THE historic town of Strathaven in South Lanarkshire will see the launch of its very own Yes group this weekend.
The inaugural meeting of Yes Strathaven will take place tomorrow at 12.30pm at The Strathaven public house’s function room at 6 Waterside Street. The organisers say all are welcome to attend.
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Strathaven was a hotbed of unrest in the 1820 Radical War so you could say that a Yes group is in its DNA.
We will be previewing the next All Under One Banner March and Rally for Independence next week. It is set to take place on June 2 in Dumfries.
There’s also sure to be a lively discussion when Dr Craig Dalzell of Common Weal visits Greenock and Inverclyde SNP next Thursday, May 24, to give a talk at the Beacon Arts Centre, Customs House Quay, Greenock, from 7pm.
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His subject is the annual GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) figures, which provoke many interpretations and heated disagreement.
Dalzell is the author of Common Weal’s major report arguing an independent Scotland could achieve “deficit parity” with the rest of the UK without cutting public services by rebudgeting.
Just a small correction to a previous notification – Dundee and Angus independence group will host a National Grassroots Campaign Workshop in The Old Mill, 23 Brown Street, Dundee, on Sunday, June 3, from 10am to 4pm, and not Saturday as we reported. More details can be found at Eventbrite.
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