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@weegingerdug.bsky.social

My latest blog piece, the £1 trillion cost of the Union to Scotland is revealed as Westminster embarks on a second theft of Scotland's natural wealth. Only independence can ensure Scotland’s vast energy wealth is used to benefit the people of Scotland. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/23/t...

weegingerdug.wordpress.comThe £1 trillion cost of the Union to ScotlandChancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has admitted that if the UK had in set up a sovereign wealth fund on the basis of income generated from North Sea oil and gas as Norway did in the 1980s, it …

23/10/26, 12:50 pm77 reposts99 likes

botrange694.bsky.social

@botrange694.bsky.social

Everybody should read this post and actually all of Weegingerdug's thoughtful posts. Could also be interesting to people interested in EU discussions.

‘Had Scotland become an independent country at that time’…we‘d probably have spent the revenues on short term priorities as well?

Gavin Greig

@ggreig.com

We’ll never know, will we, because that decision about our resources was taken for us by a parliament dominated by our neighbours.

Barbara Cooney

@barbaracooney.bsky.social

Yep. Ever feel you've been mugged?

Muir

@meeyooer.bsky.social

Not enough of us realised this is what they'd done when we went to vote in 2014 Hopefully the timing of this additional "raid" will fall more usefully when it comes to #indyref2

Lesley

@lasslesley1.bsky.social

Open a new oil field and cut the Scottish budget at the same time!