Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
LightNews LightNews
yeshubpk.bsky.social
Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
@yeshubpk.bsky.social
1.6K followers 1.7K following 120 posts
246 High Street, Perth PH1 5QJ.
Open Wednesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm.
We're here to help to win Scotland its independence.
Come in for a coffee (or alternative beverage of choice) and a blether.
The kettle's always on.
Posts Replies Media Videos
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'Whisper it, you are allowed to – trust me, you can talk about it without fear. You should shout it from the rooftops: “Independence – it's about identity, it's about values, and it's about culture".'
@believeinscotland.bsky.social
www.believeinscotlan...
June 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
lesleyriddoch.bsky.social
75% of Finland is a forest owned by huge cooperatives & that's key to equality. Last century Finnish pulp powered the European newspaper industry & all benefited - not one laird. It's one story we hope to tell in a new film this September. Crowdfunder live now www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/finland---...
June 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
weegiefifer.bsky.social
There were a couple of very good talks about basic income at the recent @indyforumscot.bsky.social event. One by Craig Dalzell @thecommongreen.scot and one by Annie Miller champion of Basic Income @basicincomeaction.bsky.social They’ll be out soon on @scottishindypod.bsky.social
montrose.bsky.social Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · Jun 20
Report calls for minimum income guarantee pilot in Scotland - BBC News share.google/zAuV6muMs2VR...

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Report calls for minimum income guarantee pilot in Scotland - BBC News
The policy would establish an income level below which nobody is allowed to fall, via reform to social security, work and services.
share.google
June 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'The appalling rates of child poverty in Scotland, as in the UK as a whole, are the result of political choices, They are choices Scotland’s people did not make and are not inevitable. An independent Scotland will be free to make different choices.'
@weegingerdug.bsky.social
weegingerdug.wordpre...
Scottish child poverty can only be eliminated with independence
The Guardian newspaper has reported that Labour’s “flagship child poverty policy” has been delayed until at least the autumn, pushing tens of thousands more children into poverty …
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'We’d be mad to fall for Michael Gove’s gobbledygook on indyref route.'
@richardwalker5.bsky.social, via The National
archive.is/7IriX
Michael Gove leaving a 2024 General Election rally
May 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'One has to wonder how many of those exposed to constant negativity from BBC Scotland and others in the media about Calmac – and also politicians opposed to the Scottish Government – have any notion of the scale of the price differentials?'
@talking-upscotland.bsky.social
talkingupscotlandtwo...
The astonishing year-round value for money of Scotland’s island ferry travel constantly being hidden from us
By stewartb The ticket price differences are crazy. The single adult passenger fare for the 2 hour 45 minute journey from Penzance Harbour, Cornwall to St Mary’s Harbour, Isles of Scilly by the fer…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'STV's new radio station could be the jolt Scottish music culture needs.'
Pat Kane, via the National
archive.is/hz97i
A woman lying on a couch listening to the radio
May 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
johnswinney.bsky.social
Scotland’s fishing industry has been undermined by the UK government - again.

Like the Tories, Labour didn’t even consult the Scottish Government and treated our fishing communities as expendable.

Only independence would give us the seat at the EU table to defend Scotland’s interests.
May 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
williamduguid1.bsky.social
You're invited to Independence Forum's Summer Convention on Scotland's Future on Saturday 14 June in Perth.
We'll discuss what it is to be a Scot (born here or not), land reform, energy, direct democracy, poverty and the Wellbeing Economy.
Free tickets here:
independenceforum.sc...
Salutation Hotel, Perth
May 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'The value of the trade deals concluded since Brexit pale compared to what the UK has lost in trade, business investment and freedom of movement by foolishly leaving its largest and nearest market of 450 million consumers - the EU.'
Leah Gunn Barrett, via 'Dear Scotland'
dearscotland.substac...
The Viceroy puts lipstick on a pig
But it's still a pig
dearscotland.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
How far down the far-right drain will Anas Sarwar follow his UK boss, asks @weegingerdug?
We think you're going to need a pretty long probe...
via The National
archive.is/X3U9n
Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer at the Scottish Labour conference, waving to and basking in the appreciation of whoever the hell could still be bothered to turn up.
May 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
williamduguid1.bsky.social
A flyer for the latest Independence Forum Convention on Scotland's Future, which will be at one of my local stamping grounds, the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Saturday 14 June.
Their Spring Convention in Edinburgh was pretty good, and this looks like another cracker.
Book now! (QR code in image)
Flyer contents: Summer Convention on Scotland’s Future Saturday 14 June 2025 Moncrieffe Suite, Salutation Hotel, 30-34 South Street, Perth PH2 8PH ATTENDANCE FREE – BOOKING ESSENTIAL Including: ‘What Does It Mean to be a Scot Today?’ with Stuart McHardy and Roger Emmerson Updates on Scotland’s Future: Energy, Land and Democracy Poverty & The Wellbeing Economy with Craig Dalzell (Common Weal), Eva Comrie (Lawyer & Activist), William Thomson (Scotonomics), Annie Miller (Basic Income Network Scotland) ‘What Does a Wealthy Country Look Like In the 21st Century?’ Panel Discussion and Q + A with Audience Widening the Horizon – Looking Towards the Autumn Convention More information and link to booking form at https://independenceforum.scot/national-convention/
May 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'From the BBC Wales and BBC Scotland inserts in BBC Breakfast, two very different editorial judgements of what folk need to know as they rise to face the new day.'
You'll not be surprised at the results of the @talking-upscotland.bsky.social comparison...
talkingupscotlandtwo...

