The National was begun in October
2014, after the Scottish referendum vote. We do not have a free press here.
Most of the Scottish press has been
and is foreign owned (except for the Sunday Post)
We have no laws to protect Scottish
businesses.
The National
offers an informed conversation across the broad platform of views and from opposite ends of the spectrum of
political debates. As well as some of the best journalists writing in the
business today -
The National
also has memorable front covers.
Thanks
National – I enjoy your well informed, sometimes radical, thoughtful, humorous,
challenging, academic, honest articles – on the economy, arts, Scottish
literature (Alan Riach), politics, humour and more! That are not full of gossip, innuendo, advertising as some other newspapers are. The press still matters because it informs Broadcasting.
Many excellent letters also - one recently suggesting Scotland and England needs a new "Treaty of Union" as the 300 year one is not fit for purpose. This was always a union of convenience and not love. Scotland has been offered and voted for its Home Rule many times. During the Great war 1914, Britain has become heavily centralised.
Many excellent letters also - one recently suggesting Scotland and England needs a new "Treaty of Union" as the 300 year one is not fit for purpose. This was always a union of convenience and not love. Scotland has been offered and voted for its Home Rule many times. During the Great war 1914, Britain has become heavily centralised.
Although
lots of Scots support our self determination (around 45%) we only have one
newspaper supporting independence.
97% of
Scottish broadcasting and press is controlled by the British nationalist
government. The figures are stark, of TV license money only 55% raise in
Scotland is spent here – by contrast 75% and 80% are spent in Wales and Northern Ireland. Its a shocking state
of affairs.
“If Scotland had a media as diverse and representative as
Catalonia, we’d already be independent.” Wee Ginger Dug
The animosity will be reduced once
England understands Scotland’s resentment at the historic overlordship of its
affairs by absentee landlords, American tycoons and paid servants of the
Imperial war machine (…and oil money used for Trident and useless aircraft
carriers)
Excellent series this week on “THE GREAT OIL SWINDLE –
by Alex Russell” in the National,
(Scottish Questions is dreadful – other MPs speak over
it. David Fluffy Mundell tells lies –
one is over the tiny amount being given to Aberdeen – 2 million! )
When the truth is that Scotland’s Oil and Gas
has been stolen and squandered by an incompetent Westminster. In fact Scotland back in the 70s had as large
an oil field as Norway – yet through extreme mismanagement only a half has been
recovered compared to Norway. The
McCrone Report which stated Scotland would be one of the richest countries, was
kept Top Secret for decades. It’s a shocking scandal. Instead of the money going to Scotland it has
gone to the multinational Oil Companies and into the UK government coffers for
London infrastructure and for Trident.
“The total UK Government take from the North Sea Oil
and Gas is of the order of 400 billion – but that figure is approximately a
half of that obtained by Norway for similar production volumes. Logically, that
might mean the take of oil companies has
been disproportionately high due to Westminster mismanagement.
Now the UK government is asking tax payers to foot
half of the bill to decommission the installations. They will be leaving
rusting protruding legs with little red flags attached to alert fishing boats
and nuclear submarines – to save these mega rich oil companies money. Never mind
all this rubbish is far removed from London.
