A COUPLE of late reminders about online events happening tonight.
SNP members are asked to join the SNP Common Weal Group at 7pm for an online session with Constitution for Scotland.
They are “dedicated to conducting and administering a public consultation on the content and subsequent promotion into legislation of a Constitution for Scotland endorsed by credible numbers of Scottish citizens”, as the online invitation states. They add: “What should a Scottish Constitution look like? How should the Scottish people be consulted? What role can you play in forming Scotland Constitution?”
Attendees will hear from Constitution for Scotland chair Bob Ingram and secretary John Hutchison. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end.
Registration on Eventbrite is free and open to all members of the SNP. A Zoom link will be sent 30 minutes before the event starts.
Also tonight, Yes Dunbar will be hosting East Lothian SNP MP Kenny MacAskill who will be talking about Scottish history from 7.30pm – again you need to register on Eventbrite.
Yes Dunbar said: “Kenny is well known as a writer on Scottish history, and in particular he is the author of the book Radical Scotland, published in 2020.
“He will focus on some of the key men and women in history who made radical challenges to the establishment that was running Scotland in the centuries following the 1707 Act of Union.”
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