BBC Wales and Scotland today – two very different worlds to wake to
Professor John Robertson OBA From the BBC Wales and BBC Scotland inserts in BBC Breakfast today, two very different editorial judgements of what folk need to know as they rise to face the new day. …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'Politically, Great Britain is already a long, long way from the open, inclusive, outward-looking vision that we were all invited to “lead, not leave” more than a decade ago.'
Seamus Logan, via The National.
archive.is/T1CS6
Keir Starmer behind a 'Securing Britain's Future' lectern, announcing another dumb-nuts policy that wil actually destory it.
May 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
williamduguid1.bsky.social
'A Bag of Spanners' - new podcast from Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce.
An island of strangers. Is this the nail in Labour's coffin?
When will any Scottish MP bar Brian Leishman push back?
Will Indy be page 1 line 1 of the SNP's Holyrood manifesto? If not, why not?
And more...
www.lesleyriddoch.co...
Banner image for The Lesley Riddoch Podcast with Pat Joyce - politics from a Scottish perspective. Cartoon images of Lesley and Pat and, below the strapline, silhouette images of Scottish and Westminster landmarks.
May 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
Latest Independence Live TNT Show, with host John Drummond speaking to Lynn Hastie and Jason Baird of IFS member organisation National Yes Registry about its #GetCounted campaign.
www.youtube.com/watc...
TNT Show. Ep201. With Jason Baird & Lynn Hastie on IndyApp #GetCounted.
TNT Show. Ep201. With Jason Baird & Lynn Hastie on IndyApp #GetCounted. #GetCounted is a grassroots campaign for people to register their support for Scottish independence and get connected with other supporters whenever they are ready via the IndyApp. Jason Baird from the IndyApp and Lynn Hastie f
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
indyforumscot.bsky.social
Places are now available at the IFS Summer Convention on Scotland's Future on Saturday 14 June from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Salutation Hotel, Perth. It's free to attend, but booking is essential.
Read the draft programme for the day and find the booking form here:
independenceforum.sc...
The Salutation Hotel, Perth.
May 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'A hard-right English nationalist government would be on a collision course with Scotland, and a Stephen Flynn-led SNP clashing with a Farage PM would be an entirely different dynamic than a Swinney-Starmer one.'
Mike Small, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
bellacaledonia.org.u...
Broken Britain, Scotland’s Opportunity
British politics is being remade before our eyes, the consequence of decades of failure, grotesque social inequality and the collapse of living standards. These are the conditions in which the poli…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
alanferrier.bsky.social
Anas Sarwar, June 2024: "We need migration around the health and social care system, of course we do."

Another U-turn coming your way in 3...2...1...
May 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
talking-upscotland.bsky.social
As the Daily Record lets Anas Sarwar campaign with lies about NHS Scotland, the facts 2: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/10/t...
TWICE as many wait over 8 hours in NHS Wales A&E departments but Holyrood Mag finds a way to hide that fact and others favourable to NHS Scotland as well as to fake their figures
stewartb An article about NHS Scotland in Holyrood Magazine today has a very odd statistic. Am I missing something? See: Holyrood Magazine (February10, , 2025) Bed Bound: The chronic problem o…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'If an opinion poll weights by the outcome of the 2014 referendum, then you can be certain that it is under-reporting the Yes figures and they are most likely to be higher. It will also be overstating the No figures, which in reality will be lower.'
@weegingerdug.bsky.social
weegingerdug.wordpre...
How polls turn a lead for Yes into a lead for No
You may have seen that a poll on support for Scottish independence was published this week. The headline figures on the poll, carried out by Survation, put No ahead on 44%, with Yes on 43% and unde…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
Not scientific, but a fairly conclusive vote in our mini-poll on today's Perth High Street stall.
Question: 'Under Westmister, it's a half-baked trade deal - whisky and salmon excluded and Trump calling the shots. With independence, Scotland could sort out its trade properly by restoring its links with the EU. Do you agree?' Results: a cluster of votes for Yes, a single ball for No.
May 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'In the midst of clear dissatisfaction with UK Government austerity policies, and collapsing support for Labour and Cons, Survation manages still to pluck a predicted majority for No in an independence referendum.
How do they do it?'
@talking-upscotland.bsky.social explains.
talkingupscotlandtwo...
Survation repeat their regular sample ‘adjustment’ to pluck another No vote to influence rather than inform
Professor John Robertson OBA In the midst of clear dissatisfaction with the UK Labour Government’s new austerity policies, collapsing support for Labour and Cons, the pollster Survation manag…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
May 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
yeshubpk.bsky.social
'The EU is not a rescue project. But it can be part of a wider context in which that work becomes more possible.
There’s scope for real co-operation, even within current limits – but it needs political will and a clearer sense of purpose.'
Assa Samake-Roman via The National
archive.is/EQRKX
The EU headquarters in Brussels
May 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Perth & Kinross Yes Hub
talking-upscotland.bsky.social
On VE Day, once more, Scotland's 63% higher WW2 army war death rate than the rest of the UK, confirmed by research, but never Mentioned:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/06/05/r...
Remaining in some corner of a foreign field that is ‘forever Scotland’, our army war dead, a greater sacrifice, 63% higher than the rest of the UK
”Too many never returned. They remain in some corner of a foreign field that is forever England”- Prince William, today. By Professor John Robertson In May 2020, after reading new resea…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
May 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM