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💡 My colleague @JennieGollan put together this great list of some of the ways SNP members have helped to shape party policy. It is the diversity and talent of our mass membership that has helped shape the party we are today that is changing Scotland. snp.org/how_snp_member…
🏦 At our Spring Campaign Conference last year, a resolution was passed to examine the feasibility of creating a Scottish National Investment Bank. The bank will work for the benefit of the people of Scotland.
👩‍💼 A resolution on tackling period poverty was passed at our National Council in Spring 2016. From August 2018, we will provide free access to sanitary products in schools, colleges and universities. We will also consider further action to ensure those on low incomes, but not in education, are assisted in light of the findings of the Aberdeen pilot.
👪 A citizen’s basic income is a policy discussed widely across the world. A resolution was passed at our Spring Campaign Conference in 2016, to monitor and investigate whether a citizen’s basic income could be introduced in Scotland. We believe that bold and imaginative projects like this deserve support, however, we recognise that the concept is currently untested. As such, the Scottish Government are funding research into the feasibility of a citizen’s basic income scheme.
🗳 A resolution on extending the voting franchise in Scotland was passed at our Spring Campaign Conference in 2017. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring access to democratic participation for all citizens, and have now launched a consultation on Electoral Reform and are proposing to extend the opportunity to vote to all those who are legally resident in Scotland.<br />
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It seems only fair that those who have the right to live here, whether from EU countries or elsewhere, have the right to vote.
🧒 At our Annual Conference in 2016, a resolution was passed to introduce a Child Poverty Act. The resolution urged the SNP Scottish Government to set out framework for the prevention, reduction and eradication of child poverty across Scotland. Last year, we passed a Child Poverty Bill in the Scottish Parliament to introduce income based child poverty targets. This will make Scotland the only UK nation to have child poverty targets set out in law, after the Tory government scrapped targets for the whole of the UK.
✍️ Make your voice heard and help to shape @theSNP policy by signing up as a member today: join.snp.org A photograph of Nicola Sturgeon surrounded by activists. Some are holding up placards that say 'Stronger for Scotland'.
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