Human Remains found in Aberdeen

Following the UK vote to leave the EU, Scotland has voted in favour of  Remaining in the EU by 62%

Aberdeen comfortably backed a vote to Remain .

A total of 63,985 votes were cast in favour of the Remain campaign with 40,729 backing Brexit.

The consequences of the UK vote to leave the EU will have a profound impact on the North Sea job market with another collapse in the oil price set to rock the already beleaguered  oil and gas sector.

120,000 people have already lost their jobs due to the collapse in the price of crude oil and my fear is that Brexit will trigger a second wave of redundancies that threatens to make Aberdeen a ghost town if urgent measures are not taken to cross train the workforce .

I recently attended a jobs fair in Aberdeen and was surprised to see a number of stands set up to train unemployed workers to be welders and fitters .  This is like rearranging the orchestra on the Titanic .   There are thousands of highly skilled technicians in Aberdeen who have been queuing at the local job centre desperately seeking work as bar tenders and cleaners .  We don't need more .Even the bars in the Granite city are closing down and struggling to find paying customers.   "More of the same " will only line the pockets of fat cat trainers seeking to exploit  desperate workers hoping to receive government funding for training that will only be useful if the price of oil returns to $100...which as likely as Donald Trump going playing a round of golf with Alex Salmond at Balmedie beach.

A consequential  vote for an Independent Scotland will not stem the flood of job losses, but is now an unavoidable consequence of the UK vote to leave the EU.

Job hunters in Oil & Gas face an even more uncertain future than they did yesterday  and much needs to be done by our politicians to create jobs "beyond oil" and not more of the same.

I don't want my town to become another Detroit. We should look to places like Iceland that in spite of the financial crash are booming again thanks to a renaissance in start-ups and tourism .

Not dead yet but the insolvency firms are set for a busy year.