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Please try and get to the event and bring family and friends. If you can't make it watch our livestream or catchup later.

Confirmed speakers include:
https://www.believeinscotland.org/march_and_rally_for_independence

John Swinney MSP, First Minister of Scotland and SNP leader
Brian Cox, actor and independence supporter
Gillian Mackay MSP and Ross Greer MSP, Co-leaders of the Scottish Green Party
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast, journalist and independence campaigner
Aamer Anwar, Human Rights Lawyer
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp, founder of Believe in Scotland
Kevin Gore Music, Singer-songwriter
Taylor Dyson, Scots Scriever
Aonghas Mac a’ Ghobhainn agus caraidean

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MP Tessa Munt has tabled a debate on ME/CFS in Westminster Hall on 19 November 2025 from 4:30pm until 5:30pm

Please write to your MP and ask them to attend the debate next week!

https://whatson.parliament.uk/event/cal53589

You can find your local MP using this link: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP

N.B. There For ME have a template letter if you wish to use it: https://www.thereforme.uk/p/westminster-hall-debate-on-me-wednesday

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party. If she joins Reform there's a good chance the locals will be up in arms demanding her resignation & a by-election.

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

SNP members will vote this weekend on a proposal to create a “provisional government” to prepare for independence if there’s a pro-Yes majority at the 2026 Holyrood election.

What’s being proposed?

SNP member Graeme McCormick has lodged an amendment to John Swinney’s official independence strategy. His plan has two main parts:

A Provisional Government

Made up of all pro-independence MSPs elected in 2026.

Could expand by up to 100 additional members, divided proportionally across Yes parties by vote share.

Would exist in parallel with the Scottish Parliament but have no legal powers.

Would automatically dissolve on May 1st, 2027 — the proposed “Independence Day.”

Its purpose is to give democratic cover and visibility to preparations for independence, acting like a symbolic national government-in-waiting.

An “Independence Delivery Unit”

A group of 12–15 experts appointed by Swinney (in consultation with other Yes parties).

They’d prepare practical plans on reserved issues like pensions, currency, banking and other immediate post-independence priorities.

They’d draft a proposal before the 2026 election, then implement preparations if a pro-indy popular vote is won.

Strategy behind it

If Yes parties win a majority of the popular vote in the 2026 election, this provisional structure would begin actively preparing to “deliver independence in a practical sense.”

If Westminster refuses to cooperate, the plan is to declare independence anyway by May 1, 2027.

The UK Government couldn’t stop the work, McCormick argues, because the structures would sit outside Holyrood and the Scottish Government.

Historical echo

The proposal is compared to the Revolutionary Dáil of 1919, when Sinn Féin MPs set up an alternative assembly rather than take their Westminster seats.

SNP leadership’s current stance

John Swinney prefers a different mandate test: he wants a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament to trigger talks on a referendum — not the creation of a provisional government.

NEW: Believe in Scotland have announced the date of a national march and rally in the first half of next year

How does everyone feel about Chris Murray MP voting to cut the benefits of the disabled & most vulnerable in people the community?

Not exactly looking out for the interests of his constituents.

Scottish Labour overwhelmingly backed the UK Government’s plans to cut a disability benefit

The National compiled a list of how their MPs plan to vote on the bill at third reading

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How Scottish Labour MPs voted on disability cuts bill SCOTTISH Labour overwhelmingly backed the UK Government’s plans to cut a disability benefit.

NEW: Scottish Labour are reportedly consulting with Tony Blair’s think tank, which has previously called for more private involvement in the NHS ...

NEW: The Labour Government has been accused of 'actively participating in genocide' after the UK admitted it is currently hosting and training soldiers from the IDF

🗣️ 'This is not self-defence - it is the destruction of a people through murder'

Grangemouth refinery provided around 70% of Scotland’s refined oil requirements.

Now we need to rely on England or further afield which is joke considering how much oil lies in Scottish waters.

This is a deliberate sabotage by Westminster/London and we are just standing by and doing f**k all while it happens...

Grangemouth refinery provided around 70% of Scotland’s refined oil requirements.

Now we need to rely on England or further afield which is joke considering how much oil lies in Scottish waters.

They have 5 refineries and very little oil.

This is a deliberate sabotage by Westminster/London and we are just standing by and doing f**k all while it happens...

Scotland continues to be held back by a supposed Union. They know our potential, it’s huge. Let’s get on with showing them the endless possibilities independence can bring.

BREAKING: Labour are accused of "blocking" a vote on giving Scotland immigration powers.

Labour MPs ran down the clock to stop the debate going to a vote on Friday afternoon.

Double digit lead for yes

Here's your first look at Tuesday's front page 📰

Double-digit lead for Yes in exclusive new poll 👀