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Power from the profiteers to the people!
If the politicians don’t boot the profiteers out, the public will boot the politicians out, writes SEAN O’NEILL

RIGHT now in Scotland, the filthy rich executives of vulturous energy companies are contemplating their fate. Sooner or later, they will be made to pay for waging a cost-of-living war against the working class. 

The guilty profiteers are abundant in wealth, but time is one precious commodity they are running out of. 

Last Friday the Scottish Greens, junior partners in government, came out in favour of nationalising the Big Six energy monopolies and slashing bills. 

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