Believe in Scotland kickstarts new Indyref2 campaign

Believe in Scotland is this weekend kickstarting the grass roots campaign for Scottish independence, leading up to indyref2 with a national Day of Action for independence tomorrow (Saturday, September 18).

The day will see a huge range of events held by 110 Yes groups all over the country to signal the start of the organisation’s Autumn for Indy action.

Throughout the day activists will distribute up to 500,000 leaflets, 50,000 Open Minds newspapers and have also been supplied with more than 100,000 badges, car stickers, mugs, postcards and copies of Scotland the Brief books.

That massive effort involves 11 distribution hubs, 14 volunteer drivers and 8 volunteer packers, as well as the members of the 110 participating Yes groups themselves.

It follows hard on the heels of confirmation by the Scottish government that, following the co-operation agreement by the SNP and the Scottish Greens, an independence referendum will be held before the end of 2023.

Believe in Scotland’s key message throughout the day is that an independent Scotland’s economy will thrive.

It is calling for the basic state pension to be raised to £200 a week to combat pensioner poverty just as the UK government has announced it will cut the value of pensions, breaking its manifesto pledge to maintain the triple lock.

Believe in Scotland founder Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp said: ‘’The UK has the worst pension in the developed world, not because we can’t afford to pay more but because the Westminster government has taken the political decision not to do so.

‘’It prefers to deliberately keep pensions low in order to force wealthier people to buy private pensions and boost the city of London, thus creating widespread pensioner poverty for those unable to pay for private pensions.

‘’It great to see the Yes movement respond in such an unprecedented way to our Day of Action for Independence in order to send the clear message that Scotland has had enough of Westminster’ mismanagement. We need our independence if Scotland is to fulfil its amazing potential.’’

Believe in Scotland has created an interactive map showing which Yes groups are taking part: https://www.believeinscotland.org/day-of-indy-action-campaign-partner-map

It also launches today 14 new regional Facebook campaign news pages : https://www.believeinscotland.org/regionalpages/

More details on tomorrow’s events will be added to those sites as the day progresses and Autumn for Indy action begins.

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  1. Cathie Lloyd says:

    Come to middle meadow walk on Meadows Edinburgh to meet Yes Marchmont and Morningside between 11-13h.

  2. John Page says:

    Does anyone know the time of the event in Lochgilphead tomorrow? Thank you

  3. Liz Summerfield says:

    I can’t figure out why your posts for the last few days have been so expanded, it’s not possible to share without picking up the address first. It’s not my computer nor my broadband because Bella is the only newsletter this happens with. Any ideas?

    1. What do you mean by expanded Liz?

    2. Tom Ultuous says:

      Liz, is the error ‘bad request’ or header or something like that. If it is, I’ve had the same error (bella site only) a few times over the last couple of months. I’m using the Microsoft Edge browser and I got rid of the error by clicking on ‘Privacy, search and services’ in the settings then clicking on the ‘Choose what to clear’ button in the clear browsing data section and clearing browsing data.

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