Let Scotland Decide - Sign the SIC petition for a referendum on Scottish independence

Sign the new petition for a referendum on Scottish Independence here or download a copy (from the same site) and ask your friends to sign it. This is extremely urgent. Also if you live in Scotland please consider attending Independence First's organisational conference for the petition on 1st March, more details at the IF website.

Help publicise this website

Please help publicise this website. If you have a personal blog please give it a plug or email a few friends about it. If you are a webmaster please link to the site and possibly do a short review if you think it's useful. (You could also send a short text message to a few of your friends to tell them about the site.)

Here is a couple of sample buttons you can use to publicise the site:

Please vote for the site as a 'top Scottish political site' by pressing the 'cast your vote' button on the sidebar and encourage some of your friends to do so as well. You can vote for the site more than once if you leave it for a day or two. 

You can also use this link to vote:

http://members.sitegadgets.com/scripts/topsites.cgi?username=dalriada&ID=60

Please pass on.

You could also email your friends or text them about the Scottish Independence Guide and ask them to vote for it a well.

If you are interested in contributing to the site then email us an article (or changes to existing articles) we're particularly interested in expanding the music section and keeping the political and news sections up to date

Google News

You could also suggest that Google add this site as a 'news source' on:

http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/request.py

Should I change my party?

This all depends on where you are politically at the moment. If for example you were a Labour or Tory party activist (or parliamentary representative)  who decided that you wanted to support Scottish independence then it would be best to try and influence a few of your friends and colleagues towards supporting independence as well.

If you have no joy with the gentle art of persuasion then you might leave and join one of the pro-independence parties and tell everyone why. We know there are people in the Labour party who support independence but few are willing to put their heads above the parapet and defy  the leadership, particularly if their living is at stake.

If you are an ordinary member of any of the unionist parties then you could join Independence First, while this might be frowned upon it shouldn't lead to expulsion as Independence First is a totally non-political organisation.

I'm already a supporter of Independence and in a Scottish party

In that case you should probably sign up for the Independence Convention. If you sign up via their website the convention will send you details of their future meetings. If you attend convention meetings you can have a direct voice in helping the Scottish independence movement. 

You might also put in a message of support for Independence First (in fact if you are any kind of political representative for any party such a message would be very useful) through their website. Even if you hold no political office send a message of support anyway and also consider joining the organisation and setting up a local branch of IF.

Write to everyone you can think off

If you support independence then you should let everyone know about it by writing to the newspapers. (A list of all the Scottish papers is here.) You should also write to your MP or MSP or local Councillor and find out if they support independence. If they don't ask them why not and encourage your friends and family to write to them also.

Encourage the Scottish Parties to work together

If you are a member of the Greens, SSP or SNP please encourage them to put Scotland first and work together with others in the pro-independence cause. We can win our independence if we work together. These parties need to work together on some level in 2007 and they need to know that you want them to do that.

Until independence happens most of our political objectives (no matter what they are) won't be achievable. There is therefore no point slagging other Scottish parties. Accept the other parties have political differences and try to be positive about them.

If you want to attack someone, attack the unionists and Tony Blair who has sold his political principles down the river to get elected.

Encourage your Trade Union to stop funding New Labour

The Labour party no longer have anything in common with trade unionists and yet quite possibly your union is wasting your money by donating it to 'New Labour'. Ask them to stop, and to either give their money to one of the Scottish parties which actually supports their interests, or spend it on campaigns which will help their members.  

2007

2007 is the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Union. What better time to end it? We must take advantage of this opportunity to deliver full democracy to Scotland. Devolution is a half way house, Scotland can do better and will do if you help  in this absolutely crucial election.

Send a Cheque!

UK rules mean that you can't send money to political parties operating in the UK unless you live in a part of the UK, if you do and if you can afford it then it would be useful if you could send some money to one of the independent Scottish parties. If you live outside the UK however you can still help fund the non-political pro-independence organisations like Independence First and the Independence Convention.