Oil and Gas – Random Public Journal

January 15, 2019 - TuesdayJanuary 17, 2019 - Thursday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society

In Danger of Losing Independence

After 29 March the rules of the game will change. Even the chief Brexiteers have conceded that in the immediate aftermath of Brexit the United Kingdom will suffer an economic and financial shock magnitudes greater than the 2007 credit crunch. Jacob Rees-Mogg is on record stating it might take fifty years for recovery to begin. The word from Ireland tonight was “brace for impact.” After 29 March – just 73 days from now – Britain’s economic and financial survival will become dependent on Scotland’s oil and gas resources to a degree to which it never has in the past.

Clair Ridge: Thieves and Gaslighters

To put this is Texas terms: We’ve struck oil. We are rich. We are richer than our wildest dreams! But, wait, we’re not. We are not an independent country. We voted No to independence in 2014, believing we were broke, and that the oil was running it. We bought the lie that what oil we had left wouldn’t be worth a pittance. The same people who were laughing at us then are laughing at us now; that oil bonanza – which they knew was in the pipeline – will not be coming to us. It will be going right where it has always gone, to London.

July 6, 2017 - ThursdayJuly 7, 2017 - Friday Jeggit Economy, Politics, Scotland, Society

Britain Needs a Scottish Recession

Why would a Scottish recession excite the British media and why were so many Scottish unionists itching for news that we had gone into recession? We don’t really have to answer those questions. The answers are quite obvious.

April 23, 2017 - SundayApril 28, 2017 - Friday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society, United Kingdom

Certain Uncertainty for the rUK

Britain has been banking on Scotland’s oil since it was first discovered, and Scotland – as a result of Westminster’s use of this 'uncertain' commodity – has become the only oil producing nation in the world to get poorer as a result of striking black gold.

January 6, 2017 - FridayJanuary 12, 2017 - Thursday Jeggit Politics, Scotland, Society

Dividing the Sea with Neil Lovatt

Blair’s Labour government pushed Scotland’s sea boundary with England north just before devolution. Neil Lovatt argues that the assertion that this was a water-grab is a classic piece of disinformation. Let's see.

October 10, 2016 - MondayOctober 18, 2016 - Tuesday Jeggit Society, United States

The US Invasion of the Republic of Lakotah

In 1868 the US government signed the Treaty of Laramie, formally recognising the independence of Lakotah. This treaty has never been rescinded, just routinely ignored by the United States in its drive to annihilate the Native American, or First Peoples, population.