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Mark Valladares

9 October 2025 – today’s Scottish press releases

By Mark Valladares | Thu 9th October 2025 - 11:55 pm
  • Trust in SNP hits new low
  • Cole-Hamilton to Swinney: When will communities properly benefit from renewables projects?
  • Greene responds to Ardrossan Harbour news
  • SNP and Greens kill addiction recovery bill

Trust in SNP hits new low

Responding to an embargoed survey which shows that satisfaction with the Scottish Government has fallen to its lowest level on record, with satisfaction in the NHS at a new low, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:

Satisfaction in John Swinney’s government is the worst in the history of the Scottish Parliament and is even lower than Humza Yousaf’s.

It’s time for a change.

Cole-Hamilton to Swinney: When will communities properly benefit from renewables projects?

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today said that local communities are “shivering in the shadow of turbines” as he challenged the First Minister on the Scottish Government’s outdated guidance, which means local communities are not properly benefiting from hosting renewable energy projects.

Speaking during First Minister’s Questions, Alex Cole-Hamilton said:

When companies generate renewable energy, they are expected to give money back to the local community.

But the amount of cash we’re talking about is absolutely pitiful because the rules haven’t changed in more than a decade.

All the while, people are still shivering in the shadow of turbines, unable to heat their homes.

So will the Scottish Government listen to the Liberal Democrats, to Highland Council, to Shetland Council, and change those rules to cut energy bills for local people?

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