World’s Largest Oil Field NOT Found - The Mystery Surrounding the Prime Minister's Shetland Visit

I thought you might enjoy this little chippy article that I found on the net from the good people at OilandGasPeople.com and the YES Highlands and Islands folk. The illustrations are Munguin's, because obviously the whole thing is a huge secret and MI17.2 has destroyed all evidence of him ever being anywhere that day.

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Speculation is growing in the Oil Industry that there was more to the UK Prime Ministers recent secret visit to Shetland than has been released. The Facebook page of YES Highlands and Islands has released the following article that has gone viral on-line.

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WORLD'S LARGEST OIL FIELD NOT FOUND


You may remember the Prime Minister came to visit Shetland under the tightest secrecy ever seen in Shetland last week and the national press knew nothing about it. Nor the local press.

Buster was there as he landed at the airport at 1623 of course to take photos.

Mr Cameron came to Shetland to say absolutely nothing about anything and allowed the local media 6 minutes of questions.

Which he did not answer.

Now you are all wondering why the PM made a very rushed, and hugely expensive trip to the Shetland Oils, missing his cabinet meeting, and just making it back to Glasgow for the Games.

You're not?

Well you should be.

Because his haste was nothing to do with wanting to see us. He did make one tiny announcement about energy in which Scots could save £46 per annum but he could have put out a press release from No 10 about that.

Energy. Mmmmmmm? Black gold?

As luck would have it, Buster was flying his drone around the West of Shetland oilfields recently when he noticed something strange.

A drilling rig, definitely not on contract to BP, and not near the Clair Field did not suddenly de-man and send all the workers home and they are not on full pay.

Nor did he overhear the rig manager say "Come back in September and don't speak to any wee ginger cats or your sacked."

The rig did not discover "sweet oil", the most highly-prized stuff for turning into petroleum spirit, nor was it in shallower water than the normal 150m some of the other Clair oil is lurking at.

Nor did it find it in quantities so large that "biggest" and "world" could be used in the same sentence.

Mr Cameron did not request the oil companies keep this massive wealth hidden from the Scottish electorate until after the referendum.

He would never do that.

Just like Westminster didn't before the last referendum. 

We're sorry we have absolutely no news for you about the vast oil and gas reserves not found in the Atlantic but when we do hear anything you'll be the first to know.

Editorial Note: There is no truth in the matter that following last year's heavy investment investment, oil production is set to soar over the next few years.

Fotos For Friday

Glasgow 2014 has not even started yet, but the FM has been said to have already secured over £2 Billion in orders for Scotland. That is four times what we have invested in putting on Glasgow 2014.

That's a lot of jobs for Scotland.

Original message taken from the following weblink:-

https://www.facebook.com/groups/vote4scotland/permalink/711921042213615/

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Dave was in Shetland, although strangely Downing Street wouldn't confirm that he was. But no matter. He was politicking. He was accompanied by Godzilla, the Minister for Portsmouth, who has clearly moved up the ranks and is now bag carrier for Dave (he probably travelled economy). He it was who warned the Scottish government last week NOT to politick during the Commonwealth Games. Funny old world. Ordinary rules don't apply to Eton Toffs.

Let's be honest. With the Middle East blowing up around him, the Russia-Ukraine situation demanding attention, and what with him having all this clout in world affairs (big noise in the EU, G8, G20, Nato, World Bank, IMF, and a seat on the security council) Dave can hardly say he was in Shetland as part of his normal duties. After all it's 34 years since the last prime ministerial visit there. It was hardly urgent he get there this week.

Apparently he thanked the Shetland people for the economic contribution they make to his country (they couldn't afford nuclear weapons without Shetland's input, and said that he desperately wanted the UK to stay together, for he loved them with all his heart  and soul, even the little Shetland Pony. He took his tie off. A sure sign that he was getting down with ordinary everyday common folk who didn't go to Eton (see above).

He refused to take any questions from the press while he was there. Now, isn't that strange.

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Apparently the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony producers asked the Ministry of Defence, which at that time would have been under the ministerial hand of Po Face Hammond of the British Virgin Islands, if the Red Arrows could please just use blue and white smoke in their flypast. The flag of the host nation is traditionally used and Scotland is the host nation.

The answer was no. And some old duffer at the MoD probably choked into his bowler hat at the very idea (which at least is a cheering thought).

The planes were due to fly past at the time that the Queen and Philip were entering the arena. Apparently the Queen only has red white and blue, being only the Queen of the UK. Not Australia, or New Zealand or Canada or Scotland or Jersey or Gibraltar or anywhere else, just red white and blue. 

So we had to have another bit of Union Jack waving at the games. NO politicking though, otherwise Godzilla Carmichael would be cross with them and you really wouldn't want to get Godzilla cross. Look what happened when Nicola bullied him!.

