⚡️ #Scotland is awash with natural resources. We produce five times the oil and gas we require and yet every price rise makes us poorer. We can already keep the lights on using renewable electricity alone.
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💷 The price of wind or water has not gone up but #Westminster prices Scottish electricity on the international price of gas.
⚠️ Our problem is that our resources are controlled by international capital - London pockets the revenues and Scots pay the bills.
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👆 That is why we have huge levels of fuel poverty in our land of energy plenty.
🏴 ALBA STANDS FOR SCOTLAND AND SAYS NO TO THE GREAT ENERGY RIP OFF
🏴 #ScottishIndependence is an overwhelming and immediate priority for the people.
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The failure of the Scottish Government to implement successive electoral mandates from the people to progress this aim has been deeply damaging to both the Indy cause and the welfare of the people of #Scotland.
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We believe that the Scottish Government should commence independence negotiations with Westminster immediately.
If the British Government refuses to engage or accept a referendum process, then...
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Our policy for an Elected Head of State and Written Constitution for #Scotland 👇
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🏴 When sovereignty is secured with an independent Scottish state, a most important post-independent action will be the engagement of the people in framing the fundamental law, the supreme law, in a written constitution, by which Scotland will govern itself.
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🏴 We acknowledge the work already done by a variety of groups on a proposed constitution for an Independent Scotland. We consider that a series of citizens’ assemblies followed by a referendum will be the appropriate mechanism for consultation, participation & approval.
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She on the Board of Business for Scotland and the Scottish Independence Foundation. Up until choosing to stand as a candidate for the @AlbaParty, she was also a non-Executive Director for Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
– Cllr Lynne Anderson, ALBA Candidate for Central Scotland 🏴
With over 20 years of experience as a chartered environmentalist, she has been a Councillor since 2017. Lynne is dedicated to speaking out fearlessly for the people of Scotland.
"The ALBA party recognises that by dint of birth and happenstance, we are not all created nor do we live our lives as equals.
📝 "Scotland’s history involves multiple injustices where chance or privilege have dictated outcomes. Those days should by now be past. This modern world we inhabit can surely arrange to cater for all without loss to any.
📝 "The Scotland ALBA strives to create, envisions a level playing field where we can become truly equal to each other and where everyone’s rights are respected and protected, but, vitally, not at the cost of others.