Robin McAlpine to talk strategy at our September 2016 meeting

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On Monday 5 September 2016, Robin McAlpine will speak about Strategies for Independence and then answer your questions. All welcome! 5 Sept 19.30, Clermiston Inn function room (round the back, upstairs), 9 Rannoch Rd, Edinburgh, EH4 7EG. RSVP on our Facebook event page.

Robin has written regularly in Common Space that we need to target our independence campaigning very cleverly because we won’t persuade everyone. He also cautioned about putting too much store in the Brexit effect and this school of thought seems to be borne out by recent polling. For instance a recent YouGov poll found that although 12% of NO voters currently would vote YES in an indyref2, 13% of YES voters would actually vote NO!

YouGov poll excerpt

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Click on image to view the polling data on Indyref2. Difficult to swallow that 13% of YES voters would now vote NO.

Useful reading

Robin’s latest book available from Common Weal is: Determination: How Scotland can become independent by 2021.

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