WE’VE taken the high roads and the low roads and been to a’ the airts and pairts around the country but now The National Roadshow is heading straight for the heart of Scotland.
Tomorrow night, our Roadshow rolls into Blairgowrie, just a few miles east of the geographical centre of mainland Scotland, often said to be that most scenic of mountains, Schiehallion. With its “other half” of Rattray, Blairgowrie is in the council area of Perth and Kinross. It stands at the entrance to the central Highlands and climbers and skiers often pass through it to the Cairngorms and Glenshee and points north.
Yes Blairgowrie and Rattray is a thriving group of pro-independence supporters and its members will be out in force at the event, which will run from 7pm to 9pm at the Town Hall in Brown Street, Blairgowrie.
As is usually the case with National Roadshows, editor Callum Baird will be there to tell people about the only daily newspaper that supports independence.
He will be accompanied once again by our columnist the Wee Ginger Dug, whose human friend Paul Kavanagh will give his points of view on the Yes DIY phenomenon. Paul coined the term when we first started the Yes DIY hub pages, and it seems to have taken a trick with many people in the growing Yes movement.
This year already the Roadshow has been to Port Glasgow, Arbroath, Peterhead, Bathgate, Musselburgh, Dumbarton and Lochgilphead, and hundreds of people have attended – it has to be said many of them were intent on getting their photographs taken with the Wee Ginger Dug.
Editor Baird said: “We started the Roadshows just after our second anniversary in November 2016, and the aim was to meet as many of our readers as possible and explain to them what The National is all about. Since then, we have travelled far and wide. We have been very pleased to meet so many of our readers and hear to what they had to say.
“We are heading for Blairgowrie at an important time for all of Scotland as we look forward to a second independence referendum in which we at The National will play our part as the campaign unfolds.
“If you can make it tomorrow night to Blairgowrie Town Hall, Paul, myself and, of course, the Wee Ginger Dug will be delighted to see you.”
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