Scotland

Little over 6m til Holyrood elections. The SNP period looking to be well and truly over. Not a surprise given that the budget for the SG is so tight, we can't pay bin men even. But any party that has been in this long, for a period of such sustained squeezing would feel it. And Libby here quite correvt with no feasible route for the SNP. Far too little at the last manifesto in WM to allow Holyrood to run a vote. Literally no point in voting for the SNP at holyrood at the moment. Unless of course you want to keep Labour, the Tories, and the LibDems out - as these pricks are going to be even more useless, and an assault on free prescriptions, busses for the elderly and young, and Scottish water will all also be on the cards. And wait then for the NHS to start going out in tender for parts. Then wait for more public private partnerships where you and me pay over the odds for everything, and still have to pay to park in Edinburgh Royal for the shame.

It's not looking good people unless you have 100K stashed away to invest in these robbers

Yup, Scotland has an embarrassment of power. HVDC lines springing up all over the sea will see it transported to the UK population centers. And the King through the crown estate has already reaped millions, with a recurring revenue of millions more projected. We're going to see hydrogen in a growing way in the coming decade. We're going to see salt batteries installed, and they'll be huge. We're going to see nuclear likely repowering existing sites in Scotland (the SNP left a loop whole - no NEW nuclear power in Scotland). We're going to see more pumped storage finally built. And decarbonise, not because we must (although we must!), but because these techs all stand to make a lot of money. Oil and coal can't stand up to the no running costs of these techs and the installation costs are dropping like stones for them all. What does this mean for the union? The Guardian won't tell you, but Scotland is the biggest cash cow for investors again. Forget the Mccrone report, that will look chump change by 2060. These assets are cash printers - and are you going to benefit? Will the SG?

Having been to Eigg, seems I'll have to pop over to Rùm some time

Foos yer doos loons an quines?

How's it going folks?

How are we peoples?

Ciamar a tha sibh?

Highland council should take note too

In Dalgety Bay, The Kingdom of Fife no less. Not just CAMRA either, tripadvisor giving it a 4.5/5 too - who knew fife has something worth visiting?

Good news story for us today, who doesn't like seeing a bushy tailed red?

SNP c+s lead council, NOC. A real shame on the people who live there, 180k people now have to have some service curtailed to pay for this botched job.

https://renfrewshire.cmis.uk.com/renfrewshire/Councillors/tabid/63/ctl/ViewCMIS_Person/mid/383/id/1177/Default.aspx - here's the convenor, a Jim Paterson, Renfrewshire making it easy to find his interests and he looks pretty clean essentially. Out of his depth most likely

Bets on him coming out full Trump? London can't figure out if going full nutter will do then any good, but this walloper looks to be starting that way. Holyrood has a decency problem indeed, list MSPs who don't have the decency to dissappear after two terms. See Labour and Conservative benches for the best examples

Found this oan Imgur, absolutely bang on

Hullo folks, how are we this week? Anyone upto much this weekend?

An amazing find, really highlighting how little surveyed our waters are. Hard to imagine having picked up the post a few hours earlier to then going bang without ceremony

Holyrood shirking responsibility here, or democratising?

Would prefer to see Nodal Pricing occuring in the UK to be announced. Off the back of Scotwind, this was always a certain to get rubber stamped too

Bring back the bridge! Campervan numbers are just too high to be sustainable for our roads. It needs a cap, nevermind more taxes. And there's a far easier way to enforce it: if caught overnight in a layby or carpark face £200/night fines. Buy a site and hookup or don't come. Instead book a bus tour, or get a hotel - or even a hostel! Or consider camping, or a B&B, or a day trip

Can someone tell the dumbasses at STV thats the Union Canal and not the fourth and Clyde.

As we have less non-white people basically. And Glaswegian's are too obsessed with sectarianism to bother about racism. Not one mention of our genuinely welcoming hospitality, and collective consciousness to show Scotland in a good light of course

Tatties, tatties, tatties. Boil em, mash em, cover em with ragu - I was hearing the Maris Piper's days may be numbered!

Aye aye, tis Friday an the weather is fickle. Whit's happenin?

A nice antidote to the other major UK stories currently. 'mon in folks

Widening attainment gap particularly hard to read about here. Remember there's no wrong path, and I hope any who are awaiting results (students or teachers!) got some luck and love this week

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Great to see batteries getting added to the mix, Thurso has a battery plant even - could they supply the tech to build these?

JFC it's always Rangers fans. Dock points, ban fans, close doors. This needs a reaction