Jack Middleton

The SFA should cut the dithering and publicly withdraw their support for this stain on the game.

The words ‘just transition’ will be thrown around a lot in response to this news, but to my constituents they are meaningless.

I’m angry and upset for 1100 BP workers in the North Sea who, during a brutal cost of living crisis, will be fearful about their future and their family’s livelihoods.

Frankly, I think that’s one of our duties to our northern European allies.

While we still need oil and gas, we should be decreasing our reliance on countries in the Middle East and from friends of Vladimir Putin.

I believe in three key things – supporting Scottish jobs, strengthening our country’s energy security and building the renewables industry that we are going to need in the future.

Right now, Westminster is throwing North Sea workers on the scrapheap and Jackdaw and Rosebank would not only create thousands of Scottish jobs, it would be a massive boost to businesses and local economies the length and breadth of…

Instead, I think we should be increasing use of our own domestic resources right here in the North Sea.

Use of domestically-produced oil and gas would reduce the need for carbon-intensive imports, the MSP added, while also creating 'billions of pounds in tax revenue', which should be 'ring-fenced' and sent to Scotland to boost the renewables…

The reality though is that Energy-rich Scotland is paying the price of repeated Westminster failure. With the fresh start of independence we will bring down people’s bills.

If Andy Burnham truly believes in devolution the first step he should take as prime minister must be to listen to the people of Scotland and give us power over our own energy resources.