INDEPENDENCE for me is clarity.

It is a chance to regain the trust that has been taken from Scotland.

To separate us from the biased media, and to finally know the people making our decisions do so because they care about our interests first. As hard as it is to see for some, the reality is that we are not a united kingdom anymore.

And ask yourselves: how inspiring for our next generations would it be if we had done something about that?

Sarah Jade Moore

Poet, Scottish Borders

TELL US WHAT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE MEANS TO YOU

I WAS a Labour voter all my life until the 2014 indyref. I voted Yes and have not voted for Labour since.

For me, independence is not about flags or nation, and it is not about race either. I am 55 and I have spent my whole life fighting the corruption inherent in the UK’s Westminster system. It is not democratic.

I wish to separate Scotland from the psychology of empire still prevalent in this crooked and elitist boys’ club masquerading as a democratic union.

I am particularly keen on ending our involvement in the UK’s imperialist foreign policies which have abused people across the planet, and supported dictatorships and terrorists as suits their economic and geopolitical agendas.

TELL US WHAT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE MEANS TO YOU

I wish for an independent Scotland that bases its internal and external relationships on concepts of respect and mutual development, a Scotland that is a humanistic voice on the world stage. I want a Scotland that cares for its people and others across the planet and engages in the world’s diverse communities openly and honestly. A Scotland that serves as a light to human decency across the globe.

I believe such a Scotland is possible.

I know independence will be a hard road, but as with many hard things it is a road worth travelling for the future of our and the planet’s young people.

Independence has got to be better than allowing future generations to be the playthings of Westminster’s crooked elitist mafia and its ongoing crimes against humanity.

Joe Donnelly

Youth worker

TELL US WHAT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE MEANS TO YOU

INDEPENDENCE means achieving a lifetime ambition.

It means my country being normal. It means taking responsibility for our own mistakes. It means benefitting from our own assets.

It means a great future, without forgetting both the good and the bad from our past.

It means having what we should have had all my life.

Malcolm Brown

Retired, former broadcaster about to enter my eighth decade of being a Yesser