Gillian Mackay

Twelve years on, those promises have been exposed, and Scotland has been taken out of the EU against our will.

We need to reach beyond our own parties, bring more people with us and build the broadest possible movement for Scotland’s right to choose our own future.

Scotland’s future is too important to be held back by party boundaries.

Independence is bigger than any party.

If the Prime Minister wants to retain a shred of democratic credibility, he must abolish the unelected House of Lords, replace it with a proportionally elected chamber, and respect Scotland’s right to choose our own future.

The answer is simple: abolish the unelected House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber.

We need representatives chosen by voters, accountable to voters and removable by voters, just as any normal democracy does.

Scotland must do everything within our power to ensure we are not complicit in genocide.

Whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble and Palestinian families have had their homes, schools, hospitals and communities destroyed.

If a company is so directly linked to the financing of arms companies supplying the Israeli military, then surely it should be covered by any boycott worthy of the name?

It is difficult to take your government’s position seriously when Ministers have named Barclays as a partner in its upcoming bond scheme.

Last week, this Parliament backed a Green motion declaring that a company’s involvement in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes grave professional misconduct.

We need independence now more than ever. We must never be led in any way by a politician like Farage who does not respect the Scottish Parliament or our sovereignty, and will not prioritise or recognise the needs of our country while…

Any company that is profiting from exploiting the occupied territories is fuelling and enabling the repression and abuse of Palestinians.

Portobello-Craigmillar is now the first ward in Edinburgh to be represented by two Green councillors.

Scotland should never have been dragged into an immoral conflict that we oppose in the first place. We deserve the truth. The UK Government must come clean.

This is utterly unacceptable. We have a right to know what is being done in our name – and how Scottish airports have been used to support Trump’s illegal and immoral war in Iran.

If SNP members want to change the way their motions come to conference and who decides on it, I think they are more than capable of making that want known to the powers that be.

We passed at our party council our independence strategy and how we’re going to build that support among the general public to get that bigger majority for independence.

We’re really clear that this session at parliament needs to be used to push those boundaries of devolution and move into those grey areas and demonstrate to people that this is why we’re doing it.

We’ve had a lot of discussion over several years about mechanisms and how we get there [to independence] and we know that generally those conversations don’t inspire those who might be on the fence or soft no voters.

I do think it’s important though that the movement has space to discuss those because that route is very important to some people who are already on the Yes side.

Scotland is not a region, it is a country. Our future must be decided by the people who live here, not by Westminster.

Any attempt to halt our right to choose our own future will not only show contempt for our parliament but also for our democracy.