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ALL during lockdown, Yes hubs across the country have had to shut down, but now that restrictions are gradually lifting they will undoubtedly play a huge part in the Yes movement’s future. Here’s the tale of one terrific grassroots initiative that is getting going again having had to change its modus operandi during lockdown. David McEwan Hill wrote to tell us about the Forward Shop in Dunoon which is the headquarters of Yes Cowal, one of the movement’s most active groups. He explained that the Forward Shop is probably a unique little enterprise which started out as a result of the political activity in Cowal after the 2014 independence referendum and then became something much more.
Nicola Sturgeon has been leading us to the top of the hill and down again since 2016
ACCORDING to Dave McEwan Hill on Thursday: “We [the SNP] have the team and we have the information. After today our campaign to normalise independence will be relentless.” I hope he is right but I have serious doubts about the team, and the information simply is not there because the team has not been preparing the case for independence, as the FM’s faltering responses to questions on currency and borders during this election campaign have shown. As yet, I am not quite in the camp which says Nicola will never lead us to independence, but she is not nicknamed the Grand Duchess of York for nothing because she has been leading us to the top of the hill and down again since 2016.