Episode 85 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell discuss the first 100 days of the Scottish Parliament and the priorities that the Government has laid out to shape the upcoming Parliamentary session. They also talk about the formal negotiations between the SNP and the Greens to explore the possibility of a formal cooperation agreement between the two parties. Finally, they discuss the prospect of another independence referendum within this Parliament given the pro-independence majority in the Chamber.

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Episode 84 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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Update - 21/05/21 - Angus Robertson has had Migration and related topics added to his brief as Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs.

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Campaigner, Activist and Creative Director for EU Citizens for an Independent Scotland, Ellen Dalzell. Ellen and Craig talk about their experiences of the Kenmure Street protest against Home Office evictions and then discuss the apparent weakening focus of the Scottish Government on migration matters culminating in their dropping of Migration from the titles of the new Cabinet Secretaries or any of their Junior Ministers. Ellen also talks about her campaign for policies to help safeguard and secure migrants in Scotland and the progress of that campaign since she last discussed it on Episode #27 of the Policy Podcast.

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Episode 83 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by Common Weal's Communications Officer Becki Menzies to discuss the Holyrood election results, the successes for the Parliament in terms of turnout and increased diversity and some of the major policies that the Parliament should and could implement as a priority since there is apparently a cross-party consensus on them.

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Episode 82 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell look at some of the party manifestos ahead of the Scottish Elections. In particular they note that many policies that Common Weal have been campaigning for years have been adopted by multiple political parties and now look more like "when, not if" Scotland will implement them. Examples include Universal Basic Income, the Circular Economy and Housing in the Green New Deal.

They also discuss Common Weal's recent paper Better Than This which lays out the eight policies that we think we should be talking about this election.

Craig has a collection of many of the political manifestos on his personal blog here.

Apologies for the background noise in this episode due to construction.

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Episode 81 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to John Young from the Dovesdale Action Group which is campaigning locally against the construction of a waste incinerator in South Lanarkshire and is campaigning nationally for a moratorium on all new incinerators in Scotland.

You can join the Dovesdale Action Group's Facebook page here.

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Episode 80 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to Donald McPhillimy and Callum Blackburn about their recent policy paper for Common Weal, A Mosaic of Life. The paper was part of our recent Land Reform Week and provides a vision of what a "Half-Wild Scotland" would look like if our proposals for Land Reform were fully implemented.

If you're interested in conversations about land reform and rewilding, you can take part in them by joining the Rewilding Scotland Facebook group here.

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Episode 78 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell is joined by two special guests from Scotland's Climate Assembly. Iain Stewart was the Lead Communicator on the Assembly and Ellie Clarke was one of the 100 people chosen to represent Scotland on the Assembly as they discussed the issues raised by the climate emergency and what Scotland could do about them. They each talk about their experiences and perspectives gained from being members of the Assembly and Craig touches on his experience as one of the people invited to provide evidence to it.

They then look at how the Citizens' Assembly model could be used in the future to look at other big topics of discussion.

You can read the Climate Assembly's Interim Report, published today, here. The full report will be published in May.

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Episode 78 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell discuss Common Weal's Land Reform Week. In particular, they look at our latest policy papers Work The Land - which illustrates the economic impact of creating tens of thousands of new jobs in Scotland's rural communities - and Our Land - which shows how the Scottish Government could enact radical land reform now to make that all happen.

Common Weal's previous work on land reform includes our Common Home Plan and Back to Life, a vision for reforming Scotland's grouse moors.

Craig also mentions this news story which reports on the £5 billion of "investment" capital looking to try to capture Scotland's land for its own ends. 

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Episode 77 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Craig Dalzell talks to special guest Colin Turbett. Colin is a retired social worker who now writes on reform of the sector. He is a member of Common Weal's Care Reform Working Group and is currently working with the group on a blueprint for a National Care Service.

Colin's upcoming paper for the group looks at reform of the social work sector, arguing that the sector has been greatly eroded over the past several decades and now focuses too much on post-interventionist care of people who have already been failed by society rather than being a preventative force in Scotland's social security network.

Colin's paper will be published in the near future.

Nick Kempe's paper on Covid and care homes, mentioned in the podcast, can be read here.

The Care Reform Group's submission to the Feeley Review can be read here and their Manifestof for a National Care Service can be found here.

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Episode 76 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

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This week, Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell introduce Common Weal's latest Policy Paper - A Property Tax for Scotland. Our proposal to replace the outdated and unfair Council Tax with a tax based on the actual value of land and buildings.

This tax would scrap the banding system and the bizarre method of calculating which house goes into which band and replace it with a tax that is simply calculated based on a percentage of the market value of the property with a rate of 0.63% being calculated as one that raises the same revenue as the current Council Tax does.

They also discuss how this paper would link into Common Weal's broader work on improving housing such as our plans for Rent Controls, Social Housing Building, Land Value Capture and more.

Craig also pays tribute to Bill Austin who passed away last week. Bill co-wrote Common Weal's paper on customs and borders in an independent Scotland and was a guest on the podcast in 2020.

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