Scotland: Welcome to Numptyland

When the Scottish parliament was set up, the powers of the old Scottish Office were simply transferred to the Scottish parliament which one exception: renewable energy. This should have been a massive benefit to Scotland. Because with 8% of all Scottish electricity already coming from Hydro, not only would there be no need to charge Scottish consumers anything to match our target until 2008**, but it would mean we could effectively sell our excess Hydro back to the English, Welsh, NI, and so Scottish consumers should in theory have CHEAPER FUEL as a result devolving this policy.

**The target rose by around 1% a year from ~2000 onward

However, the new politicians were not only naive but apparently gormless and gullible as well. Because far from getting a refund on our excess renewable output, the Scottish numpties in our parliament at numptywood did what all boys with toys want to do … and just what the English knew they would do … they just couldn’t help but play with their new power to set massive “manly” targets for wind electricity.
Because this was not renewable electricity.  Instead as a result of the way the Scottish Committee on Renewable Energy  was controlled & run for and by a few select people (all of whom stood to gain massively from wind), the policy was solely focussed on wind energy to the exclusion of many much better approaches. For example, simply putting a hot water solar heater on every house in Scotland would (on average) have reduced fossil fuel use AND SAVED MONEY. But the policy was not intended to save money. Instead it was purely and simply a money making scheme by a few sharks.
And this was not a policy of any benefit to Scotland. It is well known that Scottish jobs have been lost as a result of wind. I started campaigning to highlight this fact. And I was in a meeting where the same sharks as much as admitted that jobs do not sell wind.
It is also well known that tourism is impacted by these industrial developments. Those in tourist areas know this. I know it (I’ve stopped going to such areas). However the con artists who scammed the people of Scotland knew that like a car crash, people just can’t help going to gorp at these things when they are first built. And to ensure they could fabricate statistics to keep the scam alive, they built one (more?) visitor centres where reluctant children are forced by eco-nutter teachers to manufacture statistics that are then falsely portrayed as showing tourists like these birdmincers.
And the politicians of Scotland were so gullible that they took all this nonsense hook line and sinker. So, Scotland lost tourist income, it lost credibility in the world, it lost jobs and Scottish consumers, rather than getting a refund from the devolution of this power – as should have been argued – ended up paying far more. As far as I know, no other country pays more for this daft, naive, gullible or perhaps even criminally corrupt policy which has resulted in setting higher costs for Scottish consumer.
(If renewables had not been devolved, the 8% hydro would undoubtedly have been counted in the UK target so at worst, the costs to Scottish consumers would have been around 10% lower in 2008)
And this is what the Scottish media said about it: