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Alex Cole-Hamilton

Alex Cole-Hamilton

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Jun 3, 2026

35:19
Yeah.
35:19
In the taxis and buses and hairdressers I've been in in the last week, I was in the hairdresser yesterday, this is all people are talking about.
35:26
And so there are still questions that need to be answered.
35:28
I think there is a role for Parliament h- here, and it's not for the salacious stuff.
35:32
It's not about the toilet rolls before Nicola came on stage and told us not to panic buy toilet rolls.
35:38
It's about the use of government resource in potentially covering this up, and I'll give you one clear example that nobody's effectively explained away.
35:46
And that was the week that the tent appeared outside Nicola's house and the camper van was seized, that a senior SNP source told the Daily Record that this camper van was a legitimate campaigning asset for a COVID election.

5 MINS LATER

41:18
Perish the thought.
21:24
You're just saying we don't know enough yet.
21:25
I, I think it's clear.
21:26
If it makes more environmental sense to extract it from our waters than it does to import it with additional carbon, then we should.
21:32
But let me finish by saying this.
21:34
Um, so Alex Salmond said 20 years ago he wanted to make Scotland the renewables capital of the world, the Saudi Arabia of the north, but we are nowhere.
21:43
We are still paying renewables companies £2 billion a year not to put their wind energy into our grid because we don't have the capacity to receive it.
21:51
We are nowhere in that just transition, and as a result, we are seeing this hesitancy in our government in, in Edinburgh, in Marie McCullough's government, and that hesitancy is driving companies away from this city.

31 MINS LATER

52:37
Which is not what you think, Alex.

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