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SNP Helensburgh Branch NEWSLETTER | Issue 9 1 SNP Helensburgh Branch STRONGER FOR SCOTLAND JULY 2018 Depute leader tasked with ‘building case’ for independence Keith Brown MSP and Depute Leader will be holding three National Assemblies to talk through the opportunities for independence. National Assembly is the forum for the development of policy within the SNP. Policy is debated and discussed before being presented to the Party for approval at National Council or National Conference. Here we will discuss the report of the Sustainable Growth Commission and the platform on which we will renew the case for independence. Any member of the Party is entitled to attend National Assembly. They will be at: Ayr on Sat 25/08/18, Aviemore on Sat 01/09/18 and Edinburgh on Sat 09/09/18. NEWSLETTER | Issue 9 2 SNP DUMBARTON UPCOMING EVENTS PAGE INDEX Sat 28/07/18: Scottish Pipeband Civic Centre, Helensburgh Championships Page 2 – “Upcoming Events” Thu 12/07/18, 7:00pm to If you would like to donate a Page 3/4 – “Theresa May must 7:30pm (Branch Meeting) face down those who would take tombola prize, you can drop off us over cliff”, Nicola Sturgeon at JJR Print, Poplar Rd Thu 12/07/18, 7:30pm to MSP and First Minister Dumbarton or contact Iain 9:00pm (BfS Presentation) Page 5 – “The Brexit plan the UK Robertson at: Cabinet should be discussing”, Commodore Hotel Coffee Liam Furby iain- Morning with Brendan O’Hara [email protected] Page 6/7 – “Depute leader MP tasked with ‘building case’ for ALL UNDER ONE BANNER independence”, Liam Furby Sat 18/08/18, 10:00am to 2:00pm Page 8 – “The murky world of Marches for Independence Tories' dark money donations finally exposed”, Mhairi Black MP Sat 28/07/18 – Inverness Page 9/10 – “Scotland’s new SNP VALE OF LEVEN Sat 25/08/18 – Dundee ministerial team: what you need to know”, Liam Furby Sat 14/07/18: Balloch Highland Sat 06/10/18 – Edinburgh Page 11 – “Fact check: the Games Labour record on publicly-run Dumbarton CA will be organising public services”, Liam Furby If you would like to donate buses if you would like to book a Page 12 – “Indyposterboy” prizes to the tombola, contact seat contact Marion Plunkett Sarah Dickson at: (Dumbarton Organiser) at: Page 13 – “Useful Links” [email protected] [email protected] NEWSLETTER | Issue 9 3 Theresa May must face down those who would take us over cliff edge By Nicola Sturgeon First Minister, 05/07/18 Tomorrow, at a country house in Buckinghamshire, the latest episode of the farce that passes as policymaking in the Tory party will be played out. Theresa May is taking her cabinet to her rural retreat at Chequers to try and come up with a plan that avoids dragging the UK off the cliff edge of the most extreme Brexit possible. reality of what lies in store in level warnings that they may not the event of the no-deal be able to procure the Chequers dates back to the 16th scenario that some of them medicines needed to treat some century, so in some ways it is a appear to crave. of its sickest citizens. fitting venue, given that some in the Tory party appear bent on The Tory squabbling over how If there is a more damning dragging us as far back in time to deliver a Brexit deal would be indictment of any government as possible. amusing were the consequences policy in recent memory I not so potentially disastrous for cannot think of one. And of course, waiting in the all of us. wings, are the hard-line If the Scottish Government were Brexiteer plotters, led by Jacob Amid all the warnings of what to pursue such a course of Rees-Mogg, sometimes dubbed lies in store, it is easy to lose action we would, rightly, be “the honourable member for sight of just how serious those pilloried for it. But, such is the the 18th century”. consequences now threaten to litany of chaos, confusion and be. contradiction spawned by the Rees-Mogg and his fellow Tories’ Brexit shambles, that it At the weekend, we heard travellers specialise in a misty- passes as just another day, with warnings that the NHS in eyed, fantastical notion of just another warning. Britain, summed up in the England were actively drawing immediate post-referendum up plans for a worst case Then yesterday we saw the period as a desire to create scenario of a no-deal Brexit report from the independent what was dubbed “Empire 2.0”. which threatened the IPPR think tank that the cost of availability of vital medicines in everyday goods for households But the days of empire are long the UK. is set to surge as a result of gone, and the whimsical, post- Brexit. imperial