Passion, patience and respect
Nicola Sturgeon sets out the next steps for Independence There is no denying the unhappiness at the First Minister’s speech this morning by those who had built up their hopes and anticipated a date...
Monthly Archive: January 2020
Equality Nation’s petition to EU accepted for consideration
Equality Nation has just been informed that its petition to the EU Parliament on Scotland’s future has been formally accepted by Head of Unit, Libor Bohäč, on behalf of the Secretary-General of the European...
Leaving lights on
Today in Holyrood, there was a debate on whether Scotland should hold another independence referendum this year. The motion was: Speaking in the debate First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: “I’m asking Parliament to endorse...
Promises, promises, promises!
Whilst Tory Central Office has sent out the diktat to keep repeating No to a second indyref, the Labour leadership contest has shown candidates expressing No in a variety of different ways. And if...
Social and equality impacts of Brexit
Brexiters insist everything is rosy and will become even better after Friday 31st January, their independence day, when the UK leaves the EU. But the reality is otherwise. The pound, according to the Guardian’s...
Believe in Scotland launches Scotland the Brief
Feeling a bit down now that the EU Withdrawal Bill is now an act of the Westminster Parliament, having been signed into law by the queen? Feeling angry and depressed at leaving the EU...
The grim cost of Brexit to date
The scale of UK payments to the EU was a major part of the Leave campaign’s argument for Brexit. Remember the message on the red bus that £350m per week could be saved for...
Petition against the eradication of Scotland – 2
Alongside the petition to the European Parliament submitted by Equality Nation on 16th January 2020 was an open letter to the EU Parliament and EU Commission in support of our formal petition to the...
Petition against the eradication of Scotland – 1
This is the wording of the petition submitted on 16th January 2020 by Equality Nation to the European Parliament on Scotland being dragged out of the EU despite 62% of Scotland’s people voting, in...
Macho versus mucho
Two Tory men, two Labour women. What do they have in common? Rather a lot it seems, especially when it comes to nationalism and nationalists of the Scottish, but not English, variety. English nationalism...
