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The right-wing, ultra British nationalist Daily Express is not normally the first to make the case for Scottish independence – but an article calling Scotland “an energy goldmine” can only strengthen support for the country to run its own affairs.
🚨 A new poll shows the majority are still in favour of independence.
🏴 53% Yes
❌ 47% No
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🟥 Unionist politicians think they just killed independence stone dead
✊ Let’s prove them wrong.
We don’t stop, we will never give up, we will campaign until we win and we will win. 1/5🧵
🇲🇹 Today, Malta is a successful small independent country, the smallest in the EU. But when it sought its independence from Britain, it was told it was too wee and too poor to make a go of it. Sound familiar?
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🟦 We polled indy supporters at the start of the year & you told us that you want us to do more billboards.
🙌 So we booked a couple weeks of drive-time electronic billboards. Here is just one of the many we have running across Scotland.
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#BelieveinScotland
- We campaign
📣 On Saturday, 20th April 2024 - Believe in Scotland and Pensioners for Independence will march through the streets of Glasgow to call for Scottish independence.
🏴 Will you march with us?
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📢 "This is shaping up to be a great event and I am delighted to be asked to speak. Let's speed up our push for independence on September 2nd." - Brian Cox
🏴 Will you march with us?
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Almost two-thirds of Scots say the UK will break up within a decade, and half think it will take just five years, according to a new poll by Ipsos Mori.
The findings echo other recent polls showing Scotland moving towards independence.
🏴 Scotland, with 8.1% of the UK's population, possesses:
🐟 73% of the UK's fish landings
🚰 90% of the UK's fresh water
⚡ 26% of the UK's renewable energy generation & 92% of the UK's Hydropower
🛢️ 95.4% of the UK's oil and gas production
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📢 Speaker announcement.
📺 We are proud to announce that the Actor Brian Cox, will be joining us on Saturday, 2nd September in Edinburgh, at the March & Rally for an Independent Scotland in the EU.
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📣 A poll carried out by Panelbase for Believe in Scotland found 6 in 10 voters would back Yes if they were convinced an independent Scotland will deliver higher pensions and an economy based on the health and happiness of its citizens, a new poll has revealed.
🇩🇰 Denmark is about two thirds the size of Scotland with a slightly larger population of 5.8 million. It comes in the top five of the
@scotianomics
Wellbeing Index.
👇 Here are five lessons for an independent Scotland.
🇮🇸 As an independent country, Iceland has achieved what Scotland can only dream about. It is a world leader in renewable energy, with a completely carbon-free grid.
🔎 Here are five lessons for independence that Scotland can learn from Iceland:
The Scottish Government has committed to holding an independence referendum before the end of 2023.
So, Believe in Scotland is kickstarting the indyref2 campaign by partnering with 107 Local Yes Groups on our National Day of Action on Saturday 18th September 2021. (1/2)
👏 50 Activists handed out over 3000 leaflets today in Perth promoting Scottish independence. A massive well done to everyone involved!
If you want to take part in our events please keep an eye on our events page here:
#Independenceisnormal
📢 Speaker announcement.
"I am calling on all independence supporters to come together, to show our opponents that the cause of independence is the people’s movement..." 1/2
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📢 "I am calling on all independence supporters to come together. Let's make this rally one of the biggest and the best our cause has ever seen."
🏴 Will you march with us?
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Our billboard campaign focuses on Scotland’s right to have a second independence referendum. Another poster will highlight that UK pays the worst state pension in the developed world, as a percentage of final earnings
🏴 Independence is normal.
Here is another one of our billboards! Where else would you like to see us target with a Believe in Scotland billboard campaign?
🏴 March & Rally for an Independent Scotland in the EU.
📅 1:30pm on Saturday 2nd September 2023.
📍 Johnston Terrace marching to the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh.
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@BelieveinScot
or
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to keep up with event details and announcements.
🚨 Speaker announcement: First Minister of Scotland,
@HumzaYousaf
.
🏴 Let’s march together to unleash our nations true potential!
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🟦 Twenty years ago, Scotland had higher rates of child poverty than England - now they are significantly lower. Scotland is on a completely different trajectory to the other nations of the UK.
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The next leader of the SNP has but one card to play and that is to go all out for independence, within the EU and with a Wellbeing Economic approach. 1/4
Those taking to the streets tomorrow at the March and Rally for an Independent Scotland in the EU will be doing so because they understand that independence is the first step we need on the road to creating a better, fairer, more prosperous country.
🇳🇿 Because New Zealand is fully independent, it can make decisions about how to use its resources to build a more secure future for its people.
🔎 Here are some lessons for Scotland from New Zealand’s independence journey:
As you can see, independent Northern European countries, with a population of approximately 5.5 million, have been able to provide far greater funding towards tackling COVID-19 than what Scotland has received as part of the UK.
Scotland has little to show for the huge fossil fuel resources harvested from the North Sea.
Now that the renewable energy potential of Scotland is clear, many Scots see renewables as a second chance they do not want to see squandered by a UK government Scotland didn’t vote for.
📢 Thank you to all that marched or attended the rally, our volunteer stewards, to those that donated, to SIF for their generous support and to all the presenters and performers. You made our march and rally a big success.
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🇮🇪 Ireland is a stable and prosperous independent country. It has used the powers of independence to build a strong and diverse economy.
