Why do we want as many people as possible to back Scotland’s right to decide it’s own future?

The reason is because Scotland could find itself living in a state where our right to determine our own constitutional future is lost. One where there is no way actually to exercise the right to choose.

One held together by the force of law and not by the decisions of the people who live here, and who care the most about Scotland’s future.

It would be very grave for our democracy if that were to be the case as it is through democracy that we build the nation we want.

Under the current Westminster system, the struggles that so many people have faced in recent years are set to go on—with no end in sight.

After years of painful rises in food prices and energy bills for many, and little or no increase in real family incomes, it is now suggested by experts that a typical income household income in the UK will be unchanged by the end of this decade compared with ten years ago.

The UK economic model is failing and the people of Scotland deserve the right to decide once again whether it is better for decisions about their lives to continue to be taken down at Westminster or whether they are best taken here in Scotland.

In 2014 people were told a ‘No’ vote would deliver a Scotland which was an equal partner in a UK that was in the EU. One where people would be better off by £1,400 a year and have the right to decide their constitutional future.

And one of the legacies of EU exit has been the erosion of respect for devolution and the continued bypassing of the Scottish Parliament by Westminster.

Even the election of a Labour government has seen no change from the previous Tory government. Not only is Scotland treated as an afterthought – as we have seen with the closure of Grangemouth whilst steel plants are saved in in England – but, astonishingly, Scottish Labour MPs are defending these incidents of Scotland being ignored and short-changed.

As events have shown since the 2016 Brexit referendum, that UK no longer exists.

That means only a decision for Scotland to become independent can make us a true equal partner with our friends in the rest of the UK, as a nation state, with all the economic and social powers that come with statehood.