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Cameron also gave a speech at Glasgow University. It was attended by a few people, who were probably especially invited so there would be no chance of anyone telling him to bugger off home. Some of the invited few presumably had better things to do on a warm day and there were empty chairs all around. Still the Tories are used to that in Scotland.

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One of the Tories’ biggest donors and a major contributor to the Scottish “No” campaign runs a vast oil-trading company which has potentially avoided UK corporate taxes on billions of pounds of profit with the blessing of the tax man, according to this newspaper report.

So, they are fighting our freedom with money which by rights is owed to the taxman, and which might have helped pay down the £1.5 trillion of debt the UK has.

Nah, much better spend it on telling lies about how bad life would be in an independent oil rich country with massive tourism, energy, water and intellectual, etc, etc, etc... reserves, so that they can hang on to them.

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TEASER!

The Caledonia song will be released on Sunday. 

I'll post all the links then so you can listen to it, and hopefully buy a copy from iTunes or Amazon.

All money received from sales is going to help food banks. It's a great song and a great cause. I've been in touch with my local food bank and made them aware of it too. I hope together we can help the lads make a difference to starving kids.

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THINGS AREN'T LOOKING GOOD FOR LABOUR OR THE LIBERALS

Two interesting polls on UK voting intentions today:

From the Sun/YouGov poll:

Labour 37
Conservatives 36
Ukip 11
Lib Dems 9

That would give Labour a majority of 8.

From the Mail on Sunday/Survation poll:

Labour 35
Conservatives 34
Ukip 15
Lib Dems 9

That would give Labour a majority of 4.

Neither these majorities is workable in the long term by anything but the most skilled politician with his party behind him 100%. That's hardly a description of Miliband.

Four years into a government of Tory Spivs and their lapdogs, this is an untenable position for Labour and I'm imagining, utterly unrepresentative of Scotland's view.

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And bad news for the Scottish Secretary:

THOSE favouring Scottish independence ended up comfortably outnumbering those backing the union following a two-hour debate at the Althing in Tingwall Hall in Shetland on Saturday night.

Debating the motion “The time is right for Scottish independence” were SNP list MSP Mike Mackenzie and Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael.

At the outset the 150-strong audience were almost split down the middle, with 58 backing independence and 57 preferring to remain within the UK, while 31 were undecided.

Come the night’s end, a sizeable swing had seen the number favouring independence rise to 70 while support for the union fell to 48, leaving 22 still to make up their minds.

Mackenzie and Carmichael were backed, respectively, by local SNP activist Danus Skene while the No team had to rely on  the Conservatives’ Perthshire-based European election hopeful Dr Ian Duncan.

And all this in an island we were told would want to become part of England if Scotland broke away.
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And some good news about the EU membership:

European expert Graham Avery has confirmed that the European Union would be strengthened by Scotland’s continued membership after a Yes vote – which he describes as a “common sense” position.

Mr Avery, an honorary Director-General of the European Commission and senior adviser at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, made clear that Scotland’s continued membership of the EU will enhance the EU’s position on the international stage – and that the EU’s attitude towards Scotland would be one of “pragmatic acceptance”.

Mr Avery has also confirmed that it would be “common sense” for Scotland to maintain its EU membership from day one of independence – as advocated by the Scottish Government.
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Yep... that sums him up!

THE JOYS OF ISLAND LIFE...

There’s a really funny story in the paper copy of today’s 'Press and Journal' concerning a school on the Shetland island of Papa Stour which is to reopen after 5 years to accommodate a family coming from England to live on one of the crofts.

Shetland Council agreed to appoint a teacher, a relief teacher, and a part time clerical assistant for the tiny school which serves the island with a population of just 12, after a request from the local councillor requested it. The English family’s coming was dependent upon there being educational facilities available for their two children. He said that a price could not be put on the rebirth of a community on the edge of extinction. (There is only one remaining native “Stourian” left on the island.)

In fact the law requires that adequate provision be made for education, so the authorities were advised that there was no alternative to re-opening the school.

It was closed in 2005 after Jane Walker, the mother of the only children in it, withdrew her two offspring after a “difference of opinion” with the teacher. It seems that this teacher Simon Calvin had given a statement to the police after her (Mrs Walker’s) husband had emptied a bucket of dog dirt over the head of a local minister. Mr Walker was subsequently fined £600 at Lerwick Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to assault on the Rev Adrian Glover.

The story does not relate what the poor minister had done to deserve such treatment, what happened to the poor teacher who was left with 100% withdrawal of his pupils, or if the Walkers remained on the island after such reprehensible behaviour.

And you probably thought that life on a tiny island was hard but idyllic.

Huh!

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