AyeFyne to meet at Cairnbaan

Mid Argyll group ‘AyeFyne’ is holding another evening of debate and discussion later this month, following what it called an 'energetic' previous meeting in the area.

 

Taking place on Friday April 28 at 7pm in the Cairnbaan Hotel, the gathering will feature Dr Craig Dalzell, head of policy and research at left-of-centre thinktank .

 

An AyeFyne spokesperson said: "This is an opportunity to look at the ideas presented in their hugely ambitious book, recently released, ‘Sorted: a handbook for a better Scotland’.

 

"Refuting the politics of the past and replacing it with an 'All of Us First' approach, Common Weal advocates decentralisation, local decision-making, equality of opportunity and much, much more."

 

The spokesperson continued: “If someone was creating a new country today they wouldn’t come up with what we currently have in Scotland.

 

"They wouldn’t place essential powers in the hands of a parliament where they’re permanently outnumbered.

 

"They wouldn’t arrange to have 50 per cent of their private land concentrated in the hands of under 500 people.

 

"They wouldn’t embark on a cunning plan to make pensions the lowest in Europe or erect trade barriers with 470 million consumers in Europe, and they’d be unlikely to conclude that the best way to promote Scotland’s security was to place a high concentration of nuclear weapons close to Scotland’s largest population centres."

 

If anyone from Mid Argyll wants to go but needs a lift, email ayefyne2018@gmail.com