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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...
Beware UK media acting as Westminster Ministry of Propaganda
Just days after a historic Scottish election delivered an increased pro-independence majority and unequivocal democratic support for indyref 2 the British media has launched on onslaught of attacks arguing that the direct opposite happened.Here’s a quick summary of just some of the most recent headlines:1: The Independent’s Sean O’Grady insists independence is ‘dead in the water’.2: Former Tory Prime Minister...
Ten things you need to know about the Scottish election today
The polls have already opened on the most important vote impacting on Scotland’s independence since the 2014 referendum. That makes today’s general election one of the most important ever held.If it returns a majority of independence-supporting MSPs Nicola Sturgeon will push forward to hold a second referendum at some point in the parliamentary term.She hopes to do so in the...
Poll of Polls - SNP majority on a knife edge - Greens surging - Alba in trouble
There is a great deal of interest in tactical voting strategies for this Holyrood election amongst independence supporters. There is also a great deal of misinformation being spread about the likely outcome. Believe in Scotland is 100% political party neutral and does not support any specific party outcome. Our goal in compiling the poll of polls is to give people the...