Our next meetings are all in Lochthorn Library on 16 November, 14 December and 18 January.  All are welcome.  If you've not been before please get in touch through the website www.dgp4indy.scot.

"This policy of oil extraction flies in the face of the UK’s commitments to address the Climate Emergency and fatally undermines the work the Scottish Government has been doing to move away from fossil fuels and the massive potential. Scotland has in developing its Renewable Energy sector. Last week the Scottish and Welsh Governments wrote to the UK Government for an urgent summit chaired by the independent Climate Change Committee."
https://theorkneynews.scot

The Dgp4indy AGM will be on Thursday 19 October at 2.00pm at the Aberdour Hotel, 16-20 Newall Terrace, Dumfries DG1 1LW.

All members are welcome.  If you aren't yet a member then I'm sorry, but this one isn't for you, although joining is free and you can easily join through our website here http://dgp4indy.scot/index.php/join-us or by scanning the QR code on the poster.

Our dedicated team of indy activists were speaking to people in Dumfries town centre on 26 August about how they felt about climate change.  They were asking folk to put a dot on the board to indicate whether they thought our climate is safer in the hands of the Westminster government or whether it would be safer in an indy Scotland.  As you can see the answer was overwhelmingly against Westminster.

It's time Scotland!

Come to our next meeting and help to plan future indy events round Dumfries.  Meetings in other places are also possible if there is enough interest.  But the next one we're holding will be on 21 September 2023 from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm in the Aberdour Hotel, 16-20 Newall Terrace, Dumfries DG1 1LW.  All are very welcome.  Refreshments will be available.

Gerry Hassan and Alec Ross in conversation at the Gatehouse of Fleet Big Lit Festival 2023.
https://theorkneynews.scot

"So, as a matter of fact a government like that of the UK that has its own currency and central bank has to run a deficit. It's the only way it can keep the money supply going. Which is why almost all governments do run deficits in the modern era."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk

What is money? How banks create money. Why banks need money. How governments create money. Money and quantitative easing.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk

"Scotland must leave the UK to have a chance at a thriving economy. As long as we remain, we’re captive to the Bank of England and UK economic policy that has landed us in this hole. We can’t set our own economic policy, interest rates, control our resources, nor keep all the tax generated in Scotland which currently goes to London."
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

"whichever type of government we look at, “taxpayers’ money” does not fund it. Tax undoubtedly plays a role in government financing, but as a matter of fact the government never spends other people’s money, which would be pretty unethical if our politicians even thought for a moment about what they were saying. Instead, government always spends its own money and is responsible for its own decisions on that spending. It really is time that at this most basic of levels politicians learned what it is they do, how the government that they control works, and how as a result they should manage it. Every time they use the term “taxpayers’ money” they show that they know none of those things."
https://www.thenational.scot

"Scotland never voted for the Conservative government that chose to privatise the National Grid. The companies that were formed have made billions for their shareholders out of Scottish businesses and families. While the companies that own Scotland’s infrastructure are traded on the international market, the “weak” grid is failing the country. Only with independence can Scotland change this situation and invest in this vital infrastructure that holds the key to moving away from carbon to Scotland’s cheap and plentiful renewable energy."
https://www.businessforscotland.com