How is Scotland in debt if it can't borrow? Open Minds on Independence #3:

The accounts don’t suggest Scotland is in debt at all. People just don't understand how to analyse the UK Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland report (GERS).

Type of Resource
News Media
Date Published
Primary Author or Creator
The National
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Believe in Scotland

Bella Caledonia

"We’re not aligned to any one political party but believe in self-determination for Scotland. Only then will a country disfigured by poverty and inequality be re-born. Only independence can bring democracy. The British State is irredeemable and is structurally corrupt, broken and riven with hierarchy."

Type of Resource
News Media
Primary Author or Creator
Mike Small

Watershed: the Turning Point for North Sea Oil and the Just Transition

No new oil and gas fields can be approved for development.  Given the right policies, a just transition can generate more than three jobs in clean industries for every North Sea oil job at risk

Type of Resource
Assessment report
Primary Author or Creator
Rachel Tansey
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Friends of the Earth, Oil Change International

Business for Scotland

"We make the case for maximum devolution of power and responsibility possible at any time, particularly in areas such as the economic levers and business policies. In turn, this will allow a Scottish Government to boost economic growth."

Type of Resource
Web site
Primary Author or Creator
Richard Walker

Believe in Scotland

"We target undecided and soft No voters with positive independence messages"

Type of Resource
Web site
Primary Author or Creator
Richard Walker

Scottish Currency Group

People working towards the introduction of a Scottish Currency 'as soon as practicable' after Independence Day.   A Facebook group.

Type of Resource
Facebook group
Primary Author or Creator
Tim Rideout

SCOTTISH RESERVE BANK

The Scottish Reserve Bank website attempts to clear up many of the deliberate myths surrounding the establishment of a new Scottish currency 

Type of Resource
Blog
Primary Author or Creator
Tim Rideout

Tax Research UK

This blog is written by Richard Murphy as a narrative commentary on tax, economics, and related political issues.

Type of Resource
Blog
Primary Author or Creator
Richard Murphy

Contercast

Conter is a site of Scottish anti-capitalist thought.  It aims to develop a radical, anti-capitalist class politics in Scotland fit to intervene into the crisis of the British state, the global order and Scottish society.

 

Type of Resource
Podcast
Primary Author or Creator
David Jamieson
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Conter