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Chris McEleny

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Former SNP leadership candidate Ash Regan serves as Alba's Holyrood leader

COMMENT Chris McEleny: Alba are the party with fresh ideas on how to progress independence

AT the weekend Alba Party held a major Yes event in Edinburgh that saw hundreds gather to learn more about our way forward for independence.

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A Scottish independence supporter at a rally

COMMENT Chris McEleny: There's no reason for a lack of progress on independence

AT the weekend, the Alba Party National Council agreed to widespread intervention at the General Election after the SNP rejected the repeated calls for a Scotland United pro-independence pact.

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The Ferguson Marine shipyard at Port Glasgow, Inverclyde

COMMENT Scottish Government must act now to secure future of Ferguson Marine shipyard

IN politics, two things about your worldview are quite often true. One, you can stand still on your beliefs and have the same views 10 years apart but in that time the political spectrum can move past you.

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It is time to change course. How many elections will it take before they realise that continuity won’t cut it?

COMMENT It’s crucial for independence that the SNP change course

ALEX Salmond was right at the weekend when he said watching the SNP throw away its lead in Scottish politics is like witnessing a car crash in slow motion.

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The Scottish Government should have backed the Rosebank development years ago, writes Chris McEleny

COMMENT Chris McEleny: We can't be embarrassed to say 'It's Scotland's Oil' to Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak’s backtracking on Net Zero now presents Scotland an opportunity to build an overwhelming majority of popular support behind Scotland utilising the lucrative future of North Sea Oil & Gas as the engine room of an independent Scotland and using the revenues to race ahead of the rest of the UK by using Carbon Capture Technology to mitigate a large share of all of

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Money from North Sea oil and gas can help fuel the economic case for independence, writes Chris McEleny

COMMENT Independence guarantees a future for Scotland's energy industry in the North Sea
IN 2014, “Project Fear” told the people of Scotland that the North Sea was about to run dry.

Over the past year Alba have toured Scotland, listening to people and putting forward our new case for independence

COMMENT Chris McEleny: Crisis of confidence in the UK is a huge opportunity

FOR me, the belief in Scottish independence will always be contemporary for all times and for all circumstances.

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First Minister Humza Yousaf on stage after his speech at the SNP independence convention at Caird Hall in Dundee.

COMMENT Chris McEleny: Scotland United approach to election would be win-win

I MISSED the Hampden downpour last week as I was in London to witness the Alba Party’s Westminster leader, Neale Hanvey MP, set out the findings of a key legal opinion on Scottish Independence.

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Nuclear warheads are only stored at HMNB Clyde for the sole purpose of being mated to Trident II D-5 missiles before they are loaded onto nuclear submarines

COMMENT Only with powers of independence will Scotland get rid of nuclear weapons

WHEN Scotland becomes an independent country, weapons of mass destruction will be removed from the Clyde. Nuclear warheads are only stored at HMNB Clyde for the sole purpose of being mated to Trident II D-5 missiles before they are loaded onto nuclear submarines.

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Chris McEleny is one of the SNP politicians who have changed to the Alba party

Comment Chris McEleny: This is why I left the SNP to join the Alba Party

WHEN Alex Salmond signed up Jimmy Reid to the SNP, that’s when I knew I also had to join. As a son of the Clyde and an apprentice electrician, I remember feeling proud at work listening to older journeymen talk about Jimmy, who had helped to lead the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work in, coming out for independence.

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