Last week Greater Glasgow Pensioners for Indy staged a demonstration in Atlantic Square outside the UKGov Glasgow Hub. This is a substantial office building housing several thousand employees and known – in Indy circles – as Governor General Alister Jack’s Glasgow HQ. He has another HQ over in Edinburgh. Mary McCabe and the Glasgow P4Indy […]The post Hit the Road, Jack! appeared first...

Our Greater Glasgow group are out on our stalls twice a week in the city centre in Argyl St, and every fortnight out in Milngavie. But later this month they have a different sort o action planned: a demonstration outside the UK Government Glasgow Hub in Atlantic Square, Glasgow, G2 8JQ. The Scottish Independence Podcast […]The post Glasgow Pensioners take on the UK Governor General!...

The UK Supreme Court has announced that it will give its ruling on whether the Scottish Government has the power to run an independence referendum without Westminster’s agreement. You will be able to listen to the ruling on Supreme Court TV. It will begin at 9.30am Wednesday, 23 November. If the ruling is yes, then […]The post UK Supreme Court Ruling – 9.30am, 23 Nov appeared...

You’ve probably heard the slogan ‘Global Britain’. It emerged as a sort of call to action post-Brexit. It’s mostly heard down in Westminster and mostly emanates from Tory Party politicians, activists and apologists. Though you’d probably find some UKIP and Brexit Party members mouthing it as well. If there are any of those still paying […]The post The Case...

Might lobbying techniques be useful for Indy campaigners? And now that ScotGov has fired the starting pistol for the indy campaign, maybe a lobbyist sympathetic to Scottish independence could give us a few clues as to what might be worth considering? So in July, our Greater Glasgow group asked Grant Thoms if he’d talk to […]The post Lobbying for Indy? appeared first on Pensioners for...

Might lobbying techniques be useful for Indy campaigners? And now that ScotGov has fired the starting pistol for the indy campaign, maybe a lobbyist sympathetic to Scottish independence could give us a few clues as to what might be worth considering? So in July, our Greater Glasgow group asked Grant Thoms if he’d talk to […]The post Lobbying for Indy? appeared first on Pensioners for...

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Craig Dalzell and Bill Johnson talk to Glasgow Pensioners for Independence on the topic of Scotland’s ageing population. Topics include ageing well, pensioner poverty and pensions, older people as a national resource to be valued and much more. Bill and Craig share ideas from their book All of Our Futures which is available from the […]The post Scotland’s Ageing Population...

Possible answers to the question of who owns our ports might be the Scottish Government, the London Government, the Local Authority …. the Queen All reasonable guesses. Well maybe not the Queen! But all wrong. Our Ports are mostly owned by hedge funds and run for their benefit and profit. How did this sorry state […]The post Scotland’s Ports – Who Owns Them? appeared first...

Highlights from a visit to Arbroath for the AUOB March Marlene, member of our P4Indy National Group, writes: I was up in Arbroath at the weekend for the AUOB March. A friend and I went up on the Friday so we had all day Saturday to wander around, visit the Abbey, find the statue of […]The post In Arbroath for the Independence Rally… appeared first on Pensioners for Independence.

We March Again Under the One Banner Mary McCabe writes: All Under One Banner are on the go again. On March 5th 2,500 (or 3000 or 3,500 depending on who’s counting) pro-indy activists gathered once more; this time in Ferguslie Park Paisley. Nothing like the 100,000 who used to sweep through Glasgow and Edinburgh. Not in […]The post Back to the Streets…Paisley March appeared...

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Alf Baird was, prior to his retirement in 2016, Professor of Maritime Business and Director of the Maritime Research Group at Edinburgh Napier University.

He's written that

"Scotland's maritime transport infrastructure currently sits moribund, mostly useless, certainly visionless, squeezed between our own crumbling colonial-like legacies and Tory sponsored regulatory capture. Look at what remains of our long-since derelict and obsolete major city-ports on the Firths of Forth, Clyde and Tay, where most of the port infrastructure was built when Queen Victoria reigned."

And if you think that's outspoken wait till he gets going!

This week’s First Ministers Questions had a couple of highly enjoyable moments. Oh not that the rest was dull, you understand, it wasn’t. Just really enjoyed these… All about pensions! Murdo Fraser isn’t the brightest MSP but, hey, he’s ours and we’d miss him lobbing easy ones like this over to the FM Why did […]The post Snippets from FMQs this week appeared first on Pensioners for...

This week’s First Ministers Questions had a couple of highly enjoyable moments. Oh not that the rest was dull, you understand, it wasn’t. Just really enjoyed these… All about pensions! Murdo Fraser isn’t the brightest MSP but, hey, he’s ours and we’d miss him lobbing easy ones like this over to the FM Why did […]The post Snippets from FMQs this week...

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ll know that Mary McCabe of Glasgow P4Indy group is one of our most active members and no mean writer herself. Here’s a taste of what she’s been up to: From Mary McCabe: Last night I was the guest speaker at the Carse of Gowrie SNP Branch […]The post Update from Mary McCabe…. appeared first on Pensioners for...

Allan Armstrong is a founding member of RIC, the Radical Independence Campaign. RIC were very active in the 2014 campaign. Membership fell away after that as people became involved in other issues. But the core group remained and is now attracting more members, old and new. Allan joined our Greater Glasgow Group online meeting to […]The post Another Scotland Is Possible appeared first on...

Despite the rain the Greater Glasgow Group of Pensioners for Indy managed to make our presence felt at yesterday’s gi-normous COP 26 demonstration.  Mary McCabe writes: All the pro-indy groups, led by All Under One Banner, were allocated a gathering point up the hill in Kelvingrove Park out of sight of the main march in […]The post COP26 March: A Day for the History Books...

From Marlene Halliday, of our Glasgow Group: Is the climate emergency more important than Scotland becoming independence? Yes. The planet is in no danger but we are. Humanity needs to support the planet, or we’ll find that our planet is no longer supporting us. The climate emergency has always been one of my main reasons […]The post Focussing on Climate Emergency appeared first on...

It was stormy in Argyle Street this week, but was that going to stop Glasgow Pensioners4Indy? Nah! Need an anchor? Use a street bench! And hang on to the poles.. Here’s a report from the campaigning frontline by Mary McCabe: Six of us turned up for today’s Tuesday stall  in drizzly rain and a force […]The post A Stormy Glasgow Day appeared first on Pensioners for...