The Common Weal
@Common_Weal
PEACE 🕊️ SOCIALISM 🚩 INDEPENDENCE 🏴 CLIMATE ✳️ It’s time for a Scotland that puts All of Us First.
Robin McAlpine says we have a financial services sector whose purpose is to take money away from you and not to support the economy.
Yesterday on @BBCRadioScot Robin McAlpine said the door to independence is open but we’re not going through it.
Laughable. Michael Shanks telling Scots that zonal pricing giving us cheaper, fairer energy bills would be bad bc it means "uncertainty" for business 🎻 Michael, do you really think that spin works for the 46% of Scots scared they can't pay their energy bills this winter?
EXCLUSIVE: The "uncertainty" over zonal pricing would have hit Scotland worse than other parts of the UK, a Labour energy minister has said. dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…
“But we’ve been here and we know how it ends: Risky mortgage lending can backfire catastrophically. It’s hard to ignore that Reeves, who worked in banking at the time, wants to open the door to risk once again.” Link below 🔗

“Want to revamp an urban space? Don’t get an architect with a vision to do it, get a consultancy to write a brief, another to design a Target Operating Model and another to commission artists impressions.” Link below 🔗

TONIGHT! Join us at the Renfield Centre at 7pm to hear from Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, @andrewfeinstein, @SophieJayJoe @@Alex_Kenny_NEU @Jonathon_Shafi 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Register here now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/trump-imperi…
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🔜 This Tuesday, join Andrew Feinstein (@andrewfeinstein) with Stephen Kapos in Glasgow to discuss Trump, imperialism and the Middle East. 🇵🇸 Tickets going fast. Register here for free: eventbrite.co.uk/e/trump-imperi…
& based on a model proposed by @Common_Weal 🙂
Wales’ publicly owned renewable energy developer to build three windfarms 400 MW capacity enough to power 350,000 Welsh homes. energyvoice.com/renewables-ene…
The UK Government have finally had a good idea: bringing back public diners.