Tuesday 27th May The Road to the Scottish Currency and The Currency Game
In our third Tuesday political discussion about Scotland’s future, we are delighted to welcome esteemed economist, Dr Tim Rideout, to Carnoustie to explain to us how Scotland can have its own currency and why it MUST have its own currency as soon as possible after independence.
We’ll also be playing The Currency Game, so please bring £5 if you want to play.
Entry to the event is free but please book a space via Eventbrite or email us on hello@yescarnoustie.scot. Light refreshments available for donation.
Tim Rideout was born in the Isle of Man, but the family moved to Cape Town when he was 12. He graduated in Economics and Geography from the University of Cape Town, before moving to Edinburgh in 1985 to do a doctorate in Economic Geography. The transition from Manx nationalism to Scottish nationalism was a small one, and he joined the SNP in 1988.
In 2014, he was concerned about the Yes movement’s currency proposal, but assumed Alex Salmond knew what he was doing. However, rumours in 2017 about the Growth Commission proposing using the GB£ for ‘decades’ led to him developing a Currency Plan. In April 2019, members at the SNP Conference threw out the Growth Commission proposal and replaced by ‘our own currency ASAP after Independence Day’. In May 2019, Tim established the Scottish Currency Group to inform the Scottish independence movement and ensure that the Currency Plan would have to be to have our own currency right after independence.
The Scottish Currency Group has grown to over 3600 members, has produced numerous reports and now holds a major annual Conference.
Eventbrite: The Road to the Scottish Currency and The Currency Game
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Pride in our Scotland
YES Carnoustie litter pick Saturday 24th MAY – come and join in!
Litter is a blight on our lovely towns and beautiful countryside. We can moan about it or we can do something about it. Here at YES Carnoustie, we’re going to do something about it!
On Saturday 24th May, from 10am.
We’ve purchased some YES Carnoustie hi-vis vests and Angus Council is lending us litter pickers and other equipment – while YES Prestwick will be giving us some special YES collection bags. So all we need now is volunteers. Please join us if you can.
Venue to be selected nearer the time.
If you intend to come along, and haven’t already done so, please let us know so we can make sure we have enough equipment.
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Past events
7pm, Thursday 13th February, 2025
Screening of ‘Scotland: The Big Picture”s documentary:
‘Why not Scotland?’
Followed by a Q&A with Sophie Ramsay, from Bamff Wildlands.
Why Not Scotland? is a feature-length documentary, which forms a central part of the Alliance’s Rewilding Nation campaign. The film accompanies Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, on an intensely personal journey, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. However, during her travels, she discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, breathing life back into the landscape and revitalising human communities. Encouraged by these stories of hope and renewal, she is prompted to wonder: Why Not Scotland?
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Thursday 13th March: ‘The Clash of the Ash'(with a nod to Runrig!) 6pm (please note earlier time)
The second in our series of ‘Our Scotland’ events is with Iain Stewart, local independence supporter and Yes Carnoustie member who works in sport & education in Angus.
Having grown up between Meigle and Inverness, Iain joins us to talk about shinty, our other national game, and the work that he’s been doing in local primary schools to encourage participation in the sport.
After Iain departs to take up his quizmaster role elsewhere, we will be screening ‘Giving it Stick’, a 2022 documentary following the fortunes of local rivals Kingussie and Newtonmore, examining the way that shinty is central to life in these Highland villages.
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Tuesday 25th March, 7pm – CANCELLED
‘Energy is Power: why Scotland’s energy resources are key to independence and why we’re not getting our strategy right’.
Robin McAlpine, Common Weal
Sadly, due to circumstances beyond his control, Robin has had to withdraw from the talk.
We will be rescheduling for later in the year and will contact you shortly with details if you booked a ticket with Eventbrite.
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Wednesday 26th March, 6pm for 6.30pm:
Believe in Scotland Scottish Independence Mini-Congress for Yes Groups
This is an event for Yes Carnoustie members only.
Believe in Scotland (BiS) https://www.believeinscotland.org/ is the independence movement’s foremost non-political campaigning organisation. On Wednesday 26th March, BiS is holding a Zoom meeting for Yes group delegates; Yes Carnoustie is affiliated to BiS and can send up to four delegates. However, we thought it might be good to open the event up to all Yes Carnoustie members to view at the hub – although only our four delegates will be able to officially join – and we can have our own discussion about our thoughts and next actions.
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Thursday 10th April:
‘Hairy, horny, feathery and fleecy’, 7pm
Aberdeen Angus, Highland, Galloway, Ayrshire – Scottish breeds of farm livestock that have changed agriculture across the globe. But there are many other Scottish breeds that are every bit as important to our agricultural, cultural and social history that you may be less familiar with.
In the third of our series, ‘Our Scotland’, join Alice Lennox, RBST Scottish Co-ordinator and Grant Reid, Secretary of RBST Scotland to find out more about these breeds and why they aren’t just important to our past but also of vital importance to our agricultural future, here in Scotland.
RBST is the charity that exists to conserve and promote our native livestock and equine breeds, whether sheep, cattle, pigs or poultry, as sustainable alternatives to the intensively farmed breeds that have come to dominate our countryside in recent decades. https://www.rbst.org.uk/
Tuesday 22nd April:
Reinventing Scotland through the Wellbeing Economy approach, Gordon McIntyre-Kemp, 7pm
The second in our series of Tuesday night discussions on independence and what it can bring to Scotland and Scots welcomes a big hitter of the independence movement. We’re delighted to welcome Gordon McIntyre-Kemp, CEO of Business for Scotland and Believe in Scotland, who will be explaining why a wellbeing approach to the economy can transform Scotland and increase support for independence