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Pensioners on the March!

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Pensioners on the March – Are your boots made for walkin’?

Cos it’s only three weeks till the Glasgow March & Rally on Saturday 20th April.

Scottish IndyPodcasters met up with Gordon McIntyre-Kemp of Believe in Scotland and Marlene Halliday, one of our members who will be speaking at the Rally. They told us all about their plans and in particular about the festive atmosphere they want to create for the whole event.

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PS If your boots, feet, knees, or hips are not for joining the March

…. then just come to George Square for the Rally. It’s easy to get there on public transport, the stalls will be there, there’s benches to sit on, and there’s lots of cafes nearby.

Sign up here to get updates on the event: March and Rally for an Independent Scotland And have a look at Believe in Scotland online shop.

Pensioners on the March… we’ll be back with news of the speakers and updates soon….

https://pensionersforindependence.scot/2024/01/18/is-scotland-being-cheated-denmark-definitely-isnt/

Bits & Pieces, Jan 2024

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Bits & Pieces is a monthly roundup of topical clips and snippets from Holyrood, Westminster and around the Indy Movement. It’s compiled by Scottish Independence Podcasts.

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Main themes covered this month are:

  • 00:53  Calling out war crimes
  • 05:47  Covid enquiry
  • :09:35  Scottish budget
  • 15:48   Holyrood snippets
  • 21:15   UK General Election 
  • 34:59   Westminster hot topics
  • 40:23   Horizon scandal
  • 44:57   Lesley Riddoch chats with Jim Byrne
  • 51:02   Indypodcasters out and about
  • 54:02   Time for Scotland by the Singing Councillors

Previous snippets are in the Bits & Pieces Playlist. You can listen more of Jim & Lesley’s West End Chat. And you can watch Lesley talking about her new film, Denmark, here.

Richie Venton, of Scottish Socialist Party, is mentioned in the section about UK General Election. He will feature in a podcast this week which commemorates Red Clydesider John Maclean.

Denmark the State of Happiness. Lesley Riddoch. Scottish Independence Podcasts. Pensioners for Independence

Is Scotland being Cheated? Denmark definitely isn’t.

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Award winning broadcaster Lesley Riddoch joins us to chat about her new film Denmark – the State of Happiness.


The film is currently on tour all around Scotland with a Q+A session with Lesley at each screening. The Scottish Independence Podcast team managed to catch up her in between gigs to find out more about her trip to Denmark, who she spoke to, and what most strikes her about Denmark as a model for an independent Scotland.

Award winning broadcaster Lesley Riddoch joins us to chat about her new film Denmark - the State of Happiness. The film is currently on tour all around Scotland with a Q+A session with Lesley at each screening. We managed to catch up her in between gigs to find out more about her trip to Denmark, who she spoke and what strikes her about Denmark as a model for an independent Scotland.

Here’s the content list:

00:54 Dan Jorgensen – happiness is important
01:46 Introduction
02:41 The Danish Empire & losing it.
06:00 Audience reactions to the film
11:15 The film is not just for Indy supporters
17:39 Danish Education system
18:20 Larissa Albus – taxes are a good thing!
20:56 Jannick Marshall – Efterskole
24:12 Samso Islanders cut their fuel prices
26:40 A cause for optimism?
30:24 National self confidence

32:23 We need issues based conversations in Scotland
33:30 Cultural summer school and other ideas
40:53 The future for indy media

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Want to see the film itself ?

For details of dates, times, venues and to book tickets, go to Lesley Riddoch Events. But be quick, they are selling out fast. If there’s no event near you then maybe contact Lesley and help her set one up?

This is the fifth film in Lesley’s series looking at the Nordic Countries, you can find all her other films on her website at Lesley Riddoch Films. We posted about her Estonian film.

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TalkingUp Scotland – November Picks

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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 in the Highlands, and then return to that long-running favourite of how long people have to wait in A&E

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SNP Independence Strategy Debate

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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 to see how they propose to get us there.

We start with the 2023 SNP conference. The SNP independence strategy debate was a key – and lengthy – item on the agenda. Here a 1min summary of the proceedings. It might help before you listen to the debate.

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Key Points

Here are the key points from the debate with commentary from the IndyPodcasters. There’s a contents list below to help you navigate through the video. We think the speeches by Tommy Sheppard and Joanna Cherry are particularly interesting. But there are a lot of thoughtful contributions all the way through. And if you think we’ll end up engaging in civil disobedience then make sure you listen to David Buckley.

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Content List:

00:01:16    Humza Yousaf proposes the resolution, followed by Stephen Flynn, seconding.

Followed by key speeches in favour or against the various amendments:

00:17:22    Tommy Sheppard – proposing Amendment A

00:23:22    Tony Guiliano – proposing Amendments B and C

00:29:43    Joanna Cherry – proposing Amendment D

00:37:19     David Buckley – Remitting the resolution back, in other words go back and think again.

00:41:27     Graeme McCormick – Direct negative, vote the resolution down.

00:45:43     Chris Hanlon – proposing Amendment F

00:48:22     Mike Russell, speaking against amendments F and G

Followed by speeches summing up the amendments:

00:51:21     Tommy Sheppard summing up Amendment A

00:53:56      Joanna Cherry summing up Amendment D

00:57:03       Pete Wishart summing up Amendment G

00:59:37      Graeme McCormick  summing up the direct negative

And ending with the final summing up in favour of the resolution

01:02:11      Humza Yousaf summing up

The full SNP independence strategy debate can be watched on SNP’s Youtube channel.

You’ll find podcasts featuring other independence-supporting Parties on Scottish Independence podcast playlist of Scottish Party Politics.