WHO REALLY RUNS SCOTLAND? Robin McAlpine on Power, Money & a Broken System. Ep 60

WHO REALLY RUNS SCOTLAND?Robin McAlpine joins What’s the Point? for a no-holds-barred conversation about power, money, bureaucracy and whether Scotland’s democracy is actually working.Who really makes the decisions in Scotland? elected politicians, civil servants, council officers, quangos or regulators?Robin argues that too much power has shifted away from elected representatives and into institutions most people never vote for. He also takes aim at Scotland’s economic model, the ownership of national wealth, the Standards Commission, the Fiona Higgins case, AI data centres and the future of public energy.We also ask:Why does so much Scottish wealth leave the country?Are politicians still really in control?Are AI data centres being oversold on jobs and economic benefit?Should councils own renewable energy assets?Could local authorities make money from power generation instead of simply hosting private infrastructure?Robin also discusses the idea of municipally owned energy and whether Scotland could build a national system around locally owned generation.And Greg revisits the sustainable energy company motion he brought to North Lanarkshire Council in 2022, years before energy ownership and data-centre power demand became major political issues.Power. Money. Democracy. Energy. AI.One question runs through the whole episode:Who actually runs Scotland?🎙️ What’s the Point?Scottish politics, local government, public affairs and accountability — with straight talking and no party script.#ScottishPolitics #RobinMcAlpine #Scotland #Politics #LocalGovernment #Democracy #AI #DataCentres #Energy #PublicOwnership #WhatsThePoint