Common Weal's newsletter sees the think tank dig into Scottish green freeports.
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This is not true; they will remain set by the Scottish and UK governments, though the vulnerability of either to lobbying is not an insubstantial risk. The other is that freeports will be allowed to frack in Scotland. Again, the Scottish moratorium holds within the zones just as much as it does outwith.
If either of these assumptions fail, then our public services will pay the price. We see the extent of the Scottish Government’s support in the, who talked of their choice to offer LBTT relief , and we also see the lack of democracy in the public consultation on that tax break which was the single worst public consultation I’ve ever participated in.
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