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How Brexit robbed Scotland of crucial funding
Since the Brexit transition period came to an end, we have outlined some of the various adverse implications and negative effects on trade, business and research, for example. However, another benefit of EU membership that came to an end for the UK in December 2020 was the country’s access to the EU Structural Funds.Structural Funds are pots of funding that...
Believe in Scotland to kickstart new Yes push with massive Indy day of action
Believe in Scotland, is calling on the grassroots Yes movement to join in a massive day of campaigning after lockdown ends.Our crowdfunder is in its last week and the first £50,000 of donations were matched pound for pound by business donors so we hit our £50,000 target and business donor contributions took the total raised to £100,000. Since hitting that target...
Wellbeing Economics must sit at the heart of the case for independence
Since its inception in 2011, Business for Scotland (BfS) has called for a fairer, greener, more small business/entrepreneur focused approach to independence. BfS have, therfore, championed the cause of wellbeing economics since before it was a widely used term. Believe in Scotland was always going to make the indyref2 case for independence based on Wellbeing economics, even if the...
As offshore energy set to boom beware of second North Sea rip-off
Scotland’s massive potential to become a leading player in offshore energy has been underlined by two major reports this morning. But just as the new developments highlight the benefits they could bring to Scotland they also bring home the need to ensure the predicted boom is used to improve the lives of people who live here.Forth Ports has today unveiled...
Wellbeing economics - the key to a 60% Yes vote for Scottish independence
A sixty percentage Yes vote is achievable - with the right economic approach. However, coronavirus changed everything; every rule of conservative economics has been shattered and the world is waking up to the need to truly build back better, to intertwine resilience, health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability into our socio-political approach. The old mantras of the left and right only...
Former Tory MSP: SNP could win legal bid to hold indyref2
It seems theTories are not entirely convinced by their own argument that the Scottish parliament has no legal authority to call indyref2 without Westminster agreement. Adam Tomkins, a former Conservative MSP and the John Millar Chair of Public Law at Glasgow University, has admitted that the courts could accept the Scottish parliament’s right to call the vote.That is in direct contradiction...
How Scotland beat the UK to produce a better, cheaper test and trace app
We have previously examined the many COVID-19 related disasters and the Westminster mismanagement that has been thrown into sharp focus by the pandemic. From mass PPE shortages to a multi-billion-pound app that failed, it is clear that an independent Scotland could have managed this crisis more effectively than has been possible as part of the UK.Throughout the pandemic the Scottish...
Poll reveals widespread UK support for Scotland's democratic right to indyref2
Voters in England back Scotland’s right to a second independence referendum, a new poll has found. Savanta ComRes polling for news and comment site Left Foot Forward shows that 38% of voters in England believe First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has the right to launch another referendum, compared to 34% who do not.The poll was carried out after the Scottish general election...
It's morning again in Scotland
This morning we woke up in a country where newly elected members of its parliament took their oath or affirmation in at least eight different languages from all over the world.They included Gaelic, Scots, Doric, Orcadian, German, Urdu, sign language and even Zimbabwean Shona.This morning we woke up in a country where its new parliament contains 58 women MSPs out...
Business backers double down for independence campaign fundraiser
Business backers of Scottish independence have contributed £50,000 in matching donations to an indyref2 fundraiser run by Believe in Scotland.Believe in Scotland is the largest and most active independence campaigning organisation and incorporates the business and economic wellbeing campaign group Business for Scotland. The organisation was awarded Independence Campaign of the Year (2020) by The National newspaper and the Scottish Independence Foundation after launching...