Our Greater Glasgow Group Out & About

Mary McCabe and her team of stalwarts set up their stalls twice a week in Argyll Street and another team set up another stall once a fortnight in Milngavie. Rain or shine or windy…. they’ll be there. And – they get themselves and their stall to marches, to demos, to events.

A few months back they organised a Hit The Road, Jack demo at the UKGov HQ in Glasgow. More recently they were at Bannockburn March. Mary was one of the speakers, and spoke about the 1800s Scottish Wars of Independence.

They’ve got some new banners for the stall, too. One is research from Ember-Climate Org about how energy flow across the UK are expected to develop in the next 6 years. In a nutshell, Scotland will be providing 40% of UK’s energy supply… all produced from nice clean wind and solar sources.

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Last week, the Glasgow Stall gang supported the Cost of Living Crisis demo outside Tesco in St Enoch Square. The demo called on the UK Government to use its reserved powers to tackle inflation by putting a cap on big business profits instead of focussing  everything on restraining wages. This year TESCO is expecting a profit of £2.3 billion.

Here they are.

I bet King Robert was impressed with their determination. And by the way, that wreath was in honour of Winnie Ewing.

Hit the Road, Jack!

Last week Greater Glasgow Pensioners for Indy staged a demonstration in Atlantic Square outside the UKGov Glasgow Hub. This is a substantial office building housing several thousand employees and known – in Indy circles – as Governor General Alister Jack’s Glasgow HQ. He has another HQ over in Edinburgh.

Mary McCabe and the Glasgow P4Indy Stall Team, who organised the demo, were pleased with the turnout. People came up from Dumfries & Galloway, over from Edinburgh, Fife and Hamilton. We got toots from passing traffic. The Polis even showed up and chatted to us!

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The Scottish Independence Podcast team and took some photos:

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Why Have the Demo?

Before the actual demo, the Scottish Independence Podcast team helped us record a chat with Mary McCabe about how the demo came about and why they were doing it. We were amused to discover that the video was banned by TikTok. Maybe TikTok decided we were encouraging a pensioners’ insurrection YouTube must be used to insurrections as they were happy to host us. Here it is:

In Arbroath for the Independence Rally…

Highlights from a visit to Arbroath for the AUOB March

Marlene, member of our P4Indy National Group, writes:

I was up in Arbroath at the weekend for the AUOB March. I went up on the Friday with a friend, Fiona McGregor also a member of Pensioners for Indy. We had all day Saturday to wander around, visit the Abbey, find the statue of King Robert and Bishop Bernard, Chancellor of Scotland and Bishop of Arbroath, take photos and chat to strangers!

Here’s a video blog that we made:

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And here are a couple of the speeches: Mike Russell, former MSP and now President of SNP, and Dave Dougan, MP for Arbroath.

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