🔎 Independence Lessons: How Ireland built a strong economy:
🇮🇪 Ireland is a stable and prosperous independent country. It has used the powers of independence to build a strong and diverse economy.
🔎 Independence Lessons: How Ireland built a strong economy:
🟦 Scots should think twice before accepting biassed attacks on Scottish education from Unionist politicians and the Unionist media that parrot their claims.
🔎 Scotland's pupils are among the best readers in the western world - more:
🟦 Many people are unsure about Scotland’s natural wealth, asking whether it could actually support the economy of an independent Scotland.
👇 Here we answer that question: Could Scotland's natural wealth help it prosper as an independent nation?
🤔 Did you know that including territorial waters, Scotland is actually one and a half times larger than England?
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A poverty gap is opening between England and Scotland, in particular in child poverty rates, according to a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 1/2
Scotland and England have been measuring wait times in A&E differently – Scotland’s figures are from “time of arrival” but England’s NHS only started the clock from the time of “decision to admit”. 1/3
🤝 Believe in Scotland is 142 Yes groups working together for a better Scotland.
🏴 We are bringing the Yes family back together.
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🟩 Our next move towards independence needs to break the mould of constitutional politics. It needs to drive, within two years, a social and cultural mindset change across the nation.
⚡️Scotland has enormous renewable energy potential – with some of the fastest wind speeds in Europe. But the UK’s ‘weak’ and ‘creaking’ National Grid is a major barrier.
🟦 Scots have watched appalled as the dire state of England’s water supply hits the headlines from a hideous vomiting bug contracted from contaminated tap water to water companies hovering on the edge of bankruptcy, to rising water charges.
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🚨 We have been overwhelmed with requests to do it again, so we are pleased to announce that Believe in Scotland has now submitted applications for two March and Rallies in 2024.
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🏴 We are still Yes! Are you?
✊ Help us send our message, loud and clear, that we won't stop, we will campaign till we win and we will win because independence is normal.
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🇳🇿 Here we look at New Zealand which has managed to succeed as an independent, diverse, democratic country with its own currency and a broad base of trading relationships and it should encourage Scots to feel confident that Scotland could do the same.
🇯🇲 Yesterday Jamaica celebrated it's independence day.
🔎 Jamaica declared itself independent in 1962 and seven years after independence, in 1969, it moved to the Jamaican dollar.
🏴 Here are Independence lessons for Scotland from Jamaica:
🟦 One million copies of an 8-page pro independence paper are being delivered to homes across Scotland before St Andrew's Day. Most of this work will be taking place over the next few days.
⬇️ However, we still need your help online too. (Thread)
“Starmer has subverted parliamentary democracy to make sure the accusation of war crimes was removed after he spoke to the Israeli president. This alone should be enough to bar him from the office of Prime Minister.” Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp
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🙌 Here is another!
We have rolled these out in Glasgow this week in line with our Big Indy Weekend in the city. We will be rolling out more across Scotland in line with our other events during the year!
🤝 Believe in Scotland is unique. Made up of 142 local and national grassroots independence campaigning groups, it’s the only body truly representative of the grassroots independence movement. 1/4
A total of 110 Yes groups stand ready to stage a huge range of events to kickstart an Autumn of Indy Action initiative as the campaign gets into gear to prepare for the second independence referendum.
⬇️ Here is what you need to know.
🏴 We are still Yes! Are you?
✊ Help us send our message, loud and clear, that we won't stop, we will campaign till we win and we will win, because independence is normal.
🟦 Learn more:
🟪 The Scottish Independence Congress on Saturday the 17th of February 2024 will act as the launch platform for our 2024 campaign, organising and planning for the year ahead.
🙌 WE DID IT!
🏴 We are humbled and honoured by the faith that the Yes movement has placed in our campaign. Thank you to everyone who supported our Crowdfunder campaign.
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🟥 Rishi Sunak in Aberdeen today at the Scottish Conservative Conference argued that the UK Government should be trusted with Scotland’s energy.
🔎 They failed Scotland in the past – so why should we trust them with Scotland’s energy future?
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Believe in Scotland had three Indy stalls up on King Edward Street Perth today.
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🌱 The Green sector delivered more electricity than Scotland used for the first time.
🏴 Renewable technologies generated the equivalent of 113% of Scotland's overall electricity consumption in 2022.
🏴 Believe in Scotland went to Galashiels.
🙌 We had a great day talking to locals and delivering our 8-page pamphlets on the benefits of Independence to the Scottish Borders.
🤝 To get involved with future campaign days, sign up here:
🔻 The poorest in the UK are 63% worse off, than the poorest in Ireland.
🔻 The cost of living crisis is making it worse.
📢 We want to build a better, fairer, greener, wealthier, healthier, happier and more successful Scotland - join us today:
🟥 A House of Lords Committee is asking for submissions for a report on the state of the Union between Scotland & England.
The fact that the committee thinks it has the legitimacy to sit in judgement over the democratic rights of Scots will anger many:
Believe in Scotland - National Day of Action.
Today, over 100 Yes groups are campaigning across Scotland but if you weren't able to join your local Yes group today, there is still a way to campaign digitally. 1/1
🔎 Scotland's democratic deficit means that between the 1945 and 2024 General elections, Scotland only got the government it voted for 46% of the time.
🏴 It's time to Believe in Scotland.
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Being part of the UK has cost Scotland's economy £90 billion a year compared to the average of it's nearest benchmark nations.
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