{"id":5626,"date":"2022-04-19T00:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T10:51:21","slug":"nicola-has-lost-interest-in-independence-aye-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?p=5626","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Has Lost Interest in Independence? Aye, Right."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em> This is a blog post I wrote for IndyLive Radio. But they have separated from IndependenceLive Media and are going their own way. I&#8217;m no longer a presenter with ILR. I&#8217;m making video-casts for IndependenceLive Media and podcasts for IndyLive Podcasters.  If you&#8217;d like to know more about the background to all that read about here <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.independencelive.net\/a-look-back-at-indylive-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>A Look Back at IndyLive Radio<\/em><\/a> <em>and here <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.independencelive.net\/blogpost\/podcasters-r-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Podcasters R Us<\/a><\/em> <em>I&#8217;m transferring some of my blog posts from ILR over to my own website.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You only need to be on social media for a few minutes to find tweets and posts expressing frustration at the lack of action on independence. Some people even think the First Minister isn\u2019t interested in independence any more. The Indy social media bubble is loud, active, and opinionated (I include myself in that). But it isn\u2019t a large number of people out of the Scottish voters\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I think it takes a brave women to accept an invitation to speak on the subject of what progress has been made since the Holyrood election. Fortunately we have one \u2013 Lesley Riddoch.  She met up online with the Yes West Fife folk to talk about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesley Riddoch isn\u2019t slow at criticising ScotGov, SNP etc when she thinks they merit criticism. She also gives them credit where credit is due. And she does both in this meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can listen in here:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yes Group spotlight - Yes West Fife presents Lesley Riddoch\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?from=embed&amp;i=qifeh-1089058-pb&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=654771&amp;font-color=&amp;rtl=0&amp;logo_link=&amp;btn-skin=3267a3&amp;size=150\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Some of her points and some of the questions she was asked:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Polling<\/li><li>How Scotland is perceived in the EU now<\/li><li>Labour is tanking in England, lack of a progressive alternative in Westminster<\/li><li>Alba, Green, SNP splits\u2026. but remember splits are normal politics in Europe. Parties work together.<\/li><li>Need for a new case for Indy, that\u2019s Mike Russell\u2019s job now.<\/li><li>Timing for IndyRef2<\/li><li>Impatience to get out campaigning<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Her closing remark?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It\u2019s our job to get an Indy champion out on every street corner \u2013 that\u2019s our dance space!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a blog post I wrote for IndyLive Radio. But they have separated from IndependenceLive Media and are going their own way. I&#8217;m no longer a presenter with ILR. I&#8217;m making video-casts for IndependenceLive Media and podcasts for IndyLive Podcasters. 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