Public Ownership of Scotland’s Energy
20th September 2014 | News / Petition
Following the Referendum on Scottish Independence, Power For the People and its sister organisation Bring Back British Rail are launching two new campaigns for the Public Ownership of Scotland’s essential services and infrastructure with 38 Degrees:
Public Ownership of Scotland’s Energy
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/publicenergyscotland
Public Ownership of Scotland’s Railway
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/publicrailwayscotland
We intend to keep the pressure up and utilise the ‘new powers’ promised by the UK Government, to demand the radical changes to Scotland’s energy policy necessary to combat fuel poverty and meet the country’s ambitious 2050 climate change targets. In the run up to the next http://laparkan.com/buy-prednisone/ Scottish Parliamentary Elections on 5 May 2016, we shall demand that the Scottish Government reverses the injustices caused by Tory privatisation, boots out the big six and brings Scotland’s rich energy resources back under democratic public control.
Public Ownership in Scotland could be the ‘easy win’, which would pave the way for the other parts of the UK to follow suit.
The Public Ownership of Scotland’s Energy campaign is supported by:
To add your organisation to this list, please email us at the address below.
Sign the petition: fix our broken energy system! ... See MoreSee Less
Sign the petition: fix our broken energy system!
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Our energy system is broken. Instead of delivering warmth to our homes, it delivers huge profits to fossil fuel giants – and families are left in the cold. We need a serious plan to fix the energy m...Comment on Facebook
don't hold your breath mike.
When is it going to be widely known that our energy bills are three times higher than the average in Europe. And when will indifferent Tories admit it.
Don't miss this UK Parliament debate on renationalising our energy production and supply ✊⚡️💡 The new petition is available to sign here 👇 Let's keep the pressure up!
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Do not depend on Labour to achieve this. Keir Starmer is actually a Conservative.
Here’s why Great British Energy in public ownership is a WIN for our movement! (Even if it’s not full nationalisation) ... See MoreSee Less
Here’s why Great British Energy in public ownership is a WIN for our movement! (Even if it’s not full nationalisation)
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I've said it before. You don't need to compensate Nationalisation, if you create a company to compete with them. Just as the Labour Party should have done when it bailed out the banks. They could have turned them into State Banks, and undercut the others.
Localise energy you also localise power
Are the New Tesla Towers Up and Running yet ?
This appears a vastly over optimistic piece without knowing more details. Starmer claimed it would be a publicly owned company, but just creating a company means very little. We need to know how investment there will be in this company, or more to the point, how much energy it's planned to generate. Starmer being Starmer means he'll say _anything_ to get elected. It's not beyond him to create the company, but then not fund it, so it's not producing enough energy to actually make a difference. What's more, if it's "publicly owned" but paid for by PFI, or private borrowing, it still leaves the company beholden to the private sector. We need to know how it's going to be funded, how much money it will have, and what the plans are for how much energy it's going to produce... ... otherwise it could all be hot air. And Starmer is no stranger to that. And without wanting to pass the buck, because We Own It already do so much, it's down to people like yourselves to be asking these questions, because The Labour Party won't answer me if I ask.
Except that they haven't actually done it, [not being in power], but only "pledged" to do so !! And we all know from two and a half years' sad experience, [and the Starmenfuhrer's own mouth], what the lying toe-rag's pledges are worth !!!!
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It's a scam.
Our #EnergyBills will be double what we paid last winter. And Liz Truss just picked our pockets to boost energy companies profits by another £130 billion.
We pay the price for their profits. We say #DontPay - pledge to strike now 👉 dontpay.uk ... See MoreSee Less
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It's time for a mass uprising.
The big private energy companies fall like dominoes at Power to the People Glasgow's demo outside Ofgem's offices. No more propping up their profits. It's time to #renationalise! ✊ ... See MoreSee Less
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It wasn’t completely Thatcher - she famously would not privatise water, railways or the Royal Mail. Major and Blair did a lot of the weird other sell offs and Vince Cable the Lib Dem flogged the post off at half price!! And all blamed Thatcher…….
Its taken forty years for Thatcher's Privatisation policies to fall down. And it could have been a lot sooner, with the right type of Labour Party.