This is ‘Freeports Swinney’s’ report on Freeports. Absent detail strong on reassurance and ‘good news’. Look at the true detail. Look at why RMT & others oppose them. Look at Freeports & Special Economic Zone Community Group & EuropeanPowell. This is betrayal, Scotland.
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It also highlights a certain raw hypocrisy.

Labour MPs - who want to keep the cruel two-child cap, rape clause and austerity policies - complaining about child poverty in Scotland, where the SNP is lifting 100,000 children out of poverty with the Scottish Child Payment.

Many of those who are rushing to endorse John Swinney (an incredibly popular person within the SNP) for SNP leadership are the same folks that rushed to endorse Humza.
How about endorsing someone who has wider appeal and who worries our opponents?

MMT is not a theory, it is an accurate description of how money is created

The self-financing state: An institutional analysis | UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose - UCL – University College London ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

I can understand why some Scots might like the Union but I cannot understand why they prefer to be subservient, impoverished, have limitations imposed and a whopping nuclear target strapped to our back.

John Swinney is hugely respected across our party but the lesson of the last year is that the SNP needs a complete reset. We must go forward not backwards. Kate was right when she said that continuity would not cut it. The next leader must deliver change.

The real danger to science comes from those with just enough knowledge to believe they've mastered it. True science must remain open to challenge—if it's not testable, it's not yet science.

Paul Mason Paul, since you used to be Channel 4 economics editor, maybe you can explain to us in simple terms, where it is that pounds sterling come from

A Scottish election now please

The coronation of another SNP leader as First Minister is not tolerable nor democratic

This Saturday's National demonstration for self determination is the opportunity to emphasise the importance and power of the grassroots Indy movement. Lets get back on the streets in huge numbers and act defiantly against the British state and its wars, racism and poverty. (1)

Scottish Child Payment reduces food bank uptake bylines.scot/politics/scott…

Keir Starmer will pander to Tory voters in England, but 'cannot accept' (his words) that the Scottish people have a right to exit the 'voluntary Union' (his words).

'One of the most under-reported success stories in British politics'
The overwhelming unionist media in Scotland stubbornly refuses to recognise the benefits of the highly successful Scottish Child Payment.
#wheeshtfortheunion 🇬🇧🤫
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“Expansionary fiscal policy is only feasible with currency-issuing capacity. Requests sent to a monetarist UK government, for currency to fund a job guarantee scheme or massive public works programmes, will be ignored & derided.”

- D.C.Murray
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What the present moment reveals, once again, is that Western aggression during the 'Cold War' was never about destroying socialism, as such. It was about destroying movements and governments in the periphery that sought economic sovereignty. Why? Because economic sovereignty in

READING BETWEEN THE LINES yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/rea…
This article from Neil Tye is bang on the money

Modern Monetary Theory is a hyper-accurate means of understanding the system without the political economy overlay. It explains the outcomes via a 'lens' of the political choices made in terms of policy and operations.

Most conflate the role of banks as 'MMT' and skip the

“Our cultural preferences drifted down from the upper echelons of the economic ladder, which in Veblen’s era accounted for the popularity of séances & certain hats. Cultural power was ostentatious & unapologetic; it was gilded in gold.”
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BladeoftheSun Rinse and repeat for 11 more Freeports and 74 SEZs. The UK is being privatized and it’s all because of Brexit. Get this, The Labour Party sit on Freeports consortia in England, Scotland, and Wales. The ‘unaffordability’ narrative for public services is an ouright lie, each SEZ

Denmark film now online if you fancy a look. lesleyriddoch.com/films