delusions of the hard Just think about that for a Brexiteers do not survive the moment. The UK government is And Scotland is set to be among first contact with the hard actively pursuing a course of the hardest hit parts of the action which has now led to high NEWSLETTER | Issue 9 4 whole UK when it comes to Instead, they have allowed the Read more: those price hikes. interests of ordinary people the length and breadth of the UK to Two years on from the Brexit The IPPR predicts that an referendum: here’s what we be subjugated to the internal extreme Brexit, outside the know plotting, scheming and European single market and Scotland’s Brexit plan: bloodletting within the Tory protecting jobs and living customs union and instead party itself. standards relying on World Trade What is the SNP’s plan for Organisation (WTO) rules – That is an unforgiveable Brexit? which is what some of the Tory abdication of responsibility for hard-liners want – would see which they deserve to pay a food prices rise by an average of very, very heavy political price. 5.3 per cent UK-wide, with Theresa May appears boxed in transport costs soaring by 7.7 by the Brexiteers and the DUP per cent. when it comes to finding the At a time when family budgets kind of solution which would are already squeezed, and with solve the Irish border issue Tory austerity continuing to bite, which lies at the heart of the those price rises could be deliberations. enough to push some However, with more and more households to the brink. senior business figures starting I hope that common sense to break cover and make clear prevails and that what emerges that they will be taking jobs and from tomorrow’s Chequers investment out of the UK in the summit is something which event of a no-deal scenario, the resembles a workable plan for time is fast approaching for the the least damaging Brexit Prime Minister to face down possible. those who would take us over the cliff edge. That would mean, at a minimum, staying in the But, given everything that has Customs Union and in the Single happened to date, no one Market, which is around eight should be expecting white times bigger than the UK market smoke from the Chequers alone. That is overwhelmingly in chimneys. the interests of Scotland and of And if there is, it’s likely to be the UK as a whole. the Brexiteers shredding and But nothing the Tories have burning any proposed deal. done in the last two years suggests that rationality, common sense or the best This article originally appeared interests of the country as a in the Daily Record. whole will prevail. NEWSLETTER | Issue 9 5 The Brexit plan the UK Cabinet should be discussing By Liam Furby, 06/07/18 £8.7 billion higher than leaving the that protects our public EU with no deal. services and economy. Scotland didn’t vote for Brexit, we all know that. But if the UK is to Read more about why staying 3. A deal that keeps Scotland safe leave the European Union, we want in the Single Market is best the best possible deal for Scotland. here. The EU’s Chief Negotiator, Michel Barnier, has warned that the UK’s With the UK government still 2. A deal that ensures Scotland can current negotiating position could engulfed in infighting, we have no attract people to work here and leave the UK out of the European idea what sort of deal they want. It support public services Arrest Warrant system. That would looks increasingly likely that they’ll make it harder to catch criminals get a bad deal, or no deal at all. Over the next 25 years the number who have fled to other EU of people aged over 75 in Scotland countries – or send them back to In contrast, the Scottish will increase by 80 per cent. That’s face justice. Government has set out in detail a a good thing, but it also means plan that could protect Scotland there will be more demand on our We are clear: there must be no from the worst impacts of Brexit. NHS, with less people in work to reduction in our ability to support public services through cooperate with other European Here are just three of our priorities taxes. countries and agencies to tackle for the Brexit talks. crime. Over the last few years the working 1. A ‘Norway-style’ deal that age population of Scotland has Read more: protects jobs and living standards gone up – meaning more people paying taxes – partly thanks to the Two years on from the Brexit A ‘Norway-style’ deal – where we contribution of workers from the referendum: here’s what we know stay in the Single Market – is the rest of Europe.
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