, and over the past year the SNP has lost over 10,000 members and since 2019, SNP total membership has halved.
That is a massive decline in support, plus voter support for the SNP has crashed.
Even the SNP leadership are starting to admit what is happening, and a recent statement by the former MP for Glasgow South, Stewart McDonald, " I don't think it is possible to overstate the scale of the challenge we are facing as a party."
Scottish voters look at what years of SNP politics at Holyrood has done (or failed to do) for Scotland. Plus the scandals within the SNP; the Police Scotland investigation into SNP finances continues, the arrest of Peter Murrell, former SNP chief executive, the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, who is still under investigation, the failures of Humza Yousaf, the £11,000 ipad bill for former SNP health secretary Michael Matheson. None of it looks good.
And the ferries scandal, the state of Scottish education, the state of NHS Scotland and the Scottish economy is in crisis as is the Holyrood budget.
SCOTLAND NEEDS A RADICAL POLITICAL CHANGE.
Grangemouth and Falkirk Refineries - Remember what BM Scotland said a couple of months ago?
Now it is being confirmed by both the Scottish government and the Westminster government
At least 400 jobs will be lost possibly more, all sacrificed on the altar of Net-Zero.
This is what the mainstream media have had to say:
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Scotland’s only oil refinery Grangemouth to CLOSE with 400 jobs axed as governments ‘failed to step up to the plate’
SCOTLAND’s only oil refinery will close after months of desperate attempts to try to save it - with 400 jobs set to go at the plant.
The Petroineos plant at Grangemouth, Falkirk, will stop operations next year, the parent company announced today, ending hopes it could continue following government efforts to secure its future.
It follows UK and Scottish ministers spending £1million to fund a study into how to keep it open.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband previously said the UK Government would "leave no stone unturned" to ensure a future for Grangemouth.
But Petroineos said today the oil refinery will become a “finished fuels import terminal” by mid-2025.
Both governments also announced today an extra £20million would be funnelled into the area - alongside £80million previously committed in March - to help boost jobs in the region.
£10million will come from the Scottish Government’s “Greener Grangemouth” programme, while another £10million will help pay for local energy projects with UK Government cash.
And it follows UK and Scottish ministers spending £1.5million to fund a study into how to keep it open.
The Grangemouth complex is Scotland’s biggest industrial site and employs over 2,000 people across oil and petrochemicals work.
It produces 80 per cent of Scotland's fuel, makes up four per cent of our GDP and eight per cent of manufacturing."
And yet more hand-wringing by the media.....
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"Energy Secretary Ed Miliband previously said the UK Government would "leave no stone unturned" to ensure a future for Grangemouth."
The Grangemouth complex is Scotland’s biggest industrial site and employs over 2,000 people across oil and petrochemicals work.
It produces 80 per cent of Scotland's fuel, makes up four per cent of our GDP and eight per cent of manufacturing.
It is the main supplier of aviation fuel and provides petrol and diesel across the Central Belt.
The holding firm is a joint venture between Chinese state-owned PetroChina and London-based Ineos, owned by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe.
Scottish Government-commissioned experts said in July said a failure to plan had left Grangemouth unprotected from the impact of the refinery’s closure.
The refinery was first open in the 1920s before shifting into petrochemicals in the 1950s.
The two governments are also promising support for workers who face losing their jobs, while Project Willow - which was previously set up by the two administrations to look at future prospects for the site - is said to have identified three credible options.
This could mean Grangemouth transitions to focus on either low-carbon hydrogen, clean eFuels, or sustainable aviation fuels.
Mr Miliband meanwhile pledged: “We will stand with the workforce in these difficult times.
“That is why we are announcing a package of investment to help the workforce find good, alternative jobs, invest in the community and serve a viable industrial future for the Grangemouth site, with potential for future support from the National Wealth Fund.
“Unlike in the past, the Government is working in lockstep with the Scottish Government across every front."
So that is interesting - the Petroineos company is owned by the Chinese State, why is it not owned by a Scottish consortium or a major British company at least?
And notice the wording from Ed Miliband, he uses the phrase "working in lockstep"
the term "lockstep" is straight out of the wording of the World Economic Forum (WEF). So who exactly benefits from closing down Grangemouth?
"Grangemouth job losses could only be the tip of the iceberg if both the Scottish and UK government fail to reverse a ban on oil and gas, ministers have been told in a scathing letter.
Louise Gilmour, the GMB union's Scotland Secretary, has criticised the lack of promised green energy jobs in a letter to UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and his acting Holyrood counterpart Gillian Martin.
Petroineos said the closure of Grangemouth was due to it being unable to compete with sites in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The company said the decision would "safeguard fuel supply for Scotland" by converting the site into a terminal able to import petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and kerosene into Scotland - but would require a workforce of fewer than 100 employees compared to the current 475.
Petroineos stated that the size of the site meant that "high levels of capital expenditure each year" were spent on it, which outweighed the company's earnings.
Frank Demay, the company's CEO, said: "Demand for key fuels we produce at Grangemouth has already started to decline and, with a ban on new petrol and diesel cars due to come into force within the next decade, we foresee that the market for those fuels will shrink further.
"That reality, aligned with the cost of maintaining a refinery built half a century ago, means we are exploring ways to adapt our business.
“The action we are taking to create an import terminal will safeguard fuel supply for Scotland. We currently expect Grangemouth to be ready to operate as a national distribution hub for finished fuels in Q2 next year."
Between 250 to 280 of the redundancies are expected to occur in the three months after the plant closes, with 100 retained for between six to 12 months to help decommission and to build up the import business: , with a further 20 working on decommissioning and10 to manage demolition, which will continue until 2030.
20 jobs will go at Finnart on Loch Long, which is the pipeline terminal taking much of the Gulf of Mexico and South American crude oil.
So Scottish jobs, and a major Scottish industrial complex are being sacrificed in the interests of Net-Zero, the profit interests of foreign companies and the UK and Scottish government banning gas and oil. As the quoted article says, it will mean fewer jobs and Scotland will have to import diesel, petrol, aviation fuel and kerosene for years to come at greater expense to Scotland's economy!
Why is such a high value, strategic industrial facility in foreign ownership?
And Ed Miliband says that the Labour government will invest in helping the jobless refinery workforce find 'good, alternative jobs' - doing what?
ALBA DUISG! SCOTLAND WAKE!
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