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A vote for independence must be a vote for Scotland rejoining the EU
In January, we polled 5,943 Scottish independence supporters to seek their opinions on a range of issues impacting the movement. We recruited respondents through Twitter and Yes supporting Facebook pages, generating a wide cross-section of the Yes movement. When we research public opinion, we use Panelbase to generate representative samples but that was not our intention here. In our last...
Five Reasons Why Independence is the Best Way to Protect Scotland's NHS
Fears Are Growing for England’s NHSFormer Conservative PM John Major famously said that the NHS would be as “safe as a pet hamster in the presence of a hungry python” if Boris Johnson and Michael Gove rose to power after Brexit. New developments are causing many to fear that he was right and that bars are being bent on...
Brian Wilson's Herald column demonstrates Labour's confused thinking on independence
Brian Wilson is right that gas and electricity are natural monopolies and at least some of that belongs in state, not private, hands. There are great examples across Europe of publicly owned and partially publicly owned energy companies, often working in parallel with public sector providers.However, when serving as UK energy minister in Blair’s Labour government, he had his...
The Times embarrasses itself with cack-handed attack on Believe in Scotland
The Times, a deeply Conservative and Unionist newspaper has today launched an incompetent and completely self-defeating attack on the nonpartisan Believe in Scotland campaign, in a blatant attempt to provide political and legal cover for a plethora of fake unionist campaigning groups who have been accused of dark money funding.Why is it "Incompetent and completely self-defeating"? Well, all the evidence...
HOL report says “Anglocentric British nationalism” could end the union - We agree
A House of Lords report on the Union published last week has gone further than any before in recognising the possibility of Scotland gaining independence. It also criticises the UK Government's “Anglocentric British nationalism”, which it says is undermining the UK’s legitimacy. The report says the UK Government has “undermined trust” by continually legislating without the consent of the...
Fuel Poverty vs Fuel Security: A story of two countries
The headlines are dominated by the soaring price of energy that will impact all UK citizens, especially those who are already struggling to survive. Even before the current crisis, over 3 million households were having to choose between heating and eating.What they are not telling us is that across the Channel, it’s a different story. French President Macron just...
Nuclear Energy Financing Bill to force consumers to pay for expensive and dangerous nuclear power
For the last few weeks the media has been transfixed by a series of sensational easy headline stories - 'partygate', Douglas Ross being outed as a lightweight, Prince Andrew losing his titles and court battle - and it's hard to blame them. However they have, for the most part, taken their eye off the ball when it comes to the Nuclear...
Mainstream media ignores Scottish health service patient safety success story
It should come as no surprise that the mainstream media failed to cover another Scottish health service success - its outstanding patient safety record. In testimony before Westminster's Health Committee last week, Dr. Pelle Gustafson, leading European expert on patient safety and CMO at Swedish Patient Insurer, was asked which country he would hold up as an example on...
Devo Max won't be on the indyref2 ballot paper - here are five reasons why
Why are we even talking about devo max again? In Scotland today, a vote for Labour is first and foremost a vote against self-determination for the people of Scotland. As the demographic trend towards independence continues, the Labour Party in Scotland finds itself battling the Conservatives for a dwindling hard Unionist vote, largely in older age groups. They...
Believe in Scotland's independence campaign aims to be carbon positive
Planting trees to offset your carbon footprint is easier than you might think and it’s just one of the ways we can all make our own contribution to combatting climate change. You can find Believe in Scotland’s Corporate Grove here.Back in November, Scotland, specifically Glasgow, hosted COP26. At the end of the conference some progress was announced to great...
There are still reasons to be cheerful this Christmas
It’s fair to say that 2021 has not been the most uplifting year. The emergence from Covid restrictions has been difficult and now delayed by the dominance of the Omicron variant; Brexit has brought serious economic damage in its wake and undermined our relationship with our European neighbours; fuel bills have gone though the roof; Scotland is still waiting for...
Stopping Westminster's Brexit Powergrab
The Scottish parliament is under attack from Westminster. In 2014 Scotland was promised it would become an equal partner in the Union if it rejected independence.Instead we were dragged out of Europe against our will and are now seeing essential powers being stripped from our parliament.Brexit was a clear message from Westminster to Scotland. It proved that Scotland could not trust...
Why do you #BelieveinScotland ?
Believe in Scotland's hugely successful Autumn of Indy action comes to an end this weekend with a week of digital campaigning. Please join is as we would like as many independence supporters as possible to join in and share our campaign messages on social media. What is the Autumn of Indy Action?On September 18th our autumn campaign kicked off with...
What the Scottish Budget means for the Wellbeing agenda
Yesterday’s Scottish Budget included a raft of Wellbeing initiatives among its plans for economic recovery and support for business as Scotland looks ahead to a wider emergence from the pandemic .Believe in Scotland has argued that Wellbeing should be at the core of rebuilding our economy in the wake of the pandemic. Indeed 'Independence Through Wellbeing' was...
Most UK voters support indyref2 being held before 2024
MOST voters in the UK who expressed a view in a new poll said they support a second referendum on Scottish independence being held before 2024.The Savanta ComRes poll found that, with undecided voters taken out, 54% supported indyref 2 being held during the current term of the Scottish parliament, with 46% against. Taking undecided voters into account 37% of...