• There is no logical reason why Scotland, a rich and tradtionally left-of-centre country, should remain subject to the Westminster agenda of austerity and privatisation when we could be so much better off alone.
• Independence allows us to pursue an entirely different economic model – i.e. one which favours the millions, and not the millionaires.
• Bereft of our sovereign power, Scotland is inherently weakened. Oil, gas, energy, whisky, land and other vital national assets are externally owned, often by those who do not put Scotland's interests first. We are at the mercy of forces who have no concern for us, our welfare, or our future. Independence alone can remedy this.
• Scotland's prospects within the framework of the UK are looking increasingly dire: cuts to public services, food banks, virtually unelected Conservative governments, unjust taxes, rising retirement ages, nuclear weapons on Glasgow's doorstep and the destruction of the welfare state all await us in perpetuity if we vote NO to independence.
• By voting YES, however, we have the power to set people free from fear, by transforming the lives of those in poverty by abolishing it, by giving our young people a society in which they can develop all their talents, by addressing the disabled with compassion and by ensuring the dignity and security in old age for our pensioners.
• What Scottish people have lacked to date is a belief in their own power. For years, Scotland has been downtrodden, browbeaten and manipulated into believing it was a 'subsidy junkie' – this, of course, being untrue. Upon independence, the Scottish people will own their country, be beholden to no one, bend the knee to no one, ask permission of no one for the policies the people need, embrace new ideas and use the power that lies latent within themselves to change things for the better.

to be continued.