THE National Yes Registry reveals in today’s Yes DIY that it has been in talks with the SNP to organise an officially recognised grassroots consultation on the Scottish Growth Commission’s report.
It will include Gathering#2 on Saturday, November 24 at the Albert Halls in Stirling. The Registry told us: “The objective is to facilitate a full and comprehensive grassroots consultation on the findings of the Commission’s report.
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“This is an important wide ranging economic discussion document and the Yes movement must have the opportunity to consider it formally and in full. Such a process could be as much about education, deliberation and development of the issues raised, as it is about simple consultation on them.
“It has therefore been agreed that the consultation process be designed by and held under the auspices of the autonomous pro Indy groups themselves. It should also be transparent, participatory and completely independent of party politics.
“Gathering#2’s agenda will therefore include further development of topics raised by the groups during Gathering#1; detailed discussions around issues raised by the Growth Commission’s Report and discussions on theme for Gathering#3 which will be held in early 2019.”
Gathering#2 will follow the general format pioneered at the first event last May. After further consultation with the groups, the full Commission report will be divided into topic areas for Gathering discussion tables to debate and consider.
Each discussion table will present their considerations to the floor. These presentations will focus on providing topic parameters around which the wider, countrywide, grassroots consultation process can take place.
ALL interested group members can then participate throughout the full consultation period by using their secure group forums on the new IndyApp platform to discuss and develop any topics they have an interest in.
Each consultation topic will also be discussed fully on its own dedicated forum, with each forum setting up a committee to summarise the forum discussions into an agreed ‘Forum Report’. Each of these reports can then be compiled into a full consultation document, published on the IndyApp’s national forum for review by all groups before being officially submitted to the SNP.
The consultation document will therefore be a summary of the discussions had during the consultation process. The full forum and committee room discussions will also have the great advantage of being archived and accessible on the IndyApp which will be released and rolled out before the event.
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