Scottish Independence Podcasts

Bonus Tuesday episode!

Our guest on the Mibbes Aye show this week is Dr Kirsty Hughes, writer, political commentator and former Director of the Scottish Centre for European Relations.  We put some key questions about EO/EFTA membership to Kirsty, including: 

• what is the process for applying to join?

and many more.  

There are shareable versions of each of the main questions on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel - please feel free to share them around anyone you think would be interested!

Nicola Sturgeon's keynote speech from SNP's October 22 conference delights her audience and sets the scene for the campaign for independence.

As we await the outcome of the Supreme Court hearing on 11th/12th October, Falkirk Friends of Yes arranged a public panel discussion and audience Q+A to discuss campaigning ideas.

The panel members are:

Lesley Riddoch, Broadcaster and author

Grant Thoms, lobbyist, academic and SNP activist

Neil MacLeod, Christians for Independence

Gillian McKay , MSP  Scottish Greens

There was a slight issue with the sound right at the beginning of the event but we pick up the discussion just a little way into the opening speech from the first speaker.

Music is 

Motivational Upbeat Corporate by RinkevichMusic https://soundcloud.com/rinkevichmusic Video Link: https://youtu.be/U78mgVaM12M

Welcome to our round up of the momentous events of Sept 22, which include a new Prime Minister and cabinet, a crashed UK economy plus all our old favourites - the cost of living crisis (now with extra mortgage inflation), the energy crisis and the ongoing damage of Brexit.

Hold onto your hats, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Our bonus Tuesday extra podcast episode follows on from last Friday's land Justice discussion.  In this bonus episode we chat with Random Scottish History's Jenny Eeles about the historical context for the current woeful position where fewer than 500 individuals own more than half of all the private land in Scotland.  

You can also watch the video version of this discussion on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel

Music is Inspired by Kevin MacLeod

It is a sad fact that fewer than 500 people own 57% of the private land in Scotland.

The Scottish Government are consulting on a proposed Land Reform Bill.  This is open until 25th September, so we take a look at the proposals up for consultation. 

With the help of two case studies - Flamingo Land's revised bid to take over Balloch and the Loch Lomond waterfront and the possibility of an islanders hostile buy out from the absentee landlord on Great Bernera - we look at some of the issues that this consultation brings to light - and many that it doesn't even begin to cover.

We have contributions from Lesley Riddoch and Robin McAlpine via Commonweal's expert panel discussion plus excerpts from members debates in Holyrood.

Find the Scotgov consultation here: https://consult.gov.scot/agriculture-and-rural-economy/land-reform-net-zero-scotland/

find commonweal's website here: https://commonweal.scot/

Contains information licensed under the Scottish Parliament copyright licence.

Music is "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod 

The Scottish Sovereignty Research Group held a conference in Dunfermline in Aug 22.  This podcast comes from the session on the Scottish Economy and features Dr Tim Rideout and Professor Richard Murphy explaining why it is essential to have a Scottish currency and taking questions from the audience.

You can see more from the conference on the SSRG TV Youtube channel 

music: Kevin Macleod

We all have to eat!  This week's podcast comes from a Yes Stonehaven event with Alec Ross who runs a farming supply business from Stranraer and is also a columnist on the Orkney News.  Alec shares his experiences of Brexit, his thoughts on independence conversations with the farming community and also answers questions from the audience.

We are grateful to Yes Stonehaven for sharing their event with us.  If you are in a Yes group and would like our help to bring your event to a wider audience, please get in touch with us = email [email protected] or message us on twitter @scottishindypod 

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Campaigning is the bread and butter of the Yes Movement. In this episode of our Indy Jigsaw series, we look at different aspects of campaigning including planning, strategy, tactics, grass roots activity, campaign tools and lobbying.

Our guests are former MSP and Scottish Socialist Frances Curran,  part time lecturer and lobbyist Grant Thom and Commonweal's Leo Plumb.  We even take a peek into the abyss at some of the tactics used by Better Together in 2014.

There is an extended version of our interview with Frances Curran on our Indylive Extra Youtube channel and you can also see the Commonweal Campaign Centre walkthrough there too. 

You can find the Campaign Centre website here: https://common-weal-campaign-centre.mn.co/share/k6L-iclUxpK6fyR1?utm_source=manual

To chat to the Indy Jigsaw team, pop into our discord server here: https://t.co/JMbOCXnf7u

Despite Holyrood and Westminster being in recess, there were plenty of topical titbits going on in August, including:

• Drought, sewage and water privatisation in England 

• Energy  price crisis and Power to the People protest

• Anti Tory sentiment and state media bias at the Perth leadership hustings*

• Growing support for Scottish democratic right to a referendum plus speech from the Inverness march

*link to the Byline Times Scotland report here: https://bylines.scot/news/scotland/thousands-turn-out-to-barrack-tory-hopefuls-at-perth-hustings/

also check out our Independence Live and Indylive Extra Youtube channels 

If you would like to chat with any of the Indylive podcast team, join our chat at https://discord.gg/b9Ka3UbcEG

Thanks for listening!