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MSM Monitor is Tweeting Again! MSM Monitor has long been a valuable source on social mediae debunking & tweeting rebuttals to Mainstream Media fake news, spun reporting, and downright lying about the case for Scottish independence. It’s always been a bit of a mystery as to who ran the account. Though there are some very […]

. November Picks from TalkingUp Scotland… John Robertson’s blog TalkingUp Scotland is an excellent media fact check source if you’re interested in Scottish news reporting. Every now and then – like now – we write up a couple of his articles. This month we’re going to look at the Herald’s take on road traffic accidents […]

Closure of Grangemouth Refinery This week Ineos announced that they will stop refining oil at their Grangemouth facility. This will leave Scotland with no oil refining capacity. What will happen to the metro-chemical plant on the same site? Will Ineos go ahead with its plans to run Grangemouth on hydrogen? We don’t know. Jim Stamper […]

Posted with permission of Scottish Independence Podcasts. Independence Strategy The route to independence concerns everyone in the Yes movement and there is by no means consensus on the path that will lead to success. Pensioners for Independence supports Scottish Independence but we are not party political. We will be dropping in on the various party conferences […]

Believe in Scotland have added an online shop to their website. If you’re looking for their leaflets, badges, car stickers, t-shirts, booklet….. this is where to get them. They’ve got starter packs too, with a variety of campaign material. They’ve even got a Believe in Scotland umbrella! And…. the greater quantities you order, the lower […]

Mary McCabe, of our Greater Glasgow group, organised our section on the Forth & Clyde Canal for the Chain of Freedom Event on 14th October. Here is her report back: . The Chain of Freedom on October 14th was more successful than we had dared to hope. And Pensioners for Indy played our part in […]

As campaigning hots up in the Rutherglen & West Hamilton by-election, our Greater Glasgow group decided to take their stall to Rutherglen Town Hall this week and do a bit of independence campaigning themselves. This is them on Tuesday. It was busier than it looks! . The Scottish Independence Podcast team joined us… On Thursday […]

Yes Biker Sandy McCracken You may have heard about the tragic death of Sandy McCracken following a serious road traffic accident en route to the Kyle of Lochalsh Independence Rally. Sandy will be escorted by his friends… Yesterday morning the Yes Bikers escorted Sandy’s body from Govan, Glasgow down the M74 to the England border. Yes supporters were on some […]

We have a good relationship with the Scottish Independence Podcasts team. During the Covid lockdown when we moved to online meetings and talks, we asked them to take on producing podcasts from our events. If you scroll down through our blog posts on this website you’ll find lots of really good talks and discussions from […]

Pensioners for Independence joined 25,000 other supporters of independence (figures from Edinburgh Polis) for the March down the Royal Mile to Holyrood and the Rally outside Parliament. Here are some photos from our Glasgow Group Were you there? If you were, send us your photos and we’ll add them here. Another of the Glasgow Group […]

In July, Sara Salyers of Salvo was the guest speaker at a meeting of our Edinburgh Group. What is Salvo? what are its aims? and how might those aims be achieved? Historical Context Sara spoke for about the historical context of the 1707 Treaty of Union in terms of related legislation in both the Scottish […]

Mary McCabe from the Glasgow Group wrote this for us: A bunch of us joined the Believe in Scotland demonstration outside the King’s Theatre on Sunday 6th August during the World Cycling Championships. The idea was to attract for our cause some of the global attention surrounding the races. We pinned a banner proclaiming “INDEPENDENCE […]