AFTER not even a week in power, it did not take the British Unionist Labour Party long to show its predatory intent to toward the Scottish colony.

Red Tory austerity enthusiast and ex-Bank of England economist Rachel Reeves is eyeing up Scottish oil for a so-called wealth fund. In reality this means Scotland will be robbed by Westminster again.

It should be remembered that during the independence referendum a string of anti-Scottish Lord Haw-Haws were constantly wheeled out to say the oil would be gone within a decade. This of course was a lie, told to trick people into staying within the Union. One that none of the perpetrators paid any consequence for.

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The new Governor-General Ian Murray has refused to rule out new nuclear power stations being built in Scotland. Any power generated would be sold south of the Border, the profits going to multinational energy companies.

Building the next Chernobyl, Fukushima or Three Mile Island would be done over the wishes of the Holyrood administration.

There is also no safe way to dispose of the waste these plants produce. In the 1970s the Labour government identified the Highlands as a place where the UK nuclear waste could be dumped. Under these latest proposals those plans would be resurrected.

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The day after the prestigious Lancet said that up to 185,000 people may have been killed in Gaza, the 37 “Scottish” MPs chose to serenade Keir Starmer, the man who consistently gave cover to Israeli war crimes. Starmer, a man who literally said Israel had the moral right to cut off food, power and electricity to Gaza under international law.

Not one of these unprincipled charlatans said a word. Instead they were silent, hoping for career advancement or a peerage. Whatever criticisms there are of outgoing SNP MPs (there are many), they consistently called for a ceasefire in Gaza. The contrast with the new intake could not be starker.

Scotland has entered into a bleak period with no credible plan for independence. The need for resistance, organisation and protest has never been greater.

Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee

WE have had a visit from our new British PM offering a “fresh political relationship with Scotland”. John Swinney et al must be very careful. Labour historically has a different approach to nationalism from the Tory hard “No”.

Labour will seem to offer new political opportunities (carrots) while using the big stick of more central control through a de facto governor in Scotland, Minister Murray. It will be Murray to whom Swinney will need to seek approval for policy innovations.

At the same time our natural resources will be exploited for England’s benefit.

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Starmer will be well aware of the progenitor of this Labour policy of granting limited authority when faced with nationalist sentiments as a ploy to suck wealth out of the “colony”.

Arthur Creech Jones, the post-war Labour government’s colonial secretary, knew the arrangements well and implemented them. He said we can “draw the constructive forces of nationalism to the British side through the granting of limited authority in order to minimise the threatened erosion of British power while maintaining access to much-needed resources.”

Scotland will become not a colony but more subtlety a neo-colony, a subservient, subordinate appendage of the British-Labour state. Scotland’s future under Labour’s hegemony over Scotland’s natural resources and political powers is old-fashioned imperialism and is unsustainable.

Thom Cross
Carluke