if i’d seen this half an hour earlier i’d have been able to wave and say hi

ftaod: the people who “bear the brunt” of these constraint payments are bill payers across the entirety of Great Britain

when I say “Scotland” here i risk falling into the Nationalists’ trap - i should really say “the private companies who rely on the GB energy market’s subsidy regime to support their investment in wind farms in Scotland”

when I say “Scotland” here i risk falling into the Nationalists’ trap - i should really say “the private companies who rely on the GB energy market’s subsidy regime to support their investment in wind farms in Scotland”

A few outlets covered Musk making more explicit his calls for his ally Tommy Robinson to lead a movement that now prepares for violence and pre-empts (begins) a civil war with violence, claiming it is community self-defence. Most did not think there was any news here
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and i know there are GERS-deniers out there - people who attempt to undermine the integrity of the Scottish Government’s own figures (and the statisticians who compile them) - but they are surely best left to angrily shout at the clouds?

and for those who care about such things: the difference between the 9.2% of UK public spending Scotland currently benefits from and 8.0% of UK spending (ie if we only got back the same as the share we “put in”) is £14.2bn, aka the fiscal transfer

so my question is this: does it matter that a large swathe of the electorate favour the idea of breaking up the UK because they believe a demonstrably false grievance - and if so, how do we fix that?