Your party, your Scottish government drove them away with your relentless anti-oil/gas virtue signalling and greenwashing. You put pandering to the left of your base above people.
Stephen Flynn
@StephenFlynnSNP
Jul 31
Few in Aberdeen will be shocked by this, but there will be fury that more uncertainty is being piled on to our city and its world class workforce. The workforce, our collective energy security and our economy needs protected by those who hold the levers of power in London.

Jul 31, 2026 · 5:27 PM UTC

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Andrew, Oil and Gas is reserved to Westminster. Taxation, such as the O&G Windfall tax was introduced by WM parties and wasn't influenced by the SNP government - your favourite whipping boy. The SNP Government has zero legislative powers that would have contributed to BPs decision to sell their business.
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‘Greenwashing’
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Having spent most of my career in the oil & gas industry & a substantial number of years working for BP; I’d politely suggest you haven’t a clue what you are talking about!
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Absolute garbage , this is fully under Westminster control , stop with the gaslighting
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You're an idiot, Andrew.
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You should educate yourself about what is reserved and what is devolved in Scotland. You probably know that oil and gas is reserved and you are just shit stirring you ignorant wee nyaff
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This is why Scots know where their bread is buttered and another independence vote is a dead duck in the water. The SNP have destroyed the basics in Scotland!
Edward Graham
@edwardrmgraham
Jul 31
Independence isn’t a general election. It’s not a policy tweak you can reverse in five years. It’s a permanent decision about the existence of the state itself. Treating it like another campaign cycle is how you get a ‘neverendum’ and Scotland deserves better than permanent constitutional limbo. open.substack.com/pub/edgrah…
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Replying to @afneil @pmwelltravelled
That’s right, virtue signalling ruined O&G in the North Sea, NOT windfall taxes, increased NI nor the fact it ran out in 2019 🤦
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Usual pish from auld Weetabix Heid. He knows fine that oil and gas is a reserved matter. But he never ever let facts get in the way of his pish
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Replying to @afneil @DunsPitcus
You are such a 🤡 who works for the #AngloState 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 against the people of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with your extremism views!
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Well said Andrew, slightly more politely than I would have said to him. Their deliberate cosying up to the deviant Green Party here to enable support for them was more important than jobs in the area.
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Energy policy oil & gas are matters reserved to Westminster. Remember how Tories sold off Britoil? Norway currently sitting on a massive Sovereign Wealth Fund while UK sits on a £3 trillion National Debt pile! A Westminster creation.
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The SNP’s key anti-oil & gas policy moves: ❌ Shifted away from Maximum Economic Recovery ❌ Formally declared opposition to the Cambo oil field ❌ Proposed a "presumption against" new North Sea exploration ❌ Enacted an effective permanent ban on onshore fracking
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Replying to @afneil @CitizynKayne
AN, spouting Colonislist drivel again. A reminder Aberdeen was energy capital of 🇪🇺, it was tories that destroyed NSea tax grab in 2011 to line WMinsters coffers, 60,000 jobs lost 2015 Tory’s destroyed Peterhead Carbon capture 100,000 jobs lost 2016 Brexit 80,000 +🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿jobs lost ⬇️
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Oh you can fuck the right off! It was cunts like you that were telling us back in 14 that the oil would run out in 5 years. So save your anger and jog the fuck on ya 🤡
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Maybe they're just following the advice of a respected expert
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They lost a recent by-election in Aberdeen because the voters saw through SNP games Hostile towards oil and gas for years. Welcomed the Tory 75% windfall tax Presumption against new licences Now some pretend they are in favour just to win votes Meantime Swinney sits on the fence
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@theSNP sure have a mental illness called devious liar syndrome. How can anyone take this organisation seriously? Regardless of all their devious and damaging policies, Scottish people voted for this. It’s mind boggling.
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WM control the oil and Gas not SNP and you know that.
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Tell him Andrew. This guy’s an absolute bampot!
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Try telling the truth, Mr Neil. Scotland is not an Independent State. It has v limited powers, & what powers it does have are ultimately subject to WM control. You can’t have it both ways- blame Scotland for everything, but don’t grant the powers to decide for ourselves.
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The uncertainty is being piled on by @StephenFlynnSNP and his cronies. He should own it. But of course they've never owned anything like a business in their lives. Career politicians.
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Tell me you know nothing about Reserved Matters without telling me you know nothing about Reserved Matters 🙄🤦‍♂️
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Wait a min, didn’t Westminster tell us it was all running out?
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Not enough profits... Greed in other words! Shareholders wanting more, trim the fat and sell what's not profitable! Don't want to pay tax on their money! Are we supposed to let them drill for nothing? We give millions to them and they piss off cause it's not profitable!
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Your Westminster governments control Scotland's oil and gas, you fuckin halfwit
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Stop lying, Scotland has no control over energy, even though we are an energy powerhouse. You and your unionist share holders who have benefitted from Scotlands resources while you are living in France. The Scotland Act was a stitch up, it needs to go. Time for rebelion.
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Hope yur wee mansion in Franis safe fae the fires, Andrew. Your party, the tories, sold the whole shebang tae thur mates, mate. Should still be under public control, bit short termist policies, sellin the family silver fur a quick financial gain wis their priority. Scum.
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Replying to @afneil @AgentP22
Well said. Nepo baby Flynn is a total fanny. He wants to be FM and will stab absolutely anybody that gets in his way.
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Sadly the lies you are allowed to tell are then mistakenly taken as fact. Never has it been so clear that Scotland is a colony when people, such as you, are given a voice without question. You and your ilk told us the oil and gas was running out in 2014 !!
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Again not a devolved issue and the oil companies know its not a devolved issue and I think you do to
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100% right Andrew. The hand wringing from Stephen and his mates is pathetic
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The world class workforce no longer work in Scotland because the SNPs relentless crushing of the Scottish oil industry has driven most of them, and their sizable tax income, abroad to work in foreign oilfields .
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Oh Andy luv … has the heatwave in the south of France boiled your gammon brain again ??? Oil taxes are reserved to Westminster … besides, the assets will be sold on and a new owner will continue to employ workers and pay taxes. You utter throbber !!!!
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The left are the people, Andrew, especially the ones in Glenburn, whether they are electricians or cotton mill workers. You put your background behind you the moment you joined the Conservatives as a student. You long ago left Scotland, where the right-wing views you now champion remain a minority. Don’t confuse abandoning your roots with everyone else abandoning the left.
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