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Can you read the Courier online? Cracking article fae Jim Spence on the SNP/Greens/Tories today. If you canny I'll post it up.

Unfortunately I cannot read the article.
Jim Spence must be branching out as his team is now playing in the Championship.

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Good article but

I think Spence is wrong as I don't think most folk truly know the cost of green policies yet.

And I think it's very easy to argue with the perceived science.

BBC got their 10 day European forecast so wrong last week they have went very quiet.

Rome, Scilly, Sardinia, Crete and another I forget were all supposed to have temps of over 40 degrees for a fortnight.

Only one reached 40 degrees and it was for an hour

Some of the places never got above 34 degrees....hot but not unusually hot

The Met office had showers forecast for the Dundee area for last Sunday with a thunderstorm forecast to take place at 1pm.
It was dry all day with sunny intervals and it was warm when we came out of the Bobby Cox Stand after the end of last Sunday’s game.

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Unfortunately I cannot read the article.
Jim Spence must be branching out as his team is now playing in the Championship.

Rishi Sunak’s North Sea oil and gas announcement wrong-footed the SNP like Lionel Messi ghosting past a half cut Sunday morning league defender.

The Tory prime minister caught the main nationalist party dozing when he confirmed 100 new licences for the Rosebank development west of Shetland.

As a capitalist Sunak has spotted a gap in the climate market and he intends to corner it.

The PM – along with the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer who wants to replace him – have cottoned on to the fact the majority of voters, while sympathetic to a cleaner environment, are now waking up to the enormous costs to them in trying to achieve it, with no guarantees that we can.

Net Zero now has holes large enough to drive several diesel double deck buses through it.

And all because the greens and the climate lobby are incapable of empathising with genuine concerns and fears of the majority.

Folk are more frightened of freezing in the darkness of winter with the lights out than they are of the end of the world; something members of the climate lobby have prophesied for so many years that it’s lost its fear factor.
‘Muddled thinking of SNP’

As a bonus ball for Sunak this week the SNP leadership were also caught on the hop when he drove headlong into them over their failure to deliver on dualling the A9.

But that’s mere bagatelle amid their current travails over climate and their muddled thinking on the matter.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, was well and truly snared by Sunak’s announcement of the carbon capture funding.

With one eye firmly fixed on his election prospects in the North East and retaining his seat, he admitted the Tory policy was “very good news”.

That stance will be as welcome with Patrick Harvie and the Greens at Holyrood as an oil slick in the Forth.

That the prospect of 21,000 jobs, in an area of Scotland which has felt increasingly ignored by the Holyrood establishment, comes via a Tory government at Westminster drills right into the heart of the SNP’s current problems.
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn. Image: Scott Baxter/DC Thomson.

Climate concerns are only a part of their difficulties.

I sense an increasing frustration among those sympathetic to independence (and those numbers are becoming fewer by the day) over an inability to manage our affairs in education, health, policing, and a dozen other areas with even a modicum of efficiency or competence.

You can only cry wolf and blame the nasty Tories so often.

Voters can now see, in many cases, they’re represented at Holyrood by folk you wouldn’t trust to run a bath lest they flood the downstairs neighbours.
‘Inconvenient truths’

By 2050 a quarter of our energy needs will still come from oil and gas but the climate cavalry, aided and abetted by the SNP, are prepared to permit penury for the population to sanctify their self-righteous environmental stance

An inconvenient truth pointed out by even those who aren’t denying much of the climate science is that in Scotland and the UK, whatever we do in the climate campaign is the equivalent of tossing a glass of water into the North Sea to raise its level.

Our efforts by comparison to the havoc wreaked by the behemoths of China and India are drops in the ocean.

Add in the fact that Germany is firing up its coal fired power stations again and it’s not hard to see that many folk are concluding that if we’re going to hell in a handcart, we might as well do it with our lights still on and our rooms still cosy.

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Rishi Sunak’s North Sea oil and gas announcement wrong-footed the SNP like Lionel Messi ghosting past a half cut Sunday morning league defender.

The Tory prime minister caught the main nationalist party dozing when he confirmed 100 new licences for the Rosebank development west of Shetland.

As a capitalist Sunak has spotted a gap in the climate market and he intends to corner it.

The PM – along with the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer who wants to replace him – have cottoned on to the fact the majority of voters, while sympathetic to a cleaner environment, are now waking up to the enormous costs to them in trying to achieve it, with no guarantees that we can.

Net Zero now has holes large enough to drive several diesel double deck buses through it.

And all because the greens and the climate lobby are incapable of empathising with genuine concerns and fears of the majority.

Folk are more frightened of freezing in the darkness of winter with the lights out than they are of the end of the world; something members of the climate lobby have prophesied for so many years that it’s lost its fear factor.
‘Muddled thinking of SNP’

As a bonus ball for Sunak this week the SNP leadership were also caught on the hop when he drove headlong into them over their failure to deliver on dualling the A9.

But that’s mere bagatelle amid their current travails over climate and their muddled thinking on the matter.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, was well and truly snared by Sunak’s announcement of the carbon capture funding.

With one eye firmly fixed on his election prospects in the North East and retaining his seat, he admitted the Tory policy was “very good news”.

That stance will be as welcome with Patrick Harvie and the Greens at Holyrood as an oil slick in the Forth.

That the prospect of 21,000 jobs, in an area of Scotland which has felt increasingly ignored by the Holyrood establishment, comes via a Tory government at Westminster drills right into the heart of the SNP’s current problems.
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn. Image: Scott Baxter/DC Thomson.

Climate concerns are only a part of their difficulties.

I sense an increasing frustration among those sympathetic to independence (and those numbers are becoming fewer by the day) over an inability to manage our affairs in education, health, policing, and a dozen other areas with even a modicum of efficiency or competence.

You can only cry wolf and blame the nasty Tories so often.

Voters can now see, in many cases, they’re represented at Holyrood by folk you wouldn’t trust to run a bath lest they flood the downstairs neighbours.
‘Inconvenient truths’

By 2050 a quarter of our energy needs will still come from oil and gas but the climate cavalry, aided and abetted by the SNP, are prepared to permit penury for the population to sanctify their self-righteous environmental stance

An inconvenient truth pointed out by even those who aren’t denying much of the climate science is that in Scotland and the UK, whatever we do in the climate campaign is the equivalent of tossing a glass of water into the North Sea to raise its level.

Our efforts by comparison to the havoc wreaked by the behemoths of China and India are drops in the ocean.

Add in the fact that Germany is firing up its coal fired power stations again and it’s not hard to see that many folk are concluding that if we’re going to hell in a handcart, we might as well do it with our lights still on and our rooms still cosy.

Thank you for posting this article which must have taken you a while to post.
There are plenty of other flaws that the Green lobby have hidden from us in Scotland alone.
The problem with electric vehicles suddenly going on fire which has had disastrous consequences for two cargo ships transporting cars.
On 12th January 2023 the Norwegian Shipping Company ESJ announced that it was banning electric vehicles from sailing on its ferries with immediate effect. Hybrid and hydrogen powered vehicles would also be banned. https://www.energystoragejournal.com...an-ferry-line/
This announcement was not reported in MSN until there was an article in Herald newspaper on 18th June 2023 which was headed ‘EV risk for Calmac ferries’.
This is very serious and to cap it all CMAL stated at the first webinar in January 2021 for the new Islay ferries that there would be charging points on the vehicle deck of the new ferries for electric vehicles to be charged during the crossings. https://www.cmassets.co.uk/wp-conten...April-2021.pdf See Page 27 question 4 on the enclosed document.
This is madness as the road tankers containing up to 30,000 litres of raw whisky spirit is transported brim Islay to Kennacraig on the Calmac ferries before it is transported to the Motorway mile of whisky warehouses at Cameron Bridge near Alloa.
Road tankers transport up to 30,000 litres of ethanol on the same Calmac ferries from Kennacraig to Islay where it is then transported by road on Islay to Bruichladdich Distillery to make their Botanist Gin.
Charging electric vehicles on the vehicle deck alongside these road tankers is a recipe for disaster. If an electric vehicle goes on fire the ferry will go up like a bomb with a likely loss of life amongst the passengers and crew.