Author: YiP
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Scotland’s Small Businesses Need the EU
Scotland’s small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) provide 1.2m jobs – that’s more than half of all private sector employment. There’s important. But they’ve been even more affected by Brexit than larger businesses. For a thriving economy they need Scotland back in the EU, with frictionless trade and the freedom of movement to employ EU…
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Who’s working hardest on Alcohol-related Deaths?
Scotland has a long-standing issue with alcohol-related deaths. The rate of deaths is higher than in England and Wales – but this issue existed well before the Scottish Parliament was even set up.
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What’s a “hate crime”?
Whenever the Scottish Parliament passes a bill, it is used by unionist parties and their media as a signal for anti-Scottish Government propaganda. We saw this with the GRR and DRS bills, and the same happened with Hate Crime. So what are the facts? The Scottish Hate Crime law “Hate crime” is the phrase used…
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Green Freeports – Good or Bad?
After Independence Scotland’s Green Freeports may provide the potential to help make Scotland’s economy more globally competitive, as well as helping to support both the Scottish Government’s and the EU’s objectives around just transition and the move to a net zero economy. Right now the risk is that the Scottish Government is overridden and they…
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The UK: Where It Pays to be Rich
The top 20% in the UK have seen a big rise in disposable incomes over the past few decades. The bottom 20% haven’t been so lucky. The UK: where it pays to be rich.
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Better together?
The UK is in long term decline. Why would Scotland choose to be part of it?
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How UK Governments block Scotland’s Priorities
Since the UK Internal Market Bill was introduced as part Brexit the UK Government has been given much greater abilities to block the Scottish Government and roll back devolution. GRR and the DRS are two examples of this happening.
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Unionist parties control most spending for Scotland
Unionist parties control most spending for Scotland. But the UK Media is only interested in the bit that the Scottish Government can control. Even the size of this bit is controlled by the UK Government.
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Tory Humour
A growing collection of cartoons and graphics adapting Tory messages in Scotland, rather than being particularly about Independence.
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Labour Humour
A growing collection of cartoons and graphics adapting Labour in Scotland messages, rather than being particularly about Independence.